We need some soup.

Maggie, my 8-year-old daughter, stayed home sick today. It’s always so hard when they’re not feeling well, even if it’s just a cold, because there’s only so much you can do as a parent. I hate not being able to fix it right now! . You have to basically snuggle ’em, keep ’em rested and hope the cold medicine does its thing. (Okay, should that be “it’s” or “its”. Man, how do I STILL confuse those?!)

Still, it’s not that bad of a cold, so we get to spend some time together, and the way the last couple weeks have been, that’s a treat. She’ll be coming to work with me later, for a few hours, propped up on the couch in my office with a blanket watching DVD’s!

I’ll get her some soup, too. She’s a big soup fan. Both my kids are soup fans, in fact. Chicken noodle, of course, is a favorite. However, they both LOVE Italian Wedding soup, too. We try and make soups homemade, but don’t get to do it nearly as often as we’d like. (Jeanne has a turkey chowder soup that is absolutely amazing. Now I’m craving that!) We also try and keep the canned soups with low-sodium around the house – there’s SO much sodium in, say, Campbell’s Chicken Noodle!

So, that’s part of my day – at home with a snuffly daughter. I have to work on some sound for Every Christmas Story Ever Told on my computer here anyway, so no problem being home. Then later we’ll go to the theatre, she’ll relax in my office, and I’ll get some more work on the show done. (No rehearsal today, it’s our day off. The next one will be Thanksgiving, and we open the day after! This is the fastest project I’ve ever worked on – I’ll probably journal about that after the thing opens.) There will be a lot going on in the building today – the crew will be in finishing up the set, and doing some lighting re-hang and re-focus. There will also be some work being done on the sound system, we’re adding an output machine and re-arranging a couple of speaker assignments. Some big things, some small. All part of the normal care and maintenance of a theatre – which is exciting to write, because the place is really starting to work like a theatre should.

And while all that is going on I’ll be juggling the normal 8 or 9 other things at the same time, like the rest of the staff, and working to keep our little company alive and growing. Which is perfect, because I love doing it. Add to that the fact that I get to have some bonus-time with my daughter, even though it’s because of a cold, and this adds up to a pretty good day: A little TLC for the theatre, a little TLC for my daughter, and both are gonna be just fine.

I think maybe I’ll have some soup myself, too!