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

[derlor]

new thread girls

Hi everyone!! Welcome back seansgirl, glad you had a good time, your dd is super cute!!

Hope you have a lovely time in Scotland daisy. Hope you get spoilt rotten by your family!!

Hi everyone else, I'm trying to skim through the posts and catch up! It's only been a day since I was on here last! It seems like forever!

Hello all, welcome back Seansgirl. Everyone seems well today, or is it just too early for the aches and pains to kick in?

I am so sleepy tired, anyone else? Don't mean that physical fatigue we've been suffering, but head down snoring tired. Must confess that after getting up with kids at 7.30, took my tea back to bed for half an hour, next thing it was 9am - very unlike me! (Don't tell anyone, kids left to own devices, will be virtually lynched on MN probably). Luckily my lo's are so perfect that they'd played trains. (ahem, we've conveniently forgotten about mashgate).

Mummyjx, you crack me up! Loving your 'I am Brian'.

Bumperlicious, interesting what you say about being the main earner. I've a few friends where the woman in the earner and the husbands are the main carer for their chldren. But they are in Australia, not here. I don't know how it goes down here, very few men at playgroup (none, infact) and none within my circle of friendss here.

Oh well, better go supervise the children. Have done easter bonnets. can't make easter nests now. Scoffed all the chocolate!

Ok chaps, I've just been lurking on the due in May thread and they have recently had a secret baby shower and sent each other gifts secret santa stylee, i.e. everyone buys one gift for someone else and receives a gift. I think this is a fab idea, so votes in please if you fancy this and I will organise it!

Bumper, don't worry about being nosey, I've been here since 1989, following my DP, now DH, who I met at uni. Things were pretty grim in the UK back then (you wouldn't remember, you were probably busy watching erm Danger Mouse or something ) so it seemed like a good idea. Then we just stayed really. I feel a bit of a foreigner now when I go back and very much at home at the same time, bit wierd really.

Yes, bumper, I'll be in that. Although I am unbelievably slack at sending gifts and the lucky recepient will probably get breast-shells or something oh so useful!!

Wow that's a great idea bumper! We could be secret Easter bunnies instead of santas!

Have escaped to my parents for the rest of the day, so my nightmare of boys is over (well until next week!). Poor dp has to take them home to Putney, it's a long journey for him.

I do that sometimes foxy, but usually I fall asleep on the sofa whilst dd plays on her own! It usually lasts about five minutes before I get smacked in the face and told to wake up!

It's a lovely day, the sun is shining, hope everyone is feeling the joys of spring! I am, though I could do with a snooze!

ahh, my sis has just turned up with her bloke and taken the kids out. so am on here whilst my living room looks like a bombs hit it. Half a roast dinner cooked (par-boiled potatoes allowed to boil try whilst wittering on here), TP due home late tonight.

This is what I have achieved today:

Easter bonnets. done.
watch power-rangers. done.
burn potatoes. done.
Get upset on phone with TP. done.
Read News of the World. done.
make Power Ranger masks. done.

and thats why I don't join the Good Housekeeping Fly thread!

Am off to read The Observer and eat a heavily buttered hot x bun.

Sounds like productive day to me foxy! Today I have mostly been sat on my arse. I have cooked breakfast and lunch and done the washing up, but that is it. Those Goodhousekeeping threads are really scary!! Imagine doing that much housework in one day! I would die!

they have things like

open the curtains
get myself washed

cracks me up!!

I've never even dared open a good housekeeping thread.
LOL at you DD H&A, yesterday I was trying to have a lie in and DD kept prying my eyes open

you should've come with DP Holly, could have come to mine for a brew, am just up the road from putney.

ha ha sputnik, I hate it when they do that! I let them to it to TP though when he's napping on the sofa

Baby shower sounds like a fun idea. Bounty pack of disposable knickers anyone? We could have a competition for who can think of the least glamourous pressie
Actually, maybe we should just all send each other chocolate.

don't knock the disposable drawers! If only they did them in leopard print I'd wear them all the time!

BTW, did anyone else sign up "by accident" to the chocolate club?

this thread has been going less than a week and is nearly half full. I think I'd better go and do something more productive...

Haha foxy, I do that! If dp falls asleep on the sofa and starts snoring I whisper in dd's ear "go and bump daddy on the head" or "go and pull daddy's ears"! It's great coz then I don't get moaned at for waking him up! Where are you foxy? Dp's kids are between Putney and Kingston I think, I'm not very good at places!

