The DAY...

Part1:Tomorrow is the day of days...

With a little anxiety, sadness, and determination tomorrow is the day that I am going to make my first steps in making Burlington, Ontario Canada my home.  After 6 months of fighting it, tomorrow I am going to get my drivers licence.  With that in hand I should be able to apply for a health card.  As soon as I do that I am going to go to the mall and buy wii fit in an attempt to start working out a little bit.  I've also decided that tomorrow is also the day that I am going to stop biting my nails. A bad habit that I have had since I was at least 3 years old.

So like I said, tomorrow is the day of days.  Hopefully I will have the nerve to do it all. 

Part2: And old wives tale...
In the past 2 weeks, my husbands family has been spreading and sharing a pretty nasty cold.  It originated with the children, then quickly spread to all of the adults in the family.  Mark and I were lucky enough to escape with just minor colds while the others were red nosed and losing voices for several days.  However my strain of cold left me with a sore throat each night, and each morning.  Mark and I have gone through 2 bags of halls, and 2 packages of fisherman's friend(Canadian cough drop) within the span of a week.  Mark brought up in conversation one of those old fashioned homemade recipes which he claimed would cure a sore throat.  He said it was a family tradition and his mom always made it for him and his siblings as children.  I forgot about it until his sister said that she did it to help with her sore throat.  Since this came from Mark's mom, I like to think of it as an old mother in laws tale.

I am quite skeptical of those old fashioned things.  My own mom had a few of her own. She always said that you should gurgle salt water for a sore throat. Most people have gone for a swim in the ocean...each time a bit of that salt water gets in my mouth it gets immediately spit back out.  So on the one occasion I heeded my mothers advice and gurgled salt water it was in my mouth for about 5 seconds before my gag reflex kicked in and it got spewed back out.

Hence comes more skepticism of old fashioned remedies.  Although I admit my mother in laws remedy does not sound nearly as unpleasant as my own mom's salt water tactic.  The solution was simply to mix some ground ginger with some honey and eat it down. Sounds simple enough. Plus honey doesn't taste bad.  So as I was laying in bed last night at 12:30am, I was down to my last halls.  Putting it in my mouth I felt it's healing powers on my sore throat.  A half an hour later I was still awake and my throat was still hurting. Honey and ginger it was.

I got out of bed and made up the honey and ginger in a little dish.  Because honey is soo super sweet I ate it slowly. As soon as that first drip of honey reached my throat, the pain was gone.  Not to mention that when I woke up this morning, it still didn't hurt.

Needless to say that is one mother in law's tale that I will be using on and passing to my own children.