Turn around stir fries, every now and then I feel a part (of a mango)

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Oh and Franny - dd1 stopped wearing nappies at night before she was 3, and she still gets up for a wee at night. DD2 aswell. They do one each, spaced out so that you have to get up and go downstairs twice. They never have accidents or anything.

Does he have a drink at bedtime? I often try to get the girls to have their drink a before a story so that they can have a wee afterwards and that sometimes helps.

Dp also gets up to wee once in the night, and he's been out of nappies for about 34 years.

It sounds awful, very scary. A man on the radio this morning said he thought his house was falling down because of all the DIY he'd been doing.

Franny, had a similar situation with DS1. We didn't want to restrict his fluid intake, which is what people usually suggest, so we went the other way. Got him to

choose a new beaker, put it beside the bed and let him drink--the novelty value meant that to begin with he drank a lot and this meant he'd need a wee before

we went to bed, usually at 11 or 12 rather than at 3 AM.

We were also in a similar position to you with DS2 due so we tried to keep DS1 in his own bed, even if this meant climbing

in for a cuddle until he went back to sleep.

Hello .

Well done 100x .

I didn't feel any effects of the earthquake. DD woke but not at any earthquake related times.

I am eating sunflower seeds.

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
100 x

how utterly fantastic
perhaps our next meet can be canapes at your book signing event
oh well done you

franny...i think we have reached no nappy at night time...but I am fretting & not doing anything about it.

i am emotionally whitewashed today,friend tried to commit suicide the night before last & I am beside myself at what to do.I feel utterly useless

earthquake?

lolol at Boco's dp

dh hasn't had an alcoholic drink for 2 weeks now
(crosses fingers)
but he's up all wretched night peeing cos he spends all sodding night drinking fizzy pear ,tea,horlicks etc.......& he still snores

I can never decide what to do with nappies and DD and night. They keep being dry but seeing as she isn't the world's best sleeper, anything that might wake her (and us) up is not to be encouraged.

She is also only 2.5 but toilet trained at a silly early age (effect of wanting to be like older brother I think) so it is a while since she has been out of nappies in the day.

Hmmm, she can keep having pullups for a while I think. I don't mind paying £3.49 for 20 in exchange for not changing sheets more than I have to.

No F&v there. Will get lunch soon. Including F&V.

We're only a few miles from the epicentre so we felt the quake - I didn't really wake up properly and I thought I was dreaming until I heard people talking about it this morning.

Where is our esteemed author this morning? Not feeling roo rough I hope

No tremors here last nigth that I am aware of...mind you I sleep very soundly after yoga. We felt the last one that they had in Folkestone though.

I almost always have to get up at night to wee, have done ever since pg. DH gets up for many reasons at night, peeing, pottering about, eating snacks, annoying me

DS doesn;t usually get up fo a wee, in fact the first few nights he was out of nappies I tried to wake him when we went to bed but it was clearly useless because either he didn;t wee or I couldn;t wake him

But he had dry nappies for about a year before I actually took him out of them at night I just wanted to be sure re the sheet washing

Franny I think I would perhaps wake DS before you go to bed, actually, because he is more likely to go back to sleep at say 10.30pm, whereas at 5am no-one gets back to sleep.

We have just been for a very long walk around our local park which was very energizing and I'm going to see if I can get a yoga DVD because I'm really enjoying it and once a week seems not enough.

(That was to Avi)

Ds rode his bike all the way to the park yay!
His steering is improving daily

I am being a dutiful mummy & doing an hrs practice daily
he is loving it
yesterday was mad..
ran to friends with ds to mind children while she rested
walked from there to park
walked home,quick lunch
hrs bike ride,then back home
then walked into town & home again
no wonder ds & I slept like logs

topday has been a little less energetic

am making veggie lentilly soup for supper

Still eating sunflower seeds

DS was dry at night for aaaaaaaaaaages before we remnoved the nappies - I had some idea that children had to be 3 before no nappies at night. He does have the bladder capacity of a small ox - hardly ever seems to need to wee.

It is nearly home time.

