seriously?

there are days and then there are D A Y S!
(sit down and prepare yourself, this is a long one..) :)

all i can tell you is that thursday was a day for having a glorious breakfast with a very dear friend, make almond brittle and share it with family and friends alike. this past friday night i had all sorts of happiness in my heart. i was excited for a fun evening out with super lovely friends whom we haven't seen in just about a year and the weekend was going to be full of super fun things to do and see with my cute little family. we were going to go to a "skate for autism" function with our dear friends saturday evening. jer and i were going to then head to a show at the local theater arts center featuring "Linda Eder", and into sunday we were going to go to church and in the evening head out to our favorite mini church for some good christmas party cheer.

yes, this was going to be our weekend. it was going to be awesome. let the christmas festivities begin...

hmmm, so the almond brittle was made and as i was finishing up the delish treat, i poured vanilla into the boiling pot of sweet goodness and out pops some boiling goodness onto my eyeball. awesome. ignored it. wore my contact. (mistake) and my eye became infected and swollen, burned. nice....

oh and did i tell you that i had to cancel my breakfast date (after breakfast was already made and she was on her way?) because i forgot that i had a meeting with Z's counselors for his academic year thus far? yup, mother of the year....

well, we DID have a lovely dinner with bob and patti friday night. had a Great time. felt great, minus the eye. ate great. good solid time with friends and my man. came home, felt a little chilled....

woke up early saturday morning all chilled and sweating and with a crazy fever. aches, here we come. oh yes, flu - thanks for joining me. love it.

as i stumbled over into the guest room trying not to contaminate my husband and quarantine myself from the boys, jer comes into the room with zach. he woke up saturday morning with pink eye. i can hardly move. time to call my parents! (poor jerry!)

so i have the flu and zach is not doing great. saturday eve turned into one of the biggest snow storms for our little neighborhood... 24 inches and actually really a glorious sight to behold. it was/is beautiful... of course, can't get to the doctor for my flu nor can we do anything for zach's eye ... so it spreads into the other one. (big big "ugh")

sunday was much of the same. my parents have been a super HUGE help and even jer's parents came by on sunday with lunch. that was truly so nice of them to help out that way! :)

monday (today) school was cancelled due to the snow and zach woke up telling us his "ear was broken." took him to the doctor and he has an ear infection. did i mention that i am starting to feel better but my ear in in excruciating pressure pain and almost is debilitating? yea, nice... not sure what to do there...

school was just cancelled for tomorrow so there is reprieve....YET zach just started having a horrible allergic reaction to his medicine and it scares the living crazy out of me, so the all night vigil is about to begin. i just want to cry because nothing seems to be going right...

(SIGH)

this is me right now...





Now that i have complained my guts out to all of you... let me share what my heart WANTS to share with you.

i am SO thankful for a husband who loves me in spite of my sickness. who takes good care of his family. works hard. gets up and stays up late to shovel a driveway 24 inches high with snow so we are safe. thankful for the little snickers bar he left with my soup because he knew it would make me happy. for changing dirty diapers and taking care of the 2 cutest little boys in the world. and of course he is not bad to look at! :)

i am SO thankful for my parents. what they wouldn't do for me. not sure. from hunting down their own doctor to prescribe tamiflu for me on a saturday when no one was open, to taking on the boys so i could sleep. changing dirty diapers. making memories with my boys in the snow. driving me to the doctors, picking up prescriptions. taking care of me. being so thoughtful and dropping their lives so my boys and me would be taken care of. wow. (and i'm sure there is more....)

i am SO thankful for my in-laws. i know they are praying for us to get better. what is better than that? also thankful for the taco lunch they made for jer and my parents and even macaroni and cheese for the boys. they are very thoughtful and i am grateful.

nothing makes me more THRILLED in my heart than having jerry and logan be completely healthy. so so so thankful for that! continually praying it stays that way!

very thankful for my friends who have emailed or texted or called just to check on me. nothing like good friends to go through this life with...

of course, very thankful for my boys... there is not enough love in the world to share with you how i feel about my guys. each one is unique and has my heart. God was too good to me to give me them!

AND nothing compares to the love and gratefulness i have for JESUS. My SAVIOR. MY KING born on christmas day. as we quickly approach christmas day, let us not forget the ONE who came to SAVE us from it all! He is my HOPE, my ROCK. Happy birthday Jesus! Most thankful for you!

whew! there you have it.
times may be tough. sickness may be prevalent and there may seem to be no relief in sight... but i know Jesus has my back. He will protect me and zach and my family. if i continue to put my HOPE and trust in Him, this might just turn out to be the most fond memory and best christmas i've ever had....