Another day in the trenches...

Dear Nicky,

Well, you seem to be feeling better and your spirits are always pretty good. Every now and then today you'd start crying for no reason, but it figures if you're not 100 percent. You ate well for breakfast and lunch, had some popcorn snack, and nothing for dinner. That's your typical thing lately. You had a lot of laughs playing with June and the cardboard box this afternoon. She's got a bug now too, as does Mom and as do I. Mom has strep, actually, which I hope none of us get. But I have a cough. I hate coughs. You and Junie were swarming all over me all day, coughing and sneezing and snotting all over me. Monsters!

Love,
Dad