To think my little boy is an absolute sweetheart?

[Maythefoursbewithyou]

I don't drink often, almost never because I'm terrible at it. Anyway, a series of strange events yesterday meant that I ended up very much on the sauce and quite pickled when I went to bed at around 3am.
Husband is very asleep and I woke up about an hour ago feeling bloody rotten. My 7 year old came into my bed with a tin of biscuits and a pint of squash and had put ' call the midwife' on my work computer which doubles as the TV for my bedroom. I just couldn't love this kid any more right now. What a little legend he is. I don't deserve him. Currently smashing my way through some custard creams and watching my favourite show with the cutey next to me and feeling so bloody lucky. Lazy day incoming. Anyone else just get blown away sometimes by how nice their kids are and Wonder where it came from?

@Osllo

getting your mam juice and biccies one Sunday morning cos you they’re hungover is not parentification! Hth

@Osllo

what’s rank about it? Do you think women should bounce out of bed fresh and fragrant in full on mummy mode each and every morning?!

Listen to yourself. He brought her juice and biscuits to be kind, that's all.
It's not anything like sustained parentification...it's juice and biscuits. Clearly a one off as OP saw fit to remark upon it here.
Parentification my arse.

I know right! Proper cringing at those crying about ‘parentification’! they clearly don’t even know what the term means!!

What a cutie

🤣he’s 7, not 7 months!

He didnt cook her a fry up or bring her an irn bru though?

low key, unimaginative posts are always a MN hit!
Let's celebrate our collective rejection of intellect

Ordinary fallible human here. If I took any notice of the sanctimony and judgement pedalled out on threads like this I'd be a nervous wreck.

Bringing your mum a drink and biscuits is hardly parentification. How dramatic!
I was making my mum cups of tea at this age. My brother was rolling up rollies for my dad 😂

My main concern would be a 7 year old watching call the midwife!

Fuck me. I used to hear conversations like this in the school playground on a Monday morning, mothers joking about how pissed they had been at the weekend and lying in bed most of Sunday etc. It used to annoy me because my eldest had considerable SN and if I'd spoken like that, I would have been judged immediately and probably blamed for all my son's conditions.

fgs, and so it begins.

10am is hardly catastrophic. We sleep in on the weekend too and my 4 year old comes in to wake us at like 9/9:30. Presumably she’s just got up or got up a little while ago and had a play and then come to get us. Meanwhile my 2 year old is still sound asleep. Is that neglect too?

Ds2 is dead and autistic. When he was about 12 I went to the birthday party of one of my dearest friends and my best friends babysat. I got absolutely smashed resulting in friend putting me to bed when I got home.
The next morning I had the mother of all hangovers. Managed to get my shit together enough to drag myself off the sofa to give him him breakfast and lunch.
Halfway through the afternoon my best friend appeared in the sitting room... Ds2 had texted her.., "MUMMA IS ILL COME AND TAKE. ME. TO THE SHOP NOW!!!!!"
She did too bless her!!

I know this thread is fucking bonkers. Most kids would love a lie in on the weekend and are more than capable of getting a snack or a bowl of cereal from the kitchen yet MN is making out he’s been left out to pasture

Bloody autocorrect!!!
dead
deaf and autistic!!!!

MM is genuinely insane at times 😂

She said it was when she and her husband had covid, not that it was in the depths of lockdown.

I’d love to know why you have fixated on this particular poster.

You have a pool and a gardener ?

Totally missing the point of the thread
Your world is very far away from my world

He does sound so caring and lovely op

The comments on this thread have made me HOWL 😝😝

Exactly what I just was thinking

Think @steamedisbest needs to get off mumsnet. Keeps a blackbook and note of everyones names and what they say in each thread and foams at the mouth waiting to pull it out 😂 Get a life hun, every scathing word lately seems to be coming from you, multiple threads in the last 2 days. Open the door and go touch some grass x

How do I get my kids to bring me biscuits??

I'm always awake stupidly early at weekends but I don't get up with the kids anymore. At 6 and 8 they are old enough to get cereal or something if they are hungry. I will make them toast when I go down to make coffee but not before.

If I had a hangover from hell I absolutely wouldn't be getting up until it was necessary and I would definitely be asking them to bring me something if I needed it (age appropriate) They don't need me leaping to attention at this age and providing it's not every day or every weekend I don't see the harm. Most of us seem to snooze with one ear open when kids are around and by 7 they shouldn't be trying to play with knives or climb up the bookshelves.

I think that the OP's son will have fewer 'issues' in the future than the super-cossetted, breast-fed til 12years old children that seem to be the norm on MN.

Oh absolutely. He could've at least brought her some smashed avocado on sourdough with a tasteful thimbleful of freshly squeezed orange juice. Clearly they live in a shudder council house and I very much doubt the OP is a healthy size 6-8 if she's gobbling biscuits in bed

Op should have been up! Cleaning and playing with her child and BATCH COOKING all day like any half decent MOTHER

that poor, poor child