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Wow NAT- that all turned around so fast!! i wanna see this house- all them rooms sounds amazing!!

As for DD2... she needs some physiotherapy to help her... and they're going to look into her speech development a bit more as she's not even babbling yet... But other than that she's happy with her...

That sounds like there's nothing wrong with her really, which there is in that she's not doing what she should, even as a 'catch-up' premmy... but the things they can do to help are pretty straight forward, and if there's no improvement afterthat then it'll be reviewed again.

Bought a whole Salmon for tea, normally we'll ask for the fishmonger to prep it inot sides... I left DH to get the fish while i got the rest of the shopping.... got to the till to find it still had the head on!! YUK!! Have just spent the last half hour chopping it's head off, and attempting to get the fins off.... my knives mustnt be sharp enough as they didn't do any help with the fins. Had to give in and roast it whole (well without the head and tail) and now i'm scared that when it comes out it'll be all yukky from the fins- i'm so gutted!! Silly DH!! I'm never letting him get anything without my supervision again!! He said he thought they'd have done it anyway- so he never asked- and he normally stands with me when i get it... and i'm pretty sure when I said we'd get it I said 'we'll get them to take just the sides off for us'... oh well, better luck next time.

wow nat what great new
that has gone quick!!

can't glad it went ok sounds like they were very helpful

cant i hate fish especially with heads etc on ewww good luck hope it tastes nice

bracken was brave with her injection it was only one in the leg.
got her weighed 17lbs
same as i worked out on our scales @ home

ordered a new calender and a diary my calendar is in a rite mess!!

Bracken isn't much heavier than DD2 tink- she was 15lb 11oz at our last app. I'd work her out at about 16lb 8oz-ish now maybe...

Fish turned out OKay in the end... i mean it was tricky to get it off in one piece, but was all cooked and tasted ok...

Cant - glad the appointment went well and that the fish turned out ok!

Tink - Glad your appointment went well too!

Nat - wow! You don't hang around do you?! I agree, we need a link to the details or some photos as soon as you move in! Sounds lovely though

We didn't meet up with post natal friends in the end as O had an unexpected nap and was being a bit clingy and grumpy. Decided to risk Jo Jingles and as soon as we got there his face lit up He really enjoys it. Then went to church group this afternoon.
O has started standing up unaided today! Just a few seconds at a time and then he nolds back on again.

DH is working late tonight so hope O settles easily and I can have a couple of hours chill time to myself!

DH is on a late here too ses- hoping they all go to bed as normal so i can grab a peaceful bath!!

Good going on O's standing!!

Ooh! bath sounds good Cant. I think I'll go and run one for O although he's currently engrossed in Fireman Sam Seems to be a favourite

Right O is fast asleep and my dinner is in the oven with enough for DH to heat up.

I've gradually discovered a load of little things that DH has done that have annoyed me this evening. It's like he's leaving a little trail and he's not even here!
He bought some eggs at the farmers market a few weeks ago and they went out of date so he threw them out. Only thing is he literally just threw them in the wheely bin. Bin men came today and smashed eggs now sitting in the bottom of our wheely bin!
He also uses the last of something and then doesn't tell me so I don't buy anymore in time for when we run out. Tonight, tin foil. I went to tear a strip off and there's a 2" strip left on the roll! I should be grateful I suppose that he cooked at the weekend which is why he used the foil!

Ses - stupid petty rants very much allowed on the wagon I think. Those kind of things annoy me too! We used to have a shopping list on the board in the kitchen, so if something was near finished or actually finished it would go on the list straight away for next shop - that went out of the window with all my other organisational skills a long time ago!

Yay for O standing on his own - very exciting.

Can't - glad appointment went well. Sorry for fish, but glad it turned out okay.

Nat - yay for house, sounds massive and excellent that you've got it all sorted. Agree we need link/photos.

I'm okay Diege, thanks for asking - just lots of things going on my head as usual and not enough hours in the day to get on here regularly. Hope the poorlies are all done with in your house.

