Body Aches

I chaperoned Ellie's 6th grade field trip to the Adler Planetarium on Thursday. I don't know that I can do a middle school field trip again. I think it is the age for testing limits. It was a cold, rainy day. The bus trip down took forever. The museum shows in the theater were very cool. The one is updated on a weekly basis to show which stars and planets you can best see in the Chicago sky. By the end of the day, the sun had come out and we were able to take a quick walk along the beach before heading back. I picked Nick up from school and then Rob picked Ellie up from track.
Friday morning Mom, Teo, and I went to Costco. I found some snacks for lunches and a few other things. They dropped me at home and I unloaded. The kids only had a half day, they were home by noon. We had lunch and then headed over to Mom's. The kids were very excited to be able to pick Tony up from school. They got to play for a few minutes before we headed out. We went to a rummage sale Friday night - I was looking for stock but instead found things for us. We picked up a full size air hockey table for Michigan. I thought it would fit in the car but it stuck out about 2 feet. We drove home slowly. We all quickly packed our overnight bags for Saturday. Mom and Dad were watching the kids so Rob and I could head to Michigan to open up.
Saturday morning we ate breakfast and I dropped the kids off. Rob and I made good time on the road. We knew there was a pipe break somewhere upstairs but we didn't know where or how bad. It took us a bit to get the electric panel to turn on. Rob slowly turned the water on and it quickly started to rain on the 1st floor and the basement. With flashlights and crooked neck, Rob thought he tracked down where the water was coming from. He removed the vanity and cut the floor...found a hole in the shower pipe. Pain in the butt area to get to and have to work in. Long story short - every time Rob thought it was fixed and we turned the water back on, a new problem would be found inches away. It took all day Saturday to fix the plumbing. I worked on cleaning the upstairs and then I got into painting the floor. We went out for dinner and pick up supplies. Rob tried to take a hot shower only to find the shower didn't work on the 1st floor and there was no hot water.
We were both up entirely too early this morning but it worked to our benefit because we were able to get a bunch done. We got the car emptied and put away. We set up the hockey table and pinball machine. We painted a bit more of the floor. We attempted to clean up as much of the water crud as possible. We made lots of sketches with measurements and things we need to bring up next weekend. We closed up around lunchtime and started our trip home. We got home and showered and it felt good. We went to Mom and Dad's for dinner. We celebrated Ole's birthday. Mom made ribs, corn, veggies, pasta, and more. The kids played outside together. Jo and Ole took the kids to a new favorite park this afternoon. We headed to Menards to pick up our gazebo after dinner but they are completely out of stock in Illinois. We came home and Ellie and I worked on her posters for her run for student council treasurer.
My body is letting me know exactly which muscles were worked out this weekend. I have to say, I have been doing a yoga video and I think it has really helped with some of the hip cramping/charlie horse issues I have had for a couple years now.
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Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree