Go Fish

We were card sharks tonight at the kitchen table: Mommy, Daddy and Madison sat around, peering over the fanned out cards in our hands, eyeing each other suspiciously - when all of the sudden Mommy said, "Madison. Do you have Princess Mulan Five?"

"GO FISH!"

This was much more than just a fun game - this was a neat way to teach Madison some of the letters she's been having difficulty with as of late: "F" in particular, and then the "sh" sound. It was taught to us by Mrs. Wendy, Madison's speech teacher. Each sound has an accompanying hand gesture to help you remember what sound it is supposed to be. At the beginning of the game, we had to use the hand gestures frequently, but by game's end, she was saying "Go Fish!" all on her own. It'll still take some practice, of course.

But the best part of it was that we were all having such a great time playing!

As for the rest of the day, I'm afraid it was a wash. Daddy is quarantined to the house today, along with Mommy. It's like one of those outbreak movies here in North Georgia, as lots of people are apparently having a battle with the Group A Streptococcus Bacteria.

Daddy went to the doctor's today simply to confirm, and yep, the doctor said it was "classic" strep throat. With such a bold declaration, Daddy was hoping he could be on the cover of "Strep Throat Magazine," but alas, all I got were some pats on the back, and of course a prescription.

We got medication for Daddy and Mommy, and hopefully the two of us will be feeling better soon. I have never had a sore throat this bad in my life - or at least, I can't remember it being that way. It's kept waking me up over and over again all night for the past few nights.

In other completely unrelated news, we had some electricians come in today, and just like that all of our problems are solved. Once the other lights were fixed, we all quoted scripture: "And then there was light, and it was good."

And it was indeed good. We've been in the house a little over a year and still have a ways to go on fixing certain things up, but we're well on our way. The plan was to do a bunch of that this week, but then strep throat got in the way for all of us.

Final comments on this thread: Chinese New Year is upon us! It's this Monday, in fact. That means we have some red envelope stuffing to do! One tradition is to get a hair cut on Chinese New Year. This symbolizes a fresh start, according to some stuff I just read. I always new there were hair cuts in China on Chinese New Year, but I never actually read why. Now we know, and so do you!