to open a mulled gin and rinsed mince pie bar?

[MaryzBoychildCheeszuzCrizpz]

To carry on the complaining and to drown Liney.

I've opened it in AIBU to piss off Trills etc and to see if mnhq leave it here

Sorry, Pacific, I should have said "I'm not too good at the normal teenagery stuff".

Bailing out from police stations - tick
Taking to A&E - tick
Organising missing persons searches - tick
Attending funerals - tick

But give me a normal 15/16 year old couple and I don't know what to do with them. They are drinking Fanta, eating popcorn and watching Shaun of the Dead I think.

And she's really nice [sob]

Why couldn't he meet her when they are 25, and I could get to keep her?

I have this horrible feeling it will be all downhill from here.

You never know, Maryz. There are people who meet as teenagers and stay together.

I am terrified my son will be the kind of teenager I was. And I'll be 55 when he's 15. I'm too old and tired already. Never mind 10 years from now.

Aw, they sound adorable
Yes, you've had some really rough tests of parental strength.

So, if I get rid of DSs before they hit their teens, then the bailiffs may not come??
Scrap that.
I did not enjoy the baby years - they owe me. Big Time.

I've got it, Mary: you are owed a lovely teenager. There you go. Karma.

Tee, I'll be

Or she will have set a standard.

Yes he's great (apart from school which is a bit of a struggle because of his ADHD. But even there a recent teachers' meeting kept coming up with comments like "I can't help liking him" and "he's a lovely, kind, nice boy" along with the "sometimes I want to kill him" comments.

All of which I agree with.

Oh god, I'll be 60 when he's 15!

Why is that worse then 59 at 14??

It does work pacific - i wasn't as late but i had a huge gap fromthe first 2 si it was lie starting again

Arf @ Pacific's scary maths

I'm pouring a Baileys now

Maryz I met DH when I was 18, didn't marry him until I was 31 though, so there is always hope.

Just to clarify, we were not together for 13 years (!) we had a 10 year break in there. In fact our "second" first date was almost exactly 10 years to the day since our "first" first date. Bit weird but so far so good

Holy fuck

I have just been counting on my fingers. Our first date was 25 years ago this month.

I'm determined to rinse my mince before ringing in the new year

Maryz when I was around your children's age, I was fantastic at responsible hanky-panky. I sometimes wonder whether all those years of perfect abstinence from That Bit and perfect contraception annoyed the gods, and that's why I got the twins when we did TTC!

Gods on high: right, now we can lumber Jessie with an unplanned baby! Here's our chance to get that arrogant mortal!

However, through the years I was in sixth form, living with other girls, etc, I came to realise that I was unusually mature with risk-assessment, so I wouldn't venture to assume your son and girlfriend are anywhere near how good I was.

I've been no help at all, have I?

Well I did it.

I braved the horror that is Tesco and it was surprisingly ok.

The car park looked like a bomb hit it, there were unreturned trolleys all over the place (if ds had come he could have cleaned up with collecting them for the euros.

I suspect an hour earlier it was bedlam.

The shelves were scarily empty (very little veg, for example) but I got more or less what I needed, thank God.

Now tomorrow, we go out for lunch. Lovely

I need to go to tescos today for milk. I don't fancy my chances. I don't get why people get like that, it's bizarre.

Ha, I was better than careful, I didn't get the chance shag until I had left school, and got TWO unplanned contraceptive beating babies. (Although not at once even though I was convinced with babyTwit that Sod's law etc etc)
Hope there aren't too many headaches this morning.

I'm up. Just leaving to go have a look in Tesco. We have no bread, no cat food and no booze.

I have some pretty fairy lights on, though.

Happy Christmas Eve

Woke up to a crying boy and yells of 'Mummy we need you!' and a bed full of poo and a little boy with a very sore bottom who had done so in his sleep and then slept in for I don't know how long.

So that's him on bland food with enough junk in the house to kill a reindeer. Oh and we've had a bit of snow and it's blowing a gale.

Happy Christmas Eve

Off to work I go - one half day, then off for 6; good enough for me.
2 v excited Littlies are up already, staggering with sleepiness, but up...

TEE, hope your boy is ok - we did the vomiting, then sleeping 24 hrs last week. Yuck!

I was not at risk of teenage pregnancy because I could not find anybody who'd sleep with me - at the time, a disaster of earth-shattering proportions, with hindsight A Good Think.

Merry Christmas Eve

I love getting up and putting on the tree lights and all the fairy lights in the morning. This year's the first time I haven't done the tree. I let FidGirl do it as she was off school with tonsillitis (which I believe Twit has - nasty thing it is too) I had visions of "adjusting" the decorations once she was in bed but it looks gorgeous. That could be the gin, makes everything sparkly and blurry.

What with mad gherkin woman I forgot the Baileys yesterday. Heigh ho. Am out today to a winery to get sparkling wine and that's it. Children off to their gps with their dad at 5 and back tomorrow lunchtime.

I am on 3 lovely threads atm, this, Zombie's and Talc's Franglais where I regale folk with the thrilling saga of my leaky boiler and bucket. So plenty of festive MN cheer

Merry xmas eve to one and all -

Happy Christmas eve!

I'm very excited and ds2 slept through :) we're going to watch Santa Claus the movie and do some painting today.

I am STAGGERED I didn't get pregnant as a teenager. I have no idea how. I wasn't always that careful and then at 27 and 29 I got pregnant twice on the first month of trying. Blimey.

I am returned! Le builder chaud and I have passed relationship test #1, Going Christmas Food Shopping Together On Christmas Eve.

We got there at 7.15am, loaded our trolleys and shared a taxi back. My booze cupboard is replenished.

Unfortunately the looming daylight has revealed my downpipe blew down last night narrowly avoiding smashing through the bathroom window, and the trellis is, to use a builder's phrase, completely fucked. Unfortunately the actual builder chaud is at his house unloading ten tonnes of food and booze from a cab surrounded by bleary-eyed teenagers.

When is it not actually too early to have a ?

Happy Christmas Eve!!

Liney I was too lazy just now to get off the sofa and go into the kitchen for a fresh glass of water so took a swig from a glass on the table. Was gin.

That woke me up

Don't worry Liney, down pipes are overrated.
My fucking gutters have been in my fucking front garden, along with several roof slates, since March. (Have I mentioned that before?)

It just means water sometimes runs down my bedroom wall. It's no biggy.

Hope it was just a one-off with your DS Tee, fingers crossed a bland food day today will see him right as rain for tomorrow.

Merry Xmas Eve everyone