slightly less bored today!!

[littleweed]

morning ladies
misery guts here. actualyy feeling less miserable today. thinkg the fact that Ds woke screaming at 4.30 adn didn't go back to sleep unitl Igot my boobs out at 6 might ahve something to do with it - I must be too knackered to be bored today. read all your comments - yes you're all right about daytine Tv being teh devils work, needing to get out and about etc. oh except teh domestic godess bit - truly awful cake but am eating it beacsue it has apple in therefore counts as health food! all of you with 'just' the one baby - what on earth do you do all day? entertaining a 6month old is not my strong point adn I get bored of it after about 15minutes.even if i spent all today doing housework (no chance) i'm such a slob that it wouldn't take that long either. anyhow have lovely coffee morning to go to today with friend who makes yummy cakes so am going to paint on a smile and eat lots!!!! I do hop eI don;t sound quite do 'woe is me' today - i'm normally quite nice!!
love littleweed

You didnt sound woe is me at all. We all very strongly sympathise as in the same boat too!!! You will feel better for your outing today, sometimes you just have to fight the tiredness and do it anyway , cos you know what I think mums will forever be tired !!!! Hope to speak to you some more.

Ah ha!!! Here you are!!!!

yep - teh excitement of posting a new thread was too much to resist!!!
problem is also (I think) that I had teh baby blues a bit (sort of light turquoise more probably) and am always aware that they may come back. also live in very closeknit community and have found out t hardway before now that its very hard to know who to trust wehn feeling liek this. probably why this MN is such a blessing.
why can't i spell 'the' properly? will check in again once hvae consumed own body weight in yummy cake:-))

lol Littleweed. I spend a lot of time entertaining my dd who is nearly 11 months. BUT she is quite happy to be left alone to play, and I am quite happy to leave her and be in the other room etc. You don't need to turn into a one-woman-walking entertainment centre! At the moment she doesn't crawl which makes a big difference. You really must be reassured that you are not alone in your feelings. At about 6 months I started going 'downhill' a bit too. The novelty wore off, routine and boredom set in. However, get yourself set up with some classes/groups 1 or 2 a week is plenty. Definitley try and get time for yourself too, establish good babysitters!! Get a facial, you remember all those things you used to do when you had no-one to think about but yourself

MMMM facial sounds goood!!

Enjoy cakeeee save some for me. I love apple pie btw.

Was going to suggest you meet Melsy for noodles, but you don't sound like you're in the sprawling metropolis... having the baby blues is ok, more people get it than let on, or are even aware of it I'm sure. First year of a new baby is a real life adjustment and one that I certainly under-estimated. If you can't trust people in your village or town to keep quiet about your business when you don't want it to be known, make friends on MN !!

anyone had a Dermalogica facial or used their products, I hear people are raving about them

I havent , but my friend is mad on their stuff as has quite bad skin.

Hi Littleweed (and the others)
I have read both your threads and very glad to hear that you feel a bit better today.
It will get better, honestly. I am a great beleiver in postive thinking (how irritating eh!). You do need to make a mammoth effort to go out and about - do what Coddy suggests, make an action plan for the week and break it down into days - get out for a walk every day and have one outing each day - I include trips to the library, food shopping as outings.
Please please read Bunnykins thread on going back to work - you will feel her anguish - and then rell me that you don't feel immediatly brighter and more positive. At least you are with your little ones....
Hope you feel brighter soon

littleweed! wheres your action plan? get out and do something!Q!!

where do you live?

I will give yoiu till the end of the day to do it

MOVE!

are you military?!! you'd make a great sergeant major!!
today have rung 3 (3!!) different music groups, found out about soft play area, and baby bounce time at local library. am also going to new mum/toodler group tomorrow so will be busy if nothing else.
do you think Trisha, fern and Philip will miss me??
will let you know how it goes.
love little weed (less weed like today!)

clapping Jolly well done you!! Firstly, I am sure all your daytime buddies will not miss you, and you will not miss them. Once you're out and about there'll be no stopping you. Hopefully you'll meet lots of nice mums and babs at the groups and classes. Where are you?

fantastic!! do you make friends esily? you must chat when you are there, am sure you willbe great

really well done

NO i ma a bossy boots only (ex teacher tho)

have come back again to say really well done

theres no holding you now

our library session is really good - not ins wiltshire are you?

Littleweed, if you can face getting into a cozzie, swimming is another activity that babies usually love.

Wow good one littleweed. Hi 5 !!! (shouldnt get to American otherwise coddy will hit me)!!!!

WELL DONE LITTLE WEED!!!
I'm very impressed (though coddy is pretty scary)

Littleweed, how was your mother and baby group today? Meet any other bored mums who want to sit at home and eat cake with you ?

Lipstick! you beat me to it!

Mum/baby group fine once I actaully got there - pooey baby adn telephone to deal with both at some time - tricky! talked to 2 v nice ladies (girls? women? mummies?!) adn met an old face at baby clinc this pm so am all talked out! I'm ok at intial talking but then get all shy adn run out of topics - but I guess that shouldn't eb aprobelm witha baby around!
actaully codswallop I'm an exteacher too - wonder if i ever sound as scary as you (primary though so possibly more Joyce Grenfell like) please don't tell me you're too young to know who i mean or i shall cry!!
thanks for all the advice and support REALLY appreciated xxx:-)) xxx

I have an idea how you felt, littleweed. I have just moved back to UK, to a new town, know nobody. There are toddler groups but all in morning and dd sleeps for 2 hours every morning, so miss them all. Also very shy so takes me ages to talk to anyone anyway. So I tend to stay at home and entertain her on my own, with major excursion being food whopping or M&S cafe!

oops. just wanted to add, have read some of other threads by people who are back at work, adn can't spend time at home, or peolpe with 2 kids adn having to much to do adn not enough time. so ahve now realised what a selfish mopey wingy cow i am who should be grateful she has teh chance to watch her beautiful boy grow adn change every day. so am going to go adn give self strict talking to whilst eating mood improving chocolate
:-))

good for you wee dy. your typing is like mine

"george don't do that"

ok my hot topics are -

1. about them - test yourself as to how much you can find out about hem wihtout them asking about you
2. celebrity gossip 3.depending on the type of person - the news.
3. fashions you have worn in the p ast and what a disaster you were

after a while you cna talk about more interesting stuff obv but that snormally works

Littleweed no relation to mumsnets littletree??

Hope your day is going ok so far?? your doing better than me with the toddler grps!!!