Making Lemonade

“Acorn, if you don’t settle down and go to sleep, I’m going to come in there and take every single book out of your room.”

Acorn’s been having a right proper childhood illness, these past few days. He’ll spike a fever and not feel like doing much, including eating or playing; when we get the fever down, he’s up and about like nothing’s wrong.
Friday morning, he wasn’t feeling well and — wanting to stay cuddled up with Mommy for [...]