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stepfordwife · 31/08/2007 20:17

...most important thing is that you're happy with it, of course...(any twitchy precious moments of 'my god, i would NEVER use a word like that" from me are by-the-by )

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Kewcumber · 31/08/2007 20:30

no thats not the most important thing Steppie - the most important thing is that some gorgeuos young man looks at his mums copy and thinks - "good lord what a fmantastic woman I MUST contact her"
Second on the list is that my gran down is Wales is prepared to show a copy to her friends.

What I thnk comes a poor third.

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stepfordwife · 31/08/2007 20:32

hey, let's try and go for all 3!

SushiMummy · 31/08/2007 22:00

OMG. Friend just rang to tell me she's five weeks pregnant at the prime age of 46! This will be her first baby! I am so happy and excited for her!! I'm trying to get her to join MN.

foxcub · 01/09/2007 10:23

Sushi !!!

foxcub · 01/09/2007 10:32

Oh I can't wait to see you and Ds in print Kew Nice about your old chappie contacting you. You should e-mail him back "fancy a shagget?" Note really LOL!

SJ I love mendhi - my friend at work does it for people's weddings too. Hope you have a fantastic day today

My friend's wedding was perfect - a brilliant balance of formal and informal and there were more kids than adults, latino music, divine food and her friends are all really lovely

We had such a great time and stayed right until the end. It was in Hampstead in an old literary institute with huge statues etc

Funny thing was that one of DH's olf mates was there from Germany - small world

DD is convinced the bride is a real life princess (she wore a beautiful cream lace vintage dress) - and keeps saying "Mummy, I love Sarah so so much!!"

we danced all night....

sfx - if I don't get to the fair today we may go tomorrow too - if it doesn't rain. DH has lots of work to do in the garden tomorrow clearing our front to make way fo off street parking.

Sorry just realised I've ranted on about "us" in quite a tiresome manner

foxcub · 01/09/2007 10:33

Oh I can't wait to see you and Ds in print Kew Nice about your old chappie contacting you. You should e-mail him back "fancy a shagget?" Note really LOL!

SJ I love mendhi - my friend at work does it for people's weddings too. Hope you have a fantastic day today

My friend's wedding was perfect - a brilliant balance of formal and informal and there were more kids than adults, latino music, divine food and her friends are all really lovely

We had such a great time and stayed right until the end. It was in Hampstead in an old literary institute with huge statues etc

Funny thing was that one of DH's olf mates was there from Germany - small world

DD is convinced the bride is a real life princess (she wore a beautiful cream lace vintage dress) - and keeps saying "Mummy, I love Sarah so so much!!"

we danced all night....

sfx - if I don't get to the fair today we may go tomorrow too - if it doesn't rain. DH has lots of work to do in the garden tomorrow clearing our front to make way fo off street parking.

Sorry just realised I've ranted on about "us" in quite a tiresome manner

foxcub · 01/09/2007 10:33

Twice!!!

stepfordwife · 01/09/2007 10:34

sushi - that's amazing! how lovely. (presuming she thinks it's lovely news) hope it goes well for her.

stepfordwife · 01/09/2007 10:37

morning foxie

stepfordwife · 01/09/2007 10:39

...your friends's wedding sounds luvverly. i do love a wedding..

foxcub · 01/09/2007 11:08

Hi Steppie

I felt quite emotional seeing her walking down the aisle. She has been ill for many many years and its a bit fairytale -ish seeing her get married.

I got another wedding invitation in the post yesterday and my friend at work is getting married in Sept.

Guess you get to a "certain age" and lots of friends biological clocks suddenly start ticking very loudly LOL!!

BTW agree with you that kids need their Mum's more than babies. Babies need cuddles and food. As tgey get bigger they start comparing your input to all their friend's parents. I had to rearrange all my work hours to help at DS1's school, 'cos he kept saying "all the other Mummies help with the reading - you are the only Mummy who never helps at the school" Untrue but I did feel it was my duty to let him feel "normal" and show I am there for him.

foxcub · 01/09/2007 11:08

Hi Steppie

I felt quite emotional seeing her walking down the aisle. She has been ill for many many years and its a bit fairytale -ish seeing her get married.

I got another wedding invitation in the post yesterday and my friend at work is getting married in Sept.

Guess you get to a "certain age" and lots of friends biological clocks suddenly start ticking very loudly LOL!!

