Well, here we are... this is day #4... That is right, you heard me... day #4 of being at home. Now, I know you are thinking you are so lucky. and Yes, the Lord has given me time to rest and feel better, but cabin fever is setting in. I will give you an update of our snow/ ice days. Sadly, my camera ran out of batteries as I tried to take pictures of our first ice/snow adventure in Dallas :)
Monday: I took my first day off of school for the year because I was sick with a sinus infection. So I slept, slept, and slept. That is really all I wanted to do. I went to a clinic on Sunday to get some meds and I started them Monday morning. Needless to say, all I did was sleep. Char went to work and had a good day. We also made delicious Manitoba Soup (our fav. soup yet). Recipe to come! We went to bed early, and planned on waking up for a normal day Tuesday...
Tuesday: woke up at 5, looked at the weather... school was canceled. I was pretty thrilled because I still did not feel well but was going to need to go back. Stayed up for about an hour and went back to bed to get some rest. Char worked from home today, so he was busy all day. We basically just caught up on all housework and such. Tuesday night we had Pam and Courtney over for dinner since all they had to do was walk over! I made my first Pioneer Women recipe! So proud of myself.. more on that later!
Wednesday: School was canceled again and Char worked from home but did not have much to do. At this point, I had not been out of the house since Sunday. I was feeling quite stir crazy and was needing some outside interaction. So we planned on making our first outing Wednesday afternoon. It took about 30 minutes to defrost/scrape my car off and made my way up to school to get stuff to do so if we had more days off I could actually be productive (because remember I did not go to school Monday so I had no school stuff here!!) Anyways, I was starting to feel better and we made it to school and Target and back!! It took about 3 hours ha ha We enjoyed ourselves and even decided to go out and get Pizza last night because we needed a slight change in food. Although I must say. I have loved the meals I have cooked this week :) more on food later like I said. Then we went and hung out with one of my besties, Pam, in the hot tub at Westside. It was very relaxing and so fun!
Thursday: Currently, doing nothing. I need to work, but it is very hard for me to be motivated. It is really too cold for me to move at all. I am not sure what tomorrow will look like so it is hard to plan for the unknown! and my sweet husband went into work
Overall, this break has been wonderful to catch up on much needed rest and provided Charley and I alot of time to talk and plan about things we have been needing to around here. The Lord has been so gracious to us and teaching us so much about each other and ourselves. It has been quite a humbling experience learning qualities about ourselves we did not know. More on all this later. Sorry this is too long and NO pictures. So sorry bloggers. I know pictures are fun... and I am working on it. For now, this is a pretty accurate update as to not much has happened here in Dallas, except lots of quality time :)
Also, we have been on a pretty strict budget for groceries/outings since January and have done really well. This week while I was at the doc, Char went to the store for me. I asked how it was and about money and he said he spent 10 dollars extra. I was very surprised by this because the list of things we needed was not one of our longest. I look at what all he got... Blue bell, sweet tea, orange rolls, dr. pepper.. ALL THINGS I LOVE AND THINGS WE NEVER HAVE!!!!( no wonder he went over the budget ;) ) How sweet he is to me. Such a blessing when I do not feel well at all. I will forever thank the Lord for such a wonderful husband.
That is all for now :)
