I am without a voice today. I am also on sick leave today. That is why, I am writing yet another post here to give myself a distraction. I’ve been working at home all day you see….. 🙂
I seldom fall sick, thanks be to God. However, when I do get sick on the odd occasion, I do get quite sick. Like now. 🙁 I have been coughing for the past week and suddenly, the cough got worse last night and this morning. And then, I lost my voice totally. Nasty.
When the boys realised that I could not talk like normal, and had to whisper, this is what I get:
The little one looked at me with his cheeky little smile and said or rather whispered back to me “åª½åª½ï¼Œç‚ºä»€éº¼ä½ æ²’æœ‰è²éŸ³ï¼Ÿâ€ (mama, why don’t you have a voice?) I could only smiled at him.
The older boy was full of concern — this is they way he is — he is always very sensitive towards me. Last night, when I was coughing madly and had a bad headache, and could not read to him, he said in his worried voice “mum, you have a headache and cough, I don’t want you to get sick. You need to see a doctor tomorrow, I think.” So adult-like, ya? I was touched by his concern and reassured him that I would be fine. This morning when I was contemplating whether I should go into work, Mr C said “mum, if you are sick, you should stay at home, ok?” Following that he said:” mum, your friends will laugh at you when they see you talk this way! You should stay at home.” I was so very amused by my 5-year-old. Really amused.
The husband has been a great help today. He took care of the boys so that I could rest. Bliss. When he came back from school, he told me out of the blue that we are very blessed to have the 2 (very precious)boys. We have to bring them up well, by God’s grace and in God’s way. He is so right.