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

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

NZ sounds great wss. But I don't know how you cope with realistic house prices, sensible taxes and predictable weather. It must be such a burden...

That's totally out of order memphis.

Glad you had a nice day cake. We've finally got snow here. Which means I'll only be going out if dh does as his car is parked in front of the garage. Whilst mine will be lovely and clean/dry, there's no chance I can be arsed to clear his car so I'd be able to move it!

X post vik, I tend to give W a bottle at 3ish, some solids at 4.30/5pm at the same time ds1 eats so I can strap them in put them at the table together and then he has his bedtime bottle at 6.30 for bed at 6.45.

I have found that Cow & Gate porridge has no added lactose / cow's milk / egg / other known allergens in, so I can give him porridge mid morning now and then he gets vegetables on an afternoon.

W was up more times last night, from going to bed until he got up this morning, he was up I think 5 times. which is a marked improvement on recent weeks, it's normally 5 times or more from when I got to bed at 11ish, not from when he goes to bed!

How bad is it that I'm celebrating the fact he was only up 5 times

we're under pretty deep snow at the moment (which is really nice) went to some friends yesterday for dinner en famille. Clara managed to open a bottle of calpol and her little buddy drank it during a game of doctors. we thought they'd gone quiet
nightmare,we'd all had a few drinks (apart from one of us) but we're all panicking-fortunately NHS direct can access 'the poison register' and we weighed her and it was ok.
ended up leaving the car there as it was sooo bad underfoot dp decided we shouldn't attempt to drive. car is still there, we're meant to be at a party in 50mins,he's still in bed...
what's anyone else doing today.

Oh and, dummy update: they're all in the bin

(ok, confession, with the exception of a single 'emergency' dummy. I did this too when I binned them with Ewan but never had to use it)

hey ladies, i am feeling sorry for myself today my mum passed away 13 yrs ago today so alway a hard day. Rileigh has a cold wee soul, she just not herself. mliff well done on the dummy front, i agree bout not giving toddlers dummys. I'm going to take R's away soon too. public you's must have got a fright when the lo drank the calpol, glad their ok viks R gets breakfast dinner and supper then bed. Hows everyone else?

Oh stac that sucks, im so sorry. Do u do anything special? Will be my DH first xmas without his Dad,I guess its going to be hard, im not sure wether to talk about it or not, very difficult.

kk yes threw his phone in an argument, just so frustrated with everything, he is going to talk to his mum after xmas, just proves my point that she doesnt respect me at all!
cakes i didnt ask for it as she said she would give it me on the friday and as she was going on about all the money she was spending i presumed she would sneak it to me as we left for the car as dh isnt supposed to know! she told sil shes giving it me tomorrow, if she doesnt she never steps foot in my house again!
been doing the card drop around everyones house, about to put leg of lamb in the oven for tea!! went to church this morning to see sister in a play, L doesnt like church he has decided, all the men with booming singing voices made his lip drop everytime the organ started and when vicar said silence for prayer L became very vocal, he looked the part in his flat cap and braces, oh well he only has to go once a year!!

stac I hope you have a day filled with happy memories of your mum and that it's not too hard for you.
memphis that's so crap about your mil, hope it gets sorted.
mlic excellent stuff wrt dummies, so much harder to take them away once they start asking for them!
tsc at the Calpol, I'd have cacked myself!

Will you all allow me another in-law rant? Mil is an awful cook, I mean microwaved quiche and boiled leek type awful. I cooked a lasagne on Friday for my older brother and my sil and there was some leftover. We had a rather tasty pork & black bean casserole from a box yesterday and then today MIL cooked some horrendous chicken ming. So I come downstairs from feeding S to find that her and FIL are having the rest of my delicious lasagne for their lunch, DH and other SIL are having yesterday's casserole and I'm having the chicken ming erm...right...so you'll poison me but fill up on my food?! Aaaaand, cos I can't eat dairy I had a pack of mint thins and some hobnobs and MIL keeps eating them, even when I hide them in our room she digs them out! I tell you, I can't get out of this place fast enough...3 days left (if I don't die of chicken ming poisoning first) Oh yes, and she made dessert and then announced that I couldn't have any cos she'd made it with milk even though she's got soya and oat milk the cupboard...

chill, did you breathe when you typed that
can't believe she nicked your hobnobs, the fucking cunting bitch
stac, sorry about your mum-it must be horribly difficult for you.

memphis that is shit of her try not to fight with dp about it hun, i had some massive ones with dp bout the money his sister owes me. It caused all sorts have had to bite the bullet with her for his sake. She still owes £700. Hope she gives it to you hun. Do you not get on?

winterchulita your mil sounds an old witch. I would be so mad about her rifling in your room, and eating your grub is just plain rude. What a cheek

Thanks for your lovely words ladies it is a day of memories and hugs. viks it will be hard for dh this year best to go with how he wants hun. What you's doing for xmas? X

Sorry about your mum stac

chulita wow, talk about cheeky! I mean, yes it's her house and everything but it's your stuff! I wiuld be furious and I'm afraid I would have said something.

