The One-Child Tea Room, version 21... the Hawaiian Islands. Cocktails, anyone?

[Jacksmama]

Welcome everyone to the 21st (!!!) One-Child Tea Room. Not to be misleading, we do have inhabitants who have or are planning more than one! Everyone is welcome.

The usual rules apply: no fisticuffs, or you will be escorted out by Mellors the Hunky Gardener. Depending on your preference, he looks variously like Daniel Craig, George Clooney, David Boreanaz, Gerard Depardieu... I have a feeling we all see something different but whatever we see makes us drool! And considering that this Tea Room is in the Hawaiian Islands, whoever we see is definitely shirtless! :o

Cocktails, non-alcoholic beverages, yummy food that is entirely without fattening effects, and lewd rolls abound in the Tea Room. There is also a full cappucino bar.

This is essentially A Tea Room of Requirement, and we're currently on the lovely sandy beaches of Maui, with beach huts, lounge chairs, cabanas, mango and papaya trees, and of course, lots of coffee directly from Kona.

Pop on in and stay a while. We may all seem a bit mad eccentric but we're very friendly!

Blimey - I've missed a lot of chat!

lots of aspidistras I see - cool!

at peanut butter (that IS the vom emoticon for me) - work of the devil. Bleugh. Satan's diarrhoea, in fact.

Tee - do you get your liver function tested? I know 6 paracetamol a day is under the limit but still, that's a lot of liver pressure.
Tesco sell a variety of ziplock bags - or they used to anyway - have you looked there? Or are they not the right sizes?

Have just said goodbye to my English friends - they came on Sunday and left today but we managed to pack a fair amount into the time! It was lovely having them here tbh, even if the run up to it was somewhat fraught (frantic house tidying etc.). The weather wasn't the best, but actually worked in our favour because it wasn't too hot.

Hope everyone is enjoying the new year so far - ours has been good! Have to take the decorations down tomorrow (I leave it til the last day, which up until this year has always been the 6th Jan, until it was explained carefully, accurately and mathematically that twelfth night is actually 5th Jan - on a thread on here, as it happens - so tomorrow is the day )

Thumb, I take 6 - 8 a day under a doctor's supervision. So, yes, I get my liver function tested regularly. I was actually taken off a stronger med, that goes through the kidneys, as paracetamol going through the liver is actually safer.

And Tesco zip locks suck!! Truly, compared to Zip Lock brand, they are horrible. I use them when I run out of Zip Locks from the US and I despise them.

Do they work? Don't really touch the pain for me unless I double up with anti-inflammatories as well. Was jolly cross when govt banned the stuff I was on, but can understand the reasoning.

Just what I wanted!!!!

Tea, DD announced at a farm park, aged about 2, that 'that pig is snoring just like mummy'. Not when it was just us three, of course, but when we were out with her friend and parents. In full earshot of all the adults, of course.

Its only taken four years for me to get round to losing enough weight to stop snoring. :o

In other news, Bad Black Cat has just scared one of my wusscats so much that he's shot in through the catflap so fast he's broken it.

Amber, paracetamol pretty much just makes it so I can more or less function on most days, so long as I take 3 every 12 hours and sometimes 2 more at lunch. I am going to be trying acupuncture through the NHS in a month or so and I might be getting a patch that does a slow release of an opiate. I am trying to avoid that one!!!

Oh, and now that the cat has got a little closer, I see smell that he has crapped himself in the process.

I'm not liking today so far.

Glad to hear that we are not the only ones who still co-sleep. Although last night Wriggle with her strange virus didn't go to sleep until 5.30 am! So she and I slept on the sofa with the TV on and I have strange and hazy recollections of Emporer Severus invading Scotland in the 3rd Century and Charles and Henrietta Maria starting the fashion for royal family portraits.

Acupuncture is well worth trying for pain.

Poor cat!

Emperor

Eek re cat!

Acupunture does seem to work, yup.
I would ask which bits hurt but that might be rude so I won't. (I have arthritis, which is why I'm on painkilling thingies)

Did sereous do a lot of poring then? odd TV you have in middle of night.

No blubing this morning. and no choc either. I was a very brave girl. Boy had a wobble about putting his snack pot in right place, but seemed to settle down to playing with cars and garage quite happily. I pick him up again in 2 hours, short mornings this week.

I have a monster jobs list. and the 1st item is open on teh desk in front of me- CRB form, I'm going on the list for school meal time assistant casual/ cover work.

An easier question to answer is what parts don't hurt which, at the moment, is my hair. And I don't mind if you ask.

I have arthritis, fibromyalgia and early degenerative disease. My worst bits are my left arm and leg and my upper right arm. But I basically ache all over 24/7/365.

EKK, also, re the cat!

I also co-sleep, BTW.

Tee, b*m re the constant pain thingy. Will hope they find something that works a bit better than you're on now...

