As The Little was having a hard time keeping her eyes open last night at bedtime, she muttered the words, "Worst day ever....." then fell off to dreamland. In her little world, I'm sure it felt like her very worst day ever. You see, she climbed into bed with me around 2am the night before and was restless for the few hours before she jumped out of bed and ran lickety-split to the bathroom.....a-oh......
After a few moments and I didn't see her back, I got my groggy self up to find her leaning over the white porcelain and whimpering. This was the scene that ran over and over for the next 14 hours. Poor sweet little child of mine. She couldn't eat or drink anything before it came right back up. But after about 14 hours of this routine, she was asleep for the night. She stayed asleep and then popped out of bed this morning saying, "I'm all better, Mom."
This was the exact same movie that played in our house last week, except that she was fighting strep. This is the girl who never really gets sick.....so, we're catching up, I guess.
But I want to say this about having a bad day....
We do our best as parents to put everything into perspective. We are very blessed in this life when others are not as blessed as we are. As we think we are struggling, I always try to remember that there are people in this world struggling more through sickness, loneliness, starvation, and loss of a loved one. There are children looking through discarded food for their next meal. There are soldiers fighting, dying and sometimes returning home bruised and broken. We do not take anything for granted. Wait....let me restate that. We try our very best to not take anything for granted.
I think I should stop here and just remind all of our readers to say a little prayer, send happy thoughts and to do just one thing today to assist someone who needs help, doesn't really matter how small of an effort, just make an effort. I'm saying a prayer for you.....you know who you are!
