what has happened to the Zappata roll call thread in chat?

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I've lost it from my watched threads and can't find it by searching either, am I just being stupid?

yet again Fred is a fount of knowledge Will try that one on her tomorrow.

Hope you don't hate me if it doesn't work Squonk!

at this stage, I am not expecting anything to work, so deffo will not fall out with you if it doesn't.

However, if it does work, I may have to stalk you forever

will keep you posted. She went off to school this morning without a murmur, even when I made her wear her coat which apparently makes her look really fat (it doesn't, it makes her look like a slim girl with a thick coat on) because it is raining buckets!

egg - how are George and Mildred today?

Squonk - I know your pain. I bought coats for my two last year that NEVER got worn..

DD1 would rather freeze than look uncool. Apparently goosebumps and blue lips are much more acceptable then a sensible coat.

Yesterday dd1 went to school with a hot water bottle up her jumper!! Her idea not mine !! She emptied it at school and caried it in her bag all day...

Hello Zappatas. George and Mildred are NOT in existence. They are Nemo and Dory .

Just nipping on quickly, as DS is chomping at the bit at the front door. He coughed all night again poor lad and is fed up.

MIL coming in less than 6 hours .

Egg - you're so good taking him out all the time. Sometimes I get sooo bored of the park etc

fred - I wouldn't mind about the coat, but it is a Bench one that she nagged and nagged for until grandma bought it for her

egg - good luck with the outlaws, will be thinking of you.

Now, dont read anything into this, but could you have a quick look here and advise this poor poster (not that it's me, oh no, I'd tell you about anything like that, honestly )

I am having a crappy day.

DS has not eaten a thing today. Seriously. Only milk, and two dry shreddies. Didn't even want his fave yummy yummy custard. He has spent all morning telling me he is too tired to smile, and went to bed at 12:30 exhausted, was quiet for 3 mins and has been in conversation with his stuffed animals and blankie ever since... I have to leave the house at 3pm to meet MIL at station, so the longer he stays awake, the less sleep he will get and the more miserable and grumpy he will be all afternoon.

However, thank you for directing me to that other thread Squonk, it made me smile! Wish I could work out who it was though .

Going to put my lovely new 9 volt batt into my listening thing now and see if I can hear anything over the noise of DS shouting and banging...

egg - obviously you don't want him to be grumpy for his sake, but if you are going to tell the outlaws that they have to do all the housework, then grumpy ds is a bonus

I suspect the secret regular poster on the other thread is grateful for everyone's suggestions and is going to definitely think about a HUGE car

(thanks)

I wonder if the secretregularposter is boffing for England already??!?!?!?!

How exciting.

We really need to start looking at cars properly.

Finally went up to see DS as he had started crying. Found 6 of his 11 stuffed toys on the floor, along with blankie. He has been repositioned lying down with them all back in and so far is quiet.

Now, I MUST GO!

will be thinking of you and the outlaws, egg

(and the secret regular poster is boffing every time there are only two in the bed!)

@ boffing Squonk secret regular poster!!

Looks like you'll have no.4 before me then...

fred - there are very few occasions when there are only 2 in the bed

Luckily, dd1 mainly stays in her own bed, but the other two....

Morning, oops Afternoon Zappatas. No chance to get online with MIL here.

Wasn't there a film called Monster in law????

Hows it going Egg?

Had a cacky weekend but at least only 6 days til hols - phew. Think we all need it, even DS, who has been really struggling these last few days. None of us have had good night's sleep in a week .

On a good note, we have decided on names for Nemo and Dory, which we think will be Jacob and Rebecca (don't tell anyone in RL tho!!!), but will still call them Nemo and Dory until they are born in case we change our minds. Not told anyone in RL as prefer it to be a surprise, otherwise there is nothing exciting to tell them when babies are born!

How has everyone else been this weekend? Why does my MIL always make me feel I am not up to scratch as a wife and mother? Grrr, she makes me feel down .

Oh Egg - I'm sorry that she's made you feel like that....I bet she doesn't realie..but if she does she's a sniffy cow!

I know I've only met you once, but it was obvious to me what a great mum you are..and as for wife...well that role has changed alot since mil's day I'll warrant.I bet she'd have an attitude about any wife these days...

