"D'y ever wonder what Paolo would look like in my shower?" <<because I do>> For FG xxx

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How are the pox today HM???

hello, ugly betty here (for those who read my last post).

I am having a bit of a weep. DT2 is coughing away upstairs (and its DT1 who has the pox), DD is cranky. DH told me he hoped to get home tonight but couldnt and we have had some really bad news about some money we invested.

I am very pissed off. And my f*ing period has just started, first time in 10 months due to pregnancy.

AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH feel the need to vent some frustration.

Sorry but dont know who else to talk to, been cooped up in these four walls for two days........

))))hugs(((( HM hand the baby over and pour yourself a glass of wine. Very bad timming for AF to arrive, how very mean you only just had a baby!

If it makes you feel any better i had a meltdown too earlier, it was sooo bad i locked myself in the front room and held the door shut so they couldnt get in..

Needs must sometimes. I hope the money situation isnt too bad, we have nooo money to invest so no experience of that. Cranky 6wk old and wailing poorly dts i have! It wont be forever

Thanks LG&T. I have poured the wine and eaten a large slice of the huge choc cake I made earlier (yes I am mad, fancy myself as some kind of Domestic Goddess). Now I am thinking about going to bed but DD still whinging and wont settle no matter what I do.

Would love a good nights sleep. My DH doesnt seem to understand when he comes back from London how shattered I am. I appreciate that he has been working but he hasnormally had 3 nights of unbroken 8 hour sleep, something I have not had since early NOvember!

Never mind.........I chose this life!

Bum and tits. Why is there not an undo button on here? Just typed my post and lost it.

HM, how crap, I know that feeling so well of someone being ill and someone else making noises. It has pulled me far down some nights. When HD comes homes (tomorrow?) can he give you a night off? Have you got a spare room you could sleep in? It would make a world of difference to get a couple of nights in a week. I know he's 'working' but its a different pressure. He can still pee when he needs to and eat a sandwich in one go, when he is hungry, not when he has time to eat. Lack of sleep grinds me in to a pulp and makes me cry at everything.

Send him to Mars, maybe she could devise an HDdoula plan for him to follow on the nights he's home and pack a spare child to help. You sound like you could use some help, any plans for your parent to visit? Or does that just makes everything busier and therefore worse?

Do anything to get more sleep. That might mean all your children in your bed or a monster bag of minstrels for the DTs tomorrow along with a dvd.

Thanks Leo for the swimming chat. Great news I wont get truckers shoulders . My stroke isn't the best. I'm not totally under the water but not sitting on top either. I was never taught to swim so I should really get someone to show me properly. Hope you had a great night out. I didn't realise you don't know the sex of these little ones, how fantastic! I just dug out a picture of my DTs when they were a few hours old, they are swaddled and lying up close to each other. It sends me right back and I can smell them and remember how DT2's hair felt and how his ear was squashed and how DT1 seemed so serene. I took the photograph early in the morning with the early sun shining through the hospital window and the feeling was just overwhelming. I found it mind blowing that these two perfect little babies had been growing inside me all that time and it took my breath away to see two. You have such a lot of wonderful things coming your way. (We won't mention toilet duck or pooey chairs atm.)

HM, Ugly Betty!!! So, next time, only buy magazines with cover girls throughout . Surely Vogue would be a safe bet or Vanity Fair . Did you watch Ugly Betty? I saw the first one (even though I wanted not to) and quite liked it. Missed the next one though.

Well my darlings, I am really going to shower and go to bed earlier. DT1 was up a lot last night with a cough so I'm preparing for another.

(there, I didn't mention him once, must be coping better today)

Morning ladies, must have been one of those days yesterday I had a crap day at work, don't know why I bothered going back, DH's birthday today, have arranged for DTs to go to his mum's tomorrow night, did he care? fell out with him over petty but irritating things last night, period arrived this morning, have puffy face & eyes meant to be taking DTs to swimming lesson at smart gym but look far too hideous to show my face in public so can sympathise

Oh girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FG: Well done for not mentioning the child

Leo: It's just too too exciting. How was dinner out?

Kelly: Thanks for the recipe but now I need one for monkfish and prawn curry please

How you doing today LG&T? Better I hope. Try a hot toddy tonight (whisky or rum should do it!)

Overrun: How you holding out babe? Exhausting that whole sleep training thing.

