dec 2008- Who will stonk it in & be crown queen of the thread?

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He we are ladies though I may need to change my name as royal title may be stripped.

Hello,

Glad you are feeling better SL. Hope I didn't sound too alarmist yesterday! I should add that although my GP was initially a bit rubbish he was a darn good fellow and sent me off to the hospital when he got my blood results!

Good luck kayz. Only 6 lessons, yikes!

Re nurseries. Ours did stuff like that all the time. Really annoying.

Spot. L goes through phases where only mummy will do. Baths, bed, playing etc, screams if daddy does it. I've tried the same chat about mqking daddy sad but it just seems to stop all of a sudden. I reassure DH it is just a phase. It is so hurtful for them.

Love the boobs comment spot!

I saw a recommendation on a thread the other day for Here Come the 123s by They Might be Giants. Just thought I'd share that it is fantastic! L keeps telling me off for singing along. I love their flood album but never knew they did children's songs.

Lady T Hope you are recovered. Illness lasts longer with children around i'm sure. Not enough proper rest.

I'll feeling ropey but not awful hopefully getting better! Thought I was completely better but then awake for a few hours in the night and actually threw up, not nice.

spot ds blatantly prefers dh to me. I must be very thick skinned as I actually just find it amusing. I'll go in in the morning and he'll say "no mummy I want daddy". And I say well that's all well and good but daddys too lazy to get up it's me or nothing! Or sometimes I pretend to cry - he finds that funny. Sorry to hear about your dh's job - what is he thinking of retraining in?

The lesson went well. I was shaking when I got in the car but smiling when I got out. I did 3 hours today and then 3 tomorrow. Doing 6 on Sunday in 3 hour stints so I get a break. Once I'm driving I'm fine. It's just thinking about it that worries me.

Spot: DS1 is the emotional one here, I try and deal with it by cuddles, distraction and getting him to laugh. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Maybe it's part of being the eldest?

Vag: stories and poems would be most welcome. I've also been offered a stinking recipe for golden syrup dumplings

Stonking! Bloody phone.

What field is MrSpot considering? And you know Essex is dead cheap house-wise

Haha Effie I read stinking and thought 'how rude' then wandered why you were going to explode .

Spot I wrote a post just after yours earlier but I forgot to post it and now its gone. Anyway I said I wander if he is picking up on your stress and thinks daddy is causing it. Or it could just be he is having a mummy phase. For some reason first thing in the morning the boys just want their dad, I have obviously just gone along with that. I guess it also hard because DH is away so much, maybe he needs to find something he does with T, like watch a particular TV show together or walk to the shops to get milk (or crisps).

SL that's crap, sorry your feeling so yukky.

JB I love TMBG, I saw them years ago in a little bar in Brisbane, was very lucky to see them somewhere so small, I love so many of their albums, but Flood is one of the best. I recently found out "why old new York, was once new Amsterdam". I will def be looking that up on Spotify. They also contributed to an album called Rock the net, which is musicians against censorship & restrictions (Chinese style) of the internet.

Beans how are the runs?

I've packed a bit but still have some more to do. We aren't due to leave until after lunch tomorrow.

this is one of my favourite bush poems by Banjo Patterson. Is has link at the bottom of the page to a children's treasury which has more of his poems including 'the man from snowy river' and 'clancy of the overflow' which are ironic poems in Australia.

Rubes M got teeth in batches of 4-6 too, starting at 3.5m, and was all finished by March this year. It was hard going at times as teething is/was a whole body experience for both of mine. Very happy to see the back of it.

Beans I feel just the same about not being a nice Mummy. M is in an unco-operative phase and DD though bright is not always the most switched-on of children so by the time we left for our picnic earlier I was a hag. Didn't help that M lost my sunglasses for me just before we left, so will have to pick up some cheapos somewhere. When we got to the river, meeting mums & tots people there, we were the only ones for the first half hour and I seemed to be going at the children constantly. There was a man milling around (if one person can mill) and I thought he must think me the most bad-tempered woman ever to bear child. Sometimes though the children just seem to be deliberatey being dense, standing on plates and dripping all over the picnic blanket, grrr. I have slightly missed connection between dog-owning dry cleanery people and crap mornings but then it is seriously past my bedtime. DH had lakes of diarrhoea the trots for at least a week after he was essentially better after last tummy bug but it slowly righted itself.

Talkinhg of mornings I get up with M way before anyone else and so have to try to keep the noise to just a bit less than deafening. I love it when DH has to be up early, even if he's going out, as I can relax about the cacophany.

Effie that's cute - I love droring dragnz myself.

Kayz glad the driving went well.

I must go to bed or mornings will be even more grating.

Morning All! Feeling v perky today. DH was on early duty this morning. D2 was only up once in the night. Hurrah! D1 woke up crying for me just before 7, so DH duly got up to deal with her. I put a pillow over my head and slept for an hour more. Turns out DD1 had done massive squits all over her bed, poor lamb, and lovely DH dealt with it all without rousing me! Then when I got up I did a 7.5k run in 50mins. V nice. Then DH took both girls to the zoo and I did lots of chores and read my book. Brilliant.

