So Sami’s sick with a cold for the first time ever. Not bad, since she’s 2 and a half now. And kind of weird that she’s never really had a cold before. Oh, she had a drippy nose once for like half a day. But this is the first real multi-day episode.
Started with a wee cough in the night one night. I guess here’s the part where I have to admit she sleeps with us. Sometimes. Oh okay. Maybe a couple of nights a week. Thing is, I think I like it more than she does. But I know it isn’t a good habit to get into. But even after sleeping with us in our bed, she seems perfectly willing to go back to her own bed and sleeps fine too. So whatever. Shoot me. There is just something very comforting and it makes me feel—I don’t know—contented to wake up in the middle of the night and know everyone in my household that I love and care about is within arm’s reach of me. I pat Michael on the head. You know, or poke him in the eye in the dark. But at least I know he’s there. And then I can hold Sami's hot little foot in my hand. And I can feel Katie the cat with my feet. And not that I like her or anything, but I can also hear TDD (That Damn Dog) rustling in her crate in the corner of our bedroom.
So anyway, that little cough. I knew right then it was coming. And we’ve had cough-y throat, drippy nose, watery sad little red-rimmed eyes for nearly 3 days now.
And when she has a coughing jag and comes out of it rubbing her eyes, and drained of most of the pleasant colors one would expect in a human face, the room is always too bright. See, I understand. I have an aversion to bright lights too. Sensitive eyes we girls have. All about our sunglasses even if we’re only walking to the end of the driveway. But today I couldn’t make my office any darker since I purchased cheap blinds at Target that still allow a lot of light through them. So even with them all closed, it was still ‘too bight.’
I told her I was sorry but that I couldn’t make it any darker. And she thought for a minute, and asked me to go get her sunglasses from the car. I don’t know. I thought it was pretty smart of her to think of sunglasses solving the problem when she was so far outside the usual application thereof.
