Tea Room the Fifteenth - The Viking Hall

[amberlight]

Here we are in the 15th instalment of the Tea Room for the One Child Family board. All are welcome, whether parents of a single splendid offspring or any other number.
We are this time in a Viking Long Hall tearoom, complete with optional helmets, roaring log fires (in case of chilly spring evenings), rugs aplenty, and all the usual mod cons of life as well.
Our Viking tea room contains Mellors the gardener/handyperson with a talent for relaxing massage (amongst a variety of other characters including Bishops, camels, bison, horses, guinea pigs, dogs, etc etc for reasons that would take too long to explain but you're welcome to read the other Tea Room threads and prepare to have your mind thoroughly boggled). Plenty of tea/coffee/cake/virtual bolly always on offer.
Join us, relax, chat, enjoy.

[CMOTdibbler]

Morning all -it's a beautiful day here at the airport. Was up till all hours last night painting the skirting boards as we ripped up all the carpets in preparation for the new floors going down this week. DS delighted to go to the tip several times, esp as he got to go in the front seat - there he was, sunnies on, feet, hands and head going to the Glee soundtrack, and demanding 'more rock and roll songs mummy'

How is the migraine situation Thumb ?

If you are up for Womad Oxeye, I'll take DS sans DH and meet you

[MaryBS]

Oxeye, she and DS are a bit under the weather atm, both running high temps, but other than that they are OK - calprofen seems to be doing the trick! But they are both home from school today.

I do keep praising her, but she says its just because I'm her mum. I've even told her nice things other people have said, but she doesn't believe me or accept the compliment . Don't think the diary is helping though...

It was our church fun day yesterday, which we all attended, and she stayed away from those who upset her (found out yesterday they'd been winding her up at choir practice on Sunday - saying she couldn't sing, and being rude about her singing). I had the 'pleasure' of telling off one of them for misbehaving! DS fell asleep on the hard church floor, just curled up in a ball and slept! But then he wasn't well yesterday either, but we had to go as DH and I were both running events on our own (me on bouncy castle - I am a trained bouncy castle engineer, don't you know? LOL) and DH on the BBQ.

Cambridge isn't far from me so is always good for a meetup... (assuming you mean Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, I've been caught out before! )

[ASmallBunchOfFlowers]

[thumbwitch]

CMOTD - I think it's sorted thanks. He went for an afternoon sleep and when he woke up he was red hot. Feet, hands, head - everything. Face bright red. I checked in his mouth to see if he had molars coming through but not obviously; and he's never had problems with teething before, so I don't think it's that.

Gave him more calprofen and he's perked up since then. Had a full tea and is now boinging around like a dervish so I think he'll be ok. Hope so anyway!

Bags me the mad scientist in St.T's...

[oxeye]

Gawd. Not ignoring you thumb. Thought I'd covered it with wine and spiders. Glad mimit better. Here's a hug and some cake
hope Mexican Snotfest has lessened Catita.
I too read Grauniad Guide and felt ok'd seeking out the comfy boutique ones
proffers coffee and warm cinnamon buns and wonders how Jm is getting on
hole your Dcs bit better today Mary. I so feel for you dd

[mistlethrush]

Morning. Have spent a delightful morning at the Hospital being fed drugs in small quantities - it appears that there might be a painkiller that I can take after all...

Mistlechick's on a growing surge again - eating for England and sleeping - had a 2.5hr nap on Saturday, was woken up, read a story whilst supper was cooked, had supper and went back to bed. I predict shooting upwards in the next two weeks....

I do like the addition of the hairy dogs lying around in the tearoom - mistledog feels quite at home when she decides to pop in for a visit.

[thumbwitch]

s'ok oxeye - I wasn't being in earnest there.

I believe that miniThumb is better - certainly better than he was as he is no longer heating up like a furnace. Hurrah for calprofen!

MT - hurrah for finding a painkiller you can use.

Mary - gutted that your DD is still having a trauma with those girls and I bet it felt good getting to tell one of them off

Am watching Gray's Anatomy at the mo - I do love that show. I missed about 2 series of it but have got right back into it again.

[amberlight]

[thumbwitch]

oh no amber - is this the same disaster as before, the work one?


I guess soupe du jour had better be chicken then - good for the soul apparently.

[RacingSnake]

Mary, sorry your DD is still struggling.

I had no friends at all between the age of about 8 and 11, after a difficult time when my father had a serious accident and spent several weeks in hospital (no visiting from children in those days!) and one boy found it very funny to tell me that every phone call received at school was to tell me that my father had died.

