December 2011: Smiles and giggles and coffee and truffles.....

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Voila, a new positive thinking thread for us!

Onward and upward, ladies. Do come on and post if you're a lurker or want to join our merry band, all welcome!!

X posted lmf. hugs to you -and as always much admiration! (good for you that you have a good friend to remember these silly days for you!)
You've nothing to lose by asking for some help. Hope things get better. xxx

Oh, YBR, that must have been grim for you. You can understand why the Church did it, with the best of intentions, but it must have been heartache. I don't know if it's any less painful now with the passage of time, but I hope so.

I hope your DH's gm improves air, but that is worrying.

I'd go for the referral LMF, you've nothing to lose. It may well be just a phase, or it may be something that can be worked on, so it sounds like a good idea. I hope the takeaway tasted even better for being illicit . I know it sounds really sad, but I'm a great believer in investing money in furniture- you get daily use out of it, and it goes on for years (she says sitting on a 1930s sofa that's been owned by most of DP's family), so a good use of money!

Have found the first episode of the documentary about England's Queens, so DP and I are settling down to that.
Will see you all in the new week- hope you've got more exciting plans than me (smear test, ugh...)

Whats the documentary northern? Sounds like the sort we'd be interested in.

Glass of Chablis and a Terry Pratchett later and I feel much happier! It helps that DD2 and Miri are fast asleep. DP is doing the late evening shift with DD1 this evening (we take it in turns) so I am upstairs with iPad, wine and knitting.

lmf While I hope it is just a phase and it vanishes soon, there is a lot of comfort in a diagnosis if it comes to that. With the constant need for movement, we have fiddle toys stashed around the place which help DD1 with sitting still when we need her to, which might help.

NC it is brilliant! We are really enjoying it.

air thinking of you, it is so tough to support a partner through.

Another glass of wine and some Red Dwarf now I think!

Can phases last two years?:(

Truly away to bed now, almost finished feeding and horizontal is speaking to me:)

Is it two-faced to have wished mopsy a speedy recovery from the hangover, but the opposite to hawthers's tormentors?

Sorry some of us didn't have the best Mothering Sunday. We started with overnight feed-fest and morning tantrum time, so not the most idealised experience, either, but real, authentic motherhood nevertheless, innit?! And DH found a v appropriate card, which proclaimed itself to be from the most loving, thoughtful, etc. child... "just kidding: it's from me!" and that calmed me down a bit, as it reminded me that we have the children we have, not the ones we want (after all, poor DS doesn't have the mother he probably wants - and DD's a bit too young to discriminate). (tho' Freya is being pretty harsh there, MissRee ... )

LMF, I gave up my Lenten fast over a week ago, as I couldn't face another month of low blood sugar without the pick-me-ups of coffee and chocolate. Presumably you are going back on the fast, so you've done better than me!

msb, glad the fair went well.What sort of project were you planning for the competition next year? Do you prefer making projects, or observation type projects?

Sorry you had to stay away from church, ybr.

AirofHope, is she close enough for you to visit, with Hope? That could either cheer and reinforce her will, or soothe her and bring you all peace about her end (if she is so determined to go)?

NorthernChinchilla, is that the she-wolves documentary? My mother said it was v good! I keep meaning to download it from the iplayer before it's too late.

ok, feed finished, nice noises coming from DD's little pursed mouth... off she goes! and so do I

Sweet dreams, all

(((hug))) for air, sorry to hear that about DH's grandma.
When I was a teenager I worked in a cottage hospital as a healthcare assistant weekends and holidays, and sometimes very elderly people do just decide that they are ready to call it a day, sometimes when they are ill and just exhausted, and sometimes just through a sense that it's time for them. There is the important question of are-they-depressed and how-old-is-it-okay-to-feel-this, but often they are not depressed, but very tired, and feel the weight of so many friends/family being gone too... I hope that whatever happens she is cared for well and comfortably.

seven, totally not offended, and hope I didn't offend anyone either. I've nothing against mothers day, that's just what we decided was relevant for our family. But I quite agree that communication in these situations is important.

Air, sorry to hear about your husband's grandma.

I'm really sorry to hear about DH's granny.

The last two nights have been exceptionally shit and tonight is worse - near continuous feeding, refusing to settle unless snuggled up full-length into my side, worrying the breast like a puppy with a bone so I will have to get out the lansinoh for the first time since Dec. (I know there is plenty of milk too because he keeps coming off the breast and leaking milk from the corners of his mouth to make a lovely wet patch right where we are supposedly sleeping). Tonight he has surpassed himself by properly vomiting into my hair, his own hair and all over his face and in his eyes (how??) and then of course wanting to feed all over again...

