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Mangohood - 10 / 10 thread

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FrannyandZooey · 14/03/2009 09:56

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

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TooTLooP · 19/03/2009 06:54

Stuffit, it all sounds dreadful

Dd2 and I saw frogs mating on the canal path yesterday.

For FK:
Twist me and turn me and show me the elf,
I looked in the mirrir and there saw myself

pinkspottywellies · 19/03/2009 08:11

Oh stuffit, it sounds so difficult. I saw your other thread. Hope you got some useful advice.

DS has decided 1lb wasn't enough and has been pigging non-stop since about 6 o'clock last night. I'm hungry and tired and feel like crying!

raisins, apple juice, banana, viscount biscuit.

It's so quiet in here!

ahundredtimes · 19/03/2009 09:11

Oh stuffit. Can you link to your other thread? Do you mean to boarding school? Do you mean all your children or just ds1? I'm guessing that teenage alienation is bad enough, without feeling alienated by an alien environment too.

My tuppence worth is that, whilst shit for you, boarding school can and does often provide continuity for children whose lives are disrupted in ways they find it difficult to cope with. I'm not a huge fan, having been to one myself, but I do know children who were 'saved' by being there, if you find the right school - usually the children of divorcees, alcoholics, diplomats and service folk.

Each child needs individual action don't they? Does he agree with this? I think his agreement is probably key so he understands and agrees with your decision-making, and feels v. much a part of that decision, rather than something foisted upon him. Is he sad? Locked in his room? Painting the walls black? Sorry, I should read your thread - where is it?

ahundredtimes · 19/03/2009 09:13

Wombling - thank you for reading and being gripped. I like this. It's like instant feedback. Is odd, and rather interesting.

womblingalong · 19/03/2009 09:45

100, I hope it doesn't make you feel too uncomfortable, I can stop if you'd rather.

Lemur, I keep hearing that song in my head every time I see your name. I am looking forward to DD's tap performance in April, they are doing I Like to Move It Move It dressed as animals from Madagascar. Apparently DD is the giraffe, who is very tall in the movie. DD is about a head or so shorter than all of her classmates, so I think it will be quite amusing.

Stuffit, I have found your thread, it sounds so, so difficult and heart wrenching for you. How long are you supposed to be staying?

ahundredtimes · 19/03/2009 09:48

No! Not at all Wombling, I'm very grateful to you. It's interesting that's all, not uncomfortable making, and you've all been awful polite.

Boco · 19/03/2009 09:51

Can't find stuffit's thread, is it under a different name?

I'm not sure what to do - dd1 is off sick, she's got a cough and is being sick when she coughs. I took dd2 to nursery but have to pick her up at half eleven. dd1 in bed, hot and sleepy and feeling sick when she gets out of bed. I don't know anyone who can pick up dd2 for me, her usual friends have chicken pox, don't have the numbers of anyone there this morning. Have tried the only two possibles and they're not home. It takes 20 - 30 mins to walk there, get her and walk home. I don't know what to do.

ahundredtimes · 19/03/2009 09:53

Put her in the car and drive there?

ahundredtimes · 19/03/2009 09:56

With a bowl to be sick in.

Boco · 19/03/2009 09:58

I have to park my car quite far away, and then the road is closed where the school is because of the house that caught fire, so I'd only be driving about 100 yards!

Guadalupe · 19/03/2009 09:59

Yes, have you got the car?

I have left dd briefly once or twice, not more than a ten mins though.

Guadalupe · 19/03/2009 10:00

Hmm. Maybe ring them and explain, ask if anyone can bring her home?

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 19/03/2009 10:02

Can you put dd1 in a buggy? Or is that the most ridiculous idea ever?

Boco · 19/03/2009 10:04

I considered the buggy, but she'd never go for it, especially as i'd have to wheel her past her classroom!

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 19/03/2009 10:06

How about a big blanket in the buggy so she can put it over her head?!

Give her the option of what to do. Although no doubt whatever you do will be wrong!

ahundredtimes · 19/03/2009 10:06

Have you got a neighbour? Tell her you have to pop up to get dd2, will she sit in your house for 20 mins?

