Good health is one of many conditions we take for granted. Why is it that you most appreciate your good health when you're sick? My daughter was extremely ill this weekend and all I could think about was I wished I was the one who was sick instead. Once a parent, always a parent (she's on the road to recovery after three IV's in Emergency).


I warned her, she will go through the same thing with baby boy. If you could prevent all the diseases, all the injuries, all the meanness of other kids to your kids, you would. On the other hand, all those experiences create the adult you will become. It's just painful to live through for them and possibly even more painful to watch. And the mommy syndrome never leaves you. There is nothing else as wonderful or as worrisome and absolutely nothing more rewarding.

So sayeth me...