D'y ever wonder how many men have been lost in your ample bosom?

[frumpygrumpy]

PMSL

I didn't want to be the one to do it! I promise next time I will sellotape my fingers.

Working on it dingdong

Leo - I can relate to being a freak show and it has only just begun (dt's 9 weeks). Great respect for you still bfing

1B3 is now kneehighinnappies (hope you are ok hun, haven't heard from you in a while)

Enjoy Paris Mars, have a great time

I used to enjoy the attention - sometimes on a bad day, would pack the DTs up for a stroll round Tescos, just to get my spirits boosted. So many lovely people reminding me how blessed how was, just when I didn't feel it (no sleep for weeks, demanding toddler, no self-esteem etc). Have to say I didn't enjoy the comment from a friend's psychologist father who told me Dr Mengele would have been interested in my daughters . Or the woman who told me I was a fornicator and we were all going to hell because OH and I aren't married . Although DD1 quite liked that woman and kept calling out to her every time she spotted her as we walked round Sainsburys "oh I did like that lady mummy, can we go and talk to her again" .

For your BBQ FG, how about some of the special burgers all the supermarkets are doing at the mo'...get some lovely ciabatta rolls and interesting relishes to go with them. Love the sound of Kellys's pasta salad...how about a couscous one...toast some pine-nuts and fry some slices of halloumi cheese, then chop up into cubes and mix into the couscous with some spring onion (or fried red onion), chopped roasted red pepper (from a jar if you can't be bothered!) and some chopped parsley, coriander and mint.

For pudding, although I LOVE fruit fool, I did some v. easy pavlovas the other day... individual M&S meringue nests filled with a mix of whipped cream and greek yogurt topped with a mix of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. I also bought some yummy-looking raspberry sauce to drizzle over the top, but forgot about it so it's still languishing in the fridge!

I'm drooling now...still have a stone to lose and am back on the slimming world diet with a vengeance so will just have to enjoy talking/typing about food . Hope it goes well.

Marie - welcome. Can only reiterate what the others have said - keep cooking your babies for as long as you can. It's horribly uncomfortable and I send lots of sympathy. But it'll all be worth it when you have your lovely babies.

Mars - have a wonderful time in Paris. Not at all!!!

Here's some of the stock phrases I got from the general public when my gruesome threesome were babies, along with what I wanted to reply.

Oooooooooooh, you've got your hands full!!! Can't say I'd noticed....

Did you have fertility? Yes, I danced in the middle of Stonehenge at midnight on the Summer Solstice.

Are they natural? No, they're silicone, specially modelled to my specifics.

All boys? (DD dressed in pink) Yes, they are actually, but I was so upset at not having a girl in the mix, I dress one of them up in girl's clothing. I'm sure it won't cause any long term problems.

Are they identical? No, one doesn't have a willy.

Did you know there were three? No, I lived in blissful ignorance, not having a single check up all through my pregnancy, and was so surprised when I had them.

How did you feel when you found out there were three? How the f* do you think I felt?

Rather you than me. Yeah, my kids think that too.

I'd shoot myself if that happened to me. Go right ahead. (this last one really annoyed me).

Feel free to add to the list!

LOL menagerie I remember those comments so well, along with 'oooh, buy one get one free is it?' as I wandered round tescos...oh how I laughed

PMSL at you lot

I get (when out with them all) "are they all yours dear?" "Noooo i reply, thought i would borrow a few more just to make my weekly trip round Sainsbury's a little bit more fun" hmm] hmm]

Im just about in the land of living, newest DS is now 6 days old. He is soooo cute, edible even. Am posting mew pics of him on my profile for you all to coo at

Good morning all,
I just needed to get on here to be cheered up, you made me smile Menageriekeeper! I have had a horrid week, too long to tell just now, and its 13 years today that my beautiful Matthew died, I hate typing those words. So, this morning is a quick tidy up, at last we have a viewing on the house, then off to the cemetery. Then I shall try to have a "normal" day for the sake of my trio. Catch you all later. Hows Beau LG&T?
XXX

Oh triplets thinking of you today, hope you get through it.

LG&T beau is gorgeous!

DT2's chicken pox is far worse than DT1, who hardly seemed bothered by it. She has spots everywhere, but particularly in her joints/creases - behind knees, under arms, around ears poor thing

A lovely soothing remedy for the pox.

Under 5's - add 6 drops of lavender essential oil to the bath along with a good amount of bicarb of soda.

