Hey Mr. Tangerine Man - 10 / 10 thread

[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

By the way if anyone wants to sponsor me for the Race for Life on the 18th I can give you my online page (probably via email cause it has my real name on). But don't feel you have to cause I know people support thier own charities etc. But in case anyone doesn't know it's a ladies only event for Cancer Research. It's 5k and people walk jog or run and you say who you're running for on your back and it's amazing!

Mrs C!!!!

You're home already, glad to hear you are feeling ok, and tht you have lots of lovely things to enjoy while you convalesce (sp?).

Sending lots of healing vibes, hope you are being taken care of.

xx

stuffit thank you, what a lovely compliment. I am a bit boho, but not very yummy really.

Franny - the others are right - your ds has a lovely life - I always think 'lucky him, she sounds like such a lovely mother'. And he will have to make lots of little compromises, right from the start, but it really won't hurt him long-term - in fact quite the opposite. My heart melted the other day when ds2 - who is starting to get mobile - got hold of something beloved of ds1's. ds1's first instinct was to snatch it off him, and he did - but immediately found something else of his and gave it to ds2, saying 'he can have this instead' Sorry, that is a bit of a tangent. I think I would go for the mini-festival at home idea. - It's not quite the same situation, of course, but I felt so bad for ds1 when ds2 - and I with him, obviously - was hospitalised at 3 weeks. I worried so much about how he might feel, about him possibly feeling hurt and confused that I was away again because of ds2. So when he came to visit and I could leave ds2 with dh for a little while, I took him for little walks round the hospital grounds - it was October, there were conkers, and we found a little pond, and there was the landing place for the air ambulance - and we went in the hospital chapel and looked at the stained-glass windows and just had tiny voyages of discovery together. He loved them, and I remember them even now as very special. What could have been a situation of him feeling very hurt and missing out became a precious memory - he still talks about the 'hospital helicopter'.

I bet you're very yummy Bero. It sounds like there are lots of very difficult things about living there but lots of lovely things too. It'll be an amazing experience for the ds's and they'll have two languages which is fantastic. I think your hospital walks sound wonderful!!

I also agree that things will feel sooooo different for all of you Franny when the new baby comes and there will be so many new things to discover as a 4! How exciting!

Oh my did you send MrsC Kiki Superfood? You are supposed to be making her feel BETTER [stern] how on earth is the poor love supposed to manage the Temporary Cleansing Reaction?

In all seriousness, I think it's wonderful stuff. Even the taste doesn't phase me that much. I am definitely the better for it, can't really put my finger on how or why, I just am.

Lovely to hear from you MissusC

DD had a choice of what we did with our day. She chose to "go to the shop with the meatballs please" (Ikea) so off we went.

She loves it there. She is THREE YEARS OLD how on earth did that happen???

I have typed up the Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake recipe for my friend who I first made it for. So if anybody wants it I can e-mail it to you. E-mail me on her _ indoors5 @ hotmail . com without the spaces obviously! or CAT me. And I will send it to you.

avi would it help at all to share hypochondriacal thoughts?

Oh dear Avi that's a horrid feeling.
I hope you talk about it with someone and probably your GP.

I'm feeling all uneasy about tomorrow because the Education Welfare Officer is due to visit and what with ds2's hospital trip I forgot to get in touch and say we'd rather communicate in writing SO I don't know if I can still, with any dignity, phone in the morning and put them off.
We are not well prepared, although I was mentally compiling lists in the night about what I could tell them.
Also, I am concerned that if they do come dd1 will come over all odd-seeming, as she often does when People speak to her. It's the Aspergers tendencies thing that I happily ignore most of the time.
Perhaps I could phone scattily and say that we are all rather up in the air due to ds2 being in hospital, and could we postpone...or something...
Sorry, that was long but it is preying on my mind.

Avi, I hope you talk to someone. Or go and see my homeopath!!
At one point I was convinced that I was going to die but I couldn't talk to anybody and I was so scared of leaving dcs motherless and I just lived in a silent terror for weeks. Probably months actually.

I would do that (ring and put off, citing hospital stay) IIWY TooT. That should certainly be seen as a valid reason. How is ds2?

Is the EWO visit about HE? It is a cause of some sadness to me that HE is definitely not an option for us, due to it being illegal in Germany. I am not happy about a series of aspects of the German school system (over in Living Overseas we have a whole thread devoted to gripes) and rather envy the home-edders on here.

Sorry. Going on about me again.

Oh thank you Bero.
Yes, dd1 is HE for this year due to a bullying-type situation.
Are you in Germany permanently then? Sorry, don't think I know your situation.

Ds2 is okay - makes monstrous amount of fuss over the eye drops though. His eye is quite swollen when he wakes and he is still very sensitive to light.
Am deliberating when to send him back to school. If he goes this week I will have to go in at lunchtime to do his eye drops.

Don't apologise for talking about you. If any of us didn't want to hear about other people, we wouldn't be here

Hello.

Am very glad MrsC is back at home again .

I am sure the EWO would be amenable to not visiting due to the hospital stay.

When I was HE for a year, no one ever came near us in an EWO way. My mum was quite disappointed.

I think I'd keep him off for the week, if you can manage it - school = lots of sensory/visual input - might irritate the eye.

Realistically we are here for the long haul. dh would find it very difficult to get work in the UK (ironically the States might be a better bet) - he is a funded doctoral student in a niche area - the other current option is a career in academic policy or funding bodies. I have been having thoughts of trying to move us to the UK in time for dcs' secondary education, but that would mean me being the main or even sole earner (which I really don't want, tbh - been there and disliked the T-shirt) and that would mean us having to crack on with ttc no. 3 sooner than we'd really like, so s/he's not all that little when we make the move.

at your mum being disappointed.
Yes, I think I shall have to phone.
The house is a mess anyway.

bero, it must be even later for you. Why are we all still up?

oh, I'm sorry about dd1 As a bullying survivor (if that's not Too Big A Word) myself - although I don't know the ins and outs of the situation - well done for protecting her by pulling her out. A shame her school ouldn't protect her

Not that I mind other people being up - quite the opposite.

I suppose I am wondering why I am still up.

Hmm, yes, although ds1 will not be impressed at ds2 having more time off. He is the only child out of 4 attending school atm and that must be bloody hard.

Bero, that does sound complicated.

We'd quite like to live in Sweden, except that I wouldn't leave my mum/grandmother, etc. A stuga would be the way to go, if we ever have any money, and we could let all our friends stay there.
We have wonderful friends who let us stay in their beach chalet every year and I would dearly love to do as they do.

(you can read the 'ouldn't' as 'couldn't' or 'wouldn't' as appropriate )

I am up because ds2 is asleep in my arms. I could put him down and do a mad rush to get to bed with him before he wakes and screams the place down, but I can't face it quite yet.

I am up because I couldn't go to bed when I wanted to because I had to make flapjack. So if I can't have an early night I shall jolly well have a late one, in defiant child fashion

A girl in dd1's class wouldn't allow the other girls to speak to dd1. To be fair, the school did try, the head in particular but I don't think they fully understood the situation. Nasty girl was very good at covering her tracks, despite the fact that if she was absent the other girls did speak to and play with dd1 - until nasty girl's return. Nasty girl is now busy being model pupil so I think people will never really believe quite what it was like.
Anyway, dd1 has chosen a secondary school that none of the others will be going to and is looking forward to a fresh start in September.

oh, and it would mean definitely no fourth child (unless I had twins), which would make me sad, although not having 3 I can't know whether I do indeed want 4.

I like the idea of Sweden - never been, sadly.

oh dear TooT. Poor dd1.