Mummascribbles – Mummy is away for the night…it could go all right or all wrong! – Mummascribbles

Today I dropped Zach off at nursery knowing I won’t see him until tomorrow evening. For once I don’t feel bad. Firstly, because I’m only away for one night and secondly, because he needs some Daddy time, or I should say, Daddy needs some Zach time!

As I spoke about in my previous post, Zach is a mummy’s boy right now, following his period of being a daddy’s boy. I am the one that has to get him to sleep at night; daddy has to go downstairs, and I am the one that he wants when he wakes up in the night; daddy has to go away. And I can tell that just like me, daddy is feeling a little bit rejected right now even though he’s grateful he gets to go and shoot some zombies on the computer in the evening or go back to bed while I sit up getting Zach off to sleep (I know I did when the roles were reversed – not the shooting zombies though!).

Tonight, Zach has no choice but to have daddy. He is already excited about daddy picking him up from nursery and getting on the bus with him. It’ll be a couple of hours of them being together before bedtime rather than the usual hour. They can have fun on route home (so long as the buses are running ok), and hopefully have a bit of playtime when they get there. Daddy will then do bedtime, read to him and snuggle up until he falls asleep. If he wakes in the night, it’ll have to be daddy that goes in to see him. There will be no option for mummy to stop the screaming because I won’t be there.

Of course, this could all go tits up. Zach might not understand that I am not there in the middle of the night and he might scream the house down for hours. He might not care that daddy is the one that has to put him to bed, and therefore cry, repeating want mummy, want mummy, daddy go, for the whole night. It could be a truly awful night for my other half (I know he’ll be reading this so apologies if it is!).

Hopefully though, it’ll be fine and they’ll enjoy their little bit of time together.

And me? I’m off to Leicester this afternoon, ready for a 3 hour long planning meeting this evening, followed by a curry in a local restaurant (I don’t like curry!!), followed by a night in a hotel. You’d think I’d be looking forward to having a great sleep, a little lie in and not being woken up by a 2 year old. In fact I’ll probably be more awake than I usually am as I have real trouble sleeping in hotels when I’m alone!

Yay!!

Tags: Parenting, sleep, Toddler, working mummy, daddy