Sleeping a week away

Wow, could it really be Saturday? I don't think I have ever slept a whole week away, even when I have been ill with the flu. When I fell and injured my head and neck, I really thought I would be fine the next day, I had no idea how it would affect me. Like I said in my last blog, friends and family have been so kind and caring. As I recover I am certainly not taking for granted when I feel good. I am one who usually has alot of energy, I can get a ton done in one day. Being a mom, wife, daughter, student, friend, business owner, I can really fill my days, and now when I feel overwhelmed with all I have to do, I will think about it and be glad, because being stuck in bed with a throbbing head is the pits. I want my busy life back with all of its craziness. I kind of even want to do laundry, now that is desperate!

Friends with compassion

After taking my spill last Sunday, I had no idea how bad I would feel as I recovered. However the amount of call's and e-mail's from well wisher's have been so wonderful. It is amazing how just having somone call and know that they are thinking of you lifts your spirits. I attend a church that I have only been there not even a year, the whole congregation prayed for me the morning of my fall, how incredible is that! They took time out of the service just for me, now that is an amazing demonstration of love and compassion. My children have reached out to me with caring words, pictures they have drawn, and being extra helpers in the house. Andy, who is always a help in the house continues to juggle being daddy and mommy while I recover, thank you honey. And my mom got to mother me today, making me lunch, dinner and picking up the kids from school, thanks mom.

Happy New Year 2009 started out with a BANG

Every year when the clock strikes midnight for a new year to start, I always wonder what the year will hold. Will there be sorrow? Will there be happy surprises? What kind of changes will occur in this new year. I usually feel a bit of anticipation for a new year that is full of potential. Well just a few days after the new year rang in, I was up on a Sunday morning looking forward to church, Andy and I were going to be starting to teach the fifth and sixth Graders (a new adventure for us for the new year), I went into the bathroom preparing for my shower, as I adjusted the temperature of the water I attempted to put one foot into the bath, well, low and behold the night before my youngest daughter had taken a long bath and somehow emptied all of the hair conditioner onto the bottom of the tub. Well as I stepped in, as you can guess I slipped and flew up into the air landing on my head onto the sink and twisted my neck. As I lay there, I think to myself, "am I still alive?" "Wow did that hurt!" Than proceeded to yell for my sleeping husband. So, yes my year has already started out with some surprises. My neck has been xrayed and it is okay, just a bad sprain and a big bump on the noggin. So I am in bed for the next few days or hopefully not weeks. I look forward to some "good" surprises now for the new year and will take this time in bed to relax and prepare myself for this busy and hopefully productive year.