Ah thanks for the support. I am a fab mum of course . But she is definitely from the school of thinking that the mother / wife should do everything for the husband and children: cook, clean, wash up, washing, ironing etc etc. DH is a gym fanatic and most days after he gets home from work he chooses (yes chooses) to have his high protein tuna, noodles and veg meal that he cooks himself when he gets home. I have offered him other stuff and he prefers it that way. On Weds, Fri and weekends we do eat together, and we generally take it in turns to cook, which he is also happy to do. I do in fact do all the washing etc, and about 90% of the cleaning, esp now DS is at nursery.

She cut an article out of the paper to show me which was entitled "maybe granny really does know best" and it is all about how you should leave your baby to cry all night rather than pander to them... She did tell me that FIL told her not to bring it as he felt it was a bit offensive showing it to me .

She also said, and I quote "you know that you can't expect Mr Egg to get up in the night when the twins are born, if he doesn't get 8 hours sleep he wont be able to do his job and where will you be then?".

Right... and even though I will be up all night and all day and will be lucky to get 1 hours sleep in 24 hours it will all be ok as long as he gets enough sleep (he has an hour each way on train with no stops where he sleeps btw). Likewise as DS has now had 7 nights crappy sleep due to coughing, she also thinks DH should just wear earplugs and let me deal with it so he is ok for work, never mind the fact that if I don't get enough rest it can be a big factor in premature labour for multiple births . You would never know she had three kids herself. She even thinks it would nice if we got a dog NOW .

Gah.

Sorry, feel better getting that out of the system .

Strangely in a better mood today now she has gone. DS has nursery pics taken on Thursday... he is in desperate need of a haircut and I can't have his first "school pics" with him having a head that looks like a mushroom! He hates haircuts though, and I prefer to take him with DH as well for moral support / to hold him still!

How are the rest of the Zappatas today? Nice weekends?

morning all.

Big sigh of relief that MIL gone, egg? silly question don't worry, you are a FINE wife and mother. If you weren't, dh would have mentioned something

dd2 also having photos on Thursday. I may assume dd1 is as well and see if I can get her to clean her teeth before she goes to school

Our weekend was boff-tastic and if I could only figure out what all the acronyms mean I may join a ttc thread - any pointers?

oops, ds has discovered I'm not in the room... better go

I think you need to join the "looking for a BFP in October" thread. Then you can play all the AF / TTC / CM / etc chat! Glad it was bofftastic. DH and I don't boff any more...

Forgot to say, MIL went on and on and on (repeatedly) about the amount of toys DS has, basically saying he has too much stuff etc and is spoiled. I would like to point out that she is one of the main offenders, always bringing him things. Not complaining that she gives him things, but what are we supposed to do? Sell the things she brings!?!?!?

OOOOh Squonk has 'come out' as TTC...{grin]

After so may bofftastic weeks of not worrying ( or rather praying for) preganancy it now feels weird to be worrying about it again..

Egg - MIL sounds like her head is up her arse...
How old is the woman fgs? She sounds like she was a housewife from the 1940's...

I hope DH has not listened to any of her crap.

Oooh Egg - just read your last post...what do you say to her when she states these 'facts'?

the simple fact is, ds doesn't need loads of toys, he would probably be quite happy with a cardboard box and a spoon. BUT.... he has lots of toys that he plays with. So what? My kids have an entire (huge) understairs cupboard full of toys and whilst they may be spoilt, it aint because of their toys She is a different generation from us and has outdated views on child-rearing.

grr

so on the ttc threads, what does CD(number) mean? Am guessing it is not your favourite boffing track on the cd player

To be honest I just ignore half the things she says and pretend I have not heard as I can't find it in myself to comment.

Fred are you waiting for AF at the mo?

MIL is 63. Ten years younger than my own mother, who is far less stuck in the dark ages (she does do most of the cooking at home, but mainly cos my dad is crap at it!). My FIL cannot and will not even make himself some toast or heat up some soup, she does it all for him, but also complains about being stuck in the kitchen 85 hours a day.

Anyway, let's forget about the old troll. She just has very different values to me. I did explain to her that I do not have a passion for cooking and only cook what is necessary, rather than spending all day in the kitchen cooking things that never get eaten. No wonder DS refused to eat most of the weekend, she watched him like a hawk commenting on everything.

Just ordered DS a Little Tikes bed like a car like this. Hoping he will like sleeping in it! Bet he will spend all night stroking the plastic...