The Invisible ...... Mango - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

[FrannyandZooey]

For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page.

Boco, you are right to share, I am wrong to not share. That's the truth. Is dp better now? I'm going to send a box of frothy lightly comic books to him. He'll kill us both, we know this. Actually I'm going to send him dh, in a box with his broom. They will get on famously.

oh god - i have just done the dropping off nervous girl in year one class too. Tight sweaty hand grip, refusing to speak or acknowledge anyone else. I did the brisk anne type kiss on hte cheek and cheery goodbye but am worried because I know she worries.

DS (yr3) complete opposite and ran ahead of me and refused to acknowledge me in the classroom as he was too busy talking pen knives.

They are fine - it is fine.

I don;t like the way DP says my name - he puts loads of emphasis on the middle vowel. It is his accent. I hate the way he says 'cucumber' too.

100 - dd Eleanor
Idris - Emma and Sam

oh loads of posts while I was writing that one!

I shout sometimes my throat hurts at the end of the day.

Everyone is an arse sometimes - even me. Why should children be any diffrent. Sometimes they behave like arses.

I hate the way dh says quite a lot of words, but then I love others. His accent has changed though over the years - he used to always have hard A's - I think it's Bath, or me. I want the hard A's back.

I wish my name was Esther, I like it, but it isn't, sadly.

I think it's quite friendly to say your dc is an arse. I call mine shits, under such circumstances, 'ds1 is being an utter shit', like that. Now that's not nice.

Yes zippi, blood sugar and tiredness and growth and feeling grown up one minute and wanting to be a baby the next.

And I shout too. I hate it but sometimes there isn't an alternative. There really isn't. Goodness, what if all our dcs misbehave at the meet up? Will we all try to deal with it in a calm and restrained way whilst looking out of the corners of our eyes or just shriek like banshees?

I think you should all shriek 'ARSE'. Will be good.

God, it's 11.00. I must go and do something sensible.

How's it going TT? How on earth did you know how and where to start HEing? It's exciting.

I'd like to know an Esther. There were twins at our school called Hannah and Esther but thy weren't jewish they were Mormons (sp?)

Thank goodness you all shout too, thought I was the only closet banshee on here. Dh is always doing this irritaing lowering hand business to remind me to calm down. I feel more annoyed but I drop the tone to a sort of falsetto nicey nicey tone which is more scary.

Your HE sounds interesting, TOOT. I know some people who do it and they are always doing interesting things. I think ds1 would have benefited from it he found starting school very hard. DD would never speak to me again.

My god, I just can't catch up with it. A couple of things stand out. FZ, I can identify with what you are saying about your ds, including the arse bit Sometimes I think, I have taken my lot out all morning doing something extremely active, then lunch, then afternoon activity of something equally knackering, and then I get back to the house about 5, shattered myself, and will they just sit and watch some telly, or do anything that means I can get on with things, something quiet. NO THEY WILL NOT.... Argh

Zippi - its brilliant to hear some one talking openly about bi polar, as you say there is a massive stigmatisation about mental illness in this country, so well done. I used to work in the mental health field, and often thought that bi polar seemed to be like such a difficult thing to have, not being able to trust ones own happiness I suppose, as it might mean you are getting elated.
Some of the consequences as well, are huge, I have worked with people who have sold their house when high, or other rash things.

On to the F and V bit. So far dried fruit in home made granita (sp), 2 nectarines, and some grapes.
Going to have some rice with vegetables for lunch, so not doing too badly.
I am having to drop ds1 off to reception class tomorrow, and know that I will find it a bit heart breaking really. He is very excited which is good, but imagine when I actually leave he might feel a bit lost

I didn't know how and where to start with HE. We are just doing it. Yesterday dd1 did a book review (she was doing one anyway for Walker books so I thought she may as well start off with that.) Then online algebra in the afternoon. Today, she chose to start a project on Russia and has decided to learn Russian.

I think 100x is called Chrysanthemum.

Hello everyone.

Hope it goes well for you tomorrow, OR.

Yes, an interesting discussion of bi-polar, it must be terrifying for you sometimes, zippi.

Boco what a terrible time you must all have had.

Overrun is right, though, isn't she, about how certain forms of mental illness have yet to be recognised and understood within wider society?

Have had banana and smoothie so far but am off to the shops.

Are you serious, PSW, about meet-up etiquette? If so, I should probably stop trying to teach my children to answer to Fred and Barney.

I thought it was going to be all incognito.

yes you hit the nail on the head..I'm feeling quite excIted and happy, but I know it is not quite right or do I..no idea really

so this holiday will either go really well..or i will get carried away..or I will find something makes me feel down and i'll hurtle down into a spiral of horribleness when I come back..but hoepfully not

relationships, houses having children all danger zones..in fact anything where you have to make a decision..never sure whether i left my husband because he was an arse or because i was ill and i fell in love with dp

Zippi, it sounds like a different world. I hope you enjoy your holiday anyway. Do you have room for my ds1 in your suitcase? His class is learning about Egypt and he is terribly excited.

No one guessed DS and DD's names yet. They start with an A and a B (we really went to great lengths in the baby names book to find them).

