Dec 2011: The one where they sit on potatoes. And turn TWO!

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New fred! Roll up roll up, potty adventures and birthdays galore!

Aethel we had a clean up and declutter over the weekend the house looks good apart from the boxes and boxes of remaining toys DS has strewn everywhere.

Seven DH is a frustrated zoologist and wanted something exotic, i wanted a dog and skunky was a compromise. she has survived the op, nothing seemingly wrong with mouth or throat but seems her heart is enlarged and she has a leaky valve they keeping her in until Thursday to treat that and then hope she will be fine. Our bank account (roughly £300 if we lucky) will not be too happy.

DS is weird he's decided to get upset by the lines on the palm of his hand I've pointed that we all have them to no end

Oh dear figgy, that sucks. Especially in January when presumably like all of us, you're a bit broke!

I just made a gorgeous smoothie. A few spoons of Greek yoghurt, dash of coconut milk, dash of normal milk, strawberries, blueberries, banana, loads of spinach and a teaspoon of honey. YUM. Had a berry and oatmeal and soy milk smoothie for breakfast and a spinach salad for lunch with loads of veg and a little mozzarella and pancetta. Yum again. Operation up-my-fruit-and-veg-intake is going well so far!

We've exchanged!

Now to spend the next week in abject terror!

First thing we've got to do tonight is order the range cooker, seeing as they're taking the current one with them. My Mum has kindly given us the money, so a Cranberry Rangemaster it is...I think I'm more excited about that as it's an expense and thrill I can get my heard around

Moving next Tuesday, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek. Though I'm with you all on the decluttering, we've done so, so much over the past few months, from the original to get the house on the market to the emptying out of shed and eaves for the next person to the final clear out of 'I am NOT moving that shite to Town X'. De cluttering is the way forward well, actually not being a hoarder would help more DP

Glad skunky's not too bad figgy and she survived the op. It's such an expense though, it's scary. Did the vet give you any idea of how long she may go on? Chins can live up to 20 years!

I know you've agonised so much about no.2 mopsy, but I think as long as another baby wouldn't send you into abject poverty, then go for it. If it's the most important thing to you, and Mr Mopsy, then it's just a matter of accepting that life will be different as a result.

Northern - 'bout time you exchangedz enjoy cooker shopping

Figgy - hope Skunky is back to health soon. I know the feeling about tantrums.

I got a bargain in the charity shop this morning. 2 books for Darcie, both must be new as in excellent condition..looks like never been flicked through, 25p each. Flat Stanley's adventure in Egypt gone away for her birthday and Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities gone away for Xmas.

Sky loved Rhymetime this morning, was singing and dancing and she had a lot of energy it seems. She has gone to bed tonight wearing her wellies and was not going to get into bed without them! Hmm how I'm going to get them off when she is asleep I'll never know.

WOOOHOOO Northern!!!!! Finally! Congrats! V exciting. I hope the move goes well now. And v jealous of new cooker...

I think you're all right about the baby thing but even though I want it I'm scared too. I worked so hard for this career...

Fantastic news northern. And range cookers are beyond awesome, I'm still in love with mine :)

figgy glad skunky survived the op, hope she's on the mend soon.

Wow Queen, I don't think I read A Tale of Two Cities until I was 13 or thereabouts. Is it the full version or adapted for younger kids?

mopsy if you can afford the childcare for 2 I say go for it. If you conceived straight away minimopsy wouldn't be far off getting some free childcare by the time you'd be due anyway. Presumably it doesn't have to have a massive impact on your career, you don't have to have much maternity leave it another job comes along. Like you say there will never be a right time, I guess the decision is would your greater regret be another baby but not the career you want or a great career but not having DC2? No reason why you can't ideally have both though :)

If I am working I could pay childcare for two but not have much salary over so it is doable. If I've no job I guess I wouldn't have to pay childcare. Fingers crossed a job comes up. Ugh. Academia is so precarious and there are so few permanent posts. But I'd defs regret not having a baby more. Also on a 2 year contract. If it ended and I'd no other job AND no baby no. 2 that would also suck
... Argh. We can't have it all. That's the truth of it.

Yay for northern!!!!
And SO jealous of the range cooker, I misses mine tons we are hoping to redo our kitchen next year when we have recovered from a zillion other household expenses or all the appliances simultaneously go kaplooey

Love the idea of Sky going to bed in her wellies!

And today the first cupboard in the kitchen got tackled: have chucked a few knackered non-non-stick frying pans, random plastic tubs that didn't match, and bought an organising oven tray stack thing for the cupboard so I don't have two drawers taken up with oven trays anymore. Baby steps!

