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Aethelfleda · 18/02/2013 22:52
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OiMissus ·
24/02/2013 13:55
Ears?! On a car seat?! I'm sure they must have special safety properties... Maybe an "ear-ly warning system".
BOi has developed a barky cough today. I ignored it earlier and wrapped him up warm to help us in the garden. Now it's a bit worse. 
...but the garden looks much nicer. I raked out all the leaves and rubbish and have discovered lots of new green shoots and growth, and snowdrops and crocuses. At least, I think they are croci, there be purple buds.
After mucho rakery, I sent DH out to buy a wheelbarrow. We now own a wheelbarrow! How cool is that?
Later we will start propagating seeds for our veggie beds. 
Figgygal ·
24/02/2013 14:20
Afternoon
I'm sat in Tesco cafe with a tea and double choc muffin have been in the coldest softplay ever from 11-1.30 I need warmed up 
managed to get DS out of car into buggy not taking chance of getting him back without waking might have to endlessly wander the aisles of Tesco until he wakes. After his softplay rampage he heeds a good sleep.
Off to catch up on thread
NorthernChinchilla ·
24/02/2013 20:53
Snurk @ 'ear-ly' warning system! Google 'cowmooflage' and look at the 9 months to four years one. I put my foot down with DP about the ridiculous expense, despite liking it, and then my Mum gave us the money...as she's just a total pfbg!
We're all off it still; DP didn't get up til half 11, then we all went to bed together from 3.15 to 6pm! Lovely to do but it really was the bookend to a total washout weekend.
Delighted that you're sounding so bright and enjoying work bar the three horrors Cheung! And good on you for taking driving lessons, can't wait to hear how you get on (as another non-driver) 
thekatsatonthematt ·
25/02/2013 00:14
Just thought I'd ass to the general lurgyness. I've got a stinking cold, made worse by the fact that a) I can't take any worthwhile drugs for it, and b) DS also has it.
Plus today he appears to have developed conjunctivitis. Th green gunk is just oozing out of him. And he currently looks like someone punched him in the face 
Seeing the MW tomorrow at my GP surgery so will try to see if she'll grab a nurse for me to check him. Guess we'll not be swimming this week...
Will try to name check everyone tomorrow.
Faffin ·
25/02/2013 10:03
jiggle hooray for your DH finally mumming up. Sounds like you had a lovely day yesterday. I hope next weekend is just as good. I too am incredibly unfit. I'm determined to get back into some sort of routine, starting next weekend. The constant illness of winter hasn't helped at all, but I've just realised I now only have 5 months to get fit enough to do a triathlon I'm entered for
OiMissus ·
25/02/2013 13:59
He he he! I have visions of BOi on the 3k run. He's doing his new thing and twirling around and still beats all the other kids!
He's almost running. He loves to be chased around. He also likes the idea of jumping, he bobs his head up and down and bends his knees. He'll probably accomplish it one day when I'm not looking from the top if the stairs. After much training to go up and downstairs on his hands and knees, he now thinks he's too big/mobile/clever for that. He wants to use the rail and do big steps up and down. It will end in tears and a trip to a&e methinks. 
Cowhide car seat - yee-hah!
Jiggle - do I detect positive vibes with DH? I hope your mountain-biking weekend goes well and he regains his respect for you, and that your relationship enters a new, more positive and supportive era. Use the weekend to concentrate on the 2 of you. Good luck.
Kat - conjunctivitis - bleurgh! BOi had it pre-Xmas and its returned in a lesser form since. Not good.
We had a terrible time last night. BOi wasn't in the mood for sleep.
Hell, sleep is over-rated! Who needs it?
Xiaoxiong ·
25/02/2013 15:12
Sorry for silence, has been all go round here - friends stayed for the weekend and today had a conference call to do with new job. Unfortunately tomorrow I have to go to old job still and hope that they pull their finger out and give me a leaving date.
