Ordinary

Well, I've got nothing. I've been thinking about updating my blog for a few days now, but truly have nothing new to say. Nothing creative, nothing witty, nothing exciting, nothing new. There've been no recent earth-shattering medical developments (unless, of course, you count the tidbit that I heard on the news last night saying that a diet high in fish can, quite possibly, prevent colon cancer...which made me laugh out loud because (a) I hate fish and (b) I don't have a colon!). So life in my little world is, in a word, ordinary.

Beatifully, blissfully ordinary.

I'm feeling really good, and I'm even moving around like a *normal* person. I still don't have access to a set of car keys, but two wonderful friends (Darla and Shelly, bless their wonderful hearts!) are working overtime to help keep me sane. They've each taken turns "driving Miss Daisy" around town, and I'm managing to get some of my Christmas shopping done. I truly love to shop - quite possibly more than necessary - and any time I can shop and spend time with a good friend is, in my book, a perfect day. I'm looking forward to next week, and the weeks and months to follow, when I can return the favors to Darla and Shelly and do nice things for them, too. I probably would have lost my mind these last two weeks without them!

It's very easy for me to 'overdo' things, and I have found that just a couple of hours of moving/walking around makes my belly feel like it's been trampled by an army. Everything else seems 'normal' to me, including my diet and my 'plumbing' issues. It's almost (but not quite) as if the last month never even happened, and as I re-read my earlier posts, it seems almost surreal and difficult to comprehend that the events of the last 4-5 weeks even took place. How odd it is to have gone from the depths of a valley, to the plains of normalcy, in such a short time.

For today, everything is ordinary. Blissfully, beautifully ordinary. And I thank my amazing GOD for bringing me to this blissful, beautiful, ordinary day. I often think to praise Him for the big stuff - a successful surgery, a cancer-free diagnosis, an amazing marriage to a wonderful man, two spectacular kids, the birth and resurrection of His SON - but rarely do I think to thank Him for the simple stuff. Like an ordinary day.

It IS an ordinary day...and to GOD be the glory!