Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s topic was “Dive.”
Start.
Drive
Drive Ezra to the doctor at 10am.
5:15 am. He woke up crying and his temperature was 103.4. I was scared, but incredibly thankful for Motrin and the fact that I had made him an appointment yesterday when he started coming down with the same symptoms I’ve been having for close to a week now.
These were the thoughts running through my head in the split second that I checked my “blogs to read” folder to see the 5 minute friday prompt for today. I had this whole post planned out when I went to check it again and realized that the topic was “dive,” not “drive.”
Seriously? Dive? I have no desire to blog about diving! Driving my kid to the doctor? yeah that’s the stuff blogs are made of.
My brain just totally went blank and I’m not sure what else to say. This is just proof that sick mommies with sick babies really have mental problems. Because I read a 4 letter word as a 5 letter word and now am grumpy that it’s not a 5 letter word.
I’m pretty desperate and weary. Which is a perfect time to put a shoutout about some great books I’m reading, Hope for the Weary Mom and Desperate.
Cuz that’s me.
Um…
I think this alarm is going to go off any second…. um… okay. I quit because my brainwaves are just dead.
STOP
This is me, two days ago, on day #4 of the flu.
I may or may not be wearing the same sweatshirt and pajama pants this morning.
Thanks for being real and honest about where you are at. Hope you and Ezra are feeling better soon
Thank you Lizzy for stopping by.
aw, praying for you and your son today! sounds like a good case of mom brain-fog on your part
most of us have been there, lol.
blessings to you this day, and may you all recover quickly.
steph
Stopping over from FMF – thank you for this post – sometimes the word God wants to put on our hearts is what some other mama needs to hear to feel less alone today. So thanks for diving into this post fearlessly & hitting publish instead of delete
And now I have mommy tears in my eyes. I don’t know what you are facing today but I’m saying a prayer right now that God would grant us both grace and strength to get through another weary day. I almost didn’t bother with this post but now I’m so glad that I did!
You had the right word–the right response to your child and the right idea to just say what’s true for you today.
Feel better. And I hope the kiddo feels better, too.
Take care of you–and him. Ughh….you poor dears.
There are times we see what we want to see or what we are meant to see and think about …. thanks for hitting publish on your honest thoughts! Hope your household feels better soon! Thanks for the comment on my blog!
Yup, been there, done that. In fact, it must be going around, ’cause I wrote about it this week too — I called it “When there’s nothing left for you.” I think this applies to brain cells, creativity, inspiration, and milk. Which is a four letter word and sometimes equally scarce. Prayers for a better day tomorrow
I hope you are all doing well now! To recognize how much I appreciate your blog; I am nominating you for a Liebster Award! Please visit my post for details: http://lifewithmoorebabies.blogspot.com/2013/01/liebster-nomination.html
thank you I’m going to check it out.
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