I didn't join the chocolate club, I'm a bit wary of clubs where they send you things! Also if they send you a box a month I'd eat them all within a day and then have none left!

Well, I am too! But I wanted to know more so I went through the registration form waiting for the bit where it asks for credit card details, but it didn't happen - it just said that I was now a member and I'd get my chocs within 10 days. You probably have to pay to keep them I suppose. Will phone them tomorrow. Daisybump said she used to be a member so am not too worried.

My DS2 had a friend round for lunch last friday, but he was a bit of nightmare and I wasn't too impressed with his behaviour - rude to me, answering back, tantrum-throwing, crying on the floor. DS2 has now learnt from it and keeps doing the same. am really pissed off about it!

and I know its not fair to blame another child for my kids bad behaviour!!

sorry.

It is fair to blame another kid for your child's behaviour! The other child should know how to behave in someone else's house! Your ds probably thought it was really funny and that's why he is copying! Hope he is being good! How's the potty training going? I really want to get my dd out of nappies in the day before the lo arrives, but it's not being too successful!

Foxy, of course it's okay to blame the other kid. I intend to blame other children/parents for all bad habits picked up by my LO... (Just typed 'gin' there instead of 'grin' by mistake. Or was it...??!!)
Am back to being a teenager. Bought Elle this afternoon then spent last hour watching the OC. Denial, me thinks?! And please don't talk to me about housework. DH is cooking tonight; I emptied the dishwasher. THink that's about it for today. Oh, I put some more stuff in it, too - does that count?
Doggus,love the shoes. But I currently have a note pinned to my computer that says 'You do not need any more clothes'. I find it hard to remember this fact. I might write it on my hand, too. Oh, and work-wise I'm a designer (hope you won't mind if I'm not too specific). Bump, I'm really with you on the working thing - personally, I'm going to carry on; I make good money, I enjoy it and I can work on my own terms so it's a lot easier than if I was working full time. But I think you just have to figure out for yourself what you want to do nearer the time - friends of mine who were determined to quit work actualy found themselves missing it, and others who were determined to go straight back became earth mothers who just wanted to be at home... Civil service at least means they're very unlikely to turn you down for part time/flexible work. In the medium term could you got freelance? Makes life so much easier when you work on your own terms.
I just have one political rant to get out of the way on the whole WM/SAHM thing: Child care should be tax deductable. It really should. And wives/partners should share DH/DP tax allowance - ie he should pay less tax to reflect the fact that his W/P is working at home. SAHM is not 'doing nothing', it's a job. If I did go down the SAHM route I'd demand a salary. Okay, I'm done.
Derlor, yes, I get the colon kicking thing too. TBH though, kicking and wriggling is the thing I like the most. Because of all these scans I have to have to check LO's growth, I get completely paranoid if I can't feel him for an hour or so. Poor little thing - if he falls asleep he always gets woken up by me drinking cold water/prodding him/talking to him to see if he's okay...
Hope you all had lovely weekends!!

I've become an irritable mega bitch from hell! Everyone is doing my head in today! I can't wait to get home and sit on the sofa on my own in peace and quiet and eat B&J caramel chew chew ice cream! Simple pleasures!

I know the feeling. QUite serene, personally, but then I've done my own thing with DH all day. As I always say, there's nothing wrong with me, it's everyone else who's a pain in the a*se...
Seriously, though, sounds like you've had a real weekend of it. Feet up, chocolate out, television on is my advice. Hope it happens...

That makes me feel better! Thank you everyone! My children are of course perfect angels, but do tend to get corrupted by their peers. If I had my way we'd stay in our bubble of perfect homeliness, housewifery and smugness! Well, someone has to make the other mothers feel wholly inadequate [smug emotion]

Now Celebrity Wife Swap is on. That WILL make me feel better about my 'marriage'!!

Of course you can blame someone else's badly behaved kid, Foxy I would. Kids just don't need the bad example do they? BTW ery sleepy tired too, lack of sleep due to coughing and indigestion.

Poor Holly, you have had a tough few days, enjoy you BJs! Good luck on the potty training front - how old is Alice? Would recommend one of those fold up pottys with the disposable bags if you do start.

BTW Sputnik, have just caught up properly, hope things have settled down now.

I gave DH some a big box of chocolate from Hotel Chocolat for his birthday whilst we were in St Ives, I have to say they were (and still are - as they are not mine and I daren't touch unless offered) the most gorgeous chocolates I've ever had. Thought the baby shower is good idea - how about this from Hotel Chocolat? yummy