Due April 2009 - Episode 14: Fanjo Warriors attempt to be "clean" during this thread?? NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!!!

[PuzzleRocks]

And so it continues...

Mar
29 Mar : WhatFreshHell, DS 2.4 born on Easter Sunday
30 Mar : BabyBolat: 1st timer

Apr
01 Apr : Rachelinscotland: DD 3 years, and DS 2 years in March
01 Apr : Chickenbalti: DS 4 years DD 17 months
02 Apr : BoffinMum: BOY! dd(21) ds(10) ds(7)
02 Apr : MathsMummy27: GIRL! DD 3 years
03 Apr : skiingone: DC1
03 Apr : purlease: 1 m/c, 1 DD 3 years
03 Apr : Kalikaroo: SURPRISE! (28), 1st timer, lives in Scandinavia (but too shy to say where!)
04 Apr : Bleuravin
04 Apr : Bumpalump
04 Apr : babypringle: 1 DS 2yrs 1 month
06 Apr : ToastnHoney: first timer
06 Apr : Mummyontherun: DD 22 months
07 Apr : Picklelala
08 Apr : LuLuBai: 1 DD born 02 Apr 07
09 Apr : Oddeyes (30): GIRL! DS 17 mths, 1 mc. London
09 Apr : Barbarella: 1st timer, TRIPLETS
10 Apr : hopeful1
11 Apr : mrsfossil: 1 DS 6.5
11 Apr : Bubbaluv: 1 DS 1yo
11 Apr : SpringySunshine: BOY! 1st timer.
12 Apr : Brettgirl, 1st timer
12 Apr : Mumblemumhome4lunch (37, Swindon): DS will be 4 on 11th April, DD 2yrs and 1month
13 Apr : Dungungirl(30): BOY! 1 m/c, DS 4 years
14 Apr : AuldAlliance: DS3.8 BOY!
15 Apr : claireykitten: GIRL! DS 12 months
15 Apr : electra
15 Apr : Sarahmum: DS 10yrs
16 Apr : tristaleejac(25): 1 ds, 3 years
17 Apr : Surprisenumber3(32): DS1 9 DSS 9 DS2 5 GIRL!
18 Apr : gingersarah: 1st baby
18 Apr : salbysea: (28) 1st timer
19 Apr : Kittycatisgettingfat (29) 1st timer
21 Apr : B52s: DS will be 2 and a quarter
21 Apr : Staryeyed
21 Apr : Schulte
22 Apr : PuzzleRocks: DD 21mths GIRL!
22 Apr : soon2befamilyof4 DD 13 months.
24 Apr : conkertree (27): DS 17 months
24 Apr : Bronze (Gawain) - 4th DC
24 Apr : Frekkles
25 Apr : Swaliswan: DD 17 months
27 Apr : Bicnod
27 Apr : Carameli
27 Apr : ilovesummer 3rd dc
27 Apr : purplemonkeydishwasher DS 3yo
30 Apr : Nutty Taff (27) DD nearly 5 GIRL!

About the getting drunk... I found that I couldn't do it anymore, because a) I knew I'd have to get up early in the morning for DD and b) I felt I had to stay sober enough to look after her in case she got ill in the night. I'll save that for our first weekend without DCs I guess, which may be ages away still

Springy - that was about the same cost as mine the 2 most expensive things were the church and the dress.

BB 5 weeks, though it will be nice for you to have an "end product" to these BH quickly ((hugs))

in fact to all of you as i am last on the list anyone got a time machine

Thanks Frekkles x

Don't think you are the only unmarried one so don't worry and actually babies are MUCH more of a commitment than marriage as you can't get out of it by signing a piece of paper!!

I will definitely be enjoying a little tipple once this one is out but do think it will be a while until I am really drunk again x (although I am now probably such a lightweigh that I will be on the floor after one sip!!!)

Ah but Nutty they might still get you in for your early CS yet so you could be before me!!

I don't at all blame people for spending lots of money on a wedding - you do (hopefully) only do it once & some things that are really important are very expensive. For example if we'd had a proper evening reception, that would've cost a lot for the 11 people we had there, never mind how the costs all escalate with every extra guest. I think we'd have spent a lot more if I wasn't so pregnant - there would have been more time to plan, I'd have felt more comfortable swishing around playing the bride without a big bump (not that it actually bothered me on the day, but I really expected that it would), we'd have invited more people & not felt bad about spending the money with the knowledge that there'd be a baby arriving in 7 weeks & thinking of all the nappies that the money would buy. Our situation is very different to that of most people when they get married, but we did what was right for us - & I wouldn't expect anyone else to do anything other than what's right for them on their wedding day.

