Three Little Birds

Fill in the blank.  You know you can.  We all have that person (or probably more true: that family) that we try to "compete" with... even if we don't mean to or realize it.  In my own opinion, I feel that social media (Facebook, Instagram, whatever) has magnified this epidemic of trying to be *that* family. This soap box is brought to you by a recent article I read by Steve Wiens HERE . The picture perfect family with perfectly dressed, well-behaved, nutritionally optimized, sugar free genius kids that don't ever watch TV or demand to watch YouTube on the iPad for hours (ahem) is something I am sure you have never tried to create.  Ha.  Right?!  Unless you don't go on the Internet (hence this is your first time, EVER - welcome!) or have an incredibly amazing ability to be holy, then you, like I, have battled with this mind-set.  Maybe it's not the kid(s).  Maybe it's that you want to have *that* body, or *that* house, or be able to run ...

So it's been 7 days since my hysterectomy.  I am at the 7th day of recovery and for the FIRST time, I don't feel as if I'm in la-la land.  I haven't taken any narcotic pain medication since postop day 2 so I guess it was the anesthesia that has made me so out of it!  The pain is lifting slowly.  I told Justin today I was just ready to wake up in the morning pain-free.  I am noticing a very weird sensation of my inside organs "sloshing around" (for lack of a better term) when I turn over in bed.... anyone else with this surgery ever have this sensation??  I don't know if it's just gas bubbles or if it's really what it feels like.... maybe from them taking out so much scar tissue as well (??).  And I'm having A LOT of muscle aches in my mid-back, especially my shoulders, and in my neck.  It doesn't respond to much other than a heating pad! Anyways, enough of my whining!  As most of you know by now, the surgeons were able to do the surgery a...