The Best and the Worst...

The week after Christmas was pretty much spent doing my least favorite and favorite things...being sick and going to the Farm. After all the Christmas excitement, my body just got weak and needed a break. Monday afternoon I started to feel "ugh" all over and was getting really conjested. By Tuesday, I was miserable. I couldn't breathe and just felt beyond exhausted. This was a big notch above the pregnancy exhaustion. This was the kind of exhaustion that is incapacitating. Wednesday ended up being worse. Given my history of getting severe sinus infections during the "I'm just going to tough it out" phase, I decided I wasn't going to let it get to that point this time. I called up my NP at the Griffith Family Clinic in Orange and she got me in right away. They had me call my doc first to find out what he was comfortable with me taking. Luckily, the Z-Pack and Mucinex are still fair game for preganant people. Even though she didn't think I had a full blown sinus infection (yet), she went ahead and got me on the Z-Pack and told me to take Mucinex to relieve the conjestion in my head and ears. By the end of the day, I was already starting to feel better, not quite back to normal, but definitely better. We decided to cancel the trip out to my deer lease since the old farmhouse there is less than appealing normally, and even more so when you're sick. An old, drafty house with no hot water was definitely not where I wanted to be. We decided just to take it easy and have a nice, relaxing several days at the Farm. That's exactly what we did. We attempted duck and deer hunting, but both were pretty sorry. I just wanted to curl up by the old heater with a book and watch football. It was laziness at it's finest, but much needed to say the least! Man, I LOVE that place!!!

New Year's Eve was spent like old, sick, and pregnant people spend it... asleep by 10:30pm. I even missed the call from my dear friend Meghan to hear that she was ENGAGED!!! I am SO excited for the life that she and Ken will have together!!! New Year's Day we ate all the essentials - pork loin, cabbage, and black eyed peas. 2010 is going to be a year to remember for sure!!! We have so much to be thankful for!!!