November 2012 - Isn't age one a lot of fun?

[StuntNun]

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VQ that's lovely! Clever poppet. I think we're a long way off singing!

Jonas said his own name today with much self importance (according to DH - I didn't witness it) and climbed the stool in the kitchen .

Zamboni you and your DH sound like an awesome team.

Flouncy I swear by rescue remedy and deep yoga breathing from your diaphragm with a simple mantra like "in with the good, out with the bad" on each breath. Or even just deep breathing focusing on the feel of the air as it comes in and out of your body.

DH has just helped me finish folding and putting in storage the last of the outgrown baby clothes, for an hour. Quite contentedly. I love him for being helpful and not shirking his share of dull jobs. even though we've both shirked that one for months!!

Thanks Pikz, that's good to know as XP is allergic. I'm allergic to strawberries but not sure if they will test for that

Was your other rant about careless drivers in the fog horsey? i am a very horse friendly driver believe me :o

McFlounce can they not put a blood pressure lowering thingy in the drip if needed?

Feeling v inadequate. This was just one day. Actually googled I hate my toddler and realised I would have been thoroughly flamed in aibu :o

Don't worry PR, I hated my baby at some points today

VQ that is lovely to read, I am so glad he had a good day. And singing Twinkle Twinkle is very impressive.

Jims L doesn't know any of those characters either and had just woken up so stared blankly at the woman - I thought that section was going to have a bit more to it than it did. Barely worth waking up for!

L had jabs today, screamed his head off and then slept for 3 hrs solid. I did give him pre-emptive Calpol so that may have helped. He woke up very happy and has been practising standing all afternoon so seems unaffected although I know there can be a delayed reaction with the MMR.

pr I wouldn't do that on purpose. I have been caught a couple of times at dusk and thought shit I should have hi viz on. And so as the clocks change I start wearing hi viz again. I'm sure some people think I should wear it all year round. Perhaps I should. On my big tb I probably always should. My pony is a good girl.

Rant was about food and weaning. I may put on Facebook. I'll see how I feel tomorrow. The usual people commenting on stuff which is not their business.

pr I was thinking today actually how being a SaHm is just so not the easy choice. I didn't speak to another adult all day. O is being v clingy. Ds1 is being great. So even on a fairly ok day behaviour wise is not the easy option. Is hard work, and tiring, you rarely get to go to the loo. Is a myth that you can keep on top of jobs, have a scrummy dinner ready and fashion a bow in ones hair.

pikz when I was working, on a Monday (I did Tues, Wed and Thursday In the Office) I would lay out three days of clothes for boys all ready. When I make a dinner, still do this, I double it and freeze half so at least a couple of meals can be pulled from freezer, or I would choose super easy meals for those nights. Take advantage of every meal nursery offer. The less you have to do at home the better. I would shower and do my hair and lay out clothes the night before. We had a soup club at work so someone made soup for the team and brought all into share. Thus I rarely had to make my own lunch to take.

Tmi but why have I got really bad wind tonight?

Yes use nursery meals unless allergies. They will be balanced and nutritious.
Wahhhhh am not a full time mum though. This was just one day. Most weekdays am on my own. Why can i not cope with one day. Though I did on Saturday so think today was just unfortunate.

horsey it was the fog that got me. It didn't lift all day. I wouldn't have ridden on road in it let alone at dusk with no safety gear (adults rarely wear hats here) I had such a near miss one of the groups it really scared me. There was someone driving right up my arse if he had overtaken and been in front of me he'd have hit them or braked so suddenly he'd have panicked them :(

Night quiche x and thhanks

PR have you had your thyroid and zinc levels checked? Abnormalities in either can massively increase your irritability. Having had two pregnancies close together I'd be surprised if one or even both weren't out of whack.

Isles do you have PayPal? I can spare a couple of quid and maybe some of the others can too, we might get you a fair way there? I wouldn't normally for an mner but we "know" you iyswim...

I'm very aware of horses and bikes, New Forest ponies don't have hi viz it speeds them towards the french supermarkets tbh pushbikes whizzing about are the liability round here, ponies amble!

Bad day, well afternoon, here, hour of screaming in his cot before i gave up and put him in the car. Left him on my mum's drive and had a nap cuppa! Think i can feel molars at the back which explains the night pooing recently. I'm starting to come out the other side of the hell of the last 11 months - i can handle things as long as nothing extra goes wrong on the plus side dp has a brain scan next week to see how he's healing, finally some medical input!

Thyroid was checked in summer. All ok. Vit check at the same time, would zinc be in that? I take iron supplements (else pmt / period is just ridiculous MH wise)

PR i cope by going to at least one group per day. Plus although i have no garden i have a big play park 20 yards away. Saturdays when dp is working are horrible with sad all to do.

