Happiness

Around 3:30 on Wednesday, after waiting for what seemed like a few years, I got a ping on my telephone letting me know that my results came back- negative. Phew! And I am feeling mostly better. Trying not to do too much too soon and find myself back in bed. Mostly I am grateful. I am grateful for my health, for my home, for my full life and for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  That was rough and I never want to go through that again. But, if I do, I am going to be prepared with a sick kit, complete with Sprite, Vitamin C drops, saltines and maybe a magazine or two.  Because you just never know! 

I was prepared for Declan to come home sick the first week or two of Kindergarten. Being around all those new little germs you are not used to often makes you sick and miserable!  Fast forward a month and I thought I was out of the woods! We had been rubbing Thieves Essential Oil on the bottom of his feet but I hadn't been so faithful with it the past few weeks. We also have Thieves in our bathroom hand soap and in our cleaning spray so I thought we would be gone! Boy, was I wrong! 9 days ago today, Declan complained of a sore throat. I thought it was mild and would go away as usual. It didn't. Then he had a headache and on Friday he couldn't wake up and when he did, he told me "Mom, there is a sign on the mirror in the bathroom that says if you are sick, stay home!" **My 5 year old can read, did I mention that? It's been lovely and I think it was the tv captioning because besides reading bedtime books and going over sight words we didn't d...

Turns out what I had was Strep Throat! I've never had it before, but on Monday Night the pain had gotten so bad that I was in the car, headed to the Minute Clinic at CVS at 8 pm, until Josh ran out and told me it was probably closed. We checked online and yep, it closed at 7:30pm. I got a blessing and was hopeful that I would be better by the morning. The morning came at 4 am and I was up again with a throatful of sharps. As advised by a few of my friends on facebook, I headed to the Dr.- Asher in tow. One hour and a half later, a grapefruit juice, ring pop, new face wash, antio-biotics in hand and $42 less in my pocket, I was on the road to recovery. The pain wore off last night and I was able to eat something soft. It was Heaven! This morning I woke up at 4 am again and after reading in bed for a few hours decided that 7 am was as good a time as any to eat my Valentine, nut covered chocolates. I ate 2 (again HEAVEN after almost 2 days of no eating) but they were not so good on m...

Saturday afternoon I came home after a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese that Elizabeth was invited to. And I became sick. I couldn't eat at all and we had a big night planned of dinner and a movie with a babysitter already lined up. We canceled and I spent the evening on the couch watching Where the Red Fern grows with the kids and eating popcorn (I did manage to eat that finally!). And you know what, being there with all my kids around me and crying at the sad parts together, it was worth every moment of being sick. Almost! I drifted to sleep after the movie ended at 7pm and finally woke up around 11:15 am the next morning (with a few wake-ups inbetween). All Sunday I laid in bed, reading, drinking and doing a lot of thinking about my life. As Josh and I went to bed that night he was not at all surprised at the things I concluded. He usually never is. He knows me too well. So, today I am up and feeling better and while I'm not going to run a good 2 miles today, I am taking th...