Last night the baby woke again. His Dad, who deserves a shelf of parenting accolades, got up yet again. But if I don’t keep my eyes absolutely shut and resist the urge to turn over I start to wake up and if its almost midsummer and the bloody birds, bless them, think that the faint light of three forty five means its morning and they are going to sing their hearts out telling me that, then the wires connect and there you go, the brain’s awake and spinning.
Hubby comes back to bed and to the sound of his gentle snoring, I think of a fabulous (ideas are either horrifying or fabulous at that time of the morning) idea for a new website for creative parents. I think of several new ideas for blogging and find two lines of a short story I am writing sitting on the kitchen table of my mind with a mug of coffee beside them. I compose a e-letter to a friend and work out the logistics of pick ups and drop offs and the events of the forthcoming day.
How productive am I. It is 4am on a Monday morning of a very busy week. The kids are all asleep, I am alone in my head for once and so I find there is plenty of space there after all.
Creative Writing Exercise
You arrive at the supermarket and bump into an old friend. What does she look like now? What was your relationship with her? How do you feel when you see her? How do you want to present yourself to her. Is there something in particular you really don’t want her to know?
She invites you and your husband to dinner. Do you go? If so, what happens. What happens if your secret slips out in conversation, are there consequences? Write up to 500 words just to see where it takes you.
Head Above Water 
you don’t mind if I do those Writing Exercises in my head, right?
I too have lots of room there, it’s because I don’t have much brain left. ( who am I kidding, I didn’t have much brain to begin with…)
Apparently the brain starts shrinking at thirty. And yes, virtual exercise is always good.