D'y ever wonder if all our regulars have been abducted by aliens???

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Last one out of the verrrrrry quiet thread please lock the door xxx

Rubester - you dont have to say sorry - you nutter!!! I can say the b word as well - watch, bike, bike, bike, bike, bike, bike.......didn't even blink when I said it. You should never have to tread on eggshells around me - you are my friend

No my dream is about our holidays - I have to go into a series of rooms and face my fears - Yikes - every room has a clown in (not keen on them) and they are all scary. Think Im just anxious about raising holiday spending money (as usual!!) - I cant find anybody I know in this hotel and I cant find my way back to the room to find Tom Its awful......

HM - just having a nosey at your holiday pics on FBook.

LOL but I almost fell off my chair in shock. If that is your very handsome DH on the pics? I thought he was someone else!!! Remember my first love - the ginger pig???? Well apart from the fact that he was ginger (obviously) they could be identical twins.

Have to keep going having another nosey and a small swoon LOL.....just realised though - 'my ginger pig' is 53 and your DH ....well, obviously he is not

Hi........still in a quandry as to what to do this week, feel I would rather put the money to a proper break, then feel mean as H wants to do the gardening show Oh I dont know, all I know is we need a proper holiday, not just days here and there, love to go somewhere where I dont cook........anyone know of such a place, for £50 a night maximum......ha ha
Spent another night on the sofa, getting to enjoy it.......takes me back to my teens

dts had their first sports day today. Dt1 was very serious throughout but they both loved it. My babies are growing up so fast.

I've put some pics of them all on my profile.

Mum and I are going to the Hampton Court flower show on Weds, taking DTs in their mountain buggy. At least they aren't forecasting 29 degrees for it anymore. It's going to be a real challenge keeping them cool and letting them out to crawl and cruise around often enough, and giving them constant food, so I'm not sure how much of the show we'll get to see. I can imagine Mum leaving me under a tree somewhere with them and going off to do most of it on her own. I've ordered the twin reins, but they haven't come yet, so that'll be fun. There are a lot of water features for them to zoom towards.

Apart from that, Triplets, I'd really recommend it. It's big, though, lots of walking, so need to be careful on the best way to get there. Best is probably train from Waterloo to Hampton Court station, and then the ferry from there to the show. This seems to involve the least walking before you actually get inside.

Thanks MWT, do you live in London? I cant see us getting there, he is soooo tired, I honestly dont see him being able to do a long day, there would be lots of walking and if it is hot he would end up exhausted and its a long way home! Will think about it, did you pre book? Welcome to the mad house btw............er did you bring wine and nuts?

and picked onion monster munch and a massive bottle of cider apple juice?

and talking of cakes......er not that we were..........where is MARS these days, we are overdue a slice of her lemon drizzle cake

Forgot to tell you now Ive got tooth ache, its a crown I had done about 20 yrs ago, dentist put it on with tempory cement, went back to have it put on with permament and he couldnt get it off, said .."one day it will just drop off into your mouth".........not now please there is enough going on!

Morning girls xx

Shabs, hee hee, that is my, erm, handsome DH on the pics who shall henceforth be known as the blonde pig! How funny...especially as we have 2 out of 3 ginger children....maybe the GP is some distant relation?

Oh HM - he is lovely

Hello all. Love your holiday pics HM.

Hello to Mildred and snowplop (teeheehee, I like your name )

We have had a lovely extended weekend with a friend and his two year old son (his wife recently left him but he is doing really well. But we didn't get much general house maintainance done, and this morning the house looks like it has been ransacked. In fact, I walked through every room earlier and cried, it was so messy. I told DH I was a miserable failure as a wife. He said don't worry about it, we'll all have a good clean up session tonight. It took him a long time to learn, but he seems to know now exactly what to say to keep me motivated, bless him

To the newbies, I can say, hand on heart YES! it does get better. I felt like I was clinging on by my fingernails in that 'can't ever take my eyes off them for fear of mass destruction' phase, and I distinctly remember the day when having been whined and cried at every day for weeks, (bearing in mind DS1 was 20 months when the DTs were born, meaning I had three DSs under the age of 2), I decided to lower my standards. My job title changed from 'keeping my children happy' to 'keeping my children alive (and mostly dressed)'.

And it got so much better (not always easier but the challenges were different and we were having so much fun all together) that I decided to go on to have two more children!

See? I wouldn't have done that unless it gets better or if I were actually clinically insane, would I?

Hello my lovelies........in a lovely mood tonight as I have drunk a bottle of Rose all to myself, had such a funny text from FG, and am looking forward to tomorrow as me and DH are having a few hours out on our own, up to London on the train to meet my lovely friend who is coming up from Cornwall to St Thomas`s for a brain scan, lunch at the noodle bar opposite and straight back home, will only be with each other for 2 hours but it will be worth it and why not? Mouth as dry as the Sahara..........anyone got any nuts to make my evening perfect

glad you are having a good evening Trips. I am a bit down myself, DT1 got into trouble today at school, stamping on a teaching assistant's foot and saying he was going to kill her. It is so unlike him...I dont know what to do. He hates school and says no-one plays with him. Wish I knew what to do...just breaks my heart. Hope I havent brought you down - have a bag of nuts to cheer things back up!

Sounds lovely Trips....sorry havent got any nuts but have a full pack of cheddars - cheeeeeeeeeeeesy biscuits - have had to hide them from the Lewmeister!!

HM - how is the BP???

Sounds like your little man has had a crappy day. Danny hated, hated, hated school. I haven't any great advice other than talking to each other as much as poss. Sending my love xxxxxx

Oh HM That sucks. DS1 struggled settling into school both the first time in reception, then when we moved again, into Year 1. I used to drop him off in the morning and run back to the car before I started crying. It sucked, and the first time ever, I began to think that homeschooling would be a good idea. He didn't really enjoy Infants at all but once he got to Juniors, and the focus was on topics like romans or geological rock formations, rather than forming letters properly, he loved it and the teachers said he was like a different boy.

When he struggled to play with the other kids, a lot of the time it was because he wanted to play a specific thing (he has a very vivid imagination) so we had to teach hime to play what other people wanted first, then suggest (not force!) the game he wanted to play. He ended up getting into a really nice crowd of boys and got a newfound confidence and it hasn't been a problem since.

Really hope something similar happens for him.

HM is it the end of his first year? I ask as I have been doing a voluntary morning since last Sept with the reception class at my kids old primary. They have grown up so much since they started, so much more confident and they have worked really hard, going in once a week I can soon see the diff. The last two weeks there have been lots of names on the black cloud(naughty) and its because I think they are all tired and ready now for the hols, the teachers too! I shouldn`t fret too much, soon be finished and everyone can have a much needed lie in!

Morning

Tom woke me at 5 just to let me know he was having a nightmare!!! He is now asleep - and obviously I'm not!!

Yes it is the end of his first year. Thats what the teacher said, they are all getting tired and cranky....I just want him to enjoy school and not have this constant worry hanging over me....I guess you sign up to that when you have kids!

If its of any help HM - Tomster is coming to the end of Year 8 - they have about two weeks left......he is so very sluggish and moody which could be due to the fact that he becomes a teenager on the 24th....BUT says he has had enough of this school year. He walks up there at a snails pace and seems to be falling apart as quickly as his school uniform

School is so stressful nowadays - even for the little 'uns. Im sure it used to be a happy place when I went?????