Is this Christmas?

Stubborn Senator Ried is holding the senate hostage so they can be forced to vote on a Health Care Reform bill that few people besides him and some Democrats want , just so they can pass it before Christmas. they are reading all 700 pages of changes to the bill at the request of the Republicans. The language is so obscue that I don't even think the people reading it understand it. Who care they can't go shopping anyway!
It is snowing outside it looks like a beautiful Christmas card. We seldom have snow before Christmas, but this year we are going to have at least 20 in.
I went to bed last night and closed my eyes but I couldn't sleep because my mind is going 60 mi an hour and my heart is pounding so hard it feels like it will pop out of my chest. So I got up and did 3 loads of laundry while everybody slept. ( most of the night anyway) I watched the snow fall, took pictures of it and heard the snow plow chase away the flakes on the ground to no avail. Quincy and Natalie's flight to Indianapolis at 8 am got canceled. So we get up or rather the rest of the household gets up. Natalie fixes pancakes. I help her hold the phone while she works. We are on hold for 2 1/2 hours plus with United. She finally gets an agent hurray!! He re-books them for the 5 pm flight. I want to tell her to rebook on the 5 pm flight on Sunday because My guess is all flights today will cancel. Now she has been re-booked for the 10 pm flight Sunday night, at least she and porter. We don't know for sure about Quincy and Tatum. I say my prayers, read my chapter in the Book of Mormon, have a piece of the honey cake I managed to make yesterday. I have one of Natalie's great pancakes and a glass of O.J. I go up and curl my hair that I washed last night so I won't look like a scarecrow, and put makeup on my nose so I won't look like a scare crow with a Rudolph Nose. Now I still haven't read my chapters in the D&C or my book, but I can't go anywhere so what is the hurry. Even if I could get out I can't breathe so I can't go anywhere. I have to stop and get my breath back for 5 min every time I go up the stairs. Quincy and Porter are shoveling the drive way because Quincy got the car stuck there after they came back from the grocery store. A neighbor comes to his rescue and helps him with the push he needs to get it in.
I make a few overseas calls to my relatives in Denmark. They are 5 hours ahead of us and tell me they have snow too and it is freezing there and that they know we are having a bad snow storm. The world is small. The TVs are on with the weather, a kids program, and mine is on CNN. The children are getting over ear infections, but are being very good tempered about it. Natalie does more laundry and talks to her family. I think of a Danish song describing a winter scene and try to play it on the piano, but do an awful job, try to share the words with Quincy, but Porter is getting tired, so I decide to go to bed and get some more sleep. Just then my son in the Mexican Gulf calls and wants me to tell him what I think about his hair-brain scheme of sailing around the World in 5 years, alone. I just told you what I thought of his idea and he laughs when I tell him to at least wait till after I die, so he wants to know what I am planning for the next 5 years. I wish I knew, or maybe not. I finally do go to bed and do some more of lying in bed with my eyes closed and dreaming about sleeping. Now I am up it is after 5 pm. I go down to write this blog since I am fairly sure no one will read it just to tell some one about what it is like to be on 40 mg of Prednisone. Now the rest of the family has caught on to my idea of a nap, except they seem to really be sleeping while watching MNSB. I am envious!

Is this Christmas? or prednisone? you haven't even heard from Quincy and Natalie what it is like to live with me when I am like this ( no wonder they are anxious to go to Indiana) Or am I feeling this way because I accidentally took the cough medicine with codeine instead of Robitussin or is it really a nightmare? Oh yes they canceled the temple and church today and tomorrow.

Here is a rough translation of the little song i wanted to share:

Plants and bushes are hidden by snow
It is so cold outside.
But outside my frozen window pane is a little birds singing
Give it time and Spring will come.