Dec 08 Mums - We wish you a Merry Christmas and a HAPPY NEW THREAD! And lots of lovely birthdays!

[Beans36]

Here is a new one - let's hope it's a happier one for us all. xxxx

Yay, great title beans thank you

Thanks for the new thread, Beans! Hope it's a good one for us all.

Have re posted list so we know who is coming up next for the birthday front. Happy birthday to Katie for Lily yesterday, then it's our Beans and Poison's wee girls on Tuesdays. Hurray!

24/11/08 - DeidreBarlow - Baby Boy "Harry", 8lb 8oz (due 03/12)
25/11/08 - Verso - Baby Girl "Frieda Harriet", 8lbs 13oz, C/S (due 04/12)
25/11/08 - LadyThompson - Baby Girl "Octavia Poppy Alice", 6lb 12oz, C/S (due 03/12)
29/11/08 - urbanewarrior - Baby Girl "Nancy Elizabeth", 6lb 11oz (due 08/12)
01/12/08 - sybilfaulty - Baby Boy "Matthew", 8lb 6oz, C/S (due 10/12)
01/12/08 - jumpjockey - Baby Girl "Sarah Kirstin", 7lb 3oz, HB (due 08/12)
03/12/08 - katie3677 - Baby Girl "Liliana (Lily) Alice Grace", 11lb 2oz, C/S (due 14/12)
06/12/08 - poisondwarf - Baby Girl "Nina Camille", 6lb 15oz (due 08/12)
06/12/08 - Beans36 - Baby Girl "Isabella Sarah", 6lb 13oz (due 07/12)
10/12/08 - Rubena - Baby Boy "Benjamin", 7lb 12oz, C/S (due 17/12)
11/12/08 - traceface - Baby Girl "Phoebe Martha", 7lb 3oz (due 13/12)
12/12/08 - kayzr - Baby Boy "Dylan George", 10lb 5oz, HB (due 12/12)
13/12/08 - VagolaJahooli - Baby Boy "Jordan Leong An", 8lb 1oz HB (due 15/12)
14/12/08 - Nolda - Baby Boy "Edwin ('Eddie') George", 9lb 15oz (due 05/12)
15/12/08 - Jollybear - Baby Girl "Lucy", 6lb 13oz, C/S (due 26/12)
15/12/08 - PinguRocks - Baby Girl "Matilda", 5lb 14oz (due 25/12)
16/12/08 - MomOrMum - Baby Boy "Sebastian", 8 lb 13 oz, C/S (due 06/12)
17/12/08 - JamInMyWellies - Baby Boy "Lachlan", 9.5lb (due 09/12)
17/12/08 - spotofcheerfulness - Baby Boy "Thomas", 7lb 8oz, HB (due 27/12)
18/12/08 - AAA- Baby Girl "Nina Rose", 10lb 2oz (due 10/12)
19/12/08 - KiwiPanda - Baby Girl "Lily Sarah", 6lb (due 30/12)
20/12/08 - TheInvisibleHand - Baby Boy, (due 31/12)
22/12/08 - ZuleikaJambiere - Baby Girl "Eloise Frances", 6lb 7oz (due 24/12)
23/12/08 - indith - Baby Girl, "Margaret ('Daisy')" 9lb 4oz, HB (due 20/12)
25/12/08 - Bisou - Baby Boy "Joshua William", 9lb 12oz, EmC/S (due 12/12)
25/12/08 - SummerLightning - Baby Boy "Edmund William", 6lb 10oz, EmC/S (due 18/12)
25/12/08 - waitinggirl - Baby Girl "Rosanna ('Rosie') Annelie", 7lb 6oz, EmC/S (due 21/12)
27/12/08 - Kimberly1979 - Baby Boy "Judah Michael", EmC/S (due 29/12)
30/12/08 - Turniphead1 - Baby Girl "Liaden Joy", 8lb 14oz (due 24/12)
30/12/08 - TrudyVotion - Baby Boy "Maximilian Richard James", 10lb 4oz (due 24/12/08)
01/01/09 - EffiePerine - Baby Boy "Maximilian", (due 30/12)

Hello all sorry in advance for rubbish & short post, am on the iPhone while feeding my lovely little dd2 & trying to convince her it is bedtime. She is not falling for it. I had forgotten how difficult it is to get a new baby (well, newish, she's 7 weeks now) down in the evening

Oops even more rubbish thatn intended ! Just popped on to say hello and send love to all xx

Thanks for new thread! Great news on your sisters engagement Jam.

Will be doing S Santa draw soon. Last chance for anyone yet to sign up!

hello ladies :)
Thanks for the new thread beans
(although please don't feel you can't continue to post about the tough stuff)

More good news here - my uncle had an op at Guys and is on the road to recovery, getting better every day :)
Also, my friend has just had her first baby - a healthy little girlie! Hurray for new life.
db so glad your nan's service was just right. How are things with DH these days?
jam and invis, lovely family news from you two. Maybe the thread is going to get an extra dollop of joy now to lift us.
Nothing much happenning here - general busy-ness (how do you write that without writing business?) of life leading up to Christmas - school concerts, fairs, parties...and P's birthday is a week today, so I'm not even really concentrating on Christmas until that's out of the way! My head can only hold one event at a time! Good job her birthday isn't the 24th or I'd have a very un-prepared Christmas! Too many exclamation marks. Must refrain.
P has been poorly all last week with a mega high temp, but is definitely on the up. She's surviving on a diet of parectomol, ibuprofen and muller rice and is needing someone beside her to go to sleep - hope we don't get into an unbreakable habit!
anyway so sorry this is so brief, but I think dh is craving some attention!
Take care everyone xxx

Yay new thread. Thanks Beans.

