D'ya ever wonder where all the other mums of multiples are?

[bubby64]

....or have we scared them all off with our inane chatter and multple moans!

Ughhhh dont talk to me about toenails..............back in the 70s I was a deputy buyer for Clarks shoes in a dept store in Canterbury. Ughh how I hated the summer, sitting on that little stool measuring sweaty feet...................some of the toe nails .........

morning girls x

Yuck, trips, sounds like worst job ever!

Hope Tom is feeling better soon, shabs.

What's up rubes? :(

Morning girls xx

oh no rubes :( sounds like a very rough time.

Have a

how old is dd?

Girls are beyond frightening!!! They scare the kecks off me.

Hope everybody is soon well at Rubester Towers. xxx

All quiet here.....Tom cried himself to sleep last night. Couldn't stop coughing - he has, I think, pulled a muscle or something in his back with the constant coughing. He said 'My toe is wrecking Mum and I just want to cry!!' Ended up rocking him like a baby - he is at least 8 inches taller than me but he sat on my knee like a little toddler.

Do you find a massive difference in teenage boys and girls Rubester? Or is that all a myth???? My niece, Gracie, who is almost 3 runs rings around me...she has a cute lisp and says stuff like 'Auntie Sthabba do I look like a pwinceth in my dwesth' 'Errrrrr yes love, its great.' 'You're not a bit girly are you Auntie Sthabba?'

Ruby, believe you me it is not you............I now speak from great experience. Its hard to believe how much they change from being our sweet dd into someone we think we ont know anymore. As you know I have had a good year of it now with Rebecca an I can see it hasnt even peaked yet! Y/day was another stormy one. She goes to school looking lioke something out of St Trinians, she takes coats etc off the min she is out of the estate, she had a friend here last night and the noise, bad behaviour at the table was awful. So she is on a weeks ban from bringing back a friend or going to a friend. She is sulky, snappy and selfish..................all the time. I have sat and tried to work out what we are doing wrong, but after listening to many other Mums of teen girls it seems thsy are all the same. I am told they do eventually come out of it!! We just have to ride this one out! My boys are such a doddle in comparison!

girls def are trickier. dd is my oldest, so the only one anywhere near puberty really, but I still can't envisage the boys ever being quite so complex. I really struggle with dd at times.

Hopefully since she has started early, maybe she will come through it soon.

Evening girls. Just checking in after a rather rubbish evening. Will post properly in the morning, but I hope you are all well and teenage angst has abated .

Shabba, from 'darn saarf'. Ish. East Anglia. Thankfully the squits and vomitting have mostly abated. Although Jennifer is still trying to cough up a lung.

The girls are really suffering with the pox. Emily because she is 4 and itchy, refuses cream and gets upset easily at the minute. Her brother only has to look at her! In laws were going to have her overnight wed for me but I've suggested James goes instead as he has been terrorising the other 3. i reckon it'll be easier to look after 3 sick kids than 2 poorly babies and a 2yo with cabin fever. I may also have suggested in a moment of madness that i'd have my youngest niece, if needed, for my sister as she also has pox, thanks to james and possibly the twins. Jennifer even has pox on the edge of her eyelid. That was a dash to the gp to make sure no harm done yesterday. Just have to monitor it for more/redness/signs of infection

Blimey at all the teenage angst. I do hope that has all settled down now. The only experience I have is years ago as a babysitter (didn't go down well that i was a year older than one of my charges) and a nearly 13 year old niece who is currently lashing out in reaction to her parents separation and divorce proceedings. Poor child is privy to far too much imo but I'm just offering a compassionate ear and space to both sister and niece when needed.

I've been given new meds for my pnd. Woke up this morning (still having insomniac tendencies from about 3am) but feel these are much better than my previous. I no longer get a feeling of complete and utter panic/stress/anxiety.

Off to make a cuppa now and see if that helps sleep resume. Apologies if I've missed commenting, I really should mn on the laptop but phone is easier at this time of day and I've a memory like a sieve.

Morning girls xx

My lad is NOT well. Left food last night!!! Sure sign that he is not well. He was covered in a rash last night.....did the glass test!! He looked at me and did a 'drunken grin' and said 'Mum you are totally barking, a glass is not going to take my temperature away!!'

He is asleep....obviously I am not

Morning girls x

lol at Tom.

Meeley was saying little girl up her way just had meningitis. :(

I grew up in East Anglia, soks, lived right near Great yarmouth, finally escaped moved away when I met dh.

I need teenage girl advice!!

Not sure if you all remember a few months ago, dd was planning an active lesbian relationship with a girl from school. She was very confused, and hormonal, and got herself in a right mess. We caught her before anything happened, then it all came out at school, blew up in her face, she had counselling and things really settled down over the summer holidays.

However, last night she was on the phone to the girl again. Said they just friends, nothing more. But she was on the phone for an hour and has sent a picture message.

I really don't want dd going down that avenue again. It really screwed up her schoolwork, made her very unhappy. My instinct is just to forbid it altogether, but chances are she'd just carry on in secret.

Do I let it go, and keep a very close eye and monitor the situation, or do I put a stop to it now, and totally lock down on her and risk her possibly going underground with the whole thing, iyswim, where I can't look out for her?

I have no 'girl' experience but I can remember being a teenage girl.

I personally would go with the first option. My Mum used to tell me what she thought about boyfriends......the one she disliked the most would be the one I wanted to be with.

Scary, worrying stuff. xxx

I spoke to her this morning, and managed to get her to show me the pics with no fuss, and it was jsut before and after makeup, so fairly innocent girls stuff. I am veyr worried. I've spoken to her nicely, and said I don't wnat her ended up unhappy again or this girl turning her friends against her and leaving her isolated again and asked her to think about keeping her at arms length to a degree. dd agreed. She seems to think she has it under control and I am worrying over nothing, but she does at least seem to be taking what I am saying on board, so I will jsut have to keep a close eye on things and see how it goes.

And be there for her if it all blows up again :(

Its good that she is talking to you and showed you the photo's. Probably have mentioned this before but me and Tom have a notebook (come to think of it we haven't used it for ages) whenever he is worried or sad I tell him to write it down in the notebook....then I write in reply to him. Kind of like a diary. At one time that was the only way I could get him to talk to me. Maybe worth a try with your DD? xx

Chops, does the girl come to the house? Perhaps you could encourage that, showing your trust in your dd, and be able to keep an eye at the same time?
Just spent a lovely morning at school, making clay dragons................and I was dressed in black......................
Stunning weather here today :)

Haven't read all the thread so apologies, but we have so many sets of twins in our small village. 2 sets in ds reception class, one set lives next door to another set. My teen cousins are twins, another set of baby twins and teen twins down the road, a set next door to me. It's amazing! Oh yes and a school mum expecting twins. There's so many that the childrens centre run a twins club. Must be something in the.water, hoping its me next!

WELCOME Mummypig to the world of Multiples............are you really hoping its your turn next? We are kind of special I think growing 2/3 and more in our tums!

Did you bring cake..................wine..............anything? :o