April 2009 Episode 14 "Operation Kill is standing down."

[AuldAlliance]

Voici FWs!

Bebe - are you sharing??

Happy birthday Hugo and Izy

Happy birthday Kids! :)

Well- But don't tell me you hate them
they might well change (apparently) as dh this morning said, 'yeah well....' ??? MEN!!!

Girl- Gwyneth Roslyn Francis
Boy- Madoc William Carter

Hopefully no one in my family/immediate friends end up taking the names before it's our turn for a baby which is why they're not going on FB -think they're different enough that we'll be ok -tho my sister has been known to choose different names, so one cannot guarantee...Tho I think she's going with Grandma Maidenname's name (Fern) for a girl (which is where the biggest chance of theft would be) If she doesn't take Fern then I might replace Roslyn with Ferdonna(Grandma's full first name)

They are both lovely.

Love the name Madoc, very cool and the girls name will go well with Megan. I do love the name Rosyln as well x Good choices!

Bebe I love those names!

After reading your other thread Im really pleased you have gone with Madoc as I fell in love with that name when it was suggested and it just seems to fit you and your requirements so so well!

Aw thanks :) I find they seem to fit well with our family too.
Madoc is very different for America. BUT it's easy enough to say/not get wrong that I'm quite pleased with it (and I think it fits well with Moo's name too). Gwen was a name we thought about for Moo, but dh ended up vetoing it in the end (so I hope it stays this time)

spiked moo's juice with paracetamol as she's been crying non-stop for 45 min...but refusing the vile tasting german meds we have...hopefully she'll feel a little better and then fall asleep so i can rest more too... feeling like i'm on fire, from my head to my fanjo...tho my fanjo is the blasted misalignment again...

Happy birthday Hannah and my own little squirrel.

Happy birthday Hannah and Holly xxxx

What did Vezzie have??

Little girl called Orla, compound presentation but only a 1st degree tear, water birth, Vezzie very happy.

Yeah Baby Orla :) and Vezzie :) Hope you're both (and the rest of the family) doing well xx

wwyd abt the kids and rooms?

Congratulations, Vezzie. Love the name. Hope you are all well in the new family of four!

Spent blardy ages yesterday sorting out medical matters, as one of the kids at the CM's with Alex has measles (I didn't realise his parents hadn't had him vaccinated), and Alex's booster had been postponed several times due to coughs/tummy bugs, etc. We are a bit late, as the ill boy had a temperature on Monday, but seemed better in the afternoon so his parents came round with him for A's birthday tea, so if he was contagious then, A was exposed a long time before he got the jag.

Got A vaccinated, doctor decided DS1 should have his booster now, too, and that as I've never had measles I should have a jag as well. Cue rushing to the only pharmacie in town that's open at lunchtime to buy the vaccines and rushing back to surgery, to find a post-it on the door: the doctor had rushed off to his hairdresser's appointment as she had stayed behind specially to cut his hair. So he popped round afterwards looking v groomed and gave both DS2 and me an MMR jag in the living room, while ogling the pâtisseries MIL had bought from the nice shop up the road, and saying which ones he likes best. An oddly provincial French experience.

I feel like shit now.

Though that may not merely be the MMR, but also because DH and I took advantage of MIL's presence to go round the corner to a restaurant for dinner, and rather too much kir made with bramble liqueur was drunk, followed by red wine. We had a lovely time, and it brought home how destructive his working hours really are, as we just never get a chance to see one another properly.

Glad you and dh got out Auld :) Things get very strained btwn me and dh when we don't see much of each other too. Hopefully you'll be able to continue seeing more of each other!

Eeeek about the MMR stuff! Last time I got the MMR (as a kid) I was sick (violently) for about 3 days. When Mom took me back to Dr worried he said I must have picked up another virus while I had a lowered immunity/was beginning to the fight the MMR and that why I was so ill. Hopefully everything passes quickly, and none of you have it that bad.

TBH, I'm hoping I'm having a reaction to the MMR, and I do not have sodding measles itself.

I can't have measles, it just isn't possible.

There's no one to look after A if I have to lie ailing in a darkened room; MIL has DS1 with her 3.5hrs train trip away and my mum broke 2 toes walking into A's toddler trolley thing last time she was here (oops) ...

I have to say (rant alert) I'm a bit p'd off with the parents who didn't vaccinate, didn't tell me they hadn't and then blithely brought their son to ours for birthday tea when he'd been feverish all that day.

If they don't want the MMR for their kids, fair enough, but then they need to be extra vigilant about not taking risks of passing their germs on to other people. My instant reaction was to worry about the boys, but I have a horrible feeling that adult measles is pretty grim and potentially dangerous.

There is a measles epidemic in France (10,500 cases since 2008) because people have stopped innoculating.

