November 07 - Now they are FOUR they want so much more!!

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New thread ladies to celebrate our DCs turning 4!! (!!!) :o

oh wow Loopy, my friend will be so - her DD's show ended up costing her the best part of £100! Sorry to hear you are having a wobbly week, we are always here for tea and sympathy which feels a bit inadequate but nontheless...What is the support like in your area in terms telephone support etc. for wobbly moments? xx

Just checking in. Tired, overworked, annoyed by house-selling stuff and William has decided it's time to go nappyless at nights.

Will catch up properly soon x

Hugs Loopy x

Just a quick hello. I haven't been on for ages but done lots of lurking and keeping up. We're dead busy at the mo and I'm tired out as I'm up at night being very hot and sweaty - stop your sniggering , not in that way. That said, the menopause has a lot going for it. Not having PMT is amazing.

Lots of love and cake to all ( extra big slice for you Loopy) x

Just checking in.

Big slabs of cake to you Loopy and nice moderate slabs to the rest of you (and a stick of celery for anyone on a diet). :o

Loopy - As far as i remember (and it's been a very long time!) i think you just email the lady at Ocah and ask her for a slot. She then gives you a timeslot. Something like that anyway. As i said, it's been a while (about 2 years!). If that's not right, just ask someone on the NM board and they will deffo know for sure!

Hey Loopy how is it going today? Thinking of you.

Nothing much to report here. Usual life/work crap! Roll on Easter hols.

Bookmarking :)

Hi all, didn't realise I'd not been here for a fortnight! learly I've been busier than I realised.

Still waiting to sell our house, but the house we've put an offer in on hasn't has any other offers yet. It will be our forever house until the kids leave home maybe! We certainly want to be there for some time. Still, we are getting viewings on our place, so it's nice living in a relatively tidy house!

Loopy - glad you're hanging on in there. Will drop you a pm over the weekend x
Cannot wait for the holidays, this has easliy been the most miserable term of my teaching career and I can't wait not to be there for a couple of weeks. We're having a few days in brighton next week which will be fab. Keep your fingers crossed or more sunny weather!

Loopy- sounds grim for you all. Wish I could say something to make it better , as I can't I will instead send you lots of love x

Things have calmed down here. After feeling grim for a while I'm now on HRT and do much better. The boys are doing well and we are planning a chilled out Easter at home . Dh has a week off which is ace as all has been very busy.

CMIng is going well. It's looking like I've filled all my spaces for Sept which I'm very pleased about.

We had a lovely day with Greedy and Adam. Tom is now begging for a table football after playing it there.

Hope all ok with you lot x

Oh Loopy, you're really going through it aren't you? Lots of love coming your way. I'm most impressed with your purchase of nine pairs of shoes in one trip.

LOM - brilliant that the CM is going so well for you. Good to hear that the HRT is helping too.

We've just had a lovely couple of days in Brighton and helped boost the Danish economy by spending lots of money in the Lego store - we ended up going twice. We took my mum so she had a bit of a getaway too. DH has the week off and it's nice to just 'be' right now. Had a viewing yesterday - the estate agent gave us 10 minutes notice - it's a good job the place was tidy!

Hi everyone, hope your have all had a good Easter? We have had a lovely, pottering type of holiday with a visit from LOM and the boys and various trips out and about.

LOM - went to Harewood House on student Wed this week with a friend, the adventure playground is awesome! Also did Tropical World and Roundhay, the boys all loved it?

Loopy - think if you are serious about avoiding detection then a more dramatic name change is in order! But I like it. I am resigned to the fact that people who know me would be able to work out who I am from this thread but they would have to be a bit stalkerish to do that so whatever! But I don't think I am such a prolific poster as you? Do you go on a lot? I go through phases.

Jetgirl I can't wait for Adam to properly get into Lego, he likes Lego star wars at the moment so maybe the time is coming!

Off to drink wine and watch modern family - hols over boo hoo!

Oh Loopy i am so about you still being able to babywear! I wore DD in the Bamberoo for the last time a couple of months ago. Although she's only 4, she's quite dense in weight and seems to weigh a lot more than other kids her age, so it was no mean feat carrying her around for a good hour!! Although i could have carried her for longer, the only thing that made me want to put her down was the fact that i was out of breath and sweaty!!

