I've decided our church's Women's Week of Renewal should rather be called "You Know You're a Real Woman if You Make it Through the Week". As I found, I'm only about a half a woman, because I almost didn't make it through. I felt the pressure building all week. So busy, work and then something every night this week except Monday. Too much for me.
Friday night I came home to the Asian Youth party Dave decided to have. It was a good time, they played games and watch a movie and then Dave was very good about getting them on their way at a reasonable hour, so I could have somewhat of a relaxing evening and get to bed.
Guess I shouldn't have eaten that Roma's pizza that was ordered, because when I woke up Saturday morning I felt absolutely awful. Some sort of stomach bug vexed me all day and I barely left my room all day.
This morning I woke up with another stomach pain. Confused, because I thought that I should be on the mend, Dave suggested this maybe is due to hunger. So I took his advice and nibbled some pretzels he brought to me. It seemed to help. All day I slowly recovered, gaining a little more strength and more of an appetite, but still not feeling right. Finally I woke up from yet another nap at 5pm tonight and felt like I could actually get out of bed.
So I immediately began scurrying around to complete all the weekend choirs, laundry, ironing the weeks outfits, getting lunch ready, back-pack packed with a clean rest towel, etc . . . all that fun stuff.
No "real" rest for the weary and I back off to work tomorrow. Bleeeeech! What a weekend. Poor Dave and Charity, no fun for them. Charity probably can't wait to go to school just to get out of the house! We'll have to do something extra fun next weekend.
Back off to bed now. Hope this thing is finally behind me tomorrow morning.
1 comment:
you know what? It's okay to have a few days of not feeling well. Things will get back in order in due time and there's never a need to stress over it. In fact, I'm convinced that as moms we put entirely too much pressure on ourselves to perform when in reality our families and children will be okay in the moments when we can't perform up to par. It's all a give and take...and that includes us as well - giving (constantly, it seems) and TAKING when it's deemed necessary. I'm CERTAIN that the facts made your taking necessary...so there's nothing you should worry about...just in case you were. Hope you're feeling better and that this week provides you a much needed break at some point.
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