D`y ever wonder how we managed without the shag pile?

[triplets]

Well...............?

estar - Waiting to hear on Weds if we've got a place to move into this weekend.

Hey FG, how are things?

Is ignoring bad words the best course of action? DS1 heard my mum swear when she stubbed her toe a few weeks ago (shit) and keeps saying it. It's really grating on my nerves and now DD1 has heard him saying it she's piped up with it once or twice too.

DCs now all asleep I'm wide awake. I'll be a monster by tomorrow afternoon.

Morning!! Why am I awake at stupid o'clock?

Mama - thank you for your thoughts - very much appreciated. Think I was quite low last night, today is another day and I will put on my happy face and start again!

Pixie - just read your posts and sympathise very much. My twins were such hard work on the sleeping front. DT1 came home with me and wasn't bad for a newborn. DT2 was in hospital for two weeks and when he came home he was in a 'hospital routine' with sleeping. Every couple of hours right through the night he would wake and scream the place down.

Then DT1 must have thought 'I know I'll do the same.' When they were about 3 weeks old I thought I would die from lack of sleep. I remember sitting on the floor trying to feed them both - had to sit on the floor because I would fall asleep if I was comfy in bed!!

You are right Pixie - that sleep loss can never be recovered. Am thinking about you

shabby thanks for your thoughts, I'm sorry I was too self absorbed last night to realise you were feeling low and post you a message.

I debated posting a message on the depressed bored but got tired of my own complaints half way through and deleted the message.

Think I managed about 3hrs sleep in total. Have already lost my temper once today. DCs currently on best behaviour in fear of arousing the monster once more. Why couldn't all of this happened last week while I had my mum staying?

Don't suppose it helps much that DH is a million miles away and getting away with it all. When he gets here at weekends my mum has been coming down with him so he still never has to help out with the DCs and yet always manages to lose his temper with them.

morning piximom - dont worry about not posting last night - I was just having a 'senior moment' I think.

Things can only get better love - I am sure of that.

My DS1 just texted me to tell me that (in his words) he has passed his accountancy exams somehow!! When he was a little lad and we had awful bereavement, financial mountains that we couldnt climb, depression etc etc I thought things would always be the same - but when I think about it our lives are 1,000,000 times improved. I have also nailed the rug that I stand on to the floor so that nobody can pull it from underneath me!!

Try to smile and deep breathing, nice thoughts, I just know things will improve for you

Ahh Shabby thanks for your words. I feel bad to moan on when I think about what you and Triplets amongst others have gone through my problems pale into insignificance. Many congrats to your DS1. I'm dreadful at maths but have worked in accounts so always have a soft spot for accountants.

Here we go again DD1 screaming...

Dont feel bad about moaning please - we all need to moan sometimes. Trips and I moan to each other all the time!! In fact we can be a pair of right miserable sods xxx

...and she'd got her leg stuck in her headboard.

Hello all. Pixi I really feel for you with the sleep thing. I have not as big a problem, but my own with DD. She is about to be 15 months and still wakes twice in the night and will not settle without a drink. We have tried controlled crying, trying to ignore it (but this just cant be done due to the fact that the DTs bedroom is right next door) and giving her water instead of milk. Nothing works and it feels like it will go on forever........so my sympathies. It drives a huge wedge between me and DH because neither of us ever gets more than a 2 to 3 hour stretch of sleep at any one time.

How are you doing today Shabs? And hey, TKB not long until the wedding!

I am home with the kids today, just wondering what to do with them as it is freezing fog outside. I get so lethargic and cant be bothered to go out and do anything, anyone else like this? I just get filled with foreboding that if I take all three out on my own that some kind of disaster will befall us (wee/poo/screaming related). It seems easier to stay at home sometimes but I worry that I have created a problem with DT1 who never wants to do anything anymore.........

Think I am having a bad day too. WE need someone to come along and cheer us up! WHeres Tigger when you need her!

Is anyone else still drowning under leftover Xmas supplies? I pray no one will bother with eggs this easter as I am they are still trying to plough their way through selection boxes. Still have about 5 boxes biscuits/sweets/etc.