Just been to see Arthur Christmas thoroughly recommend to get you into the Christmas spirit. DS2 clapped at the end and DS1's eyes were like saucers the whole way through.

ooh cross-posted!
kiwi great to see you. Hope your wee one is well. Sleep vibes coming your way

Sorry just flying in quickly as have loads to do and only 2 more sleeps. Great thread title and good idea on creating the new thread.

Hi trace, Jam & Invis Woop Woop, & DB thank-you for letting us know how the wake went.

Now the reason I'm flying in quickly I need some aeroplane reading. Any suggestions. I'm thinking of downloading the latest PD James as I think its easy reading. But any other suggestions would be appreciated.

vag I love John O Farrell - have you read May Contain Nuts? but i'm not a literary-type so others may not agree!

How about something Christmassy vag The Christmas Carol? I like a Sherlock Holmes in the Winter too.

Have you read 'One Day' by David Nicholls? That would be a good book for a journey.

Yeah read that JB. An S.H. might be good actually. Trace I read the blurb for that book, it sounded like me after DS1. I think I would quite like it now.

Vag recently read The Knitting Circle, The Midwives Confession,The Slap,That Summer In Ischia. Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy,When God Was A Rabbit. All pretty good easy reads apart from T,T, S, S. Oh and also a favourite trilogy from my early teens which I love re reading The first one is called When Hilter Stole Pink Rabbit, they are by Judith Kerr the Mog the Cat author. SUper exciting have a brilliant time.

Just had my email from MrJollyBear. How much are we spending??

Never mind DCs birthdays, I see from facebook there are a couple of birthdays for the grown ups on here! You know who you are ladies, many happy returns!

Hello all, and thanks for the new thread, great idea.
Had some hideous illness here for the past few weeks, won't bore with details but B is currently vomming and has high fever and that's good, relatively speaking.
Came back this afternoon from a weekend away with some girlfriends and it was wonderful and restorative. DP had hellish time with the DSs because of their illnesses and lack of accompanying sleep but I was so exhausted I couldn't have gone on. This time last night I was sipping champagne in front of a roaring fire in a cottage in the New Forest. Tonight I am waiting for B to vom and the Calpol to kick in so I can go to sleep. Ah well, it's a varied life...

Vag, highly recommend book I've just read called The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovrik. V funny and kind of sick!

Back later for more x

Morning.

Just popping on so I'm on new thread.

Is the secret santa £10 or am I imagining that?

Vag Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown stories - short stories rather good for the short attention span that planes tend to lead to?? Also really enjoying the Booker prize shortlist (DH bought me it as a pack) - Snowdrops and Jamrach's Menagerie v good

Good news on your uncle, Trace - hurrah! My little bears aren't really 100%. DD1 got squits and even did a poo in her nappy last night in her sleep, which is unheard of! She wakes up to do wee, let alone poos! She woke me at midnight to go and do a runny poo later on. The only thing she's eaten today is a few cheerios and a tangerine. Her choice. She wouldn't even eat a bit of cake offered by a friend of hers. DD2 only eating pear and some cheerios too. All a bit sad.

DD1 is 3 tomorrow - hurrah! I'm working til 11, then going to collect her from nursery, but leaving DD2 there. Then taking DD1 to see Arthur Christmas - hurrah! So exciting! MIL has got her a scooter and we've got her this.

Right, must go and pop DD2 to bed.

Ah bummer, have I missed the Secret Santa? Sorry has been (slightly) organized chaos here! But got back today so will get on with catching up and trying to gain some kind of control over the move, and more importantly, Christmas tree selection, and bauble colour schemes and placement
Right have only skimmed, but thanks for the thread Beans.... Happy birthday to toddlerBean for tomorrow!

Oh and thanks Veggie - yes I agree, and dh has said if he has any soreness at all we will take him straight to the GP. OOh which reminds me - MUST register at new GP.... add to the MOUNTAIN of tasks to do! You must be excited Veggie.....

Hello lovely ladies, just laying down with my boys to go to sleep. It was sintaklaas today and traditionally the kids get their gifts in the evening. There is a load knock at the door and mysteriously a sack of toys. Also the man himself visits all the schools to say goodbye so that was fun for DS1 today. Tonight we did the knock on the door while the boys were in the bath and they flew out to see if they could catch the man himself but alas when they got there it was just the sack of presents. We got DS1 a little meccano robot and DS2 got a big hotwheels dinosaur truck. A few bits of tat and the boostapaks. They were surprisingly chuffed with the boostapaks. DS2 was extra lucky. I had a gift voucher of ?7.50 for a local toy shop and popped in with the boys intending to get DS2 one last birthday present to take away with us, a little playmobil motorbike. With the voucher it would have only cost ?1.50. However, when we got to the shop they had loads of stuff on sale as they were trying to get last minute sintaklaas sales. Anyway they had a buzz lightyear toy on sale for ?29.99 but with my discount it was 22.50!!!! Is was so chuffed he has been wanting one but they are usually ?60. So he has gotten it as an early birthday present. He has taken it to bed and it pretty pleased with himself.

Vag that sounds great. When are you off?

Ds2 has slept through for the past 2 nights. It feels so good to have uninterrupted sleep. Never thought I would be talking about sleep still when he is almost 3.

Beans is it DD1's bday today?

Jam DS2 still wakes a couple of times, usually cos he needs a wee which is annoying. He was not impressed when I had to wake him at 6.40am. Why is it that on the weekends he happily wakes for the day at 6.30 but on weekdays or mornings I need him up earlier he sleeps in.

Happy birthday to DD1 lovely Beans. Hope all are well again now and that she has a lovely day XXXX