I Started Pumpkin I Couldn't Finish - 10 / 10 club

[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

Tiger feet hope you feel better soon.
Hello everybody.

DD1 is still asleep so another day of off sick.

DD2 is making me laugh with her singing. She's standing with her hand on her hip singing 'i'm a little teapot short and stout, here's my hamster, here's my spout' I really don't want to correct her as it's making me laugh every single time.

Have a load of ginger tea, Tigerfeet!
GMF, I have a yummy pumpkin cake recipe if you have any more to get rid of.
GAH!!!!! I spoke too soon. Just looked at the calendar and the next appointment at the dentist is tomorrow and it's mine for a filling. Serves me right. Cue shitting myself for rest of day.

ginger tea I have gone right off ginger drinks since using them as an MS cure when I was pg

Oooh dentists rather SK than me

Boco your dd2 sounds like she's having a great time, wouldn't it be lovely if you could bottle those moments up (illness must be causing pink fluffiness in me, apologies)

I am rather enjoying being off sick, which makes me think that I am probably not ill enough to be off work, but am off to the quacks in 1/2 hour or so so no point going to work this morning anyway.

Will stop and buy much fruit on the way home.

THere seems to be a lot of muesli eaten on this thread, do you buy it or make your own?

i buy oats and top with jordans cranberru granola [sticks fingersin ears]

I make it-I buy loads of different grains, oatbran, seeds and dried fruit and soak it all overnight. It's a lot cheaper, a bag would last our family one and a half breakfast times!

Please don't worry about the needle, it was advised on kellymom or something. If a duct is obviously blocked or skin grown over, it's agony, but if the skin is broken with a STERILE needle, then you can express to get rid of srtuck milk to avoid mastitis. Except this time I wasn't quick enough. I was very fevery last night, pleaded with DH to stop banging upstairs and he wasn't, it was in my head.

I can't have AB'S every time I get it, that's madness. I need to find the cause. Everyone is telling me to stop feeding now. It's making me really sad

ANYWAY I am going to bed. I had an intensive appointment with DS1's headmaster this morning and it wasn't good timing.

Franny - You are eating marvellouslly well, how can you manage all that fruit?

Boco - Is DD on the mend do you think? We are so pleased she liked her packet, DD enjoyed doing it. She always has those pastilles with a sore throat and she packed them in very seriously too.

Oh dear MrsC, poor poor you. How awful. I hope you have a good rest and it doesn't last long this time.
DD1 is wearing goggles, a scarf, mittens and a woolly hat and is drawing. Apparently this game is called 'Antarctic Workshop'

MrsC, the homeopath!

I am sitting and waiting hungrily for pizza to cook. Very hungrily.

Boco, I like the hamster

Toot - I saw the homeopath yesterday actually, she recommended belladonna 200 but she didn't have any so i had to buy another pot [small hmm] but we did talk over some good stuff. I am taking phytolacca now as I'm sure it wasn't helping. I think I've improved a bit.

Boco - your dc's are very funny, what with the hamster and arctic explorers. Good imaginations. I still when I think of 'Alan'

MrsC, I would like to pick you up and deliver you to my homeopath.

Who or what is kellymum? It sounds very unreliable to me.

When I kept getting mastitis the doctor said it was an infection passed from the baby, like their snotty nose, which gets into the bosom. Does this sound plausible? It's not a very nice thing to say is it? I narrowed my eyes at him, but then I fell off the chair because I had such a high temperature and felt so tired and awful and he told me to stop too.

I cried when I fed her. It IS awful. I am thinking of you, sit in the bath and do the massagey thing and wipe down your bosoms with tea tree oil maybe? Or maybe not? I read something about tea tree oil making adolescent boys grow breasts.

