Well it looks like I kind-of accidentally took a week off of blogging. Sigh. I wish it was because I was on some tropical vacation with limited internet access, but no such luck. Instead I was at home with my germ-infested daughter who was miserably sick for a few days and now has made me even more miserably sick for a longer duration.

I’m not sure how to avoid getting sick when Clara is sick (which thankfully has only happened twice in the first year of her life!) when I need to do the following every single day:

• Kiss her a bijillion times
• Wipe her nose
• Take things out of her mouth constantly
• Change her / bathe her / wash her hands
• Play with toys that have of course been in her mouth
• Cuddle her lots and lots when she can’t sleep
• Etc etc.

If an acquaintance/coworker is sick I don’t even want to go near them, but when my baby is sick, full physical contact is required and I love being able to comfort her. So here I am, feeling more blah than ever, with the knowledge that there’s probably nothing I could have done to avoid this spreading of germs.

Of course, when Clara was sick she had energy to go to the park, run around constantly, and generally never stop moving until bedtime when she would become absolutely miserable and unable to get comfortable. She was grouchy and clingy, but still carried on with her everyday activities. Me, on the other hand, I feel like I’m pretty much dying of the common cold over here and have zero energy to do anything.

So either I’m a bigger wimp than Clara (totally possible probable) or kids are just way better at bouncing back from illness, in which case I feel especially old.

Unfortunately, moms don’t get sick days so I’m off to the playground for a bit!

But tell me, aside from hand washing, is there any way that you parents have managed to not get sick when your kids come down with something?!