Month: February 2017

I spent the day in bed yesterday, minus meals and a shower.  I watched one of my favorite movies, Julie and Julia. It’s all about food, cooking and blogging. What’s not to love? This flu thing is no fun at all, that I know for sure. I spent most of Tuesday coughing, and yesterday I tried to speak very little, and that seemed to keep the coughing to a minimum. I woke up early this morning super wheezy and that sent me into a coughing frenzy. I took a hot shower, took all of my drugs and climbed back into bed. I have a slight fever so Mike is really trying to keep his distance. He is picking up Tess at the airport today while I give bed one more day. I hate to think of Tess coming home only to go back to Dallas with the flu!  My biggest concern now is feeling […]

You all are the best. Thank you so much for your comments, text messages and emails of encouragement over the last few days. Over the last several days, I have found myself saying this over and over. This is Life. And it really is. It’s just the difficult part.  Saturday, my mom and I went to visit my moms cousin, who lives about 45 minutes away and doesn’t drive. My mom doesn’t like to drive and driving too far gives her major anxiety. That has made visits to see her cousin few and far between. Of course I feel guilty because I know that me driving us there is the only way that we will all see each other. My moms cousin doesn’t hear very well and I don’t think her hearing aids have ever worked too great, so phone conversations are difficult. We’ve tried letter writing and that hasn’t gone […]