Making Lemonade

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 as long as he could — he started making up reasons I shouldn’t leave the house. “No. Gran-Gran should go, instead.”

Gran-Gran quashed this idea, but Paw-Paw left the house soon after. “Oh. Now you have to stay here, Mommy. You can’t go. Paw-Paw just left, so you can’t go.”

“Oh, I can’t?”

“No. Two people can’t go at once. That would be cheating.”

I was inspired to share by Ian’s honesty over at Sarah and the Goon Squad.