West London - October thread

[Kewcumber]

My mum just arrived and let herself in. Apparenty DS rang her whilst I was in the shower and didn;t hang up so she couldn't call back to check I was OK. She arrived thinking I had fallen down the stairs and instructed DS to call (he's not actually smart enough yet to understand numbers!)

Better than the police I guess.

hi Anna welcome

I am in Kew have a 2.4 dd
people on this thread sometimes meet up during the day and sometimes meet up, mums only in the evening, and at all other times just chat away here.

I think at the moment you have the youngest child

hi Anna, I have 21mo ds and am in Brentford! Sfx pretty much covered the meetups! Nice to meet you on here!

CoV - is it his navy blue fleecy coat? If so I would really be grateful to have it again- thanks

Anna - Hiya nice to "meet" you. I am in Kew and have a 7 month old baby boy, plus a couple of older ones too

Kew - an anniversay celebration of your DS's adoption is a nice idea isn't it? re you planning anything?

Kew, I'm celebrating for you. I just felt so moved by it all that I ran off to Kazakhstan myself in honour of you and DS. Okay, I was sentenced to a trip to the middle of bloomin' no where. I must have done something really bad in a previous life. Actually, the place isn't so bad, it's the three fricken planes I have to take each way. moan mona winge whinge okay I'll shut up now.

Sorry to say there has been no flag in sight. I'll keep looking. Depart tonight at 11opm local time. So not terribly hopeful.

Oh, and the best part of this trip, I get into Heathrow at 8:00am just in time to go to work!

Hi Anna. I live in Sunbury so not too far from you. I have a 2 and 4 year old. But, I work full time (not usually in sunny Kazakhstan) so I'm only around evening and weekends.

Foxy I will have to post it as won't be heading your way until the 3rd of Nov now. I will try to get to the post office tomorrow morning for you. BTW nice to talk to you this morning

Hi Anna, I'm in Isleworth with 2 yr old dd and one on the way Hope to meet you soon

morning all
how you all diddling?
kew, at least they got to say "goodbye" to him, i suppose. you always grasp at any slivers of comfort when someone dies, don't you?

you're bound to feel emotional - it's your equivalent of the first year anniversary of going into labour, eh? that's a good point actually, cov and foxie, will your little man have two "birthdays/" like the queen?

foxie, glad ypiu had a good time in brighton. ar eyou working this week?
i've actually got quite a lot done but feel guilty haven't spent as much time as i'd liked with the brood. ach well, there's always something to geel bloody guilty about, eh? all repeat after me, it is a NEGATIVE emotion

keep that bag of gorge clothes for me = perhaps i'll pop over for a rummage on sat if you're arouind, but will txt you first. havbe got one of the robot things belonging to your ds, but, so far, can't find the other one.

paddle, how's the course going? god, i love staying in hotels.
SJ - good luck with job-hunting. very scary after a few years "off" (ha!) but you can do it.

have arranged to meet a friend at kew but looking a bit damn cold out there..then off to my ma's for a few days.
toodlepip

welcome, anna
love the name, ava btw
i live in mortlake and have dd, 2, ds2, 6, and ds1, 8.
ohh huntedvilla - is that a namechange? 9feeling bit dim) if not, welcome too

hauntedvilla even..told you i was feeling dim..

..just worked who you are.
sorry and doh!

hmmm, just like seeing my name, actually..
wonder if i can take up whole thread
don't panic, just joking..

Hi Stepford, yes, it's bunyan here I love the name "Ava" too - it's on my shortlist along with the name of Paddle's dd! Slight problem - struggling with boys' names at the moment with only a very short shortlist!

..or am i?

when's your baby due, bunyan/haunted?
i loved the name gabriel for dd if she'd been a boy, iyswim
everyone else hated it, though, so she would have been jack, i think, which ds1 chose.
oohh, alsdo liked jim 9tto smiliar to ds2's name) and dan..(my cousin called her son that)

all hypothetical anyway...
so i'll.....

SHUT-UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL steppie.

Morning all.

Sorry to hear about your friend's sad news, QC.

Hi, Anna. Welcome! I'm in Kew with 24mo DS.

V busy at work (for a change!)

good morning all

steppie are you ok?have a lovely sleep over

hi haunted how are you feeling and yes do tell when you are due

grey awfulness today what to do?

dd has worked out that things in catalogues exist in real life so she sat there this morning with the ELC catalogue telling me to buy this and that because she apparently loves it and needs it

eleusis is taking this celebrating of KC anniversary seriously

can't you make sure the plane is late? sounds like cruel and unusual punishment making you go to the office as you arrive.

cov - have the bin men arrived yet? am somewhat obsessed with the useless ones around here because the communal waste disposal place is an hazard at times

Nope still no bin men. Am going to look up the number in a minute and call them

Well they did part of the road but there was restricted access so they couldn't do it all, they are coming later today. I must recycle more I think as our bin is so full and they are threatening us with fortnightly collections. I have this morning got myu compost bin up and running so that will help and I must make an effort to take glass to the collection point (our kerbside collection doesn't recycle glass).

SFX, due 18th April and feeling not too bad at this point, just a wee bit sick occasionally and eating too many cakes whoops. Question for all SAHMS on here - do you have a structure to your week or do you wing it Am going to be forced into SAHM dom v soon (being made redundant and am not much of a prospect for new employers in my current condition!) and veering between slight panic and also looking forward to it if that makes any sense! DD will go to nursery for a couple of hours 3 mornings a week and we'll do the usual stuff like Kew Gdns (good old Kew!), Lollipop, painting/baking/imaginative play at home. mmm, when I type that all out it seems like quite a lot actually lol

sorry about redundancy haunted. speaking personally I found it really hard to adapt to SAHM life, partly because I have a bit of a depression prone personality and partly because of the issues involved in leaving work.

however we had decided and agreed that we wanted to keep dd with us, either one, full time, until she was 3 and money permitting.

so after TMI and in answer I find that I need some structure which is fairly loose and flexible but have things I 'tick off' as done during the week. and occasionally plan ahead a bit more for bigger activities.

best of luck

COV hope it is sorted soon, ours collect the recycling as well which is quite good

kew gardens and the river path are sanity savers likewise mothercare cafe or not I just let her run loose.

and I do really enjoy it it is a different rhythm but I need ME time regularly and dh takes over for a little while when he gets home which I really like/ need

hi - yes most adoptive families celebrate an adoption day opf some sort - the americans call it "gotcha" day which I hate but I think thats just cultural. Most peopel celebrate the court date as their significant day but I will be celebrating 1 November which was when we first met. It isn't like a party day (if you see what I mean) it feels more like a Family day, a sort of family birthday as it was the day my family was created. I just remember so strongly the terror waiting outside the directors office to be called in. Terrified that I would not like my child and what I would do about it. Overwhelmed by the bizarre idea that a random child would be plucked from a ward of children to be mine. It was probably one of the only times during the whole process when I thought "what the fuck am I doing here?!"