Ever So Thankful

.The Sickbed



Peach is down again, this time with fever and sore throat and this morning, a cough. She's been ill since Tuesday morning. The doctor declared her strep-free leaving us with a mysterious illness.



Whenever my children have fever for very long I think of Beth March in Little Women and her episode of Scarlet Fever which racked her body with fever for days. Without medication, they could do nothing but bathe her head in cool water. I am so thankful for modern medicine. Today our children take an antibiotic for a few days and a case of Scarlet Fever is nothing to worry about. I am thankful I don't have to bleed my daughter to bring her fever down. Shiver. A dose of Tylenol or Advil every four hours is a pretty easy fix.

I am also thankful for digital thermometers.

And personal DVD players.

And fresh-from-the-drier sheets that my mother resurrected from her linen closet -- my own girlhood sheets. Nothing like fresh sheets to make your feverish body feel better.




I'm thankful for all of these free character coloring pages.

And I'm also thankful for that jingle bell I tied from a ribbon and hung on her bedpost, even if it does mean running up and down the stairs.

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Meg joined in -- read her Thanks here.
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