July 2010 - Next thread, cba to think of a title

[Chulita]

I want to witter away to you lot and none of you have come up with the goods so this will have to do...

Just bookmarking catch up tomorrow :)

I have to have a better look at this pinterest, just had a quick look and it looks ace. I am beyond tired again so must go to bed. Even though im on holiday tomorrow i have still got to get up to take D to the cm, which peed me off a bit but dh has to leave too early, TUT!!!
I just found this not posted, i was really tired!!!
However 11 hours later after possibly the worst night in a long time i feel like crap!! D was up in the night from 1.30 till 3.30, i spent around an hour with him split into two. When i eventually went back to bed at 3.30ish i was awake forever then D woke but self settled at 5 and woke for good at 6, DH went into him to try an settle him but he was a bit sick, hes been really chesty for a few days and hes just been sick again but its just yellow bile, whats that all about?? he doesnt want his milk either. Im gona have to keep him home i think hes pale as anything.

Ack viks :( poor D, that doesn't sound fun for either of you.

mlic my only tip would be to let him work out what works for him. Lefties never seem to hold a pen 'properly' for instance and turn the paper at funny angles but regardless of how uncomfortable it looks to everyone else it works for us! Also don't be surprised if some things really like frustrate him, most things are designed for right-handers (microwaves with all the buttons on the right, cookers - buttons on the right, sinks - most are the opposite to what's natural for me, even books if you think about it go the wrong direction for lefties, scissors, sewing machines (don't even get me started on bloody sewing machines ). I went to a 'traditional' school in Madagascar and they used to smack my knuckles with rulers to try and get me right-handed but it didn't work.

cake ah, I see...that would perhaps be why L has a lovely thick crocheted throw over her headboard

mlic I like the idea of a Christmas card holder. Problem is, since we've moved here, hardly anyone sends us one anymore They probably all think it's too late by the time they've thought of it and it's not really done over here. So I'm not gonna make one only for it to look empty and sad.

viks Sorry about the shit night and poorly baby.

chulita Don't be jealous about it being the end of my pregnancy. For some reason (that I won't explain in more detail ) I thought last night that my waters were breaking and I got a real, good and proper panic attack. I was thinking that I was in no means ready for this child and I was thinking totally rational thoughts like, I can't give birth when it's this cold and I can't give birth cos I haven't washed the bedding yet

Had to sit with DP and do some breathing exercises to calm down again, while he repeated that if I went overdue it could still be 4-5 weeks. That calmed me down again but made me realise, I wouldn't mind if I wasn't gonna give birth anytime soon.

Starting to panic again now, so will stop writing about it.

Wishing you all a lovely day.

Thanks for that chul. Just a possibly weird but relevant question, do you use your cutlery in the 'normal' way or back to front. I can't abide bad table manners and think it looks awful when kids/people can't use a knife and fork properly (whichever way that may be)...but am I putting him under too much pressure if I teach him how to use a knife in his right hand and fork in his left?

Oh trudy poor you! Your dh is right, it could be a while yet but better get the bedding washed just in case

I feel like a woman on a mission today. There's so much in the house I want to get done. Doubt I'll have the time for most of it though. Was supposed to be going to soft play this morning but between ds1's cough, ds2's loose nappies and friend's lo is under the weather we've called it off! Another day in the house methinks...

justaquickie as already late for work.

mlic i'm no expert on lefties (altho have had a few lefty exes ) but i'd just let ds2 work out which feels best in terms of cutlery - no-one normal would think it bad manners for him to be 'back to front'

tbh, i'd be pleased if my two used cutlery at all, no matter which hand - they tend to down tools and go in manually halfway thru any meal. i guess i prioritise them actually eating and enjoying it over HOW they eat - at this age anyway - so altho i encourage them to use cutlery, i don;t stress too much about it.

i think when i started blw, i just decided i had to forget my usual 'can't abide mess or bad manners' at the door otherwise it would never work - and so it's when i'm at my most laid-back.

vik get well wishes for poor D

trudy try to relax and enjoy this time with M. it'll all be fine and all too quickly, just another memory.

I use cutlery the normal way, I don't see it as an issue cos right-handers have their spoon in their left hand. I think what's frustrating is when the right hand has to do everything and the left just sits there pushing fabric through the machine aaaaaaarrrrggghhhh (can you tell I've been cracking up on with my cushion cover? )

trudy it's annoying isn't it the whole, "please, please come early/no don't, I'm not ready/no do actually, I don't want to be pg anymore/no don't, I'm scared" etc... I hope you manage to relax and be prepared for it when the time comes.

