CRESH - Crap ham, stinky Brie, gin and lol'ing at birth plan believers

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Heeyah.

Moo the builder hasn't actually been able to come up with any answer better than 'in about 5 weeks!' Which is what they have been telling me since before I broke my leg in June. I think it all hinges on the tiler - once he has been and laid the kitchen floor we will be in. Still, I have been in a painting frenzy for the last week, and our bedroom and LG's bedroom are both painted now and just needing a door and electrics in order for us to be in. And believe me - he will be in his bedroom so damn quick he won't notice he has even moved!

Pol and FP nice dresses! I have just realised I need to sort out my clothing for going back to work. I'll need clothes that don't make me look like a bag lady for the groundschool bit and also for night stops. Don't know when I am going to get the chance to buy them though! Also I might be advised to try on my uniform. I don't want to pop the buttons off it the first day I have to wear it!

Thanks Box! Must reign in my shopping habit now. I do not know how you have coped with a broken leg, crawling baby, building work and lack of sleep. I bet you literally cannot wait to get LG in his own room - will there be champagne on ice on the big night? T'internet is your friend Box... order more clothes than you need and then keep the favourites. Or all of them.

Any of the horsey ESH fancy a day trip to That London in Nov to see the Spanish Riding School? I think they are there from 24 or 25 Nov.

I have been up since 6am with a teething BB and a sickly Boo. She has a puking bug. Nice. And TG is now in bed with a temp so no doubt he will be throwing up shortly. Gah. This is really not how I needed to spend my last week before college! As usual I have left everything until the last minute, so have loads of reading to do and lots to prepare. Arrrrrgggghghhhhh. Bes laid plans and all that....

Welcome occars sorry about the infected bits though, hope is all cleared up soon.

Not much sleep happened here. Well, Artie did, I didn?t. Then when I did, he did his 5.30 wake. I am loving the sleeping through, but I want the moon on a stick and no 5.30 waking please!! He does go back to sleep after it though which is a blessing.

How come you didn't sleep Cos? I know what you mean - BB sleeps through but this this morning was awake and screaming at 6am and I was EVIL I tell thee. Seeing as we didn't have to get up for school I was hoping for a lie-in. But BB is teething and screechy. More coffee needed....

I would love some sleeping through. Here the 3am waking has started coming forward to 2am, despite an 11pm feed. Which means she then wakes up at 6am and thinks "ooh, morning!". Today I left her cooing in her cot until 6.30am, fed her when she started getting a bit insistent to see if she'd nap a bit longer. She didn't, but fed for ages and ages the little gannet. At 7am I came back to bed and asked TBG to go get her (he's off work at the mo). He brought her back to our bed and I did my "I am asleep" routine. So he disappeared to the living room and when I finally surfaced at 9am she had been given breakfast and was going down for a nap.

I woke her for the 11pm feed yesterday. I might just leave her tonight and see what happens. But usually she wakes naturally about 10.30-11pm for a feed. Or if I don't she wakes up half an hour after I've gone to bed.

You must be knackered muse :( I realise how bloody luck i am with Sprout, she hasn't had an 11 pm feed since about 6 weeks (dream feed never worked) and has started sleeping to 4.30/5 fairly consistently then going back to sleep til 7/8 ish. We only have the occasional 2 am feed and I think this is connected to her needing to poo, she gets a bit restless the night before. I am just battening down the hatches for the 4 month sleep regression at the moment. Is it a given that it affects all babies or has anyone here got away with it?

I'm sorry to hear of those with sleeping woes. I hope I can get some over the next week or so as I saw the boys off this morning at Schiphol. I'm gutted really and we had a small argument last night when I said that a week was too long - when I went to my m&d's in March I was gone 4/5 days. Anyway, they should be landing around now.

Yesterday didn't go so great, JB was supposed to hack out the monster so I walked the first few hundred yards with him then turned back to the yard. She napped backwards and sat on an electric fence. Instead of jumping off she put more weight on it - then sat down in the middle of the road like a dog. [GiveMeStrength] So I was barking instructions at him, he had a paddy jumped off and threw the reins at me. Because I want to ride this weekend I couldn't allow her to "fear" this path so I had to lead her back down it and another quarter of a mile to ram the message home. Coming back up to the yard I noticed another yard's horses galloping over the horizon - in fields and paths I was sure were not theres. I can only assume that when fatty sat on the fence she fused the whole damned circuit because there was a herd loose in Germany. I pretended I knew nothing about it. Of course.

pols/fanny If either if you are doing any more Boden shopping they're doing 20% off right now if you spend over 100. Bear needs winter stuff and 100 is easily done!

Rocket no 4 month sleep regression here with mini, but rather a large one with Peppa (and at 8 months too).

Your Boden shopping repulses me.

