Pucker Up

by Michele Cheplic | More from this Blogger

29 Aug 2011 11:42 PM

My daughter is sick... again!

Hello, hand, foot and mouth disease... again!

The fact that I can spell "Herpangina" correctly without having to reference a medical resource book or Google is nothing to brag about.

Clearly, there is a pattern to this madness. Unfortunately, breaking the vicious cycle is easier said than done.

That said, my little trooper is hanging in there. Or, more accurately, holding on to. As in my neck, arms and legs. When my daughter gets sick she likes to be near her mama. The only problem is that at seven years old she's not exactly Baby Bjorn material anymore.

This fact is lost on my sick little peanut. Mouth ulcers, 102-degree fever and headache be damned, the kid is unapologetic when it comes to wanting to be hugged, rubbed, snuggled, and kissed... on the lips.

Yes, my daughter is a mouth kisser.

Thankfully, her habit is limited to my lips only.

Personally, I'm a cheek kisser myself, and have yet to figure out how she got to be such a stickler when it comes to smooching lip to lip.

When she was younger I would tease her by flashing a puffed out cheek, but she countered by grabbing my face, smashing the air-filled facial flesh and placing a wet one smack on my lips.

When she's healthy I don't make an issue of her passion for puckering up after all, in a few short years she will be so busy sticking her nose up at me, she won't want anything to do with my lips. Still, I'd rather hug it out than suck face with a sick kid, but how do you tell a child in pain that you'd prefer to pass on her choice of physical affection?

I can't do it.

I won't do it.

I don't do it.

And now I'll probably be sick as a dog by the end of the week.

Do you kiss your kids on the lips when they are sick?

Do you kiss your kids on the lips when they are healthy?

Do you kiss anyone on the lips?

Kidding...

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Michele Cheplic was born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii, but now lives in Wisconsin. Michele graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Journalism.

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