Whatcha looking at?

It was a rough morning. I tried to sneak in and pull the covers up on the girls and ended up waking up Flip. So she missed out on an extra hour of sleep and I had to get dressed while she tugged and pulled on me. At 8 I woke Star and discovered she had 2 mosquito bites around her eye. She started crying because her eye was swollen and she couldn't see properly. Then she actually saw herself in the mirror and started crying because of how she looked. We manged to get breakfast and out the door. Then for extra oomph Flip decided to throw some muscle behind her refusal to walk to school. So there we were- a white woman with a fake smile greeting the usual faces we pass, a 7 year old with a tear stained face and one eye swollen shut plodding along, and a 3 year old dragging behind me whining the whole way. And I wonder why everyone stares?