Both girls now snoozing and I feel ready to tackle them with renewed enthusiasm this pm as DH has gone to work. Feeling happy.

Ankle a bit achy, but not too bad. I felt like I could have kept going, which is great.

Vag - have a smashing holiday. We'll miss you xx

Hello everyone.

Just popping on v quickly - not had chance to read much but just wanted to say thanks for all the kind messages last week (& thanks for the text LadyT - very thoughtful of you). I don't feel like posting stuff about my Dad or the funeral or anything at the moment because I don't know what to write and I'm just exhausted by it all.

Anyway I'm off camping to Normandy tomorrow for a couple of weeks. Can't wait! Sorry to be so brief but am way behind with the packing.

Normal service will be resumed some time in August. In the meantime if anyone has any last minute wine tips I'd love to hear them.

xxx

PD - loads of love to you.

I am now flagging from morning run. DH at work and need him to take over before I nod off! Been for long walk to duck pond and swings with littles in double maclaren. It's so damn heavy - exhausting!

Right, onto macaroni cheese making.

xx

PD - huge love. Am thinking of you. As for wine tips, I would say quality trumps quantity every time but quite often I get that the wrong way round when in the bar....

Hello Beans. I love Mac cheese, a total favourite.

We are a house of sick today. Lucy puked all over the carpet and it's not comoing out. Must get something stronger on it. T went to a party and I had an early morning run. Gosh, we are a dull household sometimes.

DH and I were just saying how we used to get that Saturday night going out feeling. Now we get Saturday night staying in feeling. Pathetic.

Really sad about Amy Winehouse, but I suppose probably inevitable. But 27 years old is just too young. I am feeling quite blue about it. Such a waste.

PS Sybs forgot to say I hope L gets better soon. Bug or one off?

Thanks darling. She was violently sick this morning but none since. Slept all afternoon, ate a very small supper and now in bed. Quite a few of her classmates were also sick- party was very depleted. Fingers crossed she'll bounce back. Thanks for asking.

Very sad about poor Amy. 27 is no age. She had a very troubled life and was so talented. I hope she is now at peace.

Just been to my lovely godson's christening down in Sussex. Exhausted! DDs behaved v well although 1 lost it due to exhaustion at the end!!

DD2 took her first few tottery steps this evening. V proud of herself and v v wobbly!!! Had to catch her as completely out of control, but she was so over excited!

Everyone v quiet on here today. Oh and one of my friends is in labour at moment! Woo!

Hello all! Am rubbish rubbish poster at mo and will hopefully catch up properly later but just a quick one - DD was playing in garden barefoot earlier and is now sobbing and saying her feet ow.. Any ideas? Am assuming just an insect bite (cant see anything at all) but I don't have any anti histamine stuff for kids.. Would sudacrem help? Calpol??

Syb I hope L is feeling better today.

Beans Well done to DD2!! There'll be no stopping her now. Hope your friends labour goes well.

I took my last pill today. We aren't trying until September but I'm starting to chart my temperature. Still it's exciting

I've changed my driving test to the 10th August to give myself more time to learn. I feel much more confident now.

Such a shame about Amy Winehouse. She had an amazing voice but a troubled life. I've been shocked watching the news coming from Norway. I can't imagine what would make a person do that. Whatever his beliefs are those innocent people didn't deserve to die.

Hope everyone is well.

Kiwi - are there any marks on them? If flummoxed and doesn't seem like something serious, I usually try kissing it better, which seems to help! So sorry, I have no idea!!

Why does DS2 insist on waking up when we go to bed? Does anyone have any idea why? We always make sure we don't make much noise or turn lights on.

Kayz - we do the opposite - obviously we don't shout etc, but we do make sure we talk in normal voices and act as if the DDs aren't there, and I think they've got used to some noise around them, so tend not to wake up. I was v anti it to start with with DH, but it seems to have worked.

It just seems as soon as we get to the top of the stairs his eyes ping open and we then have to try to make him be quiet so DS1 doesn't wake up. He's a pain to get back to sleep as he always wants to get up.

My sister's coming to stay tonight. Am SO excited. Hurray! Wish she was bringing her littles too, but they've gone to stay with her MIL for a week, so she's got time off, lucky duck! I've managed to work DD1 up into a state of excitement too. Hurrah!

I made cornflake crackles with DD1 today. I didn't know they could go wrong, but I managed not to stir constantly or something and the chocolate started congealing with the butter and syrup not blending in with it. Looked gross, but they still tasted good to DD1 and me! So have put them in a cake tin anyway. Ho hum.

Where are you all?!

Beans am stuck in first day of the summer holiday nightmare. This morning DS2 has covered DS1's hair in vaseline, escaped from the house to be found next door, pulled the flowers off all my plants, and thrown an hr long tantrum culminating in me using my knees and elbows to get him in the car to drop DS1 off at a friends. Oh and to top it off am attempting to properly potty train him but this means putting pants on to leave th ehouse which he is not a fan of.

Is it o clock yet?