Tea Room The 24th - San Francisco Painted Lady!

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Welcome to the 24th incarnation of the One-Child Tea Room. Not that you only have to have one! Just so long as you enjoy chat, tea, coffee, cake!!

The usual rules apply - no bunfighting. If you like that sort of thing, go elsewhere.
Other rules: bring . Or .

Our ongoing voyage take us to one of San Francisco's Painted Ladies!

We've brought the Aga over, it's in the back in the cosy kitchen overlooking the back garden. The chintz sofa is in the front room, under the bow window! All of the pillows and duvets have come along as well!

What's that? The Priest Hole? It's just over there --> behind the bookcase!

Mellors is upstairs, preparing the bedrooms for naps and such.

The aspidistras are thriving as they overlook Nob Hill! The horses have found themselves stabled in the Garden, which is much larger than these places usually are in this city!

So come in and have a seat!

::tea hurries off to Powell Street to catch the Cable Car to Ghirardelli Square::

unseless... useless!
Although unseless sounds like a good insult too.

mistle - I am upto my ears in Milk and her friends' birthday parties (MANY Parisians are born in May... seriously.... it is because of August holidays - people leave Paris, go to the country, relax, feel healthier and happier thus generally more in the mood and more likely to concieve too). What are you doing to celebrate being 6????

Yup, tis the arm they use for their chemistry lesson. I'd like a cup of and a box of chocs and a bun and several slices of cake and another please.

::waves to everyone in a distracted and slightly apologetic way::

Poor Tea! Wrap yourself up in this nicely faded lambswool blanket. Mellors has lit the fire because it is cold and grey here today. Wriggle and I are lying on the sofa watching Les Aristochats, but there's plenty of room. Did you know that it is Maurice Chevalier singing on it? (If I could hear above the coughing.)

Actually, we have been having a lovely day so far, playing shops and mixing up some bread which we have left to rise. I should now be re insuring the house, but can't bring myself to look at the best GoCompare has to offer. It's not my idea of best!

Is Milk in May, too? Will put Wriggle onto birthday card fabrication if not better soon. Shell necklace hangs in the place of honour on our bedroom window.

Who has the next tea room 4 yr old?? There is an " I am 4" T-shirt that has gone from Mistlechick to boy and now could go to another soon to be 4 yr old. Emerald green with a hint of skull and cross bones on the 4.

Happy to post it on.

good evening all. boy has skinned knees, ouch. much squirming in teh bath as I washed teh grit out.

Choc box of requirement coming round.

[hug] Amber (on skype they have nice little huggy teddybears). Hope they get it sorted out - I know it is a regularly experienced problem, so they should have some solutions sorted out by now.

Tee - we had yogabugs at the party (great sucess) - tomorrow we shall be having a 'grown up' celebration going out for supper - provided that he's not been too bad during the day!

That was mistlechick's most favourite tshirt Lovely colour. Was thinking about it the other day. He's now in size 7-8 Unis

Umm, tea, is Beer often such a grumpy old git irritated with you? It's starting to sound like that :(

i think I'm having a down couple of days. Still feeling like shit over what CM said re: JB being insecure yesterday. Inspired by a very :( thread, I feel like an average wife and a crap mum. :(
Fortunately DH thinks that's utter bullshit :) but doesn't help how I feel.

I'm with your DH Om. How JB is at CM does not mean he's insecure, or you have failed in anyway.

Shall we have a ? I have just had a v good virtual shopping trip, so have nice new work clothes to look forward to

Thanks all!!!

Amber - what shall we do with your arm...???

I LOVE the "I am four t-shirt" - Sounds LOVELY and I like the idea of it being the t-room t-shirt!!!

I can't see that a girl couldn't wear it either - its been worn by two tearoom boys (and I got it preloved) but its a lovely green and would be OK for a tomboyish girl too.

Om [hugs] for you too - its not your fault!

Evening all.

I have no idea where today went. At all.

The t-shirt sounds fab! LCT can have it in just over 2 years.

