Again?!?

Will someone out there please reassure me that, someday, my child WILL be healthy again?

I think of the tiny little bundle of joy I brought home from the hospital over two years ago, the sweet newborn who, for the first year of her life, had but one bout of sniffles...and then she hit the one year mark and everything went, as they say, to hell in a handbasket.

The Disease of the Day happens to be vomiting with a side of low-grade fever. There just isn't anything quite like being woken at 4:45 a.m. by your sick little toddler, who is calling "Mommy?" as she has (fortunately) stationed herself right by the kitchen garbage can, seemingly waiting for you to arrive on the scene and hold her over the garbage can as she pukes her tiny guts out. One look at her sad little face confirmed that we will, again, be on quarantine status for at least the next 24 to 48 hours.

Please, God, PLEASE bring on the spring time weather, and the hope that we'll have at least a few weeks (or even a month!) between illnesses!