The All New Zappata Thread

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Just setting this up in good time so we can link to it before we lose each other...

Right I must now go and hoover the house, empty the dishwasher and sort through clothes for DTs to see what I can get rid of etc.

Exciting stuff re wedding Fred. My friend had hired a mobile creche thing for her wedding although plans have now changed so she is not using them (much smaller wedding due to budget). Her wedding is not near yours but I can ask her who she was going to use if you have no luck with Artful Splodgers!

Thanks Egg - don't do too much work today, you don't want to set a dangerous precedent!!!

mobile creche! what a good idea!

Tesco man been and gone, shopping put away, that's the high point of my day been and gone

Suppose I'd better make some dinner...

OOP north we have our dinner at 12.

and our tea at 4.30 (ish)

and supper is a biscuit with a glass of milk just before bed.

dinner now???

Oh forgot you are oop north and have dinner at lunchtime... .

Was he good looking? Mr Tesco?

Need more storage space for DTs clothes. Only got one chest of drawers for everything incl bibs, hats etc, vests, sleepsuits, proper clothes, bedding for cots and blankets for them etc. Need to rehome some things, prob bedding and blankets, but nowhere to put them (no room in airing cupboard...). DS1 had a wardrobe with two drawers as well as the chest and still I ran out of space. He is still using the wardrobe so they have to make do AND there are two of them.

I typed too slow .

We have LUNCH about 12-12:30 (well DS1 does).

Then he has SUPPER about 5:30ish (however strangely I call ours dinner at 8ish pm). Was brought up to call evening meal supper (parents are posh) but kind of started calling it dinner when I went to secondary school as everyone else did. When I was a child we had TEA about 4:30 which was cake and biccie and then SUPPER at 8pm.

didn't actually notice tesco man - was just looking at what he was bringing me. I did notice he had a strange hat on

Ds been up every night for a week with a cough - I started a thread earlier and the concensus seems to be that his asthma is getting worse so it's off to the docs on Wednesday when I have the car.

He woke up at 2 and by the time he'd stopped coughing he thought it was time to play (oh joy!) he went back to sleep at 6 and dp came to say goodbye at 6.30, 6.40, 6.50 and 7.10. Managed another half hour before dd2 woke up crying because she was on her own and didn't know where everyone had gone.

Am tired.
Am grumpy.

Apart from that.... everything's situation normal in the squonk household

It's a bit odd, because dp and dd1 have a lunch hour, when they eat their dinner

Bloody hell Squonky, what a night . I hate to speak too soon but DS1's cough seems a bit better at the mo. He does cough a bit at night but not enough to bother him (or us). Might be cos we don't have the monitor in his room any more so we don't hear him but I think he seems better for now. DD and DS2 both woke at 3:45am. I went to bed at 8pm and sleep at 8:30pm so got a nice longish stretch in. They both went back to sleep after feeding but DS2 made a lot of burping, farting, slurping noises from 6am onwards.

Can't believe it is already 12:15 and I have not got anything done yet. Had a dream last night that I took DTs to nursery but forgot DS1 who was still in bed. I then had to race across town to get home as I had left him on his own for the last hour (despite nursery being only 5 mins away).

Hope your day improves Squonk, can you catch any sleep later? Is there a chance DS will nod off as he had such a bad night?

well, he might. And dd1 might look after them both for an hour or so.

But I think I'll try and stay awake - don't want to nap then be awake till 2, only for him to wake up again at ten past!

I presume you didn't forget ds1?

Am glad you said that about daytime naps. DH was on at me yesterday trying to make me have a nap at 4pm, and I said I would rather just go to bed at 8pm after DS1 was in bed than risk not being able to sleep and lie awake til midnight and then have to get up to feed DTs etc. He told me I was being ridiculous...

I didn't forget DS1. Impossible to do, he is so NOISY... In my dream it took ages to get back to him and he was stuck in his bedroom sobbing .

awww poor DreamEggBoy

stands to reason, one hour of nap versus four hours of real sleep...

Hello Zappatas,
Only managed to briefly pop on yesterday but no time to post.

Have been lurking today as I'm not feeling so good emotionally but a lunchtime nap (after being awake until 4am today) and 3/4 of a pack of thorntons cappuccino truffles have helped immensely, so I am back to work with only 2 hours left.

27 dresses was a very easy going chick flick, with nothing new but was still entertaining. I was almost swooning over one of the male leads until I refreshed my DT fix at 6:20pm.

Glad you are enjoying your dc free day, Egg. Did you tell dh yet? Don't work too hard, have you got any good magazines?

Phono - Glad you have sorted things out with dp, did he make the first move? Will have a look at your FB photos later .

marmite - just to let you know, really, that I think of you and your SIL often

Marmite ditto again. I was watching a prog on Discovery Home & Health and there was a lady due to give birth to her second child, but it was her fourth pg and she had had one mc and one stillbirth . I was sobbing away to myself and thinking of little Eris.

Finding it hard to relax today. Not really sat still for long. Even when on MN am standing at computer and not sitting down. Just sat down and ate a sarnie, but have mainly been busy. Now feeling v tired and it is only less than an hour til I need to go and pick the gang up. Clouds are getting dark so looks like it will be peeing down too.

am figuring housework = staying awake.

Stepford Squonk is here

Mn'ing equals staying awake Squonk...put that duster down!!

Right Stepford Zappatas, am off to collect my children.

Children . Sometimes I forget I have three of the blighters.

Oh, Squonk and Fred, what cars do you have that fit your three in? I know it is different as you have older ones, just curious as we may actually get a new car one day soon, so we can actually all go out at the same time in it!

A zafira at the moment, although we are getting a ford s-max very soon!

Aha! S-max is on our shortlist!

tbh we were loonking at the audi 7 seater and the BMW x5 but the s-max was the roomiest and a good price too

we have a Vectra, which fits a child seat at either end of the back seat, with dd1 squeezed in the middle.

Not ideal, but we are all in the car together so rarely, it does for us for the time being.