August 2008 Laugh Line

[TwilightSurfer]

Too much pressure and too little thread space left me with but one choice so here we are. Let's discuss further the private space because quite honestly the "private" space is not so "private" at the moment. I'm no detective BUT there's only a handful of threads over there and all are beckoning me to read through them. For the moment we are safer here. Like a new model car, we should wait and let the kinks be worked out by the folks that can't WAIT to be part of the "new thing."

Buckets - we are similar to Crispy on the bedtime story routine both girls have a story with DH in our bed then DD1 has another whilst in her bed, then I sing to DD1 and she goes to sleep. I then sing to DD2 whilst feeding her.

Hello all
Thought I'd come for a visit and see how you all are. Too scared to venture out of here though

pf xx

PF!!!!!

Helloooo PF

My presence is being requested elsewhere so will say good night.

CYTEEN - Will be thinking of you on your happy day tomorrow. xx

Yay PF welcome home

I am just off to bully DH into cooking dinner as i am watching Dragons Den...

Awww love you too Cyteen and good luck for tomorrow!

hi pf!!!!!
will you give us a stare for old time's sake?

Bedtime stories faded out ages ago. DD1 now reads to DD2 so I guess all is well in that department. No system to the bedtime either. I say, "go brush your teeth and on to bed." That about sums it up. We've been having to separate the girls until dd2 is out because she's begun to be unruly.

As for bathing, we shower. Quick, easy and the girls think is a playtime moment...apart from me yelling stand still while I wash your hair but that doesn't happen often. I have noticed over the years that you lot take BATHS a bunch. In our time of knowing one another I've probably had 3 baths, 2 of those were beached whale soaks while pregnant.

DD2 is raging in fit at the moment. I'm not paying her one moment of attention. I put her in her playpen and walked away. She's gotten pretty good at tantruming lately. I like that I'm able to remove myself from it. With DD1 I attempted to reason and "work things out". Well that a load of RUBISH! What the hell was I thinking. It always only made me madder.

And as for madder, DD1 was a fright before school and flipped that nasty switch back on just as soon as she got in the truck at pick up. Seems my special after school treat (Pizza Hut personal pan pepperoni pizza) as THE WRONG PIZZA. First, it was a surprise. The only reason I had it was the pizza dude dropped one of the two I ordered for lunch with Reese so he gave us 3 for the inconvenience. I thought "WONDERFUL!" it will make a great after school snack for DD1. Again, WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING!?! Her fits were so loud and rude I ended up pulling off the road TWICE between school & home (3 miles) to scold and explain punishment. The last stop I opened the door and said "MIND OR GET OUT!" Now folks would think that's harsh. And I agree it was BUT there was another reason for that bit of drama...she'd not shut her door so I needed to stop and properly close it anyway. I added the MOMMY MOMEMT because it fit and she PROMPTLY QUIT. Then she got DD2 to hand her the pizza box which I reach around and took away. You fuss! You loose! She didn't want the gift....then she'll NOT HAVE the gift. Mind changes are NO LONGER ALLOWED. She is now in her room and forbidden from coming out until otherwise notified.

I HATE HATE HATE this part of parenting. I want to be happy and fun and it just never happens that way. Somebody is always testing boundaries. If I don't hold the boundaries NOW we'll be in SO MUCH TROUBLE later on.

Today's Sermon is Now Over
(ice water)

PF (((((hug)))))

Now WHY has everyone changed their names to confuse me

TS I will come back to talk to you later - my evening about as bad! Tesco just arrived and my dinner getting cold.......

TS if it's any consolation, I bloody love you I love the phrase 'raging in fit' and I LOVE your uber-sensible advice about ignoring tantrums instead of trying to reason your way through them...guess which half of that equation I've been erring to lately PFBitis or what.

hmm pf, how to cryptically tell you who i am...erm... we met in bristol, i was sitting to your right and i was completely in awe of your eye make up

i just gave you some Blue Nun

ts you did good lady

Aw TS Little girls are a pain the ass aren't they? DD has been horrible everyday on the way home from school and after being told to go watch tv in my room to calm down once, she seems to be undressing and getting into my bed every day at 3.30 now! Today was great because she was invited to play round the corner so she got changed, had poo#1 and was out til 7pm! I had to go get her in the end when DH got home because she has swimming lesson at 8.30am and her friend's family have much later bedtimes and often forget about ours.

K still not tantrumming much thank God, lay at the bottom of the stairs crying for 10mins today but got ignored (think he wanted to be carried upstairs basically and I didn't want to indulge that.)

Buckets you are absolutely RIGHT! Pain in the ASS!! Both girls are now playing nicely together in their completely trashed room. DD1 asked if she was allowed out yet. NO! Another boundary test. WHY! WHY! WHY!

Lately I started using the term LAWS. Road laws. Math laws. MOMMY LAWS. She "gets" that there are laws at school like no running in the halls. She better catch up to the fact MOMMY's not kidding with her LAWS either.

Glad ya'll think I'm parenting correctly. I second guess myself all bloody day long. It's exhausting!

tweakers lol - yes Bristol......that was the point at which, after missing two trains (one there and one back), only being able to stay for about an hour etc etc that I realised that as much as I love you all (and I still do, even in absentis) I needed to re-focus on RL a bit more. However, now that I have and with dh away, I may visit again. Still off the rest of MN though.

Right, still have shopping to unpack. Oh the glamour of my Friday nights.

and crispy, thanks for the Blue Nun but I can't possibly think of you by anything other than the original name. Have you all done something Bad and need to be incognito? Surely there are no Cod a likes in this neck of the woods?

buckets this is my shade of choice. It's yum!!

PF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! welcome home, I'm still the same old cc ]]

Cyteen I am genuinely excited and emotional about your big day tomorrow . That seems a bit odd as we've only met, what - 3 times? However, we've 'known' you for 2.5 years and 'spoken' nearly every day! So in my eyes your a boney-fidey-b-f-f We love ya girlfriend!!!!

pf you know how naughty this lot are! They name change every other week! Anyway, what brings you back our way (to which you are most welcome, btw )

TS i really admire your consistency in parenting. I remember my parents being really miserable and me having a fairly crap childhood (for many other reasons that I've mentioned before), and whilst I never tested boundaries in the way some kids do, I just wanted someone to cuddle me at night and not send me up to bed on my own in the dark when I was scared of monsters who might be hiding under my bed . As a result, I'm far too soft on my 2 at bedtime as I want to give them what i never had. Shmuck, that's me!!

PF - Crispy name changed because she is the diet ploice and can spot crisps from all the way over there ---->

Tweakers changed because that was that advice given to her alot during her last few days of pregnancy.

Hey all.

hellooooooopf good to see you.

S been in the whingefest club today. Eventually whacked on cbeebies to solve the problem

and annvan is now queenofdreams

CC It is nice to be made so welcome........ Don't feel I've been away although I've doubtless missed a Lot. I've been meaning to visit for a while, just haven't got around to it. And when I've been running three x a week it doesn't leave much time! but that is off with dh away ........ for the time being.

blimey qod brilliant timing there!!