Archive for May, 2008

Sparkle Girl’s Diary V

Dear Diary,

Julian had a really bad cough, and, at recess, he went around coughing on all the girls. We told Mrs. Morgan, and she made him stop.

Julian wasn’t at school the next day. We heard that he had pneumonia.

“That’s just great,” Kim said when I told him.

The day after that I didn’t feel so good. I didn’t feel so good the day after that either. I stayed home both days. After that, it was the weekend.

I felt OK by Monday and went back to school. I sure had a lot of homework to do Monday night to catch up on everything I missed. It was past my bedtime, and I still wasn’t finished. When Kim saw how tired I was, he did the math on the last math problem and told me the answer so I wouldn’t have to think anymore.

A couple of days later, I started feeling not so good again. After I went to bed, I coughed so hard that I had to run into the bathroom and throw up. When I put my head down on the toilet seat to rest it for just a minute, Momma said not to put my head on the toilet seat.

Then she rubbed her fingers through my hair and told me that she hates it when Baby No. 1 is sick. She doesn’t like it when Baby No. 2 is sick either.

The next day, Kim took me to the doctor in the afternoon. The doctor said I had walking pneumonia. After that, Kim asked me if I had had lunch. I said I had. He said, well, he hadn’t so we were going to stop at P.B.’s Takeout which was right on the way home.

When we got out of the car, he said that, even though I had already had lunch, I could have some ice tea and French fries if I wanted.

I said maybe ice tea and French fries and a hot dog with just ketchup, too.

He laughed and said OK.

He had two hot dogs with chili, mustard and slaw but no onions. He ate some of my French fries. I ate all the rest except for a few that were burnt.

When I finished my hot dog, I said, “What meal is this?”

Kim said that since he hadn’t had lunch yet, this was lunch.

“Well, I already had lunch,” I said. “So this is second lunch for me.”

Signed, Sparkle Girl