Sept 05 - onwards and upwards!!!

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Thought this title was appropriate given that (hopefully) things will be looking up for everyone!

hello all - difficult to post much as ds4 wriggles so much & has to chew the mouse mat!!

love to all xxx

with everyone on the mess front. Will I ever see the floor again?

Wabbit know what you mean by the 6 month thing I think it's partly that all those months ago you thought oh well by the time we get to 6 months they'll be sleeping through, have an established routine and life will be back to normal and here it's still a bit frantic and living just day to day a bit.

Had a good sleep although had to pop next door and hold G'd hand a few times she is sooooo snotty an d sad but still smiley at times.

She's six months old today where has it all gone!

Sending sleep and get well vibes to all who need it.

Naturally Alice woke up at 11pm and 3am and 6:30am.

I am resigned to never sleeping longer than 3.5 hours ever again .

Hello!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is finding every day stuff a challenge!

I'm filled with guilt - guilt the house is untidy, guilty not to be with ds and dd as much as I should, guilty dh bearly gets any of my time - I hardly see my friends, my bank accounts a mess and now I'm guilty I'm not doing enough to support my Slimming World members!

But I'm happy - life would be dull otherwise!!

Sending sleeping vibes xxxxxxxxxx

I think we should call our new thread the 'invasion of the guilt monsters'

We all seem to be feeling the pinch - I'm full of cold now and more than a little merry as a friend came over with a bottle of wine to announce the demise of her (seemingly) blissful relationship... What is it with the men in their 40's. I thought mid-life crises were a myth!!! (ugh urrrrgh... Wrong!)
SR - guilty about mess? did you make it all??? did you? did you?

Anyway - I think i'd be lonley without the noisy ironing pile and the dulcet tones of... 'Iron me beeeyatch!'

Here's to everyone feeling better and less guilt ridden in the very near future - when you think of it, we've absolutely nothing to be guilty about... just look how well we're all doing!

Now I'm just sounding daft and group huggy... forgive me - the effects of meltus, neurofen, wine and lots of man slating!!!

Who's going to start the new thread?

I'll leave it to one of you morning bods xxx

Nighty night x

So everyone is agreeing that at the six month phase the sh*t really starts to hit the fan?

I'm sorry that everyone else is having a difficult time but slightly relieved to learn that I am not cracking up.

The worst thing is how it affects me and DH. Just lately we seem more like flat-mates, co-exisiting in the same space but not having time to really be together. I'm lucky, it's easter holidays from today and hopefully I'll get caught up on things AND get to spend some better time with DH. But I have to start studying again and that is really going to throw me into the deep end.

Can't think of a name for our new thread!!

here just tired out with behaviour of dd3 - she just drives me mad. Try to be calm but nothing works.

ds4 had bronchitus last week & now is still coughing at night. I put some vick on his top today to see if this will help.

love to all xxx

How old is dd3? I'm having a hard time with my dd1 and she's 3y 4m.

Hi beatie - she'll be 3 in May.

Today she grabbed the flowers (buttercups) that dd2 had picked for her teacher squashed them up & threw them over the car. After this she then kicked dd2 (who's 5). The morning is a difficult time & I try to remain calm but this morning I really shouted at her. Just upsets me. Thank goodness she goes to pre school (school hols soon though).

What's up with your dd? Impressed to read that you'll be studying. I'd love to do something like this but don't know what!!

Oh, you know, she just THREE!

She makes such a mess all the time. Yesterday we had a new friend round to play and I let them go upstairs alone. Big mistake. dd1 trashed her room. She had all her books over the floor and had pulled out a drawer and emptied its contents.

Today she;s been playing with water when/where she knows she's not supposed to and then she deliberately shut the laundry basket lid on my hand.

