Tender Moment

Camp Cousin Nick has had an extra camper simce Tuesday after Birdie was up in Monday night with a fever of over 102. (She came in the big bed and it was like sleeping with a thrashing oven.) Turns out, she has hand, foot, mouth disease (which has an ominous sounding name but is in fact just an annoying virus that until it runs it's course, will give Birdie little blisters in her mouth,or on her hands, or feet, or both). Julie came home early Tuesday to take Birdie to the doctor, and as she was buckling Birdie into the car's backseat, Birdie reached up her hands to Julie's face and said, "I missed you, Mommy." Such a tender little Birdie. Julie pressed her forehead to Birdie's and said, "I missed you, too."