put one foot in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking out the door!

 Anyone?  Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the song he sang to the Abominable Snow man?  

Anyway.  The therapist started singing that today.  It seems so easy, and it's not.  Not yet.  I walked a bit at PT with the cane today, but it's not natural yet, each step is like stepping off a cliff, my knee did two small buckles during it, but I did not fall, and was told to just keep going.  I did.  Across the work out room, across the waiting room, down the hall, and back.  phew.  I also worked on the balance board today, which wasn't as hard as I initially thought it would be.  

I was thinking a little while ago about how I am not walking on my own yet.  It's embarrassing.  It's getting old.  Then I stopped myself:  positive thoughts!  I need to keep positive!  One thing I know:  there is a saying about when you're dependent upon something, that it's a crutch.  That's how the walker is.  My brain has attached to it.  Now, I have to build that brain trust connection to the cane, but most importantly, to the knee.  I need to learn to trust the knee.  The only way to do that is to sit around and wish for it.  Just kidding.  The PT said a few weeks ago that Arnold Schwarzenegger once said:  the only way to lift weights is to lift weights.  Same for walking.  

Paul and I went to Aldi after, this time I used the walker and didn't attempt to push the cart, and it went much better, except I couldn't keep up with that rascal who WAS pushing a cart.  Unlike me, he does not view grocery shopping as a recreational activity, but a thing that must be done, preferably not by him.  He was willing to go, and not grumpy, but there is a vast valley between being not grumpy and actually enjoying something.  

We got what we needed, and some Cara Cara oranges, which are expensive even for Aldi, but we shared one after dinner and oh so good!  We got chicken, avocados, yogurt, cream, broccoli, stroopwafels (the girls love them with their tea, they are seasonal and were marked down), chocolate covered cashews, also marked down, crackers, seltzer, flour...and two hams, for 49 cents a pound.  Seriously.  They were around five dollars each, for half honey hams.  Oh, and I got two packages of brown and serve rolls....Sunday dinner, Nate is making a venison roast, I am putting a ham in the oven, I got a jar of unsweetened applesauce and I'll chop some apples into it, add a bit of brown sugar and cinnamon, and bake it.  Ev is bringing green beans, and Emily will make bread, if she is able to come.  Ben is bringing mozzarella sticks for a snack.  Maybe I'll try to make some brownies...or chocolate chip cookie bars...

Anyway.  We came home from the store, and Paul put away the groceries while I iced my knee and had a hot coffee.  (I decline the icing after PT, to do at home, so Paul can get back to work, but when we go to the store too, by the time we get home, I really feel it!)

We had a bit of a thaw, still snow everywhere, but it's melting, there was so much of it, the sidewalk is one big puddle.  When it freezes again, it'll be a mess.  It did feel like spring today, it was a nice day to get out.  Walking around the store was not painful, just tiring.  

I'll leave you with this, it's been dancing through my mind lately: 

You all have a good day!!!