Oh I've been horrible to dd (2.9) today! But then she's been a pickle with me too.
I just sometimes feel like she's so tiring mentally - I love that she's in to everything and want her to be inquisitve and articulate but .... sometimes I wish she didn't talk ALL the time. Questions questions questions.
And the running away and squealing whenever I try and dress her. And the histrionics when we have to stop whatever we're doing (to go home, to go out, to go to bed, to eat supper). :(
Feel really guilty though as am sure that if Tom wasn't around she'd not be so challenging - I'd be able to be more responsive and wouldn't feel like my head was about to explode so often. And my negativity certainly rubs off on her. I sometimes find myself almost having an out of body experience when I'm talking to her - thinking "can you hear yourself - she's only 2 fgs - don't try and win an argument like she's 22"..
And then she was lovely while I was reading her stories tonight (dh working) and then sobbed when I turned the light off and I realised that she's burning up ("I'm not feeling very very well. I feel like I have to cry" she said). So off for calpol and now wanting to scoop her up and make her feel better but she's asleep. :( :(

Oh Pooka - it's so hard isn't it? I'm the same. At the end of the day I go to bed dreaming anout dd1 thinking warm cosy thoughts and wishing it could be like the old days when we did everything together and I had time for her. But in the heat of the moment, when she drives me crazy, I become someone I don't like, but I can't help it. I think it is because compared to Alice I feel she is grown up, in yet half a year ago she was my baby.

Then I remind myself who really is the adult and who isn't acting like one, trying to outwit a 3 year old :shock

even

Exactly beattie - def feel like dd is the grown up one when she is still really a baby herself. I mean, why should I expect her suddenly to morph into a reasonable and mature being when she's so young, simply because there's now someone smaller in the house.
Well. She's happier this morning. Said she had a tummy ache in her belly button last night but now she's "very very well". So I am going to go out with her on my own. DH will take tom out. And were going to have fun (fingers crossed!).

That sounds good. Enjoy your day :)

So glad I am not the only one feeling like this. I love dd (4) to pieces and she is still my baby in a way but I get soooo frustrated when she behaves like ds.

yup same here but have exciting news!

G slept through last night for the first time ever. from 8pm til I woke her at 7ish (was in agony and had to feed)!!!!!! The night before she'd fed at 11.30 and 4pm and she usually feeds once or twice and has never slept so long in her life!!

However I think it's just a wind up as I'm convinced she doesn't always wake though hunger and tonight she'll be waking at her usual times. Have tried letting her grizle but she usually just kicks off something chronic!

but it was nice!

Those where good sleeping vibes that were sent!

Morning everyone

Nice and sunny here today. Really must get motivated and do something nice with DS and Alice (as DH has to be at work even though it's Saturday and he now has the ill thing that the rest of us have had )

I get cross with DS - sometimes he goes on and on and on so much - and then I remember that he is only 28 months and still rather small.

Alice woke at 1am, some other time (but went back to sleep) and 6am. DS woke up about 6:30am. I managed to go back to sleep . DH had to wake me when it was time for him to leave.

Hello!

We went out and enjoyed the sun .

OH MY WORD
Nearly had heart failure - Rachel just choked on a small piece of potato - I was so terrified I could not remember how to get her out of her hi-chair. I ended up holding her pating her back with her head down until the tiny bit of potato fell out on the carpet. DH at the football and i'm useless in a crisis. Have come upstairs to have a little cry and cuddle with dd - away from ds - who is wondering what the fuss was about!

Hello all! Have been keeping up with your posts but just never got round to posting. Hope that everyone's illnesses have cleared up and that the weaning is going well. Thomas is munching away at anything with his two teeth!

Am getting a tad bothered that he's still not rolling at all. He really should be I think by now and whilst I'm not really overly concerned I just wish he's get on with it! He sits really well but just can't be arsed to move himself - his weight ( 19.5lb!!) is just too much I think!!!!

Will spend next few days on rug prodding and trying to get to roll!!

Meant to say hope you are feeling calmer now SR and that Rachel is OK x

Sr - Glad your little munch is ok.

Sarahal - DS has only just started rolling and he now weighs 1 stone 9 lb and a few oz. Don't worry too much they all develope at their own rate.