DS has moments of arse-ness. Although he has finally taken up eating, which is good. Is he going to get more painful to be with when he is 4 (in November)? I have seen some of his contemporaries have been showing similar tendencies.

am very embarrassed everyone delighted and shocked to hear me call ds an arse

I am very underperforming parent most of the time and have to work at it a lot tio be halfway decent, but it depresses me enough without having to go on about it on here

sorry I assumed this was taken as read

Yes I think blood sugar is the second reason for it all - ds appalling with anything sugary, even juice - and he did have a fruit juice lolly yesterday, and a fruit juice jelly

Reading about all the children going off to school has given me a few gulps

I also have a Question.

In my quest to be an improved Mummy, I am offering (as healthy as I can) snacks. What savoury things can I have that are readily available. I can only think of cheese . Please be aware I am useless at culinary skills; that was why I had to marry DH.

I'm also sure that if DS used the word arse (which I don't think he does) he would probably describe me as one on some occasions.

Bother, I am at work looking at pictures of DS and DD and would suddenly much rather be with them than here .

Idris - Dried fruit, toasted seeds with tamari?

Dried fruit - yes .

What is tamari? that I am nearly 32 and have no idea what it is.

Well...so far had watermelon again, and now, for lunch am having a red pepper and lots of carrot sticks with houmous( again)!
ES has his first day at Secondary school, and was quite apprehensive about this, but I know he will be alright.
Well, let me ask you this....his school is 2 ,iles away, and well, as it would be difficult to get them all on time to their schools/Nurseries, he has to make his own way, either by bike or by Foot....and people seemed to be really shocked that we make him do this...i.e. saying it would be to far and all that....he is 11 years old...surely a 2 mile walk is not to much ? I mean, I know I had to do that sort of distance when I was that age...or are we really cruel? Saying that one lad in the street will walk with him, as they are at the same school, and his parent's obviously also feel it is alright...so, what you think, have we got it wrong or the other people?
Ys had his first day back at Nursery and enjoyed that, and I took ms to a softplay place, which he enjoyed.

Sauerkraut, sorry you feel so overwhelmed by the others wittyness, honest you really have nothing to worry about!

Mrs C, anything to make things easier for others
Oh, and I know an Esther...my ex next door neighbour...she was really lovely

Zippi, what are you like, lol...
And wow at your Holiday in egypt...that is my only real regrett about my time living in Cyprus, we never went across to egypt...how stupid is that. Sigh...now I probably will never see teh pyramids, etc....
Have you tried relaxation techniques /meditation/yoga...tis all menat to be good for getting to sleep, etc...!

Lionheart...I agree the decision to HE is a big one....must admit, I am one of those horrible mums that actually truely enjoys having some time without the Kids, so, school suits me But I think it is fabulous when people do HE and really enjoy it (which is key to it, I would think) .Saying that, I do find that school starts to early over here.
Oh, and what sort of detox are you doing?

Lullaby, that cake sounds absolutely gorgeous...hm...where can you get barley floour and oatmeal? I assume Oatmeal is ground down oats....so, might be available in a supermarket...buty don't think I have come across barley flour.
And aww at your ds....bless...at least he liked it then, eh...but it is a bit upsetting when they don't want to come hme with you....I have had that on some occasions...lil monkeys!

Franny, yes it was me who couldn't open teh file...could you put it as a plain word documents or something like that....I should be able then to get to it!
And sorry to hear that you find your ds's behaviour so wearing....my sympathies....my Kids can be ratehr hard work at times....hence me deciding to come to the meet up on my own. I will be able to enjoy it more...London kind of overwhelms me a bit, and I find it so stressful with Kids in tow...looking forward to my Break, and must book, etc...!
BBBee, I still don't know what punting is, lol....

Tatties, lovely for you, that you found your ring...I hate it when I can't find things...like my darn Bag...I still have not found it, and I know it was in teh house, sigh....but it's nowehere to be found...now, it would not be so bad really, as there wasn't much in it anyway, only some leaflats and my sunglasses, which are prescription, so, that is a bit annoying...sigh!

Pink, your f&v intake sounds good though...., and how do you get your fruit so cheaply?
And I agree with the otehrs, that Rice crispies isn't the greatest of cereals! Makes me so that they are able to claim that all cereal is good...like yeah Frosties would be a real healthy Breakfast choice then grrr...(at the advertisers/manufacturers that is)

Avi....201 steps...bet you feel those today.
That Play group sounds a bit odd with snack time...All the ones my kids went to were only offering helathy snacks.

Toot, so sorry to hear your daughter was bullied...no child should experience such a thing. I hope that you get on well this year. I know it would drive me mad, personally, and I would be to worried that my Kids wouldn't learn anything from me...am rubbish at explaining, etc...so, i assume you going to be homeschooling, ratehr then uunschooling? I know there are some good websites out there for Home Educators....!

Boco, I hope that, dispite the start of the school day, your dd1 will have a good day at school anyway!

100....hope your Kids settled at school, well, too!
Oh and is your sons' name Noah? ( I love that name Noah, and mentioned it to dh each time I was pregnant, in teh hope that it grew on him, but it never did ...so, now I have 3 ds's and no Noah, lol)

Oh, and btw...,y posts only are so long because you lot are talking so much ;)

Idris is your son Aaron or Alfie or Andrew?
And you daughter might be a Bethany or a Beth or a Bernadette or a Bianca?

Alex and Bethan.

maybe I'll sit next to a gorgeous guy on the plane and i can cling on to him..

zippi slaps self {smile]