While trying to decide what to write about for my blog today I found that the biggest decision was what did I want to title it. I seemed to have been torn between the self-pitying title of "Why Me?" or "My Terrible Weekend/ Hope yours was Better"
One of the things I have noticed when it comes to writing is that the title also seems to set the tone and capture the reader's attention. I do not know why this is for I have always been one to believe that you should not judge a book by its cover; forgive the cliche. However, lately it seems that when I am writing it is the title that sets the tone and content for my passage. Looking back it I have noticed that the titles and my blogs seem to lacking lately perhaps due to my feeling uninspired to write and burned out towards doing anything school related, as it seems are some of my cohorts. Hang in there we are almost there!
Okay back to this lovely weekend. I am trying not to have a BHPM day and take a lesson that a beautiful, gracious three month is teaching me this weekend.
My sweet little granddaughter has her first ear infection, double ear infection I should clarify. Now, if anyone reads this and has children we know that this condition can lead to crankiness and irritability for the baby and those trying to comfort the little one. My granddaughter is not the typical baby. One would never know she is not feeling well for she still wakes up smiling and cooing. She looks at me with those big blue eyes with wonderment and seems to be comforting me while I am fretting, along with her mother about her not eating and the diarrhea she is plagued with due to the medicine.
Her mother is also very ill and has just came back from a trip to the ER. Diagnosis bronchitis and fluid in the ear. She needs to take a lesson from her daughter for she is cranky and irritable. I would like to send her to bed instead of listening to her complain and cough all the time. Of course she does not appreciate me telling her this so I am trying ot be quiet and be nice by baking her cookies.
This of course leads to number three on the list of things that are not working well this weekend- my appliances. Well, actually my oven and dryer are the two appliances so far that are not working. My oven does not want to bake the cookies at 350 degrees ( the first batch was in the oven for 11 minutes and very done on the bottom and doughy on the top). I turned the oven up to 375 only to have them become crispy in 8 minutes. I need to call the landlord and hope that maybe in the next month he will return my call. The dryer is refusing to dry clothes. I have ran the same batch three times and they are still damp. I have several loads to do for I foolishly decided that the spring clothes needed to come out of the tote and the winter sweaters needed to be put away. This of course could be why it is snowing outside. (Sorry everyone I really thought it was spring outside.) I am hoping the laundry will be done by midnight at this rate.
Okay I know better than to have a BHPM attitude and am regretting not being able to go to church which is always a good cure for this malady. I have learned years ago to not ask "What else can go wrong?" for I am usually shown. Instead I will try my best to be gracious about these trial, take the lesson He is teaching from the smallest one in the family and go on with my day. I hope everyone had a good weekend and remember we only have a few weeks left of this semester.
BHPM= Boo Hoo Poor ME
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