So the baby is still sick with a nasty cough and congestion with a slight ear infection. And for the record, he did cough in my face once or twice. Daddy gets to be Mr. Mom today, so Mommy is going to be viewing the action on our new and improved home camera system :)

There is always a baby/parent dilemma when your child is sick and you have to work. Should I take him in to the sitter? Is it that bad? Will he get enough rest? Should I only do a half day and check on him or should I just stay and take him to the doc? and on it goes... I think erring on the safe side is always best and if it turns out he wasn't all that sick, then he gets some extra parent time that day. The balance of child rearing is never clear cut or in a manual or anything so I just use my intuition most of the time. Hopefully, I am in tune enough to use it well.

In other news, I am currently reading a book by an author who has come up in the world (she was on Oprah) and I'll admit she does make some sense to me. It is a nonfiction book about women taking care of themselves and respecting their God given bodies (hear, hear!) Culturally girls and women are given some pretty unrealistic expectations from the media and so in an effort to conform, they feel as if they have failed on several fronts (having a thin figure, staying fashionable, looking effortlessly beautiful). I happen to agree with her philosophy on this, especially since she writes it so well. I was talking to Brian about this and he would agree that this is primarily a female issue--one that males would have a hard time understanding. Since females are so complex, we are prone to tie emotions into this mix and send ourselves reeling when our expectations aren't met. The fact of the matter is that we are unique in our own right, we have contributions to our career, family and friendships that really have no bearing on how flawless our physical self is. Now I know it is pie in the sky to think that 'oh looks don't matter'! Well the news according to this book is that they don't. Life is too short to be lived in the pursuit of getting gorgeous, or achingly thin or supremely happy. Just accept and care about who you are right now and live life as if you were looking back on it as a wise old woman-doing and caring about things that truly matter in your life. Now that is good stuff.