What did YOU do on Sabbath?

Well, I decided to take the children to Tygerberg Nature Reserve. The flowers, birds, a turtle…

Our usual crier was remarkably happy! This is someone who once got to a park and immediately screamed and screamed because we didn’t want to stay next to some tree she liked. So she played around it with her dad. Now with dad not being there, we weren’t sure who would be doing what she wanted. Nor did we know what she would want.

Besides wanting to enter the men’s loo when her brother went in, she was FINE!❤️🥰

But her twin! That girl can talk the monkeys off the trees! And she is such a typical Miss Independent. There were times I knew the path was ok so I let her go, there were times she AND her twin wanted to hold my hand when I really would have been ok on my own😉and times she decided she knew better than me and ran, fell into a hole and her bunny flew into the air and onto a bush!

It was good. We had never used that path or trail before so turned back when we felt we’d walked long enough. Next time I’ll go without little ones and see how long it is and if they’d have made it all the way round.

Oh, the other thing of note was Twin A nagging as we walked back that she needed an EYE doctor for her sore finger. One of the bushes she didn’t want to stay away from stings! I tried to mollify her by telling her I’d put cream on it when we got home, she didn’t buy it, she wanted the EYE doctor. I told her I’d give her pain meds. Nope, “eye doctor!” But lo and behold, when we got into the car and I handed her some Vaseline, the placebo worked immediately! She was suddenly and very quickly, “Better!”😉

And yes, as Flydah and my husband predicted-which they always do when they know I’ve had an active day, I paid dearly for it with even more pain later. I read a thread on Reddit where 5000 steps a day was the max some people could do and know they’d be fine the next day, no suffering from the after effects of too much. But man, that doesn’t leave me with much time to do chores etc if I have to do so few steps. I’ll keep hoping that we get to the other side of the surgery, that we find a biologic that will reduce my symptoms and slow down the disease.

Oh. One thing I added which nobody commented on was how I kept sleeping when we’d stop at a red light. I’m the driver… I don’t know if AS fatigue is increasing (I’ve read others’ accounts of them falling asleep in a parking lot or dropping their children off at school..), I don’t know if I’d taken way too many pain pills (Some make you drowsy) or if it was lack of sleep catching up on me. But either way, I realised I’m really not well!

But here we are, home safe. Nobody had to hoot to wake me up and the children didn’t even notice. It was a good Sabbath.