My Hero

Daddy & Little Miss at the pool

Little Miss has a cold.  This should not be a surprise or anything remarkable but it is.  You see, she’s only had maybe 1 other cold in her 18 months!  She’s had runny noses and sniffles due to teething but has never been struck down with the green-snotted monster.  It’s difficult for her to have her morning and bedtime bottles because she can only gulp a few times and then has to stop to breathe through her mouth.  And the night-time…Oh. My. God…I haven’t slept properly since Friday night (it’s now Tuesday).  Mummy is the only one who will do in the middle of the night so we’ve been sleeping in the guest bedroom so one adult in the family can have a moderately decent night’s sleep.  My back is killing me, I have puffy eyes and my patience is razor thin.  It’s not the happiest of times in our house right now.  I wish to God that Little Miss would not scream bloody murder every time I come near her with the nasal aspirator.  I know it’s mean and nasty but it’s the only way to get the CRAP out of her head!  I’ve given up however, as she’s very good at getting hysterical and rapidly thrashing her head about so I can’t get anywhere near her nose with the blasted device.  Now we’re wiping and wiping and wiping her increasingly red and runny nose.  Boo.  I’ve got my own little Rudolph in my house.

But, I digress.  I’m going to gush about my husband now…get a bucket!  My hubby came home from work yesterday to find a rather emotional, frazzled and exhausted wife hovering over a Little Miss who wouldn’t eat the dinner in front of her.  After sussing out that I was hanging over the edge, he forced me to go upstairs and lie down while he took snuffly Little Miss to the grocery store to buy the groceries that never got bought during the day.  They were gone for an hour.  I couldn’t sleep (as is the curse of an over-tired, irrational mummy) so I had the bath that had never been had during the day.  I managed to cling back a bit of being human in time for hubby and Little Miss to come home.  While I bathed Little Miss, hubby started the dinner, did the washing up, started the laundry and finished the dinner.  He even washed up the dinner dishes so that I didn’t have anything left over this morning.  It was so lovely.  It may not sound like much but it was brilliant to know that I had a PARTNER who could take a bit of the load off.  I have no idea how single parents or military mummies do it.  I would absolutely crumble.  So, even though he never reads it and doesn’t even care to use the computer, THANK YOU honey for being my hero last night.  I still had a rubbish night’s sleep last night and feel like a truck ran me over but at least I got a wee break.  I’m so grateful to have a partner in the parenting trials.  What wonderful thing has your partner done for you lately?  If you’re a single parent, HOW DO YOU DO IT?

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