June mummies '05 thread 11 - the one with the Zoo!

[katzg]

new thread for all

got excited because i have ordered my days out vouchers from tesco, £10 of clubcard vouchers = £40 of days out vouchers which can be used to gain entry to london zoo

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lol Guddy i was on the phone with our Gillian

important bussiness ( lol you are funny) what everyones wearing for this wedding.

ok babe call me tommror if that ok make it morning were off to seaside with baby tommoror xxxxxxx

Is there a service you can use, Katz, or is the thought of a train on a strike day with two small children more than body and soul can bear?

there might be a 'train service' but from what i can gather it will involve a coach to derby (1hr) then train from derby to london (3hr) sorry but much i really want to meet up with you all 4hrs travelling - nope!

Trib - if train strike then we'll drive (may anyway) and park where we used to when I drove in to London for work - just round corner from East Finchley tube, so no problems there.

Katz I don't blame you honey - 4 hours mixed travelling would be a nightmare...really really hope the strike is called off, fingers crossed!

hello all
katz - yes i can see what a nightmare that much travelling would be, still hope the strike gets called off

pretty day here, nice and warm, i worked yesterday so am hoping to just chill today. once dh and dd wake up i think we are going to the gardens for a picnic, and some duck chasing as usual
had lovely lie in today dd was feeding all night not quite sure what is going on. and i have an annoying cold so i guess extra sleep much deserved
hope you all have a nice day

MOrning all. Sorry to hear about your worries about the train strike, I hope they call it off after all.
Well we survived dsis's wedding. We drove to Newcaslte airport where we met up with dothersis her dh and dd and hired a people carrier to drive all the way to Kent. 11 hours stuck in a car all told, though only 8 on the way back yesterday as the traffic wasn't so bad. All in all, I'm quite happy I decided I couldn't do the journey two weekends in a row, even though it means missing the meet up, and particularly now that there might be a train strike! Anyway, the wedding was very good, even if the vicar suddenly remembered halfway through that he'd forgotten to get them to do the "I do" bit!
My childminder is on holiday this week, so I now have to race round tidying the house as mil is coming over to babysit while I go to work. Cue overtired, over-sugar-treated baby when I get home!

Morning mums hugssssss

Its official William does not sleep, do you think he acame from somewhere else lol.

Blumming hot weather isnt helping either grrrrrrrr
had jim out all weekend still we dont get a decent sleep, im thinking of moving into his room lol

Right ladies one question, for our London meet how will we know each other? if katz doesnt go i dont think ive met anyone else lol i was thinking of making a mumsnet badge you cant take the nursery nurse out of me ya know.

Hubby upset me by telling me were travelling light grrr be real busy in London o well never mind.

Katz darl did you get my email i really hope you can come cant wait to see little katz walking, as william is now walking all the time.

2Happy lovely to see you, maybe we can meet up another time, Im glad you enjoyed your sis wedding, mine is the 30 july in Rotherham 2n younger is getting maried cant wait.

hi there annoying day at work!
finaly made a decision to leave no date as yet, part of me wants to stay but had enough with sily line manager i really don't need this

yorkie - worry not we can have a meeting place by some landmark and maybe exchange mobile numbers. i think i know what you look like from photos. anyway we will be the ones with the prettiest children aroundwill post photo of self in our photo site if helps
dd mot sleeping much either

2happy - glad you had nice time, hard travel can see whay you can't face it again

take care all

i'm going to throw a toddler tantrum if we can't come!

ok see if this works

static.zsl.org/files/into-africa-day-planner-176.pdf

Im no good at this, anyway heres a map of the zoo
mums,and it tells you all the facilities and where they are.

yorkie xxxxxxxx

Ive put a recent pic of me and william on our june mums website so maybe you will recognise me,lol.

yorkie xxx

think we will probably be scuppered if there is a train strike too.

guess it's much too late to change to the Sunday?

i think we could make the sunday if our tickets will allow will have to phone the trainline

I'm meant to be meeting other people for another picnic on the Sunday, so this could be tricky, plus EYM's train home is on Saturday! But equally we are really going to struggle to get into London if the strike goes ahead, will already be pretty tough on dh, so we may just need to play this by ear.

