Not all Lamposts are created …

 

An equal distance apart…

For the last 3 weeks I have been walking in the mornings when my first child arrives.. he gets here about 6.30 , so I am up and ready in my walking gear and with the mountain buggy in the driveway. he gets straight from the car to the stroller.

I started out doing 30 mins.. not far i know but heck .. I was sweating just getting the stoller out of the garage.

Now I am at 45 mins and have gone an extra block.. and although I get home red faced I am not as huffy and puffy.

Today I added an extra thing .. I decided to walk faster every second lampost .. and to suck everything in.. and up.

So I walked between lamposts , then sucked squeezed and walked faster for the next lampost.. I counted in my head .. almost the steps i took.. then relax .. normal walk

Then all of a sudden there was a rogue set of lamposts .. and they were twice the distance apart .. I was nearly cramped up ..lol as I prepared for the next long distance post I realised that in this particular new suburb they had alternated the lamposts on either side of the road… lol .. by then I was just about home.

I am hoping that this will strngthen my back muscles and those pesky pelvic floor ones too , I have been having a little trouble with my back lately .. mainly sciatic. and If I twist fast or sit oddly i get spasms and my leg colapses..

Oh well .. worth a crack.

Dinner for Dinos 21st went well.. I even got a hug from Ian .. shock and bloody horror. Everyone was so awesome and got on well , there were no issues at all and I think Ian and Maria felt welcome and relaxed. Ians Mum came too with her husband.

Dino and I had saved enough money to pay for imediate families meals .. buy entrees for all the tables and put $400 on the bar. .. and those that drank spirits paid for their own , Beer and wine and soft drinks on us.. wow .. that went well.

I didn’t have a speech prepared, and I told Ian that as he came late the speech was up to him .. he just laughed, when it came to speech time I did say something ..

Just how Dino had never given me any trouble as a kid , except the broken bones , trips to the A&E, the knife in the toaster.etc , That I loved that we were into the same music and that we went to concerts together .. Iron Maiden Rocks!!!   That I was happy with the way he had grown in to a wonderful young man, and had some close friends beside him. blah blah blah… I had the plaster cast from when at the age of 2 he broke his elbow.. the gown he came home from the hospital in , and a pill container filled with all his baby teeth, Macabre??? no .. cute. Had to tell Maxi there was no tooth fairy ..he just laughed.

Anyway we all sat and ate , drank and laughed till about midnight .. a cheesecake and a torte for dessert, a few candles and a song or 2.. was awesome.

He got some fantastic presents .. a cordless drill , hammers , a beer tankard( my sister and I started that tradition with our nephews and neices, now it is my kids turn, Girls get a goblet , boys a tankard) money and vouchers.. and a wonderful hand carved swamp Kauri key from me, made by a friend.

My baby is 21

 

 

Anyway .

 

TTFN..xox