Carson Sick

Last night Carson got sick. He spent the night in the bed on the floor that has become a permanent fixture lately, for "sick" kids, nightmares, scratchy throat, and anything else they come up with in the middle of the night. Today he got up at 7:30 am, which told me that he was still sick. Very sick. The kid has an inner alarm clock that beeps sometime in the 6's every morning, and he doesn't know where the snooze button is! He then asked if he could stay home from his activities today as he crawled into bed with me while I was feeding Colby and snuggled. That was another BIG sign he was sick. He never wants to "snuggle" anymore, and he never wants to skip activities. I have decided that he is a good sick kid. Some of my other kids wine like crazy and pout and wine and pout some more. Carson turns into this ultimate softy. He loves to just rest. He never gets attitude, just politely asks me for whatever he needs. He smiles and talks kindly to his brothers, which is hard to come by lately. I just sit and watched him while he was napping thinking, I have got to be the luckiest woman on planet earth. Sometimes they are so hard to control I don't know what to do but cry. Sometimes I think I am raising complete disrespectful monkeys, and then a day like today comes. I see the true goodness in him, and true love he has for me, and this thankless job we call motherhood becomes all worth it!!!