A Glimpse Into My Life ...

Today I am sooooooooo exhausted - yesterday we were helping our friends with packing and moving.  It was a wonderful day and I learned a lot from our discussions that we had.  The down side was that with all the packing, dust was kicked up and by the end of the day it was really affecting my asthma.

This morning I was sooooooo tired when I got up, really didn't want to get out of bed at all - this is normal for me the day after my asthma has flared up.  I've been sitting here trying to find the blessing(s) in having asthma and I have to admit that it's been really hard to see the "positive" of it.  Don't get me wrong, I know that God doesn't make mistakes, so in my mind there must have been a reason for me having this ..... finding the negatives to this disease is a lot easier than positives and I could list a bunch of them but for those that have asthma, you've probably heard them (or listed them) before.

I did think of a few blessings:  it makes me slow down my life, I actually have to take time and smell the roses (so to speak) .... whether I want to or not, lol.  It helps me to ask others for help and gets me out of the "I'm the only one who can do it" mindset (if only for a little while).  I guess one major blessing is that it helps my kids learn to serve others, there are just some things that I physically can not do after I have had an attack and the kids are more than willing to help me out during this time.

So, thinking back on these things, I guess there really are some wonderful blessings to having this disease - I just have to make sure that I look for them during these times. 

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We have discovered that our dog, Jake, likes to go into the raspberry bush and eat the raspberries - he will literally pick the berries off the bush and eat them, lol.  I've noticed him going into the raspberry bush a few time and when I don't see him in there, his red stained white paws tell me where he has been, lol.

Last night my cousin and her 3 kids stopped over for a short visit - it was wonderful to see her, especially since this only happens at family reunions, lol.  I really need to take a road trip and go and visit her and her family. 

After they had left we let Jake out for a run, we live on about 3 acres (give or take) so this isn't usually a problem.  This time it was ... A month or so ago, Don was given a camperette that the kids use as a play/club house, he set it on top of a wooden base that was originally from and old wooden grain bin.  Before the camperette was put on this base, Jake was able to crawl under it and chase the cats - we think that having the camperette sitting on top of it may have settled the wooden base and he is no longer able to crawl under it.

Last night he was running around the wooden base whining and barking, trying to get underneath of it but he's just to big to fit under it now.  The kids went over to see what he was after and Charlotte looked at Josh and said "Uggggg, do you smell that??????".  I was in the house peeling potatoes for supper, through the open window I asked her what was going on "I think there's a skunk out here!!!".  I called for Don and let him know what she had said, he goes out and sure enough there was a skunk under the wooden base - it had sprayed at Jake but because the base is so close to the ground it was unable to fully raise its tail and give a good spray (not sure if it sprayed itself).  Jake did not get a full dose, nevertheless he was chained up out back of the house because he had just a bit of skunk smell on him.  This morning when we got up he smelled just like he normally does - Charlotte was quite relieved about this because she likes to wrestle with him (thankfully he is not a delicate dog that needs to be coddled all the time).

Anyway, we think that Jake originally found the skunk in the raspberry bushes and it ran under the wooden base to protect itself.  Today we are not letting Jake run loose just in case he comes across the skunk again and gets a full dose spray!!!!

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Supper was really good last night - the only one that was really picking through it was Josh (but what else is new, lol).

I did make a couple more changes to the recipe:

1. I cooked the rice before I added it to the rest of the ingredients
2. I didn't measure the amount of salsa I put in, just poured and stirred until it looked moist enough (my Mom would be shaking her head right now and saying "You never do what your told", lol.

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