November 2012 - The Adventure Continues

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1787896-November-2012-Crawling-Already-Uh-oh

This thread's topic is what size of nappies are your babies in? And how are the cloth bum babies doing?

[MissMummy1]

Nope still undecided BPLP - I may just leave it natural or stick a fancy clip in it...

Sophia boo to pox :-(

[TheDetective]

Fuck yeah Sophia! Excellent news! Am well jell! I'd love a mahooooosive car. Fed up of squishing in my crappy clio! I might make DP have it come October when his insurance runs out.

Next doors car alarm is going off for the 6th time today. It is REALLY fucking me off now. How long would you leave it before saying something?

Kirrin I can't be arsed with dealing with all that kind of shit. Numpties really get on my only nerve. I just want to poke them in the eye and run away laughing .

DP has left the TV on some food channel. It's some American food programme. The woman is making massive meals which look fucking amazing don't get me wrong! but they are so unhealthy. And she is, um, very large. I can't take her seriously. I couldn't make any of her meals as they are full of fat and goodness knows what. I mean they look amazing. But I'd be triple the size I am now! But I'm still drooling and pissed off that he has left the TV on this channel and has the remote. He isn't even in the room FFS!

BP . What a prize fucking cow. She is only thinking of herself in this scenario. Cunt cunt cunt. Oooooh, lemme at her!

[TheDetective]

Would I be unreasonable to buy DP a set of fancy kitchen knives for his 23rd birthday?



He has wanted some for ages. Not sure he would want them for his birthday!

But, he loves cooking, and buying him kitchen stuff actually makes him very oddly happy.

I'm still not sure though... I'd kill the bastard if he bought me anything kitchen related for my birthday!

But then again, he is odd...!

[BigPigLittlePig]

Det my bestest ever chum (who's going to have F on Wednesdays for us, saint) said that, if she'd been there today, she would have "done a Mr Pig" ie. smacked her in the chops.

[Elizadoesdolittle]

Woo hoo sophia Nice one. I have a c-max, love it. I would have liked the grand one but our budget didn't stretch that far. Enjoy!

bplp Am so fucking glad you were able to tell her where to go! What a cheek. I really do think you should complain but I can completley understand your feelings in wanting to just walk away.

[TheDetective]

See, protecting ones own brings out the primal side BP. Never have I been close to violence except where my children are concerned!

[itsnotyouitsMeals]

Oh and pidj have you looked at ethletic trainers? Like converse but ethical and cheaper to boot (geddit?).

[ChasingDaisy]

Thanks for all of your congrats.

I'm feeling a bit odd to be honest. The flat is a step down from what I am used to and it is an area I don't know well and will be completely alone. I have also felt quite ashamed at having to explain to so many people over the past few days that I am completely reliant on benefits at the moment. I know that this is a new start for me and O and this is my rock bottom but it is hard to get my head round the idea.

My plan for the next 12 months is to join baby groups, make the flat nice and cosy, learn to drive and find a job.

scared

Off to bed now to get my head straight.

[Donnadoon]

Thanks again everyone
bplp sorry about your shitty childminder , loved PRs and Dets spitting
sophia sorry your lad got the pox...glad he is battling through it

[YellowWellies]

for Sophia

MM have a cracking time

[PetiteRaleuse]

det if you go to tk maxx you can buy a fab set of kitchen knives for 15£. Could be the first and last time I join a conversation of where to buy cool stuff in the uk. Anyway.

Here and now. I have a snot-filled, whiney, crying unable to sleep baby. That would be me! LO also snot filled and difficult but DH dealing with :o :(

Colds suck.

pug I'm so glad you told her where to go. I would secure a place at nursery, as it appears you have done, and complain anyway. She deserves it. At nursery the staff will be able to share the hugs and consolations. And her curiosity will get the better of her - she will decide that the other babies are interesting, and she wants to do what they are doing. I know in the uk it is all about individuality, but kids wants to do what other kids do. Even 8 month old babies. I can see it now with LO and DD1. If DD1 is in the garden, LO wants to be there too. If DD1 is eating on DH's knee, LO wants to eat on mine. It's very tiresome, but kids are reassured by other kids.

sophia your news is wonderful. Well done!

chasing every time I think of your news I do a little jig. As sophia said, you are an inspiration. Am so proud of you.

Erm. Anyone else going on fb more often to check up on quiche news than on real life news? Have realised the quiche has become vvv important. Hmm. Oh well, you all rock !

[BigPigLittlePig]

Pug?! I like it

The quiche is the mutts nuts. Couldn't care less about what others are waffling on about on fb. Newsfeed is always full of a combination of Nov 12 babies, and pictures/adverts shared by various acquaintances.