GBL - not sure we're following a weaning off bfing that anyone else would want to. As DD still doesn't sleep through the night - awake once or twice between ca. 7.30pm and anywhere between 5 and 6.15am. Good nights are just one waking between those house, but with all the bugs she's had it has been more regularly twice. Anyway, this means that I'm trying to take as easy a route as possible to wean her off - so, we're going for bottles of oatmilk (as she's dairy intolerant). I know most people would say just to go straight for cup, but hey ho, we're all different. Plan is to wean her off bedtime one over Easter when DH is at home for 5 nights in a row (usually he's on lates Mon-Weds and Fridays, so I'm doing bedtime on my own) - reckon it will be easier to keep me out of the equation if we want to get her to not bf. Also plan to then just go straight for breakfast when she wakes up in morning and not do am feed, so it's just me needing to haul my lazy bum out of bed, as it's so easy to get some extra dozing by taking her into bed for her morning feed

Anyway, we shall see how it goes. I really just want to get her off bf, so we know that I'm not affecting her with anything I eat and we can try introducing foods we think she might be intolerant to without any complications from breastmilk.

This week I'm giving her a few ozs of oatmilk from a bottle at bedtime, which she is taking and then giving her a bit of bf too, 'til she's full.

Lots of redundancies going on at work and just when I got my head round thinking - ah well, if they make me redundant, I can use the pay as a back-up if we need it while I try being a SAHM for a few months. Now my manager has reassured me twice this week that I'm safe. Is really good, but there is part of me that wishes they had made me redundant - is that really bad of me? I keep wondering whether I should just try to make ends meet on just DH's salary and be a SAHM, but the only thing stopping me is that I really need to get a bit more experience under my belt before taking a career break, so I have a chance of getting a good job with career on track once I go back to work. Is that very selfish?! So much going on in my head and I know I should just be really grateful I'm not made redundant, but then on the other hand, it would be better me than someone who really doesn't want it!

Anyway, enough waffle about me - best get some dinner - chicken soup I made a while ago out the freezer - off to see how it tastes!

evening all, very tired and groggy here with my cold,
GBL - headache went not too long after taking some paracetomol at my mums before leaving for work.
SES - thanks, had a good 6hours foirst day, paying for the early morning start now with hving a cold too, just feel drained. yay for O standing unaided clever little boy he is.
TINK - feel alot better now thanks, jus drained and tired, early night is on the cards i think ( well fingers crossed ) altho i wanted a nice relaxing bath, but cant get any gas as the paypoint at the shop isnt working its bloody typical.
are you ever out of tesca haha
NJ - yay for getting the house, that was very quick, sounds perfect though bet you cant wait to move in now, and get settled there.
hi to anyone else i have missed

MMM - sorry for bad cold, hope you get a decent night's sleep to help kick it.

Sorry for my very me me me post above - just was doing a brain dump, please everyone just ignore it

Evening! Just a quick hello before bed - feeling really drained and tired; think the bugs have taken more out of me than I realised, and commute seemed even longer today than it usually does. Still, wfh tomorrow, plus payday, so lots to look forward to
MMM have been thinking about how the job went - sorry to hear you feel so rotten; apart from feeling rubbish, how did you get on?
CANT shudder at fish head...I did laugh when you said how 'gutted' you were though (or not, as the case may be ) Lol at dd and comment to potential surrogate coupe - do you think they went home and 'analysed'?
STAR, no you're not selfish in (partly) wishing on redundancy, just honest! Also good to get to a place in your career where a break would seem ok, as opposed to coming back into the job market at a disadvantage. If it's what you want, would voluntary redundancy be on the cards? (though I'm guessing that would cost them too much). Could you carry over your pension etc if you took a career break as opposed to redundancy ?
SES, you know where I stand on dhs acting like we're their mums, but lest I be cast as the haridan of the wagon, get yourself a chalkboard I would be mighty pissed off about the eggs though Great on O standing! Wonder how long before his first step? Not long before ttc-iong for you either! WE NEED A LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TINKS, have a look at the 'organised mum' diary if you haven't bought already - think they're online to buy - v.good.
Day ok here - have recruited another 2 midwives for research project but proving hard to pin them down to a day/time etc...will be exciting interviewing them for up to an hour each - I feel very honoured to get more than 5 mins with a midwife
Right, bed . Back tomorrow x

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post, sorry not been on but was DH's birthday today so have been running around trying to get everything ready including makeing a chocolate cake with mini eggs on top - yum! Quite an achievement for me

Well Im going to try and hold old for two weeks and then test, but I am sure I will break before that. I haven't got any tests in though luckily

LOL at busy day followed by 2ww! I can assure you that none of that goes on in the day! No way with GC and short naps. It would have to be the quickest quickie ever!

