Mommy's Sick Right Now

I think that you would miss the pitter-patter of tiny feet across the linoleum floor and the way we would beg for pancakes every morning but get Fruit Loops instead. You would miss the smell of our skin; a mix of Ivory soap and powdered milk and you would miss the way we waited to put our clothes on until the last minute so we would be late for school, so you would let us skip for the day an we’d get eight breakfast platters from McDonald’s and we’d feast like kings. I think you would miss it all if you decided not to wake up one morning.