too small for a bearskin rug, but he makes a good little yorkie welcome mat...

here are some things that i have realized i take for granted :
tying my shoes
shaving my legs
giving the boys a bath
painting my toe nails
taking polish off my toe nails
lifting things
sleeping through the night without waking up
taking walks 
crossing my legs

not hurting when:
i sneeze
blow my nose
cough
use the bathroom
sit
drive
 bruno runs across my stomach
bend over

so today i thank God for good health and i hope that after the surgery i never take these things for granted again!
this morning i woke up at 4:30 and pretended to go back to sleep until about 6, decided it was a fruitless effort, might as well get up and take a nap later!

last night bruno was enjoying just laying in front of the balcony door, listening to the rain.

haha...he looks like one of those bear skin rugs!

so i threw some of the dogs' blankets into the laundry-it was high time! and i decided to try the coconut pancakes again with a little banana. at first, they just weren't cooking up quite right, so i threw out the first batch, added a little bit of regular flour to the mixture and a little baking powder and that seemed to do the trick! and the "syrup" was just right as well. not gonna lie, i am a big fan!!

yum, yum, yum! they turned out much better than last time!

i decided to try my hand at them again because when i was up in ok, bmayes made some with almond flour and banana and they were really good.

someone found what they thought was a candy and started trying to eat it. apparently they don't care for eucalyptus menthol because they definitely left it laying on my bedroom floor.

pretty much intact

i called the hospital to see if i was reading my pre-op instructions correctly because i cannot have aleve, or anything like that with aspirin, but i wasn't sure about the pain meds, and she said yes, i said wow. i said when, she said if you're in pain how about right now pain can't wait (my re-working of brad paisley's she said yes, for all of you country fans out there). hydrocodone...here i come! i'll be going to bed early tonight. 

good night!
julie