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.

Where's everyone gone? Has there been a mass exodus since I got back from holiday, or have I scared everyone off? What a lovely day it is today in Londres!

Ello keep planning a big catch up but not getting round to it....back to work next week ...eeek, dd going to nursery some of this week so have had some no kids free time...bliss. Have spent lots of it doing chores and bulk cooking to survive going back but also done some chilling out and been to gym. Joined fancy gym near me as get it cheap with work, lovely and can take kids swimming together there easily as changing rooms better than public pools.

Beans dd1 obsessed with willies already...just like her mum haha! Love pop goes the weasel!

Oh dear vag, are you feeling rough? I cannot take the pace with drinking any more...had 3 pints on tuesday and felt v rought yesterday

Beans hurrah for dd2 sleeping my dd also sleeping well since walking, it tires her out! How can your dh think there is no such thing as overtiredness, bless them and there naivety. My dh appreciates how hard having two is since i was ill for a week and he would literally come home and i would go to bed, he was exhuasted in 3 days...admittedly he was going to work as well but still.

Arti i hope work is going ok? I am not sure if i am looking forward to going back or not. Eeeek. I will be working 4 days a week, could be tough.

Right gonna post as need to sort out bombsite kitchen after all my cooking.

Hello everyone,

Can't stay long as we're off on holiday on Saturday and I'm madly trying to get things organised. Is leaving two cats for a week outside but with access to a cosy shed (with cushions and chairs) and an automatic cat feeder cruel? I'm having second thoughts. We don't know people well enough here to ask them to run around after our felines.

beans DD1 told me that her friend Harry has a teeny tiny pinkle. She's never seen it! I've realised things have got a bit reversed here where a penis is a pinkle but the vulva is a vulva . I think the silly cute name is meant to be for girl's bits.

Spot So sorry to hear of T's fall. Hope he is on the mend.

JJ Glad to hear the pox is wearing off. It sounds awful. Co-sleeping sounds like a good plan until she is feeling better.

Damn DD2 waking.

If you see a warm glow in the sky this evening it is because my halo is shining from north Wales where I have driven the girls and am staying with the pil ON MY OWN until dh arrives by train tomorrow. Living in the house of passive aggression. my mil HANDWASHES her guests' towels. Have you ever heard of anything so mental? I mean, they are lovely and soft, but really??? Her martyrdom knows no bounds...

Yes I have WG, once a very dear friend told how her MIL cleans the crumbs from her toaster routinely, every Saturday. Oh hang on it was you !

Yes feeling a little rough today so have taken it very easy. Thankfully, copious amounts of coffee have made me feel more human. The sun has come out and I'm about to drop DS1 at gymnastics so might stay out and take DS2 for a walk to the park to feed the ducks, while we wait for his class to finish.

JB as long as there is plenty of access to water and food I think that is fine, however, can other cats get into the shed. We used to leave our cat in the UK for 5 day stretches with loads of dry food & water and a cat flap so he went out to do his business. We have to leave our two cats for 5.5 weeks over Christmas as its winter they will stay indoors and they are mainly indoor cats anyway. We get our teenage babysitter to come each day to empty the litter trays and feed them. Even paying her cheaply it adds up having to pay someone.

Hi all, I'm here and have been lurking. I was going to catch up but I'm in a strop now, so will save it for later when I'm more cheerful. My tales of woe are as follows ...

1 - I'm on the way to see the MW for my 16 week appt. As it's the first time we'll (hopefully) hear the heartbeat DH was going to come, but he's just rung to say he's got to move a tractor from one field to another so won't get there. He will be home for 5 though as he hasn't got anything else to do after that. Why can't the sodding tractor wait in the field til 5? Humph
2 - I forgot to wee in my pot this morning, so will have to do it in the public toilets when I get off the bus. I will probably also piss all over my hand. Double humph
3 - and finally, it turns out baby isn't making best use of all the cake I'm eating, purely for it's own benefit. Yesterday I wore a short sleeved shirt and it got stuck on my arm. Triple humph
All the famine, pain and suffering in the world has nothing on me

Welcome back Beans, pop goes the weasel is very funny

Happy hols Jolly, Pembrokeshire , have a great time

Back later to everyone else, at the bus stop now. Love to all x

Thanks vag. Don't think other cats would stand a chance at getting in. The girl cat is vey aggressive!

WG I thought of your mil when we moved house and 18 months of toast crumbs tumbled out into the packing box. She'd have been disgusted!

Zj hope you manage to wee without missing!

ZJ I feel your pain. I am rubbish at peeing in tiny pots. Even worse is having to pee on demand at the docs. Takes ages. Hope the appt goes well .

Summer: best of luck for your return to work. It might be a nice rest!

Wow, the board's exploded since I last looked.

