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Wednesday
Mar282018

The Good with the Bad

I know I'm supposed to feel terrible when one of my kids gets sick, but COME ON. Sometimes it's all too good to be true. On Friday night, Alexis was definitely not feeling like herself. Which, WAAAAHOOOO! We were scheduled to be at a cheer thing at OMG o'clock Saturday morning, so go ahead and be sick. I'll take a valid excuse to skip that cheer thing every time, no matter that it would be a waste of money to skip. Sometimes sacrifices are necessary for the sake of sleep.

Just to be sure skipping was the right thing to do, I snuck through the darkness Saturday morning to check to see if the kid still had a fever. I was halfway to deciding that she was still sick when she bolted upright, declared herself all better, and darted her way to the shower.

It was disappointing, to say the least.

But not as disappointing as what happened later. Two hours later, because the cheer thing was FAR from our house, I pulled into the parking lot just in time. From the back seat came a complaint and some whining and OMG. The sick had sunk back in.

To recap, I woke up at 4:30 on a Saturday to take my kid to a cheer thing, but then she was too sick to do the cheer thing.

ON A SATURDAY.

That's the part that hurt the most.

But then since I was up and we were forever away from our house, I decided we would just pop in at the zoo. The sick kid had, at that point, taken a nap in the car and seemed capable of walking. We  made good on our season passes and did a quick lap amongst the animals.

It was almost worth being up entirely too early for no good reason for that little bit of time watching Mila with the animals. I had forgotten how much she loves the zoo.

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And when I say "loves the zoo," I mean she will spend HOURS sitting and quietly staring at animals. This is the kid who has been voted most likely to be busted swinging from the chandelier, so the complete focus and quiet is startling.

And magical.

And now I'm thinking we should spend every Saturday morning at the zoo because it's so pleasant when Mila isn't burning things down, even if being awake early on the weekend makes me want to burn things down.

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