May 07 - W/C -22nd Jan 07

[Frenchsmallfry]

Morning....

LW - thats fantastic news on the accommodation front. Sounds wonderful! Really pleased for you.

LG&T - I hope you realise what a bad influence you are . All your talk of pizza has made me order one for tea. Not that either myself or dh needed much arm twisting!

Evening all. Just popped in to say a quick hello - I'm off to bed after my tea as I'm absolutely knackered! Have been up in Manchester all day for a meeting. I hadn't seen most of the people there for a month or so and so the difference in my size was noticeable. When I confirmed my up the duffness, they did a cheer and said congratulations, which was really nice and made me feel all

How flippin' cold is it today? I've yet to regain any sensation in my fingers. Think I'll be putting an extra blanket over the duvet tonight.

Work is stepping up a gear right now, so I'm going to be really busy for a while and might not be able to pop in much. So, good luck to everyone, look after yourselves and your bobbas, see you soon.

Creena that sounds like a great idea. I think i might have an early night myself. Hope you manage to warm up. And how lovely that you got a cheer from everyone

LW- Fab news, must be a relief, you are good to keep studying.

Creena, don't stay away for too long and if you are going to be very busy make sure YOU look after yourself.

oh shucks, thanks a lot ladies! I've always wanted to continue on with my studies but with her on the way suddenly my focus is more on doing whats best for her, she's the important one now! And getting housed would be such a sweet relief as i have been so down about what's going to happen to us come september, hopefully there will be light at the end of the tunnel for us, it's been an eventful few months! Will keep you all posted on any news!

Just to say how much I love reading your posts at the end of a long, Calpol-filled day. (DS teething). He is such an angel but soooo miserable right now...

LG&T you get my admiration for bringing all your kids into line. I can't seem to teach my meagre one little boy "no" thus far... How oh how do you do it??

'night ladies & bumps & stay warm!

Have just ordered the blankets for the cot. So nice to buy pinks! Got so much blue here already.

So excited

hehe PINK buying yey AM

Anyone cold.... come and join me for the evening it's bloody baking in here. Freezing outside but dh has spent all day adding copius amounts of wood on to the fire and now I can hardly breathe. The thermoeter in the lounge is reading 31° and it's a 40sqM room in a stone house, how he has got it that hot!!!!!!!!

yey, lay in, no school run in the morning, I love Wednesdays, well until ds gets up anyway. 4 day school week is much better for my need of staying in bed, I'm not a morning person and fortunately neither are my children, both will sleep very contently past 9am. [bliss] emotion.

It's freezing here and snowing rather a lot. Just had a bath, one to warm up and two, to try and do something about my very sore back.

Not only do I still have to get up at 6.30am tomorrow, I know it will be bloomin' freezing. I want to live in France!

Warm, encouraging the purchase of pink products and sleeping until 9am.

Pah!

No snow here, still bloomin cold though. Really must go to bed, the trouble is it is so nice to enjoy the peace when they are all asleep. That was just shattered by ds#3 with an "ive wet the bed" bad enough but he had got in with his sister and wet her bed. She sleeps on a cabin bed and is very much asleep. Very hard to change with a very sleepy dd and a bump.

With that am off to bed as no doubt ds#4 will be awake soon. Just for good measure tonight (while i was on the phone to dh) he stuck his hand in his nappy and said poo....ohmigod.....it was not pleasant. That child is on avery thin line at the moment

I still had no pizza, ds#4 did not go to sleep till 9.30. So crackers and cheese, celery and grapes for tea (yawn)

Night night ladies xxxx

OMG - where did all the snow come from??? We have at least an inch covering everything and it has starting snowing again. My ds said 'poor car' when he saw that it was covered in snow! Bless him

Snow Snow Everywhere!!!! DD is quite exceited, said we would go and play snowballs later, dp hasnt gone to work yet as he wont be able to get down the hill - think he is going to try later

So I am going as far as the garden today, would really like to go to the park, maybe will brave it as its not so bad heading up the hill, its the big slope going down thats a nightmare

Lol at ds and his nappy - ewwwwww

Have a good day ev1 - be careful in the snow please

Morning all, still no snow but we do live on the beach so im not really surprised. Very cols though, i need to find my gloves >

DD is home today she has an appointment at the hospital to check her hearing. She has very bad glue ear and i have been putting off gromits for a couple of years but she is not improving so i think today we may have to go on the list! Scary....

