Misfit Monday

Buttin and another misfit are on a little trip this week.

They're visiting our largest carpet supplier's factory in Georgia.  I'm sure it's like a big carpet-factory-party.  I imagine they're wearing hard hats and spinning yarn as I write this post.

Here is Cub today.  I think he misses his dad.  He had a little meltdown during bath time and then just wanted to be cuddled for about 20 minutes in bed - no books, no toys - just cuddles and a couple of fishies. 

Better Than Nothing

This morning I went for my longest run in four weeks - 3.5 miles.  It wasn't great, but I guess it wasn't horrible - my feet still tingle, but I've noticed that they feel a little less tingly after I run. 

This afternoon Buttin and I met Liz and Jonathan for the movie: Safe.  I give it a solid three cookies - pretty fun action movie.

Here's Cub this morning eating his lolipop.

A Birthday Visit

Today, Buttin, Cub and I went to visit Mormor and Dadoo to celebrate Dadoo's birthday and Mormor and Dadoo's anniversary. 

We celebrated these occasions by watching Cub run around the house while trying to break everything breakable.  Thankfully, he never found the cat.  We also ate regular lasagna (Dadoo and I were grateful it wasn't crab lasagna) and Dairy Queen Blizzards - it was quite the classy meal. 

During our visit, Cub found a  kind of bike in the yard and he was very confused as to why it wouldn't move. 

Filanthropy Friday

This week I'm bringing together two events - Earth Day (last Sunday) and my father's birthday (tomorrow).

I don't think I could describe my dad as "green", but he does like to conserve resources (we were probably the first family to save and reuse paper grocery bags) and he also likes driving to parks and monuments and history-type stuff.

I'm not what you'd call a parks, monuments or history kind of girl, but I remember the trips we would take to exotic places, like - New Mexico and Arizona and Arkansas to see National Parks.  Some kids got Disney World for vacation, but I got Hot Springs, Arkansas (every 10 year old's dream) and The San Antonio Missions.  I did get Disney World, but I'm kind of glad I got more than just Disney World.

This week, I selected the Sierra Club and they have donation options where you can Sponsor A Wild Place. 

In honor of my dad's birthday and of Earth Day, I selected the $25 Grand Canyon National Park sponsorship.   I remember our family trip to the Grand Canyon and driving around to many different viewpoints so that we could look at the big hole in the ground from yet another angle. As a teenager, I wasn't very impressed, but I certainly want to take Cub there one day (maybe he'll have better attitude than I did).

A Little Something

So, I know I keep talking about my tingly feet and that's probably not very interesting to my three readers so I promise to try and find a new topic next week.  However, in tingly foot news, they're still tingly. 

Today I did a little stationary bike ride in our office.  Barbie brought a stationary bike up to work a couple of years ago and so far it's been used once (and now twice).  On my non-walk/jogging mornings I plan to do a little bike ride to supplement my lack of mileage. I'm hoping it improves my mood. 

Cub has been in a really funny mood the last few days. I haven't spent anytime detailing  Cash-cutenesses lately, so I'll share one - he loves to sing along to songs we sing.  We've sung "You are my sunshine" to Cub every night since he was about 6 weeks old.  It's always calmed him.  Now, he sings with us as we put him to bed.  He sings the words - sunshine, happy, grey, dear and you.  It's pretty sweet. 

Here he is today eating some veggie straws on the porch. 

Wordless Wednesday

The Chiropractor

Today I went to see a chiropractor for my tingly feet.

Honestly, I grew up in a pretty anti-chiropractor household so the thought of ever going to see one just never occurred to me. 

The short version of the visit today - my feet are still tingly.

Honestly, I wasn't expecting the feet tingling to go away or even really improve. 

She was able to increase my foot tingling by applying pressure to certain parts of my hips, which she said was a good sign.  She only manipulated my lower back and asked me to track any changes for the next few days and go back and see her on Friday.

We'll see how it goes - at least I feel good about trying to do something while I wait for the neurologist appointment. 

Here's Cub playing outside today.