due in june - oh twunt, that is soon!!

[derlor]

new thread girls

surely that's an appropriate pee, isn't it???

FUCK ME I'VE JUST SEE THE VARICOUS VEINS IN MY SHIN

QUICK put your feet up above your head NOW!!!!!!!!!! leave them there till you deliver that baby.

all your messages of welcome are so nice ... you lot really are the nicest I never actually met!

yikes to all this stress about the bedwetting - and here's me trying to potty train my 1 yr old for the past 2 months and giving up just this week b/c I'm too tired to lift him on/off the potty 10 times a day now, and wondering if I'll ever get him out of nappies. Guess it doesn't matter if it waits a while seeing as how I have years of this business to look forward to, in reality, eh?

so happy for all of you finishing up work. I remember how great it was to bid farewell to that chapter of my life. goodness me I sound about 85 years old - only been on leave for 14 months! but seriously it is a big step and makes it all so much more real once you're home and nesting and all that.

speaking of which (you WERE wondering when I'd bring up shopping right? ) whilst I was Internetless I consumed home decor mags by the seagrassbasketful and now am fixated on locating the perfect fabric for some throw cushions - could this be my next career?

Ah yes, I remember when I couldn't imagine weeing at inappropriate moments. You lucky lasses, first timers all of you, I assume? Alas my poor pelvic floor has been AWOL since DS came along... oh the price we pay! Ought to buy stock in bloody pant liners now...

oh notso you NEED to read back through the thread and see that quite a lot of us have actually been letting out a litle bit of pee due to poor pelvic floors. sad but true

lilkel, my dd is 2.4 and I haven't potty trained her yet! Even though I know she is perfectly capable and tells me 'I gotta wee coming' and takes herself to the bathroom - and I'm just too darned lazy to do it properly. Slack mommy that I am. Might start tomorrow....

Dudes!!! I'm here! Have been chucked off every computer possible! My bro nicked my mum's laptop when I was at my parents, apparently he had to do an assignment...bollocks...it's his birthday, who does assignments on birthdays? Now I'm home and dp's bloody boys are here and I've been chucked off the pc. Have played the last resort card and nicked dp's work laptop!

I keep weeing myself as well ladies, it's nasty! Talking of wee, dp's 10 year old still wets the bed and it really pisses me off! I usually end up dealing with it and he's old enough to know better. He does it at home as well and has been to the dr and there is nothing wrong with him. He's just a dirty little bugger! I'm sorry, but he is.

LILKEL! I was really worried, thought you'd gone into labour! What is your email?

DH played playstation the whole time I was in labour at home with DS2, BUT right now (bank holiday weekend looming) I would give almost anything to be a playstation widow rather than a work one. At least I could talk at him (never answers anyway)because he would be here in the same room rather than in his precious bloody kitchen. God, I am sad and lonely. Have run out of chocolate - am having to make do with DS2s left-over xmas milkybar buttons. I would like a husband and a chicken and sweetcorn pizza.
Re alcohol abuse. When I had ds2 the thinking was it didn't matter if you had a couple of glasses every now and then. He's ok(ish!). Surely a little bit of what you fancy does you good?
Is there an experienced mum (of age 10+ boys)on this friendly thread without me having to brave the big wide wotsit? When do boys start having "wet dreams"?
So much for not posting tonight...

bloody hard to type with my leg up like this. good time to go to bed, me thinks. night all xx

mummyjx, you have truely had a bloody awful day.

I know nothing about 10 year old boys, and am in no rush to get there!

Sounds like Holly has experience ...

derlor, my leg is up, my veins have drained. I thank you.

Holly, my DHs boy used to do that too and it was always after he'd seen his dad "because he didn't see his dad". Whose fucking choice was that then? Sorry, old feelings run deep here(he sees him more now he's 16 than he did in the "important" years. I hope if I am ever an ex-wife I will be more tolerant - NOT LIKELY!!! Need to let that go too...

foxy you are most welcome - anytime
goodnight and sleep with your leg on a pillow.

I know I'm going to have a shit weekend. I always do when the boys are here. They are 15, 13 and nearly 11. They are rude and obnoxious and loud and they make loads of mess and dp never tidies up properly. I have nothing to say to them and always end up moaning the whole weekend. We have tried taking them places, but they are not all interested in the same things, so at least one of them gets bored and starts playing up. Mainly we end up sitting around the house all weekend and I get more and more stir crazy and end up shouting. I sound like a horrible moaning bitch step mum, but I dread every weekend they come down. Being pg just makes it all worse.

Holly (and anyone else on this thread) my email is kelly_voetsch(at)yahoo.com - keep me posted!!

In meantime this thread will amuse/annoy/entertain you -

as for 10yr old boys, just my nephew that I know, but the book How to Raise Boys has some solid-sounding advice in it. HTH

Right off to drain my own legs and pray for a labour-free car trip tomorrow.

oh holly poor you sounds yuk!!
teenage boys - nasty alien type things
yuk yuk yuk
can you escape and go out for a while?

