tired

so my oldest has strep throat. and everyone just seems kind of grumpy and every once in awhile someone mentions a headache, which in turn, gives me a headache...

but i did pull out our hiking packs today and check out some books from the library on the grand canyon, bryce national park, and zion national park...also one on hiking essentials that has some fun exercises i might show the kids.

between the headaches of the day and deciding today would be the day i'd begin my coffee free mornings, i'm just too tired to blog more.
peace

so...

i didn't make it back to my blog last night. i was hurting. it's an awful feeling for your head to hurt soooo much...i mean, your brain is in there and it's really important and it's just a weird feeling for the area around your brain to hurt like that. feels kind of dark and foreboding....

so i was horizontal much of yesterday, reading the golden compass, which was a beautiful story. so well written. i want to hand it off to my teenager, but i admit i know he's a big questioner himself and i worry sometimes about putting things in his hand that will bring about questions i'm not ready for. but i can see just from reading that how foolish it sounds...because there are so many things that make it into his hands that i don't even have a clue about. and i really, really did like this book. but i know he'll get impatient with me to finish the others, and i do think, as the thirty-four year old in the house, i should be able to read the series i bought for myself first....without the thirteen year old giving me a hard time. i guess we'll see...

a few quick prayers of sorts...

for mama hope and her big visit...

for my sister (the one who does not have certain bodily functions) and this relationship with her ex she is trying to figure out...

for my spouse...(yes, i said my spouse)...

and that's all i can think of...but i am functioning without tylenol right now, so i'm sure there are more, my head's just being squeezed in the part of my brain where they reside...
peace