SOUP for a TERRIBLY-LONG-LASTING-Cold!

Today I took one of those sick days we teachers hate to use.  I didn't have the usual long task of lesson plans to hurdle since much of the day involved a field trip... but I still always feel guilty no matter how badly I feel that my class doesn't have me! (How conceited does THAT sound?) I really just mean that their routine is thrown off, the fun of having "their teacher" with them on a fun day...maybe one or two of you teacher colleagues will know what I mean. 

After getting in (finally) to see one of the doctors in my practice I gathered my antibiotic prescription and while it was being filled at my grocery store I hand-selected leeks, ginger root, fresh celery and carrots, plopped them down alongside two boxes of tissues and cold meds, paid for it all and shuffled home to make good-old-fashioned-chicken soup (from stock I cooked yesterday off a Boston Market chicken !)

The result was worth the effort.  Yummy healing warmth.  I'm off to bed now, first dose of amoxicillin and healing veggies in me.  Enough time later to correct papers and plan for the rest of the week.  So thankful for a sick day, a quiet house and colorful veggies.