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...

Glad woodlands was around mlisc

spirael S plays with L's trains, not sure what they are but tbh he's not much of a 'mouther' so he doesn't tend to try and eat random stuff and I don't mind him playing with her toys most of the time.

S was up at 4am, wide awake coughing and didn't settle til 6, L woke up at 6.30 and that was us up for the day. I'm absolutely shattered and this bloody cold just won't shift. Miserable.

:( chul, sounds grim

nights are still so bad here that i can't bring myself to detail them but when i hear about yours chul i remind myself that at least i'm not pg too. hope you manage to get some rest or find some ooph from somewhere.

ouch mlic how're you today?

thank you wss. twas a majorly shit period in my life but it's amazing how time passes and you can look back on events like that and realise that you're ok - and have even benefitted in a strange way from going thru it. re counselling, i only had one session as she thought that i was handling it fine on my own already - i'd learnt the visualisation/self-hypnosis techniques from books . tbh, seeing my mother being so weak and wasting her life away by letting anxiety and agrophobia completely dictate what she does was enough motivation to get better, as the last thing on earth i want to be like is her.
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spirael i'm in such awe of that pic and story - just fabulous!

that brio kit was F's first and was a great buy. it's all still going strong and the engine is played with every day altho the other trains are relegated to the bench in favour of various Thomas ones.

memph let's see pics of the curtains then!

kk sounds like you had a great time. welcome back!

quiet day here, F has his solo music class at 3 so i get a bit of time with just A. am going to attempt to dye some clothes this morning which i'm sooo excited about and bake a cake as it's national baking week (like i need an excuse)

oh re my question about storing ingredients, i do store much of it in jars but i wondered what to do with all the smaller stuff like liners, essences, choc drops etc etc. i currently store it all in 3 big tupperware tubs but then have to get them all down or rummage around in them to find the stuff i need for that cake. was imagining a huge floral tin that i could chuck it all in bar the sugar and flour.

Arrgh, just lost a huge post. [hangry]

Will try again later. I hate it when that happens.

cakes this laptop is so old it takes over an hour to open the net onto so would be hours to get the photos on, im not allowed flowers unless they are like the ones on next so its a no-no I wanted the colour vintage rose on a wall somewhere in the house and he said no!
chul hope you get some sleep at some point today.
mlic how you feeling today? I bet your sore!

DH has given me some money to buy myself a new lamp I like for the new house but I may buy a new kettle instead, I bought my kettle 10 years ago and is still going strong, I hate buying stuff when they arent broken but now my kitchen is spotless it looks tatty, if I buy a kettle dh will tell me off as I was saying I cant justify a pretty lamp and will ask for it for xmas! since becoming a mum ive become too pracitcal, before I met dh I would happily spend £200 a week on partying now im tighter than a ducks arse!

Im adding this to the end hoping people wont read this far, but L slept 12 hours last night

Mlisc- what happened with the eBay item? I've done that before I just emailed the woman who bought the item telling her the mistake and offered a refund if she didn't want the item. She didn't so ibhad to refund it lol.

I feel like I'm taking 2 steps forward and one step back with Ds sleep. He woke every 3 hours last night and it took him ages to go back to sleep each time. Then when he woke at 5 he wouldn't go back to sleep at all so he came in our bed and I fed him and he slept til 8! I feel like he still sleeps better in with us but I suppose that's the point I have to keep going til he sleeps better on his own.

Go L! J slept 13 hours straight (and 12 the night before) but I think it's only because he's poorly with a nasty cold, poor boy. Had to keep him off nursery yesterday and try to work while he napped. Not going to swimming this morning obviously. Am administering cuddles, Calpol and CBeebies liberally. Luckily although he plainly feels rotten he's not bad-tempered or whiny with it which is good!

get the kettle memphis!

i like the look of that brio, spirael. can't wait for J to be old enough for trains - not sure he would appreciate them as early as Christmas, but I guess I could get him something like that to be put away for a few months. He likes pushing cars around so am thinking of getting him some kind of garage thing.

woodlands just shows how much the teeth have bothered L for him to pop 3 then sleep like that (hoping for no more teeth for a while) hope J improves soon I like your 3 c's when I say cuddles to L he cuddles me and says puddles!
dh it will improve over time, was speaking to a girl yesterday and her sisters son in 7 and sleeps in their bed every night, well I say their bed her husband hasnt slept with her for 5 years and apparently there is no sign of it changing!
Just cleaned my fridge so that when I move it just needs a quick wipe, yuck was disgusting, no wonder it smelt of doom in there! I need to stop buying salad, it never gets eaten, gets forgotten til it smells gross!

Omg now that's an incentive to keep at it! There's no way he's going to be in our bed at 7.

