What's A Sick Day, Anyway?!

No, really-I need a bit of help and I can't figure out if it's the Mom guilt, the work guilt, the Catholic guilt...phew! There's gotta be a few more guilty factors batting their wings around me but I'll start with these. Tried to go home early and "rest"-which I think in MOM world means you do everything that you normally do but you're in sweats with your hair pulled up and half of your makeup removed because your head hurt too much to finish the job! So-I did it today; had a monumental moment and took off for ME-just me and my illness. Sure,I had to close my eyes and breathe when I sent the boys to school this morning; even when they sweetly told me that they would be happy to have a "stay at home" day with me and help out. So, that's a bit liberating, right? (Acknowledge moments of growth wherever you can find them) Husband has called every 20 minutes to make sure I'm still in bed because "doing laundry slower and shopping for health needs at Whole Foods isn't the same as resting and being still." So, this is a personal challenge-a great opportunity to do something different, it's very "WILD & CRAZY" of me! (You very adventurous moms may scoff at my version of "wild and crazy" but...hey, thinking of doing this before would have sent me to the corner-holding myself and rocking)I'm surrounded by my remotes, laptop, work books, fun books and Bruno Mars of course. I should invite Ray LaMontagne to join too, shouldn't I? He seems like a "resting" sorta guy! So, I'm doing this-I'm resting, right? I think so.

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