Beans glad you had such a lovely fortnight. Well done stampy DD2 House sounds interesting! Good news about the sleep. We, conversely, have had a couple of broken nights, including Dd (nine!) waking me up after a nightmare, poor girl. I'm back to going to bed about 9.30, it's the only way I can look and feel half-human in the day. How was One Day? I wasn't too impressed with the book so have no desire to see the film. Lots of other films I want to see, but not much comes to Hereford Love the willy conversation! DS told me this morning (as he witnessed the final rummaging stages of reinserting mooncup - they're fab, don't care what anyone else says!) "you shouldn't touch your willy Mummy" I told him mummies don't have willies, they have ginas, so he told me I should touch my gina! I said it was okay to touch, then we moved on I don't know who's giving him this "mustn't touch" nonsense, I don't go in for that. Glad DD1 is enjoying noisery.

Effie love your description of autumn, I love autumn too. Noticeable now that it's getting dark earlier - I love drawing the curtains and shutting out dark outside. Sorry to hear about the pox

I didn't see Striped Pyjamas, I can't do harrowing stuff any more, esp if it involves children. I'm a total wuss these days.

spot poor T - it's really all happening in your house, isn't it?

WG hope the trip went well. I haven't driven a long journey for literally years now, don't think I have the stamina any more.

Aww JJ, love the desc'n of E! Hope the sleeping settles down as she gets better.

Think naps are on the way out here >sob< M's very good-natured about it, he just won't stay in bed and keeps coming to his door gate saying "Mummy! I here!". Rather than going through a will he/won't he nappied-up pantomime every day I think I'm going to institute "quiet time" in front of the tellybox at his usual naptime and see if he drifts off for a bit that way. He has before once or twice. I'm sad to see the back of naps but at the same time it's nice not to have to dance round them any more. The thing I didn't like is that on no-nap days he woke up very early the next morning, so he had just lost that sleep, he wasn't making it up overnight. I really don't like LOs being short on sleep, recipe for disaster IME.

ZJ hope the day improved! Is DH a farmer or does he do something terribly specific around tractors? M has a tractor fixation - good thing we live in tractorland and about 50 must drive past our house every day.

Oh ZJ - I feel your pain. Did you get the wee into the pot? I think the shirt has shrunk - you haven't grown.... PS At least when you're pregnant, it's not hard to get a wee out, so it shouldn't have taken too long to squeeze out enough drops!!!

Naps on way out here too, Trudy - yesterday DD1 hadn't had one for 3 days and come bathtime, she was going into meltdown. At 6pm she was at full crying volume and I knew she was knackered. Asked her if she'd like her milk or if she'd rather go to bed. "I'm so tired Mummy, I just want to go to bed". So off she went and I went to check on her about 2 mins later and she was out cold. Little bird. And DH woke her at 7.30 this morning! Anyway, no sleep again today and we're going out for their supper to Pizza Express. Could be interesting!

I have terrible wind. It's since having children and I honestly do the most revolting farts. If I was DH, I think I would sleep in a separate room. His are bad, but mine are worse. And if I don't let them out, then I get terrible tummy aches. Any tips???!

Beans-me, too! Disgusting, awful, rank. Presumed it was something to do with the illness and diarrhoea I had after G but yes. You are not alone.

Sorry, everyine, too much info.

hello
How did you get on ZJ ? Have you calmed down yet? I know this is a bit in advance, but have you considered what secondary school your LOs will go to? I know that's a bit mad, but when lookin at houses, I worry that the more rural ones would make life hard and end up with us having to take the girls to and from school. L is 7 now, so it's only 4 years away for us (yikes!) Did your friend like any of the houses in Osbaldwick? We had a viewing today but I don't know if it was your friend or someone else! No idea how it went yet as the agent did it while we were at work.
For vaggie's benefit, here are the 2 contenders for us at the mo:

polished and ready

project house

sl you wanted to know how I got on with the coil insertion thing - well I went on Wednesday and it was fine. A bit like a smear - not painful, just odd and a bit uncomfortable, but only lasted about 10 mins. I bled like a light period (just coz of the messing around in there) for the day and a bit of thursday, but today no bleeding at all. I have to have a check in 4 weeks to check it's behaving. I was warned that I might get period-type pains for 3-4 days, and I have had pain, but not periody pain, so I don't know if it's related or not. It's more like horrid wind pain, all stabby and hurts when I straighten up, so I'm staying all hunched over. I think if it's like this tomorrow I might give them a ring to see if it's normal.
Re naps - we gave up on them about 2 months ago. P was so horrendous at night that I thought she needed to be more tired! She copes really well without and is going down to bed much more easily (finally - phew!), but if we are in the car at 2 ish, she'll fall asleep, and I let her sleep for a bit but not too long. She is still wakin up in the night several times - I think she is just a really light sleeper, whereas L can sleep through me and my noisy friends doing singstar quite a lot of noise.
I went back to work yesterday (after 5.5 weeks off ) and it's nice to be back! I really do love my job.

oh and WG I looked out of the window last night and am certain I could see the faint glow of your halo across the land

JB I think the cat scenario sounds fine - they have access to warmth and shelter and food and drink - what more does a cat need? Hope you have a fab holiday xxx

ooh maybe I'll keep up this monologue and win Thread Queen

oh and re coil - I'm allowed to have sex straight away, but might tell DH it needs a month to settle! I'm still not feeling very keen Maybe I need to spend some time with Beans to see if her libido encourages mine! I blame my meds. Or my children. Or the moon.

lurking much to say but at Trace's monologue!