Must be something in the air, c'mon everyone, group HUG!!!

Don't worry about moaning piximon, that's what we're here for. xx
Things are so tough for you atm, but it will get better. Try to get out of the house if you can, it will make you feel better.

Day two of half term and we are bored. I prob should do something crafty with the kids. Or I could wrap them up and chuck them in the garden...

Can i join in the group hug please? I've already got into a bit of a scrap on another forum (MN is nothing compared to them).
Piximon-if you're in need of some adult company I'm free on Friday. Hope that's a good enough substitute .

wow, a forum with more teeth than mn?! Which one, I'll get em!

Believe me,you won't want to get mixed up with them. It's an equine forum and some horsey people are renowned for being bitchy!

snorris Would be lovely to see you again. I should be finding out tomorrow if we've got the new house. If yes, will have to go into town Fri whenever DH gets here to sign contracts. Don't want to agree and have to cancel. Judging by my luck so far we won't get the house anyway.

Chops, the thought of having to bundle them all into coats etc just to potter around play area while DTs scream as only one on a swing at a time is almost too much for me to bear today.

I've just realised I've got Thursday free too,I got my days mixed up . I'm having reflexology tonight (to sort my hip out) & I didn't want to be driving tomorrow but of course it's Tuesday today!!
No worries,just let me know .

Thursday fab with me.

hiya snorris - just been noseying on your profile! How is DD4 - you said something about a congenital heart problem. What a nosey bugger I am!! Has she had any operations? Right thats enough curiosity for one post

Pixi, please feel free to talk us through it whenever. I know you don't always want to burden your dh with it all, so if you can't talk on here, well, where can you? Struggling with four little ones on your own must be tough enough, but to be pregnant and not getting sleep is hell.

Here's an idea for all the stuck indoors mummies - play an all-over the house hide and seek. We spent ages doing it yesterday and its a great way to get them active and happy without going out. I always used to have to hide with the dts (with my hands over their mouths to stop them talking!) or count with the one who was supposed to be counting, but now they get it and do it themselves and its great fun. Even if they keep hiding in the same three places, somehow the thrill of it doesn't seem to wear off.

Or, with the older ones, send them on hunts - either hide certain toys so they have to find them, or say 'first one to bring me a sock/spoon/pillow' - you don't even have to get off your ass to do that one!

And then (particularly you Pixi), you can get the duvets out and all cuddle up in front of a DVD, hopefully sneaking in a crafty snooze if they'll sit still enough . I used to do it all the time when I was pregnant.

As long as they have some active time in the day, then I justify the TV watching.

ooh I like the sound of that hunt game!

shame mine are currently playing glue coloured bits of paper to the floor and decorate it with felt pens!

ah, snorris i'm not snobby rich enough to have horses, so I can't go there.

Shabby - here's my 'religious' bit.

I agree with you on the whole going-through-a-ritual-in-order-to-secure-your-spirituality thing. The church I grew up in was great - charismatic and fun and not uptight, but the more I look at the bible (and I even when to college to study it!) the less I see an argument for all the high church mentality. Jesus never held Sunday services, or formalised how to be a Christian with communion classes - it was about knowing him, making God number one, and living a life that was set apart in terms of lifestyle, not rituals. That's why we're doing church different at the moment - we don't even meet on a Sunday morning (although we do get together once a week). Eventually we'll use Sundays to actually do stuff in the community to help people (once we see what the needs of the community are, instead of telling them what we think they need) so that people who would never choose to walk into a church might be able to find God in other places.

I do love church, but sometimes its so busy trying to tell people how to do things, they forget to just be there for people. Like, when Jesus' friends had a bereavement, he didn't tell them how they should be handling it, he just joined in with their sorrow.

It's such a shame, because most people don't have an issue with God/Jesus, but the church becomes this huge stumbling block that gets in the way. We're supposed to be the opposite of that!

There now - that's kicked off a debate, hmm?

thank you estar - much appreciated.

I knew you would understand what I was going on about - even tho Im not sure!!