Today I felt like Mummy – Mummascribbles

This may sound strange but today I felt like mummy. Not the mummy who works full time. Not the mummy that he only really gets to see properly at the weekend. Not the mummy that is dropping him here, there and everywhere throughout the week. Nope, not any of them. Today I felt like the mummy he needed me to be.

This morning when we woke up, he didn’t seem himself. In fact, when we put him to bed last night he didn’t seem himself but in my head, today, I had to go to work like any other weekday. He wasn’t happy getting ready, he was whinging because he wanted to go on the choo choo train with daddy and then he seemed to perk up a bit when he fed the cat which is why I didn’t realise just how poorly he was feeling.

We got him in the car and I began the journey to nursery. He was coughing a lot but he always coughs more in the car (or when he’s sat still in general). We stopped off for petrol and then arrived at nursery. I’d been feeling unsure the whole morning as to how well he was but again, I’m a working mum and I was required at work. It was when I turned around and saw a little face looking like this that I questioned whether I really needed to be at work.

Following this, it was him telling me that he didn’t want to go to nursery and when I asked him if he wanted to come back home with me, he said a very positive yes.

And so we went home. I thought screw work, my little boy needs me. And boy he did!

Our day pretty much consisted of sitting on the sofa having cuddles and snuggles. We watched endless episodes of Justin’s House, he ate some food, I had several cups of tea and we had a lot of snuggles!

Then this happened.

This NEVER happens! Seriously, this boy struggles to fall asleep anywhere that isn’t his bed, buggy or car seat (and even those he finds difficult these days). Apart from when he was a baby, I have never ever known him to fall asleep on a sofa! That’s when I knew he was feeling really poorly

He woke up after about an hour and asked for the iPad to play Thomas and so we sat for ages, curled up on the sofa! I gave him a bit of calpol which kicked in a tiny bit – just enough for him to be able to do some activity which in this instance was annoy the cat!

Apart from that, playing choo choo trains (in which we had to be the train along with his ride on aeroplane), and spending five minutes being a little cheeky, he did nothing but sit on the sofa. Something I don’t think I have ever known him to do!

And this is why today I have felt like mummy. He needed his mummy today and I was there for him while he was feeling so rough. I was there to keep an eye on his temperature (which did rise this afternoon), I was there to give him medicine, I was there to give him the many cuddles he required. To cook him his dinner that he didn’t want to eat and to let him watch as much Justin’s House as he wanted. I may not be around for him all of the time, I may have to sometimes send him to nursery when he has a cough or a cold, but today, I could see that he needed to be at home with his mummy and I was right there for him.

And for that, I feel bloody great.