Crows Stool

Sleep deprivation does crazy things to me. I'm sure it does to all of us. Gabriel has been in a consistent pattern, for about a week, of waking up usually between 4 and 5 am and staying awake for a couple of hours before settling back down to sleep. Last night he woke up at 2 am and didn't go back to sleep until 5:30. Today is bible study day, so we had to be out of the house by 8 am. Needless to say, all the pistons in my brain are not firing well right now. I could give you countless examples, but that isn't the point of this post. I have a funny story to share.

So my friend, Holly, writes me today to pick up on a conversation we started by text yesterday. I was stopped at a construction location on my trip home from bible study so I decided I could quickly text her back apologizing for not finishing our conversation yesterday and explaining that it was due to sleep deprivation. As I wrote the last word, the traffic began to move and I hastily hit send as I started going and glanced down as the message was sent and saw the words "crows stool" as the message disappeared from my screen. What? Crows Stool? I didn't write that?! Apparently my phone's auto correct decided to interpret deprivation as crows stool. My message read, "I'm suffering from sleep crows stool."  She wrote back asking (in jest) if I had been drinking.

I laughed so hard I cried! Gabriel started laughing too but I think it was more of a nervous laugh probably thinking, my mother has lost her mind.

Yes, sleep deprivation does that to a person.

Really I think we were just so deliriously tired we couldn't help but laugh. What joy!