Because I'm Home: Lemon and honey

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Lemon and honey

I've been sick for 14 days. The first couple were terrible and knocked me out of commission. I thought I had been overdoing it and was saddened that the time had come for me to need to stop being productive, when the symptoms finally evolved enough for me to recognize I had a cold. I started the lemon and honey immediately, almost around the clock and started to feel better to the point where less than a week later, I was much myself despite a still runny nose.
The last two days (day 13 and 14) my fatigue, headache, general malaise and the addition of feet swelling and back pain have me considering I somehow re-caught the same bug. Despite constant hydration, the mucous has thickened and the pressure in my head is increased. Of course the obscene part of all of this is the more I hydrate, the more I need to use the restroom so it means I can't really go anywhere to get anything done.
I believe that lemon and honey (I mix it in hot water like a tea) really does help when you can't take anything else- like I can't right now- so this is what my produce drawer currently looks like. Oh yeah, we're eating a whole lot of oranges as well. And now, I'm going to take a nap, that is, if I can breathe... and keep my bladder from rupturing long enough to fall asleep.

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Gramma RosieMarch 8, 2015 at 9:55 PM
Colds do seem to drag on when you're pregnant. Hope you're feeling better and able to sleep.
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LynnieMarch 9, 2015 at 4:30 PM
I went to urgent care on Saturday because what I was looking at on the tissue and the painful pressure on one side of my head/eye was too obvious to deny. Antibiotics helped almost immediately and I'm sleeping much better, so should be on the mend in no time!
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LynnieMarch 9, 2015 at 4:31 PM
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Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

This old Pioneer proverb that has echoed in my mind throughout various stages of life is the basis for these ideas and my current mantra as I fulfill the role of a stay at home contributor to my family. Because I'm home, I have time to devote to planning, preparing, working on, and seeing through more frugal endeavors. I can invest my time in a different kind of payoff- saving money instead of earning it.

This blog chronicles my attempts and serves as a reference as well as a source of accountability. My desire is to fill every day with meaningful work that blesses my home, because I'm here.

Consuming less

Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.

- Julie B. Beck