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Just lost a giant journal entry by the press of a wrong button!! In which I detailed my painful, painful Easter saga!!! ARRRGGGHHHH!!!! In a nutshell, I did fine at dinner, didn't stuff myself. Came home and had the house to myself for an hour, so I tried the new kettlebell video, HARRRRR, with my new 25lb kettlebell?!? Yeah, not smart. Switched to my daughter's 15 lb (my two oldest daughters each got a 15lb kettlebell in the bottom of their Easter baskets, lol!) So the video starts you off very slowly, lots of instruction on form, which is key, because kettlebells can be friggin' dangerous! I bought Sarah Lurie's 4 dvd set, love it so far.. I did about 29 minutes of that
Then everyone walked in, carrying containers of leftover cakes, puddings, jello salads, sausages, ham, lasagna... and we all sat around the table and stuffed more in!!! At one point, that wasn't even enough for me, at one point I actually found myself standing INSIDE the refrigerator, stuffing ham down my gullet until I couldn't swallow any more.. WTFUDGE???!!! sigh... gooood lord... it was like deja-vu, all over again.
I convinced my sister, Hubs, Dad, and middle daughter to go for a walk down the hollow, with the dogs and the horse, get a little air, step away from the table and the food!!! lol! It was a good walk, we saw a wild turkey, Dad said his dad would've given anything to run across a wild turkey like that, he spent YEARS hunting them, whittling his own turkey calls... never got one! We see them constantly, can't keep em out of the yard!
I think I ate more when we got back, it was all a blur... but my stomach hurt so much, I couldn't even enjoy a family movie, had to haul my sorry butt to bed, and pray for it all to pass.. Thank goodness one of the dogs followed me back and cuddled my stomach, it was like having a hot water bottle! One that never cools off, even! Amazing companions...
Easter itself was the best ever. My kids were all home, all together, everyone talking and laughing, great joy in our house, just to be together. And we had to lose that for a few years, in order to appreciate it. That's all there is, really, that's all that matters.
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