DS has the WORST nappy rash in the WOOOOOORLD though. We have been through: sudocrem, metanium, boots own-brand, neal's yard fancy stuff, US-brand desitin (with cod liver oil), olive oil, shea butter, the works. His bum still looks awful, big red welts and he screams when I wipe his bum now
Oops, hear him whimpering on the monitor - back in a bit.
And yes I am pg and I asked my dad to tell my mother and she now isn't speaking to me ....
Xiaoxiong ·
25/02/2013 17:02
She is angry because she thinks I shouldn't be pregnant again now (if at all). She thinks the 16 month age gap between me and my brother was too short and "why repeat my mistakes". When she helped us unpack in January she put my box of maternity clothes in the far corner of the loft saying I shouldn't need them again anytime soon. I told my dad knowing he would tell her - I knew he'd be overjoyed and that she'd take it better from him anyway.
I'm just pleased to find that I'm not upset at all - a bit disappointed of course but that's all. I think the last two years have been amazing in helping me detach from her - as some of you may remember from my angsting about it here, she was awful when I told her I was pregnant with DS as well and I was really upset about it. This time I don't care. I credit becoming a mother myself and two years of MN sense and wisdom
seven thanks for tip - didn't think of fungal stuff (that's what canesten is for right?) if still terrible tomorrow after a day of bare bum and cotton wool I will give it a go.
DS is mostly still shrieking and babbling but is acquiring words like mad. Recent ones are potato (PUH-tata), moon (mu), star (tah), bubble (bobah), hey and heya, and teddy (deh-dee). I also discovered he will sit on command if I tap his knee! The nanny must have taught him that, we certainly didn't.
Will go back through and do a proper namecheck when DS is off my lap (just lost a much longer post thanks to someone bashing the keyboard) - but hope everyone is hale and hearty soon!
raaboonah ·
25/02/2013 18:50
Oh xiao your mother 
Can she not just be pleased for you? Grrr on your behalf.
Xiaoxiong ·
25/02/2013 19:23
No, she has never been pleased for me about anything I've ever done. It's conscious and intentional. She thinks if she praises me to my face I will rest on my laurels and never achieve anything again. So she plays stupid mind games while (apparently) praising me to everyone else behind my back so if I ever mention the bullshit she comes out with, no one else believes she could possibly say such things except DH who hears it all.
Here is a short list of things she has been unhappy/angry about: graduating from Harvard (you all know about that one), the quality of my singing (I made my living singing for a year, just for fun); getting a law training contract (disappointment as my dad is a lawyer, so no family progress); getting a job as an associate in one of the worst recessions ever (waste of time); getting married to DH (so boring and he'll never amount to anything as just a teacher); moving to Eton (you're a doormat); having a baby (that's the end of your life and career).
It's all projection, I know that now, that and her rage about losing control of my life after I went to university. The fact that I see through her now makes me very pleased that I am making progress with only MN to guide me
Needless to say I am striving to be a very VERY different type of parent. Lots of praise and encouragement!! I will probably fuck them up in the opposite direction though a la Philip Larkin
OiMissus ·
25/02/2013 20:09
She is a prize idiot, Xiao. Maybe you should "project" something to her, like a mahoosive frozen haddock the importance of happiness.
Tell her that you and DS are working on a singing mummy and baby act, and that you're entering Britain's Got Talent. That should finish her off. 
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NorthernChinchilla ·
25/02/2013 21:21
We should try and make a list for Xiao about the wonderful things you could do and the responses your mother would come up with ("I've gained a PhD in sub-atomic physics/fiddling with little things will get you nowhere" "DS is going to Cambridge age 10/why has it taken him until double figures?")
Or you could play parent-bingo every time she turns up, have a grid with her phrases on and tick them off, confusing all and sundry by yelling 'house' from the loo when you hear her criticise the lack of dusting or something...
Seriously though, how grim for you- it'd be the one thing you'd hope every parent would be delighted to hear, and especially when you've got a lovely DH and are doing a good job with no 1!
Good luck over the next couple of days aethel, really hope it passes without a hitch.
I'm going to try to get to the Doc's tomorrow, ten days of a terrible throat which feels like it's got a lump in it is enough
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