This morning my daughter Danni was sick. Today the symptoms were bad enough for her to stay home from school. She’s six now, but I guess the “authorities” believe that she still isn’t old enough to stay home alone. Just kidding.

My wife and I decided to split the day – I would stay home in the morning and my wife would come back in the afternoon. The problem was that Laura couldn’t make it home in time, so my parents agreed to fill in the gap. 

When Danni found out she was staying home from school she perked up a little. The thought of hanging out playing with Dad all morning probably sounded pretty good. The grim reality of staying home hit her on three fronts.

First, when I am at home I’m still able to do most of my job. My title says it – online editor, most of my work is online. She wasn’t very impressed that I worked at least half of each hour – she doesn’t understand yet that someone must keep the anger flowing on the Tribune comments section.

Second, I needed to stop in at the Tribune from about 11:00 to 11:40 last night so I am tired. Part of my non-working time was spent napping. Not fun when you’re a kid, and in reality she probably needed the nap worse than I did (not that she took one).

The final straw was how she was feeling. After a few minutes of running around she was definitely feeling sick. Poor kid. The big question is whether Danni will stay home and take care of me when I am inevitably sick in a couple weeks.

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