Due April 2009: Episode 18 - Mumble gets married and we have triplets and twins here!!

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Let the ramblings commence.

I'm SURE I posted here again earlier & the post seems to have disappeared. It keeps doing that

I was basically being happy because I have my HiP form & a permanent MW now (bit late in the day, but still!) who is coming to visit me at home in a couple of weeks to discuss birth plans over a cup of tea. Yay

Thank you to everyone for your understanding WRT DH. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do, but at least I don't feel completely mad for being bothered by it

Carameli, it's great that your DS is so fearless in the water IMO - I've always been a bit twitchy about it & can still barely swim as a result

LuLu, I'm beginning to wish I'd kept this quiet, too. As I've said though, it's not even that he's read it (& he wasn't annoyed about what I'd said about MIL from what I could tell - he was agreeing with my sentiments that it's a bit odd when he brought it up!) it's that he's lying about it & I don't know why.

Ju, what kind of disassembling?

& Auld, exactly - it feels to me to be the same as going through my texts or whatever. That's not a 'public forum' but would be just as accessible to him if he wanted to be nosy. More people would be outraged about that over on my AIBU

I've done the biscuit thing a lot, too. I have to stop buying lots of nice food otherwise I just sit & eat it like food's going out of fashion. I say this as someone who's waiting for a £160 Tesco delivery (a lot of that is special offer nappies, I swear! )

& no... Perhaps not ideal for a young family

It was phenomenal, LuLu. We spent 10 years there and I often regret leaving, though we did it as we thought DH had better chances of getting work in his new incarnation over here -ha!!), and to let DS see his grandparents and visit Scotland as often as possible.
Now I think maybe if we moved there DH might actually be able to set up on his own as we know so many people. And I have a good chance of getting translation work and possibly a uni post in a few years. And loads of friends. But the grandparents would be devastated and I think DH is hesitant at moving backwards halfway across the world...
New Caledonia does sound gorgeous, but is even further away (plans fares are extortionate) and I doubt either of us would find any work.

Phew, disassembling is over and all is reassembled. Trying to find a slot to put a new under-counter freezer, and I thought that removal of a small cupboard and the booze rack (priorities, I know!) would facilitate this. After much banging and crashing and swearing, he has determined that removal of this cupboard would destroy the entire kitchen. Back-up plan was cupboard under stairs, but have just been informed that there is no power supply in there. Now have freezer in middle of living room.

I have made the mistake of buying biscuits for midwives, ready for homebirth. They keep calling to me....

Ju home birth could be weeks away - you didn't buy those biscuits for the MW !!!!

Ju - before my due date with DD I stocked up on masses of biscuits, cakes etc in anticipation of all the visits I would receive when new baby arrived and all the cups of tea and biccies I would need to dole out.

DD was nearly 2 weeks late. There weren't many biscuits left by the time she arrived

AA - I gather there is a reasonably sound economy in New Caledonia, and work available (esp for French speakers obviously). My friend is a research scientist. Believe she's doing OK.

But yes it is a really, really long way away - from anywhere! And costs a fortune to get to so you might well feel isolated. And yes, I would imagine all your relatives would be justifiably pissed off.

But I find it thereapuetic to imagine life on a desert island every so often (and then of all the drawbacks which convince me life is actually better in rainy ol' Blighty after all).

BB - you just want it to be weeks away - full term tomorrow!!

Lawks, it's all got a bit over on Springy's AIBU

I was JUST coming here to say what's going on?!

Dunno! Thee are clearly some issues there! From what I've seen ScottishMummy does tend to wind people up a bit - appears to enjoy baiting people. Also, strange punctuation!

ooooooooooooh Springy what have you started? It's getting scary.

And what was the message that got deleted?

I'm feeling all twitchy and itchy after reading your AIBU and the bathroom cabinet thread all about people invading each others privacy.

Oh no! Health visitor coming on Thursday for a getting-to-know-you visit! Now should I clean the mould off the window frames?

The Tesco man just told me off because he had to carry so much up the stairs to our flat I mean there was a lot, but it's kind of his job, right? & DH isn't here & I'm very pregnant. What did he expect?

That is his job Springy they deliver to your door - I would complain!

OK i can't find springy's AIBU = why am I so rubbish at this!

I want to do an aibu but I don't think I have the emotional capacity at the moment to cope with the fallout.

Indeed it is his job, silly Tesco man. Next week I suggest you order several kilos of potatoes.

I'm quite scared of people outside this thread

here BB

OMG, Springy, what happened on your AIBU thread? I have just had a look and it looks... intense.

Tesco man can man up and shut up, for heavens sake, I am sick of whining people who don't want to do their jobs.

I have eaten huge big lumps of milk chocolate and feel sick.

Sarah - have some tea - help the chocolate to melt and settle in

Sound advice there Ju.

I've just made a cup of RLT. May accompany that with some Green & Blacks (dark choc contains iron therefore good for me )

Good idea Lulu. Milk choc = full of calcium (from the milk....), needed by growing baby. Dark choc = full of iron (from the.....?), needed by growing baby. White choc = very pure and wholesome, got to be good for growing baby. All choc full of antioxidants, protein, necessary fats, carbs, also theobromine good for airways.

QED - chocolate is all-round healthfood essential for pregnant and nursing mothers.

I don't know what on earth is going on over there. I'm staying out of it - they probably think it was me having a go (especially after all the 'namechange!' advice ) but never mind.

DH just got home & put most of the shopping away because I'd hurt my bump stretching to pull it all out of the crates in the first place. He was sympathetic about Tesco Man bullying me & we're carrying on like everything's perfectly fine & last night didn't happen. It's probably best, I suppose. I can't be bothered with the problems that'd be caused by me pushing it at the moment - much nicer to have cuddles & bury my head in the sand. If he keeps lying about things, I imagine there'll come a point in the future where I'll stumble across proof & can really have it out with him.

bronze, you can AIBU here, if you like? We'll be nice, but give advice? Ooh, I'm a poet

Jeepers Springy those women are MAAAAAAD! Like crazy, psycho, stalker mad... I'm so glad our threads are always a safe and fluffy place! The real world is scary!

MW appt was brill today - she's booked us in for HB! Hooray! Gave me list of things to get - old towels, anglepoise lamp, balloons for the front door so they know which house to come to , bacon butties... She's totally keen! Yay!

Have just come home from Wilkinson's - with 4 massive maroon bath sheets at £2.50 each... should do nicely for catching any spills...

springy I might just do that. thank you

I'll do it later though as I feel so drained by it at the moment I can't bring myself to write about it

Wahey for HB Kitty! I like the balloons idea - no-one can ever find our house.

I've got a tiny and very petty aibu that I couldn't bring myself to post a whole thread for.

Got DD a new hairbrush recently and then found it suddenly full of cat hair. Confronted DH, and yes he had been using it on the cat. Grumbled that it was DDs hairbrush but he just replied that the cat likes being brushed and DD doesn't.

It irked me, but couldn't bring myself to have a go at him as he seemed so convinved he was in the right I figured it would be a dead end.