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I spy with my 10/10 eye, a snifter of currants in a fat mince pie

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FrannyandZooey · 20/12/2007 08:40

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.

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TooTickyDoves · 22/12/2007 22:17

I have had an apple, a clemenole or something, and some tomato and lentil soup.

TooTickyDoves · 22/12/2007 22:34

100x, where are you? I want to talk to you about boys. I want to know where you get your no-nonsenseness from. I want to know if your boys get angry and what you do.

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FrannyandZooey · 22/12/2007 22:37

Ds got angry today because I told him not to keep interrupting dp who was on the phone

he shook a magic wand at me in an aggressive fashion and I told him not to as it was not very friendly

he stomped off and hid in the larder for about 5 mins

then when he came back he said "Mummy, I was SO cross with you that I wanted to throw you into the SEA"

I said I quite understood

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SantaBabyBeenAnAwfulGoodGirl · 22/12/2007 22:37

a few several weeks since i said i wasn't sure about friends well i think i think he is is going fornth date male female idea

TooTickyDoves · 22/12/2007 22:49

Ds1 has been hitting me
And at my general crapness for letting it happen.

BBBee · 22/12/2007 22:50

zippi are you talking in some kind of code - I can;t understand you "a few several weeks since" and "he is is going fornth date male female idea"

I am confused and bemused and endeared.

BBBee · 22/12/2007 22:51

toot - how old (like I can offer advice but I can pretend i might...)

TooTickyDoves · 22/12/2007 22:53

8

BBBee · 22/12/2007 23:02

oh toot - that must be hard for you, tricky age though - my ds is 8 and there is lots of intense emotion and rejection and repentence going on.

TooTickyDoves · 22/12/2007 23:03

Do you think it ever gets better?

BBBee · 22/12/2007 23:08

oh god yes! Of course it does - ds did a similar thin at about 4 where he would get a testerone surge and start running around shouting and being an arse. Was all hormones and it passed.

I am thinking this is the same - sudden aggressive surges and then an emotional fall out. It will end.

BBBee · 22/12/2007 23:08

that reads petronising but was not meant to be.

TooTickyDoves · 22/12/2007 23:09

Damned testosterone!

yulemoonfiend · 22/12/2007 23:10

yeah. It gets better. For about a year. Then puberty starts...
I totally heart my big boy at the moment. 10 tomorrow. (my gods! I have a 10-yr-old!)
He asked me today if his hair wAS long enough for dreadlocks!

He and best mate are still awake and giggling like loons

TooTickyDoves · 22/12/2007 23:11
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FrannyandZooey · 23/12/2007 07:58

Ah TooT I am sorry. That is very hard for you.

I think zippi said

"it's been a few (several) weeks since I said I wasn't sure about being friends

well I think he is going for the 'date', male/female idea"

but she was a bit dutch wasn't she? Perhaps she caught it off BBB

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BBBee · 23/12/2007 08:23

oh yes franny - i get her now (i am a fine one to talk though)

Okay I am off to queue at the organic butchers to pick up our turkey - although it takes ages has become a festive ritual. All cold and christmassy.

franny get ds to sing in the bleak mid winter and report back please.

thank you.

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FrannyandZooey · 23/12/2007 08:27

oh I doubt he will sing it if I ask him

it was so sweet that one time though, I had no idea he knew it

I am going to eat LOTS of fruit

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FrannyandZooey · 23/12/2007 09:19

I have had loads of blueberries - they keep tasting a bit funny though?

and some pineapple, melon, raisins

I reckon 5 portions

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lionheart · 23/12/2007 09:26

5 already? But, but, but, it is Sunday and the eve before Christas Eve.

I have had one Advent chocolate.

SantaBabyBeenAnAwfulGoodGirl · 23/12/2007 09:28

i havent had any food yet...i am wanting christmas over and done with it hink

MrsCarrot · 23/12/2007 09:49

Toot - you need to sort that out Right Now. He will only get bigger, how old is he anyway? I have no good advice about how to but when you say you have been letting him, what do you mean? That there hasn't been consequences for it or that you have deflected the blows but not been angry or that you have simply taken it? Explain more. Thank you so much for the cards yesterday too, I had a ghastly day at in-laws in Surrey and that was a cheering homecoming. They were lovely.

100x - chocolate fudge cake or fudge? I made the pistachio stuff, it is lovely. I havent put it in their bags yet though so I keep eatng it pretending that I dont know how much condensed milk has gone in. Are you all sorted for guest dinners now? We had halibut and king prawn thai curry with mango and corinander the other night. I thought of you as it was so easy and quick and easy to cook lots of.

Are you all organised? My house is sea of not yet done tasks. By the time I have thought through what needs doing I forget where I started and go back to the beginning again. Isn't there a bridge like that. This is becase everythiing revolves around the list, an object of near mythical propertion now. It is so great I can only get so close and offer it gifts. I can't take anything away from The List. Oh, no, it wants feeding constantly and grows slowly giving off an eerie light.

yulemoonfiend · 23/12/2007 10:40

I am slightly disappointed that BBbee is not talking like an Ikea catalogue anymore....

Children finally got shouted at and went to 'sleep' at midnight and were up at 7.
Ds was touchingly choked at his mp3 player (which, ver handily has a password protect sound level) present and they are now eating candy canes and bellowing Levellers's songs at the top of their lusty little voices. Junk and disorderly...

Toot, really that is worrying. What is he angry at? I know there are times when one feels one doesn't have the energy to tackle problematic behaviour, but this does need sorting before it gets out of hnd and becomes a pattern of behaviour. Can we help at all?

pinkspottywellies · 23/12/2007 10:52

Morning all! We went to dh's work do last night and drank a lot. I got up at 7 with dd and dh is still in bed well not quite but [grrrr]

I went to town yesterday to 'just get my last minute bits' which would have been fine if I didn't already do that on Monday!

I'm getting quite excited about Christmas now!!! Need to wrap presents today and make fudge and lemon cheesecake. Tomorrow we're going to carols round the crib at the church in pil's village and it will be all quaint and lovely!

TooTickyDoves · 23/12/2007 11:43

Yes, please help. He just gets very angry, and when he is angry he lashes out. He is 8. There is nowhere to get help with these things but there should be - would save a lot of wife battering I think if it was nipped in the bud.