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...
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...
So, I’ve been having trouble finding a theme that works. I noticed, after about a week, that the last theme wouldn’t let me post comments! What good is a blog if people can’t comment??? For now I’m back to a theme I know works. Just wish it was a little cuter, or something … On the very last leg of my New Testament project. Read John this week – what a powerful book. On every page, multiple times, there is the Savior testifying of who he is and what he came here for. Really enjoyed it. Tomorrow I start Revelations – the last book of the quest. Hope I can make heads or tails of it! Have been battling depression and now a head cold. Maybe the depression was actually me being low-grade sick? Whatever it is, I have had the hardest time making myself do anything. I get the kids off...
I have to report that I am STILL SICK. You might have noticed that I made a post about being sick back in November. Well, I had a brief reprieve in CA – my coughing never went away, but I felt better. As soon as we got back to Denver I went back to bed and stayed there for 72 hours. I have gradually begun to feel better, but the coughing is SO OLD. My whole family is annoyed with me. And now Tom is sick and coughing. This has been a crummy fall for me, health-wise. I sure hope we’re better for Christmas!! Read More →
I don’t really have much to say – but I’m trying not to leave the blog idle! I have been trying to do some christmas preparations – i finally decided what I was doing for my siblings, but I’m still thinking about tom’s siblings – although I think I might have made a decision. I’ve been trying to make lists of things that my kids might like – we’re trying to be more economical this year so I’m on the lookout for inexpensive things they would still enjoy. We just read the christmas chapter in “Little House on the Prairie” and it was interesting to see the reaction of my kids to Laura & Mary’s gifts – a shiny penny, a tin cup, a stick of candy, and a little cake. I’m not sure they really thought about it in terms of their own christmas!! On...