Other Year Older...

So I just had birthday... my husband calls me 28 so let's go with that. I didn't really have any expectations of the day... it fell on a Sat. so naturally I expected my husband would work. But much to my surprise he took the day off! Although not to my surprise he took it off to go hunting... his excuse - he was home at the same time to take me out to dinner as if he had worked.


What he did have planned for the day while he was gone was something I have been wanting for over 10 years now... an acupuncture session! However since he was in the woods all day I feel I should be far more grateful to my mother who spent the whole day with my kids since my appointment was in the morning and we didn't go out to dinner until 7 PM. But the session was awesome! The Dr. came highly recommended to me by two different people I know and it certainly exceeded my expectations.


Now I knew from massage school what to expect but I think it must take getting through one's first session before you can get past the thought of actually having needles in your body. Not to mention the whole time I was there I had my friend's account of her acupuncture experience to turn her breech baby ringing in my ears which I think she described as some type of mid-evil torture. But I think my Dr. must be better at what he does or turning a breech baby is much harder than general relaxation. Although after he placed about 8 needles in my legs and feet and then went to drape a towel on my legs to "keep warm" I nearly jumped off the table from the sheer fear alone that it would painfully bend each and everyone out of my body. But to my pleasant surprise this did not happen.


After I was able to relax and really let go the experience was wonderful. About half way through the session I could feel warm energy building in my solar plexus and then it moved throughout my body. The session seemed much longer than it really was and I felt SO relaxed and warm after. It was not quite the same feel as after a massage but just as relaxing for sure. I just loved it and hope to do it again.

Then I went home to check up on Mom and luckily the baby did great without me. Then I got to run out, all by myself (that doesn't happen often) to one of my new favorite stores called True Nature. They have a ton of stones, crystals, herbs, oils, new age books, tarot cards, ect. So I picked up a little of everything, okay just kidding although I would have liked. But I did randomly pick up a sample deck of tarot cards and when I picked the top few angel cards off the deck the card facing up was the Bethany card. So of course I took that as a sign and got that deck which I am quite enjoying, but it is Doreen Virtue and I love her stuff anyway.

Then after a wonderful day and horrible communication by my husband he returned from his romp in the woods to take me out to dinner. I was suppose to pick a place but I always have such a hard time doing that. We go out to nice places so rarely I can never think of what I want. So we went to our old favorite stand by, Hu Hot which is always good. We had a nice evening but after a few hours I felt awful that my mom had been watching our kids for almost 12 hours straight and Dave of course was exhausted so we just decided to go home to bed. And once we did we had an overly awake toddler in bed with us due to a very late and long nap. Nothing screams romance quite like a bed full of awake babies and tired husbands! Okay I only had one husband in bed but with my birthday I think I might need to look into adding one for my next birthday. Maybe that can be what Dave gets me next year? But I did really enjoy my acupuncture!