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SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 09/03/2009 12:26

Ciao, hello, welcome!

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DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 20:43

me too now that I have them.

viggoandjavier · 22/03/2009 20:44

i read nausea several times as a teenager, infact i wish i had read him less and gone out more...
franca is over on the 6th i think. she wants to do the N History Museum, i was going to propose meeting in Hyde Park afterwards at the cafe by the pirate ship park, maybe? or anywhere else where we can moan really... (i mean talk)

viggoandjavier · 22/03/2009 20:44

Penthe, is your dp good at looking after la ciccetta?

viggoandjavier · 22/03/2009 20:47

damon, are you being ironic about compo on the other thread

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 20:48

can you not tell? should i have added a ?

viggoandjavier · 22/03/2009 20:49

sorry being a bit thick!
anyway if you were being ironic i will go and add a lol.

viggoandjavier · 22/03/2009 20:52

why did de beauvoir not have kids? she must have got pregnant with all htose lovers..she had a complicated relationship with her mum no?

Penthesileia · 22/03/2009 20:52

It depends. No, not really, but at the moment that doesn't bother me very much, because it's not for want of trying. He does try to do stuff, and he does want to, but he finds her hard, and TBH, she is - at the moment at least - a real mummy's girl (though this is probably a result of my looking after her all the time - vicious circle). He helps me as much as he can, that much I know. And he helps alongside me, if that makes sense. I think we will need to confront the division of labour more fully though, because once I'm back at work, it could get messy if I don't. DH needs more confidence. He's quite a bit older than me, and before DD had no experience of babies at all.

I'd LOVE to try to meet up, but I have a sneaking suspicion I'm busy on the 6th...

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 20:55

who did? experience with babies I mean.
having said all this bad things about dh he is great with the dds practically. that's why I get so upset, he can do it.

Penthesileia · 22/03/2009 20:57

Can't remember about De Beauvoir's mother, though I think she had a reasonable relationship with both her parents (even though I think she felt her dad wanted a son), who encouraged her a good deal to excel.

I imagine she didn't want kids because she already felt that women were enslaved by their biology: she's savage about this in Le deuxieme sexe.

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 20:57

viggo.

and with this show of great friendship i think I'll leave you. not sure if to go and clean or go and read.

viggo we can def meet at the weekend even childless if you like. maybe to that exhib I was talking to you about that I got all wrong. now that you tolm me he is a painter I really want to go.

night night.

Penthesileia · 22/03/2009 20:59

Well, I had a lot of experience: babysat little babies right up to 12 year olds for years. I looked after a friend's baby for several days when the baby was 3 months old, and she went away.

DH had never even held a baby before his niece the year before DD.

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 20:59

I never wanted kids till I met dh, and he pushed the agenda a bit tbh. I mught have changed my mind but I don;t think it's so strange not to want them, or is it. mind you maybe I was too young to hear my biological clock.

she must have gotten pg though at least once and terminate, no?!

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 21:00

I never held a baby before dd1. never ever.

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 21:00

imagine my shock!

Penthesileia · 22/03/2009 21:00

Go and read, definitely, Pippi.

I hope you feel better soon. Look after yourself (as well as DD1, DD2, DH...)

viggoandjavier · 22/03/2009 21:01

notte, i am going to watch vincent cassel having sex with monica bellucci.

Penthesileia · 22/03/2009 21:06

What film?

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 22/03/2009 21:08

thanks penthe .

night night.

beforesunrise · 22/03/2009 21:18

pippi hope you sort out your crisis soon.

if any consolation- this morning i did get my precious extra hour in bed (still up by 7.45, so i can't call it a lie-in), whihc was my mother's day present. in that hour dh was incapable of preparing breakfast for himself or the girls. he said he just "can't do everything at the same time"...

mmhh so is there a meetup on the 6th april, cos i am not working on that day... [getting interested]

beforesunrise · 22/03/2009 21:20

btw viggo- thanks for asking about the sleep. atrocious at the moment, it keeps getting worse rather than better... that's why i am off to bed.

night night

Penthesileia · 22/03/2009 21:41

notte tutte.

francagoestohollywood · 22/03/2009 21:54

Hi I'm back, after being "forced" going to the mountains by ski mad ds (and dh). I, of course, had to stay bordo pista, as dd refuses to learn. She goes on the padella though, a cheap plastic version of a sleigh.
So, on Saturday, I spent a few hrs in a baretto by the campetto eavesdropping the inane chat of posh torinesi, thinking that perhaps our beloved Natalia Ginzburg would "rotolarsi nella tomba". AS I texted to Pippi it looked like anovel by Fruttero e Lucentini.
I'm now mildly pissed off, as it is of course me who has to face more loads of laundry and gently force ds to do his homework.
So what are all these threads you've been talking about?

No, we are not frugal. Dh is, as he is piemontese, but I try to sabotage him.

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SunflowerNeedsSunshine · 22/03/2009 21:57

buonasera!

sorry to hear about DD2 pippi, and the forgotten flowers! I have to say that DP is brilliant around the house, I mean he helps, or tries to, though I have to re-do things, but at least he tries. Hoovering (well, should say "henrying" ) is his job for examples, and he also gets breakfast ready evey morning (it started as I was working and he wasn't, and then it carried on being "his" job). I do have to nag him, and though I'm sure he's more than capable to looke after the 2 of them alone, he lacks common sense in silly things.

he forgot my birthday this time, but DS "saved" him just before he left for work. for the last 2 years he's been driving back from his parents on mother's day and my mum was here coincidentally, so always arrived with flowers and cards for the both of us. today I got tulips and a card. But DS was just wonderful: he ran upstairs on Friday to hide my present, which was a big SECRET and kept on telling me not to go in his bedroom. first thing this morning (I mean, even before normal week-day) he got up and run in our bedroom with my present, can't believe he actually remembered!! this lovely picture of him, in a DS-decorated frame.

Anyway, we had a lovely day. Had to go to a b-day party at lunchtime, then we went for a walk in the park, and then back home for a cup of tea and Brange's banana cake, and played badmington in the garden. after that we went for dinner at Nando's (I didn't really want to as I was so knackered after all that fresh air ) but the thought of cooking and washing was even worse!

BS - just pop-in when you can! we're always here! I'm often catching up and talking to myself like tonight!! and hope the sleep situation improves soon.

Penthe, don't get me started on that SAHM/WAHM thread!

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francagoestohollywood · 22/03/2009 22:06

Hello sunflower.
Has there been yet another sahm/wohm thread? I posted on one only a few days ago, saying that wohm generally take lots of shit on MN.

We've never celebrated mother or father day here in my house

However, dh has always been happy to pay for childcare (when in the UK). It saved our marriage

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