I have been to get my hair cut. I look a bit dramatic actually, like a french piano teacher who might wear large wooden necklaces and drink too much. Also I must be about FIFTEEN because I never wear make-up but now I feel so old, I tore some sample product out of a magazine and put it on this morning, and then sat in the hairdressers staring at this orange person with streaks down the side of her nose. FGS. I really am as immature and unworldly as a fifteen y-o. I am not a grown-up at all.

ooh think they like that kellymom

don't they?

lol at streaky nose

hair sounds nice

I am fifteen and i do actually go into the classroom every day and get homework and put in a groups and pairs to write an answer with teenage boys

Can we see your dramatic hair?
Don't bother with make up. It doesn't do anybody any favours.

And getting mastitis from baby snot is a ridiculous idea.

laugh - I always laugh when I think of Alan, Boco.

Toot - you are kind, she is very nice really. It just doesn't inspire much confidence when she gets things out of a basic first aid kit that I could buy in the chemist.

100x - Kellymom is quite a repuatable (american) breastfeeding website. It has good advice I think. It could be passed on from the baby, it is possible. Any of the bacteria that causes infection lives on the skin most of time anyway, it's when the skin is broken.cracked that infection can pass through. I wouldn't have thought snot itself could do it as colds are viral but I don't really know. The main thing is that I was run down, had a sore throat/lost my voice on Monday and it seemed to set in then. I do cry when I feed him sometimes, it hurts. I don't want to stop feeding but I am getting quite tired of it, the mastitis that is. Even DH has said maybe it's time to stop.

and I don't believe your nose was REALLY streaky, not noticably anyway.

But has your homeopath asked what else is going on in your life atm? Is she trying to work out why it's happening?

Hello everyone

MrsC who is telling you to stop feeding?

Agree with all the comments about how MN is great for cutting straight to the conversation. Although sometimes I do feel a bit restricted and reserved on this medium - I don't think things always come out right, I often feel like I've said the wrong thing and I feel quite conscious that more people are reading than we perhaps might think...

I really miss having RL friends nearby, you know the ones you are totally comfortable with and could chat about anything with But again that's why MN is fab - you are all in my living room most nights

I am feeling a bit dazed today. Ds was up between 1 and 2am-ish crying on and off, wouldn't feed back to sleep, babbling deliriously. It transpired finally that he wanted to go downstairs to look at the pumpkin and his train tracks He was in such a state that I took him downstairs, and indeed he calmed down straight away, had some cashew nuts and a drink of water, then was asleep cuddled up on me before I got chance to finish my cup of tea. 2-year-olds are weird [baffled]

yes, um, we, I mean I, talked a lot about my mother

Oh, everyone, Tatties, because with the best of intentions I think they are bored with me having mastitis. I certainly am. I had it once and didn't tell anyone.

I feel I should be giving her a stern inquisition. I feel quite protective of you.

at you not telling anyone. You will always tell us, won't you?

Oh Tatties i'm the opposite of you, I forget that it's not like email and only one other person is reading - and i'm really surprised when i find that people remember something I once wrote and panic a bit because i say far too much.

MrsC I wish i had good advice. I had mastitis once when the cat jumped onto the bed and landed on my boob, it was agony.

100x, i think you should post a picture of new hair - I did. I hate hairdresser mirrors - hairdressers always look so smooth and flawless and i suddenly realise my eyebrows are silly and my skin is rubbish and my hair has no discipline.

You talked about your mother? God, can I come. Mine is driving me mad. She invited herself here for Christmas in her rather grand way, and so then I felt obliged to invite two misfit brothers and nice brother with wife with slings and needs, and now she keeps ringing up and saying 'Oh we do hate the M25, I don't think we're going to come. When you're old you don't want to go out much' and I meant to bite my lip but I didn't I said 'You've just come back from New York, and you're ringing me up to tell me you're going to London so don't give me that' and then she sighed. Oh grrr. I don't want the brothers here, I was being gracious. I'd rather have invited dh's parents who are cosy and actually like my children. Grrrrrr.

I don't mean dramatic in a good way. I mean in a way like I might wear purple blusher and a beret. I kept looking at this photos of Venice and wondering who the unkempt somewhat thick-set person was following my children about, and it was me every time.

I think I'm having a mid-life crisis. Do you mind?