BTW agree with you that kids need their Mum's more than babies. Babies need cuddles and food. As tgey get bigger they start comparing your input to all their friend's parents. I had to rearrange all my work hours to help at DS1's school, 'cos he kept saying "all the other Mummies help with the reading - you are the only Mummy who never helps at the school" Untrue but I did feel it was my duty to let him feel "normal" and show I am there for him.

stepfordwife · 01/09/2007 11:20

foxie..you good catholic girl you...you don't have to be married to have babies, you know

deffo - when i went freelance and told the little fellas i'd be picking them up every day from school, the look on ds1's face told me it was the right decision. of course, now they just ignore me...but they like having you around to ignore, iyswim...

of course, all this maternal angst is coupled with trying to miantain some level of work /identity so you don't go insane {grin]

(speaking for myself, of course, have nothing but admiration for sahm, it's the hardest job and often berate myself that i can't do it all the time...mind you now that i work/shirk from home, the boundaries are getting ever more blurred)

i truly beleive no-one "gets it right." not all the time anyway, just right for them and right enough most of the time

blimey...that's enough m'dears
have a fab day

Paddlechick666 · 01/09/2007 11:40

ooh is kew fair on tomorrow too? i'm so dim i didn't realise.

woke up at 4am suddenly wondering about car insurance/mot and found to my they've goth expired.

have spent a very stressful morning sorting that out!

on the up side i managed to locate all my important house documents for the sale yesterday arvo. where were they? in the bloody shed FFS! and let's all hazard a guess at which dickhead put them in there a year ago. thank goodness they weren't damaged.

they're off to the solicitor now and i think i managed to shake all the mouse droppings out of them

sushi, amazing news for your friend! i think i'd like another if circumstances were different. can't see it actually happening now tho.

i love weddings. only been to one civil ceremony this year tho. all other weddings have been in NZ recently. my best friends are renewing their vows in November tho so that will be good. Six months before they too return to NZ which I am very very and not a little about.

ho hum........

ps: dd just walked to post office with her sunnies on. chatted and waved to all and sundry on the way there and back and said to the postmaster "thank you very much indeed" as we left! she's only 22 months

foxcub · 01/09/2007 12:56

Steppy - well that's true enough, but weddings seem to be quite the rage amongst my 39/40 year old women friends atm!! I am sure some babies will apear in the next year or so too and

Either marriage is becoming fashionable again or I have quite conservative friends! In fact one of the couples, due to wed in October have agreed not to sleep together until after the wedding - very high risk strategy IMHO!

I met two of my mates schoolfriends at her wedding - both aged 40 and one with a baby the same age as DS2, the other PG with her third

foxcub · 01/09/2007 12:56

Steppy - well that's true enough, but weddings seem to be quite the rage amongst my 39/40 year old women friends atm!! I am sure some babies will apear in the next year or so too and

Either marriage is becoming fashionable again or I have quite conservative friends! In fact one of the couples, due to wed in October have agreed not to sleep together until after the wedding - very high risk strategy IMHO!

I met two of my mates schoolfriends at her wedding - both aged 40 and one with a baby the same age as DS2, the other PG with her third

foxcub · 01/09/2007 12:58

Paddle OMG must check my road tax...[trots off all anxious like]

LOL at your chatty DD - I bet you won't be able to stop her talking now

sfxmum · 01/09/2007 14:20

hello everyone

sushi that is brilliant news congrats to your friendguess you are feeling better too

paddle chatterboxes'r'us from now on

foxie - abstinence does not work for me they clearly don't have kids do they?get everything you can when you can that's my mottoeven when you pissed off with dh

I went to hairdressers this am and bit of solo shopping, when I got back dh&dd had fresh bread in the oven which they had spent the morning making

will pop to fayre tomorrow after jogging, must burn up yum bread

chocabloc · 01/09/2007 15:59

hi all hope ur having fun in kew today, will be there next year! feelin shitty and am broke! lol

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Kewcumber · 01/09/2007 20:07

are you a name changer Choc? Who are you?

Steppie - apparently The Oct edition in out in some newsagents

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sfxmum · 01/09/2007 20:11

i do believe choc was in Ealing and posted sometime ago

so is anyone going to fayre tomorrow? dh seems yo need time alone

anyone been today? was it ok?

kew I saw that issue in the shop today but did not pick it up thinking it was not the one
WHS it was

SushiMummy · 01/09/2007 21:37

Evening all.

sfx, Kew Fayre was quite good, we all had a lovely time. Petting zoo and reptile zoo were good although we only looked at the animals from the fence [stingy emoticon].

Sent my copy of NHS pregnancy book and other pregnancy books to my friend today. Gosh, I feel broody!

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Kewcumber · 01/09/2007 22:09

which shop SFX? Might go get one tomorrow...

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stepfordwife · 01/09/2007 22:18

blimey.
would say wait until copies arrive in the post, but...
bump into you at smiths tomorrow