I don't remember this period very clearly, but apparently I just stopped speaking to any other children until I went to secondary school. Children can be extreme in their reactions.

It wasn't easy to get back into being sociable - in fact, I still often see myself as an 'outsider' although actually I have lots of very good friends and only don't see them as often as I would like to because I can't fit it in with Wriggle and work.

Far too long a story; the moral is, try not to let DD get out of the habit of being with children.

[amberlight]

It is a charity work one, of the sort of dimensions big enough that a viking long hall wouldn't contain it. I thought it can't get worse but it can.

I need a hug

[ASmallBunchOfFlowers]

[thumbwitch]

more (((Hugs))) here, amber. HOpe that the someone with some sense sorts it out for you soon.

RS - I hope that boy got what he karmically deserved in life. CHildren can be right sods.

[thumbwitch]

OK - am going to test the waters here before I brave the health board - ever since I gave up bf'ing last November I have had intermittent pain in my left boob. I have tried to feel around to see if there is a lump but they were always pretty lumpy anyway and every lump I have thought I found had a corresponding one on the other side. If I poke around too much, they both get sore anyway - but the left one is tender without being poked, especially if miniThumb leans on it. It's worse if I wear one bra than any of the others (seems to squash the boobs more).

Am I being really stupid here - should I just go to the doc and get it checked? Well, I know I should but it's very scary. But so is not going. I'm being pathetic - someone tell me I am, please?

[amberlight]

I read the other day that breast pain is almost always nothing serious at all,but yes, I'd say go see a doc because it hurts and it's annoying you and they may have a sensible suggestion. Definitely not pathetic at all - very sensible to ask and find out.

[thumbwitch]

thanks amber - and thanks for passing on what you read. I keep thinking it can't be anything serious but I have a friend a few years older than me just about to have her second mastectomy so that preys on my mind too.

Must go and make appt to see doc (but not nasty git who told me not to bother trying for any more babies as I was too old and already had one)

[amberlight]

er yes, not that one. Ask for a nice smiley one. Mine is.

[mistlethrush]

TW - I have the odd shooting pain, but not side specific (well, I don't think it is anyway)... However, having been through the whole screening, you'd better go to the clinic, we don't know what it is, we'd better have it out, and 'it was a lump of very inflamed gristly tissue, nothing to worry about' (well, you stuck it with so many needles, what did you expect???) i can confirm that its definitely worth going to see someone to get it checked out - it gets to the proportions of mentally affecting your whole life otherwise. Hopefully it will be nothing to worry about and you'll have confirmation of that. However, if it is something to worry about, best found out asap.

Amber - ((((hugs)))) from a distance and non-invasive way from me too - can I pour you a cup of tea and sneak in a double chocolate muffin to you?

[thumbwitch]

Thank you MT - sounds horrible! But glad it was just inflamed tissue. I'm hoping that's all it is here as well. My best friend in the UK thought she had found a lump, went to get it checked out and they said "yes, it is a sort of lump - it's your rib!" (she's a bit underendowed). Apparently that's quite common as well.

[mistlethrush]

Tests weren't pleasant. Op wasn't great. But peace of mind 1 week later was worth it.

[amberlight]

Thank you collectively for hugs, tea and muffin.

[amberlight]

PS are any of us Daisy? I get so puzzled by name changes that one of you could well be her, but I wouldn't know. And if none of us are, where is she??

[thumbwitch]

Yes, one of us is. Her name is a variety of the same flower. And sounds more like a part of a bovine.

[amberlight]

Oh my! See, I know nothing !

[drivingmisscrazy]

definitely not daisy! am up in new improved study grading mning. DD likes to bounce on the mattress in here and is perfecting the art of climbing on and off it (it's currently on the floor). We still have poo issues and I am feeling a bit despondent on her behalf...dropping formula hasn't made much difference tbh, so we're going to have to take measures, I think. Not sure what to do, so much conflicting advice.

To whoever asked why I thought her dad might be thinking about another - he was just saying how amazing it is that she's nearly 16 months, and how she's not a baby anymore, and all round just how wonderful she is. These things are all true, of course It's just me clutching at straws and that way madness lies.

thumb pick up the phone and make the appointment - DP had something a bit like this but it turned out to be nothing, but we were all sweating about it until she was checked out.

amber - not sure what the issue is, but I hope it gets resolved soon - feel free to vent (the longhouse is roomy! )