Afternoon Lord. Well, it’s not often I miss the opportunity to write in my prayer journal on a Monday, but yesterday certainly did not go according to plan (as well you know) and neither has today. Yesterday I thought I would pop to Caroline’s straight after dropping Nathan at kindy to see how she was and offer to help with the packing for a while, but in the end it felt like I was only there five minutes when kindy called to say Nathan wasn’t feeling very well and could I come back and take him home?
So of course I dutifully returned, muttering under my breath about kids and the ironies they present (like when you have something really important to do they come up with some unexplained lurgy – or how you take them to some twenty-four hour clinic in the middle of the night because they’re dying and as soon as you get there they start playing with the toys in the waiting room like there’s nothing wrong with them) but we were only home half an hour before Nathan started vomiting and for me to know with fervent certainty that he wasn’t faking.
I then arranged for Dad to pick Emily and Madison up from school and I could see as soon as they walked in the door that Emily was not looking the best – and sure enough she was only home an hour or so when she started to be sick too. Now I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, I really despise tummy bugs. I know you’ve designed our bodies to work as they do but if there was one thing I would personally change it would be to eliminate vomiting. (Okay, so I can think of a couple of other things I’d change as well but vomiting is definitely top of the list!)
Of course while Madison is as right as rain both my two are still home today and although both have stopped being sick they are very washed out. They’re both having an afternoon rest at the moment – unheard of! I pray you would have your healing hand upon them, Lord and that they would be up and about in no time. I also pray for your hand of protection to be on Andrew and me (and Jess and Madison) that none of us would succumb to the terrors of the tummy. I’m afraid that’s it for today, Lord. I’ve had so little sleep I really need to rest now. Bless Dad for taking Madison to school today and offering to bring her home again…Amen