Hackity Hack

So I’ve managed to contract the lovely virus that’s kept my daughter up many nights this last week. My throat has been sore for the last four days. Last night, to my husband’s amusement, I lost my voice entirely while extrapolating on the outcome of the Oscars. I have my voice back today, but I sound like a bass, and I can’t fight the compulsion to cough. At least poor Violet is feeling better today: she, too, had been losing her little voice off and on. It would cut out while she was in the middle of singing the alphabet song. Yesterday, she woke up suddenly from her nap, coughing so hard that she couldn’t catch her breath. Her coughing today has been far more sporadic, and she seems in better spirits. I wish I could say the same for myself. I’d like to crawl into bed and sleep for about a week, but unfortunately that’s not an option…