A Loss for Words...

For once, I am at a loss for words. Just an hour ago, while driving my three older children to their three different schools, I had all of these ideas for my latest articles. I had at least three topics I was going to flesh out, and now I am sitting at my computer with nothing but a brain malfunction. Maybe I am overtired. Last night, my five year old woke up screaming with leg pains and then woke up my seventeen month old and he started crying. Then I was up from 12:15 a.m. until 2:00 a.m. trying to get them back to sleep. At that point I was regretting the fact that I had stayed up until 11:00 p.m. watching a movie on Lifetime (I hope my husband doesn't read this). Then of course 5:45 a.m. came way too soon. I lay there debating whether I could sleep until 6:30 a.m. since my oldest daughter didn't have to be at school until 9:30 a.m. (late start day), but I still had to make coffee and lunches and there was some laundry that needed folding and the dishwasher needed to be emptied and my seven year old daughter still needed to be at school by 7:30 a.m. and she needs all this time in the morning. Then I realize at this point I am mentally awake and there is no advantage to staying in bed. Reminder to self: Don't think next time, just sleep! So, here I am four hours later in a blank state with a blank slate. My toddler just fell asleep, and it is now time to balance my exercise time with my writing time: approximately 2 hours. Yesterday, I made a vow to myself that I would finish a 1000-1200 word essay and now I am sitting here thinking about everything else I have to do. Mainly, EXERCISE, since last night while watching that "D" movie on Lifetime I had some prosciutto and cheese and then some crackers, which I have to say, was better than eating the ice cream that was tempting me in the freezer, but still I ate that after dinner snack that I usually forbid myself from eating, so I have to put some extra time in on the treadmill. Maybe then I will find those words I had a short while ago while driving in my car.