sniffles & snuggles.

so.  we have been sick around here since returning from our visit to the farm.  thus, no promised pictures.  there has been no time or energy.  (whenever i've had a free, non-sick moment, i've actually been doing taxes!  no small task for dis-organized small business owners!)  heron, shepherd, & i have been taking our turns with fevers, coughing, exhaustion, & snot for over a week now.  thankfully, we have had the best nurse, mr. mom!  josh has been doing laundry, making meals, running to the grocery store, letting me sleep in, really getting us through this icky time.  so far he has remained healthy, & we pray he remains so, as he has several trips coming up this month.

i would say that it's been a dreadful week, but a part of me has really enjoyed this time with the kids.  we have had lots of indoor snuggling days, many movie times (one day we even watched happy feet 2 two times), and daytime slumber parties.  heron & shepherd have alternated sleeping with me (because whoever's sick gets to sleep with mama, even if mama's sick) for naps.  little shepherd, so compassionate even during a long morning fever nap, would roll over to me every time i coughed, & with a sweet sleepy little raspy voice, ask, "you okay, mama?"  ay!  what a sweetie!

we are just now on the mends, but my cough remains.  josh & i have been praying so much this past year that jesus would be our physician, & he has kept us amazingly healthy--even miraculously dissolved my migraine the moment we pray sometimes.  (this is the first any of us have gotten sick all year--we survived all winter!)  but i'd love your prayers for this ongoing, annual goose cough i get.  it is definitely my body's weak spot.