LOL Diege/Tink - it took me a few goes of reading Tink's post to realise that NO-ONE had actually pooped in tesco

Star - I think it is perfectly understandable that you would "wish" for a redundancy!Not selfish at all!

Diege - good about the recruited midwives!

Cant - glad that apt went ok. at least any problems are now on record so if you ever feel the need to follow up its all logged yuck about fish - fishy eyes are the worst.

Ses - great about O standing! Grr at DH! I'm afraid in our house I'm the one that does things like that and DH grumbles at me (ALOT) whoops! (I wouldn't do eggs thing though!)

Hello to anyone I missed.

We went to tiny talk (baby sign) today and GC followed the daughter of the teacher round for ages (she's nearly two) I think he has a new friend! he was babbling away to her and she was chattering back to him. it was adorable! he obviously like an older woman!

Right better go as I am really tired tonight!

See you all tomorrow! Cant believe it's thursday again!!

Good morning

Have read everything I missed up to yesterday but most has gone in and not stopped for long Have so many things going on in my head at the moment don't know whether we're coming or going, am at the point where you start thinking of something, that leads you to the next thing, but you want to think through the first thing, so you struggle to get back to it, and then it goes off on a tangent again, and you never seem to re-visit the first thing... I am really excited about the house, but that imediately leads to worrying about the course, really don't want to defer it even just for a couple of months, but I don't see how firstly I'll have time to do the work and secondly how we're going to afford to get the stuff now we've to find deposits and removal costs etc. so then I get cross that we're having to move, but then I'm so excited about having some more room. And then I'm logical and think even if we could afford the stuff to do it, and even if I found time, my brain is not going to let me concentrate properly... round and round and round and round... And DH is back at work today, I don't think he's ready for it, he is still really tender from the extra poking about they did, but he's having to go in because if he doesn't he doesn't get paid and we can't afford to lose a penny this month! If he takes holiday days then he'll have none left after the move, and yet if he does some damage at work, how on earth he is expecting to be able to move furniture etc. in 5 weeks is beyond me... see? Round and round and round....

Sorry, will stop whinging/moaning/boring you all, feable attempt at catch up coming up:

MMM, how was the first day at work? Sorry you're feeling rotten, not great timing.

Diege, MW interviews would be so interesting - need an assistant? Hope the WFH and lack of comute lead to a quick recovery.

Ses, deffo chalk/white board, this is another reason why I love internet shopping, if I'm not sure if we need more of something, I can go and check! No excuse for the eggs though, hope you reminded him where the hose is?! Well done to O, what a clever little man

Gruff, very exciting for 2ww! How long were you TTC'ing last time? (Sorry no memory at all!) And not that it's a bearing at all!

Has anyone spoken to Kay recently? Hope she is doing OK. I don't know whether to email/text/something but if she is just looking for a break from MN then that isn't going to help.

Erm, think that's all I can remember, hi to everyone I've missed

Oh just remembered, Star, agree with others, not selfish at all for the almost wish of redundancy, is it worth talking to your manager about it?

And another thing I forgot, there isn't a link to this house, it's not even made it onto the website, we snapped it up too quickly! But when we move in and have the rooms set up I will do pictures. Will be a few pictures though, there are 17 rooms all together and huge ! 5/6 receptions, 4/5 bedrooms, kitchen, 3 bathrooms, utility, big entrance hall (a room in itself!), and the big boot room/rear hall/storage/the 'dump it all in there and forget about it' room! Oh I am so excited, but so dissapointed about the course... flippin' 'eck, here we go again! The course will be done, might just take a couple more months to start.... arghhhhhhhh, round and round and round and round.

Knew there was something else, Can't, really glad you seem pleased with the outcome of DD's appt. You know she is still really young, anything they do for her now will help her immensely, and if it's all over nothing and she doesn't need it, then it certainly wouldn't do her any harm.

