In Gourd We Trust - 10 / 10 club - 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

Avi - how old is your ds, I forget?

There isn't a nursery in the land where some someone's ds isn't standing with his legs wide apart and putting his elbows in the air with weird jerky movements. Don't panic. it's okay.

My ds2 wanted to be Spiderman for oooh, about 2 years I think. And you know what he's the same ds2 who cried when he read The Little Match Girl and the same one who has put a milk bottle on the table and insisted WE ALL put our spare 20ps in it for children 'who are dying'. I heart ds2. And he's still not adverse to running through a wood shouting 'pow pow, I'm Robin Hood and I'm going to kill you.'

See? Is all part of the mix, and honestly ds2 is much more 10/10 than me, and quite the loveliest, most empathetic person EVER.

I am eating an apple. Instead of eating something like an extremely chocolately bite, or a piece of rocky road cake or a small flapjack, all of which I brought into work to celebrate my birthday on Saturday.

I have a moderately halo like feeling, for a moment anyway.

And also have just done much exercise (for me, anyway) of a virtually running up Oxford Street type of way due to leaving my oyster card in the office and having gone to Heals to buy a lovely new duvet cover. .

DH is away tonight. I will try not to just sit on my bottom and eat chocolate all evening .

The whole gun etc phase doesn't seem to have got to DS yet, although the car/digger/anything with wheels phase has been with us for a long time.

Have to admit to enjoying watching DD pushing a toy ambulance along the floor going nee-nar in exactly the same way DS did (and still does I think) yesterday. . She does also have a immense love of "pretty dresses", preferably pink.

My dh is also away (well...he is away for like 2 weeks...in Kasachstan (sp)) and it's our 12th wedding aniversary....hohum...

The other day dd2 said 'shoot, shoot, i'm going to keew you!' I have no idea where she got it from, i asked her, but she said she can't remember.

my ds1 is so sensitive and empathic and in touch with his feminie side. And yet, spends hours still, building weapons of mass destuction out of lego and will only go on a long walk if he has a selection of swords/shields etc to fight orcs etc with. He is 9. He was also brought up with non-gender specific, bark-sucky toys....

Yes ds1 regularly builds Weapons of Death out of lego. This is the bespectacled chessy one. (Actually, maybe I should be worried about that).

Mind you I banned toy guns and swords for years, because ds1 didn't really get the notion of play-fighting and it was always a bit fraught. I'm not sure he has yet really

I don't buy the boys will be boys line, but I do buy the my ds1 and ds2 will be ds1 and ds2, and that's fine by me.

But I'm not very controlling as a rule, am too lazy as a parent. I just used to say 'don't shoot real people, they don't like it'.

Oh and dd is an amazon. A gorgeous, spirited amazon but one all the same.

She's always 'on safari'.

YY! (this ds is chessy and geeky - in a good way )
ds2 is far more 'physical'. If he points weapons at me I just say ''I don't like this game'' and walk away. Which stops him 'dead'.

oh, if they get hold of toy guns...(sometimes they sneak in, etc...)or even if they play with selfbuild guns of lego, and all that, they will always be told...you do NOT aim at at anyone....

Ernest, how about quick bread-and-something type meals with pieces of fruit? Eg, bread and cheese (my dcs are not vegan!), raisins, chunks of apple/pear/banana, segments of orange, sticks of carrot if they will? We have gradually built up this type of meal to include more variety and it is all very easy to eat. You can even arrange it into faces if it takes your fancy.
My ds2 used to be the fussiest little thing - at one point he didn't actually like any veg, then he would only eat green things...now he eats some more Little steps...

Yes, that's what we do too 3andnomore. We have some guns and swords and stuff now.

But they don't use them much, they prefer sticks. DD bought a catapult on holiday.

as I think I said a few weeks ago, ds1 once got a barbie, pulled her legs at a 90 degree angle and 'fired' her like a gun.

Damn, I must change this name

LOL, I keep thinking you sound like Urma Thurman's character in Pulp Fiction....

at preschool, some of the children (girls as well) used to shoot me with a plastic aubergine and carrot

I see, the thread has moved on. Okay...

My ds1 (who recently kicked me, stamps on my toes and terrorises ds2) wants a donor card and for his last birthday wanted to make a £5 donation to the rRed Cross.
Ds2 is a sweetie who dotes on dd2 but, when annoyed, adopts a martial art type stance and shouts "Japanese fight!" in a startlingly authentic accent.
Dd1 is an adventurer.
Dd2 is cute and curly and a frighteningly accurate shot with just about anything throwable.

I have spent my lunchbreak talking to someone called Tollickingboss and MrsCuntingMango.

i need to get some perspective on my life.

Oh god, is that the time? Okay, see you later.

I spent my lunch hour playing hide the sausage with dh....

I beg your pardon?

TB...you what....choke.....

Toot...my lil ones all have starting doing some martial arts moves, too...and tis all my fault...as I am a Tae Bo lover...so, tehy have seen me do kicks and stuff...ooops

Sorry. But no fruit and veg to report....

well, you were to busy for that, weren't ya....lol

That's your exercise for the day, then, TB!
My sweet violin-playing ds also stands at traffic lights shooting each passing car with his umbrella and muttering "bang" under his breath until I hear him and administer retribution!
Boco, your nursery sounds great.

Hide the sausage? Do you mean having sex, or actually hiding sausages? I'm worried.

The pre-school looks like a real dump - from outside it looks like an eastern bloc temporary medical centre. And inside it's even worse. But the staff were friendly and they had paint and the atmosphere was really calm and happy - so that's fine.

MrsCuntingmango - have you had any reaction to your name out in the larger world of mn?

Oh dear i'm late for school pick up! eek

I can't decide whether to be at your sausage session or to TB.