Sad Eyes............................

Oh...what a day!!!!!


Rachel has had a bit of a cold for several days now. Just a cold. Seems like whenever I say those three words, they come back to haunt me! She woke up this morning with conjunctivitis. I was pretty sure of it. Sure enough that I had to break her sweet little heart when I told her she could not go to school.

Now, ordinarily, she would have been happy to entertain this idea. Just yesterday, she stepped out of the van at the car circle, only to immediately hop back in and cry while she pleaded to let her stay home. I quickly told her...it is ok....you will be fine..... the nurse will call me if your cold becomes worse. She was a good girl and said a quiet "ok" and hopped back out...still teary eyed.

Had she known what I was REALLY feeling inside....I would have much rather said...."I know, I know baby....sit back down and we will go home." Then I would have wisked her off back home to snuggle on the couch together and watch a favorite movie. Well, if she had known that....then my secret would have been out! I STILL want her home with me every day!!!!

However, this morning was different. It was their Valentine's Day Celebration! And my sweetheart had to miss it! I still feel so bad. She would be contagious though if my gut feeling was right. So no negotiating on that! She cried and I cried too. SO hard to be seven. SO hard to be the mom of a seven year old on mornings like that.

So she stayed home. We went to the doctor. And we got a little bottle of perfection, just like the one pictured. Vigamox. Funny name for such a little bottle of liquid that is almost like an instant miracle worker.

It is amazing how one tiny drop of liquid can go after the yuckies the way it does. So good in fact that by the time 24 hours passes of being on it, you would not know someone that had one day before had a gooky, red, swollen eye. Nope, you wouldn't know that just three doses earlier, that person would have had looked like he or she just got out of the ring with a world boxing champion!!!! And that is the beauty in being blessed to have access to such an amazing thing.

So when my beauty wakes in the morning.....her eyes will be bright and sparkly once again. I will be reminded again how great God is since she is well....something to not take for granted. Her sad eyes....will be gone. And so will mine!!!