Over 5's, 8 drops

This works absolute wonders, I promise you. The itching will stop and the inflammation on the spots will go right down.

thanks menagerie, we have friends over today and she has slept nearly the whole time, will try to get her in the bath later...

hello all, have returned from hols, a bit brown and a bit more relaxed......

not had time to read everyone's posts yet but will try and catch up soon.

Did note that LG&T has had her bambino!! Congrats LG&T - love the name! NOt seen the photos yet but will check them out asap!!!

My sister had her baby early this morning after a very fast first labour.

2hr 1st stage
3 mins 2 stage

Freddie was 6lb 3ozs and 2 and a half weeks early.
she has a few stitches as he came out so fast. I was there with her and her dp all the way through, it was amazing you kind of miss out on your own, you feel it but do miss a lot.

He is gorgeous and feeding brilliantly.

from me (twinmummyx2)
xx

Sorry not been around. I just found out that one of my friend's twin boys has persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (phpv) which means he'll be blind in one eye.
She is obviously feeling like shit, grieving for the perfect twin she doesn't have and feeling bad for feeling that way. She's also wondering if we know of any books/films/articles that may help in letting go of these types of emotions.

Triplets, I read your post yesterday, I thought a lot about you but didn't manage to post. I hope you had a good day and visiting the cemetery brought back happy memories of Matthew rather than the sadness of his death.

Oogs, the bfeeding (most of the time) is really not bad, its time I know I have with the babies even if I don't get much other time with them IYKWIM. i do have bad days when I just want to give up but now I know it passes. The hardest time of it is nearly over now as they are 3 1/2 months another month or so and they will be starting on solids I guess ! Can't believe they are growing so fast.

HM, I hope the good effects of the holiday last! Good to hear you are feeling better.

Twinmummy , congrats to your sister!

Piximom, sorry for your friend, can imagine it must be really tough finding out one of your babies has something wrong. Can't think of any books that could help at the moment but will keep thinking.

As for me, I'm just tired, tired, tired. I'm having one of those days where I am just desparate to have an undisturbed nights sleep. I went to bed with ds1 last night in the hope to get a few hours solid sleep before the babies woke up. They woke only 2 hours after I had gone to sleep for the first feed (much earlier than usual!), will try again to night. Miserable cold weather here now which makes it worse, especially as we have had really lovely summer weather.

Thank you Leo, the day was ok, its me who feels it most, I just get so low inside but try to appear "normal" for the sake of my trio. Rebecca was sweet, she helps me do the flowers and kept saying "poor mummy", whilst the boys, well.........both dressed as Jack Sparrow flying all over the place sword fighting! Half of me wants to tell them to stop it, but then I know that Matthew and my lovely Dad(he`s buried in front of Matthew) would be up there laughing at them!

triplets, I am glad that the day went ok. I didn't see the post until now, but I think you are right Matthew would be laughing, and I don't think you do need complete sobriety. Must be hard to believe it has been 13 years.

it's kelly1978 btw.

Hey my darlings. I'm back!!!!!!!!!!

wb mars, did you have a good time? Hope you've been behaving yourself?

I'm back on-line!

We've moved into our temporary accommodation (which makes it sound a lot less glam than it is - a recently converted barn with all the mod cons in the middle of a village with all my family on hand....) and been here ten days or so thinking we didn't have web access until dh tried the other night and realised we can connect to my uncle and aunties wireless next door (with permission, of course) so I don't have to live in solitary confinement anymore.

Ds1 started his temporary school today and went in absolutley fine - he is fearless when it comes to social situations, thankgoodness. Actually having fun spending more time with the dts believe it or not - dt2s speech and behaviour has come on a lot since finishing nursery which makes me wonder what he was doing there....

As for the rest of you, CONGRATULATIONS largeg&t, gorgeous photos, gorgeous name, not-so-gorgeous routine, but think about it - can you blame him? It's the only time he can get you entirely to himself! Smart boy. Rather jealous as I am now 20 weeks and feel like I have forever to go. Still feeling sick (although mostly managing to keep it down) and pelvis is already giving me lots of grief, and no matter what people say, I'm not halfway there yet because the first few symptom-free weeks of pregnancy don't count, and everybody in my family goes overdue, so its never a 40 week pregnancy anyway!

Mars, spill it darling.......

