to have forgotten what went with frangipan?

[Hullygully]

Skips prettily about the vast empty potentiality of the empty Hall and awaits.

I must say, MPW cannot hold a candle to the lovely Giles (today he displayed his thighs in doublet and hose}.

Mimi might just possibly be wearing specs....

ooohhh how exciting to see you!

Oooh!

Really !

How lovely to sneek a peek

How are we all ladies. I am much preocupied with pesky children, pesky builders and pesky garden type folk but trying to look in every now and again.

Where the fnarking hell is Hully btw?

I look huge! Tis might annoying to have lost loads of weight and then have the camera shove it all, and a bit extra, back on...grrhhhh!

Isnt Hully battling banditos and barbarians and bringing English Civilisation to the Great Unwashed of the World?

brandishes broadsword valiantly

but in vainly

There you are Hully! welcome home! did you have as lovely a time as our Pag?

Sorry be a downer on the happy occasion of our re union chaps but I have done a rare thing and started a thread about my worry re DD1

I feel all nervous starting a thread.

Where is you thread, Gibbster?

Welcome back Hully! Why art thy brandishings in vain?

Which of the spectacular spectaclers are you Mimi?

here it is widow, had some helpful replies and feeling better than I was now

Motherhood is just worry and guilt far too often (for me anyhow)

shorter-haired glutton....

so it is you then in that scene at about 40 seconds?
You give him a pouty half smile, he glances back, serves up some food related banter and then pounds his meat with vigour......

well, did you expect anything less than pouting gorgeousness? (ahem) there was actually loads of banter...just didn't make the final cut...

...I always have that effect on men chefs...I feel I spur them on to greater efforts in the meat pounding department..'tis a skill, you know....

of course I expected a high level of gorgeousness and pouty-faced intellect which you served up a-plenty Madame...

I am impressed at MPW for maintaining his determined meat-pounding style under your encouragaing yet critical stare.
What an exacting creature you are. You do us proud

hully. Where the fark have you been. I am missing you greatly. You swan in with your limp weapon and think that leaves me satisfied?

how are you my sweet. it seems like ages.
I shall be provoked into cat-ing you soon if you are not much more present.

Ah, Mme Pag! Indeed, methinks he was jolly lucky I kept the embonpoint under wraps...imagine the havoc amongst the turkey meatballs if that had been on display!

I say! MadameMimi in all her marvellous marvellousness!

Dear Gibbon, followed your link and saw the thread. Have nothing of value to add, but seems that you had some helpful replies. Do hope so. You sound such a lovely, thoughtful mother. All best wishes.

Princess, what a lovely thing to say thank you.

Feeling lots better about it all thankfully. It's not her sensitivities that had me worried so much, more the things she was saying. Had a great chat with her over the weekend and she is already much better and more relaxed. Think she just needed to hear that it was ok to miss having mummy and daddy all to herself.

Going to order that book today, any tips in helping her feel better in general can only be a good thing

Hully - where hell are you woman?

Ah Gibbon, I do understand about having a sensitive child. DS is ubersensitive, and always has been. It turns out that's classic dyspraxia...but we have never been able to treat him without kid gloves. I think its made me a better parent, really, very little casual grumpiness or shoutiness...just causes a meltdown.

And though the content of her questions might sound scary to an adult, it sounds very healthy in terms of her establishing boundaries of her own behaviour..she is asking you to confirm what she thinks..that its bad to hurt babies...(and at that age her feelings of resentment can only be articulated by her is broad brush strokes, such as physical behaviour). I think it sounds rather good, actually!

Thank you Mimi

Thank goodness for you guys!

I just hope she eases up on herself as she grows. Everyone always comments on how clever she is, how well behaved, how sensitive to her environment/others but I worry in her hearing this from people it's all pressure, pressure, pressure to be perfect (what if I have added to this with realising? )

I have only got to say her name in a disapproving tone and she gets upset.

We had to nip to the shop today and someone went past with stock on one of the big trolley things and she stopped and covered here ears from the noise. Do you think it is the sensitive to noise thing I have always assumed or could be something physically wrong with her ears?

Oh dear I am rambling now...sorry

Just these last few weeks she has been so much more emotional bless her.

I do feel better today though that you lovely lot and the others that posted said not to worry about the comments she has been making.

btw Mimi - as I was writing that post I had the image of your gorgeous, pouty half smile in my head

oh Gibs, she sounds like ds..the sensitivity to noise is another dyspraxia thing. She might just be very sensitive, but ds used to get very distressed by loud noise (fireworks were hell for him). A possible reason? Ds is also very compliant and always wants to do what is right, which causes him some trouble if he can't work out what adults want from him.

I saw my good friend today, she is the most lovliest person and a fabulous doctor. I trust her opinion and her honesty and was so pleased I spoke to her about my worries at the moment.

She has known DD since a baby and she was reassuring. She said that DD is sensitive and a thinker and the comments/recent increase in anxiety seem to be connected to DD2.

She said in her opinion I don't have cause for concern but I may find helpful strategies in that highly sensitive child book that a few others mentioned.

DD said to me today that loves having a sister but misses having Daddy and I all to herself. She looked so sad as she said it

I thought it was too good to be true when she didn't seem fazed by DD2's arrival.

So...should I just see how things go? So confused....