to want to talk about my baby?

[Butterpie]

Meh. My sisters have announced that I have to go to my parents house for a hen party. I am here now, it starts at 3.

I just want an afternoon of catching up with old friends, maybe out to the pub after, but they have bought in huge amounts of booze (and a token bottle of appletise as I can't drink) and booked a table at a kareoke.

They have told me that my Dad has to take the kids out (including 8mo bf DD2 who is teething and kept me up all night) and i just overheard that they want to play "hilarious" games of stopping anyone talking about babies/breastfeeding and dressing up as DP.

I'm in pain and limping from bad spd, I have hardly slept, I don't really drink anymore (at least not in the quantities I did when I was a teenager) and I feel like crying. They have false boobs and so on for me to wear. I suspect they want to spike my drink.

I am apparently unreasonable for not wanting to go pole dancing. They told me off for the children making noise and waking them up THREE hours after the kids woke me up. They have a busy day, don't I know?

Meh, meh, and thrice MEH.

She's on the hen party now...it started at 3pm.....let's hope she escapes the 'fun' early and can update us!

I'm back. They got a henna painter, which was nice, but a bit embarrassing as everyone just ignored the poor woman, then I found out she had charged an absolute fortune as well. They made flowers (which was the thing I had wanted to do) but they did it while I was sorting out the kids etc so I didn't get to join in. My friend sat next to me and talked about the children so I don't think they dared to tell us to stop, which was good. I did spot some pieces of paper with "breasts" written on, but they never got used.

We had a meal in a chinese, good but again expensive, then kareoke, which was amusing for three songs or so (I can't sing, but some of the bridesmaids can). Then we went to a pub that was dead. I did suggest we went to the pole dancing club (I know, not ideal, but it was that or the actual nightclub and I thought I should try and enter into the spirit) but in the end I just told them it was time to go home.

So, meal was ok, I got to chat to people then, and henna was good, but v expensive (I didn't pay for mine, but my friends had to pay for theirs apparently).

Meh. Kids were apparently good as gold though. I need to tidy up my parents front room before I go to bed though- really don't fancy keeping a crawling baby away from all these buttons, beercans and feathers and so on, especially not with a hangover.

Yes, my mum was centre stage. She loves this stuff.

So you get to tidy up too.....some hen night.....lovely that they took the time to be with you, crappy that they virtually ignored what you wanted (or rather did it whilst you looked after the kids) and have left you with the clearing up!!!! Have a lovely wedding but seriously, take charge and throw a few strops before the wedding turns out to be somebody else's choice too. Mine was heading that way and we cancelled, brought it forward by 6 months and had immediate family only - 18 people in all. It helped!