Check Your Head (Cold)

Hi friends! I hope your holiday weekend was filled with everyone and everything that you love. Ours certainly was. We stopped by our favorite children's consignment store on Friday and picked up a few things for Huxley, including a wooden stove (with cabinets! for squirreling things away in!), a wooden rocking horse, a wooden tool box, a wooden puzzle, and some great clothes on clearance. Along with some fabulous gifts from my mother and grandmother, he was in heaven come Christmas day. 

For Hubs, I picked out a pair of these boots, to use as muck boots for when he's in the chicken coop or working in the garden. I also bought him copies of these two books, good reads he'd been wanting to check out. Finally, I registered him for a beginning ceramic class, which runs 6 weeks and begins next Tuesday. Always a great gifter, he festooned me with a few pieces of jewelry from one of my favorite designers, a sturdy yet chic tote, a functional yet fashionable hoodie (with black toggle buttons, my favorite!) and a lamp I'd had my eye on. 

We had friends over for a feast of feasts, featuring all-natural N.C. ham, corn pudding, collards from our garden, double cheddar biscuits, our friend's incredible rosemary roasted root vegetable puree, and my healthy spin on the southern classic fruit salad dish "ambrosia" (fresh pineapple, fresh apples, fresh clementines, toasted pecans, all-natural maraschino cherries, and organic sour cream). Dessert was homemade coconut custard pie with vanilla bean whipped cream topping, washed down with proseco. Like I said, an epic feast. 

Today, though, I'm holed up on the couch, in my flannel p.j.'s (yes, I prefer the color palette of men's pajamas; no pink for this lady), nursing a head cold. Never one to take sickness easily, I've already been pounding pots of this tea, have gargled with warm salt water, taken several rounds of elderberry syrup, languished in a bath using my mustard powder blend, and rubbed this phenomenal vapor rub on my chest. I'm already feeling back in the saddle. 

What about you? What do you do when the yucks come 'a knocking? I'd love to hear of your healing tips and go-to solutions. Otherwise, here's wishing you and yours a week of wellness!