Due in Nov 05 - Hooray for the third trimester - part VII

[Enthusia]

Right then here goes.

For those that have recieved the boots vouchers..what does the envelope look like?
just realised we have a foot high stack of presumed 'junk mail' or stuff for previous tenants in our shared hallway and i may have to root through and see if mine were mistakenly shoved in there.

BOB , Boots envelope is 'minty green/eau de nille(SP?)" colour and is indeed junk mail sized... ooh good luck hunting!

1/2 A4 size.... what ever that's called!

Londoner - thanks for your post , thought I might have sent everyone to sleep with mine!!!!!

Nova - I love those mousemats - they sell them in the big Mothercare Worlds with heaps of other stuff in the same range - I thought the same as you and might go and get one for DH, he goes all soppy over that kind of thing now!

Are all of you doing your xmas shopping before baby comes, I usually love doing mine at the beginning of December - usually start on my b-day - have a little ritual of going xmas shopping during the day and putting tree up in evening (or next closest weekend) have done it ever since I was little. Will this be too much to think of with a 3 week old?

i think our family will be getting vouchers or things that can bought online this year . Actually did a lot of it online last year and it was great.

Nova there's too much cute stuff around isn't there..... shop 'til you drop takes on a new meaning during pregnancy doesn't it! ha ha, lol... which brings me on to Enthusia your question about will it be too much to Christmas shop once you have dropped..... I personally will do mine before the baby as although getting to the shops is manageable with a baby I find I can't concentrate on anything but the baby once there (thinking about next feed, nappy change, temperature okay etc), but that's maybe just me. I suppose if you wrote yourself a good list of things to buy/for whom beforehand (before baby is born in my case!) then it would be do-able.....
BTW when is your b.day... mine's 28th Nov.?

aw... no luck with the boots vouchers after my rummage!
I did however find a jiffy bag with a clinique lipstick in it that they sent me to do a consumer trial on in july! and a copy of pregnancy and baby magazine..so thats all good!

Wow, Enthusia, thanks for that advice. I'm sure we'll all need it at some point. I have to agree about primary school teachers, some have that ability to make you feel 6 again. At my son's last school I was screamed at by the head in the playground one morning. My crime? Walking over some snow to get my son to where his class queued! I was a gibbering wreck!

About that cats & babies thing, where can I get the leaflet? Or can you give me an abridged version on here? When I brought my DS home from hospital many years ago, my female cat came running up to greet me, spotted the offending article in the car seat then promptly scurried off to pee in the corner of the dining room, presumably with anxiety. I have a different cat now & I'd like to avoid a repeat performance. Having said that, this cat isn't as clingy as the first one was. This cat couldn't give a toss what I brought home as long as it didn't interfere with her meals.

About the Christmas shopping, last time I held back with sending my cards out so I could include new baby's name (born 28 Nov) in it. It saved me writing twice. Also, internet shopping sounds much better than trawling round shops this pregnant.

Hey, guess what they're going to show on "This Morning"? A live vasectomy!!! I nearly fell off my chair. I look after men having vasectomies & I can assure you, it ain't a pretty sight. Best make sure DH/DP not in front of the telly when it's shown. They might insist you have a sterilisation instead!

Enthusia - Great advice for Twinkle, hope she reads it all before she goes to the school.

Nova - Awwww..i love the definition of baby and the mousemats are too cute! Grandad will love one of those.

BoB - Sorry you didn't find the Boots envelope amongst the mail but that means you'll just have to wait with me now. Why should i be the odd one out eh?

Londoner - I'm due 25-27 November, so we are v.close.

I'm finding it hard to bend!! I struggled to get washing out of machine just now, feel like whichever limb is stabbing me in the side is limiting me to what i can do. It's lovely!

Karma ... a live vasectomy? How horrendous, what is the poor guy putting himself through (maybe 15 mins of fame etc) ... surely having the op done alone is stressful enough!

Some people will do anything to get on telly these days. He he.

ChaCha (by the way I always think of a cartoon I watched as a child called 'Top Cat' when I see/type your user name! V. Cute. Stylish cat called ChaChi or something in that, kind of beatnik cool style) .... BTW it's my birthday on 28th Nov. baby is due on 5th..... I just mentioned it earlier as I picked up on the fact that Enthusia's b.day might be near mine when we were discussing Xmas shopping?
Confused? I am.... I think!

LOL Londoner - No, it's me! Scatterbrain.

I loved TopCat, can I go down memory lane again and relive a Saturday morning watching Huckleberry Finn, The Pink Panther (followed by some kind of crane bird) and Top Cat. The good old days...ahhhh.

