A potpourri of thanks and randomness

This is me.  This is me with a cold. This is me with a cold taking care of my infant son.  This is me with a cold taking care of my infant son while my husband was out of town.  This is me with a cold taking care of my infant son while my husband was out of town for 7 days, 6 nights.  With. No. Help.  (Except for my MF who is awesome and helped me when I had to get to a denist appointment!)

We're still alive.  And completely thankful we haven't caught whatever is going around our cul de sac.  A terrible something, that might be swine flu.  Not sure if anyone knows for sure.

I'm thankful that I had almost no anxiety during this week, none, zilch.  Which, if you have read past posts about my anxiety/depression, just being left alone with Austin for a day when Scooter is gone to work - you'll understand this a huge thing for me.   Big accomplishment for me.

I know women that have raised two kids with husbands deployed for months, a year and have survived - one of them being my mom (the other my aunt) so complaints did not escape my mouth this week except for the silent pleading for Neil to hurry home only because my cold has seriously been bringing me down physically.   I'll have to get accustomed to the husband traveling as this is part of his job, traveling to conferences, and so, I will. 

 Austin - 7days old.

And, I'm thankful for having such a wonderfully, natured almost-9-months-old boy.  He has no idea how much happiness he brings to me, but hopefully I can show him one day. 

                                               

Austin - 8 months old.

(Don't worry, the cord is a lot farther away than it appears in this pic!)

On another note:  Did anyone watch the season finale of Real Housewives of Atlanta?  Between getting Austin to bed and downing my Theraflu I was able to catch almost all of it.  I really liked Sheree's fashion show!  Although, I do have to agree with Lisa that there were all seasons represented in the collection versus concentrating on one season like most fashion shows.  Nene, she got all crazy on Kim!  Oh, Kim...ugh.  That's all I can say about that.