Sick

I'm sick and tired from being sick and tired. Something of the nature of a sinus infection/flu hit me last Wednesday night and I'm still getting over it. It was really bad over the weekend and ended up having to go back to the doctor on Sunday afternoon and got a breathing treatment, which helped a lot. The doc then gave me an inhaler, put me on antibiotics and gave me cough syrup with codeine.

Then, poor Stone starting in coughing... thankfully though, no ear infection or anything like that, just the typical cold stuff and the horrible coughing. I've kept him out of preschool this week (he's going back tomorrow) and now Kevin's fighting it.. hopefully we'll all get over it soon and on with our lives! It seems like when you're sick, life just stands still for a while. I've missed a good bit of work, which I know was necessary, but still puts me a bit behind on projects I need to get going on and finished soon. Then, we have half-way taken down our Christmas decorations... again, interrupted from being sick. Hopefully, we'll finish tackling that this weekend. And, on top of it all, we desperately need to clean and then "spring clean" and by that I mean do a "clean sweep." So, that is where we are and have been.

My dad celebrated his 65th birthday on Jan 10. I hadn't planned to go up there last weekend, due to the fact that we're planning another trip at the end of Jan to celebrate both dad's and cousin Nate's birthdays. But, it was a good thing that I didn't plan on going, cause I was too sick to travel anyway. Glad that my dad's been on this earth for 65 years and thankful for both he and my mom for so many things. He got to preach this past Sunday, due to the pastor of their church being out of town. He said he had fun and then the worship leader had the congregation sing happy birthday to him at the close of the service. I hope you have many more years to celebrate dad!

And finally, this is sort of a "p.s." to the previous post.. as I was saying Happy New Year, I totally forgot to include what we did to celebrate the new year. Normally, since our lives are pretty uneventful, we would just hang out and watch the ball drop in NYC, say happy new year and then go to bed. This year, we had already planned to go see Kevin's parents in Apex New Year's weekend since we were both off a few days and since we had celebrated Christmas with my parents. What became a surprise for us though, was that Pop was playing his sax at a ballroom dancing club's gig on New Year's night. Gigi got Kevin and me tickets to go and kept Stoney for us. So, Kevin and I got to dance the new year in...literally! Pop was playing in a big band that had been hired to perform live dancing music, and so they played all sorts of fun classics. Then, they had a little dance "presentation" that didn't live up to my expectations, but was still pretty good. But the most fun part was watching all the other people who I guess are regulars at this dance club out on the dance floor dancing. You had all kinds of different people who actually could do all kinds of different dances.. swing, jitterbug, fox trot and a variety of un-named dances to boot. The best part was that there was no smoking allowed inside.. you had to go outside if you wanted to do that, so there wasn't a haze in the building. It was a lot of fun and we were thankful for the date night out, especially since it was New Year's Eve.