We’ve been busy the past couple of weeks, busy with a (mostly) childhood illness: chicken pox.  No, it was not fun for them.  But this cloud had its silver lining.  It forced us to slow down and focus on simple things, the way sickness always does: comforting a miserable child just by holding them, letting them sleep on your bed, running baths in the middle of the day, and special mom-and-me movie times while everyone else is out for the evening. Another upside to this downtime was watching them practice compassion as one child put a…