The Silver Lining of a 3-year-old Throwing Up in the Middle of the Night

This week Blake has had a runny nose, cough and earache (which the doctor said is not an ear infection) so we've had some sleeping problems the past few nights. It doesn't help that she's getting back to normal after spending last week out of town in Houston and Galveston. So last night she woke up coughing and calling for Mommy, but Chris went in to see if she was okay. That wasn't going to do because it had to be Mommy so I went in and gave her some water. She seemed fine, but about 10 minutes later I heard her again and went in and she had thrown up from the coughing and drainage. Dealing with throw-up in the middle of the night is so not fun, but I wearily changed the p.j.s, wiped her up as well as I could and started changing the sheets. Blake obviously knew I was frustrated after several nights in a row of waking up with both her and Emma (who's teething finally-the two front bottom teeth are well on their way) so while I was doing the sheets she says "I can help you Mommy" to which I said "the best way you can help Mommy is to let me sleep the rest of the night... pleeease". She said "okay, I will". So she crawled in to bed and I leaned in to give her a quick kiss and she put her arm around my neck and hugged me really tight. It sort of surprised me awake a little more because it was so sincere and I could really feel how much she appreciated me. I went back to bed really happy to be a mom instead of annoyed that I had been woken up to deal with 3-year-old throw-up. Thank you God for the silver lining.