HM: Right...... You need to lay it out for HD. I'm more than happy to work out a HD Doula plan. He's got to pull his weight a little more. And as to you... have you taken on any help? Do you know a local teen who could just come in for arsenic hour? Could you tell him he needs to come to supper as I have a pressie for you!

advice sought from mothers of multiples

How on earth are you all having time to cook proper food? My dh loves to do it - but my max time in the kitchen is to do shepherds pie and I'm a dithering wreck afterwards. Recepies for monkfish? I think I would lose my last thread of sanity...

FG, I think he's rather nice too, I may be picking up his CD. Too skinny for me tho, I like a man with a bit of meat...

I need a bigger pot for soup. I make my mothers soup lots - mixed vegetables which is scrummy and very healthy. at snow tho, hoep it doesnt come as far down as here.

wonder what kind of soup paolo likes....

estar I cook either when they are in bed or at the weekends. Or I make cake or biscuits with the boys. I find it very relaxing being in the kitchen.

Whats in your soup Kelly? I love making soup and inventing new ones. Yesterday i made celeriac (i do love that yum vege) celery and leeks. It did look quite horrid though, sort of a lurid green!!! Delish though

I cook beacause it calms me too, also if i stick the stereo (white stripes elephant current fave) on very loudly then i cant hear the chaos of the house....

relaxing...kitchen...same sentance?

Yeh, my dh says the same. He'll gladly spend a couple of hours whipping up a feast when people are coming round. As for me, the kichen hates me. I only have to walk into it and things leap off the counter onto the floor, things either refuse to cook or else burst into flame - I once had to make a trip to casualty after I tried to open a tin of beans. Even the kettle has packed up this week because dh is away

But - here's my freakish thing - I love doing laundry! Folding, ironing, I find it all so soothing, seeing clean and neat things all arranged together. I think this is a) because the rest of the house is such a mess so its nice to have something orderly to look at and b) you can sit and watch TV while doing it!

potato, swede onion , parsnip, carrot and celery. its odd because I can't stand parsnip or swded on their own, but in soup it's lovely. And I only puree half so it is nice and chunky.

estar do you live near me? You are welcome to do my laundry and I'll send you home with lots of food!

my laundry basket is overflowing, the boys are getting good at unscrewing the lids off their bedtime bottles, and they like flooding the bathroom...

I hate folding the clothes and putting them away. I live in 3 storey house and have to lug up loads every day from kitchen to top floor. I would love one of those old fashioned hatches behind the wall thingies on apulley system. You just know the kids would be putting each other in them though dont you......

Hello all

Long absence again, no time to catch up properly, but hope today is better for those who have been having a tough time.

Am definitely with the cooking is relaxing gang. I cook dinner 5 nights a week after I've put the DTs to bed (OH does DD1); of the other nights, one we have a curry and the other is my slimming world night so OH has dinner on the table when I get home .

Here's a curry recipe for Marsy:

Goan Prawn Curry (don't see why you shouldn't add monkfish too though
2 tsps ground coriander
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/4 tsp ground turmeric
2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp tamarind paste
10g creamed coconut grated
200g raw peeled tiger prawns deveined
1 tbsp chopped coriander to garnish
salt

Measure out 275ml cold water. Mix the ground spices to a paste with a little of the water in a saucepan then add the remaining water, garlic and a pinch of salt. Bring this to the boil and simmer for about 8 minutes, Add the tamarind paste and the creamed coconut and stir till smooth then add the prawns and cook gently for 3-4 mins stirring once or twice until prawns are bright pink and cooked through. Check the seasoning, garnish with coriander.

Depending on how long monkfish takes to cook, maybe give it a few more mins that the prawns.

Have to admit, I've not cooked this one, but it's one I ripped out of a mag with the intention of doing so - if you do it, hope it's nice!

tk... thank you! Will give it a go on Friday.

estar: Kelly took the words right out of my mouth. I'll come and cook and bake for you (fill the fridge and freezer) and you come and iron and do laundry. Bliss..............

I'll sing and dance (badly) for anyone who will reorganise my toy collection.

Triplets, are you about, lurking by chance?

I see ggglimpopo is struggling today. Wondered if you had seen/posted. I know you would have something to offer her, even if only the shared tears....

Hi dingdong! Just leaving a note for Triplets, haven't seen her for ages..... got to go to school now - IN THE SNOW

I know she is. I wish I could just drop everything and go over and hold her. Poor poor love!

The little we have we give I guess... even if it's just a few words on a screen.