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Wheels of the wagon have fallen off fallen off..

916 replies

BeMyLilBaby · 12/03/2008 17:17

here we are! ROll call Please!

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NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 11:04

Where you going? Have I missed something? Are you sodding off at the end of your 2ww again?

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 11:06

Oh, erm.... sorry about washer though, but hoorah for new bathroom.

Now, where are you going?!!

BigTeuchLittleTeuch · 17/03/2008 11:19

Just going a jolly to the mainland...and, no, I am not at end of 2ww til next week as I OV'd later!!

I'm taking the pooter but have no idea about this wireless roaming thingymabobby . So maybe not logging back on til Friday when I'm back.

I am very much hoping to come back on with news from my other SIL as my pg radar is definitely detecting some action Gawd, I hope I am right!!!!

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 11:28

Ahhhh, that's OK then, I'll let you go, as long as you're back before next week!!

Have a lovely time, and look forward to hearing your SIL's news, if you are right!!

lardylumps · 17/03/2008 11:57

Morning ladies it is a sad time for me I think I am out of the running this month . No GOF since Friday as DD has been really poorly over the weekend. She has a really nasty cough that sounds like a dog barking and when she breaths she sounds like a cat purring.

Been coughing all night and bringing up bile in her sleep so I have been in her room with her. Dd and I are both exhausted today as we have had no sleep all weekend.

DP is away most of this week so probably no GOF this week and AF due on Saturday so that will mean no GOF from day 18. Not good enough.

Got to go now and try and get DD to eat something.

Hope you all had better weekends than me.

Bye for now.

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 12:01

LL, tis OK, if you are due on on Saturday that means you'd have OV'ed somewhere between CD10 - CD15 (ish) so GOF'ing up to CD18 is covering all of that

Hope DD is feeling a bit better today, it is horrible when they're ill

BigTeuchLittleTeuch · 17/03/2008 12:23

Hey LL...truth is, if you are fairly sure about OV happening, then any GOFs more than a day after that are for fun!! Egg only survives for up to 24 hours (in reality probably only less than 12) so what really matters is getting the wrigglers up there before or on the day of OV

It ain't over by a long chalk...

or DD though, and DH being away.

kayzisbroody · 17/03/2008 12:28

Thank god they have gone. I don't like my sister very much. She does my bloody head in. She smoked in the kitchen out of the window despite us telling her we didn't want her too. The house now stinks of smoke.

Then they were meant to get the bus at 11:40 but my brother phoned and said his fiance had recieved some bad news(not sure what) and they would get the 12:40 bus instead so have had sister whinging like a 2 year old that its freezing and she wants to be back in her warm town. King's Lynn is in Norfolk not the f**king Caribean(sp)

Oh and my front room is a complete tip as my niece has never really been displined except getting a smack whenever my sister can be arsed. So my niece has pulled out absolutely everything, all of ds's toys in his toybox and anything else she could find.

ARGHHHHHH!!!!

Teuch, hope you have a good time. Sorry about washing machine.

LL, Sorry about dd being ill.

Nat, Sorry MIL is stupid!!

Oh and my sister doesn't like sport so I am only just getting to watch the Formula 1 but I know who wins!!

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 12:28

Hey Teuch glad you're still about, was thinking over the weekend about what you said about only a 10% chance of it working if you have sex the day before OV, is that a fact or a theory of yours? (Or did I completely mis-read it altogether?!!)

Only asking because it doesn't fit with the theory of the whole early GOF's for a girl, later GOF's for a boy thing.... There would be 1000000's more boys than girls, wouldn't there?

I need to be straight in my head y'know!!

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 12:32

Kay, sounds like a bit of a nightmare. I'd suggest spending the next hour or so, with all the windows open, let it all blow through, and you won't get cold because you will be busy clearing up, then close windows, grab big bar of galaxy, put F1 on, and relax for the day knowing you've 'done your bit'

BeMyLilBaby · 17/03/2008 12:39

Kays and NJ for you both, NJ MILS are nightmareous... mine has been better of late but i dont hold out much further hope when Baby news announced...however she cld surprise me..

why doesnt yours like you? mine had a vendetta for a while lol

Kays know what you mean about smoke...tis grim and that was a disrespectful thing of her to do.