How is everyone today?

Hi all,

Can I re-join the May group? I did sign up in September but had some bleeding so left because I thought I was miscarrying.

Well I wasn't - still here at 23 weeks. Due date is 24th May and we are expecting a little girl

I have two DS's (DS1 is 5 and DS2 is 2).

Nice to see mostly everybody still here.

dejags
x

Welcome back dejags, so glad your LO hung in there. A pink one too, you must be very pleased, are the boys thrilled or horrified at the prospect of a little sister?

What have you been doing for the last few weeks then, apart from panicking (so have the rest of us!)

thanks LG&T

DS1 is thrilled, his reaction has been lovely. He's a real gentle soul and will dote on his little sister. DS2 - doesn't really understand - he just says I lub (love) you baby to my tummy over and over

I am actually feeling pretty calm. Had my 22 week scan last week and the baby is doing well which is good.

We are living in South Africa at the moment so I have had a lot of work with finding a midwife and booking a home birth - they are very pro CS here. It's accepted that if you have a gynae led delivery you'll have a CS - they just don't give an option.

How many weeks are you? Do you know what you are having?

Welcome back dejags, wondered if you would be joining us again and I am over the moon that you are! Another one for the madhouse. Congratulations on your little girl. I bet she'll have two very over-protective big brothers. I pity any boy she ever brings home...

LG&T, thanks for that nappy story, put my right off my planned escaped to staff restaurant [see next paragraph].

It's incredibly snowy chez ShowofHands. We live in a little court down a very steep slope and had to dig ourselves out this morning. Normal 1hr commute to work took 2hrs and in all the palaver I forgot to have breakfast. Now I'm starving and thinking of sneaking out for a bacon sandwich. They won't notice, will they? None of the students are here anyway as at 18+yrs old, they're incapable of battling through the snow. Or doing their work on time. I am just jealous of their youth obviously!

Anyway, morning all. Got my 24wk check this afternoon so tea and biscuits with the midwife while we talk about snow. My antenatal care is very relaxed!

Snow....wheee.................

[childish]

Ooh Dejags, you're having a homebirth too! Quite a few of us on this thread, but I'm lucky enough to have community midwives who actively encourage homebirths.

What's South Africa like at this time of year?

Thanks SOH.

Gosh I envy you the snow - it is an absolute scorcher here today - 35C/95F.

Enjoy your antenatal visit - always nice to hear the baby's heartbeat.

Morning all. Hope everybody has had a good night sleep. Isn't it lovely waking up to a beautiful white world. It always seems to be really quiet outside when it's snowed.

Unfortunately the journey into work wasn't very beautiful as it was the "wrong kind of snow on the rails"...

35 degrees? Sounds hideous!

Please tell me you don't like pink. I'm having a little girl too (Mathilda) and baulking at the idea of princesses and make-up. Everybody else on the thread is pink crazy.

I have a Private Midwife over here. She is very pro home birth. I had hospital births with the first two. I daydream about being able to have the baby and then snuggle down in my own bed with DH and the new baby having just finished a plate of bacon sarnies and lots of tea.

Sorry SOH - having had 2 ds's I adore pink (but in moderation). She won't be having a pink room - neutral with girly accents.

Precisely why I want a homebirth. They don't kick DH out and treat him like a visitor to his own child, you can eat bacon sarnies (ooh bacon sarnies...)...er...what was I saying... oh yes, have a warm bath, lots of tea and sleep in your own bed. I'm glad you're going to get the birth you want.

What is the 'wrong kind of snow'? Public transport, always a joy.

Another pink fan?

I'm completely outnumbered. At least it sounds like a tasteful love of pink.