Lets Go Kiddo

Slowly, but surely, my back is getting better.  I’m doing my home stretching and strengthening work, doing twice a week PT, sleeping in the brace, and doing what the docs and PT suggest and ask.  It’s been a pain… haha. I have been taken off some of my restrictions, so I can walk about and get around a bit more than in the weeks previous.  To celebrate that, J, Kiddo and I got out and walked the half kilometer to the produce market this weekend.  With J there to help carry items, it was easier on my back and good to get out and move again.  We loaded up on apples and oranges, but also go some mushrooms, green beans, and a variety of other yummies to cook and munch on this week.  The oranges…. I wish I could pass them along thru here.  They are like candy.  So good! While out, since it was right around the corner from the produce market, we popped into a little noodle shop and got lunch.  The portion were HUGE, especially for the cost, abo...

Christmas was a hit, but I’ll leave that for the end.  (NOTE: Lots at the end and I couldn't upload all the vids, so there will be a second post with those tomorrow or next)  Lots of pics and vids, not only of Xmas itself, but of Kiddo at her Xmas Concert at school. She was MC for the event for her class and loved the music and performance this year.  She’s a little performer and singer.  So much so that for Show and Tell a week ago, she did the song, Irish Eyes, for her class.  Sang her little heart out. The real fun was a few days before Xmas.  We had a Pizza Night Sunday and watched Home Alone .  Now, some context for this.  We watch shows with her, I’ve mentioned that in the past, but she’s comfortable enough with our watching and the rhythms of that to ask for the show or movie to pause if she doesn’t get something or wants to share or clarify something.  It happened twice during Home Alone .  The first time was during the opening...

Winter finally descended on us.  It went from cool to cold real quick.  Kiddo, thankfully, has plenty of fluffs to keep her toasty in the cold weather.   Thursday, our water heater quit on us as well.  Thankfully, it was a quick turn around and it was replaced with a new unit the next afternoon, so it was about 24 hours without hot water.  No worries, as we had an easy dinner on Thursday that didn’t require hot water to do the dishes with, since nothing was greasy or sticky.  Mostly, it was plates and forks.  In our post Thanksgiving abundance of chicken, I made an Ala King earlier in the week and we were able to reheat that.  Toast and ala king isn’t a big clean up and the pot could soak and we could use the kettle to boil water as needed as well, so we made it all work. Friday, with the heater being installed and not sure of the timelines on that, we went out and had a meal at a place we know and like near us, but after that, since we were a...