This Makes Me Much Better

Aaaahhhhh - breathing through my nose again is sooo sweet!! I finally am feeling like this thing is going away! YEA!!!

To make me feel really good today I got several emails from DiL in Ohio loaded with pictures!! We haven't had any in a while and these were like water on parched ground!

This is our oldest granddaughter MissT with little sister (grandaughter #3) MissK! So nice that all the girls have names that have different first letters!!

MissK looks like she is quite a character! She is 9 months old but was born 3 months early - so she is up to 15 lbs, and I hear she is starting to crawl!
Last time we saw them in August she was only 5 months but was still acting only 2-3 months old. So it looks like she is watching big sister and working on catching up!

MissT is 5 3/4 and is also quite a cutie - she loves craft and art projects of any kind. She is totally horse crazy - and since I was a horse crazy little girl when I was young we have had fun drawing horses and coloring them together!


Yea! I love picture days!!

The Winter Cold

Is there anything nastier than the winter cold? No, not that winter thing that puts us in jackets and mufflers and might even mean snow. I mean that drippy, snuffly, coughy, congested winter cold. Hubby had it, now I have it - I don't want it and did not ask to receive it - but I have it. I have blown my nose til I have a charming red cold sore at the base of my nose and my cough sounds like my lungs are coming apart. Other than that I'm feeling better than I did over the weekend so I am back at work and trying not to sound contagious!

I don't think I am by now, the low feverishness was gone by Sunday - I think I'm just in the "mopping up" stage now. Hubby got it first, and he tried to be stingy with it, but it finally caught me.

I've taken Airborne (wasn't that supposed to prevent this?), vitamin C, Tylenol Cold and Flu (daytime and nighttime), Echanasia and Goldenseal (sp?), and Contac. I put Mentholatum on my nose and Vicks on my chest at night. I'm sucking on Vics Mentholiptus, more vitamin c, and Ricola, and hubby and I have gone through 2 family-sized boxes of Puffs plus Lotion tissues! I've been sleeping on the couch for 2 weeks, because we are both snoring, coughing and blowing noses at night and this way we won't wake the other up - just in case one or the other of us has finally gotten to sleep that is! (Gheesh - isn't that an adorable picture!!)

ENOUGH!!!!

I am ready to talk to coworkers without explaining that my voice is gone but I'm feeling better; to quit coughing and blowing my nose; to answer the phone without wondering if all the sound will be there when I say hello!

On the plus side - I've lost 3 pounds because nothing tastes good! HA!!