Dec 08 Mums - Introducing our new joiners, TrudyV and Al Fresco...

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Hope this is ok? Thought it was subtle enough for the wider MN and not offensive!!

Yeah and Lola wears a car seat but doesn't use a booster seat, in fact I think Charlie should be using a booster too.

Oops I mean she wears a arse belt.

Oh no!!! a SEAT belt!!!

Ha! Arse belt! Brilliant! DD2 still snoozing. 3.5hrs today! Must be doing her the world of good. Phew.

I love how all this peer pressure is making everyone make better budgeting shopping resolutions!

JJ your night sounds like ours. We also go to see a CO. I don't know if he makes much diff but talks a good game. Am fed up with B at the mo as he's just grizzling all the time and totally unputdownable (like a good thriller). Suspect he may be growing out of his med dose, but really don't want him on any higher omeprazole, it's already 20mg (which is an adult dose).

Rubes your chat about the sugar free squash got me thinking. Do you drink much of it? It's just that sugar free drinks often have sweetners like aspartame or sorbitol and some people get really bad reactions to it. Just a though..

Anniversary of my dad's death today. Been 11 years. Wish he'd got to see the boys, B in particular looks a lot like him.

Arse belt!!!!!!! Pmsl!!

Spot - yeah I know it can cause cramps, but I've been consuming it for many many years. But I do choose Splenda most of the time as it's nothing like Asparatame. I drink the stuff every day and it's only random these pains. Plus there is only a tiny bit in it if you look at the label. it's the pink sachets (sweet n low etc) that are the real nasties. No, it's def something in the Chinese. I'm almost betting it's MSG as I mistakenly thought they said "we don't use msg" but say on their menu it actually says "we use very low msg" bastards.

Vag, can you do some more funny typo's? I'm quite bored today and as you can tell, resorting to you lot to keep me entertained as DS is being really chilled and occupied trying to teach dd to crawl.

Summer - I deleted my FB post

Rubes look up www.damnyouautocorrect.com

I'm getting really bored too. DS1 is feeling much better and we are up to our 2nd movie. The boys are hiding in random places and calling out "mummy where do you think I am" and I have to call back something like "in the toilet/bin/potty" to which they giggle. The game is wearing a bit thin.

Spot I feel for you, obv DS2 didn't have the same difficulties as B, but he was a lot whingier than DS1 so I didn't take to him as well as I did DS1. But things are better now, and I think finally now I am completely falling in love with him. He always meant the world to me, and I'd do anything to make him happy, but it is really more recently that I'm really enjoying him.

Sorry Rubes try this link for that website. Make sure you don't have a full bladder though.

Ok. Thought DD2 was over the bug. Was just getting ready for trundle to park, when splendid rumbling from her arse and enter the poo of all poos. Up to her neck at the back and down her legs. Like newborn, but with solid food smell. Quite rank. The whole house smells off sick and shit, including my t-shirt and arms, despite changing top and washing self. She's now back in bed. Poor lamb.

Oh Beans, that sounds totally vile. Oh dear oh dear.

Rubes, how can you not like Vimto? It IS sugar free squash! (They do a sugary one but I wouldn't touch that, and I don't like the fizzy one too much either).

Spot, I think anniversaries are hard. When I think about DH in the rest of the year I think happy thoughts, but on the anniversary of his death and also his birthday I do inevitably feel bad.

Oh my life, we have so much JUNK! Or DP does anyhoo. Getting him to pack up or go through his stuff is like trying to push a hippo up a flight of stairs. I think he's in denial about moving.

Hello,

Arse belt! Very funny.

Beans Poor you, sounds dreadful. Hurrah for your weekend off though.

Lady Great news that you are on the move at last.

Spot Has weaning not helped at all?

Bought Dd1 a Peppa Pig magazine earlier. She keeps calling it her newspaper. Very cute.

Thanks for the cot bed thoughts all. Sides still on here too Summer! Bought Dd2 a cot bed now so they can move into bunks together at some point. Am going to try putting j down in our room at 7 tonight and see if that helps her sleep better in the evenings. New baby monitor arrived today so we're all set. Fingers crossed.

Shall I text trace and check she's ok?

Spot, I meant to send you love about your Dad. So sorry, was remiss of me.

Lady, we have loads of junk in our garage. It's terrible.

I do stink of sick. Rank. Have to pick up DD1 shortly. Must get DD2 up. Oh yawn.

Vag yes seen that site before tis very I have been playing those games with ds today too - they get hugely old very fast. he has now fallen asleep on the couch at 4pm but he did the same yesterday, still went back to bed at 7 and woke at 725!!! so going to try my luck again and let him sleep!
We took a car out of our garage but it is not reg on the road so has to stay on the driveway until we decide about it. We are looking to buy a new car but hoping to get away with just having one as we have for about the last 2 years! Anyway, now we have 2 road bikes soon to be 3, 4 mountain bikes (one not ours) a balance bike, 2 trikes, a scooter and a load of other stuff, however I am the queen of de-cluttering so will be room in there. Silly though these Victorian garages - can still only fit a bloody horse and cart in there (well just the cart ) even when it's empty! So if we get a new car it won't be fitting in there I'd say.
DH in London all day but has finished yipee. I need to go out and get one of those plugs that strain the stuff (hair) from going down the drain so I can wash the dog in the bath - aaah the glamour She is shedding like MAD and I am going nuts but can't get her in to see a groomer as they are all booked out for the next 2 weeks!! I mean seriously, that's the biz to get into - booked out????? At about 30-40 quid a pop!! Hmmmmm Need need need an Irobot Vac ASAP

Rubes my Dsis is a dog groomer, but works in someone else business. I keep telling her to go out on her own. She is based on the Gold Coast and is always booked up.