Hey everyone, I'm back and more cheery today. Sorry for yesterday's grump. MW appt went well, although my iron levels are a tad low, so steak this weekend, yum. Wee news - I did indeed spray my hand, but the public loos had plenty if soap and hot water!

Very pleased to hear E is on the mend Jump, the only baby I know who had the pox had it so mildly he didn't develop the proper immunity so got it again this year really badly and ended up in hospital one day . I don't know if this is typical, but if it is, much better for E to have had it properly.

LadyT I'd kill for some 'serious chick lit' or 'lite literary' or whatever the middle ground would be called, as I often can't handle either the frothy or the deep. Tell your agent to do some market research, I can't be alone, can I? I hope the bus company have received a big ticking off

Hey Rubes, hope you're having fun with your Mum?

Hurrah for stomping around little Beans, so cute. DD cracked sleeping around the same time she cracked walking, like Summer said, I'm sure it was due to finally being able to tire herself out. The house sounds exciting, have you been able to view it yet?

Another lover of Autumn here Effie, especially jumpers and woolly tights and stompy boots and soup etc etc. But then I love spring too, all the new green leaves and baby birds.

Poor T Spot, how's he doing? I hope it's not too painful

How's work been Arti? What a treat to have a child free morning

Talking of child free time, how's ds2 doing at nursery Vaj?

Good luck with the return to work next week Summer

WG your MIL never fails to amaze me. Has DH got there yet?

Trudy DH is a farmer at heart, but the family farm isn't bug enough for his Dad and him, so he's just a hobby farmer for now, helping his Dad in his free time, until FIL eventually retires. This won't happen, farmers don't retire, they just keel over in a field on a sunny day, aged about 107. So for now he tinkers and his day job is an agricultural consultant, doing the science bit and advising other farmers (which he also loves, a good balance of brain and brawn, so it's not a compromise for him). DD is only interested in one tractor, and if Grandad isn't in it, it doesn't get a second glance. All her little friends love coming to play though, even if she doesn't appreciate how lucky she is

Trace I had to driven 3 miles to catch the school bus everyday - to primary and secondary school, so for me it's normal. We're more fortunate here in that we have a primary in the village and a bus from the village to secondary, which is a reasonably good one at present (although lots can change in the next 10 years), so I'm quite positive. Where would your girls go to school? I don't think my friend viewed your house, she's been at work all week and is away this weekend, but I know she's not found anything yet. Hope today's viewer liked it

I had quite a melt down last weekend, after DD was turning into a devil child and also pooing her pants everyday, which ended in me sobbing in a (poo covered) heap on the floor and DD in shock. Probably one of lowest of my parenting lows. But on Sunday we had a break through at a party, where I told her that only big girls who use the potty or loo are allowed party bags. She immediately performed and earned the bag, which I've been keeping topped up with surprises ever since and, ta dah, no more accidents. Thank the lord for party bags! Since then she has been the loveliest and most delightful child and has been a lot of fun, I don't have a clue what switched in her head, but I'm grateful. We had a great day out with 8 old friends and 15 assorted children aged between 10 and 6 months, and every single one of the children behaved impeccably. So much so, we braved a restaurant for tea, en masse, and still they behaved

Gosh tumbleweed.

Hello everyone.

Morning ladies

I haven't read up for a few days as I have been in London and then at Mum's, but going to find a snack and then come right back.

Hello all. Hope everyone well, need to do some catching up as per usual. Bit hard to browse the interweb at the moment as now homeless - we moved out of our house on Thursday (aka the move from hell) and are now at my parents which is an absolute tip. Building site basically. Came down within hours with severe allergic reaction to all the dust, so we have been at the in-laws all weekend but have no choice but to go back tonight

Anyone happen to know allergy stuff that's ok to take when pregnant?

That sounds horrendous Kiwi. The dr told that most anti histamines are actually ok and if you take some inadvertently (such as before you know you're pregnant) they won't do any harm, it's just that they're not allowed to prescribe them and pharmacists aren't allowed to sell them to you. But it would be an 'on your own head be it' decision - not sure what I'd do. Hope you find something

Kiwi I had bad sinusitis when PG and doc prescribed me Flixonase, think it's the same as Beconase, said same as ZJ, but when you are in a lot of discomfort and there is no 'proven' risk to the baby they are fine with it.

Hello lovely ladies. Am back from holiday, had a fab time. DD still a proper madam but hopefully the return to school will straighten her out!

I'm on phone so no chance of a proper catch up, hopefully tomorrow I will catch up on everyone's news. But in the meantime kiwi could you ring NHS Direct? No idea if the would be any good or OOH GP for advice? Sounds like hell, hope you are okay x

Oh yeah I forgot I had really bad hayfever when PG with DS and GP prescribed some nasal spray like spots mentioned. It really helped.