Turning 50

So here's a day in my post surgery life June 2013

6:30 a.m. Wake up, dress and go for a short walk. I've been told a short walk is good, but there is no mention of what a "short walk" is. I'm guessing something under 20 minutes since I am directed to not stand or sit for longer than this. I have been going to the corner and back and today a bit further.
7:00 a.m. eat breakfast  This is usually yogurt and fruit and or granola or peanut butter toast or a protein drink. Today  I had a  boathouse chocolate protein drink and half a banana and it was a treat.
I put clean dishes away from the dishwasher and load what's in the sink and handwash a few extra things left out from previous night. A colander, a few pans and etc
7:30 a.m.  Back to bed for prayer and meditation and to read and journal. Today I prayed for my son who is  a little unsure of his route to work and heavy traffic.
8:30a.m. I've said goodbye to my husband who has left for work by now and also to my son who has just started working his first full-time job. Lie down and see if I can rest a bit-sometimes I can fall back to sleep.
10:00 a.m. I'm up because the phone has been ringing, but didn't catch it in time.
Get up and get on computer to pay some bills and check bank accounts. I checked e-mail and looked at facebook.  I love facebook. Yesterday I chatted with a friend who also had a hysterectomy last week.
11:30 a.m. I went outside to lie down on the trampoline for a little sunbath. I have to use a stool to climb up and down. It feels great to lie down in the sun. I have always loved this and I think it must help my vitamin D and seratonin levels because I always feel good after a few minutes in the sun.  Now that I'm almost 50 I try to limit my sun exposure to 10 or 15 minutes.
12:00 p.m. some inside and coax various kids at various stages of wakefulness to do chores and help me load laundry and bring laundry up to be folded. They find this extremely annoying. Children like mine like their mother to be up and healthy and are thrown for a loop with too many demands for additonal help. I could not care less, and feel this will be a great learning experience for them all.
12:30 p.m. Eat an apple.
1:00 p.m. Took a shower.
1:15 p.m. Watched Kathie Gifford and Hoda Kotbe on Today. Oh brother.
2:00 p.m. Took a nap.
3:00 p.m. Yesterday I tried to read some more in my book "THe Tiger's Wife". I need a new book.
I'm also working on a "yarn and rope coil" basket. Didn't feel like working on it today.
4:00 p.m. I was not very hungry today. I don't think I ate lunch? Invited youngest son to give his turtle a bath, and oldest to bring laundry up, and middle child to go water the veggie garden.
1st middle child has been sort of missing in action yesterday and today. I think she does not want to be assigned any more chores.
I'm a little paniked about dinner tonight, after about a week of having my lovely neighbors bring dinner in.
Can we do it ourselves? I have enlisted everybody's help to make french toast and sausage.
5:00 p.m.Watched news. Had to get on and read the Blog of the girl who was drowned in Lake Powell, whose body they found this week.
This had made me get on and write on my own blog even though I have not blogged for over a year.
6:00 p.m. Dinner became quesa dillas with avocados and black beans and salsa. It was much easier than I though it would be.
I am so happy though that I told two friends they could bring dinner tomorrow.

It's my birthday this thursday and I feel very thankful to have finally had this surgery and this summer to recovery and heal.
I'm excited for this next phase of my life...have almost completed my 50th trip around the sun!