July 2010:Our actions get dafter, all for the reward of giggles and laughter!

[kkfairybrains]

new thread! thanks once again to spireal for the name!

dss it does sound lovely esp being warm and sunny as I hate the cold - still think I'd miss wintry xmasses but perhaps it's because we need to go overboard with xmas here to get us thru the depths of winter?

Am frankly going to murder dh shortly. Came in utterly pissed last night. Stonking hangover and totally useless this morning. I've had v little sleep (partially down to him) and NEED to sleep when A does - is he capable of childcare? Is he fuck. Can barely open his eyes enough to get to the loo to vomit (loudly).

Fuming.

(Note I never get drunk myself so may sound less than understanding as he never has to pick up the pieces after me)

And we've got friends here for lunch then the panto.

He's gonna love it //shouts 'Oh no he isn't//

my wonderful friends have just offered to take F and A for a walk and a coffee to give me time to sleep/DH time to pull himself together. Feeling much happier

probably should be a bit less militant about dh getting in this state given he only does 1-2 times a year. it's just the timing....

Oh cake poor you, I know exactly how you feel. Dh only goes out 2 or 3 times a year, never more than a handful of times, but when he does he really makes up for it! When he's out with his two best friends they get in some sorry states. They're all ex-army and still think they're as fit and agile as they were back then...they all dare each other to do silly things, they become little children again! But like you, whilst it's very annoying and often bad timing, ie. Christmas Eve has become a tradition to go out now so Christmas Day he's always wrecked, I have to remember he isn't one of these dh's who goes out drinking with his mates all the time. He doesn't, he's generally only ever here or at work!

Ds2 went to bed at 6.45, woke just after 10 so I fed him so I could go to bed before 11pm, he woke at 1 and wouldn't settle so he had another 3oz, can't remember if he woke again in the middle it's all a bit blurry but then he woke at 6am. Tried to leave him but he was getting more and more worked up, so I gave him another 3oz and he went straight back to sleep. He's still asleep now!!!! I keep checking he's alive, this is so unusual. They say never wake a sleeping baby but it's weird when it's so out of character.

Oh, he's awake! Phew!

Omg I think Im going to die.
We were just getting somewhere with sleep at last, then Dylan goes and gets this cold and is awake every 2 hours or so, sometimes less.
I had a lie in thanks to DP but feel physically sick at the lack of sleep :(

Aw mlic hopefully thats a sign of things to come! Did he go without the dummy last night too?
thats very good of your friend cakes!
3 Times last night for dummy. Then dp brought her into the bed at 8 and i held onto her dummy and said no more dummy and she really started to cry!! She's not a baby who cries so needless to say i gave in within about 10 seconds! really going to try anf keep it off her ad much as possible though. Maybe try and takr it off her before she goes to sleep? oh i dont know. Or if i left a few dummies in the cot she might find one? although i dont think she even tries to look for it when she cries.

morning all, i am knackered. R's cough kept her and me up till about 4am she is as fresh as a daisy but i am soo tired. Just cant understand this cough and why its only nighttime. On top of that its bloody snowing again grrr. Dp and i's anniversary, 6 years together and we didnt even manage a card. My sis and her boyf are coming up tonight. So a couple of drinks later. Hope everyone who has had a crap night gets a snooze, lovely of your friends cakes, dh could you get a sleep when dylan naps? mliff pity w isnt sleeping like this during night, hope this is the sign of good things. Anyone up to much today?

x post kk r just expects one to land in her mouth but hoping to get her off it too. You busy at work today? X

x post kk r just expects one to land in her mouth but hoping to get her off it too. You busy at work today? X

Yes kk, no dummy!

Mnetting from bath in a peaceful house!

Yeah, they're amazing friends, more like family now really despite meeting them only 2.5 years ago at antenatal classes. Think we feel we've fought a war together going thru babyhood and early toddlerdom together!

mlic that's really impressive sleep with no dummy!

stac happy anniversary! real shame you couldn't get out to gets cards etc. Could you make one?

kk hate to be the bearer of bad news but from memory my friend's babies didn't manage to put the dummy back in themselves at night til 7 months+! Taking it away altogether at 6month-ish is to me deffo the easiest route in the long run.

stac I would but we've got such a busy day today I wont have any opportunities.