My second picnic is at a country park near Luton, so anyone who does want to join is very welcome.

really hope the strike is cancelled
quite tired dd only asleep at 9, lets see how many times up during night, far too hot here.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh night from hell last night, DD2 went down all right but woke up at 1am and we didn't manage to get her back to sleep until 4am, so we have all over slept and i have just got into work!

Afternoon ladies

I am so glad others are having the 'wonderful' nights we're having too! Too HOT HOT HOT, and despite having the fans on no-one slept very well...and then the noise of the fans meant I didn't hear my alarm, although luckily for me I woke anyway only 20 mins late - not quite as bad as for you Katz, but I know how you're feeling today!

2Happy - meant to say, glad the wedding went off ok - gosh all that driving - I hope you had working airconditioning...I say working as a big hint re the condition of ours!!

Re meeting on the Sunday instead of the Saturday this weekend...I think EYM has booked hotel rooms as well for Friday night and may not be able to change this??

speaking of sleepless nights, dd was on hourly wake up from 1am. 'mummy boobie'[skock]was the general request, water too helps.
so tired still at work, lets hope hope no more buses brake down while i am traveling in them had it twice today
oh my fragile patience!

just spoken to the railway people and they are hodling more talks today - so fingers crossed.

dh is doing what I had feared, i.e. now the CPAP has 'stopped being useful' and he is feeling worse again. Every single time we try something new. I half think this is working up to 'being ill' when his mum is here tomorrow (I have to go to a meeting so I won't be here, don't think he wants to deal with her on his own).

Trib grrrr, men sometimes! I suggest you stand your ground if you believe he's behaving so on purpose. I know we all joke about how crap men are when they're ill, and it's obviously harder when they genuinely are ill like your DH, but that doesn't mean he can't lay it on thicker than it is . As the wage earner you have responsibilities (that you don't necessarily want) and he should be able to deal with his mum, or tell her not to come if he's not up to it...and so ends my sermon!

Right now ladies I have to warn those of you with just the one kiddy to be very careful about how you talk to your lo when telling them off, or actually just talk about anything. DS had two blinders this week, and we're only just half way through!

1. DS (on phone) 'Hello Grandad, I just call you Grandad because it's not nice to say fat to people, but you are fat aren't you? Mummy says so...' - have to add that my dad is the spit of Giant Haystacks

2. on discovering that his stickle brick creation was different to when he'd put it away...'Hey this looks different...daddy have you been touching my toys? Now I'm not angry with you, I just want you to tell me if you have been playing with it?'

so now becareful what you say - it comes back to bite you on the bum!

LOL, teabelly!

The nursery director told me this "funny" story about my DD, where they are all talking about going to france and nursery womans asks: How would you get there? They all discuss for a while how to get a train through the sea...when my DD says

• the point is that we are going on a train!

Thanks tea - no, he's not trying to get me to cancel my meeting (which I would willingly, godawful 5 hour team meeting) I just sometimes feel like he doesn't ever want to get well and have a normal life.

He's planning to send the MIL to Homebase anyway - she bought him a planter and some herb seeds for his birthday (and compost) but neglected anything to put the compost in (the planter is just a sort of ornamental container for pots). So she's promised to get some pots but they can't go in her car as it's not worth moving ds' car seat and they can't go in ours cos dh isn't allowed to drive any more (and MIL not insured, shame).

Snorting at the little ones with their funny (aka mortifying) expressions.

Trib, I see what you are saying... I think sometimes illness becomes your identity doesn't?
Don't know the answer, DH is the same in a much smaller scale (his back problems), but want to let you know you have my full sympathies!