Bleu, I wish that was a prophecy of my wedding Hanging about with you lot in flowing dresses whilst not having to be pregnant anymore... Sounds fab
Painting the hall? You have the most manic nesting instinct I've ever heard of! When will it end?
LuLu, I imagine you've already discovered what 'smurfing' is by the time I scroll up, but you just reminded me of our word 'smubes', which refers to the bits of fluff from DP's rubbish blue towel that collect around his gentleman's area after a shower Sadly, I've also been 'smurfed' by him. & teabagged. Both in jest, not because he thought it was sexy, I hasten to add. But yes, I'm a lucky woman Oh! And I was telling him about our fanjo / manjo / mangina thread the other night & before I could get anywhere with explaining it, he said 'you can't call it a manjo, a manjo would be this!' & demonstrated his best mangina for me I'm marrying him the day after tomorrow (!) & I'm sure we can all see why
This is also the man who made me cup his testicles last night so that I could feel them moving of their own accord (seriously, what's with that?) so I didn't keep light-heartedly telling him off for 'touching himself' when he was rearranging them.
Ooh, I do love the mischievous thread titles Genius
I'm sorry to see that you feel uncomfortable, bronze As everyone's said already, that really wasn't the intention - & whatever happens Out There doesn't carry over into our cosy little thread. This is still a safe place. Actually, I think that's something that most MNers agree on - you can be kicking off at someone on one thread & joking with them on another at the same time. & the principle is even more obvious here, because we are all such good friends - & although I haven't yet read all of the thread, I doubt it got too bad between any of us lot at all...?
I genuinely appreciated that thread, to be honest, & will read it all in a minute - I do find it very strange that disposables should be apologised for, or blushed at. Before MN I never even considered an alternative, & with my next babies (haha, plural ) I really may use washables / reusables / whatever the proper term is. But as it is I'm a bit daunted by the whole parenting thing anyway, mostly because it's just unknown (I'm really inexperienced with actually looking after babies, because of my childless peers, etc) & I don't want to add using nappies that I don't know about or understand to the list. I'm sure they probably are quite simple & not that much hassle, as that's what everyone's saying - but I'm currently scared by the amount of work involved in disposables, so... It was just nice to have somewhere where all the shameful disposable nappy users could 'admit' it without the need to in front of the MN jury.
mathsmummy, I would be so proud of your school report! Downright minx! I've had some good comments in my time, but that's just amazing One of my favourites of my own was from my PE teacher in year 7: 'Often sits down in lessons, which is obviously a worrying sign.'
As for Andrews, the most enthusiastic, sweetest man at our NCT meetings (apart from my beloved) is called Andrew - maybe you're onto something. I was almost a wife of a Peter (& spent 4 years with him, most of that time convinced that we'd get married & have children... Very glad we didn't) & the sex was virtually non-existent (only when he ran out of excuses & could actually get it up) / awful when it did happen. His mum would've also been one of the worst MILs in the world, I'm sure. She would've actually given Nutty's a run for her money, if not beaten her. Pete himself was (& still is, I'm sure) a lovely chap, but I really am glad to be out of it, with hindsight He certainly wasn't one of your fabled Andrews