fab feb 2011 ladies getting back in shape and sleeping till ten-yeah right!

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Hi all as im up first most mornings i thought id start a new thread before i bury pil under the patio

blizy fab photos...I too had a wee tear in my when I saw Zoe bear. Your dh looks so cute when he's liiking up to the ceiling, I'm guessing at the stage where you're saying your vows Got me all excited for my sister in law's wedding early July...love a good wedding!

Trying to work from home today but N is being v clingy & wont give me a miutes peace!

Borg - they've just started next month's book club, I think there's still free books going. Look over to the right, under Mumsnet Latest. I loved Middlesex and thought The Marriage Plot was interesting - but for different reasons. I can send you the book if you want? Current visitor is a uni friend, previous nightmare visitors were DH's friends from pre-uni days. Next visitor is my work colleague from a previous job who is travelling for work. Poor L is getting chucked out of his bedroom for them.

Granny - working from home WITH N? Are you mental?!

american think I might be ..he's gone down for a nap now, so can get on with a few bits & peices now.

ledkr so sad about your dils Aunt. Huge well done to your dh!

Bloody mindee and parent didn't turn up, I got a text at 1.30pm (was suppposed to be here at 11am) telling ,me didn't need my services any more. I am so angry, I'm sure she knew this before 1.30!

Sorry blizy, that is just so rude.

S is going through a crayon eating phase which unfortunately is making his bum red raw. Silly date!

expat - dh says it was a company called Simpsons who charged 3138 pounds (don't have the symbol) for a full 20ft container. Not sure if that included delivery at the other end, but I assume so. That was 4 years ago, but our ship entered at Oakland and presumably yours would be East coast. There is quite a lot of restriction on what you can bring through US customs and everything that has been in contact with soil has to be cleaned, e.g. garden furniture. We had to pay an extra $600 for customs but that depends on whether they decide to scan it etc. HTH. PM me if you need any more details.

Hope Ponyo's day has gone well.

blizy - on your behalf, how incredibly rude! I hope she has an impeachable excuse and not just poor manners.

tad - that helps, thank you. I was trying to get an idea of how much a full container would cost (seems to be faster with an entire container too) and considering whether it's less expensive to fill a container rather than replace all our furniture once we move. It's going to be expensive either way. [sigh] Poor S's little bum!

blizy Sounds like they'd have been a nightmare.You should send them a bill. Thanks for the link to pics,it looks like a fab day and bigger than the royal wedding.I also welled up at Zoe in her dress and a voice in my head said "there is someone missing"

ponyo Hope its gone ok and you are coping xx

reastie How is Alice doing now?

deb and granny I....yes I did ct5k today.I did it at the gym and it was fine. Music is crap though.I was encouraged by the fact that i found the minute very easy and ive heard others say they didnt. I am aching a bit now though.
I am hoping to do a 5k for the smile train,who help to repair cleft palates in the third world.

I am seriously wondering if Dills is normal. Today i have been literally been running around after her,she seems to go from one thing to another at breakneck speed and never stops.Dh is working all weekend and E has loads of dance practice so i think its not going to be very relaxing. I may need some to help me whilst i watch the voice tomorrow.
I am soooooo excited about Homeland on Sunday.

Just waving before work [bleurgh], yes I know the time Am working today and tonight [double bleurgh]

blizy photos are fab, hair gorgeous by the way and yes very very rude of almost mindees parents

WeAreBorg big hug, I have a friend whose daughter was diagnosed with a hole in the heart a few years ago at about 15 months, after a GP check She's 4 now and well on the mend, it was very ropey for a while and it seemed that it was bad news after bad news for her parents but Meabh is doing really well now and getting ready to start primary school in September! It was a very long hard slog but starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

ledkr awful news about dils aunt. As you know my aunt died at 44 with 3 young children including the baby - horrible, horrible disease, will be thinking about her. Must be hard for you too xxx Well done your dh, thats brilliant news.

Wiggles - boo to the double shift!
Ponyo- how are you my lovely?

Thanks for the lovely comments about my wedding pics.

Dh is home this afternoon, yay! I'm heading into town today for a spot of shopping and to collect a buggy I won on eBay. A quinny zapp for £25= result!

Have a good weekend all.

Hello ladies I am here and lurking, got through yesterday, the service was v fitting and we had some drinks at the pub after then dinner in a different place with the family - grandparents, uncles etc. pil decided to gate crash that idiots.

Anyway will update properly later but thanks for thinking of me oh A started walking yesterday very lovely, she went to bed at 9.30 but still awake at 6.30 - annoying!

Back later on to reply to everyone x x

Aw ponyo your dad gave her legs Your pils are such twats,i can so imagine mine doing that,sticking their noses in,id be fuming.

wiggs Yes ti has got my mind working overtime.She had breast cancer 10 yrs ago and it maybe thats is reccurred.Mine was longer ago but i have found myself wondering about my girls if mine returned.