Triplets, even though the day has passed I send you all my love. I imagine you will feel a bit hollow for some days. I think its fantastic your boys were jumping around and playing. Difficult for you to deal with your emotions when all that is going on but I do believe in the spirit carrying on and I bet Matthew would be glad for it. Small comfort. I bet you miss him like crazy. My little brother was home at the weekend for a couple of days (lives other side of the world, haven't seen him in ages and was passing through on business), he is the same age as your Matthew would be. I have always been a second mother to him and it was sad when he left early yesterday. Completely incomparabe I know but I use him as a kind of barometer of Matthews age IYKWIM. At least I have text messaging. Do you write to Matthew ever? As I said, I'm a non believer in religious things but a strong believer in the spirit living on. Love to you sweetheart.

Thanks all for recipes. How I wish you lived nearby and could have cooked and brought round

Spill Mars ..........

FG did the bbq go well?
Hope you had better weather than us here.

Things are getting a little more back to normal with me and ds1 now! He hurt himself hte other day and wanted me to cuddle him and not dh, that's the first time for months and months....! Have to really watch him at the moment, sometimes he is such a sweetie with the dts and wants to read them books and show htem his toys other times he tries to hit them, kick them, he even bit one of them the other day when he was crying - I think to try to shut him up (luckily bit his nappy!) - one of those moments when I was doing something with one and the other was crying. When will this stop and I can be a bit more confident that he won't do some serious damage to one of them when my back is turned?
Ds1 has also been ready to come out of nappies for a long time. We have him running around at weekends with nothing on and he uses the potty on his own everytime without being prompted. If we put pants on him it all falls to pieces. Worse though the nursery seems reluctant to help us so after his 3 days there we have to start all over again. Not sure if to abandon it completely for a while or carry on as we are and hope it falls into place.

Good evening lovely ladies,
Hope you are all in fine fettle this evening, just got mine settled, its only just gone 10pm!! Do let them stay up though to watch Springwatch with Bill Oddie, its been fascinating, love it. Makes me want to go visit Isla, what a beautiful, peaceful place. Thank you Frumpy for your sweet message, I have never had such support as I have this year, thats from you all and it does make me feel better, it uplifts me. No, I don`t write to Matthew, but its a nice thought, so I might. I wrote lots and lots of poetry in the first two years, they seemed to come thick and fast at that time, but its like dreams of him, they have all stopped now, I would so love to dream more, but I guess its all part of letting go. So what else? Well, I see a great change happeniong in the "PEACE" camp, the two boys are as thick as thieves now and poor Rebecca is feeling left out, must think of a way to spend more time with her on my own, she is such a sweet heart. Guess it was bound to happen, just not sure how to deal with it as as you know Matthew was an only child. If they had all been staggered in age I guess that would have been a natural turn of events, difficult when they are all the same age. Anyway tomorrow she has two friends coming home for tea, but I bet you the boys will poach them! Hows our Beau doing LG&T?

Girl children my dear triplets are an entity unto themselves! DD1 is 12 going on "whatever!!!!!!!" lol

Paris!!!!!!!!!! Spent Friday night in a friend's swanky pad in London Bridge ready to get up at silly o'clock to catch the first Eurostar out of Waterloo. I tell you, even God wasn't awake! lol 3 short hours later we were in the heart of Paris. We jumped on the metro like pros........ (professionals... not ladies of the night) and found our hotel. We dumped our stuff and went out to brunch. We did all the sites... Arc de Triomphe, Tour d'Eiffel, Notre Dame etc. We were on and off the metro having a fabby time. Then we ate out, popped back to the hotel for a quick change... no time for snoozing. Then back out to a salsa/african club where we danced till 4am. Back to the hotel. Slept till 10. Out for breakfast/lunch. All the museums were free (first Sunday of the month) so we bought a boat pass and hopped on and off as we visited the musee d'orsay, la louvre etc. Then out to supper and then we picked up our bags and caught the last train out of Paris to arrive back in London at 11pm.

I was practising my French everywhere that I could. Everyone would speak in English and I was say..."Non. J'etudie la francaise. Je voudrais parle la francaise sil vous plait". At which they would all speak incredibly quickly causing me to say "Je parle lentement et je comprend lentement" They loved it! And all the men went into flirt drive. Sigh........... I still got it going on!!!

*No... I am studying french. I would like to speak french please.

I speak slowly and I understand slowly

Mars that sounds sooooo lovely. Time not wasted by the sounds of it.

Thank you Leo!