July 2010: C'mon threadbabes: eat like MLIC's; drink like TSC's; smile like Memphis's; laugh like Cakes's; crawl like nearly all of them (except Cake's)... but mainly: sleep like Spireals

[CakeandRoses]

Here we be (phew!)

tsc i can't believe you were told that was a lot/unhealthy on t'other thread. sounds fairly 'normal' to me and not v much for someone bf nonstop!

A is pulling my hair, my eyes, my cheeks, everything

still no flipping tooth stac can you believe it? I've thought it'd be due in the next 24 hours for the past fortnight now i reckon! it looks ridiculous and i've no idea how it's not breaking thru.

what do you drink tsc?

Tsc it seems like mn is overrun by people who think its ok to be rude, just because its not face to face so to speak.

What a nightmare cake. This tooth R has coming in is taking forever and still hasn't popped.

Who's co-sleeping? R goes into her own bed then wakes to come into mine. Can't get her to stop as she shares our room so if she cries it wakes dp and he says he would rather bring her in to keep her quiet. Desperately need a bigger house.

That totally doesn't look like a lot to me TSC breastfeeding or not. It's unbelievable how people are just so convinced of their current theory. That's too many carbs they say, because they currently buy into someone trying to sell their book saying it's the carbs that make you fat. If you have pasta with a fatty sauce, it's not the fucking pasta that's making you fat people! Arrrgh. Sorry, pet peeve.

Anyway, your diet sounds good and healthy and normal TSC. Oh, by the way, in case you don't want to hear that your diet sounds normal from someone who eats only sandwiches and cream eggs. Yesterday was a freak day. Normally I would have a cooked meal with lots of veg as well. Just couldn't be bothered yesterday. I still have a lot of chocolate though

Stac We don't co sleep. M never liked it and she sleeps best in her own room. Sometimes when she's poorly she sleeps on me on the sofa but she doesn't like that as much anymore either now that she gets older. Must be hard though, if you have her in your room. Hope you'll find a way soon.

Happy Tuesday all!

tsc tut tut you eat potatoes, didnt you know they are the spawn of satan??? seriously some people are fucking nuts!!! i think your diet is fine, maybe you will lose weight when you stop breastfeeding, dont some breastfeeders hold their weight until they stop bf? I eat past or rice everyday and when you see the guidelines of a portion i eat double that, i wouldnt survive on the tiny guidelines! oh and on the rare day i dont eat them i have mash potato with a knob of butter and cream in it!!!!
thanks for the happy tuesday trudyla oly just realised ive got docs at 9.30, i fear a meltdown at the doctors, found that dh has been hiding stuff fron me to stop me freaking out, nothing big but he said its better than have me flip out, we talked and he said im argumentative and talk to people like they are shit, my realtationship doesnt look good at this point does it?

mlic nothing to worry about he just chooses not to say stuff, hes like a kid he has an off road bike, jet ski, road bike, he has no money to contribute to L at all, I buy everything and then my mum and grandad buy treats for him yet i found out last night hes bought a BMX!!! and is hiding it at his dads, these things arent cheap, and then his mate who hoards crap for years was throwing an old one out (you know its crap if this guy throws it out) dh promised he wouldnt take it off him (before i knew about the one he bought) and i find through a friend hes had it hidden for over a month, it sounds trivial and childish but with the pnd its not helping,i hate lies and deceit, my ex was a fraudster who got me in £20000 of debt and years later is still in hiding from debt collectors (and me)this heap of shit will cost him in excess of £400 to get onto a bmx track (his excuse for it is before i feel pg i wanted one as a fitness thing) even writing it down it looks childish but thats just an example.
anyway im sorry all youve got is crying there, wish we lived closer to help out

We're co-sleeping but I find it alot easier and D sleeps really well. He went to sleep at half 7 last night and slept with us in the front room til we went to bed at half 9, he woke up for a bit but then we went to bed and was asleep withing 10 mins and he slept til 5:20am, had some milk and went back to sleep til 7:40.

His fav thing atm is pulling all the dvds off the shelf (there's hundreds of them)

memphis hope you get to the bottom of it, sounds horrible for you :(

x-post memphis that would really annoy me too, its the lies.

exactly dh i hate lying too, but its the money as well, new road bike this week 7000, jet ski 2000 off roader 1000 off road gear 1000 bmx's 1000 debts from before we met 8000 contributions to his son 0, he pays the rent and council tax i pay everything else

mlic thats why i hate it my dad was and still is a massive liar, my ex was one too, ive wrote down a payment plan to clear his debts by feb next yeat (apart from his new bike loan) he pays one food shop a month and thats it, by april 4th he had to money spare (due to me making him pay off a huge amount of debt) but before this month it would be wasted on rubbish he cant sell jet ski eventough hes only used it once since ive known his as its halfs with a mate, the off road bike he said he was selling but now hes gone out on it hes having second thoughts, he never goes for the cheaper option, L's birthday we want to be special as we are monig next year and will have too small a garden for a gaden party, ive been buying bits for weeks but it will be me who buys his present, cake pays for buffet and bouncy castle eventhough i cany invite many of my friends due to him telling his mates, there is only so much room, his friends obviously take priority!!!
grr im winding myself up now