You just happen to have a car in your garage Rubes?

Beans I hate that smell, how does it manage to stick to skin even after washing. Sending eucalyptus scented vibes your way.

Spot, have you taken the boys to your dads grave? I took DS1 to my dads grave when I was last in Australia. DS1 was only 2.5 & was thoroughly confused as to where this grandpa was that we where apparently visiting. But it was nice for us. Instead of taking flowers I left one of DS1's toy trains on his grave (DS1 wasn't best pleased about this) & it was nice. I hadn't been to his grave since his funeral when I was 10. I don't really see much of my dad in the boys, but he has given them they're beautiful eye lashes.

Oops a where instead of a were.

Oh gosh & they're should be their!!!!

I little hello by text would be ok Jam.

Oh meant to say Rubes, I think your right about the MSG. They are probably just saying there is no MSG. If you order again tell them you are allergic to msg as it sounds like you are. I avoid Asian all you can eat places these days as most are full of msg even all you can eat Japanese. The blue elephant in fulham left me feeling so full & bloated I couldn't eat for days.

Crap just lost another post
Will def say that when ordering Chinese again good plan Vag, I think you are right. I love the Blue Elephant. Twas our first date. DH lived about 500 metres from there.
Have washed the dog and bleached the bath to death.

I've had a reply from Trace. She's fine :) Just busy but will try to pop on later.

Oh good Jolly.
Lady, Re Vimto, It's the flavour, what is it actually? I dunno but I don't like it much.

Oh I want to try vimto now. I never tried it, all those years living in the UK. Actually, for ages whenever anyone mentioned Vimto I thought it was a shortening of an alcoholic drinks name, like Bolly, or champers. Or maybe just the full name of some very English drink like Pimms.

DS2 lost it at bedtime, and as usual my way to respond was to scream back at him. Great mothering moment, not.

hello lovely ladies.
Thanks for thinking of me - sorry to have been AWOL. Things just seem to be busy at the moment and with Phoebe's refusal to do anything I want her to, including sleep, day or night, I'm so weary of an evening that all I want to do is hit the sack.
It's a bit of a mini-post too, as my hayfever is on overdrive today, so my eyes aren't really up to looking at a screen. Gosh I sound like a misery! I really am fine at the moment I'm struggling with P but managing to keep in a separate box in my head, so I can see that parenting is a struggle, but it's not affecting every bit of life and my mood is pretty fine . hurrah for happy pills!
I've been lurking when I can, but can't remember everything but I can remember sybs having a hard time with L. You're right, my L and I have had a rocky road over the past couple of years, with behaviour that sounds like we had; shouting, stomping off, kicking doors, tears at every opportunity...Anyway, over the past few months she has really calmed down. Not sure what has changed, so maybe it's just age (she turns 7 in a few weeks), but she is definitely more reasonable and more able to listen and accept things than she was. It was a long phase with her - I think it started with P being born - but the balance has tipped now, and I would say she's the easier one of the two now. Or maybe, it's just that P is such a monster that, in comparison, L is like an angel Anyway, things will get better. I had a lightbulb moment the other week - I was in one of my sessions with the psychologist and we were reviewing some of the 'homework' I'd done. I have to write down when I've had a negative response to something, then analyse it, looking at evidence for and against my thoughts, and trying to come up with am alternative, balanced thought. Anyway I always find it hard to do in the heat of the moment, but then later I sit down and sort my head out. The psycholoist said it's hard to think rationally at the time, because the emotion of the situation completely overpowers the rational mind, and therefore I sometimes have to wait for the emotion to die down before I can get the logical brain to work. So it made me think that sometimes I'm expecting L to switch off her emotion and listen and respond rationally to what I'm saying, whereas she must also need time to let the emotion 'happen', then after she's cooled off, then try to resolve whatever the issue is. If I can't do it, then it's daft of me to expect a 6 year old to be able to!
Right my eyes are stinging. Ouch.
I'll try to keep up a bit more now!
xxx

That makes so much sense Trace.

Trace nice to hear from you, sorry things with P are still difficult but well done on keeping it all in separate boxes.

Rubes vimto is a a magical mystery berry flavour so much nicer than Ribena.

Tired.com today for the last wk DS2 has been back to his no sleeping tricks screaming for no apparent reason in the middle of the night and his morning waking is getting earlier and earlier. Then last night DS1 got in on the act and was hysterical at 2am came into bed with us and then was awake until 4.30 I eventually fell asleep at 5 for DS2 to come in at 5.42. Fat coke and chocolate today I think. DH just left for work with a cheeky good luck today, knobber.