I am trying to turn it around: Bright-Side.

I am officially getting old(er) and since this year is starting out as a bit of a challenge AND, with future surgeries on the horizon for Matt(feet) and Silas (ear tubes), 2010 will be the year of health issues/fixes.
These are just the facts.
Kinda like renovating the house except without the sawdust. (And NO... plastic surgery is NOT involved. hahaha.)
Maybe I will also extend this to-do list to include wisdom teeth, orthodontia and hernia repair...and we can't forget the metaphorical surgeries and extractions (as in, extract mom from the job she hates, bye-bye)
The hope is that all of this will have positive consequences : My migraines may go away due to an immediate shunning of the progesterone birth control pill that also increases chances of ectopic pregnancy (yup, the culprit) and also no pill means less chance of stroke which has always been my worst fear/nightmare. (We always knew these things about birth control but after last week it all seems so very possible for the"side effects" to actually occur....)
Perhaps this year will rid Matt of all the pain he's endured for years with his feet. And Silas will be able to hear and there won't be so sososososo so much shouting in our house as we repeat and repeat at ever increasing volume.
And since we are going solar and working on installing a grey water system too maybe this overall improvement will make 2011 just ridiculously healthy and mellow with lots of time and room for fun. Yes, that's what is happening. This is not the year of disaster but the year for deeply important change and care (and surely some damn miserable days...but I digress...)
So, in an effort to regain a possibly false but definitely necessary sense of control, I have decided to be proactive in every way. That's how I roll. ha.
I will start today, NOW, in the eye/vision department. I haven't been able to see well for a really, really long time. Every time we get a movie with subtitles Matt and I have the same circular argument. So finally...
Matt, YOU WIN. I will get glasses.
So, it's time to vote friends and family that I love. Which do you prefer? The sort of invisible rimmed variety or the black frame-y ones...











......pair #1 or pair #2....... these are just cheapy drugstore glasses but I will be wearing them and then I will be getting the real deal. Sigh.


And one last thing.
After this week that was quite possibly the worst ever for me, I experienced some of the best things. I now know that for the rest of my life when I hear of a friend that is having a hard time I will bring FOOD. Just about everyone I know brought a delicious vegetarian meal with bread and desert and herbs in baggies to sprinkle on top. Served in their best casserole dishes, often hot out of the oven. This food for us was love love love.
Happy Valentines Day all you wonderful lovers (you know what I mean) and thank you, caring friends, for the meals and the flowers and the calls and the support. With Silas and Emmett and Matt also getting sick, we really really needed it!!!!!