May 2004 babies - new thread

[helsy]

Well, d'you think anyone will bother?
I feel like I'm having a party and waiting for people to turn up. Dorito, anyone?

morning you p*ss heads. that must be record number of posts in one eve in a year!

best go and have a shower.......

LOL at the pepperrabbit christmas suggestions! tried to change name to pepperrabbitinapeartree but DH has computer set up so the log in box counts as a pop-up and is evil and must be destroyed, so I have to type an inane message to log on.
Actually prob doesn't have to be inane...

press control at the same time to see pop-ups.

Ta da!!!

oo did it work!

HELP MEEEEEEEEEEE! I'm going insane. I cannot get the Balamory theme tune out of my head. It's been there in the background for about 3 weeks now. At first it was funny but now it's driving me insane! Arggggggghhhh! Make it stop. To make matters worse, DS has developped Josy Jump as an imaginary friend over the last few days. She eats breakfast with us, plays with us and even goes to the toilet.

sing something else... like 'when ponka got stuck up the chimney, she began to shout...'

ponka you mad thing. DH came back from DS's play last night with one of the songs going through his head. I went yesterday afternoon and it was lovely. DS was a reindeer. When DH and DS went out last night and DD knew they were going to school she was very upset and cried and cried until I suggested we paint our toe nails. She is a bit under the weather with a heavy cold which is making her cough as well.

I've had one of those days where you are very calm in the face of adversity and then something small and trivial send you into a blind rage. Have risen above DS1 hating everything today - all sentences began "I don't like....
DS2
toast
shoes
ham
christmas
DS2....
Mostly accompanied by hysteria, shouting perhaps some dramatic throwing to the floor and kicking.
Oh, it's been a marvellous day for contemplating returning to work!
Then, I couldn't get the double buggy to fold down and practically threw it across the garden when I suddenly lost it....
2 cups of tea and many biscuits later I'm feeling much better and am relying on the TV to look after them for half an hour.
Grrrrrrrrrrr sums up my day - and I STILL have to write my christmas cards this evening.

Actually I have "ding dong the witch is dead" going round in my head at the mo.
Definitely an end of tether song.

I threatened to stamp on the Advent calenders yesterday, they were so vile at the swimming baths! Not my greatest parenting moment, but it shut them up for the whole journey home (3 mins).
DD was a narrator (one line)in the Nativity play at school - it's 3 classes per year - so 240 children, all dancing all singing. Lasted an hour and a quarter and no children allowed - hurray! I have no family backup for these situations, so lumped DS off on a friend and just enjoyed sitting and watching DD without having to keep up a steady stream of sweets, drinks, toys, hissed threats etc. the whole way through. Had tears in my eyes and kept prodding DH (I was prob. as annoying as DS would have been).
Tonight, DH is at his work's Christmas Do in Oxford - he's kindly rung to give me a rundown of his posh meal (salmon starter, then sea bass and multiple puds) whereas I had tuna pasta with the children and then wine and comedy awards. Must go to bed actually. And MUST change name before Christmas.
Oh, just remembered, got to straighten hair first. 'Tis a thin line I tread between beauty and beauty sleep.

Juddkingwenceslas?
Juddtidingswebring?
That's if you're stuck for ideas .
If I straighten my hair at night I look like a wild woman in the morning.
My tune that won't go away is "dong dong merrily on high".
Went to Dd1's play today and the reception class play was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Comedy gold.

Dd2 was off nursery today because she was sick yesterday. She seems ok now.
She's been dry at night for about a month now! Longer, actually, but we waited. She keeps saying that Santa is "buying" her a Baby Annabel. Luckily, he is - a My First Baby Annabel.

DD was sent home from nursery early yesterday as well. Very listless and sleepy and a high temp. Luckily DH was able to collect her. Then I was busy working out how I could not work today but make it up (difficult when so near the end of the holiday year) and twelve hours sleep later and she is full of life, looking in the mirror and saying her hair is spiky (a la DS always asking for his hair spiking and me always refusing) due to horrendous bedhead, messing about with Baby Annabel (DD has both my first and the big one), asking for my breakfast etc so she has gone in.

I am absolutely knackered and have works do tonight straight from work. Luckily I am driving because I think a sniff of alcohol and I would nod straight off. We are not as refined as Judd's DH - we are having all you can eat Chinese buffets and one of my colleagues is planning on drinking 12 pints. I will be long gone and in bed by the time he gets to the 12th.

