Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Other subjects
Original poster

MN Little Italy 14

999 replies

Penthesileia · 09/05/2009 22:43

Ciao, welcome!

OP posts:
francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 20:46

You know, she might . Sell a few antique books and get thee a prada bag!!!!

pssst: which bag were you thinking???

Original poster
Penthesileia · 12/05/2009 20:51

It's quite boring really, but the Mulberry Roxanne A4 tote: I feel I would get work done with such a bag...

Unless you have any better ideas?

OP posts:
francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 21:00

Oh yes, I'm sure the quality of your work would increase enormously with the aid of such a bag...

no, I don't have better ideas.

Original poster
Penthesileia · 12/05/2009 21:04

How often does your DS go swimming, franca? It seems like you're always going!

OP posts:
francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 21:10

lol Penthe. Trust me, that's exactly how it feels!
They both go once a week, but they are on 2 different levels and, as I was late getting their names down, I couldn't find lessons on the same day.
So, ds goes on Tuesdays at 6
Dd goes on Wednesday at 14.45, so I pick her early from scuola materna.

francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 21:11

and we go by tram

Camomilla · 12/05/2009 21:16

penthe, yes sell books and get that bag, you know you've been after it for a while now AND after all it's for work, no ?

would love to have a nanny so that I can actually do stuff, but I'd be worried she'd think I'm such a messy slob (well, I am messy, don't mean to but when you haven't got the space for things, you end up giving up and leaving them around...)

and even DD doesn't need that plastic pea thing, she holds her bowl and picks up her peas one by one! what a waste of money!

Original poster
Penthesileia · 12/05/2009 21:19

You are indeed virtuous! So they only go twice a week (in total). Gosh. That means that time flies even faster than I think, because it seems to me, reading these threads, that you're always popping out to the pool!

Hurumph: I wouldn't need to sell books even, just get DH to stop buying them at such an alarming (and expensive) rate...

We are horribly messy too. Really really really terribly messy. No joke. Oh god. No nanny is going to come to work for us...

OP posts:
Camomilla · 12/05/2009 21:22

yeah! Eurovision time!

Original poster
Penthesileia · 12/05/2009 21:27

What what what? Already? Ugh.

OP posts:
Camomilla · 12/05/2009 21:28

need to take DD swimming, no2 syndrome, DS had already done a course at her age... need to check if I can fit in the swimming costume, might take her when fil's here. need to plan s.thing to do every day for 10 days...

boys mums - are your DSs interested on your breasts ? for the last couple of days DS seems obsessed with them, I know obviously it's natural, but I feel so , always going on about "mummy's things" - apparently they're funny and bouncy... what would he do if I actually had any?

francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 21:29

Lol! To be honest, I'm so looking forward for the swimming course to end, as it is exhausting. For me of course. I think there must be 55 degrees in the pool ( I sit on a bench by the pool making small talk with other mums) with a high % of humidity and my hair gets big... .

I agree with your theory camo, I realized that we have really messy corners, where we pile up things we don't kn ow where to store.

Camomilla · 12/05/2009 21:29

BBC3 - they've just finished singing the first semifinal...

Camomilla · 12/05/2009 21:30

yes franca, we have boxes, baskets, bags everywhere..... storage jungle

francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 21:31

mmmm I'm trying to remember if ds has ever done so, but don't think he's ever showed that much interest in my boobs. Dd did, when she was a bit younger.

Original poster
Penthesileia · 12/05/2009 21:33

I've been meaning to take DD swimming all year...

Boxes? Baskets? Bags? You put your stuff in things? Amateurs. Piles are the way to go. Piles and piles and piles and piles and more perilously dangerous piles of crap. Everywhere. No good if it isn't a pile.

Our house is like an archaeological site. I have to think:

  • when did I last see something?
  • where did I last see something?
  • what was I doing when I last used something?
  • what was it next to?

and so on...

OP posts:
Camomilla · 12/05/2009 21:39

same here penthe, I'm constantly looking for clothes and stuff, which magically reappear suddenly (when I don't need them anymore usually)

francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 21:43

I've always considered myself quite good at creating an seemingly sense of tidiness in our house. But I'm starting to give up.
In the corner of our bedroom at the moment we have:
1 huge blue bag, where I put our winter duvet.
On top of it there is a single bed duvet, which I should take to the lavanderia, but when? how? It's heavy.
a huge bag of children's clothes to give in beneficienza
random children's clothes to hand down to friends.
Help.

Original poster
Penthesileia · 12/05/2009 21:43

Yes, it's annoying!

Confession time! I was pretty realistic about what it would be like to have a baby, having babysat a lot. I knew it would be tiring, overwhelming, etc.

However, I somehow managed to convince myself that I would, nevertheless, be transformed by the mystical experience of motherhood into an organised person who keeps up with the laundry, occasionally does some hoovering, and also manages to get some work done.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

I nearly weed myself with anxiety the other day when I was looking at an academic book, and the author thank their baby for coming along and meaning that she got maternity leave: so that she could write her book. Either DD is very demanding, or I am superfluously crap, as I have achieved virtually nothing this whole year. Sigh.

OP posts:
Original poster
Penthesileia · 12/05/2009 21:45

thanked

OP posts:
TheMysticMasseuse · 12/05/2009 21:49

penthe that author is an idiot. or has a full time nanny. or is a bad mum. in any case, she's a bad sister for making us all feel bad.

TheMysticMasseuse · 12/05/2009 21:51

or another way to look at it: poor, poor author, who had to miss out on those precious first weeks/months with her baby to write her boring fundamental tome

francagoestohollywood · 12/05/2009 21:53

Bet she sent her to nursery !

Sputnik · 12/05/2009 21:54

Reassuring to know other people have messy houses. Penthe, this woman clearly employed a nanny during her maternity leave.

TheMysticMasseuse · 12/05/2009 21:54

ok buonasera everyone. i am not even going to try to read the whole thing i am so tired.

i am getting really fed up with how tired i am. i hate it. i am a zombie. i am ugly. thick. i have a moustache. ho gli occhi a palla. uffa.

apart from that... did the bandage/wrapping thing with dd1 tonight for the first time. she freaked out at first but then let me do it. we tried to do it into a game but it was so hard. let's hope she can sleep with them... i am anxious about it. also anxious to have made it too tight and that her feet will get gangrene

Swipe left for the next trending thread