The Blue Butterfly

I just watched a lovely movie, poignant and worth the watch. I'm thinking about using it in a class someday...mulling over the lesson plan ideas. It's called The Blue Butterfly, with William Hurt, Pascale Bussieres and Marc Donato. Based on a true story, it's about a 10-year-old boy with a brain tumor, and his dying wish to see this blue butterfly in the rain forest. I give it the official thumbs up.

Poinsettias

Hey, does anyone know the deal with poinsettias? DH brought home some lovely ones before Christmas, and now one of them has about had it. I'd heard you could keep them in their dormant state, and they'd come back again...something about a brown paper bag??? I could Google it, I guesss, but...

Snow

Wow, yesterday's snow was a shocker. DH and I were in WalMart (yes, I know...supporting the huge conglomerate evil) buying a cool mist humidifier for Little-Sir-3-Year-Old, who's battling croup again...when DH says, "What is that? It can't be snow..."
Looking through their windows/doors, it looked like an intense fog had rolled in...on closer inspection it was a white-out of snow. We hadn't been in there very long, so it must have come and hit us quickly. DH was just about to leave for work, and I was nervous about him driving all the way to Southampton in that. But, just as we turned onto our street, it stopped and the sun was shining! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. It was like we were under a snow cloud one minute, and under a cloudless sky the next.
Will wonders never cease...

Getting Healthy

One of my student's mothers told me about stinging nettle (a natural sub. for Sudafed for sinus congestion), and exercises to stimulate my thalmus glad and drain my lymph nodes (can ya tell I'm sounding really nasally and in need of health-tips?) Tonight, DH bought some dried linden flowers & leaves, and made tea. I checked that out on the internet, and it's got lots of medicinal benefits, too.

I'm so tired of flu season. Please tell me exactly what I have to drink/eat/take to finally get all this crap out of my system, out of my house, and have my family and myself sickness free!!! All of our hands are like sandpaper from washing, washing, washing...I've disinfected and bleached every household surface...we've drunk gallons of healthful fluids, enought to float a barge...

Don't get me wrong, I love the particular beauties of winter, especially after a new snowfall, but...
Is it spring yet?

Hello Dear Blog-World...I Yet Live

No, I am not dead, as some may have assumed. Not yet, anyway.

First I couldn't get significant computer time, 'cause I gave DH a web-cam for Christmas so he could see/talk to his family in Europe (free!) It took soooo long to figure out how to do all that...then...

After thinking I'd already published my New Years Day post (which I saw tonight I didn't), I had a string of difficult events hit that required way too much of my attention.

And I'd just been thinking how smoothly the holidays had gone, thanking God, with a sigh of relief.

And then it hit. First, DD got in a car crash driving back to college...totalled out the car she just bought in Sept...her first. Then, came all the stuff to deal with because of it. I feel so bad for her, and wish I had this giant life-sized Rewind button, so I could replay that morning and do it over. Don't drive in heavy rain, wait a little, drive slower, don't take that route...anything, so to not do it that way again. Sigh.

Then came the string of sicknesses...viruses one after the other...the flu...being sick myself, then being Nancy Nurse to the family...if I have to clean up one more puke mess...

Missed too much work because of all this. And I thought life would get back to normal after New Years. Is this normal? I want a do over. Let's go back to Jan. 31st. It was so much more fun than this.

Happy 2007!

With New Year's Day here, and end of the holidays, I am breathing a sigh of relief. Yes, it is nice to have time with family and the visiting guests,a but I'm looking forward to putting away the tree and getting back to normal life. The holidays are not much of a relaxation, like they're supposed to be. As much as I've toned down what I do, there is still so much hustle bustle, and wanting everything to be "just so." I'm content with ordinary, most of the time...ordinary healthy meals, ordinary house decorations, ordinary schedules...may sound dull, but for me, this is comfort.
Now I am ready to go back to the routine. Hallelujah!