4th of July

Today started out with me in a bad mood. I had to tell myself to have an attitude adjustment after dadi came home from working out and basically said that i needed one but in a much nicer way. I was just annoyed because i was exhausted, in pain in my back and pelvis, trying to make breakfast while moma was driving me nuts with some terrible whining, it hurt to stand up over the stove, i burned the pancakes and i had the beginnings of a headache. so after breakfast and telling myself to have an attitude adjustment everything perked up and we all ended up having a nice day. We went to the pool this morning for a quick swim. it was nice to be in the pool though when i got out all that pressure returned and i wanted to cry. i started to a couple of times and then got a hold of myself. thank goodness because i would have felt retarded afterwards. i feel like the biggest sissy and i hate it. i just want to be able to do the things i normally do without pain. like cook over the stove like i mentioned before. how pathetic is it that i can't even stand at the stove flipping pancakes and frying bacon with out pulling up a chair to rest in between flips??? so pathetic and very frustrating. anyways, moma had a great time at the pool and she had so much fun when dadi gave her a piggy back ride through out the pool while mommy chased them around saying "I'm gonna get you!!!" she was cracking up. a little while after coming back to the house, moma said she wanted to take a nap. i was skeptical since she had slept in until 7:45 that morning and it was only 10:30. her usual nap isn't until 1:00. but she insisted and so i let her take an early nap. it worked out well because we went to my moms house for a BBQ in the afternoon. I was going to try and put her down early for a nap anyways just not that early. She slept for a little over two hours and i took that time to take a nap too. sleeping and napping have become my favorite thing right now. just because i can lay down and get some of the pressure off of my bones. there are probably a million other things that i should be doing besides napping, but i know that sleep is super important for me right now and i just need to put those other things out of my head and crash. We headed over to my moms house at 3:00 and we got to meet her boyfriends dad. He is a character. One of the first things he says to me is that I'm beautiful. He rants and raves at my beauty for awhile. even though i have heard that he is a total flirt, i like the compliments. that is until about 10 minutes later when he goes on to tell us how he thinks ALL women are beautiful and that he just got in trouble at his senior center (for the second time) for telling all the women that they are beautiful over and over again. anyways, he was a crack up. my uncle was there as well. the first thing moma does when she gets there is ride her tricycle right into the blow up pool my mom has for her. she was soaked. so we took her clothes off and put on her bathing suit so she could play in the pool in the correct attire. she had a blast today. she even sang a couple of songs and showed off her Spanish speaking abilities and how well she can do a somersault. we left my moms house at about 8:00 and watched some fireworks that people were lighting outside in the street before putting her to bed. she didn't go to bed until 9:00 tonight. i was afraid she wouldn't be able to sleep with all the fireworks going off outside, but she quickly passed out and is sound asleep. i wish i were too, but i can't sleep with all this noise!! last year it went until about 2:00 a.m. so I'm not expecting to get a good nights sleep tonight. we're one of only about 3 cities around here that allows fireworks so everyone invites people over here to light them off. they still do them in the cities where it's illegal but just not as much as here. we did say a special prayer tonight that our house does not catch fire.