1.
Happy New Year! This is a big year. Finland is
100, Canada is 150, and the Reformation is 500 years old. Today it was just me
and my husband, so we had a nice dinner of steak and lobster.
2.
Our daughter returned from a New Year’s road trip
to Washington D.C. She wanted to go to Obama’s America while she still could.
3.
I was thinking how the American election had two
impossible, disagreeable choices; kind of like that game, Would You Rather?
where you are asked two difficult questions and you don’t want to choose either
one. An example is would you rather be completely bald or completely hairy? Or
would you rather drive everywhere or walk everywhere? Or would you rather never
read again or never write again?
4. My youngest daughter and I went to Oakville to
see my grandson. It’s the last time my daughter will see her sister before she
gives birth in February. He’s speaking so much now.
5. Packing up our daughter to take her back to
Kingston for her final semester of Law School.
6.
Our daughter’s family stayed overnight. It’s a
good thing we moved our daughter yesterday, because there was a 100 car pile-up
in snowy weather and the highway was closed for nine hours on the stretch we
would’ve been on. Our daughter and son-in-law were very sick while here so we
looked after our grandson so they could rest.
7.
Church today, starting the book of Daniel in the
evening.
8. I got sick from my family and vomited four
times. I haven’t done that in years. I’m used to chronic illness during the
past four years, but I haven’t been acutely sick on top of it. I could barely
move or I’d be sick. But it seems to be only a 24 hour bug, thankfully.
9. Working slowly to prep for a Women’s ministry
planning meeting this evening. I would do one chore and rest 30 minutes, and
repeat.
10.
Ran a few errands. Opened an account for our
grandchildren.
11.
Still not 100 % after that illness.
12.
Pyjama
day. Don’t stop by. No apologies.
13.
Reviewing my message for the Women’s breakfast
tomorrow. It’s one I wrote years ago, but now for a new audience.
14.
Women’s Ministry breakfast. The message on
Bathsheba was received well. We had 24 women attend. I spent the rest of the
day recovering on the couch.
15.
Church today. Our Pastor is beginning a series
on the book of Daniel in the evening. He’s preaching on Matthew in the morning.
16.
A quiet day at home, resting up for three
appointments tomorrow.
17.
Bible study, lunch out, and then to the pain
clinic for nerve block injections for the pain below my neck not taken care of
by the injections to my head and neck. Hope it works.
18.
Visiting my grandson so my daughter can get a
haircut. She’s close to the end of her pregnancy and hopes to give birth
earlier than her due date of Feb. 18th. My husband came home sick
with that stomach bug.
19.
Chiro and massage appointments today. My poor husband
has slept almost 24 hours, except for getting up to vomit. I hope he doesn’t
recycle his illness back to me.
20.
Feeling a little nauseous. Hope I’m not getting
sick. Today is the inauguration of that man who shall not be named, in the U.S.
Not too hopeful for the direction the country is going, except for the pro-life
issues. Hopefully he’ll keep his word on that.
21.
My husband is still sick. He hasn’t shaved in a
few days and it grows in grey.
22.
Church today; I went alone.
23.
My husband is still sick. Yesterday he was able
to eat a bit but now he feels sick again. He’s going to the doctor tomorrow but
they’ll probably only give him a sick note for work.
24.
I had Bible study this morning and the new pain
clinic for injections to my back. It’s supposed to have a cumulative effect. So
far, it only helped with back pain one day, but does nothing for my leg pain
and abdominal pain.
25.
Rest day. Now that I got an i-Phone for
Christmas, I can facetime with my grandson. It’s nice to see him when we talk.
26.
Our daughter is finished work today, she’s full
term this coming Saturday. She has a lot of false contractions, waking her up
at night. Preparing her body for the real thing. Also I saw a new Naturopath
today; my third one. This one deals with Functional Medicine and looks at the
overall picture. He recommends genetic testing; not the ancestry type, but why
specifically my body doesn’t detox.
27.
Our grandson came to stay the night. He’s become
a Mimi’s boy, but I don’t mind.
28.
We are going to a friend’s 50th
birthday party. Not a great day for pain.
29.
Our grandson will be two on Feb. 1st
but today they’re having a small party for him; no presents. My daughter is
hoping to deliver soon.
30.
Naturopath today.
31.
Busy day; Bible study, pain clinic, and Women’s
Ministry planning meeting. Which means I’ll be useless tomorrow.
