Yes, we already talked about food. No this journal challenge is not about food. It is about the winter colds, flus, and blahs, we get each year. My areas seems to have it particularly bad this year. I had one child home for three days two weeks ago, another child home for three days last week. My husband was on the couch all day Saturday, Sunday, and Monday missing church and work in between the kids. I have now been battling it for almost a week. One more kid to go!
But it is not just being sick. It is also the winter blahs. I was with a group of sisters in my ward kitchen on Sunday making cookie platters for the Linger Longer/Meet and Greet/Grab and Gab after church. We had just asked a sister to accept a duty, for lack of a better word, to be our ward representative for a stake RS activity. She broke down. She really wanted to say no, but she had never said no to anything in her life, and she was torn. We started talking about our duties and responsibilities and how we feel like we are doing so much, but only getting it half way done. How we are struggling to get off the couch, which never used to be a struggle. She was so relieved to know she was not alone.
My calling in my ward is Enrichment Counselor for the Relief Society. We have had three activities so far this year, small gatherings...super small...not one, one person has come to any activity! Lucky for me the sisters who hosted the activity felt like they did their calling and have not been put off or offended by lack of participation. I also have to note that I do not live in a very big ward. Even though it is downtown Salt Lake it is the size of some of the branches I served in on my mission. But I think that also attests to our winter blahs.
So tonight I exclaimed to my husband "I need some pasta!" It must be the carbs, because when I am feeling down or sick, I want pasta and potatoes. It makes me fell better for some reason.
Winter colds, flu, and the blahs!!
1. Do you get a yearly bug? What is it, how do you know it is coming?
2. What are you like when you are sick? My Mom said that is the only time I would seek her out for hugs. So when my husband told me last week that I was soft and kind when I was ill , I knew my cold was not a mental state.
3. How do you beat the winter blahs? Or do you just give into them? If you give into them how are your habits different in winter nights from fall and spring nights?
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Posted by: Ashley | February 27, 2009 at 11:34 AM