I have that early parenting feeling of broken nights and too much time sat on a sofa under a child.
After a crap night the night before last Scarlett appeared in our room not long after I’d gone to bed and spent the night with me while Ady disappeared downstairs with his pilllow. I feel he got the better deal – I had a talkative delirious child who was using my pillow. At around 5am she roused with a plaintive ‘Mumma? MUMMA?’ which jolted me awak again, only to ask ‘can you marry your mummy?’ presumably following on from a conversation on Wednesday about inbreeding and why people shouldn’t mate with close blood relatives. My responses was a very definite NO, particularly if said Mummy had been woken at 5am having had pretty much no sleep, as marriage proposals go it was a fairly poor one, pretty much doomed to failure…
She woke again at what I thought was 7am – Ady’s on-the-hour phone alarm had gone off. I stood with her as she sobbed over coughing up more flem and Ady appeared saying ‘come downstairs with me now Scarlett…’ which had me thinking ‘ah, an hour of sleep before my alarm goes off at 8am’ and then my alarm went off because it was infact 8am. Crap 🙁
So off to work for me woolly headed and foggy. Ady dropped me off at work and then went to collect my car later. It is now roadworthy and MOT’d (and we are £120 the poorer) and is booked back in for the end of next week when we’ve been paid to have the rest of the work done on it.
Scarlett has spent the day under a blanket on the sofa, dozing lots, eating virtually nothing but drinking plenty of water. Davies is better and Ady is somewhere in the throes of it with a cough which will probably last til 2011.
Work was fine – I was in a bit of a daze anyway. A very funny moment when James crept up behind me and tickled me and then realised what he’d done and blushed and was utterly horrified apologising over and over again about inappropriate behaviour. It was so funny. I tried to get Ady to go back into the library later and ask him ‘you then one that tickled my wife?’ but he said he wouldn’t have been able to do it straight-faced.
Ady and the kids picked me up and dropped me off outside the garage to bring my car home. We had a quiet afternoon with me mostly under a sleeping Scarlett on the sofa – we may not be betrothed but we’re still close ;). We watched Monsters Vs Aliens as Ady has never seen it, I checked my emails and we’ve already had our first yes from my second round of emails for Zone 2 WWOOF hosts :).
Davies and I went along to Tesco for some food supplies and then came back and the kids went to bed. S is very restless and I’ve been in to her several times – suspect we’re in for another broken night – just as well sleep is for wusses 😉