The Spring Chat

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ok finally Christmas is over

Sj, I've been awake since about 3-ish [props eyes open]

hello all

tilly oh no you have my sympathy
my advice is buy a good bra and good trainers for your feet get them fitted in good shop
then start running walking here
not that I am calling you names

SJ hope all is well

pcW hope you are enjoying the sun with cruising boy

my phone is driving me mad the battery just barely lasts 24hrs, and I don't really use it much other than texting, dh says I made it that way so I can get an iphone who me? want an iphone?

dd declared this morning that her nursery was the bestest ever

slng just got your postcard
I have one of those refuseniks permanently stuck on NO
bless them

didn;t go to disco - no-one else wanted to play so we went swimming instead.

However for for delight and amusement ....

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/742971-I-have-just-discovered-that-my-brother-thinks-I-am

Oh, poor Tilly. Hope you are managing to lie in a heap in the garden, 3am is just a tad early eh?

SJ, would love to sit in a coffee shop on Friday morning but the cruising boy would not be so keen, I expect. But we must meet up soon plus I need to give you the bed back. Will email you.

Hope everyone else is enjoying themselves today

Tilly, thanks for Toy Library info. Might pop up there one morning so will let you know. Think there might be one in Marble Hill Park, so will also investigate that as I'm in Hampton Hill.

DS seems to have attention span of a goldfish at the moment. Everything has to be done in short bursts - playing, sleeping, feeding etc. Gave in and stuck him in front of CBeebies for the first time today - at only 12 weeks! He looked like a miniature couch potato, happily slumped and zoned out in his rocker chair. Felt v guilty, but then he got bored of that too after 10 mins. Then tried him in the sling, front-facing, for first time and that was quite successful and filled about 15 mins. Don't know why people always say you can 'get on with jobs around the house' with those on - every job I need to do seems to involve bending down, which would not be advisable with baby attached. No wonder my knees are wrecked!

Now pondering going out to Fara charity shop in Teddington to kill another hour and see what bargains I can pick up.

Sigh. Really need to wash my hair. And his hair, come to think of it. Feel like a scuzzy mummy today, but hey, the sun is shining

Sorry for the pointless wittering

Hello!

I have red eyes. Harrumph. And a sore throat. Probably due to all these negotiations with the Recalcitrant One. I even gave up this morning and let him sit on the table (After breakfast, I hasten to add, in case you should disown me.)

Tilly - 3am

And my thumb hurts.

you;'re not a guinea pig are you? They have red eyes I discovered last week.

Slng - how has DS affected your thumb or should I not ask?!

PCW - pity you can't make it, I can see your coffee shop days are numbered

Tilly - hope you managed to catch up on some zzz's and fingers crossed for a better night tonight

Museli - did you find any bargains?

Put both DC to bed by 6.30pm tonight as they were both really tired. Gives me an extra half hr to do what...? the washing up, hurray Roll on the Apprentice

SJ - Thumb not DSs' fault. It was a vicious takeaway box. DSs exhausted as well and in bed and asleep(!) by 7.15. I sat and read a book which has no chapters! So you can't stop!

Kew - I am not a guinea pig. I am a human being. I have feelings too, you know. Besides I've only got one red eye. And before you say it, I am NOT half a guinea pig either.

Evening all. It has been rather nice lately, lovely sunny days!

Sorry for not being active on MN recently, my office has been renovated at the moment and we are sitting in a rather exposed area (yes, I do MNing at work ) so very little MN time for me for now...

Hope everyone is well.

KC - just taken DS to the hair dresser near the station this evening. You didn't tell me the shop is run by Japanese. DS was so well behaved and he wants to go back again soon, lol! Thanks for your recommendation!

sfx/tilly - good luck with the race!

so when are we going out to Wagamama?

please not last weekend in May as inlaws will be in town, actually might not be too bad

I'm away last weekend in May so before that would be good

Slng, how's the thumb?

Btw, haven't watched the apprentice yet so no spoilers please!

Still haven't caught up on sleep, managed a few hours then ds2 woke up every hour or so from 2am [adds extra matchsticks to ones already propping eyelids open]

Morning all!

Quick post before the get-ready-now-or-we'll-be-late business... DS2 woke up 2-hourly last night from about 10.30, and then went on a massive strike in the morning which resulted in him having only bread-and-butter and banana-strawberry milkshake for breakfast. Actually that's not bad-going I suppose ...

I just want to go back to bed ... It's much healthier if gravity applies evenly on every part of the body...

good morning all

tilly hope you get some sleep at some point take it easy eat cake

slng if dd ate that for breakfast I would do the dance of joy now dd at nursery after 'breakfast'

off to run and try to grab some sanity

happy Saint George's day we are having curry and maybe Victoria sponge, appropriate non?

cheerio

SJ - yes, managed to find a little blue sunhat with flap at the back for DS - part of a '3 items for one pound' deal - hurrah! Fits him perfectly, though DP says it makes him look like he's a member of the French Foreign Legion

Also went to one o'clock club on R68 at spur of the moment, having heard about it here - wow, it's fantastic! Will be going back and dragging a friend from down the road who has a 14 mth girl.

DS settled himself to sleep on his own for the first time this morning. In a funny way, I'm proud of him

Finally made it in to work. Enormous traffic jams!

Museli - I know the type of hat you are talking about. We used to have them for the kids but they have now become picky graduated to the stage of self-determination and have to pick their own stuff so no more sensible items of clothing ...

Am about to eat cake.

Ah Sushi - how funny I did know thew owner/manager was japanese (she loved DS!) but I didn;t htink to mention it. Am I offically colour blind

! o'clock club is great my mum takes DS there on Weds if weather is fine.

kew can you email me the contact details for childminder please

otherwise need to pop to 1o'clock club tomorrow and sort out dd's party and hope for the best

sushi your ds asked me today if I liked his new hair

done and texted Cm too. Its a nice hall with very new clean equipment and a side room for traumatised parents. Ros has been there.

but no outside space

thanks Kew just spoke to her the whole package is min 20 kids and not very cheap but I don't really care as it includes cake food party bags etc so I just have to turn up with my child and that probably is well worth it
can't shake the idea that it might be raining on the day
also is it a bad idea to do party on bank holiday weekend? do lots of people go away?

ask her if she'll throw in teas/coffees for adults (who can make their own) if you have fewer children (say 15) - can you tell I'm scared of inviting 20 children?!

Which bank holiday is it? Some go away, some don't... (helpful)

dd's birthday is on the 2nd of June so it will be the previous weekend or the one after
yes 20 kids scares me too was thinking to leave it at about 10 or so