Lully I am very sorry to hear about your friend. I think it is normal to feel useless because of course there IS very little that you can do if someone feels that way - you can offer support and so on, but depressive illness is more like a physical illness than anything else - you wouldn't blame yourself because you couldn't cure your friend's broken leg, would you?

Avi not sure about how you mean 'when' - I think you said you would come over as early as you could which would probably be about 11. I think Boco may be coming? Oh dear I have forgotten actually. Boco are you coming? Does anyone else want to come?

I don't fancy waking ds for a wee. I am not sure about it. I could see me doing that for years and years once we got started - but thanks for suggestion. I think we will just have to tough it out, now. Better now than in 6 months, I suppose. He was just sleeping well which is what gave me the energy to tackle it, of course....ah well

Does anybody feel boot campy? Please go ahead and I will even lend you my hat. I just feel tired and sort of vaguely benevolent, so I don't think it had better be me that does it. I could probably muster tetchy, but not really stern or authoritarian. Please be my guest if this sounds like your forte.

I'm sorry to ignore all other posts but I am just dashing on here...

Farking hell 100!! I am so, so thrilled and excited for you!! Many congratulations, I am shocked and elated and envious, all rolled into one
Are you publishing under your RL name?

and, given how much time you spend on here, how excatly and when have you written it?

dp is cooking leek and mushroom frittata
we have this quite a lot, don't we?
and a salad

oh we felt the qualke up here! I thought it was me having tremors actully

I know Franny
she keeps sending me texts saying Help me & How can I get through this?

She called me late last night & I went to her,but short of lots of hugs...I cannot alter her life for her ,make her husband stay or cure the children.

well the fact that she is reaching out for help rather than giving up altogether is a good sign, IMO Lully

but of course you can't make things better for her or sort out her life
I know you will offer love and support and that is all anyone can do

I am feeling slightly that I slept through the earthquake

I know it is silly as people seem to have been scared and upset by it

bizarrely on Tuesday I had a conversation with someone about controlling bad events in one's life that went like this:

Me: Well for the sake of argument, say if you could exert enough control over your life, then you could stop everything bad happening to you. So every time anything bad happened to someone, it would be their fault.

Friend: Well what about people who get their homes destroyed by an earthquake then?

Me: They shouldn't live in places where there are earthquakes, should they?

Friend: But there WAS an earthquake here, years ago

I heard about the Earthquake as it happened. Hope everyone is ok. I remember one a few years ago when I was in Leeds. I could hear the tiles shaking and thought someone was jumping on the roof

Oh lully, I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I am not sure what to suggest but, when I was in her position, what I would have appreciated most was people treating me as normal, not pretending it didn't happen or hiding potentially dangerous objects or changing the subject when anything 'sensitive' came up. And someone to keep me company in a non-intrusive way. My friend got me to babysit for her a lot and then had dinner with her afterwards and watched a movie or something. And, for me, the nicest thing was to have someone there months after it happened. Lots of people make a fuss in the first few weeks but then they forget about it and assume you're ok. Which you may or may not be. I'm not sure how I'd cope with someone sending me the texts you have received. What a difficult situation.

Banana, lentils, carrot, peas, zuccini.

Is anyone having a problem with cunting blueberries, or is it just me?

I had a very lovely non-cunting mango.

The downside was I had to share it with DS. Now I have anotehr one in the fruit bowl and I might sneak it with me to work tomrrow and not share

Well Franny I must admit I didn;t like the idea of waking DS either and it was only the fear of wet sheets, but when that appeared not to be happening, I was more than happy to drop it.

I love blueberries and the only problem I have with them is eating them semi-freddo and then looking like I have chewed a disclosing tablet which is not attractive when one is at work ina busy office.

my mango is worse than cunting
it is - is - -
I have no words for it
I cannot bear to throw it out so am watching horrified as it slowly turns black all over without ever becoming vaguely ripe

I hate cunting blueberries! I love blueberries like I love mangoes, and I like them a little bit crunchy and cold - when they go too ripe and fat they're like socks that have been left damp too long, all musty and sickly and yuk.

Sorry about your friend Lully, sounds hard. Is she getting help from a cpn or anything? Hope there are other people involved so it's not all on you.