Post-Holiday Craziness

Things have been pretty crazy around our house the last few weeks. Here's the short version:

- Grandma came home on New Year's Eve, with hospice support

- Alyssa started in a new daycare center on January 4

- Grandma passed away on January 7

- Alyssa was sick FOREVER (ok, maybe 2 weeks), working through all of the fun new germs she picked up at daycare

- Mike and I are trying to figure out how to be a family again without grandma; we've been living with and caring with her for 5 years, so it's going to take some time to figure out what our new normal is

- Grandma's funeral was January 14, where I sang a solo (she had asked me to sing at her funeral way back in high school)

- Last week, Mike and I finally picked up the worst of Alyssa's bugs and had a horrible stomach flu

- I spent Saturday night in the ER with what I thought was appendicitis; turns out I have a 40mm (that's almost 2 inches!!!) hemorragic cyst on my right ovary

When it rains, it pours. All I'm asking for is a sunny forecast. Bring on the sun!!!