Juel's Journal

Didja Ever Just...

...feel so bad that all you can do is go lay down and close your eyes and you couldn't find it in you to be able to worry about anything, your only objective to lay there very very still and if you were lucky God would come calling and that would be that? Ugh, That's how I've felt for most of this month. This week I've been blessed with Flu and Bronchitis, on top of the other crap that was wrong with me, and I have to tell ya, even my eyelashes were hurting. My whole body was pissed at me, and mightily so.

Today though, I've felt pretty good.. I was actually able to do things I needed and wanted to do, without forcing myself. I actually felt good enough to take Mikyla and Mallory out to do their Christmas shopping, and then we went to stay with Papaw for a while, and then we came home, had some pizza and then we wrapped up the gifts they bought for everyone. Well.. they wrapped their own things and I just handed out the tape.. they did a good job too! I was so tickled watching them shop, first they loaded EVERYTHING they saw into the cart and had to unload it and start again, but they ended up getting just the right thing for everyone.

And I feel so good, even now.. that I find myself feeling a bit guilty. There I was being all sickly and whiney and I know others out there are sooo much worse off than I was right here at the holidays. I should be ashamed! I'm a big baby and I was pretty sick. *coughs* Well.. I was!

Okay okay, that's over and done, I'm all better now and Christmas is only 2 days away! Yay! I'm ready. I'm really really ready, and I'm amazed that I am.. even my ham is in the fridge ready to be baked..and my turkey is just waiting to be turked! It's going to be a good Christmas.
Here's a pic of Mal's Christmas forest:

My friend Jana sent a mail telling me about a 30 pound ham that arrived at her little grandson's house today.. she said he looked at it and said, "That's the biggest chicken I've ever seen, just look at its leg!!" *laughs* I had to share that one, it's priceless!

Mallory took a notion to call Sarah tonight at about 9:30.. so I dialed for her.. Sarah has one of those Nextel phones..I don't know if it's gonna cost me or her, or both of us, but that was the longest we've talked with them this whole month.. they didn't hang up until about 5 to 11. Sarah just jabbered, animated, happy, she sounded SO good! She talked to all 3 girls several times.. then back with me, I could hear Roy talking in the background.. they sound so excited to be coming home for Christmas. I was so glad to hear them sounding so happy and so upbeat that I just didn't want to hang up.

They're bringing me a cooler full of fist sized Shrimp fresh from New Orleans! MMM how cool is that! And the only folks here who like shrimp are me, my Dad and Stan. Now I'm gonna have to look up online how to de-vein those babies. FIST sized! Wow! I can't wait!

Sarah said they bought the girls a pink 4-wheeler for Christmas.. boy will they love that. That was on their wish list to Santa. Along with 2000 other things.

I talked to Bonnie for a while this evening, she said Joel is fine, she took him to the doc today to be sure because I guess he had cold symptoms and she was worried he may have caught this flu from us, but he's just fine. I'm glad she's kept him away this week.. I'm glad he didn't get this. She and Kelly are ready for Christmas too. :)

I took a mood and thought I might just not cook for Christmas this year.. Mom and Dad can't come, because Papaw can't really be out that much.. he could, but he won't yet. Alllllllmost, but not yet. Sarah and Roy have Roy's family dinner to go to, and Bonnie and Kelly have Kelly's family dinner to go to, so I just sorta felt it would be a waste to fix all that stuff and they'll be too full to really eat.. but when I mentioned it to Sarah that I might skip it this year, she got deathly quiet.. I thought the call got dropped, but then she said 'Mom, a gal really needs her Mom's cooking on Christmas day, I think that's a really horrible idea'.. so.. I'm gonna go ahead and cook.. but my dinner is gonna be about 6.. because that way I know they'll be hungry again.. their other dinners are at about noon and one-ish. That way, too, I won't have to rush, it'll be nice. :)

Sarah and Roy are somewhere in Alabama right now.. they didn't leave New Orleans until about 5 or so and from there they went back to Gulfport Mississippi to sleep a while before heading home. I don't think they'll be here until about 9 or 10 in the morning, at which time, Sarah informed me, she hopes that I have a big breakfast of sausage, biscuits and gravy on the table.
It'll be there. I might just break down and make a hash brown or three. Yum!

I still need to go out tomorrow and get a few things...I was fretting about Maegan, she still has a bit of a runny nose, she wasn't as grumpy today as she was yesterday but I don't want to take her out just yet.. then it occurred to me, Sarah will be home, so I can go out and she can keep the baby in! Coolbeans!
I want Dippy to go with me because he still has some of his own shopping to do too. I might just get to have dinner at Big Boys tomorrow if I play my cards right!

This is turning out very well, to have started out being such an icky month!

Mom said that yesterday, she fixed Papaw a good breakfast, he's partial to pancakes and sausage.. and a couple of eggs.. you'd shudder to see how he likes those things fried.. just.. ugh.. get the butter melted.. crack the eggs into it.. count to 5.. they're barely white.. turn them over.. count to 5 again.. they're ... practically RAW!!! UGH!! Yuck! Gross! UGH, that could turn a weaker person off from eating those things if they had to watch.. Ugh, just ugh! *laughs* Anyway.. she said she went to go get dressed.. he was at the kitchen table and when she came back into the kitchen, he'd wheeled himself over to the sink and was standing there washing the breakfast dishes. She said she didn't want to discourage him from doing things like that if he feels up to it, but she was scared to let him stand there long, so she just nonchalantly told him that they don't do dishes there, they just rinse them and put them in the dishwasher.. so she let him rinse them while she loaded it. Suave Mom, real suave. I'm tickled to death to hear about him doing things like that. Like going onto the porch, walking to the door to look outside. Ray, my Mamaw's brother came to see him today, I got a couple of pictures.

Dorothy, Mamaw's brother Earl's wife isn't doing so well right now. She just got out of the hospital with some lung problems, surgery... so remember her in your prayers. Mom and Lisa went up to see her yesterday, I need to go, and will, but not until this cough is gone, she sure doesn't need exposed to any kind of germs right now.

Does anyone out there remember "Minnie Pearl"?

Yesterday, Maegan was so sick all she could do was just cry, whine, get her nose wiped, whine and whimper and cry some more, have her nose wiped some more.. she was pitiful she felt so bad.. and she loves baths, so I gave her 4 yesterday, just to make her happy, and I'm not sure, but I believe this was her first bubble bath. I don't let the girls have those much, but once in a while I think they just need the bubbles, and if ever there was a time for poor little Maegan to have some fun, yesterday was the day. She loved it.. but of course her sisters had to come in and take over. She loved it though while it lasted. :)

Meli, I wanted to take a minute to say I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, I'll have a slice of pie here for you, and you be sure to have one for me there! Love ya!

Okay, I have definately babbled enough, I want to tell you all that I love you, you mean the world to me, you really do. Each one of you have a special place wedged into my heart, and you'll be with me for Christmas at the table for dinner, under the tree opening presents, and by the fireplace having hot chocolate while we wait for Santa on Christmas Eve...even if you're not here in person. Be safe, be warm, be happy, and above all, please be healthy. Merry Christmas! God Bless you all!

Posted by juel at December 23, 2006 01:18 AM