I actaully cant wait to have coil out.. seem to get emotions building up... just want to be meeee lol

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kayzisbroody · 17/03/2008 12:45

Right the front room is done. I'm going to open the windows later once it's stopped raining.

I am so tired.

Diege · 17/03/2008 12:47

What a nightmare Kay, though at least she has gone now!
LL, listen to Teuch our tech!! It really is the case that before ov is better than after, so I reckon you're in with a pretty good chance. How is dd now? From your description, her cough does sound a little 'croupy', though the 'purry' type breathing suggests it's 'loose' so confined to upper-respiratory. Have you had her chest listened to by GP? Sorry to nag, but dd1 had this on and off for about two years, and it can be quite scary. A steamy bathroom really helps too. I'm sure you know most of this already [LL rolls eyes]..
Have a good trip Teuch! Will help take your mind off 2ww!
Well have had a fairly productive morning. Have written and sent an importnat document, filled the paper bin, done a wash, and am now cooking a healthy (but bland) meal of bulgar wheat, puy lentils and home made fishcakes. Will need a big dollup of ketchup methinks!

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 12:50

I don't think she dis-likes me, I don't think she likes or dis-likes anyone really, as long as they bow down to her every need, put her first before anyone and everything else, and tell her she is beautiful/lovely/funny/ etc. etc. she has no problems.

Her main problem is that she is just sooooooooooooooo selfish, I really can't emphisise that enough, she is hugely selfish, and she doesn't know how to love. I know that sounds very lentil weavingly grim but it's true.

She was the only one of I think 3 kids to be adopted out by her biological mother. Her adopted mum always preferred one of her biological daughters over MIL and the other biological kids. She did have a rough life. She has some learning disorders, nothing major, just hasn't got a basic grasp of education, very slow reading, can't write/spell very well etc.

When I think of that side of it I do feel very sorry for her, but then when I think of what she has done to us, DH, and the kids, none of it maliciously, but still with intent (I know that doesn't make sense but it would if you knew it all) I can't feel much for her other than contempt.

At the end of the day she is DH's mum, and without her he wouldn't have been here, which means my kids wouldn't have been here, so for that, I am obviously grateful to her, but then our life, as it is now, would run much more smoothly without her, or at least with her being 200 miles away

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 12:52

Diege has taken over my 50's little wifey stand You can have it, I am planning on not much more than putting washing in dryer, and sorting kitchen out (yes the one I spent all day Saturday clearing out )

BeMyLilBaby · 17/03/2008 12:53

Nj she sounds worse than mine...Mine just makes snipey comments(less now) and once tried to beat me up in a gym... bt is nice ish now...

go on tell us the rest???

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kayzisbroody · 17/03/2008 12:55

My MIL is horrible too.

BB, she tried to beat you up??????

I think I might have a nap.

BeMyLilBaby · 17/03/2008 13:00

yup me and DP had just broke up (were apart for a year) and we bumped into each other in the gym and she started being vile so i walked off and she followed me and was literally pushing the other side of the door....it was all v dramatic lol my then BF had to come rescue me.... it was so awkward wen we first got back together but she's ok now (ish) she'l nev be my fave pers but she's pleasant now....

Mils eh? im gonna be a nice one

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Playingthewaitinggame · 17/03/2008 13:06

Hello.

Sorry you've had such probs with you sis Kay!

Seems like I get off pretty lightly with my family!! MY MIL is fine, I struggled with her for a few years but not as much as my FIL, took him about 6 years to warm to me. Now I get on pretty well with them (I actually lived with them for 9 months). Thats not to say I agree with everything they do, my DH was brought up very differently to me and I prefer my parents way!!

As for brothers and sisters, I love both of mine to bits and they are my close friends. In fact over the weekend it was decided that my brother was going to move in with us for a few months as a sort of stepping stone into his own place (he's still living at home with Mum and Dad). I'm actually really looking forward to it, we all get on well, and although living together will not nec be easy for £400 extra pounds a month its worth it! Ok so that includes food but still, might bring ttc closer or if I am strong still hold out to Sept and actually have some savings

BeMyLilBaby · 17/03/2008 13:09

playing... i can see you...your foot has just slipped offa the wagon and the rest of you is gonna follow!!! "goan goan goan"!!!

