The Big Green Chair

Well, there they are, sitting on the same big green chair watching TV.  Both are still quite sick, but I think they are on the road to recovery from this horrible upper respiratory infection.  The antibiotics seem to be helping them and last night was the first time in 6 days that they both slept through the night. :::doing the happy dance::: I can't tell you how good it felt to spend the night in my bed, 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep.  Heaven!   

Our local drugstore has sent us a thank-you note in the mail; thanking us for being one of their best customers this past week.  Ok, so they didn't really, but it sure would be appreciated.  We have gone through 2 bottles of children's tylenol, 1 bottle of benadryl, too many boxes of kleenex, Vicks vapor rub, 2 prescriptions of antibiotics, jugs of gatorade/orange juice and 1 yankee candle hot cocoa scent, yum!!   I've put on a few pounds in the past few days and I blame THAT candle.  In my attempts to escape this infection, I have been using alot of Purell hand sanitizer.  I really like it, but a word to the wise, don't immediately rub your eyes after using, lol. 

For my sanity, I have decided that I need "me" time.  And so last night after the babes were in bed, I sat at the piano.  It has been at least a year.... Amazingly, although rusty, my fingers knew what to do.  Within a few minutes, I was playing and singing some of my old favorite songs.  I forgot how soothing to the soul my music is to me.  Stress be gone and take this cold/flu with you....

 *AOL picked me to be in their top 5 this week... I feel so emotionally moooooooooo-ved.  "They like me, they REALLY like me"