That really takes the biscuit

PH i couldnt have put it better myself!!hahaha.
mylife lol
Stac we are traveling up to brum ion christmas day(weather permitting) and staying for the week.......i wish we didnt have to stay for that long but DH has a season ticket for the football so wants to go to the new years day match and we cant affort to come up and down twice, just gota get the cats taken care of.....haha, that sounds like we are gona do away with them, believe me, id like to a lot of the time!!
My boys eating has got worse today, hes not had more than 5oz from each bottle, im gona go to the docs tomorrow i think.

stac I'm so sorry about your mum and I hope R gets better soon.

chuilita she actually went rifling through your stuff to get to your hobnobs

Well we managed to get Dylan his toy story cake. He's had a great day
Looks like my rubbish brother and his manipulative shit of a gf are not going to bother getting Dylan a birthday present again this year (they might surprise us and actually give him somthing on his birthday but I won't hold my breath)
They didn't even bother coming to his birthday party last year they had a better offer I thought since they came thus year they would bring a present but apparently not (happy to have their meal paid for them though without so much as a thank you )

It makes me really resent having to buy my niece a birthday present which is wrong but I would never not buy her a present just to wind her parents up unlike my bitch face of a sil

I wouldn't mind if it was just a mars bar wrapped up as a present but not getting a child anything for their birthday I think is just fucking cruel

viks yes Im so hungry all the time so just snacking on everything in sight, think its the breastfeeding making me so hungry so at least thats something.

Hoping to get my hair done tomorrow, had to cancel yesterday cos of the snow so fingers crossed it doesnt snow tonight.

Stac thinking of you, it's hard without a mum, isn't it. Mine died just over 3 years ago and I always think it's something you never really get over - you just get used to it, but always miss them.

stac we do get on to a point but shes very funny says stupid things and doednt think, doesnt realise if she offends, example said the other week to me i only have to get you and dh a card now as i didnt know if you were still together when i got everyones in the sale last year!! i was fucking pregnant!! she walked out on sh and sil leaving them with their dad, we arent fighting about it now, sil said maybe she isnt buying him much as he wont know anyway and i said how would you feel if she bought L a £100 walker and your girls a £10 board game saying they get enough presents to have much spent on them!! it would be a different story then, i know its only £25 quid but shes always bragging about everything!! grr (sorry another bloody rant!) hope you got through today ok xxx
chulita mint thins and hob nobs?? that deserves putting arsenic in them for that crime the cow
just made lamb roast for fil it was fab followed by home made mince pies!! mm mmmm
dh gave L a bath while telling his dad when we take his nappy off we expect him to poo and he never does..... then the Lyndon personal playdoh poo factory started all i heard was memphis memphis help me!!
dhgave me my xmas card today...it was a birthday card, he didnt think when he bought it eventhough inside it says happy birthday in big gold shiney letters!!

your so right wss my mum was only 38 i was just at the age your mum becomes your friend iyswim. Thanks for all your thoughts ladies. Just want today over, never seem to get into the xmas spirit till its been. Hows the weather your end? The snow started today its not very deep but it is a pain in the ass. Ds is hoping schools on as its his school party. Rileighs follow up app at yorkhill is on thursday just to check how things are going x

lol bout your xmas/birthday card. I forgot bout the dsi's for other grankids and l getting a little thing. She sounds a right 1 i have to say. I have an aunt who says what she wants when she wants, its so rude x

lol bout your xmas/birthday card. I forgot bout the dsi's for other grankids and l getting a little thing. She sounds a right 1 i have to say. I have an aunt who says what she wants when she wants, its so rude x

I hope your day hasn't been too sad stac. Anniversaries like this are always tough and I guess the time of year doesn't help.

dylthan! So pleased you got the cake and the day went well. Sorry about your brother's behaviour - seems as tho we've all got a horrid relation in common on this thread!

mlic I'm in total admiration re the dummy disposal! Really hope it's the start of better sleep for you.

memphis your mil sounds slightly mad or just v rude! that comment re the xmas card is a classic

chulita your mil sounds a prize, too! hope the hobnobs give her indigestion

quiet day here, nipped into town for our xmas food shop then back for a roast. just settling down to the apprentice FINAL!!

f's just woken up with a bit of a temperature (38) but seems fine in himself. just given him calpol and stripped him off and keeping him down with us til he cools down. sooo hope he's not coming down with something awful. is 38 particularly high?

No not for a two year old. It's high, but not silly-high. Normal body temp ranges but it's roughly 36/37C. Regular calpol and lots of cuddles he'll be fine. Here are some for F from me

Thank you :-)

Nhs website says high temp can be teething. Have you had experience of that? He does have at least 2 if his v back molars coming.

Oh yes definitely cake. Until recentlry E would always get very physically ill with teething. I'm talking temperature, vomiting, lethargy...very poorly. No vomiting but he's been pretty poorly the last two days and very red-cheeked. Praying the vomming doesn't start but I'm sure it's a teeth/cold combination making him ill. He had a two hour nap today. That's amazing in this house, trust me!

Were you pleased with the Apprentice result? I was.

It's hard to say vik about the feeding. How much was he drinking before? Little W never drinks more than 6oz, ever, and only usually drinks between 3oz and 5oz so it's really hard for me to see how that's not normal . If you are thinking of starting weaning though, give him a bottle and let him drink as much as he can of it, then with the remainder of the bottle make up the baby rice or porridge. That way you'll get a lttle bit more milk into him. W hadn't had much milk at all this afternoon so instead of giving him the veg I'd got out of the freezer I gave him porridge, just so that I could get a bit more milk into him.

Dylthan as you might have gathered about the lack of cards / though for my ds1's birthday, I'm totally with you on that front, I'd be too.

...lack of cards / thought...

See that's what I mean vik - W had a feed at 6.30 into bed 6.45. He only drank 4ish oz before bed. He woke at 9.50 and settled himself back off after a few minutes but woke again 10.20 so I went up and fed him, but he only took another (just under) 4oz. I don't really know any different!

right, i am about to crack.
he's been awake all,fucking,day-even though we took him for a half hour drive when he'd been awake 5hours, he was still awake. so i fed him up loads, wrapped him up, put him in pram, dp took him out, he had ten minutes.
that's it, since 10am this morning.
he's wanting to feed constantly.
i fed him through the night last night too.
am not coping with the demands-do i wean.
GO TO FUCKING SLEEP FRANCIS FFS.