This is a lot like morning sickness

An update...and some pictures!!

My doctor upped the dosage on my meds about 2 weeks ago and ever since then I have been having wicked nausea. Nausea is apparently a common side-effect of this medication, but one that usually subsides after a time. So I have been feeling pretty gross, but either it is getting better or I am getting used to it because yesterday I had a pretty good day. It reminds me of how I felt when I was pregnant. Sick all morning and then into the afternoon. By dinner time I'm feeling normal again and I am able to eat again.

I know the meds are working though, so I am going to stick it out with the nausea. I am sleeping SO much better, for one thing! I had forgotten what it was like to sleep through the night. Just being well rested has made an enormous improvement in my disposition.

Anyways. I'm done talking about my stupid depression (for now at least). Thank you so much for all your prayers and encouraging words! I have so many of your posts to catch up on that I may just have to jump in where I am and go forward.

Just so you don't think I have been laying about doing nothing all the time, here are some pictures I took yesterday on a walk. I took these with Sara in mind as she has expressed an interest in the Mennonite farms in our area:

This is the Martin Homestead. It is just on the outskirts of Waterloo not far from our place. It is a sixth generation Old Order Mennonite farm.

This is the kitchen garden. The crops here are for their own use (ie. not for livestock or to sell). So far they have onions, sweet corn, strawberries, sweet peas and something else that we couldn't quite tell what it was. Plus a whole bunch of raspberry bushes at the back.

The back of the main house.

Notice the hand pump at the very left of the porch. Indoor plumbing is considered "worldly".

The smokehouse. It smelled incredible as we walked by!

The orchard and barns. Like the kitchen garden, the small orchard is just for the family's use.

The front of the house. The buildings are in the "Mennonite-Georgian" archetectural style. The Martin Homestead is considered historically and culturally significant, and is protected from future commercial development.

Some pictures of the surrounding area:

Pretty little brook.

It's hard to see in this picture, but there's wild asparagus growing in the front.

The Grand River.

Wildlife specimens. Careful! They're dangerous when they're hungry.