Well i must take the record for the earliest wake up yet. D was up at 4.30 I am truly knackered.Ella had to be at dancing at 9 so i left d with dh and went off to have coffee alone and get my eyebrows threaded.

I am going to watch the footy today with a glass of vino to numb the pain if liverpool loose. Ella is off to a party by Limo dressed as Hannah Montana dh is on a late so its bed and the voice for me early as soon as D in bed.

I am aching from my run btw.

Hi girls. Just a quick one whilst my aching body recovers from the Shred, its been a looong time since Jillian and I hung out!
ponyo glad yesterday went well. Nice of your PILs to muscle in, tossers.
Well done to miss A for walking xxxx
ledkr euww to early wake up thats obscene! Enjoy the footy, DP is going so can only imagine the state he'll be in later. They will have started drinking on the bus down by eleven o clock!
blizy that buggy is indeed a bargain, well done you! Agree that wedding pics are lush x
Hi to granny tad and expat x
wiggles I can't remember if you have claimed Ryan Gosling for your man-harem yet? If not I want him. Watched Drive last night and he is divine, although the film was slightly horrific in terms of violence :( am a feeble soul. Oh, also, there is a lovely interview with Michael Fassbender in this month's Elle, what a beautiful man.....swoons.....!
right, off to shower and tidy up before the older two return from their dad's... the Voice, wine and paninis await this evening :)

Morning, hope everyone had good Saturday nights.

Ledkr hope you weren't up at such a ridic hour this morning, you'd think at this age they'd be sleeping well don't you?! Aw at my dad giving A his legs, I like that

Wiggles hope your spilt shift was ok, must be so tiring.

Mizk How's your dp after the footy then?!

Blizy agree your wedding photos are beauts. Especially you!

Tadj eew at crayon eating, A does that too but for some reason it doesn't affect her poo weird.

Borg gollum!! Aah bless little N can understand you feeling a bit guilty sbout N being healthy but try not to, how are your friends doing?

Ok I'm going to tell you about pil and how they annoyed me, because I know you don't mind me ranting on here
I told dp to tell them pre funeral that they were v welcome to come BUT they might not see much of us because straight after the service we'd be off to the crem and obviously we'd be upset. They said that was fine and they only wanted to come to pay their respects (it's a big drive for them). So they turn up just as me and sis are about to walk in behind coffin, we're freaked out but mil still makes a big show of patting us on the arm so we know she's there my sis has never met her so didn't know who she was.
Then straight after the service we're stood outside church before heading off to crem, mil treated it like a feckin social event, introducing herself to my sis, my poor grandad who has dementia, and other family. AIBU that it was really inappropriate ?! She was laughing away saying how nice it was to finally meet everyone The bloody funeral car was still there, and she was telling me how they had borrowed a disabled pass to park laughing away, I had to walk off from her but she still followed me to tell me.
Mil likes to be involved and is v nosy, she prob loved the fact that she had met lots of my family despite the circumstances.
Then when we at the pub after dp went out for a cig and they were walking past (they'd stayed for a wander round I think) so of course came in and mil introduced herself to ow. Then ended up coming for food with us.

Plus (and I prob ABU here) but she kept saying she knew how I feel because her grandad died suddenly. It's not the same! I don't think you should ever say you know how someone feels even if you've been through the same thing - although I know it's usually well meaning.

Anyway sorry for big rant and well done whoever made it to the end

I've been writing this since 7 so have prob x posted lots... Oh bargain of the week - we got A her first shoes from Clarkes yesterday, £6!!

ponyo £6 are you sure you dont mean 26??

D was up at 6! I had to get up cos dh is on a late shift till 12mn.

Your fecking pil sound like my twats.That is exactly what they would have done apart from the laughing (not to be respectfull but because they are miserys) I dont know how you kept quiet,as if you needed that. They would have been more use having A for you.
I always get annoyed at people who flock to funerals even though they arent even bothered by the death. My cousin recently banned most of the family form his Mums funeral as they hadnt bothered with her for years,i though fair play to him.

Off to gym later

What do you all do when up early?I find myself watching tv or mn,it seems too early to start doing stuff,but D gets on my nerves too,pulling al the wetwipes out or rocking the tv

£6 ledkr They're nice shoes too they're not ugly.

Glad you think pil are twats, I feel like I can't even describe quite how annoying they are no matter how much I rant.

I watch tv, mn and try and wash up etc unless A is being too clingy/whiny. My friend has a son who will sometimes wake early but it'd usually 8 she said he woke at 6 the other day and she panicked because it would be such s long morning with him, she wasn't sure what they'd do, then he went back to sleep til 8 anyway

Oh and pil said they would come visit soon, think I'll tell dp to tell them not to for a while as I can't be arsed with them. That's ok isn't it?

ponyo Defo ok.I have to have massive breaks between pil visits or id go crazy. Fil rang all weasley the other day but dh not here so he had a brief chat with Ella.
I reckon he was ringing to try and book a weekend in the cotswolds free b and b a visit to us fro the bh but wanted to ask dh. They had better not rock up tomorrow or im off out with both the girls.

