You know you are under strain when...............

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..........you feel tearful listening to No Charge by JJ Barrie on Top of the Pops 2 tonight.

After tucking baby into bed for the night (8pm) your husband turns around to find you asleep on the nursery floor with your head on a play quilt - and you're not too cheerful when woken up!
Bugsy - I also cried to that holby city mini-plot.

Reading in my magazine an adverisement by the Police looking for new recruits, it was a picture of a mother lying by a childs cot, the text was by a BBC1 Reporter his words were "I would rather walk into a war torn city than walk into a room where a mother has lost her child to cot death". I admit here and now that I cried and cried for ages, I and my husband though long and hard about the ad and couldn't even comprehend how anyone must feel when that happens.
On a positive note I WENT SHOPPING TODAY WITH NO CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!, even got one or two Xmas present and bought meself some new undies of the lacy/racy kind, the pants look as if they could get a bit uncomfortable after about 3 hours of being worn, husbands words, "you won't have them on long enough for them to annoy you!!" On that note I will go and get some food on the go.

...you either cry at the postings on this board or nod your head 'cause you've done 'em all....

I found myself almost in tears watching the ad for Carphone Warehouse where the poor old mobile phone is wandering around lonely and rejected and nobody loves him -(sob)!!

You cry at groundforce when the person sees first their new garden, then Allan Titchmarsh...

Jasper, do you mean you cry when you look at Alan Titchmarsh? (I can understand that!)

channelno5 , good job this board is anonymous.I have been heard to ask "am I the only woman in Britain who would rather marry Alan Titchmarsh than Robbie Williams?"
I would be very happy to return home to find him atop a new expanse of decking in my herbaceous borders...

You've lost it when you tell your husband you're going out to hoover the lawn actually I mean harvest the hay having remembered how long it got in the summer between cuts.

oops forgot to mention my hero was Geoff Hamilton (am I showing my age here)

Jasper, I agree that Alan Titchmarsh is good with his hands, but marriage, really? I wouldn't mind finding some new decking in my garden, though!

When you find yourself blubbing (yet again) in front of the telly watching Holby City on Tuesday night as that poor girl died of cancer. It really annoys me because the story lines are not very clever, the acting pretty weak in places & yet I am so suckered in. It must be pregnancy that has damaged my judgement so badly.
To top it all, I had to go and check unnecessarily on ds afterwards & was too enthusiastic. Woke the poor little guy up & then he found it difficult to settle back to sleep!!!

Bugsy, been there, done that! The times I've weepily hovered on the landing outside my two son's bedrooms deciding which son I'm going to wake up for a hug and a cuddle....

i echo your post bugsy,i was also blubbing at holby city to ,mind you being 4 12 months pregnant i seem to blub at everything, i found my self weepy yesterday because i couldnt find a comfy pair of knickers,so i ended up wearing my dh pants instead,then i got weepy again at the thought of wearing big pants . I always swore i wouldnt do this. Out go all my sexy thong type see through undies and in come those bridget jones,s pants.oh the joys of pregnancy!!!!

I too cried at Holby City, anything like that involving babies and children makes me cry, especially now I've got my own.

Ariel - I'm not pregnant and I'm still wearing big pants, does that make you feel any better. I don't think I'll ever wear a thong again unless I take up sumo wrestling - nice thought,eh!

Big pants are just soooooo comfy!!!

Absolutely, Ems! Be honest, on a cold, dark, winter's evening, what would you sooner be wearing......

Tigermoth - I'd sooner be wearing Russell Crowe, but each to their own, eh!