I was so happy today was first series. Though my back has felt better over the last couple of days, I've ingested way too much crap and it shows. Isn't it funny how our bodies show us exactly what we've been doing. Today, during practice, I heard "You been running a lot?" to some person, somewhere in the room... a response.. then "Your whole body shows it." My body sure was showing it today...

Today has been a wild day... The Daughter lost her first tooth this morning... later we went to the beach and she dove under her first waves with the demonstrations of 3DStickMan's (soon to be blogger) Daughter... then tonight she had a complete meltdown. I was doing the dishes and I thought I heard crying but I wasn't sure... finally I went to investigate and it was The Daughter, in absolute meltdown, hysterical, sobbing. I finally get her calm enough to tell me what's wrong... she doesn't want to give her tooth to the tooth fairy. She doesn't understand why she has to. I reassured her first, that anytime she was that upset to absolutely come find me and, second, that she could give up her tooth to the Tooth Fairy whenever she was good and ready. The conversation drifted in and out about why we don't lose adult teeth, the minor fact that what she really wants is to be able to keep a baby tooth and an adult tooth.. she wants "one of each, please."

Moon day tomorrow... hooray. I never usually "look forward" to moon days but, for some reason, tomorrow's day of rest seems like a blissful package tied in a red bow.

Addendum: today last year was apparently my last practice before my surgery... Reading this post really made me see the path that my circumstances have presented for me. It's wierd when you revisit something so heart wrenching for you... the difference in time and personal growth that makes you see it all so differently.