Om I know how you feel but you are neither of the things listed. JB will get through it and so will you. {{hugs}}

I have lots of and chocolate here as LCT would not nap today. Operation Get Him To Sleep In His Own Room on hold indefinitely as it was trying to put him down there for his nap which led to no nap at all. Honestly, just like at night, I would rather he just slept somewhere!

Amber, here is a lovely velvet pillow to rest your arm on and here comes Mellors to rub your feet.

Mistle, now that you are back, could you PM me with your address? All thus talk of sending things has reminded me that there is a half completed package waiting under my big table

I also love the idea of a tea-room T-shirt, but we might need to start a 'five' one.

Beer sounds a bit familiar, but M.Snake mutters the same stuff. And then seems to have forgotten it an hour later.

JM you are sonot a crap mum and no doubt a well-above-average wife! You have just got to accept, I think, that they are people in their own right, with their own ishoos. That being said, I am now panicking about a thread about children with no friends and don't know how I will bear that for Wriggle.

Moral: stay in the tea room!

Unserp - yes I will lol - although I now don't feel quite as bad at not sending UniS hers yet!!!!

We never found a 5 one we liked. The 4 one was too good to follow.

Although we do have rather a nice new green tshirt with a tiger on now.

Om - I read some of that "crap wife and average mother" thread but had to stop. It was emerging that he had Issues stemming from his childhood and was now creating some horrible psychodrama for his wife and children, thus inflicting his Issues on the next generation. She was getting plenty of advice and I couldn't think of anything more to add to it.

You are not average or crap at anything. In the first place, does your CM actually know anything about psychology beyond (I'm making a lot of assumptions here) what she's read in a magazine? There is a world of difference between exhibiting some anxiety and being anxious and anxiety is not the same thing as insecurity. As I said before, I think it does take children longer to settle into childcare if they're not going every day and so the acclimatisation process is longer and more drawn out, but it really doesn't help that the CM is describing Jack's fairly mild (and reasonable) reactions to the unfamiliar situation as if they were something pathological.

Cmot - Tell us about the clothes. I need to refresh my working wardrobe but am feeling too fat at the moment.

::Opens the ::

::Starts chanting again ::

Hello all.

Get well soon wishes to Wriggle and Tea, sorry to hear the tea room lurgy is still doing the rounds after all.

And sorry to hear about your arm, Amber - ouch. Some and a selection of slices of cake coming your way - mm, I think some walnut, some chocolate fudge and a nice moist apple one would start you off nicely. All straight from the -fantasy- oven in my needs a bit of a once over gleaming kitchen.

OmSJack, I would like to second what everyone else is saying, and glad your DH is saying it too! I think everyone feels like a crap mum from time to time but it doesn't mean we are. And what JB is going through sounds very normal to me. He's still very little. It really, really doesn't mean you're not doing a good job and not looking after him properly!

After what both you and Serpent said, I'm thinking some of the threads on MN can be dangerous sometimes - I know there are occasionally ones that I read which make me feel low/anxious/panicky too, and I think it's a case of Just Step Away From The Thread.

Ironing calls. Ho hum.

I'm afraid I shopped. I have a far less hurty arm, which is good.

::holds out glass for ::

There are no crap mums on this thread, nor average wives, nor vice-versa. You're all splendid people.

You're all so sweet. ((((HUGS all around))))
The tea room is the best place in the world for having a wobble.

It's a bit odd seeing my new nickname abbreviated to Om, I have to say, as much as I like it (Om being the sound of the universe and "shanti" meaning peace) I miss being JM. I've somehow come to identify with it :o

Re the "crap wife and average mum" thread - I read it all the way through last night and was at it... Yeah, everyone has their own issues, but purposefully thinking up the most hurtful thing to say to someone is just... well, words failed me (and we all know that doesn't happen often :o).

Evening all!

