Blue

I'm still feeling down, so tonight I'm picking a blue colored font to blog with... I have no idea how long this cough and cold of mine is going to linger, but it is absolutely miserable. I feel as if all of my duties and important To Do's have gone by the wayside, because I cannot get my act together when I'm sick. It's a poor excuse, but it's the truth. I look around my house now-- at the sleeve of crumbled Saltines on the couch cushion, at the tiny toys strewn throughout the toy room, at the clean laundry that still needs to be folded, at the dried up chili splatter on the stove--and the thought of cleaning it all up right now just exhausts me. So instead, I blog about it.

I did manage to get the kids outside briefly today again, to rake. We also raked up enough money to buy our neighbor's riding lawn mower, which is a godsend. Nothing like getting a big, cozy, wide seat on a mower to motivate a man to cut his own lawn!

David and I have been looking for ways to cut costs and save money. We shut off our Dish TV, we cut off our home phone line, we turned off the electricity to our shed, we consolidated some credit cards and now we are refinancing our home. We are also still trying to sell our pick up truck. It's been for sale for over a year with some nibbles, but no bites. Maybe now that the gas prices have gone down again, we might be able to generate some interest in it.

As for cuteness, today possessed some of that. Haleah said to me before nap: "Is Santa going to come to look at me while I sleep and say, 'Ho, Ho, Ho?'" She was very concerned that he was going to. I probably shouldn't have told her that he would do that. I think it creeps her out. I have about a month to try and bring Haleah around to seeing the jolly side of Santa.

Kaelah and Haleah, in seeing me hack my lungs out this past week, are fascinated with the cough drops I have been popping into my mouth. It looks like delectable, red candy to them. The look of the cough drop entices them so much, even though I tell them it's yucky medicine. Tonight Kaelah sat next to me on the couch and sadly said, "Belly hurts, Mommy. Need medicine." They try everything they can to get a cough drop out of me. But it's not going to happen!

Finally, Bekah decided to give me a precious gift. While I was holding her, she wrapped her arms around me and opened her drooly mouth real wide and planted a big, long baby kiss on the bottom of my cheek. Then she sat up and looked at me like she was so in love. And she touched my face with her sweet, sticky hands. So precious.