Wednesday Morning Hackings

I'm comin' atcha live from my sick bed. I'm a real prize right now, just let me say. We were in St. Louis all last week for Thanksgiving and our last night there I started to get a cough. I woke up Saturday morning to pack and load up so we could begin our drive home and I could hardly do anything. I just figured I was tired because we had been keeping some late nights. It really was a struggle to get everything packed and once we were in the car and rollin' down the highway, I started to realize that I was sick. My body was achy and I had chills and a horrible hacking cough. So it was a very unpleasant two day drive for me.

We got home Sunday night. I had to help in Aubrey's class the next morning at 9am. It was so hard to get out bed when my alarm went off at 6:30. But I decided that most of it is in my attitude and if I just got up and had a positive attitude and went about business as normal, I would be just fine. I went to help in Aubrey's class, then I went shopping for Addy's Birthday present, because it was her Birthday. Then I went shopping for groceries. Then I came home and cleaned the house and made Addy's Birthday dinner and cake and my mom and Lauren came over for a family party. Then the next day I got up at 6:30 am and went to help Emily's teacher at 9am. (Most of it's just in my attitude right?) By the time I got home from the school yesterday, I was in pretty horrible shape. Like Horrible, Horrible. Yesterday was not a good day for me.

I can't remember the last time I felt so bad. I had a fever and chills. A nasty cough that was in my lungs. And a very achy breaky everything. I thought I might die. Thankfully I didn't. About that time, I decided it was about time for me to slow my attitude down and park my booty in the bed. I couldn't just keep going about life as normal. I needed to get better and I needed to do it in a jiffy. I had exactly one day because on Thursday (tomorrow) I had 3 big events. 1. Emily's play at school, 2. Addy's friend Birthday party, 3. Relief Society Christmas Dinner. So I put a halt on all activities last night. My dear visiting teacher brought in dinner last night. The Relief Society Presidency came by to visit and brought me a treat. And I started ordering everyone in my family around, more than normal.

At that point, I had no choice but to get orderly. I couldn't do anything for myself. Seriously. I couldn't even reach my arm out of my blanket to get a kleenex because my chills were so bad. And my kids were freaking out because every time they would come to give me a hug I was burning up. Poor Steve, he has been so good to me. After me ordering him around all night last night and making a trip to the store for me to buy all my invalid supplies and getting all the kids in bed and doing everything else that needed to be done, just as we were about to fall asleep I said, "Honey, will it make you crazy if I ask you to do one more thing for me?" He said it wouldn't. So I asked him to take my socks off because they were bothering me. And he did it without complaint.

He is a good man. He stayed home from work today and he has been babying me all day. I have decided that in all likelihood, I am not going to be better by tomorrow, so I postponed Addy's party and sadly decided that I'm not going to the dinner tomorrow night even though I hate to miss it. I will venture out for Emily's play however. Hopefully I will be well by the weekend because we have play tickets for Saturday and tickets to the Christmas Devotional at the Conference Center on Sunday. I will not be happy if I have to miss either of those.

One upside to all this is that I haven't been able to eat anything for the past few days and my abs are getting a stellar workout with all the coughing. And I had Steve set me up in bed with the laptop and my pictures so I can get caught up with all my posting.

Here are some pictures from last night. I told the kids that if they would clean up the kitchen and clean out the van (it hadn't been done since we arrived home from our trip and it was pretty ripe) we could set up the tree. And by we I mean I would shiver under my blankets in the corner of the couch while they set it up.

The girls pretty much set the tree up themselves

Steve hard at work

Zac wasn't feeling too hot either (I don't know what I'll do if other people get sick) so he also took up residency on the couch. I tried to tell him not to get near me but he wouldn't listen. I think he is looking for a way to get out of going to school.