I agree with cake kk. Also (don't wish to offend) but I hate seeing toddlers with dummies. The older they get the harder it is to get rid of them.

i am fine, just really tired.
and deep joy of deep joys dp is being a fucking arse me-'have you any plans for the weekend' him 'no' so i've made some and he's now bitching about them.
we had another night of 4 in the bed last night-i feel shocking,i feel drunk and spaced out.
he's fucked off to go to the bank-he's in an arse with me because having bought all the cards,had pics of the kids printed,made his mothers Xmas presents\cards etc i asked him to go to the post office and post them so he did this massively gay ridiculous flounce.
we're under about a foot of snow here,off out to play in it soon with some friends.
oh,and this is ,my name for a bit-it was Bitoffuns idea...

Hello all, just quickly mning from ILs' house, everything's crap here, S still has his stonking cold and a horrendous cough so he's up every 90 mins at night, L has croup again so she's up wheezing and crying and is very clingy. She would've slept through last night but the wallpaper fell off the wall onto her face and woke her up wish we were home. We're snowed in too so my plan of getting out to see all my old friends and getting away from ILs is completely scuppered. Met up with my 3 brothers for the first time in a year, had 30 mins in a coffee shop and had to leg it cos the snow was so heavy we nearly didn't get hom :(
cakes your wrapping idea sounds fab and I'm nicking it for next year:)
Gotta go, L is crying again, no one will do except me and is driving me up the wall.
Hope all your poorly children/babies pick up in time for christmas!

home that would be...

I hate to see toddlers with dummies too. I may just leave it until after christmas when i'm not busy with work and she's not going to tge childminders and at least i'll bear the brunt of the crankiness then. The really annoying thing is she never took a dummy really before she got sick with the ear infection.
I started writing this post at 2 o clock but got busy then so im sure i've x posted with people

Wow what a day, managed to get to DP's dad's house (2 min drive usually)
The snow came down in bucket loads, took us about 20 mins to get home.

He's abandoned his plans to go to his works xmas do, just aswell!

Lots of sick babies! Hope they all get better soon

Cake you think your dh is bad for getting pissed? Mine managed to be hammered by 2 in the afternoon yesterday! I went for lunch with friends, taking both dds with me, dh went to help a friend in his garage - there was about 5 of them there, they started having a few dirnks and next thing dh is phoning me up asking if I could pick him up as he oculdn't drive home. When I got there he was doing that swaying thing .

He hadn't even had that much to drink - like mliff 's dh he thinks he can drink as much as he used to years ago but now he just gets drunk really quickly.

He's been doing teh Atkins for a couple of weeks but when he got home he ordered 3 pizzas and cholcolate ice cream so I guess that's the diet out the window .

Happy anniversary stac, it's ours on Friday and we're not doing cards or pressies either - too skint! Plus it's Christmas the next day.

Off to a birthday party of a friend of dd1's this morning. I don't think we're going to get a sunny Christams here after all, it's pissing down and is forecast to do this most of the week. Really warm and humid though.

wss I'm being nosey now but how come you moved out there? Did you get married here or there? (I jumped to conclusions about a winter wedding earlier, but I might have got taht totally wrong if you'd already moved out there!) Do you think you'll ever come back? Sorry for the 20 questions, just really interested!

Still not even so much as a flake of snow here. Dh is about that as it's obviously better for him work-wise but I can't help but feel a bit :( about it.

Oh, and I've just been told he's going out on Christmas Eve. No shit Shirlock. Like I didn't see that coming.

evening all, hope we all have a better nights sleep! maybe prospect of santa coming they may sleep through!! cany believe the snow we havent got loads but enough for me not to want to drive!
went for curry tonight L sat in chair at the table and had carrot and brocoli then as we walked into house he threw up all over me in my hair and everything!! had a great morning shopping with dh but it all turned shit not sure how many arguments i can handle, his mum asked me to buy his xmas present online as she doesnt do the net, gave her present, wrapped last week said i would get money friday just gone...no money, went to see her today oh im going to a posh do, having my hair and eyebrows done etc etc brag brag brag, no money i was livid, dh was livid she told sil she would give it me monday didnt say shit to me, im fucking fuming its £25 quid the tight cow! but i have budgeted it to buy my turkey,we dont get paid til after xmas! if i dont get it monday im not letting her see L over xmas, i would keep her x mas present of a gift voucher but its evans and ive now lost weight so its too big for me in there! sorry about rant im seething dh threw his phone and its broken!!grr i hate families especially other peoples!!

