The red dress, and my coughing hacking sick house.

Sarah likes to wear dresses. Thankfully, because Evie's were hardly worn, and we inherited a TON of beautiful hand-me-downs from her cousin in Louisiana. She also has a favorite color. For a while, it was pink - which is unfortunate, because I painted her room purple long before she had a say in the matter. But then out of the blue she decided she liked red. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that Evie loves red, but who knows.

So in the wonderful trove of beautiful things from her cousin was this knit red striped dress, and a love affair was born. Sarah wore it in April when we went to Pittsburgh for Easter...

She wore it in July for our cookout and fireworks for the 4th...

She wore it to Disney World in August...

...and on the cruise in October...

...and many, many days in between. That red dress was the first thing she would pull out of her drawer to wear the minute I put clean laundry away. One time I caught her pulling it out of the dirty laundry - I almost missed the fact that she'd worn it the day before. November came, and I started insisting that she put some layers on under it, it was just too cold to wear by itself.

She's a silly one, my Sarah, and I'm thinking that red dress will have to be tucked away for 'someday'. I don't think I can really bear to part with it at this point :)

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I was hoping to have some fun things to share, but we're all still under the weather, and Jason now has a double ear infection - although he swears they don't hurt. I'm coughing, Matt's coughing, and I'm hoping William is not getting this too. I passed out on the couch Tuesday night watching GLEE and woke up at 1:40am, then couldn't go back to sleep. I think I finally passed out at 5am. Which would have been fine if I'd just accepted that I was up & maybe cleaned or SOMETHING, rather than tossing and turning and trying to sleep. Wednesday wasn't so bad, but I'm sure I will hit a HUGE wall today, probably right after lunch. Maybe I will try to get my sick non-nappers to lay down with Mommy for a little bit & watch a show. 'Cause we never do that :)