'Tis not easy being step-mum (actually my poppets aren't allowed to refer to me as that, not sure what the preferred term is. I wonder?) either nice one or nasty bitch type one. I am crap at it, but as they weren't allowed to see their dad when small and are now nearly 19 and 16, no point worrying. (Though sometimes I wish it had all been nicer and easier and the exw would piss off and get a new bloke etc. Am dreading future weddings and babies and stuff 'cos none of the family really like me that much. Sorry, was going to let that go wasn't I? This is what happens when he abandons me for work. I get maudlin and then the next thing you know I'm dreaming about drowning or J Clarkson!)BUGGER

Maybe you could go out and do something they all hate and then they would all be bored...? At least it would be fair then.
I suggest a shopping trip to stock up on chocolate!

Boys smell!! I shall escape to my parents for the day tomorrow! Yummy food and my lovely mum and dad looking after me and my dd! What's pissing me off most is that their mum has said we have to have them next weekend as well. Grrr...it's dp's birthday on the saturday, which means I won't be able to spend any time with him and he won't be able to go out with his mates, which he was really looking forward to. Also it is Easter and my mum makes a big deal of Easter and makes a big meal and everything. I will have to go with dd and leave dp at home. So I won't even be able to see him then! Great birthday weekend!

Sorry I'm being really moany!

Sputnik I've just read through all this evening's posts properly and hope you're ok. I was dilated when pg with my dd quite early on and I didn't have her til 42 weeks, so it doesn't always mean you will have an early baby. It's good that they're keeping an eye on you x

Just had a thought - I used to be a youth worker (how unbelievable is that) and at christmas we did salt dough modelling in youth club one night with roughly the same age groups. They had great fun making mutant penises (sp? not dealt with plural before) and similar. Might help. might not. Just thought I'd suggest it. Anything to help a fellow broomstick rider
Must go to bed and leave you all in peace.
Will try not to make boring, miserable, self-pitying, overly long posts all weekend.

They hate me anyway and I don't really care. Dp didn't see them when we first met as his evil bitch ass ex wife wouldn't let him. Then quite soon after we moved in together she split up with her partner and decided that dp was allowed to see them again. So then I had a ready made family every other weekend at the age of 21! Fun!

I really need a glass of wine (Pinot Grigio please) and I haven't got any ! Might just go to bed and read a nice book!

Poor Holly. It truly is crap (and it helps to know there's more of us out there that aren't perfect at it - thanks). I was only 19 too - I wonder if it's easier if you are older (not that that's any help to us now - except for next time!!!)
I am taking my black cloud away now.

I definately need a chicken and sweetcorn pizza but am too lazy to make the dough (I don't usually indulge in such bizzare housewifely pursuits but it looks like Dh will be too late in to order a delivery. Never mind, toast then).
Right, me and big black cloud, off back to Eeyores house - he'll probably be out...

Make some pizza toast, it tastes good! Do cheese on toast like normal and put tomato puree or pasta sauce under the cheese. I love it, had it for lunch today in fact.

Thanks for sympathising mummyjx! I feel like a horrible witch when I moan about things, but sometimes I have to let it all out! Glad I have MN to rant on!

Welcome back Lilkel....

Sputnik - I am sorry about the dilation thing, but you could use it as an excuse to do lots of lying around and being waited on. Though that's not very practical in the real world, sorry.

H&A - your weekend sounds shite squared. May it pass quickly.

Marylou - I am bloody well hooked now on those M&S orange biscuits (90% chocolate with biscuit smidgen I should say).

There was a car crash (no-one hurt) outside our house today and the policeman was balding with specs, and very Phil/Nick-esque. I did much flirting and then realised I was pregnant,with no makeup on, in baggy leggings and a ski jacket and it was raining and my hair had gone frizzy . I did however force my number on him, on the pretext that I was a witness.

LOL mummjx at you not having dealt with plural penises at once...conjures up some images!!
Well, I' in the office for my final stint and can't get motivated...even though I'm going to put it in as ovetime and get paid for it.
Had a crap evening with yet another emotional wobbly...this time I managed to pebbledash the whole living room with red wine and fragments of glass . I had no idea half a glass of red wine could spray so much (in an interesting experimental kind of way of course...maybe I need Warwick to come and unravel it for me!!)
Seriously though, I feel like aliens have taken over my body and are mind controlling me. When I 'go off on one' as DH put it...it's like I'm watching from the side and have no control over what is going to happen (you're all thinking...."nutter alert"...but I'm not normally like this) I'm starting to wonder what effect this pg will have on my realtionship with my LO...worried I'll blame her for how I felt.
Anyway feel crap and tired, and am supoose to be going out for dinner with some work colleagues tonight to celebrate my sabbatical, but really can't be arsed....just want to sleep for a week, but little chance of that at my sister's house...it's like a zoo on a good day