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When You Are Feeling Down…

January 6, 2013 By admin 3 comments

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The upward climb

I always say that when we have a free weekend I will spend time doing things that help me to relax while home, something I am not good at doing.  There is always something that needs to be cleaned, a recipe to try, a post that needs to be typed.  Everywhere I look there is something to add to my never ending list.

Give me a high five if you are the same way…I KNOW I am not alone here.

I hear my friends talk about naps, watching whole seasons of their favorite shows on Netflix, reading-books! I admit this makes me jealous.

I only have myself to blame.  I set about to have 60,000 side jobs on top of my day job and being a wife and mother.  I did this, and I love what I do.  But sometimes I wish I had a whole day with absolutely nothing to do.

Enter the stomach virus.

I will not share the gory details of what happened from Friday night-Sunday morning but trust me when I say it was awful, disgusting and heinous.

The good part is that no one in my house seems to be sick (yet) so for that I am thankful. Bonus: every cleanable surface in my house is gleaming.  Everyone in my house was gone for a majority of this saga so when I had a burst of energy Saturday evening I cleaned.

What being sick taught me: I needed rest.  My body was broken down and needed a reboot via gastrointestinal distress.  I haven’t slept so much and so deeply since before I had kids.  There may be a reason for that.

In the last several months I have put everyone’s health before my own.  Shoving vitamins, smoothies and veggies down my kids throats in the name of ‘staying healthy’ and in the meantime I have fallen off the soda wagon.  The real stuff.  Coke. My weakness.  What do you think turning a blind eye to my own nutrition has done to me?  Weakened my already half-assed immune system.  Not just the Coke but also the sweets that I sneak here and there, conveniently forgetting to read labels, blah, blah. You get the point.

So I have learned a lesson here.  While I may not be able to protect myself from invisible germs out there, I can take better care of myself.  I am the master of my domain here, no one else.

Plus, every time I get sick my kids start worrying.  They ask a million questions, treat me like I am going to break and I don’t like to see them like that.  Plus, imagine how scary it is to wake up suddenly from a deep sleep to find your husband is checking to see if you are breathing and if you have  a pulse!  Yes, he did that.  I am sad that he thought he should.

So, my body knew I needed rest.  Too bad I had to learn it the hard way.  I did get to sleep 46 out of 48 straight hours.

Be jealous ????

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3 responses to “When You Are Feeling Down…”

  1. Michelle says:
    January 6, 2013 at 7:58 pm
    I sure hope you feel better soon!!!
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  2. Della Rose Living says:
    January 7, 2013 at 9:21 am
    So glad that you are feeling better now and completely understand! We forget to take care of ourselves and put everyone and everything else first. It's hard to do at times but we have to put ourself first... at least some of the time. :) xoxo Tara
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  3. Kimby says:
    January 9, 2013 at 1:46 pm
    Heather, I'm so sorry you got "the bug" -- one of MANY that seem to be going around. (Came home from MN with one, too... YUCK... your description was better, lol!) I truly hope you're feeling better by now. Love ya and take care of yourself, kiddo!
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