Happy mum moments have been few and far between, recently, so this one has really warmed my heart.
DS2 (3, ASD, non-verbal, but beginning to find a voice - a wonderfully loud voice!) has been staying for lunch at nursery, while DS1 is on his half days, so I can pick them up together. He's really been enjoying it, which bodes well for when he starts reception in September, so that's really reassuring to me, anyhow. He's actually begun to run up to me and greet me when I arrive, though, which is wonderful. Today was the best. He cheered and clapped when I arrived and ran towards me. In over 6 years of parenting and 3 years of collecting one child or another from that room, I've never had such a happy, enthusiastic greeting!
Of course, I still had to go straight afterwards and carry a resistant DS1 out of the building, but I can't have it all ways. I should just be grateful that he let me cut his hair for the first time since August, this afternoon!