Sick Kids, Bad Words

Julia threw up all night Friday, after being up till 12:30 on Thursday night. Understandably, she lay on the sofa all day Saturday, tossing and turning, reading books, sipping some water, nibbling some crackers, and generally looking and feeling awful.

After dinner, Shannon went out for a walk – her first chance to leave the house all day. Julia propped herself up on an elbow, turned toward me, and said, “I feel so awful, I want to use a bad word.”

“Go ahead, honey,” I told her. “When you’ve had two days as bad as you have, you’re allowed.”

She settled back into the sofa and with great relish said, “I feel like crap. Crap.”

*sniff sniff* My little girl is growing the hell up!

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