November 2012 - Thinking about first birthdays? Already?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1813767-November-2012-Next-stage-car-seats-and-yet-more-teething

Can I share something really silly but which has made me ridiculously happy? I have been wanting to batch cook in preparation for my rtw but somehow have lost loads of tupperware. I have been searching and searching for a specific type I want, but everything comes in expensive mixed batches with some stupidly small ones, of which I have a large unused colleaction anyway. In the end I came across a trade supplier online and have been able to buy a batch of 30 identically sized and dimensioned freezable dishwasher proof food containers. They arrived this morning and that, couple with izzy's news, has put me in an incredibly good mood. I am going to be able to batch cook 30 lovely meals, and buy some more slightly larger ones too, because they are so excellent.

How sad am I? Very, I know. I think though that some of you secretly will understand :o

for Sophia. Also apple lattice i bought when i was at the bakers earlier

I'd get it if he splatted from eg the sofa, but from a toy designed specifically for babies learning to walk? Really?

Filling done. Ouch. Plus I had a reaction to the adrenaline in the injection. I am to do nothing for the rest of the day. Does someone want to tell Oscar that?

Thanks pr and pp. Apple lattice. Yum yum yummy.

pr I join you in your excitement. What are you batch cooking, have you decided?

I must admit I did not keep the walker for DD2 as DD1 used to face plant constantly. She used a pram. Might get it out for J.

I understand PR. all the same size? Wow! I have Pyrex ones but they cost a fortune. Some are older than MM though.

sophia hugs, you are managing so well with so much stress.

chasing very brave, I am impressed.

I have nothing interesting to say. I'm still really busy at work but slightly less manic. DS still has a cough. I've knocked the inhaler on the head as it just made things worse. Waiting for paeds apt. My toe problems have come back and I need to do something about it because I can barely walk at the moment. But am too fucking busy to go to the dr. I am also in serious denial about the whole mountain climbing thing next month. After a flurry of effort early in the summer, I've done no prep for about a month, remain seriously unfit and weigh nearly 20 stone. How the fuck am I going to get my fat arse up a fucking mountain?

PR I love Tupperware! It is on my to buy list. I want to get all different sizes.

Pr I get it totally!! List of what your cooking please!!!

These were 15? for 30. And stack perfectly. Going to order more. I'm going to do pasta sauces, curries, chilli, ratatouille, maybe a soup or two, fish cakes (whch won't need the tubs but anyway) various pie fillings (will need the larger tubs for that so must order them) , beef bourgignonne and other casserole type things. Obviously not all today, but as of yesterday I will just be making double of everything and freezing what's left, then on days I don't have to cook I will make something for the freezer. After years without a decent sized freezer I now have two, and love them very much. I dream of the day I will own and fill a huge chest freezer. When I go to my mum's I spend lots of time going through the freezer and am

Once this month's pay has gone through I am going to place orders with the local beef farmer and the local pig farmer. They do huge batches of various cuts of meat and the ?/kg is far cheaper than buying it in the shops.

Wow I really am sad.

This afternoon I am making ratatouille. Enough to eat with lamb chops tonight, baked fish tomorrow plus for two more meals to go in the freezer. Yum.

Nothing sad about that PR.

I want to come and live with PR.

Just met an 18 week old who weighs the same as O

Marking place. Have shit loads to catch up on so will read through thread properly and post tonight. Laterz.

I mean the freezer envy is sad, not the yummy meat

Just had to share that my baby who has always been rocked to sleep by me standing up, sometimes taking 20 mins and still some crying - has gone down for his last 3 naps just with me sat down cuddling him and a little bit of jiggling, and this afternoon he didn't even cry at all, not one bit! I am so excited by this (as he weighs 23lbs and I was wondering how my back was going to cope as he got bigger!) it gives me hope that one day he will actually go to sleep on his own!
That's all - just had to share

Ditsy I need to work on that . I've just rocked O in the pram as I want to go out.

Speaking of the pram. I feel like a MASSIVE bitch. :(

DP is in work today. Working 9.30-7. Last night he offered to get up with O in the night - and get up with him in the morning. I said no, you are at work all day. He said he didn't mind because he thought a day looking after O was harder.

But not only does he have to work all day today, as soon as he gets home I'll be running out the door to go to SW. He will then have to do O's bedtime literally as he walks in. Then he will have to do dinner, bottles, washing up etc. Plus he took DS1 to the holiday club before work, and got him organised to leave the house this morning.

So I feel really really really bad that when I discovered he hadn't done the one thing I had asked (take the pram out his car) I had a proper moan at him, and made him feel guilty.

So guilty that while I was sat in baby group, he ran in, told me the pram was at home, kissed me, and ran back out. He'd used his 1 hour break to do the 10-15 min walk to his car, drove home, dropped it off, came to find me, and then went back to work, doing the 10-15 min walk back to work. I am not sure if he had any lunch.

So now I feel very bad. I could have managed without the pram. But I might have made out to him that I couldn't.

Det. We can all have moany days. Don't feel bad x
However in kiddicare I thought of you. They have baby grows with kinda built in socks, fold over like mitten are. Would solve your fallin down PJs lol. They were £15 each though, which I thought was a lil expensive.

Oh that sounds fab... but very expensive .

I was toying with the idea of going to kiddicare this afternoon. But am going to mothercare tomorrow, which is next door. So would make more sense to go tomorrow .

It is normal not to be able to open your mouth wide enough to eat after a filling, yes?

That's ace ditsy, I need to work on that before O gets much heavier so it is lovely to hear success stories!

PR can I fly you over to fill my freezer plllllleeeeeaaaaseeeee

Chasing I have had a few dental procedures done, and a few times I've not been able to open my mouth wide, it was the local anaesthetic.

I reacted to it too by the way - ended up being given Glucose to drink after I fainted and was shaking.

I haven't reacted since. Was very odd! But sometimes local doesn't numb me well. More than once I've had to go home with a partially numb mouth and no filling done.

Freezing tip: if you line your tupperware with freezer bags and fill them then once frozen you just seal and stack, freeing up the tupperware for re-use. And the bag is nice tupperware shaped to easy to label and store tidily.

Hmm. My mum gave me that tip but I have just seen it on a batch cooking thread I am on. I hope my mum isn't on MN.

I had the glucose drink too det. Went in there thinking how bad can it be, I've given birth?! Saying that, I had a similar reaction to the epidural.

J has a new noise. I suspect he may be a banshee.