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shabster · 02/02/2009 19:14

Get your bums over here ladies xx

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Neddie · 03/02/2009 08:12

What do you guys think of Oskar and Isak if they are boys. My HTB is half Swedish so his family all give their children Swedish names.The girls ones are not very appealing to me-so I thought I'd go for something Welsh (my mother's side)Cerys and Sian or I quite like Isobel.I already have a Tara Josephine and a Philippa Rose.Any suggestions welcome.

shabster · 03/02/2009 08:26

Loving the boys names - like the spelling as well. Welsh names are so lovely. My grandson, Lewis, was going to be Isabelle if he had been a girl. My FIL was from 'the valleys' and my DH named one of our twins Gareth for his Dad.

I wanted to call Matt - Patrick - until DH said 'you cant have Danny and Paddy that sounds like a couple of Irishmen!'

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TeaSleepFood · 03/02/2009 08:40

love the names Neddie, The other boys name we had was Oscar Max. Obviously you are really cool!

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 09:04

Hi girls, not feeling the happiest bunny today. Have dodgy throat again and had a broken night again so tired again but........mainly I think I've just hit a wall with groundhog day. I know being a SAHM is often looked upon as a luxury and full of lunches out and manicures but.............its not like that for me. Today, I came home from the school run with the DTs bickering and churning a pile of toyvomit behind them and I just felt really, really fed up.

The bathrooms need cleaned again. The towels need changed again. The laundry basket is full again. The beds need made again. The shopping needs done again. The floors need washed again. I never have time to look after me properly again. My hands are rough and chapped again. I can't be arsed. I am houseproud and love feeling a job well done but I can never get that satisfaction. The minute I do something well, its over, cleaned the downstairs loo yesterday, put out a pile of fresh towels and washed the floor.........now it currently has bits of loo roll on the floor and a honey pawprint on the flush, couple of skids down the pan and an abandoned towel next to the soap on the step.

Maybe when the DTs are in school 5 days it will feel better.......but I am also sad about that. Feel I haven't given my all to them. I had such patience for DD1 when she was little and did all sorts of lovely things with her. I feel I didn't give the DTs half of that and I feel horrid about it. They start school in August and, just like when DD1 started, I feel a horrid sick feeling in the pit of my tummy like I'm losing something.

not a good day. Whats wrong with me today? Maybe just need a cry and a cuppa.

Have a period like Niagra too so I guess that isn't helping.

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 09:06

I blame carbohydrates. They suck the lifeblood out of you and weasel in to your addiction pocket.

shabster · 03/02/2009 09:11

Awwwww Frumpster - give us a hug love xxx

I looked around my house this morning and realised that the 'Lewster' is moving in we have a high chair, bibs and toys up to now. It is great! I often think Ive not done enough with Tom....part of me knows I have but my other part thinks

Tom is not very happy today. Just keeps saying school is boring. One of the kids in his year has a poster with stick figures on. I have allowed Tom to go on Facebook because, of course, EVERYBODY in his year is on. He is only allowed friends of his age - oh yes and Tigger and Vagina S (luckily under her proper name!) Well this poster has different types of people on it. Bully, beautiful, handsome etc etc. He has put Toms name on the 'Nerd' stick figure. I felt a bit upset but I am unsure what to do. I am going to have a talk with Tom about it tonight and see how he feels.

The trouble is this is like reading your pre-teens diary........he will know I have been noseying on his facebook - oh well, I did warn him that I would.

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triplets · 03/02/2009 09:16

Good morning everyone, sorry you are feeling crap FG, I think I am getting used to it, seems as though every day is like it atm. Now got to sit here waiting for British Gas again, got to look at our flue in the loft and then present us with a large bill no doubt, just cant afford it, yet we have been reported as at risk! H exactly the same, tired, thin, cant eat more than a sparrowful of food. Kids ok. Saw Location Location on Deal last night, see how lovely it is, I know the house they bought. Must do that beach hut meet up, margarittas as we watch the sun set..............ahhhhhhh xx

triplets · 03/02/2009 09:17

Hi Shabs, need to go as DH is looking at me as if to say, I thought you had alot to do? Back later me hearties, have a lovely day with my grandson xxx

shabster · 03/02/2009 09:27

Hiya Trips........Trips....Trrrrrrrrips - Bye Trips!!!!

beautiful words I know Neil Sedaka is very cheesey but this was always mine and Dans song when he was a little lad. No idea why I have put the song on - just needed to remind myself of it

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frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 09:28

Merly, I empathise with the food thing. My three have at different times been tricky eaters and its hard to get the balance between saying "thats dinner and I'm not making anything else" and trying new things so you can work out what is a hit.

The best thing I read is that children's taste buds taste flavours acutely. So anything you give them will taste stronger to them. 'We' might love cauliflower cheese but its amplified for them (strong cauli, not a good taste). And my other best thing I read is to look at the week and gauge fruit/veg intake over 7 days not each day.

Like pixi, plain basics work in this house too. Baked potatoes are a hit, mini pitta bread can be a novelty because they are like little pockets, cherry tomatoes, pizza with carrots and cucumber sticks, carbonara pasta with peas. I used to sometimes serve tea in the bath because it caught them by surprise and everything became fun and they would eat better (granted not when they were one!!).

I do think at age one, they can go through a stage of disliking such a lot of foods, I think its because everything is hard work and they can't tell you what it is that tastes good or bad other than chucking it somewhere. My DT2 hasn't ever eaten poultry/meat or fish with any success. We have progressed onto sausages and mince based things and he'll manage a bit tuna now so its a start. He does love garlic Philadelphia and adores olives so its not that he doesn't have adventurous taste! His all time favourite food is porage with raisins and a bit sugar.