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Playingthewaitinggame · 17/03/2008 13:12

No it hasn't, not slipping yet at all!! Might go for it a couple of months earlier than planned or might still hold out. Not sure yet. Either way, I still need to wait for a little bit longer!

Diege · 17/03/2008 13:13

BB!! You are a very tolerant - I can't always just smile nicely when I get the snipey comments from mine! I should feel sorry for her, but she doesn bring out the worst in me .
Nat, I really don't like the sound of your MIL.. I understand about the 'intent' thing - I think you can be a bitch in what you see/intend to be the outcome, though 'deliver' your actions in a non-malicous way! Oh and I'm handing the 1950s frilly apron back...it doesn't suit me and I need to get back to my slatterny ways asap!
Kay, a nap and then a galaxy sounds good to me

NatalieJane · 17/03/2008 13:15

PMSL beat you up??? Can't help but have a little snigger as well though! Sorry!

Seriously it would take me all day to go through all that she has done. A few of the things though:

1: I think I mentioned she left DH when he was 5 years old, with his 4 brothers and sister and an alcoholic/violent dad, to run off with a man who she ended up marrying? Her DH2 died about 18 months after DH and I got together.

2: She then about 3 years ago went on to meet a man off the net. He seemed quite nice, some company for her, we had them over for dinner etc. a few times. About 6 months after they got together he asked her to marry him, she accepted, was all seeming lovely, until she told us that he was a convicted child rapist, who had spent 2 years in jail for it, but he was of course innocent. It turned out she had known all along about him, let him take DS1 to the toilets in a restaurent, invited him into our home, let him sit on our sofa, drink out of our mugs, I know that sounds OTT, but it still makes my skin crawl now. It turned out that if she hadn't have told us about him, then the police would have because of him being on the Sex Ofenders Register, and marrying her, apparently they have to tell all members of imediate family of his past, so that was the only reason she told us.

We obviously don't have a say over who she has in her life, but there was no way we were taking DS1 anywhere near him. So we went for a few months where we would only go and see her if he was away from the house. He eventually called it off because he felt we had ruined it between them. She then admitted that she did think had raped his foster kids, then xmas before last she was still on her own, so sent him an xmas card and was pissed off when he didn't send one back. So she admits she thinks he was guilty of abusing and raping these two girls, but she wanted a xmas card from him?

3: (or have you had enough?!!!) She asked us to buy a car for her, that she would give us the money for each month, but she has a crap credit file and couldn't get the credit, we agreed. She can only drive automatics, she found a car, was £2,600, deal was she'd give us £60 a month to pay the loan off, she kept it for 6 months, paid us about £30 altogether over the 6 months, and then she sold it for £600 and kept the money, because she wanted a new computer. So we were obviously left with the loan, which we couldn't just stop paying because that would have fucked us up.

4: (last example for now, I promise, I have warned not to get me started on her!!) Back ground, she eventually got over the pervert, and was now with her (now DH) DP. When I was about 33 weeks with DS2, I suddenly started getting very close strong contractions, they stopped after an hour, and because we don't have anyone to look after DS1 except MIL, (and she won't even look after him once every 6 months for us to go out or anything, we've not been out as a couple for about 2 and a half years!) we couldn't just drop everything there and then and go to the hospital, I had a routine MW appointment booked for the next day and since the contractions stopped after an hour, we decided to wait till the next day. MW next day sent me to consultants the day after with instructions of it happened again I was to go to labour ward imediatly, in an ambulance if needed. So DH rings MIL tell's her what's gone on, asks if she would come and stay at our house that night incase it kicked off (baring in mind I was 33 weeks pregnant, would have been a bit hit and miss for DS2 if he'd have been born then, and the fact that she knows we don't have anyone to ask, and that she had agreed to look after him for us when I went into labour anyway) she said she couldn't come and stay at ours because her cats would be left at home alone, her then DP would have been at home with the sodding cats.

Fuck me that took ages to type! Sorry, I think it might be hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! You did ask!

Diege · 17/03/2008 13:15

Playing may well still be in the back row of the wagon, but her seat belt has strangely become UNFASTENED and if she's not carefull she will fall up the aisle or even out of the window!!!

Diege · 17/03/2008 13:19

NJ!!! Is moving a long, long way away an option?? Seriously....

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