Penance

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season. Lent is the 40 days prior to Easter when we, as Catholics, enter a period of penance, prayer, and sacrifice to prepare ourselves to celebrate Easter. My penance today is sick children - complete with one who hacked so bad from his allergies that he vomited all down his bunk bed and into his sister's (one of the cons of bunk beds) and the other one who has been screaming bloody murder all day from an ear infection that won't go away (after two rounds of antibiotics). All I can say is, after stripping and scouring two beds, inspecting a zillion stuffed animals, steam cleaning one bedroom carpet, and doing five loads of laundry, the one bright part of my day is that Violet has been an angel baby today. She has decided today is a good day for sleeping (which I am sure is going to mean a fun night) - even during the animal inspection! (Can you I Spy the sleeping baby?)