Ginger.

Ginger is good for upset stomachs. When my oldest brother went to college, my dad and I went to visit him, and I was carsick. Dad bought me sugared ginger slices to suck on, and they helped.


The day before Annie began our Week of Sicky, the girls made a gingerbread house from a kit my mom picked up after Christmas. I let them have free reign, except for the part where I "suggested" the house would look nice with icicles. Oh, and I helped Millie pipe on the windows and frost the roof.




Millie made a million little snowmen from marshmallows.




Here's one of them, melting in the hot sun.



It degenerated into this once the roof was nearly done.



Voila! Then everyone got sick, and I ate almost the entire house by myself until I, too, became ill. Ginger is good for upset stomachs, and I still don't understand why I got sick, too.