The flu and the new floor

Mid February, we put in a new laminate wood floor in our TV room, painted the room light grey with a chalkboard wall as well (our little artists needed an outlet on our walls) and we bought a pewter sectional (dark grey) couch. It was a huge family project in which we messed up 2 other rooms in the house in the process, but it was worth the effort and mess.  This was the first couch we have ever bought. We always inherited free couches and our other couch was torn to pieces literally.

Just after the floor installation, our family got the flu and we got it bad, the kind of flu no one likes to talk about with vomiting and diarrhea. The floor and couch were immediately broken in, we like the lived in look. I have to say clean up on a wood floor is a lot easier.  The kids each had their turn for about 1 1/2 days, but I had it for about a week. I threw up every hour for days, so much that I had to go into my office and beg my doctor to make it stop and he did with shots. I think I over-worked myself and my immune system just had nothing to fight back with. I had been working about 45 hours at the office then coming home putting away laundry, dishes, feeding hungry bellies, helping with homework, Cub Scout leader stuff, taking kids to and fro to various activities, and then when the kids were asleep I would do more transcriptions at night or early morning for 2-3 hours so I was doing work for my job about 60 hours a week to help the office get caught up. What did I learn? I cannot do everything and I got burned out. Now, I am going to take better care of myself because I cannot help others unless I have taken care of myself.  Lesson learned the hard way.

Here are some pictures for your perusal. They were taken at night and our TV room is dark because we want it dark for movies, games, and such. Maybe I will take some pictures in the day, but I doubt I will get to that.

Weekly Recipe: Swedish Pancakes

Our family loves Swedish pancakes, and we will eat them for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Swedish Pancakes

1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
6 eggs
4 tablespoons oil
2 1/2 cups milk

Mix flour, salt, sugar. Add eggs, oil, and milk. Beat well. Batter will be thin and runny.  Pour about 3/4 cup into greased frying pan. Let mixture fill pan. Cook until golden on one side.  Flip out of pan and roll.  We like ours with syrup or filled with vanilla pudding and topped with powdered sugar, sliced, strawberries, and/or whipped cream. Yum!