Today I am Thankful

The weather is definitely cooling off around here. We've been having lows in the 60's and, thanks to a cool front coming in, even in the 50's for the next couple of days. (It's still getting up into the high 80's, but that's another story...) As a result, for the past two days my head has been pounding, my glands are about the size of golfballs, and somehow even though I am so congested that I can hardly breathe through my nose, it has been dripping.

After staying up until after midnight last night doing laundry, picking up toys, doing the dishes, checking my email, writing a quick little blog post, etc...I set the alarm for 5am. Surely that would be early enough to get a shower, get my hair dried, maybe even get caught up on some other things. Ummm...yeah... I heard Conner and Micah waking up and coming into my room as I was getting out of the shower sometime before 5:30.

...and I was just sure that my head was going to explode...and secretly hoping that when it did the might knock a kid or two out for a few minutes...

Much later in the day, when I had decided that the thought of loading everyone up to go get some kind of medicine sounded worse than just toughing it out, I found it. I found some Zyrtec-D shoved in the corner of the medicine cabinet. I quickly popped one, and just knowing that a little relief was coming made me feel better immediately. My attitude suddenly changed from, "Poor me, my head hurts, my throat hurts, my nose is dripping, I just want to go to sleep, but the kids are always needing something" to being thankful.

I am happy to say that I am in the process of ending my day still congested but feeling much better...and with a little list of things I am thankful for:

• macaroni & cheese and chicken dinosaurs
• Ducky Joe's (an indoor playground that we went to today)
• my friends that met us there, and the opportunity to talk to some other adults
• that there was no one here to see me walking around with Kleenex stuffed up my nostrils (except the brothers, who thought it was hilarious)
  
• the twelve days that I have left with a dishwasher
• that I'm sitting here watching he season premiere of Grey's Anatomy
  
• that the big bang on the house that I heard a few minutes ago was not an intruder, but apparently a baby raccoon that had fallen out of a tree and onto the roof
• that when I shocked/electrocuted myself while trying to defrost the freezer earlier today, the only effects seemed to be fifteen minutes or so of tingling in my arms
  
• three sleeping babies
• only two days until Bret gets home
• the Zyrtec-D!!