Yes I have accepted the reality that salad always goes in the bin in my house too. I don't buy it anymore.

dh, woodlands came to the rescue for me and 'bought' it so I didn't have to sell it. I'll just stick it in the car boot sale instead!

Trudy, hate it when that happens! Hope you're ok and not panicking

I'm feeling surprisinglt ok thanks memph. Thought I'd be really stiff but other than a bruised back I'm feeling ok :) Nice one on the sleep memph and woodlands. Shame about the cold though woodlands. I was up with ds2 for a few mins at about 11:15pm then he slept 'til 7am. But I didn't have to feed him or take him downstairs so that's progress. I did give him ibuprofen though as this molar that's breaking is hurting him I'm sure. 7yo sleeping in their bed?

ds1's bunting is almost finished. Just got to sew it onto the bias binding then hang it

Sorry mlisc, that must have been so sore! My friend did that last year and her back was one huuuuuge bruise for a fortnight. Hope you're ok today!

cake I had no idea how to comment on what you said but it's great that you already had the means to deal with it and that you reckon it's made you stronger in some ways.
What are you dyeing clothes for?
re baking week, we did vanilla biscuits yesterday and decorated them today. I found some edible glitter leftover from my grandma's birthday cakes and they look lovely .

memphis I'd go for the kettle but I'll tell you to buy a lamp. You could get both, kettles aren't vastly expensive are they? wrt to flowers, I love floral stuff, DH didn't used to like it but now he puts up with certain things. I've got a very floral tablecloth that he doesn't like but realises he wasn't going to put me off. He draws the line at floral curtains though but I will break him. Funny cos my dad loves floral bedding/curtains etc, more than my mum so I indulge my floral whimsy in their house :)

There's no way I'm going out today, just too knackered but in a way it's worse indoors trying to entertain the dublet and a sick sumboy.

dh he will get there! It's so frustrating isn't it?! S was doing quite well but the last week he's been up at least twice every night and he's taking forever to settle. Just makes the day so much harder, and I find I take out my tiredness on L which isn't fair at all.

woodlands great idea with the garage btw, I found our one loitering unobtrusively in the loft (car boot purchase, rather large and L wasn't a car person til S started) and it's been in the living room for 3 weeks. S goes back to it all the time and spends ages tinkering with it. We go to groups and he sits and plays with garages there too.

Any suggestions for boys' names? We're not sure about our name and are having a think. We just know so many Benjamins that another Ben, even if it's Benaiah seems a bit commonplace. I was wondering about Adam but I don't know...not too out of the norm but not an everyday name is what we're after.

I really struggled with ds2's name. I still don't love it if I'm honest but he's named after someone so that's fine in my book. And I chose ds1's name so it was dh's choice. I prefer his middle name (Alexander) to his first name.

I'm not a huge fan of Adam tbh, I prefer Benaiah. Thinking along the lines of 'Christian boy's name' I like Barnabas (nn Barney?) or maybe Tobias. It's hard to suggest things as I don't know whether you'll be all at your end

I'd struggle to find a boys name again, I love Ds name but that was the only one. I do love Jack but it's sooo overused now. I can't even think of a girls name I like off the top of my head but if I sat down and really thought about it I think I'd come up with a few.

D hasn't had a nap yet, I'm at my mums waiting for a table to be delivered so not sure where to put him down for one. I made a bed out of cushions on the floor once so might have to do that again.

Yea, we still like Benaiah (although I struggle to spell it ) it's just that he'd be another Ben. My younger brother who died was Patrick John Benaiah so I'd still love to use the name.
I like your DS2's name (S's middle name) but then it's almost my maiden name so again I'm not impartial!
I have a cousin Tobias and Barney there's a really bad tv presenter called Barney! If we did go for Ben we'd have to think of a middle name to go with it (oh the struggles!)

trudy how are you getting on with naming?

Well fwiw I don't know any young Bens!

Oh and I do like ds2's name, I just don't love it. But as I was absolutely convinced ds2 would be a girl, and had picked a girl's name I love, I didn't think it would matter! It might not matter for you yet anyway, what date is your scan?

I only know one young Ben, I know loads of children with the same name as J! The trouble for us was that we seemed to have drastically different taste in names and the only ones we could agree on were really boring common ones. We had an unusualish girl's name agreed - maybe next time! We had a shortlist of about five boys' names and decided when J was born which one he looked like.

28th, and yea, it might not matter that we don't have a boy's name. DH would be disappointed if it were a girl though :)
We know 4 baby Benjamins, well 3 actually, my nephew is just Ben but he's 3 months younger than S so they'd be pretty close in age. Hey ho, you can't own names can you?!

