Worst mother award (no 378)

[SenoraPostrophe]

It's ds's first birthday tomorrow and I forgot. I'll have to get him a little something while he's at nursery tomorrow.

The shame.

JanH!!!! (Thought it was bad that a friend sent a mutual friend a card on her wedding day to 'X and Stuart'. Her intended was called Michael.) Needless to say they are no longer friendly!)
SP,I DID forget that I had a baby-completely escaped me. I'm the vaguest person in the world.

Ha ha Senora, that's impressive! I do remember, you had an awful time with your dd in hospital didn't you? If it's any consolation I thought dd's first birthday was the 29th November, although dp was convinced it was the 30th. I only believed him after I'd checked the mumsnet birth announcement and found it was indeed the 30th. I even had it written on the calendar incorrectly.

I don't think DP knows either of the inferiorettes' birthdays - he certainly can't remember mine.

And he used to spell DD1's name wrong.

Oh, after DS2 was born, I kept forgetting his name. Only for the first few weeks, but it was horrid, being asked, and just drawing a blank. (In my defence, we only decided his name in the month or so before he was born, and even then, we weren't 100% certain.)

And I do know someone who forgot an older child's birthday - maybe a three-year-old? (I forget, but it certainly wasn't a one-year-old.) It was someone with four or five kids, and the older ones were outraged, but of course the little one didn't know the difference.

My father cannot remember any of our birthdays (he claims its cos he wasn't there for the births...), I can remember ds's birthday, its the year I have trouble with! However, I have been known to call ds by the dog's name

Just after DH took over as SAHD he went to the timber yard with ds and all was fine. Got home to a message on the ansaphone saying that there was a problem with his "deposit" at the yard and could he go back. He went back absolutely mystified to find 6 month old ds sat on burly builders knee playing with a chisel, burbling happily.

oh how mummy didn't laugh at that at the time....!

I booked a trip to NY for me and dh for his 40th and only much later once tickets arrived, gps organised to look after dd etc did I realise that we would be away for her 4th birthday.
We just moved it to the following weekend. She was none the wiser. She knows what date her birthday is but has no idea what it actually means.
No harm done but I did feel guilty.

Senora ... PMSL sorry ... He he he!
I know you had a bad time with your dd at the time ... so I think we can all forgive you. If it is any consolation, like some others, I forgot my baby's name once.
She was a week old and we were in a restaurant having lunch. The waitresses were cooing over her and asked me all the usual questions. Then one of them asked me what her name was and I just went blank. My mouth opened and nothing came out. I just said, "I don't know" and then my mum came to the rescue. I got some very funny looks

Yup, what IS that blankness? friends asking 'was it a boy or a girl?' errr - yes ....
I think it is mad to make a fuss of a 1-year old's b'day, unless the fuss is for you and you want it. DS had fairy cake with candle on top. I quite admire you TBH

alicatsg - I can imagine your immediate reaction was not to smile and laugh about it!!!

ROFL. its a nice stick to poke dh with from time to time....

however I just called ds by the cats name so no points to me on that one

Beetroot - yes, very handy thanks. The midwife made me show it off to the antenatal group too (can't get them in Spain).

He had a nice birthday, BTW. I bought a prezzie but it turned out to be crap so I had to confiscate it (a ride on thing that tips forward). I'll take it back.

Dd was more excited than ds though!

sp i forgot to get ds a card, we were lining all cards up and dh and i realised that we had not got him one , i did make a cake... so thats all right then?

We moving house soon so DD 1st birthday is a little in the way! Have asked most people to hang onto her pressies 'till afterwards.
Haven't got time/space/inclination/energy to have a party so we're just going to take her to the pub for lunch.
MIL not impressed, but I'm really looking forward to it.

pmsl alicat. To think that I once left one of mine (who knows which one now) in the post office whilst I went into a lovely clothes store, suddenly remembered child who was still sleeping where I'd parked him/her. But the image of the builder with a 6 month old and a chisel, pmsl again.

When the DTs turn 1 next month I'm going to do what scaltygirl did and celebrate my achievement with champers.

What is it with men and DIY? When ds was about 4 months old (just sitting up), I came back to the house having left him with dh, to find no sign of dh and ds sitting on the kitchen counter, propped in the corner between the two walls. Dh appeared a minute or two later, having 'popped up' to the attic to get a tool he needed for whatever job he was doing in the kitchen...
This story regularly gets trotted out at dinner parties etc, and he still maintains it was perfectly safe!!!!

I left mine using a hot-air paint stripper and came back to find DD2 (about 6) and DS1 (about 3) taking turns with it

Excellent effort! I'm always forgetting dss' birth dates - one's the 7th and one's the 9th and I'm always getting them mixed up... I also forgot ds2's name when he was a few weeks old - someone asked me and I just couldn't remember... Neither ds got a Christmas card from dp and I this year - and don't get birthday cards yet - what's the point??!