Sooooooooooooooooo the last few hours have been full of shite, D big time vomited, all over himself and the highchair, so i have spent some time trying to wash sick out of all the crevices off the clips and straps and under the cushion etc. He has a second change of clothes on and is now down for a nap after constant whinging and then falling off the sofa! I text to let my DH know how he was and all he could think to text back was how shitty he was feeling due to lack of sleep! He didnt even get up in the night and every time i went back to bed he was snoring away! i wonder how he thinks I feel?
trudy Maybe getting those last few things done is exactly what you need to do to put your mind at rest, how are you feeling in yourself, are you well? Hows M?
mylife shame about soft play but good to get stuff done if ur in the mood, i may do cleaning today if i get a chance, it always makes me feel better if im a bit down.....sad but true!!
Mom and Dad are supposed to be visiting tomorrow for the weekend but i have just text mom to say theres a chance i may have to put them off, i dont want to but if D has a bug i dont want to pass it on to them and it wouldnt be any fun for them if hes miserable.
Better go see if i have dug all the sick out of the high chair and sort the vomitus clothes/bibs/muzzoz out!!! Nice, id rather sleep!!

Poor D :( That wasn't very supportive of your dh One of the DCs pood all over my high chair once so I took the seat cover off, rinsed the shit off it and then soaked it in a bucket of water with bleach. Job done. I hated having a highchair around, much prefer a simple booster seat at the table.

Cake, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean now for the cutlery :) ds1 eats everything with a spoon (in left hand) and has never encountered a knife! I just meant for the future. DS2 uses a spoon but insists of holding in right at the end so it tends to 'flick' a lot And I agree that no-one normal would think it bad manners for him to be 'back to front' so long as he could use them 'back to front' properly. I see so many kids and adults these days sort of stabbing their food with a fork and ripping it about with the knife rather than actually cutting it iyswim? I don't care about how they use their cutlery as long as the can actually use their cutlery

My mam's been off work for three days with the bug that ds2 and I had over the weekend. Oh to be able to ring in sick But then some of us just get on with it don't we, because we have to!

Yep we do have to, i might try ringing in sick to dh on saturday!
I just rinsed off the vom and its all in the wash now. My sister brought me lillies, which are very pretty but i just knocked them and that orange crap from the middle has gone all over the clean draining cutlery and dishes so had to rewash all that again, heyho, the kitchen is now clean, just washing, vacing, dusting, ironing and making up the spare beds to do, already cleaned the bathroom as soon as D went down. I probably wont get any of that done though.
My dh uses his knife and fork the wrong way around and when we first met he hardly knew how to use them properly, he was horrified that we all sat down to meals as a family and expected him to join us, he was well paranoid, hes ok now but still clangs his spoon around his mouth if we have pudding, it really annoys me.

See, see, SEE! That's why being taught to use cutlery properly is important It would annoy me too vik - I get really worked up about table manners Blame my parents and grandparents, they've made me this way

I have cut out the material for ds1's bunting. I need to find some material for the lettering now - might cut up a pair of my maternity jeans and do denim letters Then I might sew them up tonight! I haven't dared use my machine yet - I can't do it while the kids are around and dh has been working on important briefing notes and reports on a night. He would say it's ok for me to do it but I just don't want to cause him any distraction/put him under more pressure so I figured I'd wait a while. His boss is back on Monday so his workload should hopefully ease ever so slightly after the weekend.

I have also made a honey and vanilla bodyscrub for dh's aunt for Christmas. I have wrapped a pretty bow round (leftover from last night's christmas card holder project) so now I just need to know up some labels.

Since mam is off work I'll go ovr to hers this afternoon (even though I can't really afford the diesel but nevermind) and have a route (sp?) round for stuff I can use for some craft projects I have in mind

viks that's the problem, your DH doesn't think how you feel cos he can't see past how he feels. I hope it all gets better quick your end.

mlic I really want to try that bodyscrub idea, looks so easy!

Yep chu thats right, id just like some attention once in a while, its me being selfish i suppose. D isnt really eating anything for dinner, i have just given him a cheese stick and hes eating some of that and having a good drink so i suppose it could be worse, he's also had some cheddars a while ago and they semed to have stayed down, i shall try him with some mash and beans later maybe. Hes so pale and has a horrid chesty cough, do u guys recon i should take him to the docs?
mylife my goodness u have the creative bug, im jelouse, i havent even done my thankyou cards from D'd birthday, how bad is that, i only have to stick a photo on and write them all! you wouldnt think i went to art college for three years!
Re dh and eating i totally blame his parents, i think his mom was just lazy and didnt really want to look after them properly regarding stuff like that. They never sat up to the table although they had one in the front room and he had home made chips and bacon most days in his teenage years, hense his appauling approach to food now really.