GROWL am soo grumpy and it takes a LOT for me to be grumpy. terrible night here for second night in a row. Both teething like mad, A woke up so many times I stopped looking at the clock - I didn't bring her into our bed partly because dh had given up trying to settle F (who was literally screaming even after calpol/anbesol) and brought him into our bed, which was the first time in 7 nights or so. So no sticker on your chart today, Mr F.

memph that sounds really worrying. i could have written much of what mlic wrote as i feel the same about lies of any colour. your dp sounds as tho he's got lots of good points and is very caring towards you and L most of the time but spending huge amounts of money and then lying about it would be corrosive to even the best of relationships. it really sounds like he needs to 'man up' and think like a father more than a child. i hope you are able to get this thru to him altho i'm sure negotiating any of this whilst handling your pnd and illness is bloody tricky. do keep talking about it here if we can help you deal with it in any way.

fwiw, i don't believe either party in a relationship 'should' spend more than about £100 without talking it over with the other person - i'm not sure if i'm typical in that view. dh is v similar so it's not something that's ever really come up between us.

hope all goes well with the docs.

totally agree with *mlic's last sentence there (well, all of it again actually)

mlic really hope you get some respite from the crying today. how was your night?

tsc i keep saying in my head "Why the cream egg?" a la that twatosaurus to you on the obesity thread. I don't know how you didn't respond sarcastically to that one. I think "Why the cream egg?" is my new motto

stac we don't cosleep with A altho she's ended up in our bed a handful of times when I really can;t get her back to sleep in her own bed. As you know tho, F was doing the same as R and joining us at some point during the night.

trudy Where (roughly if you don;t want to say on here) does your SIL live? I agree, house prices are a joke round here. Could you go for something which needed renovating to keep costs down or couldn't you face that with two young children?

btw, if you see any houses near to me and want me to do an initial once-over then i'm nosey enough happy to go and check them out for you. I LOVE looking at houses and have been umming and ahhing for years about getting into property development/renovation (if I take redundancy) so it might inspire me to think about it properly.

if you do need any good tradesmen when you do buy then i have some brilliant contacts which i can share with you.

In other news.... OK I admit it now, A is actually crawling, albeit slowly.

or creme egg, rather. need to spell my own motto correctly. Is going to get lots of use this week as dh is working his way thru a stockpile of them.

Morning all! Sorry to hear things aren't going great for some of you at the moment. :(

I'm a bit about the financial stuff, memphis, but then I'm married to an accountant so financial matters are tightly controlled in my house with huge spreadsheets, projected costs, strict allowances and such. We tend to be even stricter than Cake, and anything over £50 needs both parties to agree!

I was apologising over the weekend that I spent £50 (total) on three pairs of cotton trousers, to replace the 15 year old ones I had that have finally discintergrated beyond repair! And DH was lamenting the fact we had two takeaways last month which pushed the food budget over, so we're not having any this month to make up for it.

Oh, I missed the party a bit with daily food consumption, but in case anyone is interested my food yesterday consisted of:

Breakfast: None...I forgot! But I normally have a fat-free yoghurt.
Lunch: Small bowl of pasta with half a tablespoon of pesto and a little grated cheese.
Dinner: Home made paneer shahi with boiled rice.
Tasty: One chocolate from the box.
Snacks: None yesterday, but I normally have fruit.
Drinks: Sugar-free squash and/or sugar-free carbonated drinks.

Bread seems to be my bane with food. Pasta, rice, potatoes, cous-cous all seem ok, but anything like bread, pittas, naan, etc all seem to make me gain weight just by being in the same room as them.

I couldn't lose any weight at all while breastfeeding TSC, but now I've stopped and the hormone levels seem to have sorted themselves out, it's slowing coming off. :) I have another stone I want to lose, preferably before the spa-weekend, but definitely before France!

Speaking of the spa-weekend... Those who have been to a spa before, how does it actually work? I was puzzling over this for an unhealthy amount of time a while last night.

I've booked two full body massage treatments for DH and I... What do we need to wear to attend them, and do we need to take anything? Do we wear swim clothes with robes over the top? Or turn up wearing normal clothes and take those with us? Or are we going to be expected to strip down and hide behind modesty sheets/towels?

Are we expected to take books to read or music to listen to? Or do we make small talk with the staff? Or do we ignore them and talk to one another? Are we meant to tip at all at the end?

What a minefield! [head explodes]

M still isn't crawling, Cake... She doesn't seem interested! Much happier in rolling around instead.

i would be inclined to think that too mlic but i don't know if w's crying would be classed within the realms of 'normal' or not. might be worth a trip back to the docs? i'm sure you've already googled like mad. Do crysis offer any possible reasons for crying or do they 'just' help you thru it?

fwiw (and i'm not saying this to make you feel bad, just to give you something to compare with) mine have only ever cried a few times a day for a couple of minutes until they get whatever it is they were crying for (milk, dummy/sleep or food usually), except when F had colic and cried all evening, every evening which totally did me in so i have huge sympathy for you.