Mliff it's OK, I don't mind the questions , I came here for a year in 2001 just as a working holiday thing (you can get working holiday visas for a year before you are 30 and I was 29 and 11 months). Just fancied doing a bit of travelling, seeing the world etc. At the end of the year I liked it so much I didn't want to go back so I got a visa to stay another year, then another, then met dh (who is also English) and we just kind of got a house, got married, had a couple of kids....I cdan't believe next year I'll have been here 10 years!

We got married in Australia - we sort of eloped - so it was summer.

There are pluses and minuses to both countries tbh but I do like it here a lot, dh never wants to go back to the UK, I do miss my family but I do really like it here too. We have no property or anything in the UK and for what we paid for our detached house with garden here we would probably only get a flat in the UK, certainly in the south east of the UK - so with kids we have a pretty good set up here.

The minuses here are prob that it's expensive to get home to see family (I haven't been for two and half years) and that some things are more expensive here e.g supermarkets don't have kids clothes like Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys etc do. The pluses are stuff like we have a decent sized house with garden, have beaches etc nearby, lovely country to explore, generally friendly people, guaranteed good summer every year!

I could waffle on and on about it but have to go to dd1's friends party now...

memphis i'd be fuming too! i hate when people do that. and then they just forget about it! did dh throw his phone in an argument?
dp is working tonight in a pub he does the odd night in so i'm home alone! all my friends are gone out and were all on the phone all day to me to go out but they seem to forget that i have a baby! i never even asked about getting dp's mum or anything to babysit as the roads are just lethal here and wouldn't like anybody to be travelling on them just so i can have a night out. they seem to have run out of grit for the roads here as none of the roads are done and its -11 at the minute. had to go to the shop to get baby food and it was scary!

Evening all,

Had a glorious day despite dh's poor show (he stayed in bed all day). The panto was ace! Really good fun and lots of adult jokes and current music/gags. Both toddlers loved it and surprisingly so did A! She sat bolt upright staring the whole way thru (2 hours with a intermission). Came back and had a chinese takeaway - during which dh was made to join us.

He's about a third of the way to being forgiven, we'll see what he manages to do to make up for this debacle tomo!

Oh and first recipients of my uber-wrap were suitably pleased :-) chulita why of course you may use the idea next year //flattered// will be a million quid for the patent :-)

F has been so well-behaved and affectionate that the teething horrors are wiped from my mind again - for now.

chulita stuck at inlaws... You have my total sympathy. Hope you escape soon.

memphis did you ask mil for the money or were you expecting her to offer it (and rightly so)

tsc I mean publichair (I love the joke just really liked tsc for some reason!) Would you prefer ph or public for short? Your dh is quite funny with his flounces - my dh can be similar actually. My usual response is: 'Good grief! Pull yourself together man!'

Oh and felix is scarred for life it seems. Every time I say we're going out, he shows the whites of his eyes and quivers 'Noooo father christmas!!'

Morning!

Not a very good night again last night, think 3 hours was his longest stretch.
Feel really weak and wobbly this morning, and have to do the food shopping cos we put it off yesterday.

The snow has put everything on hold so not really sure what else we'll be doing, apart from going insane staying indoors with Dylan.

Oh god DH another day stuck in, i soooo know what u mean. Are u eating well, u must be so tired, Devon is waking once in the night and taking ages to settle so im with u on the tired front but not as badly i wouldnt think.
WSS sounds lovely out there, we moved from Birmingham to Somerset for a better life and generally we do have one but i very much miss family and friends especially with Devon now.
I wish the snow would bugger off, all very nice to look at but just makes life BOOOOOOOORING coz we cant do anything. We couldnt go out in the car yesterday and couldnt even wheel the pushchair so DH used the carrier but now its frozen over so even thats not really safe, imagine if DH fell, cant even think about it.
For those who are weaning what time of day did u give baby rice and was that before or after the bottle or between?