My injury

 Last week I was sitting on the tile floor with Lenny.  When I got up, I pulled a groin muscle and let me tell you, the pain is no joke.  For two days I hobbled around.  By day three I was getting better.  Today is day 5 and I'm still not active.  I feel better and things feel like they are improving but I'm use to walking 11,000 steps per day, if not more and this injury has put me at a stand still.  I'm not resistant training or walking right now.  I keep reminding myself that by next week at this time I should be good as new, I hope.  To be my age in post menopause is no joke.  Last night as I was getting into bed at 8:15 which is standard for me I had to laugh at myself.  My ceiling fan was on full blast.  My travel fan was set up right next to my bed so it blows on me all night.  I rub my essential oils over my foot for my plantar fascitis, then I rub my magnesium butter over my both my feet to help me sleep and I always take my medication for my night sweats right before bed.  Last night I put my compression sock on to help with my leg pain and finally I put my eye mask over my face and I'm out.  What a pitiful sight I am.  These days if I have an event in the evening I'm hit with anxiety, worrying if I'll make it home in time to be in bed by 8:30.  Thank goodness for my dear girlfriends who understand all this and are going through the same rituals.  

I remember my mom telling me she loved her 50's.  I'm 52 and I gotta say I am not loving them.  I am truly doing my best with what I have but there are so many changes at 50 something.  My life as a mother has changed dramatically which isn't a bad thing but it takes some getting use to.  My hormones are gone so it effects all things from my mood to my body and feeling like I just don't care about the things I use to.  I keep waiting for it to get better but thus far it hasn't.  I am thankful for the simple things and that is how I focus my energy.   

Life with Lenny

 Lenny is 15 weeks old.  Every week gets a wee bit easier.  He's house broken so that was a huge relief.  He has settled in nicely with Cole and Walker.  Walker and Lenny are really the best of friends.  Lenny understands our schedule and has adjusted well.  His sleeping quarters are with Cole and Walker.  Mike put in a retractable baby gate which separates Lenny from Cole and Walker.  Although Lenny has started to chew through the gate and soon that gate will be no more. Lenny has learned what is good behavior around Cole and Walker and during the night they are use to sleeping as a pack.  For several weeks after we got Lenny I questioned my sanity.  I still kind of do but I do love that puppy and Mike is enamored with him.  We enrolled Lenny in puppy school and take him every Wednesday night.  He has just started to walk on a leash, not great, but it's a start.  Of course as soon as he starts to walk willingly on a leash I injure myself.  More on that in another blog.  Since Mike and I are relatively new at being empty nesters, Lenny has given us a new purpose and something to talk about.  We've become those crazy dog people.  Mike does things with Lenny that he never allowed with any of our other dogs.  He consistently feeds them left overs in the kitchen.  All dogs get to partake in this and they love it.  He's much more patient with this puppy, probably because he's not worried about not only training a puppy but raising two boys.  Ha.