1 Mother 2 Another

Yep, clearly I have to hang in there a few
more days.


Maddie’s slightly better, because when the medicine kicks in
she’s got energy enough to go manically around the house. She
put on a full-length ballet – and wrote a song to go with it
– yesterday; decorated a tree in multi-medium art forms; and
mopped the floor. Yep, mopped the floor. Hey, she asked to do it.


In between her moments of imitating a whirling dervish, though, she
was catatonic on the couch, huddled underneath a down comforter and
shivering uncontrollably. She actually fell asleep under the
blanket, even her head buried, with just as mall breathing airway
punched in with my fist. We watched Sesame Street, and Between the
Lions, and more Sesame Street. Good times.


And it’s only Tuesday.