Thanks for the bits of advise. We have been referred from the school to someone from the local childrens help centre, and she in turn has put us in for the Triple P and another thing

I think we need to have different ways of dealing with her and she needs to stop being a little smarty pants! She tells the school her own little version of an event, and tells the school and it makes us out to be monsters!

Hadn't thought of diet mistlethrush, might start keeping a food/mood diary! We noticed a nastiness in her the day she came on and started her on some vitamin supplements etc which do seem to take an edge off things

Oh but happy news! She finally was told her option choices! Got everything she wants! German, Graphics and Drama!! Yay!!

Drat, drat and double drat! Have just lost my post, not once but twice, and now tis too late to do it all again. Will just blow you lovely ladies (feeling the tea room love tonight) some g'night kisses and see you soon.

Tea42 , how old is milk?? I forget?

PM me if your a candidate for the T shirt.

Twiglet pizza anyone??

Oooh. Late night twiglet pizza. Marvellous.

I'm just going to bed, so further kisses from me ::feeling the love:: and I'll see you on the morrow.

Have limited access to the internet at the moment and really need to go to bed.

Amber, I hope they can sort out your cocktail arm. Ouch!

TeaRoom tee-shirt sounds fab. Fear TS will be too big for it if/when he would have an opportunity for it as he's already comfortably in some 18-24 months and two year old clothes at 17 months (the 18-24 clothes he's been in for months now). Besides, I think LCT is only a few months older than TS so he gets first dibs.

OSJ (gosh, that sounds like an order of nuns), I didn't read the "crap mum/average wife" thread (thanks limited internet!) but I have to say anyone that sends parcels 1/4 way around the world to internet friends is not, I repeat NOT crap/average. So stop it!

Had a lovely day with TS. It was a fantastic swimming session and he's no longer an "AquaBabe" as he's too big for it now and moves up to Tiny Tots (I think it should be called AquaTots myself). I did find our current instructor does two of the Tots groups so am going to try to get into one of them. She seems fond of TS and his enthusiasm so don't want to have to try and break in a new teacher (the other instructor, I've heard, isn't necessarily as good with the littles despite taking most of the classes). He was lovely and wonderful at Guides tonight if I can get the interweb working properly I'll have some pictures on the other space soon. And MrScout said he was "riduculously affectionate" tonight, doing all of the calming/loving things we do to him rubbing backs, foreheads, noses/cheeks, pulling close for hugs, giving kisses (in my case his "kiss" was a lick across my face -- nice), holding onto MrScout's hand as he settled in his bed and putting his arm through his cot to rub MrScout's hair and back.

Bed is calling!

G'night Tea Room lovelies!

Unis I would have pmed you straight away but there really is no point. She is very nearly 5 (in May)... and with the British-French parcel delivery service by the time it gets to us she is sure to be 5.

Come on - who is 4 next??????? This is exciting!!!!

It never occured to me that it was just for boys! Up until the last clothes sort out Milk had a bright green t-shirt with a dark blue dinosaur on it. It looked fab with a light blue tutu and purple spotty wellies!

Off to my Wednesday teaching run. For my first lesson the host child in the group is a teacher's child. It is fab! We are doing Bb today. She said "If you are interested I can bring leave out some bunny baskets to make and I have some beans for them to play with somewhere." I said "Great! I'll bring the bananas!!!" LOVE IT!!!

Morning all.

Scout LCT will be 22 months on the 11th. So he's a just little bit older. Of course, we still have 2 years until he's 4!

Really wanted to go the park today but looks like the buckets will be pouring down any second. Darn it.

Everyone have a lovely day!

mistlechick was also always in larger sizes - he went into age 4-6mo at 1 mo and continued in the same vein.... But it fitted him. And Boy is not exactly a small child either - so its fitted two relatively well built lads already....

I hate it that clothes are so gender stereotyped - have even thought of settign up a company selling0 - 4 yrs clothes that are suitabl for either sex - nice bright colours - the sort that I was always looking for and could rarely find....

Birthday boy has largely finished large lego kit he got for his birthday. School run running somewhat late as a result.