I don't understand this one road closed thing, if it takes 30 mins to walk there and back, there must be another route towards the nursery, a road you can park on, and leave dd1 in the car, for 5 mins while you walk there? Then she's alone for 5 mins rather than 30? No?

womblingalong · 19/03/2009 10:07

Hi Boco,

Poor DD1. Could you ring school and ask if they could bring DD2 out to where you've parked the car for you, as DD1 is so poorly? Alternatively, could you ask a neighbour to sit with DD1 while you go out to fetch DD2?

womblingalong · 19/03/2009 10:08

X posts with 100!

ILikeToMoveItMoveIt · 19/03/2009 10:12

Oh and I meant to say before. Bountiful lactation vibes going pinks way. No one ever tells you about the non-stop-feed-athons, and somehow the brain seems to erase them from our memory.

They are bloody tough. I even asked my sister if she fancied re-lactating so I could have a break

To help:

One comfy sofa infront of the tv
a book
a BIG drink
a plate of food
the remote control
the telephone
a she-wee
activities you can do one handed with dd

Boco · 19/03/2009 10:14

We have a new neighbour. This sounds odd, but he invited the girls into his house for a wrestle. I'm not sure I feel comfortable with him. My other neighbour out.

Road thing - I cant' reverse up and down my narrow drive, getting past all the neighbours cars - there's only space for one car, and dp uses it, and can't park on our road, as it's no parking. So, I park about half way to school, about 5 minutes walk away. Then the whole road the school is on is closed, so the nearest parking place would be very close to where I'm parked already, so id be driving up from one end of a lane to the other.

I'll see how she is in an hour and either call nursery or persuade her she's going to have to walk. I did ask her how she felt about being left and she said NO. I asked her to walk to school and she said NO.

Boco · 19/03/2009 10:29

Ah it's ok. A friend has agreed to go and get her for me. And when I called school, the nursery teacher said she'd always walk dd home for me if I was stuck, so, it's fine. Phew.

Guadalupe · 19/03/2009 10:39

Oh good.

littlerach · 19/03/2009 12:42

Phew.
That's good.

We have glorious sunshine again.
I have wroked this morning, but we spent much of it outside in the sandpit

Carrot
celery humous

No variation really.

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FrannyandZooey · 19/03/2009 14:01

phew boco hope dd1 better soon

pink hold tight how wonderfully you are doing!

stuffit i don't know what to say but 100 is usually very helpful (cue 100 saying USUALLY? )

have had pc problems but ok now

took boys to creche this morning so i could go to gym for half an hour
they were fine last time and i skipped merrily off
came back 30 mins later apparently ds2 had been crying most of the time
the manager said "he was ok after 15 mins, you could leave him all day now he has settled in"
i said "you don't mean he has been crying without stopping for 15 mins?" and the girl who was sitting with him said "well maybe 20"
[anger]

will stop before i wear out all the winkies
but really
i mean i would have probably committed suicide if this had happened to ds1 (as IF i woould have ever left him in a creche) and i know it is not going to permanently have damaged him, but it is so annoying
i was literally 1 minute away and would not have left him if i knew he was crying
the manager said "ah but it;s good for them"
i thought (but did not say) "no it is actually BAD for them you fuckwits"

but this is only creche in town where they will take older home ed children and tbh i think they are nice if misguided on this issue, so bit tongue and tortured self all way home
anyway that's that over with for now
i was really enjoying having half an hour here and there - well TWICE in a month i have managed to go
i think ds2 is in the separation anxiety stage
he yelled when my friend held him yesterday

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Guadalupe · 19/03/2009 14:13

I had this once with a creche for a yoga class. I got back and the girl said breezily, oh she cried for quite a bit in her pram but she soon stopped when she realised you weren't coming back.

I said but I TOLD you to come and get me if she cried and she said, oh , she was just trying it on, the little monkey.

She was nine months old. I complained, a lot.

It's closed now anyway.