[PetiteRaleuse]

chasing just read your last post. I know how easy it is to not follow through on plans. I'm not sure I have admitted it on here before but I used to be a professional coach. a good one as my last client married me and would be delighted to help you with setting objectives and following them through. Kind of like a personal business plan. You WILL settle in there and your new life is going to rock.

[PetiteRaleuse]

Oops sorry about the pug pig

[Passmethecrisps]

4 pages? 4 fucking pages?

Hell's bells.

P rocks size 3 sainsbos little ones during the day and size 3 pampers baby dry at night.

I thought I would be a reusable nappy person. I also thought I was a BF person. And a no dummy person. And a no Ella's kitchen person.

I thought I would be a lentil weaving, swishing out the house to drink mochachocasoyskinnyorganicfreerange coffee at 7:30 am with my organic baby clad in her fuzzy nappies sooking happily on my fabulous and still perky norks.

What the fuck did I know? I am too bone idle for fuzzy bums.

The patterned ones are too awesome for words though.

I am in awe of you fuzzy nappy peeps.

[ChasingDaisy]

Thanks PR I will PM you.

pug I like it.

[Sophiathesnowfairy]

Ooo I like pug too.

det if he wants knives then he will be really pleased with them as a pressing I should think.

We are size 4. I am usually Tesco own but am trying the Waitrose nature natural bio degradable thingy ones, just because a.) that is where I was today b.) I thought they looked softer for the pox.

The grandiose c max is a used one but a demo. It does have a few miles on it, but is immaculate.

I is liking your plan chasing cosy is the name of the game. Normal to be scared, try and chuck in a Bit of excitement though too. We are all exited for you. Xx

[BigPigLittlePig]

Before too long chasing you will be one of them laydeez wot lunches with your chic bachelorette pad.

Off to bed. Anticipating a bad one.
Thanks for today peeps xx

[StuntNun]

No no Detective, he will love them because knives are macho. I was just using DH's santoku knife to cut up a celeriac root and it's so easy. I love having proper sharp knives for cooking. I also have an electric knife sharpener from Lakeland to keep them tip too.

J won't settle again tonight so another bad night for me. This morning I was so tired I just lay listening to him cry next to me on the pillow because I didn't have the energy to get up. He has a cold so it could be that, or teething, or just the fact that he doesn't fucking sleep.

[TheDetective]

Chasing I started off at 16, in a grotty council house with a baby.

Thanks to help from my mother and begrudgingly my dad I got quickly back on my feet.

I went to college for a year when DS1 was 6 months. I learned to drive, started learning when DS1 was 8/9 months, passed test when he was 23 months. My mum helped me to buy my first car. She paid the loan for the first 3 years, I paid the final year.

I went to uni, starting when DS1 was just turned 2.

By the time he was 3.5 I was out the council house and in to a privately rented 4 bed detached house always had ideas above my station!.

I qualified when DS1 was just turned 5. I bought a house (on my own ) a year later.

So it took 6 years, to reach my final goal. But I did it! Against the odds! And if I can - anyone can!

Ok, I wasn't single, but DS1's dad wasn't much use in the grand scheme.

Hope that gives you a little positive thinking! :)

[TheDetective]

Sounds like the knives could be a good idea then !

[YellowWellies]

Pass I thought I'd be into cloth nappies but hells bells my washing pile keeps getting cloned daily. I do however like the sound of those biodegradable ones Sophia as I am feeling like the world's crappest environmental consultant! (though back in the dim and distant I did carbon footprint cloth vs disposable and the difference in carbon terms is minimal ignores water, landfill, resource depletion issues)

[TheDetective]

And by the sound of things your Dad will be in the position to give you a good helping hand along the way. :)

It's what any parent would do, right?

[PetiteRaleuse]

Mwah ha ha. I used to think I would cope with cloth nappies. Then I realised that in France they are nigh on impossible to buy (a) and that I am lazy (b)

DD1 was a week old when I decided to buy a tumble dryer just because of the extra laundry. And she barely even posseted.

I'd have lasted 5 minutes with cloth nappies.

[TheDetective]

Ooooh, another grrrr from me today. I've had a day of GRRRRRRing!

Got a letter from work (another, yes!) saying I was being put in to a pension from 1st July . It is to do with the government forcing employers to put all employees who meet the conditions in to a workplace pension.

I am not in the pension. I don't want to be currently. I am going to join it in 3 years. That has always been my intention. I will be working til fuck knows what age anyway, so delaying starting my pension isn't really an issue.

And who the fuck do the government think they are FORCING me to put my money in to something I DO NOT FUCKING TRUST. I am not giving a penny up to those cunts.

Anyhooooo... I rang work because the letter has absolutely no information about how to say fuck off no. And implied that you couldn't say no!

After a few mumblings, they agreed I could say no, but can not say no until I am enrolled. Which apparently isn't the 1st of July like the letter says. They will write to me again and then I have to ring back.

FFS. Just make a fucking note I said NO!