Well, all of the children have been back at school just short of a fortnight & already the germs are a-flying. They've all come home from nursery & school with the cold. Which is fine, a cold is a cold, common & harmless for the most part but still rather unpleasant for everyone involved.
3 year old son has the cold, was up during the night last night coughing & spluttering to the point of vomiting. Tonight, pre-bedtime, he was howling that his ears were hurting. Looks like a trip to the doctors in the morning if it carries on. Poor dude was sobbing & after a dose of paracetamol, fell into a rather unpleasant looking sleep. Sounds of snoring thanks to loads of mucusy crap making for not a very restful sleep for anyone.
15 month old son has the cold, last night turning into a croupy sounding cough (thankfully didn't come to anything) & waking up in pools of snot. Always a good day when you have a baby literally hanging off your leg every time to move because he's feeling to rubbish. Plenty of nursing to give him comfort & make him feel better, leaving dried in snot across my chest & biting due to not being able to breathe through his nose thus hanging on for dear life. Nothing sexier than a snotty cleavage now is there?
10 year old sister has been off school today as her throat has been giving her grief & she's been feeling like crap the past few days but thankfully appears to be on the mend so of the 4 giving me the least to worry about.
8 year old brother is currently feeling it the worst. Since coming home from school we've had coughing, tears, nausea & snot so far. Unfortunately out of the 4 children, he always seems to be the one who complains most when unwell so obviously it's been high drama this evening & is probably going to be a very long night between children.
As luck would have it, Mummy dearest is nightshift, partner is nightshift & 21 year old brother is asleep in his bed so lo & behold I'm left to deal with the 4 bug ridden children on my own. Fantastic!
I swear it's moments like that which make me seriously wonder why everyone doesn't home school. I bet there would be no sick children. Nurseries & schools seem to be a festering pit of bacteria & all the children are competing with one another to see who can get ill the most often. Between horrendous sickness bugs (always my favourite to deal with - note gratuitous use of sarcasm), chickenpox, colds/flu & *insert other common children's illnesses*, it's driving me batty that out of the 4 there's always at least 1 of them unwell at any given time. Urgh.
Hopefully they'll all be better soon though because however frustrating it is for us Mums & Dads, it's so much worse for the kids to be unwell when there's nothing we can do to help. Looks like a few days of cuddles & rest are in order until everyone is back to their regular selves & being the little weapons of mass destruction that they should be. Now it's time to contemplate whether to stay up crafting & watching telly because one of them will be up soon or go to bed & risk being awoke in half an hours time with a coughing/vomiting/snotty mess.
Wish me luck,
- M
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