411 The Walters Bunch

Last week was an extremely active week for us ( me in particular). I try to live life like I use to, but my body no longer cooperates. I had a spoon deficit last week and paid for it this week (you fellow chronic illness followers will understand that statement, if you don't understand the spoons then I envy you). Basically, this week was a recovery week.  I generally don't talk about my fibromyalgia, but unfortunately it is still here making its ever annoying presence known. Constantly reminding me that I am not the old me and I have to say I really hate it. It is like this super annoying friend that won't ever leave my side. I am learning to live with it, but sometimes it doesn't listen to me and even though I have been "good", it still gives me the finger and makes me feel about 85. So because I maxed out last week, this week we really did not go anywhere or do anything. I was just too tired. The kids like my "lazy days" and have no problem laying

Wow. We have been super busy this past week. We took our camper to visit my in-laws. What is really nice is that they have a covered parking area so we are out of the direct 🌞 sun. This means that the camper can actually stay cool in the hot Texas summer heat. We have been wanting to go visit them for a couple of days for awhile now. We needed to do some manual work for them. It had been awhile since we had helped them out. Basically, it was a working trip. Their wish list was very ambitious, but we managed to get a pretty good chunk of it done. D helped weed whack and trim tree limbs and T helped me clean out the garage. Ok, we started to clean the garage. The garage is a huge undertaking and will probably take at least two more trips to finish. We also have several more trees to trim when it gets cooler. We literally worked to exhaustion and we just couldn't do anything else. I thought for sure it would be a rough couple of days for me afterwards, but it wasn't so bad. I eve

Iris is FINALLY 🙌 ready to start exercising again We have had a wonderful time with our "Fun Jar". This week some of the highlights drawn were going swimming and having a timed costume party. We decided to go swimming at the lake by our house, mostly because it is the closest, but also it has a great swim beach and is usually not very crowded. We had so much fun. It was enjoyable to sort of do something that hasn't really been changed by the Corona Virus. The biggest difference was that now only so many people are allowed in per day and when you go to the bathroom you must wear your mask. However, I can count on both hands how many people besides us were at the beach when we went and we were in no danger of being too close to anyone. I pretty much just took my kick board and exercised for an hour while everybody else played volleyball in the water with a beachball. I am not sure why, but they usually don't like to play with me. Maybe I get too competitive. Either way

It is really hard to believe that it is already July 4th. It seems like the slowest moving year ever. The kids haven't seen or talked to their friends since the second week in March and really would love to be able to do anything with them, but as we all know we have to stay apart. There isn't much that is open anyways. Hopefully, things will go back to somewhat normal soon, but I fear that the kids still won't be able to play sports, go to church groups, or hang out with people they aren't living with until next summer. We had a "party" for the 4th. Basically, just my in-laws and oldest child came over and we loved it. Not only was it fantastic to see the people we love, but the kids were so excited to see someone (anyone) who doesn't live here! We grilled some turkey burgers and Nathan's hot dogs (the absolute best). My in laws made my favorite potato salad and baked beans. T is still really into his John Wayne cookbook so he made a recipe from there