The Sick Bowles

THIS is why I am not too heartbroken about missing Girl Scout Day at the Lincoln Home on Wednesday--thousands of Girl Scouts roaming the streets. It sounds like it was a pretty crazy day. I returned to work yesterday--not because I felt like it--but because I knew that there was much to be done. My voice still wasn't good enough to give tours, so I worked on entering the registration information for the upcoming interpretation workshop on June 2. Some Lincoln scholars will be coming to Springfield for a seminar that will include people from museums and historic sites all over the state. It might be the cold medicine I'm taking, but I keep having these strange dreams at night about Lincoln impersonators gone bad.

My voice is coming back a bit, but the sickness has turned into a terrible cold. I feel awful, but the worst part is that now Greg is getting sick too :-( We are quite a pair. We were really looking forward to going to Charleston this weekend for my EIU graduation, but there's just no way we could make it. I was going to go down there today to pick up my cap and gown, then I was going to get to stay with the cute Stowell family! Then Greg was going to drive down tomorrow (he has some funeral home responsibilities this weekend), but we decided that it would be better not to share our germs with everyone. And, I know I need to rest up for the coming week--because come Sunday, it's back to giving tours again. I'm sad that we won't get to see the Stowells, but now we have an excuse to go down to Charleston another time.

Congratulations to Sarah and Joel on finishing their busy semester! I'm so glad that we got to go see them earlier this year. And we are really looking forward to Mom's visit at the end of this month for the Mormon History Association conference!!! That will be so much fun.