Have the French stopped getting their kids vaccinated because of the autism scare too Auld? Don't even get me started on that . How are you feeling? What are your symptoms?

It comes and goes; feel fluey, sort of. Headache, achey joints. Swallowing a lot, funny feeling in throat like the start of a cold.
Probably just after effects of MMR on a knackered old lady. And AF added on top, because it always bloody comes when you least need it.

Yes, vaccination rates have gone down because of the autism scare. Also because measles had become so unknown that people have lowered their vigilance, from what the GP suggested. He told me he'd not seen a single measles case in 10 yrs (think that is his entire career) and he has seen 5 cases in the last 10 days.

I'm laughing at "knackered old lady"! Oh, you are hard on yourself. Hopefully it's just the cold virus and nothing more. I've never seen adult measles. You could certainly get all those symptoms from the jag itself.

I'd be angry with the parents too.

Get ye some paracetamol (or acetominophen or whatever you French people call it) and an early night xx

Bicnod, thanks for asking. I'm feeling fine thanks. I have a long list of the usual minor pregnancy ailments but nothing worth moaning about, except a vague feeling that at two years older my body's not quite as accepting as last time. DH wants three children. He might need to find a surrogate for the third one!

Working full time is not helping. Can't wait for maty leave. I hear new babies are dead relaxing .

I'm meant to be researching a presentation for Tuesday. Can you tell?

Ha, you say "jag", too... I do miss home sometimes.

I feel right rough today Auld and I've not had any shots. (I truly sympathise with the aches!)
Moo was coughing so much with phlegm last night that she threw up twice AND wouldn't sleep in her bed, and just before bed I managed to mess up my alignment again so I was/am aching... and so I tossed and turned and she tossed and turned... Terrible night's 'rest.'
Take it easy Auld.. if it's just the reaction it'll pass today or tomorrow (I think)

Today i need to get the flat clean and gather the things we need to bring back to the UK...today and tomorrow and then mini holiday!
so much to do when one's not feeling great means a long long day...

RANT ALERT: (I'm tired, in pain, and irritable because of said reasons)
DH...
1st annoyance:
He 'did' laundry over the weekend, and despite reminders by me has tossed the whole lot of it on our bedroom floor (again). He takes if off the bloody clothes horse, half folds it (like folds it in half so it fits in the basket), tosses it in the basket carries it to our room and then piles it on the fricking floor! I've asked him time and again if he's going to bother, why not:

1. separate it into 'rooms' (ours, Meg's, bathroom)
2. fold it proper so it can be put away
3. FRICKING PUT IT THE ROOMS WHERE IT BELONGS! (it's a tiny flat it's not like you have to run all over kingdom come to do it even)
4. Barring all/any of that...don't put it on the god damn floor because in my current state it's near impossible to get it without hurting myself in some way or another.

2nd annoyance: I empty the dishwasher, put it all away, tidy the kitchen as I go while I quick prepare Moo breakfast (and myself). I go back in there after he leaves for work (after I've got Meg dressed and had my morning sit down) and the place is destroyed...2 dirty pans (1 for eggs, 1 for sausages) mixing bowl, his plate and coffee cup and water cup still on the table (even tho I specifically left the dishwasher open so he could put them in (and hopefully start it right away). Spices still out, spatters of food on the hob... 3rd annoyance: Bag of garbage and recycling I had left at (in front of) the door so he could take it out because he was going down to the car (and going near the bins) MOVED TO THE SIDE so he could open the door and leave without them.

He is a loving thoughtful man in many ways but when it comes to 'chores' he's like a teenager! and is making my life difficult/more work. I've gently mentioned these things to him before...but it hasn't got in there obviously.
I'm not the cleanest, most efficient housewife I'll admit, BUT I try not to make more work for myself, and have to touch things 3 or 4 times to get them to their proper places because it's just a waste of time.

sigh

God, bebe, even mine isn't that bad. After a sleepless night, I'd be reactivating Operation Kill, frankly.

I don't know what to say, except that I utterly sympathise. Can you have a chat with him that isn't a "you are being really unreasonable" rant, which - although justified - might be counter-productive, but more of a "now that I am suffering so badly from SPD, we need to rethink how we do things so that I don't have to bend down too much/do too much housework. How could we organise things?" kind of discussion?

I am feeling really exhausted now and a bit faint. GP says it is most likely just the after-effects of the jag, as measles incubation is usually at least 8 days, but he has told me not to drive to work in this state and not to risk spreading the measles if it is that. He is preparing a sick note for me...

A is at the CMs till 7:30pm as I was meant to be going to a research seminar at 5pm, and DS1 is at MIL's. The house is empty and I don't even have A's evening meal to prepare.
I am sooooo tempted to get into bed with a DVD and have a really slobbing day.