I’m all ramped up Monday to bring my A game and I had a great day! I met one of my kids where they were when it was difficult. I was flexible about the things that didn’t matter. I didn’t drop the ball on what matters.

And today, fully expecting another day just like yesterday, I jumped in and got slammed with a migraine in the middle of co-op. I didn’t have my medicine with me. When we got in the car one of my boys yelled, and I snapped at him. I told him I was wrong and sorry. I drove home just clinging to the steering wheel and breathing.

And that sucker fully took me out till after 5pm. Thank God for my husband. He just picked up the ball and kept it going till I was able to stand on two feet again.

I just finished helping with bedtimes and I am finally feeling okay. And as I do, I am thinking about the day. I didn’t accomplish much. And my affections were definitely not ordered properly when I snapped at my kid, nor when I chose to be on my phone instead of engaging with the other parents who were chatting at co-op. (I hate butting into conversations, but I could have at least appeared approachable.) And I wonder, what is God teaching me here?

I need to finish up the evening chores now that I’m not flat on my back, and I really need to spend some time in the Word. Maybe I will see what He is teaching me more clearly there. Maybe I won’t. But it’s always time well spent.