We're all different, i bet you'll be amazing when we're all tearing our hair out with preteens

pr You are not a shite mum, not in the slightest. I have days like you have described with my DD1. I fear we are far too similar and rub each other up the wrong way. I also am much nicer to E than I am to her and I too fear that she has picked up on this. It's hard as I love E's age, mainly as she's fun, does what she's told and can't answer back . My DD1 is so headstrong and manic. She just does not rest for 5 mins at any point during the day. We're going to have great teenage rows! However having said all that I love her unconditionally, as I know you do your DD1. I just have days where I don't like how she behaves. She is now of an age where she knows and understands this. As she gets older things are getting better and we tend to now have more good days than we do bad. Please don't feel guilty (I know that I do after the bad days), but I always go to the bed with the intention that tomorrow I will be a better mum. Sometimes I am, sometimes I'm not but at least the intention is there! Chin up

sophia I was just wondering why I had bad wind tonight too . I'm blaming it on some quinea that was in our dinner. Odd stuff!

yw Glad to read of happy nursery tales and vq J is a very clever little boy.

det I'm forever very nearly running out of petrol to the point where the tanks has been at complete 0 on many an occassion when I've chugged it into a petrol station. Your tale has made me much more cautious about this now! Glad you got rescued.

I'm up far too late again. Really must start going to bed earlier! Rubbish.

pr your ds1 is about 2.5 now isn't she? I once read tge half years are tricky as they are times of great development. Ds1 tested the boundaries then too but that was when F was born so i had a fair bit of help for a few months.

msjj yes to staring blankly! F has a great gormless expression when truly knackered which he was then. To be fair, he does pointing but doesn't really get it yet when others point, especially as she did really unobvious pointing!
Hope L isn't too affected by the mmr.

Yes also to batch cooking as a saviour for when working. Sometimes make mini freezer meals for the kids in large ramekins too when being really organised. Must get back to that

pr you are a good mum. My boss used to tell me that she was a much better mum when her kids were at daycare than when they were at home. Daycare made the kids happy and busy, she just couldn't do the same. I love being at home with O but than she is an absolute delight most of the time.

I got a court date yest, first week of December. I might be able to register her a Hungarian by Xmas??? Wishful thinking...

My boss is also sorting out my last pay,did all of you got holiday pay or you just added it to your maternity leave?

Any birthdays today?

Up since 3am. DH got up at 5 to take over, DD2 got up at 5.05 having wet the bed. Phone goes at 7, my mum is ill so cannot collect DD1 from school. It is a conspiracy I swear.

I am going to tackle the witch today. I need to know where I stand.

Oh VQ big

Happy birthday to mini crisp, Dottie, mini stunt and PP! I may have forgotten others in my bid to remember! Or got these ones wrong!

Good night after yesterday's shocker thank god!

Off to get porridge out of my hair.

Sorry ladies. I need a big fucking grip.

I have had to pull over in the car because I am blubbing.

This news story about researchers offering shopping vouchers to women who breast feed for 6 months has made me completely irrationally ragey and very sad. Do they think that if I had some fucking next vouchers I might have tried a bit harder? Is that what people think of me?

Why am I still upset about this?

Oh. And it's p's birthday!

Be back later. Got to get back on the road.

Pass here's a big grip!

I too got angry and switched the radio off after I heard it it made me proper sad and cross.

Then I remember the people who put these policies in place are small minded people who just do t get it.

Sorry took ages to find you and have just caught up on the last couple of days which have been busy. We have unfortunately had a hellish reflux day today - screaming the like of which I haven't had for at least 5 months :( DH came home early, thank God. Has anyone found that reflux can flare with teething? God, it was horrific - I'd forgotten how to deal with it and stay calm :(

Smelly burps, huge farts, lots and lots of screaming :(

Happy birthday to all the baybeez with recent or upcoming celebrations and hugs to anyone who needs them but particularly off the top of my head vq pr flouncy and the other flouncy, chasing and evil. I will try and keep up now that we've been back a couple of weeks. Birthday celebrations at this end were ok, better than I thought it was gonna be, I was disappointed by a number of so called friends who didn't turn up but we had a lovely small gathering and I got to talk to everyone, it was really fab. And the cake was amazeballs (I did not make it!)

love the quiche

Sorry x-post with pikz and pass - wtaf?! Not UK based as you know so I don't really know what you're talking about - shopping vouchers for bfing?! Are you serious? "do not get it" is a sympathetic way of describing people who would be that stupid

That sounds like an absolute bollocks policy. We get an extra four weeks full pay maternity leave if we are still bf'ing at 6 weeks, but no-one checks so everyone gets it, your ob gyn signs a certificate at the 6 week check. Tis a bit of a random policy, and has its benefits in that at least people think about it, but in practice I doubt it makes much difference. I have never heard of anyone not getting the extra four weeks. Shall go read up on this shite.

Happy birthdays all round. I am feeling much better, have made some parenting resolutions and despite only getting about an hour's sleep because of thinking up the said resolutions, am OK. Need to blitz the house, am picking up a friend at lunchtime, having lunch then we're taking the dog and going out for the afternoon. I think we'll just walk around the village then drive off to see some of the local castles.

vq best of luck for today. Don't take any BS.