Thank goodness I have had a day and a half of posts to catch up on as you have done a good job of distracting me for the last 40 mins.
Warning - extended moan about trivial subject coming up... Currently wondering why my cleaner has not materialised this afternoon. She is meant to come once a fortnight for 3 hours at 2pm on a Monday. As I was always at work I could never tell exactly how much cleaning was going on, but would get home at about 6pm to a pleasing smell of bleach, and a much cleaner house, but IMO not a sparklingly clean house. 2 weeks ago I was out when she came but wrote her a note explaining that I would be on ML, and a baby is due in June etc, so she does know that. Today, I spent an hour or two tidying up the tip that is the house so that she can have a decent crack at cleaning everything, but she is currently an hour and a half late, and no phone call to say she is ill or not coming. It's getting to the point where she is so late that I am assuming she wont be coming at all, I certainly hope that she hasn't been paid for 3 hours work each time and has been getting away with an hour and a half.
Feel better for writing that down. I realise that I am extremely lucky to have a cleaner at all, and I certainly don't want to sack her when the baby is due in under two weeks!
Ernest you sound so stressed, and not surprisingly either. Depending on what you DH is like I would suggest getting him vouchers for a sports massage. I got something similar for my DH a few years ago and although it challenged his British prudishness he liked the idea lots. Also you can do it over the phone with the yellow pages so less stress for you.
Sorry to hear about everyone's DH/DP arguments. We are doing okay here, but are both getting a bored of the limited things I can do. I went for a little walk yesterday whilst DH went for a run in the opposite direction and met up 3/4 of the way round. All in all I was out for 50 mins, but it made my SPD flare up something rotten. Moral of the story - lie on the sofa eating biscuits. This is what I have been doing recently (quite diligently) but I caught sight of my thighs when I got into bed last night and was horrified. Lots of empathy to those of you having fat days.
Very amused about the ironing debate. We iron on a "need to iron" basis only. DH works in an office with a dress down policy, that means he looks like a complete scruff all the time. To distinguish between his work clothes and his weekend clothes he puts on his ripped jeans on Sats/Suns! I just iron the odd top when essential. Since starting ML it has not been essential.
Debs it was lovely to see my friend's baby, but despite my substantial girth I don't quite relate her baby to me having one of those any day now. I was putting baby sheets away in a drawer this morning and got quite alarmed wondering what I was going to do with all this baby stuff.
We had a "proper" baby name conversation yesterday, with shortlists and everything. Nathaniel made the shortlist (!) but I now think there are other names that go better with our surname. We will be fine if it is a boy and agreed on at 5 names that we both liked. Girl's names are proving harder: there is one "maybe" so we are going to have to try again.
So pleased to hear that someone else has caravanningparents. I do too. They are currently toddling around Northern Spain, and then coming back to the UK, dropping in to see me at the end of this week (my birthday), before going back to their home. They are then returning for an undisclosed period of time once the baby arrives....
Finally I saw in the horoscopes that it is a fullmoon tomorrow. Isn't this when lots of babies make an appearance ?
Sorry for the long post. Cleaner now over 2 hours late. She must be ill!