Tuesday Blues

So this is me....sick for the past several days! (The real me right now is way too scary looking)

I had a sore throat last week but kept telling myself as I loaded up on the vitamins that I was fine just double up on orange juice etc. Well my throat got worse and worse. I had Will look at it and he said it wasn't strep so I thought toughen up wimp! Friday night it hurt pretty bad and Saturday I pretty much lost my voice but kept on going and taking the vitamins etc. Saturday night I got the whole fever thing and unable to breath very well. Sunday I missed church I couldn't expose the little 2 year olds plus I couldn't speak at all. Sweet McKenna fasted for me on Sunday until 4pm! What a trooper! Calvin & Chloe stayed home to take care of me on Sunday which was sweet too. Monday morning a day before payroll is due to the county I thought well if I get up and get all ready, put my face on, fix my hair I can sit and enter time sheets all day...nope I only lasted an hour at work. Came home took some naps and began the medication Advair inhaler as well as Mucinex and continued taking Levaquin an antibiotic. Unfortunately Will said he had a sore throat and took some Levaquin last night too. I had mentioned to him earlier to please give me a blessing, as I laid down last night to go to bed I realized that I didn't get a blessing but didn't want to wake him as he was laying down with Calvin in his room but about 10 minutes later he came in our room and said he had better give me a blessing before he lost his voice. Great minds think alike. :O) Although I had a blessing I still had a rough night with all of the symptoms, meds wearing off, aches etc. so I didn't make it into work today. I woke up the family and then went back to bed. As I thought about why I might be sick despite that I have a very low immune system due to taking antibiotics for 8.5 years straight I also realized that since the day after Valentines I've been eating 50% off chocolates non-stop. Maybe if I ate healthy foods like these from my Mom's garden I would have avoided it! I haven't had any healthy food and have been going to bed super late every night and getting up early, skipping lunch, not exercising and simply not taking very good care of myself! So I'm going to start eating more fruits & veggies & salads and boost my immune system!!!! The moral of this long drawn out story is...................
So our family is going to grow a garden like Grammy's pictured below.

Doesn't help to be sick in bed when my pretty Mom is coming on Saturday to stay for a week....I need to be doing laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping etc. We have no perishable food in the house except milk. I'm so excited that she is coming and hope that no one is sick when she arrives. The kids have spring break next week and I have a week of vacation!!!
This is just a cute picture of Kenna, cousin Adia and Calvin in front of my sister's house when we went up there for my Mom's 50th birthday party & neck surgery.

My Mom's yards front & back...both very pretty! Part of my Mom's pretty yard!!! Nothing like our yard that is now filled with more dried out weeds that I was hoping to get all cleared out to at least have dirt instead of all weeds before she comes. If Will gets sick he won't be able to clean it up! (by the way my Mom hates weeds)


I wish Pops & my sister Brandy and her family were coming too we miss them so much!!!

Kyah and Adia my two pretty little nieces!!!
Brandy my sister & Tyson & the girls. Come on Brandy just load up and drive down here to visit for a week....it will be fun....just tell Adia's school that she'll go to class during her spring break to miss next week. :o) She can play & swim with the kids and Chloe all she wants just bring her homework she's only in 1st grade what's missing a week to play with cousins she misses in sunny Arizona??? Come on groovy sister load up and come down...
Brandy & Tyson last week at a 70's ward party.

Look they are begging you....come and see us!!! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!


Well I better go take some medicine and lay down for a bit. I'm going to be keep thinking positive and praying that Brandy has some pitty on us to come down and visit and maybe I'll take a nap so I can wake up healed from this dumb bronchitis today!!! :o)