SICK IN THE COT...........sunk through to the matress, all over everywhere........D had to have a shower............clothes/sheets/matresscover in the wash after being showered off...........me hungry/upset/exhausted.........must kip after cup a soup...........Mmmmmmmmmmm nutritious!

:( Vik. Poor D and poor you.

And there was me feeling sorry for myself following an hour and ten minute crying session when he woke from his nap.

viksam you're not being selfish, not.at.all. You're pg, working and doing all the wake-ups with D, D's ill which makes it a million times worse. Ime a lot of men find it very hard to look beyond their own discomfort and some find it impossible to put themselves in someone else's shoes. My DH has trouble with that but I'm often reminding him!

S has been a whinging grotbag for over a week now, he just seems to cry incessantly. He had a 5 min red-faced, wide-eyed, stiff-on-the-floor tantrum this morning because he pulled a chair over and then couldn't get it upright again

mylife An hour and ten mins of crying is going some, that is hard to deal with. Although D has been sick etc he hasnt been too miserable with it as long as i have been available for him and not doing anything else. Did you get all your jobs done and did u do anything crafty today?
chu that sounds delightfull of S, why has he been a whinging grotbag?
D was sick again at tea time, he had a few dry crackers and 10 mins later sicked them back up, but seriously they must have multiplied in his tiny belly because i recon the whole blumn packed came back up!!! there was loads and he was there heaving for ages.......sorry tmi i know. I offered him some milk before bed, he had about 2.5oz and as yet hasnt woke up or sicked up. What would u guys do in the morning? Offer him some dry toast and milk??
I am a bit gutted at having to put my folks off from visiting but its the right thing to do i think.
Where is everyone else today??

Oh bless him. Just play it by ear in the morning. Sickness is always so hard at this age as they usually miss their milk - I know ds2 cries for it and it breaks my heart to not give him it when I know it'll upset his stomach. Dry toast is definitely the best breakfast.

I've finished cutting out the bunting triangles for ds2's name. Only problem is I have realised I am by no means able to make the lettering look professinal so I'm going to either have to buy some ready made letters and stitch them on, or try using some crimping scissors on so felt or something similar that won't fray/need hemming and use that. But dh's new iPhone arrives tomorrow so will need to wait in for that before I can have a look about.

Yes, it was tough. I was sorting some stuff out at my mam's too, but not even carrying him stopped him. So I was breaking my arm carrying him in one arm, sorting stuff with the other arm and still listening to him crying :( He started up again when I got home too, I gave him some ibuprofen and then by the time he'd finished his tea he's chirped up so I'm wondering if his teeth are bothering him. But there aren't any breaking through atm

mylife can u download a font off tinternet and enlarge it, print it and cut around it?
I brought an excersize ball for £5 from tesco the other day and thank god i did as its the only comfortable thing i have to sit on!

I have done templates of the letters, that's not the problem - the problem is hemming the letters before they're sown onto the bunting, otherwise the edges are frayed and scruffy. So I need something either pre-done, or something that won't fray, like felt. Can't think of any other way round it.

Oh i see, yeah thats a bummer. felt would be nice but pre-done would be a lot less hassle.

oh vik hope your night improves.

mlic lovin' hearing about your crafting! keep meaning to ask - did you head back from that job?

chul i really admire the way you're trucking on with it all. A still never has tantrums (honestly!) like your S and mlic's small'un but she now really shows when she's cross and does a big wrestling grunt and pulls a terrible, red face - so much so dh asked if she was pooing earlier when she wanted to bf rather than kiss them both good night

big boy's birthday tomo - i'm impossibly excited! he wants to go swimming, the 'cimema' and for a curry and 'toppadoms' and then he has a party on saturday with 7 of his friends. yikes - am so dreading the school age parties

Sorry about the sick vik.

What's he getting for his birthday cake?

Gosh cake thats what i like to do for my birthday! Bless him, what will u do and as wss said what is he having?
D slept well really in the end really he had two wakings where he ss and one dummy run, then he woke at 7.40 dh brought him in, i was out cold! unfortunatly i was up twice in the night with a bad belly but that seems to have gone now. Hes hideously whingey this morning though, really wanted his milk, i only gave him 4oz and not long ago he had a yog, really hope he keeps it down. should have given him toast but i forgot till i was half way through the yog.

sounds like an improvement there with D vik hope it's going to be a better day there and your tummy is fine now

F got a Brio Henry and a Toby (once he got those he wanted to leave all his unopened presents and go and play in his room with them!), a Buzz interactive learning thingy (wouldn't normally get that type of thing but he really wanted it), a Thomas fleece he chose, a wooden musical instrument and Cars dvd.

he's also got lots of great books and a wooden cash register from family and friends so far.

happy boy

right off to the kitchen for croissants (his fave!)