I received this txt from my dd on Friday - is she the most self-contained 11 year old around?

[growingdd]

I was in work, she was at home with her dad.

"I've started my p**d [her asterisks].yes I'm sure.No I haven't told Dad and I don't intend to.Yes I've put a pad on.No I don't feel scared or worried.Yes everything is under control, so there is no need to ask any questions!!Please carry on with your work and don't worry about me!!No I don't really want to talk about it when you get home, so just tell me which pads to use and you keep on buying them for me and everything will be fine!!OK!!"

I texted her back saying we would have a chat when I got home, she said "I'll pass on the chat thanks".

I haven't actually seen her for more then 5 minutes since she texted, as she has been out, I've been out etc.

She is just so grown up - I can't believe it!

We will be chatting about it, though...

(changed my name as she reads mn sometimes and would be mortified to see this here)

Thanks! yes, she is still feisty...I am still trying to deal with it!

growingdd - your dd sounds like my totally brilliant and amazing 15 year old niece. She is sassy and feisty with real fire in her belly - with a perfect turn (and timing) for sarcasm but with the biggest heart of anyone I know and the best relationship with her mother (who does a grand job with 4 children, one of them with SN and my brother, her DH, nowhere to be seen for 10 months of the year as he works overseas). If my DD turns out half as amazing I will be very proud ...

Impressive turn around by TR I have to say

[proud]

thanks ghosty

and I agree about Trinity.

Re the 'warm feeling', have you been doing your pelvic floor exercises my love? You have mentioned 'warm feelings' a couple of times now

hahaha

I am now squeezing as I type...

How on earth did we get to this?

This is no doubt why I am such an embarrassment as a mother...

I didn't read anything in that text that was "dripping with sarcasm" at all. Have been very at some of the responses on here. Bizzare to read such bitterness into those words. It just isn't there. Your DD sounds gorgeous and you should be very proud.

Well done Trinity for having such a big heart to be able to admit that you may have been reading things wrong and to apolgise. As someone else said - "how very un-MN"!

Hope your DD is ok growing - can I suggest that you make sure you have some painkillers around in case she needs them over the next few months? About 3 months after I started I woke up one morning with excruciating cramps and there was nothing in the house. I waited till local shop was open (having not woken anyone in house) and went up to buy some painkillers. On the way back I almost fainted and just managed to lean against a neighbour's wall - they saw me and brought me in and phoned my Dad to come and get me. My Dad was so mad with me that I felt I couldn't wake them up as he would have obv gone out to get stuff for me. I was also mortified as my Mum then phone the neighbours tell them what had been wrong!

oh buda, that sounds cringeworthy

rifht some one you lot, I'm serious about a book

I gonna get a start on this now before she learns some nonsense from a couple of her friedns about it

she already came home and told me that so and so has said that 'if you kiss someone then you have to have sex with them' and 'you should a botfriend by now or you'll never get married'

that should have said 'right, come on you lot'

wow, my typing is atrocious

Has she had many sex education classes at school yet? Not that this is the same but it's a starting point.

I still can't work out your name!(when we me, did we ever discuss how to stop another of your dds from chewing her cot sides?)

Hope trinityrhino can face chocolate for breakfast (lobs a choc donut over in her direction)

No idea trinity. Do you need a book? You sound cool enough to deal this on your own terms.

On the subject of painkillers, I remember in the early days waking up in the middle of the night convinced I had appendicitis so bad were my period pains!

Sorry, coming back into this... Trinity - YOu are right to pick up this now....

I was brought up as a strict catholic and fervently believed that if you had sex with someone you should be married or engaged... Cue an extremely [shocked] boyfriend (we were 20 and I really thought that, because we did it, we would therefore get engaged... )

God, am cringing at the mere memory...

Strangely, the BF dropped me pretty quick after that!!!!!!!!!

tigermoth, i can't remember discussing cot chewing, but we may have done.

it was one of the very first meet ups, not Vineopolis, but not long after that, scummy, marina, tinker, jodie were all there, can't remember the name of the place, was it off the Strand?

Trinity, I understand "mummy laid an egg" by Babette Cole is a good book to start with, we also have a book called "the body book" (can't remember who by, too hungover to go look), which is also good.

Oh I wish I knew who you were too! (nosy emoticon) you're obv an oldie, wracking my brians for an e and an l...

Was it Baccanalia or somewhere?

I think I#m getting that wrong and confusing it with vinopolis but I think it begins with b. I wasn't there but I remember it as it was a v early on meet

This is silly, isn't it? I just don't want dd to search on my name and find this (as she has searched on my name previously and found all our trials and tribulations over the years).

I am an oldie, but not a "famous" one, em*ewll.

It's like doing a crossword, isn't it?

no there was one at Baccanalia off the strand - hmm, are you on that thread?

D'oh! that wasn't meant to happen forgot about the * turning things bold.

e m * e w l l

I always used to get your name v wrong and you only told me in th emiddle of the night once! I know! Hurrah! You are famous I think, I recognise you!

yes, that's the one I went to, i'm on there

Blimey, I suppose my ds will do that one day too. Eek. Might start a thread about it/.

ha ha, yes, i was going to say you always used to get my name wrong and I told you in the middle of the night, but thought it would only be memorable to me!

Strange the things that stick in your mind...

Don't mn much any more, working full time, just don't get the time, and don't know half (a tenth even, no in fact a hundredth) of the people here anymore.

lol yes of course I remember!

I remember you now my love