My plan for today was great. It included a 40 minute run at 8.5 minutes a mile (tough for me), getting the train into Boston to work a full day (always a treat for me to be out of the house and in the city). The kids’ pick ups were all organized and I was FREE TO WORK UNENCUMBERED.

Alas, for the working mother, the best laid plans are often the ones that shatter into a million pieces. But we are so inured to all the shifts and complexities, we take a deep breath and re-asses. Then we just get on with the new plans.

Looks like I might spend the day at Children’s Hospital instead of working on our book presentation to a big Alumni group: Svenja woke up today unable to sit up in bed because she is so incredibly dizzy she keeps throwing up.

Last time this happened, we went through a battery of tests at the Hospital (and spent seven hours there, which I guess isn’t really too bad) to discover it was a deep ear infection. That was great news. Anti nausea drugs and antibiotics and she was right as rain.

So, here I am. I predict I will do little or no work today (and have to spend tomorrow catching up), not achieve my run, and spend hours in waiting rooms, holding my sweet little girl who cries like a wounded animal when she’s hurting. I will stroke her face and tell her that I am here and I will take care of her, and I will try my best to do that.

And all the while, I will be thankful, so very thankful, for our overall health, and that I’m not one of those moms who has to live in  hospitals tending to a very sick child.

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