Ryvita with pumpkin seeds go down well in this house, as do dull old Jacobs crackers. You could serve with grapes, strawberries, raisins, bits of banana and if he hates it all at least you've not spent hours cooking. If he won't eat cheese, will he eat macaroni with a cheese sauce?

I tried not to worry about the small selection of stuff that he would eat and encouraged a few peas (or whatever) slowly he has developed into other flavours.

Do you have a children's cook book? Sometimes the recipes are rubbish but they can give you ideas.

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 09:41

A basic homemade soup? Veg or chicken? Blend. Its my style of cooking (chop and chuck everything in a pot, leave ). You can hide celery, sweetcorn, etc.

1 onion, chopped
2 carrots, slice down middle and chop
1 leek, sliced
1 stick celery, sliced
2 cooked chicken thighs,
half cup sweetcorn
small cup rice
chicken stock cube

fry onions, add veg, stock and water, then add rice, simmer til tender (about 25 mins), blend, then add the cooked chicken if some children eat chicken and some don't and you can whip it out at the end

I double/treble quantities and make massive pots of this and freeze. I call it vegetable soup for DT2 and chicken soup for DD1 and DT1.

I used to blend it until there were no lumps at all but it made my children gag so now I blend only half and they seem to like that.

Just ideas.........might work, might not.

Oh, lastly, I remember reading children sometimes need to taste food about 20 times before their taste buds would accept it. (When I threatened my DD1 with that one she just started eating the stuff she didn't like with the stuff she did instead of leaving a pile at the side )

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 09:43

PMSL, my DT2 (boy) has just come in to the kitchen wearing a nurses outfit.......its an old fashioned one with a little triangle hat and a red cape over a blue dress with white apron. He looks so pretty

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 09:49

Trips sorry to hear it. But you have no choice, you must have safe heating xxxxx. Sorry it will cost so much. Can't wait for our cocktail sunset meetup on Deal beach

Shabs, I agree with Pixi. Nerdy to me would mean sensible, clever, think Clark Kent in Superman............... I think none of us would want any label for our kids but.....I'd be happy with nerdy. FWIW, my DP was probably slightly nerdy at school (handsome but applied himself academically in a school where that was frowned upon by our peers). He rose out of a pit of a school (where there was drugs, death, teenage pregnancies etc) to flourish and be successful. And he got the girl She never would marry him, but he got the girl. As long as Tom can ride it with wise humour, its not a bad label.

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 09:49

hello fridge.

shabster · 03/02/2009 09:57

Frumpster you sounded like Shirley Valentine then!

Never thought of it like that!! Clarke Kent - I like that example. Tomster is in the same situation that you described for your DP.

Your DTS sounds lovely xxx

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frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 10:06

Its such a hard age/time especially at a school like that. But, if Tom can just keep his head down and connect with the others on some level, any level (humour/sport) he can ride through. He just needs to have confidence in any area to feel better than them and to have good self esteem and that should see him right.

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 10:06

I need to shake my tail feathers and I don't know if I have it in me today. I want to curl up in a corner and feel sorry for myself today.

frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 10:09

Please can someone justify not taking my DTs to their gym class today? I am now late and have a mountain to do that I should have done already.

shabster · 03/02/2009 10:12

I will write you a note for the Gym teacher if you want. I will quite simply explain that your tail feathers are in the wash....and without them you cannot function. There you go - nay problem hen

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frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 10:17

Oh thanks Is that it then? Is that permission and justification that its ok to be a lazy slattern? I have a problem giving myself permission.

shabster · 03/02/2009 10:20

It works for me Frumpster Dont think your DTs will be traumatised by not going...mind you I will watch out for them on the Jeremy Kyle show in a few years time

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frumpygrumpy · 03/02/2009 10:29

PMSL! ''I ate my sister, tiny piece, by tiny piece because my slackass momma wouldn't do Real Life''

My speechmarks aren't working........I'm getting @@@@@ signs instead......

Neddie · 03/02/2009 13:47

My littlest 6 1/2 decided that she suddenly didn't like spaghetti bol. (vegemince variety) having loved it for ages. I decided that as my cooking skills consist of that, baked potatoes,pasties and microwave meals -she should eat it. After a few mouthfuls she started wingeing. So I duly brushed her teeth and packed her off to bed. I cling filmed the spag. bol. and gave it to her for next day's tea. Still objecting and wanting God awful turkey nugget thingies her friends eat-she went to bed hungry. Next day's teatime- I made some more spag.bol. "Are we going to have anything else ever?" said no.2. "Yes-when you eat a bowlful". Amazingly -no.2 ate the lot!!
This is what my mother would have done to me- and I eat anything (and everything if allowed).
I don't think this works if the child truly doesn't like the food-but if they are being just naughty it does. Hopefully I won't be had up by Social Services for doing this practice.

shabster · 03/02/2009 14:08

LOL Neddie - my Mum used to do the same - the swine!!

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Neddie · 03/02/2009 14:36

frumpygrumpy
I hardly ever muck-out my house as long as you don't have to get Kim and Aggie out-don't stress.
ps I am very proud of my nerd DD1 (otherwise known as bad-tempered teenage zombie from the morgue)
pps how many kids asked for their work experience to be a placement with the Coroner/hospital morgue?

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