Does anyone else find that after having been awake feeding in the early watches of the night, your stomach starts to cramp? It's not hunger I don't think...I used to feel it when establishing BFing but just chalked it up to afterpains. Fucking annoying as now Pirran is finally off I can't sleep. Pirran and I are going to a funeral tomorrow too (of our lovely old neighbour) so I could really have used the sleep. Aargh...

Are the stomach cramps at all like the ones which come with jet lag, or with stress, tyel? I get those if I'm up (and up, and up...). If so, could eating help?

Sorry Pirran is so very unsettled.

Yes! Just like jet lag!! Phew - that's alright then, after all my health worries the last few months I think some of DH's hypochondriac tendencies were rubbing off.

You up feeding?

Dunno whether it is feeding or pacifying! Hope you settle your stomach and Pirran!
(zeugma alert! )

Aw, no fun tyel -though I hope you're finally asleep by now - the figrstive tract is clearly a complicated beast fo our LOs to master.. I sympathise with he sore nipples, DS has been very chewy the last few days, must be something in the water. There's a certain point inthe rvening especially where you think "aargh, just give it a rest and sleep so my poor boobs have a chance to revover..." it's when they headbutt for more milk and you find yourself not thinking which side has more milk, but which side hurts the least....

Still, almost morning.

Et tu, Alberte? Babies, give your mummies a rest!

Ooh and a protozeugma at that plu

aethel funny to think of digestion being a skill to be mastered. He's certainly got reverse peristalsis down pat!

Now the birds are howling to the dawn outside. And I am still wide awake but too tired to sleep. I think jet lag really is the best description - good thing we are flying to the states on Friday, as I am already operating 5 hours behind GMT!

Blergh how is morning already..

Quick question DS2 as a hacking cough - do I just wait for it to go in its own or at what point do I head to the drs with him?

Feel like I live in the drs at the moment

Morning all, and another rough night here. We first woke at 1am as he was all wet, but we've now been struggling since 3 with a blocked/snotty nose. He came into bed with me at 4 as his breathing was troubling us both. He screamed the street down, not understanding why he can't breathe and feed, or because I've squirted saline up his nose. We eventually had the release 30 mins ago, and just now again. Streams of snot. Poor thing. And then he screams when I clean him up and pull the snot out. I tried to explain that it was a good tickle... When I laughed and smiled, he got the joke and tried to smile too.
I think he's finally falling asleep now. I am wide awake. Arrrgh!
I don't envy your vomit-fest tyel, or the hacking cough hawthers. But I too am suffering the evening chewed nipples.
Babies - give it a rest!!

Oh and I felt sorry for DH, he had to leave at 6, he's orf to Bristol for 2days and nights working. Hope he drives carefully and arrives safe after so little sleep.

Morning Ladies

Air Sorry to hear about your DH grandmother.

LMF Ask for a referral. It won't do any harm. It may actually help.

I had a crappy nights sleep and Sky has decided for the past 2 nights waking at 1am & 5am would be fun

Back to school for Darcie today so aim of today:

Get everyone ready for school run
Baby group
Hoovering
Polishing
Ironing
drying the washing
flashing the kitchen & bathroom
Tidying everywhere.

Rest.

oi with you on the blocked nose but we've run out of the magic saline drops.

Anyone seen hlc recently? When was the goa trip? hope she is ok.

LMF the 40 days of lent don't include the Sundays, so that's fine, don't feel guilty!

Agh, bugger, got to get up. The binmen will be here soon. The drive is so narrow I have to put my car on the street to get the bins out. Meh.

Bathroom & Kitchen been flashed
Hoovering & polishing done downstairs
We are all breakfasted and almost all of us are dressed.

Almost done for the day

Everywhere is tidy
Washing out to dry
just the bedding to iron and I'm done

DD1 didn't go to sleep until midnight and woke up at 6am. Miri was up once during that time and I couldnt get back to sleep! Does anyone else get weepy when they are tired?

Plan for the day...

Knit
Coffee
Chocolate
Painting

plu The f1 in schools gets you to set up a simplified version of a team, including marketing, designing a car and making a model which gets sent off for testing! DD1 and her best friend both quite like motor racing so we only need to recruit 2 more primary age children.