T'is

T’is the BIG DAY!
(PS: T’is’s definition is: ‘it is’, in the poetic form, now we all know, ok? But many of you probably knew that.)

Any-who…
I hope that you are all extremely happy with whatever you received!

We no longer give each other gifts and gosh I don’t know when that stopped but it did years ago.
Our decorations are bleak too.
Just a wreath on the front door, but that one I do know why we went understated instead of tastefully gaudy it was around the time Hubby injured his back, about five years ago. Climbing ladders and reaching became difficult and for me… let’s put it this way… FORGET IT!
I am no longer a ladder climber but that goes way back since I primarily was a faller offer, clumsy was my middle name in my twenties, but little did we know then that it was a precursor to MS as one of the first signs and symptoms.
There were many but it wasn’t in our personal vocabulary then so I took the brunt of jokes about being uncoordinated, which was baffling since I had ice figure-skated for years from the age of four and let us not forget my years as a ballet dance student.
And so none of us picked up on it then or thought it was a serious problem to bear further investigation.

Moving on…
We had a quiet morning and heard from number one son by phone as usual the one who does not forget his old parents even when he has to work, which he is today since he works at Busch Gardens that is open!
He is a lead mechanic for all those rides you enjoy when you go there, and so he is there when they tell him to be to keep all of them safe for everyone!

After watching the parades from the two US Disney’s which was quite entertaining and on for a few hours with top entertainment including Mariah Carey and Jackie Evancho we went out to eat.

I did do my exercises folks and I am proud to say I am now up to a count of fifteen per exercise! I do lying flat on my back leg lifts, tummy crunches with bent knees, side leg lifts with bottom leg slight bent and lastly my free weights with elbows on the mat and arms extended from there! A nice beginning for a couch potato for the last few years; I can’t say five since I was walking up until about three years ago.
If any of you recall those were my cane days, and what happened due to my Ataxia I had to keep switching sides with my cane which caused shoulder problems too, and then oddly enough my osteoarthritis in my hips started to cause me to lose sleep due to pain and since my stomach can’t take any pain meds and so the doctor basically told me to stop walking altogether!
TA DA!
So here I am all those years later with fear of doing counter productive exercising, got that?
And that is why I am so happy to have finally figured out a way to help myself, and you know something?
THAT IS MY HUNUKAH/CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO ME!
I even probably mentioned a while ago how many gyms were afraid to take me on due to the fall issue.
Ataxia is a symptom of the MS that oddly enough not everyone gets so I have been told just like the optic neuritis not everyone gets that either.
Unfortunately I did get both.

Oh the present thing, well, Hubby and I decided that we didn’t actually need anything because we have everything we could possibly want or need.
Besides if we do need anything we don’t wait until the holidays we save up and buy it when we need it hopefully! Another TA DA! I thought that was in order.
We did send our eldest a gift since he is in our life.
But our younger son sadly has been known to return what we have sent in the past and as sad as that is, no, that is heartbreaking and so we don’t anymore…
And all our other long distance relatives, we as a family decided that it was a bit much so we stopped years ago!
Even cards are now done just online.
Streamlined and cost effective, huh?

On that rather weird concept of our way of celebrating to most of you I bet, but it works for us anyway I do want to wish you all a very happy good night and to all please do not forget to count all those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time I expect to see you here or you will be square, OK?
LOL, I am still trying to figure out how I will see you? LOL, LOL, I break myself up!
And yea, Merry Christmas PEEPS!