Thank you, dear friends, for all of your inquiries about how I am doing. I went back to school Monday, and not only that, I worked my part-time job three nights this week. It was a long and tiring week, but I am certainly feeling better and stronger every day. I am still sleeping more than I normally do and have a continuing cough, but other than that, I am pretty much back to normal. I am getting my appetite back, which is kind of a bad thing, because maybe the only good thing about being sick was that I lost some weight.
I have spent very, very little time on FB or DIS lately. I feel out of the loop. I did enjoy FB pictures from others who were able to enjoy their Disney Christmas and marathon trips. I am just getting back to the point that I care that there is a Disney World, because I was too sick to care that it existed or that I was missing anything. Now that things are more normal again, I look at pictures and see how much I missed. It makes me sad, but I have the summer trip to look forward to, and that will keep me going for now.
It is cold in Tennessee. We are in the midst of my two least favorite months of the year. January and February are so cold, and it seems like these two months last twice as long as any others!
Now, let's wrap up this report. After this, I am going to just enjoy reading the reports of others for a while. Jill may want to do a mini-report of her October and Christmas trips at some point. I figure in March, when I am mourning not having a spring trip, I will go back to last year's spring trip pictures and re-live those, but for the next few weeks, I just need to not have any report going. We have a lot of demands right now at school, and I will be spending a lot of outside the classroom time working on those. Thanks for sticking with us through the long lull in this report. We truly do value the friendships we have made here.
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I really don't even know where we left off, but I think we had come out of Cape May. I was going to run in the back gate of Epcot and get pictures of the new ice cream shop, and the girls were going to hang out on the beach.
I love this area!
A quick gift shop picture as I headed toward France.
The warmth I see in these pictures is a stark contrast to the coldness of today. I am covered in a blanket as I type.
My destination.
It was not yet open, so this is all I got.
Back to the girls.
I have had the privilege of staying here due to the kindness of
Marc and
Anita, and I loved, loved, loved it!
Glad to hear you're on the mend. 
It's so strange how an illness can linger in different ways after so long.
I like an occasional snow day when we can stay out of school and not have to get out. Not having a garage, I don't like going to the car every morning and having it covered in ice. I start it and stand at the downstairs door until I think it's warm, and then I dart out. I just don't do cold well, and I start the day off in a 
state of mind. After I get into the school building, I'm okay for the day.