Right, I am off before I remember anything else, think this post is going to be a bit on the enormous side anyway! See you all later

morning

you r busy nat

hi to everyone else

a quiet day here today

dd1 going to a friends after school for tea

Morning, just a really quick one and then I'll be back later. NAT, I'll be brutal with you here, putting my tutor hat on, and say that moving house is not grounds for deferrment of a course - I totally understand where you are coming from as you are a fellow perfectionist, but seriously you will get the work done AND move house, even if it means rejigging things around a bit so that you concentrate your efforts when you can , and then cut yourself a bit of slack when it comes to the actual slog of moving. Seriously, if you did decide to defer, you would need to make something up as, from experience, it's not a 'permitted reason' (ie, you can of course leave at any point, but without offical deferral you may have problems getting back on. But it's all madness talk anyway as you are miles ahead in your prep - bet a lot of people haven't even thought about assignment one yet! You WILL have time, seriously, you wouldn;t believe what people get through in the course of a degree or whatever - you may just need to lower your standards for the teeniest of times - ask a busy person and all that
Hi GRUFF! GC sounds very cute with his adoration of new friend - bet he'll love GC no.2 I'll admit I am also one for leaving empty containers in cupboards (tinfoil esp ) but agree, would draw the line at eggs in bin - hey, maybe get him to stump up for bin cleaning service SES?

Morning

Star- i understand how you might 'wish' for redundancy... but also understand about getting more experience under your belt before a break, I am now left having to start from the very bottom when i go back to work in a few years!! It's not the best feeling in the world, knowing i'll be coming up for 30 with no real career!! Your not selfish to want the best job you can have as it will be a benefit to the DC's when you're working again. Plenty of mums work full time in demanding jobs, but they make the time on days off to have 'quality' time with their DC's... as DH always says to me, 'it's quality not quantity'!!

Nat- i'm very of your new house- it sounds amazing!! I'd love a massive house like that!! When we move over to head office for DH's job we'll be looking at something that sort of size hopefully!!

had the morning from hell with DS too- he's being punished when he gets in, he has started name-calling and called me names a couple of times, then was punching me and threatening to kick me because i made him hold my hand for name-calling- little bugger!! I told him if he didn't stop he'd be going straight to his room when he gets home, his reply was 'no i wont, you'll forget like always'... so now i know he thinks i wont go thru with it- so i'm determined to make him realise he can't behanve like that without consequences!! wish me luck!!

Nat - house sounds amazing! Looking forward to pics. Agree with Diege re. deferment, but I thought maybe you just meant deferring when you are going to do the work, but still in time for deadlines, rather than deferring the course officially with the course provider? If so, I can totally understand that. If it's just a case of funds to purchase the materials, then have you considered a student loan, now you're a student? I'm not a fan of loans (don't even have a credit card) but think student loans can be very useful in terms of managing your finances - most offer 0% I think just to get your business? Might be worth looking into?

Thanks for all your thoughts on my work - sorry was really just a braindump. Having lost my job before because the company went bust and I literally got nothing because I was there for less than 2 years, I know for many people it is a horrible thing, but I am now in the rare place where it wouldn't be. Anyway, have decided to sit tight for the mo' and make the most of my 3 day weekends (I really like your "Quality not quantity" thinking Can't) and see how the next few months go. If I stay here, we will have enough money to go out to Australia in Feb to see my DB and DSIL and DNi/Ne who is due in July and then we can see what's happening and who knows what will happen in that time anyway. Have registered with an agency for part-time jobs closer to home (which are very rare, but you never know!). My stress is that I turn 36 this year - so I'm really no spring chicken to not got where I want i my career! Waffling again!

Can't - sorry for DS' behaviour. Hope he is better behaved this afternoon.

Gruff - sooo excited about your 2ww!

Nat - hope your DH is feeling okay today. Agree with you about internet shopping - shame I'm not organised enough to book it these days, so have to do food shopping on way home tonight.

Diege, thanks for that, good to get a tutor's thoughts! Not sure if it works a bit differently though with this course, the first 2 assignments are due in 20th April, but, that's if you want the diploma in 6 months, you can take upto 15 months to do the whole course, which is less than an assignment a month. Have just been looking at the T&C's and it says something about if you needed to defer for a year+ which obviously I don't, and it seems anything less than a year is just known/described as an extention to the deadlines. It seems I can ring and just say 'sorry, it's not going to be in till 20th June' and they say 'that's fine, but it will put your completion of the course back 2 months'. TBH, I'm not even going to do that, we've got to wait till next week now money wise, but hopefully by the weekend after next I'll have what I need to do the first 2 assignments, if I can get them in for the 20th April, then stop for two weeks while we pack up here, move (we're moving on the 1st of May), and un-pack essentials at new house, the next two assignments will be due back 20th May, if I can get them in on time or even if it's a week later, they'll be fine with that. And I think from then on, I am just going to have to devide the time between the course and sorting the house out. When we moved in here we had the absolute essentials un-packed and put away within a day, am sure we can do the same there, and the big difference is that it's only a mile up the road, not 40/50 mins drive away!