UniS, yay re DS settling fast!

Cat sounds VER VER grim.

Tee, can I offer you a painless chocolate from the box of requirements.

Hello Amber, fancy a cuppa?

3 things ticked off my list now.

oo Sounds like there's a bit of a co-sleeping theme on this tearoom thread! For the last 2 nights we have all had to share a bed (nightmare!) and I can't wait to get back to just sharing with DS

Yuk and :( re cat

Cat has been wiped, catflap fixed, cat's brother is snuggled up next to me, but actual scaredy-cat has stalked off somewhere in disgust. Now just need to get DD in a fit state to leave the house. Oh, tomorrow is going to be SO much fun - DH back at work today, it felt like the middle of the night when he got up but it was an entire hour later than I have to get up tomorrow.

Good luck with the acupuncture Tee ... I'm a bit about woo cures, but acupuncture really does seem to work for a lot of people.

UniS I was fine when DD started school, until I was nearly home - another mum had parked in my road (we're very close to the school), and as I crossed to get to my house she opened the door of the car, turned to get in, and I realised she was in tears. Got into the house, burst into tears myself ... then I had a nice cup of tea, admired the silence for a while, and it was time to pick her up again. :)

I barely manage to co-sleep with DH, never mind DS as well. DS and I both VER VER fidgety at night. Used to co-sleep with just DS when he was tiny, before we got round to buying a cot. Cot then went next to bed as bed side extension type set up.

Boy shifted to own room at 7m and then started sleeping MUCH better, so never went back to room share unless we HAVE to.

Yes please for cuppa! Have managed to get new stuff sent off to web chappie for uploading to website (hurrah).

Gave up any notion of sharing bed with ds very early on, as he was hugely strong from the outset and quite capable of taking over the entirety of the bed through sheer determination.

cup a coming over.

Unis slides a cuppa along the cocktail bar.

I sort of co-slept when BabyScout was new. He was nursing 24/7 and it was the only way I got more than 30 minutes of sleep at a go. Once we figured out reflux and got him medicine he was very happy to go into his basket (which was along side my side of the bed). He's in a cotbed in his own room now (since about 7 months). We share a room when travelling, but more than a night or two and we have "mutual awakeness."

BabyScout fell asleep around 11:30, was awake for 30 minutes around 2 (had just managed to fall asleep -- grr), I was up at 6 for the loo and he was up and raring to go at 7:30. Grrr) Happily sleeping now, but it took him ages to give in, stop chatting to his friends and go to sleep. Decided to skip the first session of baby swimming today cuz still have a bit of a dodgy tum.

DCMB -- blurgh about the cat.

Tee -- If you're on pills on doctor's order, can he give you a prescription for a larger quantity at a time? Don't know if they'd do that here, but might be a way around the rules.

UniS -- Yay for settling!

thumb -- Boo to friends leaving but yay for seeing them in Oz!

I don't know if they do that or not, Scout. I'll have to ask.

I never intended to cosleep and didn't for about the first 13 months. But just before A's 1st bday he started a cycle of illness, beginning with chicken pox and some surgery and then ear infection after throat infection after chest infection and his sleeping just went to pot. So we started cosleeping and now all of us get more sleep!

DCMB I am the same way about 'alternative therapies' but at this point I'll try anything for some relief that lasts more than a few hours!

I'm having a very surreal moment.

I work for a charity. They need people to do task X for them. I'm a national adviser on task X and work with them. They want me to fill in a form listing referees who can vouch for the fact that I can do task X. I've told them that I already work for them, doing task X. This is simply work in a different town. But no, I have to ask my colleagues that work with me to vouch for me doing the work I already do, before I can do it in a different town.

I think I need a lie down in a darkened room until this makes sense.

Last day of the holidays here - ds and I had a nice morning with the pony and are about to embark on 'operation library book roundup'.

DH has gone to visit one of his many new claims, and was apparently looking forward to the peace and quiet in the car.

We cosleep part time, but as dh has sleep apnoea, there is no snoring, just hissing of his cpap.

Acupuncture works for me, even though I was v sceptical. Maybe as my pain is annoyed/damaged nerves it makes most sense that it would work.

I was thinking of you the other day DCMB as we negotiated the down ramp at Waitrose

::gets Amber a cool cloth for her head::

Gets amber a darkened room. pocket size.

Boy is singing "away in a manger" .

Argh, Waitrose carpark flashback! Don't worry CMOT, I have the same flashback every time I go there, so you haven't brought on anything I don't normally experience. :o Mind you, haven't been supermarket shopping for weeks and weeks, not Waitrose nor Tesco nor anywhere. Happy happy - don't do supermarkets in December, online shopping all the way. We'll need to go at the weekend though.

Got to take DD to trampolining in an hour. Back to the routine ... Slimming World after that, and then WORK tomorrow.