Rainy Days

I love rainy days. Because they bring the sound of rain. The sound of comfort; the sound of peace. A peace of knowing that all is well. 

Blizzard Colbie & Influenza A

Last week was a somewhat eventful week. Monday morning, I woke up with a head cold. I had no symptoms on Sunday, just woke up like that on Monday. I went to school and work, but ended up being sent home early from work because my super nice boss knew I wasn't feeling well. As I was leaving work, it started snowing. It snowed all night and all day Tuesday. Meanwhile, I was knitting non-stop as I was trying to finish this hat! 

Since dad was still very sore from his accident, he was told that he couldn't do any shoveling! Well, that left us kids with the task. So we bundled up and out we went! 

So much snow! We ended up with 15" at our house. 

Kiwi loves the snow!

Meanwhile, by Tuesday afternoon/evening, I was really not feeling good. In fact, I was feeling terrible. I took my temperature and it was 102*. I am prone to having pneumonia, so I had mom listen to my lungs, thinking that was what was wrong. However, she said they were clear. I went to bed with not much thought about it. 

The next morning, mom suggested I go to the doctor, just to get checked out. Now, I was quite surprised she suggested this, usually she is the one to say that it will eventually go away. I called the doc and they were able to squeeze me in that afternoon. So I went, and once I was in a room, the nurse came in and said she wanted to do a flu swab. She did, and told me that they usually take about 15 mins for the results to show, and that the dr wouldn't be in until after that. I am not even kidding, the dr came in like 3 minutes later. She walked in and all she said was "You have the flu. There is absolutely no doubt about it." I was a little shocked. I've never had the flu, and I did get the flu shot. Apparently, Influenza A, which is the most severe type of the flu, is not covered by the flu shot! 

I was sent home with instructions that I could not leave my house until Tuesday (tomorrow!). So it's been a very long week. I haven't been able to sleep at night, so I've been getting up to knit by the light of our pellet stove! 

All the snow did make for some pretty sunsets the past few days! 

I finally started feeling better this past Saturday. Tomorrow I will be able to leave the house! I am definitely not 100% better, but I'm not stuck on the couch either! I've never had the flu before, and I was very surprised with how weak I became. So far, no one else in my family has any symptoms! 

Harkness

This past Sunday, our family went to the shore after church. We ate at Captain Scott's and then headed over to Harkness to watch the sunset. Which, by the way, was beautiful! I will let the pictures speak for themselves!

Well, hello!

It's been awhile, but I am still alive! So to recap the past few weeks, I will share a few pictures, mostly from Instagram. They are in no particular order. (captions go with the picture below it)

This is a pretty common sight for me. There is always traffic coming through Hartford! It can make for a long drive to school.

Speaking of school, I was thankful to not be on campus this past Monday when they were on lockdown for 3 hours. Even more thankful that it turned out to be just a Halloween scare and not a real shooter situation! 

 Seth turned 18 back in September! Can't quite believe it!

This little friend of mine; always getting in the way when I'm trying to do schoolwork!

Just a little quote:

 Throwback to Grandpa Barton's funeral in 2009. Wow, we really have changed!

 The single sister's got together and everyone dressed country-ish and brought an appetizer. This was my appetizer and then a few more pictures from the night. 

Aunt Deb turned 50! So we had a little surprise party for her.

 My Sunday School class got together with the year ahead of us. It was fun:

 Part of just my class:

On Thursday's & Friday's, I started nannying for a little 8 week old baby from church. She is such a good baby and I'm loving spending time with her! Plus, I can still do schoolwork while watching her! Here she is, Miss Eliza Lou!

I got to have a lunch date with these two last week. We didn't tell big sis though, she would've been jealous!

 It's been cold enough that we have to run the pellet stove at home. Lily loves to sit on it now that its nice and warm!

So thankful that mom's surgery went well this past Tuesday and that she was able to come home the next day. She's doing good and hopefully will make a speedy recovery!

 Today is dad's birthday, so this went on Instagram this morning:

Odd Weather :)

Hard to believe that Monday will mark 1 year since Winter Storm Alfred. But it's even harder to say that on that 1 year anniversary, we're expecting another hurricane/snowstorm mix that is supposed to be just as bad! I couldn't believe it when I first heard it! Hopefully it won't be as bad as there saying it's going to be. But just for fun, here's some pics from the storm last year.