Bloody hell, that was my long winded way of saying, I'm hoping to do the course along side the move, it is going to be tricky and very tight time wise, but am fairly confident I'll get it done. (Remind me I've said that when I come on frazzled and pulling my hair out! Have pictures of myself sticking one bit on a sample board, putting one thing in a box, one thing on the board, one thing in the box!) I really don't want to take a break from it, I've barely bloody started it.

Morning Tink and Can't

Tink, hope DD has fun

Can't, wishing you lots of luck for this afternoon, it's amazing how soon they realise they have a chance to get the better of you with their mouths! DS1 has been going through an awful period of the mouthiness, it seems to slowly be dwindling, think he is now starting to realise that he never wins, he has always faced punishment when he's out of line, usually in the form of no laptop/phone/camera/telly/wii/somethingorother!

Sorry x posts Star, TBH we don't need a loan, we've got the money, but we need to know if we spend it on the course that we've got enough for anything that crops up with the move, we've got the removal and the deposit covered (or will have by the time it's all due to be paid for) but it's if e.g. something happened in this house that we need to pay for before we leave, if we stain the carpet or smash a window etc. Like you I don't like loans/cards etc. I do have a CC but only use it when we buy on line and it's always paid at the end of the month, really don't want to go and put £2000 worth of stuff on it and be paying it off for longer the course will last! Anyway, fingers crossed that something comes up with the agency, think you are probably doing the right thing, just to sit tight and wait and see, though rather you than me, am useless at waiting anything out, as if you all didn't already know that!

NAT. Yes, an extension would be the one to go for if you were finding it tricky to meet deadlines; that would be allowed . I bet you'll still get them done early though even with everything else going on...
Have just ordered paint for dd3's room (ceiling and woodwork). Clueless as to which size pots to go for, so got 2.5 L in ultramatt emulsion (not sure what the 'ultra' signifies) for ceiling, and then acrylic eggshell for paint work...choices were 1.5L, 2.5L, 5L...bloody expensive - came to £65 for the 2 pots . Think I might have been ripped off there...

Now you're just teasing, don't you know I need details, colours for a start! TBH, unless it is a big room or if the paint doesn't go on very well (though should imagine it will if you've paid that much for it!) you probably would have got away with the 1.5 for the ceiling. But always good to have more than enough, you might find it needs two coats etc. Ultra matt is just very very matt, should be pretty much flat colour. As for the woodwork, and how much paint you need again obviously depends on amount of wood and appliability, but we've never needed a bigger sized pot of gloss just for one room except the hall way when we did the stairs.

argh!!!! just weighted myself, and the half a stone i lost from being ill has stayed off!! despite having 9 days of being well and eating junk!! I'm very impressed- i thought i'd have gained about 5lb back...

Well done!

thanks nat!! I'm ever so chuffed with myself!! I've eaten loads of crap too in them 9 days... had a kebab, had maccy's, had a pub lunch.... wow!!

Thanks NAT! Seems I have probably bought too much, but better as you say to have some in stock, esp as decorator in to do it. It's tbe extremely exciting 'white lead' colour from the Little Greene Paint company, and thinking about it, I suppose any left over will do for dd1&2's ceilings/woodwork. We are going for crazy wallpaper, hence 'dressing down' the rest in a sort of heritage paint creamy (NOT magnolia) white as they aren't the biggest bedrooms in the world.
Very CANT of weight loss. I have slowed to losing about a pound a week, which is usual for me on the high carb low fat mystery that is slimming world, though put back on the 6 pounds I lost due to bug(s), even though not been eating much at all . Maybe an age thing!
Dh off out in Leeds with friends tonight, so need to get organised. dds are having (quorn) hotdogs and salad for tea, ds his usual sweet pot and veg mush, and I'm kaing a SW curry with WW naans...My new dvds have arrived from LoveFilm, so will be wathcing sex and city movie to tonight...Never really saw the series, but I'm sure it willo be fun .
Off to PO and supermarket now. Back later!