I got rid of a box of rubbish out of the old kitchen from Christmas then re-used the box to put raffle prizes in. Does that count? Thankfully the new kitchen is clutter and crap free so one less room to do. What I really need is a cull of toys that aren't played with. What's the best way? With DC which means most of it will be kept or there will be tantrums, or without DC and hope they don't notice?!

Mopsy..I think it's an adaptation will have to check tomorrow.

Managed to get Sky's wellies off her feet as she continued to snore and not wake so hopefully she's out for the night now.

Darcie has got a reward prize of a new 1D poster if she can manage to behave at home and not get in and out of bed once she has been tucked in so we will see how that pans out for the week.

Tired.com now.

Hurrah for completions and happier skunky!
And Mopsy, just go for it. The career will come. You are young. Just go for what is most important. The job can wait. :)
My DH is still too tender for action. So we may have to wait til next month... 41yrs 3months... Fingers crossed the eggs still work!
Impressive toilet activity from some little 'uns!! Well done!
Loved the wellies in bed image!
Aw! And being upset by lines on figgy boy's hands !

Did anyone watch I want my baby back? I've never cried so much in my life :(

seven, of course that counts!

And I'd say without DC BUT use the six Month rule: put the stuff that's not total junk in a box in the attic for six months before you chuck it, in case they ask "where's my xxxx" and it turn out to be their Best Loved Toy Ever. I speak from experience when my "junk" turned out to be the Favouritest Ever Fimbles playset (fprtunately it was still in the attic!)

OMG (sorry for the teen speak) what a morning!!

DS was whinging from 4.45 not that we needed to go in but enough you couldn’t ignore it, eventually couldn’t take it anymore and took the risk that going in would make it worse found his pillow at the bottom of the bed and his lying on top of about 6 soft toys (not too comfy there) of course tried to sort him out and he immediately woke up and wanted up put him back down and left the room at which point he became hysterical!!!!! DH said he was not coming in with us no way,.....never ever......5 minutes later he brought him in with us where he spent the next hour flailing around and kicking me before going to sleep practically on top of my head so no more sleep for me. 5 minutes before my alarm went off i switched it off in the hope i could sneak out of the bed without waking him but of course i fell asleep next thing i know it is 7.25 and all hell breaks loose to get him to the CM for 8........oh and the car was frozen solid to add to the misery.

DH has a job interview today so DS was going to cm early so of course this morning i am told i have proven i cant function as an adult, we cant sort ds out let alone another child, DH is too old, too ill, too tired, being forced into a job he doesn’t want to pay for a child he doesn’t want (despite him not wanting to do what he does anymore anyway!!) Of course if he had just got on with getting ready for his interview at 10 which he wasn’t even leaving the house for until 8.30 rather than moan at me it would have lessened the impact of my mistake but no apparently arguing with me about how late he was (while making himself later) was much more important. Are all men so bloody irrational and belligerent? Twat!!

Poor you figgy, that kind of attitude would wreck my head

FYI, if you don't make sure that the pull up is correctly positioned between the toddler's legs, it will not catch the poo. And you will have to throw out a pair of pjs.

Urgh figgy not a good start to the day. Your DH was being an arsehole. Given that he is also jointly responsible for your child, it must be evidence that he is failing as an adult as well. Knob end.

And I'm sorry but how does being a bit late prove you can't function as an adult? Everyone is a bit late once in a while. I would he raging if I were you!

He has apologised ..... I will await the next ridiculous meltdown honestly he's as bad as the 2yr old

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Figgy glad he has apologised but do you need a kipper or sardine from the freezer?

Oh God figgy, sounds like he made a slightly stressful situation into a total crisis. Glad he apologised, but I completely agree, adults throwing wobblers is not a pretty sight. A least give him a prod with a frozen octopus tentacle.

Queenie, that has totally taken me back, I remember Flat Stanley!! I loved that book, and a brilliant bargain too.

It is so crap having to make that calculation mopsy, especially as so much is unknown- will I regret/resent having another child, will I find another/keep my current job, what if we move/get sick and so on... I resent it too. But you clearly really want no.2, and that's the one thing you can't change in a few years' time... you're only about 1/8th through your working life, but about 2/3rds through your baby time.

Got the council tax and temporary parking permits done today, and was promised a call back from the removals company, but nothing so far and we really really need to get that booked... Have got tomorrow off to get all the address changes, DD cancellations, etc, sorted, and there are soooo many