once upon a time...: 340/365 (Monday, Dec 6th) to 348/365 (Tuesday, Dec 14th)

back to our originally scheduled programming...

the last week has been tough,

my cold has turned into something a little nasty,

both the kids have had a violent stomach flu,

and so I have been gobbling the Vitamin C, D, Oregano oil, green tea

and washing my hands constantly to try and avoid it as my hands

are full with this cold.

as well, as you probably noticed, I am struggling getting back into my daily life

but I am getting there. I have received great feedback (emails, comments, in person) about

my El Salvador posts and I appreciate them all. Especially the ones from my new friends at Scott's office who reinforce that they are right there with me with my feelings and they are just as unsettled.

however, with everything, it is important to keep moving forward so this post will catch me up on my 365 project pictures. I warn you they are not all stellar, it was all I could do some days, especially early in the week, to pick up my camera.

348/365, Tuesday, December 14th

house cleaning night. my bamboo that I have actually kept alive for 10 months, this is a shocking turn of events...

347/365, Monday, December 13th

how can I not love going to bowling when I have a team mate who loves her bowling like this...

346/365, Sunday, December 12th

my nephew Maks

345/365, Saturday, December 11th

note traitor tetley all snuggled up on Scott's chest. I tried to snuggle with her and she just got up and moved back to Scott.

344/365, Friday, December 10th

Kaeden was very sick Thursday night to Friday morning and the two of us were in pretty rough shape as neither of us slept as he was throwing up pretty much non stop for 8 hours.

We laid low all day and he was so adorable sitting on the couch going through the Sears catalogue circling what he would like from Santa. I have been struggling with materialism but I must admit I loved this scene as it reminded me of myself at Christmas when I was his age, sitting on the couch,carefully going through the wish book picking out what I wanted more than anything in the world. He said to me "I know, I know mommy, I only get one thing and there are children that will get nothing and I need to be thankful". He can be so cute when he is sick!