Dramamine Queen

My 16 month old niece likes to be scared. Not just in a peek-a-boo way either, no she likes the terror of being dropped or thrown. Obviously we don’t really throw her or drop her but nothing makes her laugh like a maniac like the feeling of free falling.
So on Christmas Eve when I picked her up airplane style and did a quick squat(over a giant lady bug pillow, just in case.) she lost her mind. I did about 4 of them and then swung her around the room and to a safe landing. Except it was so mind blowing awesome that the second I put her down she reached her arms up to me still laughing and it was so cute that I did it again and again. And again. In fact about 30 minutes later I was sweating and starting to feel the burn in my muscles.
I shouldn’t have been surprised when I woke up Christmas morning feeling a bit stiff. That stiffness got worse over the day until the only way I could get up the stairs at my in laws was to crawl up them. I could barely sit down, couldn’t lean forward and by boxing day could barely walk. Jonathan rubbed some sort of muscle cream on my back, I took one of my mother in laws Tylenol 3, got into my pajamas and cranked a heating pad up high and laid in bed watching tv. It didn’t help that I also had horrible cramps and all the fun symptoms I get on the first day of my period.
I stretched every hour even though it hurt and I was convinced my back muscles would snap they were so tight. Today though I seem to be alright. Still a little sore but nothing like I was.

Guess I should start doing some more strength training.