Actually chose this username as my favourite movie as a child was Grease and I wanted to be like ChaCha..'the best dancer at St.Bernadettes'!!

oh my fricking god..
can MIL get more crazy!?
just went into the spare room and found the wallpaper half ripped off in four or five different places. Called dp ready to yell, and he said it wasn't him, so he called his mum who was staying last weekend and she just casually said 'oh yeh I suspected it was covering up cracks in the plaster, so I thought i'd look'
argh...we don't have the energy or the inclination to replaster or re-wallpaper the entire room! what the hell was she thinking!?
i am so angry...

BoB, Get her to pay for the repairs/decorating!!

Hmm, breakfast and a lovely hot bath delicious!!!!!

Londoner my b-days the 2nd December, so that is the day I allow myself to get christmassy, it is my b-day present for myself! Last year my DH bought me the most hugist live christmas tree you have ever seen for my b-day - it was so big it had to bend over at the top to fit in the lounge. Then he got all the chrissy decorations down from the loft - I have about 10 boxes of them - and helped my decorate it whilst listening to Max Bygraves - Sing-along-a-Christmas (another tradition, blame my Dad on the choice of music) it was such a fab b-day. Can't believe this year I will be sharing it all with bubs!! Reliving it has actually made me feel really excited.

As for lists - Monica come out with a vengence at Chrissy - have already been going round shops making mental lists when I see things, also listening to people to get ideas etc. Will spend some time making long lists with prices and venues etc later - do that every year - I am just sad?????

BoB - can't belive you MiL - I'd get her round and tell her she can put in back rights - or even better, if she is that worried why doesn't she come round and fix the room for you, you are pg after all what a cheek!!!!! No even better next time you go to her house peel the sealent off around her sink or shower and say you thought it was leaking (it will be then)!!!!

Karma - will fish out the cat leaflet and see if it has a website or something!!!!

just what I thought!
her defence was 'well you were going to move or would be redecorating for the baby anyway...'
not true!the wallpaper was a neutral cream, and fairly new, so why would we have bothered..grr..i'm so mad.

haha..great idea enthusia! or rip up her carpet 'to see if the floorboards are damaged' heheehe
i've gone list crazy too!..i have a great one on my desktop that has lnks to the cheapest website i've seen the item we need..

ChaCha... yeah I remember all those programs too, including the one with the crane bird (was he always trying to catch a worm or something?), sadly this is because I went on watching young kids TV past my sell by date and she is about the same age as you.... I am older at 36 (37 in Nov). Oh those were great progs weren't they... and 'Grease' is a fantastic movie too I agree, liking your style.
bob ... is your MIL pregnant too?! Deep breaths, you are feeling veeeeeeeeery caaaaaaalm....

Enthusia LOL at your suggestion of peeling off bathroom sealent, lol, you are hilarious!
Your b.day ritual sounds great.... so you're 10 years younger than me! I have to admit that personally I get slightly miffed if anyone dares to mention Christmas to me before my Birthday! Priorities please!

bob perhaps Enthusia has a leaflet on handling MILs? Seems yours is reacting badly, attention seeking behaviour ahoy already!

Londoner - LOL, I think it was a dragonfly! Can't be sure.

BoB - Yup, i'm going with what all the others have said with regard to MIL!

Enthusia - You make me laugh, you and your lists. I've been following one religiously this morning but unfortunately between trips via the PC and the fridge. We had a great meal at a friend's house last night and she gave me a doggy bag which I just can't wait to dip into and reheat. I'm starving again.

As for Christmas, I have a favourite childhood memory that i'm going to share with you. Remember getting loads of pressies from Santa and I mean loads!! Mum and dad's pressies were very few and not half as exciting as the goodies Santa had brought Remember for ages thinking how great Santa was and really rubbing it that 'Santa got me some GREAT presents..all the ones that I wanted' (mum and dads being totally disregarded)..a memory that always makes me laugh.

yes..she has always been a litle strange, but she's even worse now.
She still sends dp an additional cardholder credit card on her account every year, as he had one for emergencies when he was at uni.
can't seem to understand that he's a 'grown up' now and has his own credit card thankyou very much..hehe

Beks - Not sure if you're around but there's my kind of thread on 'other subjects' about songs that bring back a particular memory. Sat for a few minutes and had a think and a stream of tunes came pouring into my head.. You might get a laugh at reading some of the posts.

hmmmmm MiL's credit card.... now there is a chance for some revenge. You know maybe she was right and that room does need replastering and decorating - professionally - on her!!!!!