“We’re making you soup. Come on over.”

Chicken kadu with steel-cut oats and every veggie under the tropical sun - and rice, of course. Lemon china fina’ denne’ even. For Ellie, the fams and me. Every ingredient in the pot had a specific intended nutritional purpose - just because I’m not feeling well today.

And dad even pulled out his super-secret stash of lemon-lime soda for us.

I LOVE these people. Only partly because of how well they love me.