Proud Mama
My son (age 7) won 3rd place in a speech contest with this speech he wrote himself.
This is the time for positive action.
By Raistlin Grey Wolf Drake
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped people.
He wanted for no violence.
He wanted peace.
He was a great man.
He thought everyone should be friends and that no one should be a slave.
I will help the environment by throwing away trash.I will visit people that are sad or sick and I will stand up to bullies to stop them from hurting anyone.
I will take positive action like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What a night!
Nothing is more frightening and frustrating than being up all night with a very sick child. My daughter is three and had a fever so high you could have fried an egg on her little belly. Unable to keep down fever medicines, we tried to get her to eat graham crackers and drink some ginger ale.
That seemed to settle her stomach enough to sleep for about a half an hour. She tossed and turned the whole time, several close calls when she had to be caught or she’d have fallen off the futon followed. In the end I took her into my bed and this seemed to calm her for a time.
Now came the challenge of trying to sleep while a long legged child flip flopped in my bed, her hot body pressed up as close to me as she could get. The whole time I was worried, knowing that she’d been unable to keep down the meds, but remembering when she seizured as a baby from a high fever. This meant little sleep for a worried mommy most of the night.
Now it’s morning and she is fine. I, on the other hand, would darn near sell my soul for a few hours of sleep. (not really but it damn tempting right now). I’m glad I am up to 36,000 on my nanowrimo because I’m thinking writing is going to be quite a challenge today.
I still have my elemental homework to do for spiral door this weekend and an invocating to write for a croning this Friday. I’m glad my little girl is doing better, but what is it with kids and illness coming at the WORST times on you busiest weeks.
