back...

from the living dead. i don't really know what got a hold of me - but after all that microbial warfare fun over christmas had finally passed, i came down with an ear infection. that passed within a few days (or so i thought), and then matt came down with the symptoms of a flu and a cold. at once. sure enough, three days later, i followed suit, spending all weekend on the couch waffling between being pretty sure i was going to die and begging the Lord to do away with me. (i'll admit, i'm a little dramatic when i'm sick.)

so that fun continued right on into the week. tried to go to work on monday, which lasted for all of 5 hours. went home, and stayed there until i finally mustered the courage to leave my little germ-shelter (or would that be "germy little shelter") and brave the outside world today.

i saw the doctor on wednesday and she didn't have much to tell me - except that she could see the ear infection and she gave me an antibiotic for it. it may be that i struggled to get rid of this cold/flu/thing so much because i was already dealing with the infection. she also gave me some highly overrated cough syrup with codeine which most certainly did not perform as promised.

so yeah - way more detail than you ever wanted to know, i'm sure. i gave canned goodies (apple butter, pear butter, pear sauce, etc) to our grandparents - all of them - for christmas, and i'm getting rave reviews. kinda surprised! i've even had very gentle ("i don't mean to sound greedy, but...") requests for more. i love that. :)

so now i have a whole sick-free (in theory) weekend to myself. we're going out with friends tonight, and i have some chores to catch up on, and a bunch of things to do before i go back to the kids at church on sunday. i miss them! being out last sunday left me mopey, and we even had more kids than usual that day. and of course, the super bowl is sunday. looking forward to playing football games with the kids and tailgating in the church parking lot. mmmm. bbq.

have a great weekend!