That's funny about the candy for breakfast. Yesterday, when I was at the office, my son asked my husband if he could have cake as a snack to tide him over until the French toast was ready. I thought that was pretty funny, especially coming from this person whose love of sweets seems a little, well, abstract. Funnier: his dad said no, but I probably would have said yes.

Okay, perhaps that was a comment of truly marginal relevance, but my child and I, like your child and partner, have the dreaded lurgy. I'm just happy that my sentences are internally coherent.

have fun scoring the comics.