sick day

e has missed around 5 days of school in her lifetime (including preschool and elementary).  on each of those missed days, she was down for the count...  sick.  to date she has also never missed school for a non-sick day (ie vacation, company, a family activity etc.).  so you can imagine her surprise on friday morning when i told her that she was not going to be going to school. 

let me back up for a moment.  d had been sick on the couch for the better part of the week.  she had been up for two of those nights coughing up a lung with a sore throat and has had no voice now for two days.  on thursday night, p began to cough up a lung and spent the entire night nestled in my bed between scott and i.  e had was also showing signs of an approaching sickness with a little runny nose.

so when my alarm went off on friday morning, i just turned it off and watched my p sleep.  it was one of those momma moments where you fall in love with your (not so much a...) baby (anymore).  (seriously- i'm going to be calling her my baby until she's 42.)  she was peaceful and snugly and not coughing.  a few moments post alarm, e appeared at the side of my bed. 

"mom, aren't you going to wake me up?"

"no.  go back to bed and get some rest.  you're sick."

"i'm not sick mom.  i feel fine."

"no e.  you're sick.  we need more rest."

at that she rolled her eyes, smiled and announced she was going to be in bed reading.

we all got out of bed about 40 minutes later and stayed in our pj's until noon.  we watched judy moody and the not bummer summer on on-demand.  i set up a nail salon in the kitchen and gave the girls pedi's.  we had a dance party.  and we played hair salon. 

if you want to make an appointment, i can give you the stylists number.  scrunchies on your knees?  olivia newton john headbands?  i mean this is the best salon ever!

by the end of the day everyone seemed to be on the mend.  fevers were broken.  voices had returned.  tissues were no longer flying out of the wall box... 

what?  you don't have a tissue dispenser built into your bathroom walls?  (i couldn't resist.  i mean when was i ever going to work my uber cool 60's design element into a blog post?  exactly.)

and you should have heard the conversation that e had with her dad when he arrived home from work.

"dad, you will never believe this!  mom made me stay home from school today and i wasn't even sick!"