I have heard tales of people escaping the 4m sleep regression rockets so you could be the lucky one.

pols stress ? it always outs itself in insomnia and teeth clenching. So I am knackered and my jaw aches! Hoping to head down to hossie tonight though so am hoping that will help a bit.

Buggery bollocks! Have just rung work to see what my return to work roster will be for October (remember I have to be back at the start of October to ensure Christmas off?) only for the nice lady at the other end of the phone to ask 'you're coming back in October? Oh, we didn't know that!' It might be that I have even more time off. I'm beginning to think my career was all a figment of my imagination!

hey, as long as you get paid, Box!

oh cos, I feel for you. i have the same symptoms of stress. my jaw has been awful, but at least I am sleeping. Sending you chilled out vibes for a more restful night.

box hope that doesn't mess up the Christmas plans.

I am in that permanently knackered so I no longer notice it state rocket. And it's better than the 4 month sleep regression so I consider myself quite lucky.

Cos I get similar stress symptoms too, tis rubbish.

Box hope you get the work thing sorted.

News here is that flat goes on market this weekend. I fear for my sanity now. Have to try and sell this place and find somewhere to move to. Eeep.

This afternoon I found a rocking feeding chair with footstool in the charity shop for £50. But we don't have room for it. Gutted. :(

muse sounds like you are a sucker for punishment. Good luck with it all.

box are you trying for longest ML in the history of ESH crown? Seriously though, hope you get it sorted and it doesn't screw up Xmas grinchstylee.

Since when did I buy anything from Boden? (Well, OK, only the once.)
I find your assumptions about my alleged Boden-buying repulsive.

Rocket when you consider I can't actually do my job while pregnant, I am aiming for a whopping 22 months since I was actually of any use to anyone paying me! If the barstewards muck up my Christmas plans I will ensure they are never upgraded again. I'm going to write a very polite email to my support manager (who is giving me less support than my support bandage atm) what her plans are for me so that I can arrange my childcare, as less than 2 and a half weeks is not really enough time for me to get plans in order. It's pissing me off now that I am failing to work up the enthusiasm to revise for exams I have no idea when I will be even doing.

Med if I don't go back to work by start of October I will possibly have to work Christmas - by that I mean I will disappear from real life on about the 23rd or 24th Dec and reappear some time after Boxing Day. It's great being paid to sit on my arse paint my extension be off work injured, but frankly I would like to get my life back in order and be certain of what is going to happen in the immediate future.

I got sleep last night! OH took pity on me and slept with LG in the annex. And in the process confirmed that LG does indeed sleep like a baby when he realises there is absolutely no chance of a quick shifty BF when he thinks I am not looking. By the end of next week the door will be on his bedroom, the carpet down, and electrics working. And then we will put him in his own room where he will have to stay till he is 18 years old. Mwahahaha!

fanny I think we all succumb in the end. :( Who's got the time to traipse around shops with their suspiciously odd sizing? At least at Boden you know it's going to come up big and the customer reviews seem pretty honest. How is the job going? Pls not to worry about 9-5, everyone feels like a fake in the first week.

rocket What's the difference between a breastfeeding rocking chair and a rocking chair a la Mother Abigail? Does it have a shelf to rest your tits on?

Sooooo, my holiday - not so great eh? Without billions (2) people under my feet getting in my way I'm finding myself drawn towards the cleaning. Heaven help me - what's come over me? I can't be nesting - I'm only 18 weeks. It occurred to me this morning that I'm not alone - I will never be alone, never, never , never ! [sob]

I JB has done something stupid. He's told his family my our chosen name for a boy and they've all sucked teef and gone "naaaaah it's wanky innit". I am LIVID and now RESOLUTE that this will indeed be the boy's name. This is the cardinal rule of baby-naming isn't it? Don't tell the family.

Happy birthday to me! I have a sleek silver iPod touch for furtive MNing at work! And a fab new handbag! And am now very late for work....

alps for JB.

Happy birthday fanny!

alps give that boy a slap. Muppet

Happy Birthday Fanny - here is a speshul cocktail of champers, gin and elderflower like they make at a restaurant down the road from my house. Lush.

Why deny your age when you are a mere spring chicken and English Rose bud of gorgeousness? Have a luffly day :)

Happy birthday fan I'm not far behind you in the denial stakes. Are you having a party?

Yes alps it also dispenses nipple cream from one arm and has a cup holder for your gin in the other.

Happy birthday fanny! Hope you are already on the fizz... x

Ehm, hello, anyone remembers me? HopOn, Mountie? I have meanly and irresponsibly reported my diffness with the PESH and then disappeared (flogs self). But I think I NEED to join in with the CRESH for some sanity. Will you take me back?

appy birfday fans

Mountie! Come on in and tell us all about it. What did you win in the end? How are you?