March 2010. A lesson for much of life: Shut the door. Find the corkscrew.

[Arcadie]

Happy Christmas MMMs. This is my gift to you!

Happy New Year to you all! May it be a happy,healthy and prosperous one .

But then again never mind all that: flipping heck, Manda, congratulations!! What phantastic news! I am sitting here grinning from ear to ear, v v pleased for you.

I will be back later, am typing on the iPad Santa brought and much as it is fab, I am still struggling a bit with the key board...

Wow Manda, congratulations! Hey, if it's a boy you can call him Brooklyn, and if it's a girl.. erm.. Manhattan? Or Sephora (my favourite shop)

Happy New Year to all of you lovely MMMs, hope 2011 brings joyful days and peaceful nights.

Thanks Pixie but DS1 turns five in month!!!!

In 12 day's time!!! (Nervous but excited emoticon!)

Just popping in to say Happy New Year to all you lovely ladies! Let's hope 2011 brings lots of sleep and laughter xxx :-D

Happy New Year everyone!

Evitas, great news on the biopsy.

Manda, at the BFP and fingers crossed all goes well.

As for the rest of you, actually as for all of you, you are delightfully bonkers. Here's hoping for good things for 2011!

Wooooohooooo!!! Brilliant manda, so exciting!!!

Ah manda that's lovely. How you feeling?

Pixie* that's good news re your DD. What age are your other 3 kids (besides the twins)?

Had friends around for dinner. they just left (no kids themselves) so am wrecked!

Never made it back - sleep still sucky here, and I forgot to mention my crappy xmas present from DH - and I didnt start the thread yesterday on it but it seems there was more than one of us on MN who got one - a slanket (pissed off face) when I spent money I dont have on something nice for DH.. anyway - over it now!

I am way too excited though that is is January because of this

Not long now!

I promise I will come back soon - Ive loads to say :) but also a house that looks like a cattery exploded (boak)

This is my life today - groan!

We had to do a very hasty rearranging of our sleeping places 2 nights ago as I walked in on Joe standing in his crib thing from which he could have easily done a nosedive . So DS3 is now in a 'big boy bed' (truckle bed hastily removed from underneath DS2's bed) and Joe has a proper cot. It was about time, he was beginning to look a bit silly in the crib thing .

He has also taken to babbling, v cute, he went from being quite silent to now having lots to say .

DS3 is also in big boy pants since yesterday, so far we have had many many wet pants, 1 large poo in small pants and 1 weewee in the potty - he peed through his pants, but hey ho, he's got the right idea .

Hello all!

            <strong>HAPPY NEW YEAR</strong> 

Manda Congratulations

Haven't been on for a while due to not one, but two trips to visit the inlaws - the first (before Christmas) was because we had no water due to a frozen pipe (complicated by the fact that the frozen bit was actually in next door's outside loo, our water comes in via there and then through their property into our kitchen) and when we came back there was no time to come on here properly. Then we went off again for our scheduled New Year visit after spending a lovely Christmas at home just the three of us :) Well, lovely until we had to take DD to the walk-in GP centre on Boxing Day with an ear infection, poor little bugger also had two teeth coming through (although not the front middle ones but the two either side!)

Quick question, how soon after stopping BFing is the milk supply meant to dry up completely? Only I stopped BFing DD at the end of May, and I still have some there. I can probably squeeze out the same amount as I could when I was pregnant (not a huge amount, but still definitely there)

Fliss I could still get some out for a year or so after DD - shouldn't fret.

Sorry about the water and ear fliss. How did you know she had an ear infection . I often wonder whether I'd know unless there was clearly a river of goo coming out of it

pixie yeah I'll have to get tough on getting people to leave. Constant yawning and actually lying down on the sofa didn't seem to register with them at all! Mind you I was at the stage where I was too tired to go to bed IYKWIM. To tell the truth we hardly ever have visitors at night anyway so it didn't really matter too much.

siamese it's not as funny/bad as the pressie my NCT friend - a ginormous granny nightdress (big enough for a family of elephants) and a potato masher! Actually I'd like a slanket but it's not romantic I grant ya. Me and DH bought a joint present this year (a ukulele) so that avoided any issues. We have all the money in a joint account anyway so no his money/ my money.

