The Shafferland Shuffle

Can we just pause and yell PLOT TWIST!?!?!? Because that sure as goodness has been our week. All normal plans flew out the window and I spent the majority of the week on Mo, trying my best to get well. Whew!

But let's back up to Sunday, shall we?

* One of the couples in our Sunday School class invited us to lunch after church on Sunday, so we agreed and enjoyed getting to know them (and another couple) a bit better! Once we got home, it was scrapbookin' time for this girl. Finished up my last book from 2017 (vacations excluded) and was quite happy with that! Other than that, keeping up with our Bible reading plan was about all we accomplished!

* Monday was MLK day, which in our city means a school holiday. I was THRILLED, because the theme of the day was snow and ice, ice and snow, snow and ice. Sigh. I was just working inside all day, though, so I got to enjoy the view, complete with robins looking for food. (They gave me hope of spring.) Before Ryan got off work, I wanted to go shovel the driveway - to surprise him. Unfortunately I do not own snow boots, so I wore my dress boots to shovel. Quite a sight. Sloppy warm up pants that are two sizes too big with dress boots underneath. Bless me.

* Tuesday morning I woke up to the SHOCK of my life: school had been canceled for the extreme cold. This NEVER happens for our system, and yet it happened twice in two weeks. What in the world? I gladly accepted the additional vacation day and worked on my projects at home. Unfortunately, as the day went on, I felt worse and worse, and by that evening, I was pretty sure I had the flu. Fever, chills, skin that hurt from top to bottom...yuck! Ryan was a gallant gentleman and went to the grocery store for us. He came home with chicken and soup for dinner, and I spent the evening shivering on the couch.

* Wednesday morning, it was clear I was too sick to drive for carpool, so I stayed on the couch and tried to look pathetic. I watched a lot of TV, tried to nap, and read part of The Long Winter. (It seemed an appropriate book for this part of our life. And by evening, I actually wanted coffee. (Yes, I was so sick I didn't want coffee earlier in the day.)

* By Thursday, the flu part of the sickness had gone and a cold had settled in. (These are n.e.v.e.r. e.n.d.i.n.g. for me, so I was miserable just thinking about it.) I did pull myself off the couch long enough to make bacon and eggs for lunch, I drowned myself in oils, and in the afternoon, I actually (gasp) took a shower!

* Friday was a mix of feeling better and feeling even more miserable. I had more energy, but the cough would not go away! Maddening. I tried to cook meals, and I spent the rest of the day resting as much as I could (with Braeya's help.) Of allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the weeks for this to happen, we had a step challenge for insurance this week, so even though I was down for the count, I had to get in 12,000 steps every single day. Ryan was running short on them Friday afternoon, so he tried to pull a Bekah and finish them in the living room. LOL.

* Oh my goodness. We were up almost the entire night Friday night into Saturday because I couldn't stop coughing. (I'm not kidding. It's no joke.) Finally, about 4 in the morning, Ryan got up and logged into an online clinic so I could talk to a doctor. He called in some prescriptions for me, and I dragged myself to the pharmacy as soon as it opened that morning. I did feel better throughout the day, even well enough for a Starbucks run and car wash that night. (Oh, everyone in the county was out on a car wash date.)

So that's been our week. I am eager to put Mo up in regular couch fashion this week and FEEL BETTER. I have much to do