A Gentle Day

I woke up with abdominal pain.  I think my fibroids were duking it out with the digestion of last evening’s high-fibre snack. Not enough room in the abdominal cavity for both.  I just wanted to lie down again after my shower and didn’t want anyone talking to me.  My initial response when Sylvain approached my side of the bed was to growl like a rabid animal.  But then I realized he was asking me if I needed anything… could he bring me breakfast in bed? Coffee? Tea?

“No thank you,” I said as my defensive posture melted.

“Drugs?” he asked in a tender and caring way. (Do you get the picture that Sylvain is THE sweetest boyfriend EVER?)

No, not yet, I said, crawling under the covers, having decided not to get up.

“Ok, wait. Maybe yes…drugs. Do we have any ibuprofen?”

An hour or two later I awoke with no more pain and with Sylvain once again in the bedroom, this time asking me if I wanted to accompany him on an outing. He wanted to explore Holiday Beach.

I surprised us both by agreeing to ride along, and I’m glad I did. Part of me wanted to stay burrowed in the dark bedroom all day, but fortunately a wise voice told me to go get some fresh air and sunshine. After all, this is the weather we’ve been WAITING FOR for months and months and months.

The beach was quiet with only a couple of families with dogs and kids and plenty of unoccupied beach in between.  The sun was shining down on the marsh, a few clouds in the blue sky.  We saw lots of Mute Swans, Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Canada Geese on nests and with goslings. I was able to show Sylvain his first Brown Thrasher (a pair, to be exact) kicking about in the sand, strewing leaves everywhere.

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My local Bulk Barn just started carrying Chia seeds. Did you know they were the 3rd most important crop to the Aztecs, behind corn and beans but ahead of amaranth? They contain even more Omega-3 than flax seeds. I got some to put into my homemade gluten-free muesli and just out of curiosity to see how they taste.  Ok, I don’t recommend them for cold cereal. When liquid hits them, they begin a rapid transformation into tiny gelatinous blobs. This makes them a good ingredient for porridge and puddings but not so good for cold cereal–if you ask me. Which you didn’t.

I am eager to go get more, however, so I can have a refreshing super energy drink that Mexicans know as “chia fresca.”  You take a spoonful of seeds, add water, lemon and sugar (or Stevia in my case) and let it sit for 10 minutes then stir.  I can’t wait to see if it really does give me an energy boost. I’ll let  you know.