What about me?

Okay, I am feeling a little drained today after spending all day nursing my sick kid yesterday and tending to a cat recovering from surgery today all the while trying to give my two extremely attention starved dogs some scrap of positive attention, sorry dear husband, today is not your day. So here is my philosophy on sick kids. Let them eat cookies for breakfast, lunch, and supper, give them juice whenever they ask, and put Backyardigans on continuous repeat for the day. Plan to get entirely nothing done but sitting on the couch to hold them (you aren't home from work to clean the basement after all). Drug them, at maximum allowable doses. Allow them to eat in you arms if they don't want to sit in the highchair. Take them to Safeway to buy them Peppermint ice cream (not Save-On Foods because they don't have it), take them to the pet store to look at fish and birds to cheer them up (at both outings keep their mitts on so they don't spread germs). Let them wear the coat, hat, and mitts while watching TV if they so demand. Put them to bed early and let them fall asleep on your chest if they cry hysterically when you try to put them to bed. Basically, do everything you have tried so hard not to do all this time when you have been trying to be a good parent because it is just as nice for you as it is for them, this is your chance to spoil your kid silly and not feel bad about it! BUT... all of the above behaviour must cease when the fever breaks, because you are a good parent.