Today wasn’t much of a sick day like yesterday. Hubby was on shift today and I needed to scrape myself out of bed to get our 14 year old to karate, 30 minutes away. I went to bed super early (for me) last night, which ended up being a fail because I awoke at 12:30 feeling like I just had a full night of sleep. I was tired today but actually not too bad.

I continued to do all the things I could to take care of my body today to promote healing from this cold. This is the total opposite of what I would normally do. Normally when I am sick I crave the carbs and will live off of gf toast or gf toasted bagels for days. This time I decided to go in the other direction and eat as many vitamin packed foods as I could. I ate lots of veggies, made juice and soup, took airborne and my multivitamin, drank kombucha and tea. I used the neti pot and a Vicks vapo stick. While I didn’t heal over night, I was feeling better today and I’m hopeful and prayerful that with a good nights sleep tonight, I will feel even better tomorrow.

Let’s face it, nobody likes getting sick. A pet peeve of mine is when people declare that they don’t have time to be sick. I’ve done it before myself. But then I stopped and thought about what that actually meant and I knew that it only elevated my own importance and sounded terribly arrogant. So when I started to feel under the weather the other day, I made a conscious decision to embrace it. I’m not so important that I can’t lay on the couch all day, life will go on, regardless of whether I am in the rat race for the day or not. And ya know what? Since deciding to embrace it, it didn’t make me like being sick, but it helped me to have a positive mindset to rest and let God do the work. Be well my friends!

Homemade sweet potato hash with a fried egg
Tea in my new mug with some honey and lemon