I was so desperate for another DC at one point but then figured out that having another DC purely for the purpose of being able to babywear is probably not a good enough reason to procreate again! :o

Loopy you are of course very welcome to have the Bamberoo on a payment plan. It's still here waiting for if/when you want it. Would like first refusal on buying it back when you have finished with it in a few years please. :) Email me on ravegirl at blueyonder dot co dot uk and we can chat :)

Had a lovely easter, thanx Greedy. I went into work on Good Friday tho. It's a great earner tho. I get paid double time all day, plus get paid for an hour's travel each way, plus i get a day off in lieu, plus i get to claim back my travel expenses to and from the office as i normally only work 2 days which doesn't warrant a season ticket. I also get to claim a £10 lunch allowance! I'm quids in, so it seems!! Hooray!!

Sorry i haven't been around on here much lately. Seems like my laptop drains my life away and i have been reluctant to come on as i know i would just while away a few hours doing nothing on here and consequently ignoring DP on the other end of the sofa!

DD has started saying to DP that she doesn't like being at home with me at the moment because i keep telling her off. We made a deal that if she stopped being naughty, i would stop telling her off!! All i can say is thank goodness for school on Monday!! Am totally dreading summer holidays - 6 weeks of her getting boredom naughtiness, despite me trying to do things with her! She seems to be one of these kids that absolutely thrives on routine and discipline - hence why she LOVES pre-school. I only hope she loves infants when she starts in September!

LOM - Good luck with the childminding in September! We have had to find another childminder as our current one is starting a breakfast club and after school club at DD's infant school in september so wont be minding from home any more. Typical - it's always the good ones that you lose!! We have found another minder who was recommended by the current one but she has two little (friendly!) dogs. DD is very nervous around dogs so i just hope that it works out and she gets used to them otherwise we will be back to square one again. Nightmare!

Ah crap, i've waffled on waaaay too much as usual lol. Sorry!! Will go now so as not to send you all asleep! :o

Loving the new name, though I know I will still end up calling you Loopy! Every now and then I think about a name change, but I've had this one since I joined and can't imagine being anything else! How are you doing?

Greedy - despite its expense, I think lego is well worth it. The kids still play with our old stuff when we go up to mum and dad's (and I play with it too!)

RG - I know what you mean about not being on here so often. I tend to facebook on my phone quite a bit (and enviously notice you burning lots of calories and generally being very healthy while I sit around eating chocolates!) but don't go on here. I'm sure DD will love the routine of infants school. William is very much a go with the flow type, and I think he will struggle to begin with, but he's used to a routine of sorts at nursery so with any luck the transition will be quite straightforward!

LOM - how's things?

It's been a bit eventful the last few days. Dad's been poorly (not just the brain injury) and on Sunday needed a blood transfusion so the staff from his secure hopsital took him to the local hospital in Portsmouth for that. they did a full handover, explained he is a vulnerable adult, that he is not be left, is easily confused, etc and.....when no-one was looking, before he was hooked up to the IV, he left the hospital, hailed a taxi and went to Winchester My mum was very surprised to open the door to find my dad there asking for £42 for a taxi! The hospital hadn't even noticed he had gone missing until Mum pphoned the ward to tell them! he must have been gone at least an hour. Needless to say, we are all about this, as are the staff from Dad's secure hospital and mum has written to the chief exec to complain. He has to have blood transfusions quite regularly, and we just can't trust the hospital will care for him properly.

In addition to this drama, DH abseiled down the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth to raise money for charity. Between him and 2 friends they raised over £2,000 for the Hampshire Autistic Society. It was very cool watching him and I'm quite tempted to have a go myself - there's an opportunity in August so I am considering it!

There was a rumour flying around the school gates today that we find out tomorrow which schools we've got next year. We were told it was the 4th May, so it's a bit of a surprise. I'm going to check the website and see if it's true.

I hope this weather clears up soon, the school run was not fun today and it's DH's birthday this weekend so it would be nice to get out!