It's a Good Thing She's Cute

...most days, it's her saving grace.

We're fighting strep here. As in strep throat, that illness that most people get during the winter. I've had it precisely one time in my life. My son... twice in the last month and a half, three times if you're looking at the last four months. Now the girl has it too.

She keeps telling me her "fever hurts, right here in my mouf," while she opens her mouth to say "ahhhh" and breathes her stinky, strep-y breaf all over me. Dang, it's a good thing my kids are (knock-on-wood) generally healthy. I'm good at being a doting, spoiling, I'll-get-you-anything-you-want, Mom, for a little while. But if this went on for days I'd be in trouble.

She just came to me at the table weilding a package of fruit snacks telling me that she really needed them because "they're good and they make my fever froat go away."

Perhaps it was that she smells fresh from the bath she just got after she threw up all over my bed (oh, did I forget that part up above?), perhaps it was her big blue eyes and her pink flushed cheeks, but man was she cute and absolutely impossible to refuse.