So close... and yet still too far!

Well, my parents made it safe and sound and with all of their luggage in tact - thank you, Lord. Mom called me on Saturday afternoon to let me know. They were tired and were intending an early evening, but they were good. Now Richmond, VA doesn't really seem all that close to Nashville, TN when you look at a map of the U.S., but when you are used to looking at a world map and how far away Chiang Mai, Thailand is from Nashville, TN... it's all in your perspective. It's hard to know they are this close and not take the opportunity to go see them. The only thing holding me in check is that I just was with them, and the travel money is not in the budget for right now.

On another note, I'm still in the last stages of this cold thing that I got coming home. I really had felt much better last week and thought it was pretty much gone. Saturday I was up early, showered, eaten and devotions done and left the house for some errands. I went and spent a little over an hour in the library picking out audio books, then did the grocery shopping and was home with everything put away by 12:30! I felt very good about what I'd accomplished, but also was pretty worn out. Maybe not so close to "well" as I thought. The rest of the day went fine though - I did a couple loads of laundry, baked and frosted my birthday cake (yes, sometimes you just have to do your own), cleaned up the kitchen, finished a book and watched some TV while continuing to knit on an afghan I'm working on. I went to bed around 10pm which is a decent time for me when I don't have to get up till 7am. However, sometime in the early morning hours I woke up coughing and was up for the better part of an hour until I could settle down enough to lay down and go back to sleep and I was exhausted. A little after 7am I had another round and decided maybe I'd better not try to go to church. It was a good thing, I had several rounds of coughing throughout the day and even decided to take another dose of the cough syrup before bedtime. Not so bad today, but I still have that kinda half catch thing I can feel. So it will be early to bed again tonight. I really want this gone - all the way gone!

I had wanted to do some scrapping yesterday afternoon, but just didn't have the energy to put the thought into it. Oh well, at least the table is all cleaned off and ready for me... maybe some evening this week or next weekend I'll get some things done. I did finish another book yesterday, though, and made a chicken tettrazini for dinner! YUM!! I have to make something tonight for a potluck at the office tomorrow, so I'll do that as soon as I get home. I think I'm going to do a cranberry cheese bar thing - a new recipe I found. We'll see what I feel like when I get home in an hour or so.

Happy Monday!