Last night will go down in history as one to remember, although currently, I would rather forget!
My little girl who has just turned two is poorly. You know the sort of thing; a runny nose, high temperature, miserable and coughing. The type of lurgy that medical professionals like to call ‘a viral infection’.
We had a very taxing day yesterday as she didn’t want to be left and every time I tried to sneak off to do something she would appear sobbing, looking very sorry for herself, head down, shoulders heaving! I couldn’t even make a cup of tea without her clamped to me.
So it was with some relief that I took her to bed and when she had finally fallen asleep, I thought ‘great’ time to get some jobs done. But no! Within ten minutes, she had coughed herself awake again and was now over-tired. I brought her back downstairs so that I could at least get changed for bed and then she has the mother of all tantrums because she thinks it’s morning and she wants to watch Peppa Pig.
Finally, I get her back upstairs and about an hour and a half later and after much coughing, she drifts off to sleep. I shut my eyes only to hear the pitter-patter of footsteps. In comes my six year old. He climbs in on the other side of the bed and goes to sleep. Great. I’m stuck as A is lying on my now very dead arm, so I can’t take him back as I don’t want to risk waking her up. L also has a cold so I lie there listening to the pair of them snoring until my husband comes to bed and takes L back to his own bed.
L has a fit and wakes A up who then starts coughing again. She must have coughed herself awake every fifteen minutes or so and by four o’clock I am so tired I could cry and I desperately need to go to the toilet. So I manage to get out of bed and I go and get my husband up as he’s in L’s bed. I ask him if he can lie with A while I go to the toilet. He says he’ll lie with her so I can try and get an hour’s sleep. Haha, very funny!
In hurtles L who is also very tired and starts shouting at the top of his voice that no-one cares about him and no-one loves him as we make him lie on his own(he does, in fact, share a room with his older brother). He refuses to go back to his bed instead runs around the landing putting all the lights on, in turn, waking A back up who is sobbing hysterically and my other son who is completely bewildered.
This carried on until L finally dropped into our bed and fell asleep. My husband went and slept in L’s bed and I was left again with little miss cough a lot and no sleep!
Tea and sympathy would be lovely, please!
Hugs x It is horrible when they are ill.
Oh dear not good. Hope everyone is feeling better and you get some sleep soon. Hugs x
Tea and sympathy might help. But how about a nice bottle of gin? i’ve heard it’s good for this kind of thing x
Oh poor you. I hope that things are better today. You have my full sympathy. The lurgy seems to have descended on our house since last night too. Good luck.