So much happened since my last entry I got discouraged to write it all down.
We had a wonderful Christmas. I really love decorating the house for Christmas, it helps me to prepare myself for the holiday also. I love watching the twisting and dancing snowflakes in front of the tv cabinet and the ones stuck all over the windows. The window snowflake decals are still up after all the other stuff was put back into the closet for another year. It helps to have a little holiday mood to stick around.
The way my breathing has been really curtailing what I can do and how far I can walk we decided it would be better not to go all out on gifts this year. I was not sure how I would like that. A great part of my Christmas preparation has always been to go shopping, find and buy fun gifts and to wrap them up, put them under the tree and wait for the fun to begin. This year Dad and I decided not buy anything for each other and most people in the family got a money gift. To my great surprise I did not miss the gift giving part very much. It still was nice that Missy's family had all her gifts shipped to our house and packages showed up for us from family, so we certainly were not without great gifts.
Dad and I still got to on a small scale shopping spree to buy things to fill stockings, that was fun without being overwhelming.
It has been more than a week now that everybody went home and the house is quiet again. The last few days I have been struggling. Dad has an abscess in his mouth and I just don't seem to get enough air into my lungs so we decided to shirk our temple shift on Friday. We did go the previous Friday and I hated to have to wimp out and go home early. There have been other episodes before when I was so short of breath and so I hope this will not be permanent either. But it sure depresses me while it lasts.
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