Circle of Trust

Count-a-rama – 9 strong for a Friday Morning

Announcements – Thanks Rand McNally

Name-a-rama

Prayers – Rand’s friend Steve and his family who are dealing with quite a few medical issues. PJ (Tiny Bubbles) as he continues his fight with skin cancer.

CoT

As I started my CoT, I let the PAX know that I was staring at a piece of paper with my workout written down on it. At the end of the workout I had CoT written down and underlined, but nothing written underneath. I apologized for not having anything prepared in advance and went on to explain that truthfully, last night was a little rough with my boys. I prefaced the story by saying that my boys are both GREAT sleepers. We typically lay them down around 8-8:15pm and they sleep until 6:30 or so in the morning. I am spoiled. However, then things don’t go according to plan, it tends to throw things off a bit. My youngest (2 YO) fell on his face yesterday at daycare. He was perfectly fine but he did have a bloodied nose. It stopped for most of the day but then randomly decided to return at 7:50 last night. This was somewhat of unchartered territory for me and I wasn’t sure what to do. Surely I can’t just lay him down and let him bleed all over the place. The end result was that we got some extra time sitting together in his rocking chair while I held some toilet paper under his nose. He eventually fell asleep and the bleeding stopped around 9pm. I actually really appreciated this extra time even though it may have thrown off the rest of the night. My 5YO decided that he also wanted to ‘stay up late’ and was not very cooperative with my M. By the time it was all said and done, it was about 9:45/10pm and I was trying to finish up writing the workout.

I suppose the message here was that sometimes things don’t go our way. It is important though to continue to adapt and overcome. Also, look at the silver linings. The extra time with my son was amazing. I’d like to think that today’s workout was also pretty good.