d`y ever wonder what life was like before Mumsnet?

[triplets]

Boring............you have all been my life-line........just wish we could all meet up occasionally, I could bring the trolley:)
Scrap my feeble first attempt, tired .........very tired............yawnnnnnnnnn

I never was any good at meditating, where's the blardy G&T?

Ah well, can't sit here all day, off to burn cook supper. Hope all well with everyone. Oh it's Burns night! How's FG?

LOL LOL @ Shaft - you swine!!!

Ni'night!

Such filth.......................................:o

'Can you dig it!!'

Thanks a bloody bunch - that song will be stuck in my head for hours and hours now

Just ordered my patchouili oil, what else do I need, got bell bottoms with flowery inset, paisley flared tunic top, and patchouili, suggestions on a post card please.............

Trying to keep the butterflies at bay...................ct scan result at 10am......

with fizz and prawns Rubes, come what may.............no sauna this time though[bsad]

Will be thinking about you Trips - everything crossed here xxx

Wish I was going away a day out in bloody Manchester would do PMSL xxx

Morning girls xx

Morning All- Trips, good luck with the scan results, and have a great time at CP xx.
Shabs and TSF - shame on you, you'll be had up by the MNpolice for bringing our thread into disrepute! ....

good luck trips!

Came back from such a weird paed appointment. Spent 55 mins being told that ds1 does have asd, then a total U turn in the last 5 mins, to nah, he probably doesn't! I need a large glass of wine 2n!

Hops- did they clarify in the end why, after all that talk, they have changed their mind on the ASD front, or have they left you in the lurch??

bubby, they did a test and after some leading the paed's opinion is that he does show imagination with assistance, so it very unlikely to be asd.

What a day, onco was running 40 mins late, our appt was 10am, my nerves were unbelievable, sweaty hands, felt sick the lot. The scan was not quite all clear, they have seen a small nodule on his lung, she said it has been there for some time and they have been watching it. It has grown since the last ct 12 weeks ago. He now will be referred back up to Kings in London, if it is cancer then she is hoping they will use ablation to take it away rather than more chemo. So again we wait and see, and again everything is on hold. She had said that if this scan is completely clear she would scan him 6 monthly, so we would have had until July to plan things, H keeps promising the kids to take them back to America............I can`t see that happening. We got home and the kids came in OTT as we said they could have their birthday presents early as tomorrow we will be off to CP. We were trying to sort the car, pack, etc, then my brother turned, then my niece, then Beccas friends, I ended up so behind by 7pm I ordered a Chinese that I could ill afford, no time, too tired to cook. He has done nothing but snap at me all night, I know its disappointing, I know its not me who has the cancer, but it does affect me and the children too. Go on say it Shabs.............all will be well......

All will be well Trips but I could kick H in the nuts for upsetting you!!! Right in them......hard!!!

Morning girls xx

oh trip[s :(

Hope you have a good weekend and dh behaves himself.

It will all be ok, Trips, Have a good weekend, and happy birthday to your 3.

Need advice girlies- DH loves his boys, and loves me, but he has such a temper on him, he cant help it, it is part of his Aspergers. The boys wind him up, they are 11yrs old FFS, and it is only going to get worse, not better, their bodies are getting random bursts of testosterone, they are pushing at boundries, they are very soon becomiing that dreaded word- TEENAGERS. This morning, what started as the usual bickering about getting ready for work/childminder turned into a full blown fight, DH smacked M quite hard, then also J, and I intervened and also go a slap an my arm hard enough to leave a bruise! I have told DH that he has to leave for a few days to get himself sorted out, as I'm scared that he will lose control and really hurt one of the boys. I am scared that soon we will get to where SS get called and then involved, and them saying "why didn't you protect them" The neighbours must have heard the screaming and shouting, half the street could have. Have I donre the right thing, or over-reacted???

oh bubby I really feel for you.

I don't know if you know this, but I went through exactly the same thing. I know some of the multiple mums will def remember! Only in our case I didn't realise how bad things had got, and didn't know about all of it and ss did get involved.

It is all in the MN archives somewhere, but I don't want to post the whole story on here again with this username. It was an incredibly tough time. SS said, although I hadn't hit them I was culpable for not protecting them and they investigated me for neglect. I think you have absolutely done the right thing! DH left when this all came out, went to parenting courses, etc and we worked through it. I do wish it had been sorted before ss got involved though.

I would look at anger management or parenting course for your dh. The course really helped us, because dh had to learn more realistic expectations in term sof their behaviour.

If you want to chat, do PM me. I can msn, or email you then and not have to be so secretive!