Sick Around Here

Just last week I had the thought that we hadn't really gotten sick this winter. Bad mistake! Within a couple of days I got a sore throat, then the body aches, horrible headaches, congestion. I spent all day Sunday in bed sleeping off and on. I felt on the mend on Monday until about 4 p.m. and then spent most of the afternoon on the couch yesterday. Blah. Hopefully I'm over the worst of it.

I just wanted to get on today and share this quote I saw on Ali Edward's blog. I love it. I was just telling Dave the other night that for so long I was living with the anticipation of knowing what was next for us...what our future held. He applied to medical school in our early years of marriage and when that didn't work out we spent the next couple of years finding our way in the career world. I was always wondering what we would end up doing. As I told him, I got very used to living that way and it's easy for me to slip back into that kind of thinking even though there's no reason to. It seems for me that I have to make the conscious decision to live in the NOW. It doesn't come very naturally to me.

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin -
real life.

But there was always some obstacle in the way,
something to be gotten through first,
some unfinished business,
time still to be served,
a debt to be paid.

At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness.

Happiness is the way.

So treasure every moment you have and remember that
time waits for no one.

- Souza

Treasuring moments...
An early spring picnic. Still a bit windy and cool, but sunshiney and happy.