Wimbledon Mums - Christmas coffee anyone?

[GeorgiePorgieCHRISTMASpuddinga]

Ladies, long time no speak.

Anyone around in the next couple of weeks for a pre-Christmas meet up?

C'mon, help a poor preggers lady have some fun....!

Ah, it is you Lockets. Wasn't sure.

Congrats on the pg. Good work fella

See you all on 13th at 1pm in Debenhams cafe.

Debenhams then. DD is crawling and will probably enjoy the toys too.

Lockets - congrats on your new pg!

See you all tomorrow at 1pm.

First one there, get the biggest table you can!

georgieporgie and cristina7, it was really great to meet you all for the first time.

fisil, great to see you again if briefly!

georgieporgie, i meant what i said about you looking great....whatever you feel, know that you are exuding beauty and good health, and your dd is an angel....

cristina7, thank you so much for the book recommendations and your words of reassurance on the way out, i'll definitely be looking those books up pronto. oh and ds says thanks for the donut!

all of you, i really really wasn't on form today. thank you so much for putting up with my whinging, and i know that ds doesn't deserve, it...that the problem is my (over? under?) reaction more than anything else.

i really hope that we might get together, maybe in the evening sometime when i can actually do something other than watch ds like a hawk.

i should start a thread about it but haven't the strength tbh....it was great to spend some time with you though, thank you so much .

sorry to have missed you lockets...maybe next time?

Hi everyone,
sorry I couldn't make it today. I had a family emergency so spent most of the day talking to doctors and trying to arrange appointments.
Really hope to see you all next time.

sorry to miss you cas.....next time?

Hope so sophable. When I have sorted things out I'll start a thread for another meetup. Maybe we could do an evening one?

did I miss you lockets? bugger.

Shall we put an evening one in our diaries now? I vote for when the little Georgiette will be about a month old and she's just feeling up to coming out (and she has got to grips with the expressing machine). So what about late January? Does anyone have a preference for a particular evening? If its in Wimbledon I don't mind which evening.

I can do from 15th onwards, apart from 28-29. Don't ming which day if in Wimbledon.
Will be good to see you all again .

cas, you don't ming on any day!

Well, if you say so, I guess I don't!!
(whispering: does "ming" actually meen anything?)

it isn't generally used as a compliment!

Sophable - my DH is v impressed that your DH owns that record company (did I get this right?); they signed up Bauhaus and he likes them and we're seeing them in London on 5th Feb. There was also a shop some years back in Kingston, he says. Your DS reminds me so much of how my DS used to be, less the language skills (DS is hearing impaired so his spoken language took a while to come about).

Georgie always looks fab (imagine how's she's like when non-pg!) and Mollie was so, so sweet tempered.

Fisil - you have two lovely little boys, sorry there wasn't enough time to talk. I had to pick up Dominic from school and take him to a birthday party.

Off to watch "Henry & June".

Any evening in Feb is fine for me, preferably not the 7th as it's my 40th and maybe I'll go out with DH and kids.

cristina, shhhhh, he runs it he doesn't own it! i WISH we owned it!!!! feb/late jan sounds good....not the 4th!

x

Hi

Cas - hope everything OK. Sounds like you had a bit of a shocker yesterday.

Chris - awww shucks, you're too kind. You're making me . And beleive me, DD can be a little rotter when the mood takes her.

Fisil - fantastic to see you again. DD1 and 2 are complete corkers. Makes me think this 2 kid thing might not be as bad as I'm imagining! But have ordered one that doesn't wake up at 5am

Soph - don't you dare apologise for anything. Jeez, if you can't have a whinge with other mums/mates then it's a pretty sorry state of affairs. Was wondering whether you'd read Little Angels by Tania Byron? I can honestly say, hand on heart, that she's completely changed my outlook on parenting. I've tried out most of the techniques on DD and they really have worked. I've got a copy if you want to borrow it. Was lovely to meet you, looking forward to getting to know you more.

Am totally up for night out, sans kids. Beany due to pop out sometime after 12th Jan, so maybe mid Feb? After C's birthday and Valentines? How about a lovely girlie, gossipy, vino loaded Saturday lunch?

OK, chores aren't going to do themselves.

Laters G xx

Two books I found useful are "How to be a better parent" by Cassandra Jardine (lots of ideas are similar to "Little Angels") and "How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk" by Faber and Mazlish. I also like "Letting go as children go", a nice, relaxed parenting book by Deborah Jackson. (All these available in Books etc in the shopping cente in Wandsworth, Soph.) I went on a free seminar organised by the Parent Practice, that's where I heard of the first book.

Next on my list are "Unconditional parenting" by Alfie Kohn and "Nonviolent communication" by Marshal Rosenberg. As you can see, either I'm addicted or we're still searching.