When my child is in pain

I told people who know her that Linnea had complained of pain in her ear. They all figured that if Linnea is complaining of pain, perhaps her head is about to explode or fall off. In general, she doesn't, and never has. She is sometimes frightened by potential pain, but that's not quite the same thing.

So today we went to the doctor and she has A Virus which is making her tonsils sit up and take notice. Emer has a cough and a sneeze. Astrid has a snuffle. And I keeled over and lay down in the late afternoon, and in the early evening I went to sleep for two solid hours.

I may rethink my baby-visiting, depending on how I feel tomorrow.

In other news, I sold http://artbyailbhe.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-house-in-hills-with-bird.html and got paid for it, so I used the money to buy two litres of paint. While I was at it, I incidentally bought a stack of new canvas, too, which is the second time ever I've bought materials which hadn't been paid for by sold paintings... Need to sell more. I might do a post about them soon.