Due April 2009 - Episode 10 - Fanjo Warriors demand Padded Purple rooms......Great Expectations!

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New thread for us all! How many days this time?? {grin}

Anyone for a homemade choc-chip cookie?

Springy I do love that claret dress and I thnk a warm colour looks fabulous on a winters day. But as everyone says it is up to you.

Oh I want to put a swishy frock on!

Chaos levels have escalated slightly here. We sorted out the marmite and then.... While I was hanging out the laundry DD delved into her secret stationery supply and has drawn all over herself (she was trouserless as her clothes got wet in the snow earlier). So now she looks like she's been tattooed all over. Really badly.

I did find a stash of pens in the dining room sideboard but she obviously has others secreted away. Cunning little baby.

Puzzle LOL I think she looks like both of you!!! although the comments I keep getting are..

Oh it's going to be such a beautiful baby with those genes, all tanned and dark like its daddy....

Oh LuLu I am with Boffin, Felt tips are going to be banned from my house!!!

lol lulu Your darling sounds like a right dickens.

I like the red dress quite a bit, but I personally liked the lily gown the best, partly because I know DH would love it the most too And as long as we're still mixing pregancy sex and marriage togeher have you gals seen hotmilk lingerie?

BB that is terrible news, I hope they manage to make him comfortable in his last days.

Frekkles, try this link for pelvic floor exercises. Do quick flicks for incontinence prevention, and longer holds to avoid womb prolapse. In the words of a very posh and coy exercise instructor I had once, "concentrate first on your front bottom, then your birth canal, then your back passage" (to be said in a posh 1950s BBC voice). Everyone needs to do these twice a day minimum plus more if you remember.

Da Boff has had three VB and still has reasonably good (not perfect but good - no ping pong ball firing here) muscles thanks to this regime!!! DH is very happy!!

www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1063.aspx?CategoryID=52&SubCategoryID=146

LOL Boff at your no ping pong firing!!!

Nutty I was only 8 when I went through my little lazy pant phase!!

Puzzle, blimey, actually we had a slightly similar house sitting incident once which involved penis pictures, but not quite on the same scale, admittedly. It is really not nice.

When I think of swingers, I always think of slightly sad people with saggy bottoms in cheap nylon thongs.

sigh

Think we are all cleared up. If we can find some clean and dry clothes I think I will have to take the little darling outside again. I so long for good weather. Last summer I used to pack a picnic and some toys and DD and I would spend the day hanging out in the park or a field. Lots of fresh air, and best of all not generating any chaos at home.

BB - felt tips are OK if tightly controlled and monitored. At home I have pens / paints etc kept high out of the way. DD gets plenty of chance to be 'creative' while wearing a tabard, strapped into her high chair with a huge plastic sheet over the floor to catch any spills. But we are at my mother's now, which must be the most un-baby-proofed home in the land.

Conkertree I always think your life sounds rather lovely. Living in a village in the Scottish countryside making kilts. Sounds brilliant.

Oh yes, conker my perfect life would be in a cottage out in the sticks with some sort of business at home - NOT commuting to London and living in a 'convenient location'

Yes, I always think of swingers masking themselves behind the drab respectability of suburban life.

But my friend who frequented Submission is really incredibly beautiful. I think she just likes to shock.

The news is just discussing that 'kids alone' programme I watched last night. It really wasn't that groundbreaking though. So it revealed that children under 12 still need parental supervision. Gosh how groundbreaking. Who would have thought?

it is nice lulu - i shouldnt complain - but two things I'd change - it would be nicer to be able to get around a bit more - we had a second car until August, and then decided we were spending too much on petrol/diesel so wanted to cut that expense out, which I still prefer, but does make me nervous being in this village all day every day with two los (dh works two or three evenings a week and cant really pop home for his lunch or tea which would make a difference if we were slightly closer to his work). But then I should take a leaf out of your book and get outside more - ds does love going to visit the various animals in the fields around the village.

second thing is it would be nice to occasionally feel a bit glamorous. i have never had a sense of style (sure you learn something about style from your parents, and my mum just isnt interested in clothes) - have friends who every time we meet, I really enjoy seeing them, but I come away feeling very frumpy.

Need to get running after this lo arrives and get some sort of nicer figure back, and then the clothes can come afterwards.

apologise for a very me post there - bit of a stream of random thoughts, but would be silly to delete it all now i think.

anyway, springy - what other decisions have you made/ do you need to make. are you going for a meal after the ceremony? are you having flowers/bridesmaids etc?

i guess there are positives and negatives to everybody's situation. and in general i am a look at the positive side of life kind of person.

think i am just getting nervous about this second one arriving, and me never really having another adult conversation cause we never leave the village (its one of these villages that most people grow up and stay there - very few outsiders so we havent made friends with all that many people - speak to lots, but not many that we'd have round for coffee/drinks etc)

but then adult conversations are what mn is for .

Oh Conker it is SO difficult to feel glamorous once you have a child. This sounds like I am wishing my life away, but I can't wait until I stop breastfeeding this next baby.

I was quite disappointed last time to realise that after all the awkwardness of the bump comes a whole new unglamorousness of having to plan your clothes around breastfeeding. Constantly having to wear breastpads (even to sleep in) and always worrying that you smell a bit of gone-off milk or that your breastpad has slipped and you have a wet patch down your front.

(sorry to all first timers)

COnker I am really worried about adult conversations to be fair - tis one of the reason's I want to get back to work fairly quickly (albeit part time and FROM HOME)!!

definitely x-rated today

Yes Conker - MN and Radio 4 keep me topped up with adult conversation

I figure I'll just have adult conversations with Sprite until Sprite starts saying 'what are you talking about?'

I think it takes years to settle in a village, Conker. We moved here ten years ago and I still feel a bit of a newcomer. Partly this is because I don't want to let us become total yokels!!

It's nice on this thread where everyone is being supportive about the differences between us all, and our lives - there are some mn-ers out there (in the woolly wilds of AIBU for instance) who seem to be very angry about other people's choices and priorities!

Maybe I should get married, then I could look at frocks like all you gorgeous women.

Springy, have you seen indiebride.com? It's very American but you might get some nice fun ideas off there.