Thursday, March 18th

"There is sunshine in my soul today

More glorious and bright,

Than glows in any earthly sky

For Jesus is my Light.

Oh, there's sunshine, blessed sunshine

When the peaceful, happy moments roll.

When Jesus shows His smiling face

There is Sonshine in my soul."

Thursday, March 18th - One of my facebook friends put "Sunshine, blessed sunshine" on her page, I imagine because their city had sunshine today - unlike some prairie province capital city I could mention! Well, it made me think of this song. I guess even when we don't have sunshine outside, we can have Sonshine inside with peaceful, happy moments and our Savior by our side.

What an interesting 5 days it has been! Dale and I both woke up early Saturday morning with sneezing and runny noses. Thinking, "Oh great, now we have colds!", we got going and went grocery shopping. Well, that just about did us in. We got home, put the groceries away (well, the perishables, anyway) and then rested. It didn't help. I had taken a cold pill right away in the morning, but Dale - being the true man he is - didn't. So, my symptoms more or less were eased, but I was tired and felt warm and cold off and on and he just felt miserable. We looked at each other and said, "We've got the flu!". We were really tired and just not feeling well. Dale slept quite a bit off and on all afternoon and I think I snoozed a bit, too. Neither of us were well enough to go to church the next day, so laid around again and rested as much as possible. Dale had Monday off, which was a good thing, as it gave him a chance to sort of try to do stuff gradually during the day. He had a shower and shaved and came out and said, "Whew, that played me out!" No kidding!! But, he did get up the next morning and go to work. He has made it through the week, but has been pretty tired at the end of the day. I've been doing ok, but had some stomach upset on Tuesday that dragged me down. Once that was past, I started feeling better. We are so thankful we got vaccinated last fall, because if this was the H1N1, we sure got a mild dose. Even if it was the regular flu, it was mild and we were vaccinated for that, too. We are also thankful we are feeling better, we just wish the weather would hurry up and do the same. Yes, we've had some warmer days, but please, we need sunshine, warmth and no wind!!! Oh well, it will come one of these days I'm sure.

So, our lives for the past five days has been rather uneventful, but we are thankful to be alive!!