What I did yesterday

Mothers are not allowed to be ill. This is one of those immutable Laws of Nature. So I got out of bed yesterday. Then I went back. Then I got up again, and went back. And so it went on. All day. I must have got out of bed fifty times. Even His Lordship noticed I wasn't looking well. I know this because at 9:00pm after the entire day spent getting out of bed and going back again he had the grace to concede: "God, you look awful." Which capped off an awful day perfectly.