Whew. Yesterday was something! Wednesdays have been wild for me lately. This was the second Wednesday in a row that I had worked out with my trainer, but that didn’t happen until later in the day. Let me start from the beginning!
Yesterday, my youngest woke up with a headache. Uh oh. Judgement call. Do we still send her to school? I hate when it comes down to the wire for these kinds of decisions.
We took it step by step. First, I gave her some water and had her lay down on the couch to “wake up” some more. I made her some breakfast and encouraged her to play at the table with me a bit. This seemed to perk her up. I thought about it and remembered that yesterday I asked her if she had refilled her water because it looked like only a few sips had been taken. She didn’t refill it. Uh oh, again.
I think this headache was from dehydration. I made sure to tell her about how important it was to drink water, and gave her teacher the heads up that she’d need to be drinking a bit more today, too. I sent her to school, and it all went well. One crisis averted!
I was glad she could go to school because I had back to back meetings schedule in-office. As I drove in, I realized my nicely packed breakfast and lunch had been left behind on the counter. Oof. I was about to walk into the office without any breakfast or lunch packed for the day. I called my husband to commiserate about my fail, sucked it up, and went on with my morning.
I really don’t know how he did it, but it wasn’t even 20 minutes later before someone was beside me in the office, setting a coffee and bagel on my desk. It was my husband! What a sweetheart. It still makes me smile thinking back to it.
After eating the bagel for breakfast and getting a couple emails done, I went in to back to back meetings. After my last meeting for the day, I came out to my desk to find flowers and a note from a friend.
Another surprise drop off?! This one was from a friend who had been praying for me and my family. We got some hard news about my grandpa’s health recently and this was her way of sharing strength and love with us. God has truly gifted me with such great supports and models of encouragement!
After work, I got to Piper’s school right in time to pick her up. I started getting a headache on my drive home and immediately crashed for about a half hour in bed. I got a quick nap in, and got up right in time to drive to the gym for my personal training appointment. I could have just stayed in bed and called it a night, but I didn’t. And I’m glad that I stuck with my commitment.
My husband made orange chicken bowls for dinner, and had one a bowl waiting for me when I got home. We ended up being two ships sailing past one another in the night as he left with Piper to go to youth group just as soon as I was walking in the door from the gym.
I got to eat dinner, and spend some time with Laney playing games before bed. Then I swapped some laundry and headed off to bed myself. Wednesday was a bit of whirlwind but it was a blessing of a day!