We're both students, I'm not a normal body shape at the moment, we have a baby on the way very soon & so all of the time / money restraints that that brings, never mind the whispers of 'shotgun' & what have you. But ultimately I'm really pleased with what we ended up with & don't at all mind those 'strange' things. In fact I think I'd be going insane if I thought I had to wait at least 9 months to have a baby because now we're married I just want to get on with being a proper family!

hi frekkles - no, me too in the shameful unwed mothers home. and some people are really not taking it very well! oh well - you can't live for other people.

Boff I was really lucky too, my parents paid for half of it which really helped!

Springy tell the shotgun wiseguys to pipe down - we can all say we would have done things slightly differently (this LO was planned for about a years time!) but nothing changes the fact that things were meant to be!

Sorry Springy, to have a shotgun wedding, you have to wear a 1970s crimplene outfit and a borrowed hat and only have two witnesses, and look at the groom as though you hardly know him. Then you all go to the pub for one drink and go home.

Your wedding was far too glam and lovely to count as one of those.

Frekkles not a tramp at all lol xx

ooooohhhh the shotgun whisperers did my head in! (would have happily taken a shotgun to their heads after all the sly comments cheeky buggers lol)

BB even then i would have 6-8 weeks to go, so you will still be one of the first xx plus i have just had to chase again to get an MW appointment so c/s (even a consultant) may never happen.

Can I just alert you all to the fact that I currently have three young men in my bedroom.

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They are tiling my bathroom and redoing all the taps and so on! It is starting to look nice in there. Plus my boiler is being repaired!

shotgun wedding

Also, my aunt got married 8 years ago - because she was about 4 months pregnant, not because they were going to get married anyway. She spent the whole build up being very reluctant to plan anything & my mum & grandma did it all for her & she just turned up, pulling faces the whole time & being grumpy with everyone. There was absolutely no family pressure on her to get married - it was definitely her idea & what she 'wanted', but she just didn't relax into the thing at all & they've had nothing but huge marital issues since. Frankly, it's very obvious that they should never have married. I was really worried that it'd come across as being a similar situation with DH & me, so it's nice that people are saying that we look really happy in the photos - we genuinely are, even if circumstances have sped things along a little!

Boffin, as if you could be left on the shelf! Having said that, the first thing my mum apparently said after we'd exchanged rings was 'one down, one to go'! She also made a similar 'I'm just relieved he's taken you off our hands' comment last night, to which I responded with mock indignation & a 'yes, thank you Mrs Bennett!' Amusingly, my dad apparently doesn't feel such relief but instead responsible for DH's well-being now as well as mine.

Good news on the AP - here's hoping she keeps it up!

frekkles, I don't think you are the only unmarried mum - I'm fairly sure there were a couple of us, & mumblemum's wedding's still coming up, as a definite answer to that. I can think of a few others that I'm fairly sure aren't married, but don't want to name names in case I'm wrong & I look like I don't pay attention

Yes that looks just like Springy's wedding BB ... NOT!

Boffin - are they fit?

Haha, I love the definition of a shotgun wedding, with matching picture

& Boffin, can you get them to do their work topless? That'll improve customer satisfaction manyfold, I'm sure

yay for bathroom and boiler btw

I have to say they're not too bad, considering. Better than DIY SOS standard.

Now the boiler is working I can probably turn the temp up to tropical ... only prob is then I would have to take my own top off as well which would rather lower the tone.

pinch a bum i dare you

Oh but I kind of like Nick Knowles in a nice-guy kind of way...

Well that's no bad thing. But if you don't want to have to take your top off, you could lure one of them away & get him to fan you & occasionally spray you with a fine water mist to keep you cool. Either way...

You are so evil Nutty.
Not quite up to Nick Knowles standard but you can't have everything.

Or start a thinly veiled porn dialogue: 'Oh, I'm so pleased you're here to give my plumbing a good seeing to...'

Springy lol

while you're down there can you have a look at the pipework