So, you’ll remember that I took the 30 day New Testament challenge early in the year. Afterwards, I thought I’d read the Old Testament to round out the experience (the entire Bible in a year). There are some cool reading schedules out there (one I’d like to try some time has daily readings from the Old & New Testaments, as well as the Psalms) but I ended up modifying a chronological schedule, making it fit into 11 months instead of 12. So far, I’ve managed to stay on track, although I find myself having to catch up more than I did with the New Testament challenge. The daily readings for that program were so long that I NEVER wanted to get behind. The Old Testament readings average about 3-4 chapters (sometimes only 2) a day – not enough to scare me from skipping a day. Isn’t it funny how...
So, here it is, 1:30 am, and I’m awake and coughing and totally disgusted. I was sooo tired tonight, and of course the kids were up late because we were going to watch the fireworks (which didn’t apparently get rained out, but we went home before they started because it was POURING). Anyhow, the children FINALLY went to bed and I gratefully closed my eyes and conked out. Yet 15 minutes ago I came awake after that sleeping phase where your dreams are unsettled (I was in this loop where all my reading on bipolar disorder was somehow mixed in with this cough) and I was COUGHING. NOOOO! I was already sick the entire month of May. I’ve done my time coughing and coughing and not being able to sleep. This should not be happening. Yet, here I am – I lay down and I cough. Which leads me to a weird thing I have...
So it’s been almost a month since my last post and I’m not sure why. I had thoughts of blogging about our garden (and posting pictures, of course) but in the end I was too bored – it’s a garden and nothing is really doing much yet (except the bugs are eating all the leaves). June was busy – Spencer has been out of school but the littles were back in. The homeschooling was horrendous (I’m so glad Andrew’s going back to school for 5th grade – his new teacher can deal with all his weird tricks to get out of work). Andrew did a week of baseball camp (but I got no pictures and I’m not going to apologize! I dropped him off and ran each day!!). Haley has started horseback riding lessons (again, no pictures – but I AM going to take some soon. She looks cute in her helmet up...
Memorial day was an exciting one in our family. Spencer went skating with some buddies and had an accident – got himself a nice concussion and a case of short term memory loss. I can joke about it (a little) now, but at the time it was totally freaking me out. He hit his head after falling backwards off his board and falling on the ramp, head first. According to his friends, he didn’t get knocked out – he got up saying his head really hurt. Fortunately one of his friend’s mom was there and she brought him right home. But before they even got him home he had begun asking over and over what had happened. He was pretty upset and kept saying the same things over and over. It was pretty disconcerting. Tom gave him a blessing and then I drove him to Urgent Care who promptly sent him on to the emergency room...
I’ve been reading Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and I have to ask myself, “What is this on-going illness trying to tell me about my life??” (that’s an inside joke to anyone who has read this massive tome on how our thoughts and feelings come out in the illnesses and symptoms our bodies display). Seriously, though, I’m really tired of being sick – after two plus weeks of coughing, being exhausted, and just generally feeling yucky, I’m really ready to be healthy again. There are things that I so need to do but just don’t have the energy to cope with. I have such admiration for people who deal with chronic illness and pain and still manage to carry on with life. I carry on – but with a large dose of murmuring and complaining!! On another note, my kids (littles) are off-track...