Life With Girls

Grace has been frantic with a production at her college where she is helping with hair and makeup and costumes, so I haven't seen her for a few weeks. And, of course, in the midst of not having time to rest, she has gotten sick. Last week she started telling me about a cough and feeling bad.

On Saturday, as the show wrapped up, she texted me that she had a fever.

On Sunday, she texted that she might have strep. 

On Monday, the text informed me that she was retching over the toilet, planning to skip class to go to the health center. 

Finally!

The health center said she had flu symptoms and she could only treat the symptoms.

That afternoon, I received this picture of Grace along with the words:

"Told you I was sick."

Now with Ebola being the big scare in the news, Grace is lucky that I know her pretty well. I knew she was teaching high school students how to do makeup for a production of Dracula rather than dying of Ebola.

Still, many mothers may not have taken it as well as I did.

In spite of the vampire makeup, I can tell she is not feeling well. 

I got some one-on-one girl time with my great nieces on Wednesday while their mom went to the dentist.

We played some horses and danced to some Disney songs. Then I took 2-year-old Regan upstairs for a nap. 

You can  tell she was tired. She's still gorgeous with her big eyes and olive skin. Her hair is not really growing, at least not growing down. It seems to be piling up on top of her head. I love this picture of her.

Caroline and I made some cookies. They are a gluten-free family, which means no wheat. So we made no-bake cookies with oatmeal, peanut butter, butter, milk and cocoa. 

After we stir them on the stove, we plop them onto waxed paper so they'll harden as the butter cools. 

Caroline put herself in charge of licking the pan. She got every bit of chocolate, well, what didn't remain on her face. 

So, I am  loving my relatively calm time with the girls in my life.
My boys are still giving me headaches, so I'll just come up with a yoga mantra that has to do with those lovely nieces and my beautiful, hopefully recovering, daughter.