Saturday, June 16, 2007
Every so often, one of my coworkers will ask about Sophie, whom they've met once very briefly but primarily know through the photos on my desk. "She's great!" I'll say, sometimes adding a short qualifying statement if the person asking seems to expect a meatier response. Of the roughly dozen or so people in my department, only three have kids older than mine, and theirs are boys. A couple others have infants and the balance are very, very single. Which is to say that most lack a frame of reference for the small but wonderful world of a four year old. I tend to stick with kids, ha ha! sort of irreverant anecdotes--and believe me, there is a neverending supply of those--rather than attempt to explain the flip-side, i.e., how unbelievably sweet Sophie often is.
This past week I've had a nasty cold/sinusy sort of thing. The draining and hacking has been especially constant over the past couple of days. It's getting pretty freakin' old, especially the nighttime coughing jags.
Sometime around the crack of dawn this morning, while I was in the midst of a particularly violent siege on my lungs, Sophie tiptoed into my room and set a cup of water on my nightstand. She crept out without a word, returning a minute later to hand me a box of tissues and set a small trashcan beside my bed. Making her way down the hall to crawl back into her bed, she yelled over her shoulder, "Call me if you need more water."
This is the point in the story where a better mom/writer would offer some sort of poignant comment about her little darling. Unfortunately I'm fresh out of poignant, however, perhaps you'd be interested to know that while I composed this post Little Miss Sweet earned herself a timeout for throwing her shoes at the dog. So you see, it's not all rainbows and buttercups here at Cheezwerks HQ.
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