She’s Touching Me!

She is sitting next to me.

At least at this moment she is not insisting on lifting up my shirt and touching my “mole-ys” that have become her points of comfort since being weaned.

But she is still sitting next to me

while I try to work and get things done.

She is playing on her kindle and talking. And expecting me to be able to keep up with both her game and her chatter, and I am busy actually writing and working and doing my best not to pay attention to her at all, so I can get my work done.

But she is only 4 ½ half.

And she has been sick lately. We all have with a 48 hour fever and then the rest of the cold symptoms that last for a few days before and afterward. When you are a family of six, in my experience, illness doesn’t as rapidly through everyone. Which is nice because you do not have six people down at once, but it can also seem never ending because once two or three of us have gotten sick it’s hard to remember that we haven’t all gotten it yet.

At least it is better than the summer they had chicken pox

Which was annoying in that it was the summer

And we were stuck inside for weeks.

But it was good because they all got it at once (okay really one got it and then about 10 days later the other three got it in the space of 72 hours) and it’s one of those things I wanted them to get and then let us move on.

Politics of vaccinations aside, this is what most of us went through as kids and honestly they haven’t gotten super sick since we did that almost two summers ago.

But she is still sitting there giggling

and playing

And needing to be close to me.

Just as much as I need to work on my laptop in my pajamas in bed today

Because I am too tired and sick to want to get dressed yet.

I will because I have places to be and things I have to do later in the day-to-day.

But one advantage to working from home is I don’t have to get dressed at a certain time most days.

My clients can’t see me

Since most of them work from home as well, for all I know they are in their pajamas too.

I do get dressed most of the time, it takes being really sick for me not to get dressed.

And I plan on getting dressed after I finish up my work for today. I’ll go take a shower (because that should allow me to hide from the girls for a while and I need that more than the getting clean part) and then get dressed and then go downstairs and read our chapter book aloud. I was suppose to do it at breakfast, but one of my girls who is of course still sick hadn’t gotten up yet, so we had to save it for later.

I am hoping to finish this read aloud book with them soon. It’s a good story, and the book is under 300 pages, but for whatever reason it is taking a long time to get it read to them. I suspect it is because they love Harry Potter more and if given the choice and we can only read one they want Potter. And it’s the Order of the Phoenix so it may never get finished. 400+ pages in and we would have already finished the first two or three books and we aren’t even halfway done with Phoenix. Oh well the things we do for the love of our kids.

Like letting them sit next to us when they are sick, even though the giggles and chatter are slightly annoying. Mainly because I am not firing on all cylinders myself. But also because it’s just so hard to follow sometimes. The mind of a 4 year old is so far removed from that of a 38 year old that sometimes it is hard to follow what she is saying.

But hopefully she will have some vague memories of sitting next to me.

Or of the love

Or of holding moly -ies.

Or just remember to do it for her kids.

That makes it worthwhile right?

That and knowing that I can hide in the shower in a few minutes.