Little Christmas 2011

I've been blogging for over a year now, so I wrote about Little Christmas, Women's Christmas, aka the Epiphany this time last year in this post.
In practical terms, today for us is the day we take down the Christmas decorations. We can go to Mass if we choose to mark the day this way. And tomorrow would normally be the first day back to school after the Christmas holidays.
So we took down the tree and decorations today and it is wonderful to have that gone from under my feet!
However, we are not going back to school until next Monday, the 10th, that decision was made by the Dept of Education early last year and as it turns out it is just as well... The forecast for tonight is for snow and ice and frost in our province, Munster, and I am glad that I will not be worrying tonight about driving conditions tomorrow for the trip to school for all of us...
So I will rest and be glad of the extra day.
My chest has finally improved and I feel much better, although I still have a dry cough, but it would appear half the country has this problem too, so best to just get on with it! (In fact a lot of people have the swine flu, it says in the news...shudder...)
The daughter's chest has also improved, with modern medicine, and the son, who developed a double ear infection with temperature yesterday, is also imbibing his own little bottle of pink wonder elixir, also known as antibiotics, so we should all be good to go on Monday morning.
So in the meantime I am knitting and spinning and getting back on my feet, ie doing laundry, doncha know... also visiting my sister's house for 2 separate parties on 2 separate days. She and I even took our combined offspring to the Ice-skating in Limerick today.
All happy now.
Stay well and stay warm!
liz

filosofiska tankar, philosophial musings...

hej, och tack till dem som hälsade på mig sedan gårdagen!
Jag är fortfarande förklyd, har varit till läkaren och nu äter jag penicillin. Håller mig varm och lovar mig själv att jag skall helt enkelt gå och lägga mig tidigt ikväll, kroppen tillåter inget annat egentligen...
Är det inte helt underbart med nätet och bloggar att man kan sitta hemma hos sig, men ändå läsa om, och se bilder på, andra människors liv, folk som bor på närmaste gata, eller på andra sidan jordklot? Jag tycker det är underbart iaf, jag gillar att läsa om andras liv och upplevelser och att se på era bilder, det kan bara leda till ökad förståelse av andra människor och andra kulturer, eller hur?
Tack och god natt
liz

Hello, anyone who pops in,
still battling with this cold, on antibiotics since I went to doc today, and promising myself an early night tonight, come hell or high water...
Musing about the joy of the internet especially blogging, amazing that I can read about the lives of other people across the world, or in the next parish, from the laptop on my kitchen table... enriching, enjoyable and inspiring!
Good luck with all your endeavours and good night!
zile