Just back from re-settling DD. She is such a funny little one. During the nighttime wakes she will not engage with you at all, no eye contact, bats away your arms, struggles etc yet if you dare to put her down...well all hell breaks loose. Could see the funny side tonight. She went back to sleep after a feed anyway. But then tossed and turned in the cot ending with her sitting up and yelping confusedly. It was quite funny . Her dolly and I got her back to sleep on my lap though.

Happy New Year all the lovely Mad March Mums and remembers to congratulate manda on her BFP so was it a NY conception then? I'm so pleased that the first two pregnancies have been planned and no wee surprises... well I know that pixie was sorted of planned but not right at that moment kind of thing but still.I would be freaking out if I was pregnant. I am so certain I don't want any more babies but hats off to you ladies.
It's been ages since I've had a proper catch up we had my parents for Christmas which was great then I felt a bit low once they had gone. DH has been working lots and we have none of our normal activies to go to which break up the day for me and the girls so a lot of cabin fever here. Anyway by Tuesday creche will be open again and our normal schedule will recommence.
Sleep also bad here pacific has been for weeks now. I have now stopped looking at the clock and counting how many times I've woken/fed her.
Anyway I was planning on doing lots of shout outs but time has run away with me and I need to go to bed.
Huge smiles for your clear biopsy results evitas
oh and siamese slanket ? no thanks but I'm a bitch and very ungrateful. I know the wise MMM have advised I need to communicate with my DH but how to go forward when he asks on 4 separate occasions if I would like perfume for Christmas. On all 4 occasions I politely declined saying I have enough right now thanks so on Christmas Day I get a bottle of perfume from DH

right must go and stop wittering.

oh and it was bought on Christmas Eve so a panic buy not as if he bought it in November then asked me if I wanted perfume.....
sorry need to get it off my chest

Smac it's not ungrateful and you are not a bitch. It's for me a culmination of me thinking hard for the perfect pressie and spending money I don't have (donttry - joint here too but feels odd to buy each others pressies out of) and also a total disregard for what I like and what is acceptable. The 'slanket' wasn't even a slanket, it was a cheapo version no thicker than a muslin really and in leopard print. I know DH thought I would find it funny but I didn't, and I was so cross I didn't open the other gift which I'm told would've made me crosser - slippers according to DSis! Grrrr

However, DH has sent it all back and suggested I buy something nice for myself, which I wont but I think he got the gist!

Evitas- so pleased about the biopsy. How's your aunt?

Manda- woo hoo! What did DP say?

Must go to sleep - have successfully called environmental health out to stop them digging the road up outside at 10pm but they'll be back early...

Breaking news...

Pert boobs go missing in essex.
A thirty something woman from essex woke up this week to find her previously pert(ish)boobs were officially missing. The aforementioned pert(ish) boobies were last seen in the Summer of 2010 and have been sighted in various disguises in the meantime including a period disguised as a pair of airships. In a cruel twist the culprit left a pair of deflated balloons in their place.
Anyone with any information as to their whereabouts should notify the owner immediately

as you were

@ ang

Doo-doo-doop-Doo-doo-doop. De dooo.

(Newsreading voice):

An unprecedented number of pert boobies have been found in a jelly manufacturing factory in Stoke Mandeville. It appears the 'glut' of taut breasts were destined to become the next batch of 'Wobblers' (strawberry flavour). The factory owner was unavailable for comment.

WE WAS ROBBED

A 37 year old father of one revealed yesterday that his wife's boobs was robbed yesterday. "We went to bed at 8 o'clock, and when our baby woke us at five past, my wife (21) discovered a droopy pair of socks where her bangers once were" moaned the 42 year old father of eight.

A full boobhunt has been launched. Police have not ruled out calling in "our lads" whose boobseeking missiles have sniffed out breasts everywhere from Afhganistan to Bognor Regis. Only New Year's Eve in Mistys nightclub in Hove "our lads" discovered some very pert breasts who had been robbed from their owner, an irate baby of 9 months, and forcefed prosecco by their owner.

Police hope a leaky trail of milk between the bedroom and the fridge may hold the key to this mystery. The former owner of said breasts, a 16 year old mother of five, was unavailable for comment.

ROFL .

Keep it coming, ladies, in me you have a most appreciative audience even though I am not witty enough to participate .

And much as I am laughing, I have no idea what you are actually talking about as pert boobies have not been seen here since.... can't remeber, but Margaret Thatcher was still in power .