So it is not just my children that are being naughty in the run up to Christmas then. DS is hyper and naughty and DD picks up on it.

We do have a friend whose Christmas Do was once a "sit down kebab" - there were only 3 in the firm and they didn't really want to go to much expense! The 12 pint bloke sounds like a real hero, I'm surprised you won't be sticking around just to marvel at his drinking ability . I have cringeworthy memories of going on a bank's Christmas Do when I was temping in Cheadle. We hired a minibus to the venue and the journey home was dreadful because the bloke in charge of the kitty had fleeced everybody and two of the secretaries had snogged their bosses!
Aaaah, the good old days!
Right, have to start preparing tea. DD has to go back to school at 6pm for another performance of the nativity. She will be SO tired tomorrow (and definitely wet the bed tonight. Might see if I can grapple her into a pull-up last thing...)

gosh all these 'do's. i was out last night! me yes ME! 12 of the mums from a nearby village's toddlergroup went out for a meal. very nice. i too, had a salmon starter judd, and dh was at home with tuna pasta bake - how spooky is that? i am also out next tues for a meal with friends as a kind of last supper for me its all looming so close now and i keep welling up when i think of having to say goodbye to everyone. its horrid. wont really be time to see them all after christmas and before we go on 7 jan as too much to do and packers in etc.

I have a "do" tomorrow - which should be interesting as I accidentally dyed my hair a curious red/purple colour yesterday. Does anyone actually do the strand test the kits recommend??? and it's permanent.....

i never do a strand test!

I don't dye my own. My hairdresser only charges £18.50 for a colour, cut and blow dry and throws a quick trim of DD's mop in for free. In fact getting it done tomorrow but still undecided on the colour yet.

Egypt it sounds like it is getting scarily close. You must be so busy with all the packing and Christmas as well.

Yesterday when we got back from Leeds and the DCs were still at their grandparents I got all the children's stuff out of the loft and DH suddenly realised how much hard work I had put in without him. Then promptly went to bed while I started wrapping.

well, I've washed it a bit since and it's quietened down a tiny weany bit... she says hopefully! Mahogany apparently - bllcks to that I say - You'd definitely be able to tell the difference if I pass out on top of a mahogany table tonight!

hello all.

had a wisdom tooth out today! as you do! been suffering for a few days and saw an emergency dentist on saturday. she said i had an infection and needed antibiotics but tried to get rid of it with mouthwashed instead because preg (her advice not mine). worse today so went to my docs who said it was too difficult to pull a lower w tooth out, but easy to do a top one. so he pulled that! now it doesnt bite down on the abscess on the bottom one and i can eat. the bottom one will get better of its own accord, ....she says......and isnt even through properly yet.

anyway...happy now. hope you are all ok. wanted to share that totally interesting news with you

oh a bit [asd] about the tooth egypt. pr I have had a full head done for the first time ever today. It is sort of dark blonde/light brown with some warmth to it - apparently. But unfortunately so is an inch of my forehead....

Are you lot all really busy? I have just been going through the Next Sale stuff deciding if there is anything I want.

DS's christingle service was lovely. The children sang really well. And now he is home for 2 1/2 weeks.

hello. yes busy but on MN loads. not got anything to tell you really, other than STRESS STRESS STRESS. and dh wanting me to drag myself and dd out around teatime to drive 25 miles to pick him up from a pub where he is having christmas drinks with work.

'but i've arranged to leave my car at someone's house nearer to home, and getting a lift to the pub, so you dont have to take me as well' !!!!! that's ok then. i just have to take u to pick your car up in the morning! all for 'a couple of pints'. and dd will no doubt fall asleep in the car which makes bedtime annoyingly late again.

and there's FOG

Oh yes the fog has been pretty awful recently. I have had a bit of a trying day. My Mum rang up this morning to say that my Grandad has had another fall and is in hospital. So I have taken the children to see him this afternoon after making 3 dozen mince pies with DD, icing the cake with DS, making a quiche for tea (so DH could just put it in the oven), a trip to the mill shop for some last minute bits etc. He only had the stitches out of his head from his last fall on Monday. So now I have promised to go to the bread shop in the morning because he is all worried about his bread order that was supposed to be collected today, then take it to his house and freeze it.

DD is currently screaming because DH is washing her hair. When will she grow out of that?

DS has been worrying about Santa all day. First was the no chimney issue, then will he need helpers to get the presents off the sleigh etc.