I went for lunch at dil and we drank too much wine so i am home rocking dils in pram to hopefully nap.

Did run 2 of c25k today.

Just quickly popping on as house is a tip and have to clean clean clean. Wanted to say ponyo was thinking of you friday. Glad you got through it all but massive to your mil pil - I would be annoyed too - does your dh realise this was odd and insensitive?

blizy massive for the people who didn't turn up - sounds like you're better off not working with them. Did you spend much time on paperwork beforehand? Btw love the wedding piccies but keep meaning to ask you - why did you wait so long for them? We waited 2 weeks for ours and I was tapping my feet with impatience after that long!

ledkr go you with the c25k - I've just ordered the shred. Finally succumbed to peer pressure on here . I've been trying to do exercise DVDs etc but they are all too long and Alice wakes up from her nap before I can do them so thinking the shred is my only option until I get the delight of her going to nursery/school and I get some time to go to the gym.

Very dull here this week end - went to John Lewis tis morning to get I can't remember what but it was very important at the time and spied the nicest curtain material ever that I am now desperate to have for our sitting room. It was £165 per metre....so I'm thinking I'll have to win the lottery first

Forgot to say NO ONE MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT HOMELAND PLEASE AS I WON'T WATCH IT UNTIL TOMORROW Thanks

ponyo your pils sound really insensitive, well done for Rising Above. YANBU to not see them for a while imo. Well done for getting through it all, hope you're holding up ok :)

ledkr well done on the c25k, I've been lazy and haven't run for ages 4.30am is just insane, you poor thing. I suppose if you're up since then it is perfectly reasonable to start on the wine at about 10am though

reastie £165 a metre??!! Blimey!! Good luck with the Shred...

blizy bargainous pushchair

Had a nice weekend without DH , visited a friend and saw her sister who is offically a WAG, looks like one too, I felt like Frump Central. She's seeing Sean Wright Phillips who apparently plays for England.

What size clothes are your LOs in now? I've just got the 12-18mo stuff down from the loft for Beanie but tbh the 9-12 clothes mostly still fit fine. Was funny though, Imogen decided she had to try the clothes on herself, and spent the whole afternoon wearing a 12-18mo babygrow (bear in mind she is a tall 3yo), she looked hilarious!

ponyo Pils deffo out of order and also a bit weird re having something to eat with you when they weren't technically asked . Steer clear for as long as you want

MizK am not sure about Ryan Gosling, I mean I love his films, always have done (I especially like Lars and the real girl) but not sure he'd be on my list. I work with someone who looks like him and I think I always find it a bit disconcerting Although I love Drive and I was a bit oh my word he's a sexy bit of work in the scene where he kissed her in the lift. Have you seen Crazy Stupid Love?

Had a busy weekend - work and my sisters baby was christened today, on fairy godmother duties - had a lovely day. Emma was the only baby being christened today so it was really relaxed, I think at Annas there were about 5 - lets not forget the women sitting opposite us with their vajazzles on show - remember? I think my poor Dad was having flashbacks

Although Anna pointed at the priest ( who she's met a few times) and shouted "Daddy" , he at least had the wit to make a really funny joke about it. I think the fact that my sister and I were running around all week going on "Fadder" as in Father Ted had confused her slightly

Right off to watch the show that must not be named Reastie. Double episode tonight!

waves at debka glad you and girls had a lovely weekend, even I know who Sean Wright Phillips is Anna is in 12-18 months but she needs a longer leg trouser, so she can wear some 18-24 months dresses if they don't gape at the sleeves etc or hang off her at the neck .

Sean Wright Phillips, son of Ian Wright Wright Wright... So cute with the clothes. S is pretty much out of the 12-18 months babygros, though the trousers still seem a bit long for him.

Ponyo, well done for getting through all of that. As for your PILs - wtf? They would win awards for that kind of insensitivity.

Good grief, reastie 165 a metre! Would they be so nice you'd then have to redo the rest of the room!

Blimey ledkr 6am? I would be on my feet by now. Well done on the running!

That is definitely a bargain blizy!

Dropped dh off at the airport yesterday. That's him gone for 2 weeks. I might not get on much in the next couple of weeks as I might be totally knackered! Or it may go the other way and I am glued to MN as I need the adult conversation!

Waves to everyone else, especially MizK who I believe has imbibed a couple tonight!

Sorry, wiggs, x-posted. Sounds like a lovely weekend and christening! at the Daddy joke!

tad definitely visit more when dh is away

Oh have posted up a new photo of Anna - she looks really funny in it but it captures her shall we say spirit?