One Good Thing About a Cold

This weekend my 17-month old daughter has been suffering from the cold that my son had last weekend. She was up all night on Friday night because she couldn't breathe very well. I felt so bad for the poor thing trying to get comfortable in her crib and she just wasn't able to.

And of course, she was cranky on Saturday because she was totally sleep deprived. And when my daughter gets cranky, she likes to scream. There's no real reason to scream, she just does it. But here is the one good thing of her cold (and I am such an evil mom for saying this)...she did so much screaming on Saturday that she has pretty much lost her voice. She has the cutest raspy voice right now, and most importantly, she can't scream.

Everything else about a cold stinks. Especially with swine flu scares everywhere, I am certainly watching her carefully. But I had to laugh at this one slight upside to her cold.