30 09 08 - 18:10
I Can't Get Sick, It Isn't on My Schedule
My six year old son is a very giving child, he shares everything. Including his viruses. 
I fought it off like a tiger for about a week. But one night staying up too late was all it took for that nasty little virus to wrestle my immune system into the ground, and boom, I've got this year's first fall cold. The symptoms weren't all that bad, except that every time I lay down, I started coughing, which made sleep a wee bit problematic. Getting up in the morning to go in to the office just didn't happen a couple of mornings last week.
I started off by telling myself it wasn't that bad a week to get sick. The fourth week of the month is the week my meetings slack off. Oh, except it's September, so there was a bunch of extra things scheduled. I was triple booked on Wednesday night alone. ... (more)
), or they just refuse to see reason on a whole host of issues (translation: They don't see it my way). But when you live closely with kids for a while, you start to get glimpses of where they're ... 