TTC'ers and Unreliable Contraceptive Users Anonymous.

[NatalieJane]

Here we are

LOL Kay Go for a wee, you would need to go if period had come anyway....

Getting caught up in You Tube now, someone tell me to close the window with it in please

Close the You tube window Natalie

Step away from You Tube!!

Awwwww watch this Gives me goosebumps

I can't, it can't be done....

I think that deserves a thread of it's own

Yes it can Natalie, you have the strength. Just click on the "x" in the top right hand corner.

PMSL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats great.

I went to the loo no af yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also got a slice of coffee cake I made yesterday. Yummy!

Yay Kay, the signs are all good

Mmmm, coffee cake, my favourite! Pass a slice round Kay! Does it have walnuts on and thick butter cream (hope you're not reading this Teuch!). PMSL at waterfall piccies .
Good news Nat on G. Now I am not an expert,but my research is in field of medicine, so I come across all these papers and one of the 'hot' themes at the moment is the overdiagnosis of asthma (sp?). Ie. that drs/nurses always refer to nurse with any lingering cough/esp night cough, but that 6 out of 10 cases are done so unnecessarily, and asthma never develops. Just arming you with the research stats! Interesting, because it confuses the whole debate and 'panic' about rising asthma amongst children..[ok, you can all stop yawning now...)
Mmm, the riveta tin is calling as coffee cake hasn't arrived..

No it doesnt have walnuts as I didnt have any. But it does have thick butter cream. I might make a chocolate cake just incase af arrives.

mmm, sounds lovely . A chocolate cake would be nice, af or no af. My newly discovered tip for choocy cakes is to fill with apricot jam. Sounds but tastes

I feel very guilty and a little it sick. I've just spent £91 on a top, cardigan and sunhat for dd3 . I will stand up and admit am an addicted to buying children's clothes. It is my only addiction (ahem, apart from MN). Tell me I deserve it and will get at least double back from E-bay next year when I sell them? And they are to go with the matching dress, trousers and socks I bought last month, so really I am saving money????

I have probably pissed (literally) that much away on OPK's and HPT's over the years...

Hangover has retreated and munchies arrived...wholehalf a pack of breadsticks and half a tub of lemon and coriander humous later and I feel bleeeeuuuugh!!

NJ, poor DS. I would not be convinced with the asthma thing though...stick to your guns.

Kay - so far, so good

Playing - pah!! to people and their seemingly perfect lives...she probably has piles...

BBMB - sick, you say?

LG&T - You are very wise...a hangover with your brood would not be funny. My excuse is that I am hoping it will be the last one I have this year!!

Thanks Teuch! Breadsticks sound perfect hangover food (soaking it up etc) not sure of houmous, lovely though it is! Have yet anothe abked potato to look forward to this lunchtime, with last night quorn chilli I think.
Still feeling really about the house business. We dropped the price on ours today though, so hopefully someone will grab themselves a bargain and we can move to the new house after all!!

Diege, all those clothes sounsd like a bargin to me and a very wise investment

Teuch - I know she's not perfect, probably constantly exhausted and feeling barely able to cope with it all herself! Stll makes me feel like a terrible under-acheiver!!!

Playing, how can you be an under-achiever at 25!!! . Maybe when you get to my age and look back at the what-ifs, but you are in your prime girl!!! AND you will have the career/family/baby thing sorted by this timke next year!! (and I bet she's not a mumsnetter either is she???).
Like the wise-investment line - yes, like buying fine art I think. All the same, will get busy on the e-bay today I think to make some spare cash! We're by no means rolling in it - twas some of the cash from my exam paper marking, so felt I deserved a splurge!

Ooooh yes, Diege, sorry about the house thing. It is so unfair when people pull out. They should make it like in Scotland, if you put an offer in it is legally binding etc. Much better system if you ask me. How has DH taken the news?

Just been watching Babes in the Wood and Baby Story, I know I shouldn't because it makes me so bloody broody but I can't be perfect all the time!

Have got so much to do today and I am putting it off, we are away this weekend, so if I pretend nothing needs doing, it won't get done till Monday..... don't know if that is a good or a bad thing!!

And someone keeps giving me choccy biscuits, when I get hold of whoever is leaving them in the kitchen cupboard lying around, they are going to have a good kick up the arse!

at choccy biscuits. Same thing here, but with fruit and nut bars in the fridge .
Is the Babes thing on Sky?? We just get freeview, so I have to make do with bits of baby stuff onCh4/5. Have noticed there's a good baby documentary on next week (c h4 I think) following young mothers through pregnancy/birth at the Liverpool Women's. Called 'Pramface babies' or similar (nice, bet they loved that ).
Re: the house, dh was surprisingly chipper. I think he always felt there would be a snag as we've had trouble with this buyer from day one. Whereas I am more of a glass half full person and inevitably get disappointed more often (though am generally happier most of the time )
So where are you going this weekend Nat?? Does it have internet access?? [anxious emoticon]

I know I'm not really an under-acheiver - I have plenty of years left yet. Just feeling a little silly and emotional today. To be honest I dont even want a career be happy with the family! I think maybe for the first time I am beginning to feel my age (I dont mean I'm old) just that it has suddenly occured to me that I am actually a proper grown up. Have been speaking to a few mates to organise our 10 year school reunion and it just doesn't feel possible that it was 10 years ago. I think these reunion things make you analyse what you have acheived since school and in my case its very little!!! I'm not really bothered, I am very happily married, have good friends, live in a nice house and am about to start a family (well 6 months and counting). Still, very occassionally I am allowed to get a bit irrational about these things surely . I think its all this damn broodiness!

I don't know where the choccy biscuits come from, I don't buy them, I don't actually like them, that much... LOL I don't honestly, but if they are there, I have to eat them....

Will look out for Pramface Babies, yep my programs are on Discovery H&H (home and health?) at stupid o'clock in the morning, thank god for Sky+

Glad DH didn't take it too badly, I am the same as you, glass half full, always leads to dissapointment.

We are only going to my sisters, but we haven't had a weekend with just us (as in no other sisters/mum/other nephews) for a couple of years, should be great Always involves a chinese and too much alcohol, and a very late night, normally playing kids games... Last time we had my DS and her DS sat watching Nemo before bed, the kids went to bed, and we all sat there watching Nemo till the end LOL Great fun! Just not looking forward to the travelling....

Course you're allowed Playing! . You actually sounhd very mature and wise for your tender years. You're right about the family thing. On paper I also 'have it all', and wouldn't really want to give up my career, but tbh what truly makes me happy is family, and having people around me who I care for. I work with people (men and women) who have decided not to have kids for 'career' reasons (which seems a bit dated these days!) and they are very lonely and introverted. I think you can have it all, as long as you have a very supportive partner who does 50/50 with the kids (which mine does - he has no choice!!) and are prepared for a constant slog of hardwork!

Soundfs fun Nat . How long is your travelling time?

About 2 and a half hours each way, not as bad as going to my mums, but still, not nice.

Right I am going to start the jobs.... see you next year!!

mmm, yes not nice that! Lots of breaks, packets of sweets and a big bag of salty chippy chips for the ds's to share on the way home is my slummymummy top tip! Works every time!