I really need a sleep but have got 4 phone calls to make re our house and letting the thing, not that S is asleep anyway so even if I had nothing to do I don't think I could get away with a nap :( poor, poor me

Well babyboy fell asleep on my knee at I don't know what time but would guess 11.15/11.20ish so I carried him to bed and he's still there

I'm freezing but don't want to put the heating on cos I want to go out once he's up and eaten so it would be a waste

Forgot to say thanks for your offer last night chul, I'll let you know about the fabrics thanks very much :)

That's a nice long sleep! D slept for an hour but woke up in the middle for about 15 mins so not really an hour. I'm still at my mums waiting for this bloody delivery, I suppose I'd only be at home although id be warmer

In starbucks < shudder > as last 2 places were shut/out of soya milk so justa quickie for now.

We struggled with agreeing on names 2nd time round too. We were cool for boys names again but had vastly different taste for girls. In the end I got my own way so chose both of their names. Dh just chose A's middle name which I'm not mad keen on but it's his grandma's name so that's nice.

I've prolly got such different taste to you chul that this won't help at all but might give you a laugh :D. We'd agreed on caspar for a ds2 but I also love gabriel/gabe but dh didn't.

Thanks for the superhero link chu they are ace, just the sort of level im on!! I really like the font site link on there, its so cool. The other stuff on there is also nice, i dont think im going to theme it his room too strongly, he really wont appreciate it right now but i like the idea of a picture wall, i have been meaning to do a photo montage in a clip frame but i like a picture wall better. I might ask family to frame a photo of themselves for it, that way i would get all different frames.
cake sounds like a horrible experience that you have managed to turn into a positive thing for your life, im in awe of ur strength. My Mom also sufferes from agrophobia and clostrophobia and it has ruled her life for as long as i have been around, i also do not want to be like her in that way.
mylife will W sleep again after that nice long kip? what with a chunk out of ur shin and throwing urself down the stairs you really are not being good to urself, hope its not too hurty!
chu i ws going to mention names, trudy have u chosen anything yet? We are stumped, if it was a girl it would have been Robyn Martha. I quite like Flynn, or Finlay, i really like Gabriel but dh wont hear of it, i think Gabe is a lovely boys/mans name. DH is still into Edgar(!) but i think the only one we both semi agree on is Franklyn, what do u guys think, i dont mind honest opinions!

I came home half hour early from work yesterday cos i felt poorly, i thought i just needed a loo session, sorry tmi! But as soon as i got home i was violently sick 3 times! it was worse than awfull, then the cm phoned to sad D had just been sick again! DH was supposed to be working late, so i had to pull myself together and go get D, but before i left i summoned dh home from work, i felt vile. D was ok but not himself and my worst nightmare came true, me being sick into a bowl in the sink and D crying up my leg! it wasnt good. DH came home shortly after thank god and i went to bed. I continued to vom and make regular visits to the loo and the cramps were horrendous, at one point i wondered if i was contracting!! DH has stayed home today and i have been sleeping most of it, u could say i called in sick mylife. I can hear D whinging downstairs as i type, i should go down and help really, hes clearly not himself and im starving!
I have never been so poorly in my life, thank god it seems to have passed, im a bit about D being sick at the cm, i recon she fed him stuff that he could have done without or maybe just too much, i only sent mash and beans and rits crackers and a pear. He hasnt been sick since sat pm so im sure the virus is out of his system, just a delicate tummy i recon, hes been on toast and apple sauce and milk today.
Sorry for the mamouth post, what you all having for tea, i really am hungry now!!

I love Gabriel too. Twas on the shortlist for ds2's middle name but I didn't think it flowed right. I might be wrong but I can't see chul going for caspar. I quite like it on someone else's child though

What is her middle name cake?

He woke up 10 minute after that last post and has been in a great mood all afternoon! Even though I had to go to the retail park - new phone, long story - which he normally hates. ds1 thought it was hilarious to play hide and seek in Hobbeycraft I didn't find it so funny. He did get complimented on his manners again today though, makes me very proud :) Did I menton he was mistaken for a girl again yesterday. Soooo annoying.

I reorganised my recipe file today and have gained lots of inspiration for next week's meal plan. Tis mushroom stroganoff tonight, with rice and garlic bread.

Off to chop a million mushrooms

Ha! I cross posted with you and still managed to answer your question about tea! Sorry you've been poorly, hope you're 100% again soon

He should be ok because although he had two and a half hours he woke at 1:50pm so it wasn't late in the day. If he'd slept past two I'd have woken him I think.

They're currently running about the house, holding hands and laughing hysterically. This is the routine every night and has been for some time. Another positive thing for you and Trudy to look forward to when people are worrying you with 'small gap' stories :)

That sounds so sweet, i think u need to get pics of that!! Ur tea sounds ace!
I think its done dh the world of good looking after D today but ironically dh was on 'duty last' night for the first time ever and D slept through......well he had a little wake up at 11pm when dh gave him some milk as he hadnt had his evening milk but how dare he sleep through for dh, most inconsiderate!!!!!