November 2012 - Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, your ornaments are history.

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pidj bugger about the job. Possibly for the best a friend of mine was very scathing in an email about that company and how they work their employees into the ground. Ok if you're a healthy new graduate, but not if you're recovering from a stroke. Similar to lots of finance and law firms in fact.

Hi guys

Going from where I popped up from before because I won't have time to do what feels like an entire fred i've missed! Hope you're all ok! My SS arrived yesterday, thankyouuuuuu to whoever sent it :D I am indeed ok, just very tired, still very busy and I don't know if i'm coming or going!

There's far too much illness quichewide atm, really hope it fucks the fuck off for all of you :( E is, I think, teething, but otherwise ok as far as illness goes so far, touch wood. Won't last forever though, and I really sympathise with you all who are ill/have ill lo's

Poor J vq it amazes me that he is still happy with it, he is a very brilliant little boy

Hope you had fun at the market det

Gosh ditsy I would kick dp for any second child conversations when sleep deprived! Definitely not a good time for it is it lol!

How weird re: picture taking! Not had that before, but would freak me out a little

Woohoo on the pulling up Chasing, E has a mahoosive reach and the determination of something gone wild when he wants something he can't quite get to!

Evil that's awful that xp forgot he was having N :(

Sounds like you've been productive lily! Great stuff :)

pr hope illness fucks the fuck off for the girls soon, not fair! :(

pikz Poor L, bless him :( he must feel rough, hope he's better soon poor wee fella. Loved your posts of positives :)

aww bplp hope you get to spend some time with F soon!

would also love to live in quicheland. Am asking self what is point in xmas if it causes so much stress?

pr sorry you're poorly too :( last thing you need :(

det yay for o not being allergic to tomatoes :) Glad he liked his baked beans! E is going through what I hope is a phase. He doesn't want to eat beans/peas/sweetcorn basically shelled things and he doesn't want to chew. Mum said it's the lazy phase and is common so I am trying not to worry. Am assuming I just offer those things alongside what he will actually eat so he doesn't actually starve and then hope he picks them back up

gt that's one hell of a positive, you did really well!

LOL vq sorry but your posts about dd2 and j and the bus made me chuckle!

Hi Clarella!!!

sophia that sounds way too confuddling for a small brain like mine

Eliza E has been very difficult to feed atm too. It must be really hard for you though to not worry about your E what with her being a little dot (i'm really not trying to be patronising or saying E is too dotty or anything I promise) as I find it hard enough not to worry about my E and he's a big boy. The other day he refused almost every single bit of food. Today was much better but he is eating nowhere near the amounts I know he can put away. He is distracted by EVERYTHING and it is driving me nuts!

I am with you on the tantrums too eliza E has had a couple of iffy hissy fits over not very much recently

Think pale grey sounds nice flouncy or the suggestion of pale green might look nice also :)

zamboni it always sounds like you have such alot to deal with and i've no idea how you manage! :(

hope J is better soon yw

oh isles sounds like bedtime is pretty difficult atm! Not sure about implant, probably best to ring gp/get it looked at?

I shouldve done a bit more wrappign tonight but I can't be arsed. I love wrapping and either need a full day to lock myself in a room with chrimble films or I just do half a dozen at a time cos I do them with bows and ribbons etc and it takes me ages

It's 'good' not good but good, you know? to hear of other quichelets being a bit daft with food, I do hope it's a phase for all of them, e is driving me nuts! They won't let themselves starve, is what I keep saying to myself

puppy pics bplp

aw pikz bless you, you are terribly important, you know, and sometimes it can feel very relentless. I have felt like this and I am a SAHM so I can't imagine how hard it must be for you! Please try to take a moment for yourself, remember you're a person too and need to look after yourself. Big big hugs, and I really hope L is better soon

Epiiiiiic ! Hiya kyz xx

Hugs pikz I know how you feel. I feel the same.

With eating we just go with it. He's offered the food I've planned. If he throws it on the floor, I assume he's not hungry and so we leave it. I think he eats a fairly balanced diet.

Shame about the job pp there will be other things come your way.

Yay for puppies and tomatoe eating!!

Hugs to sleep dodger. Nothing worse.

I need a slap. I'm paranoid that post abx and reflux meds are going to see him back in hospital. I don't think I could do it again.

Plus with food, monitor the week not the day.

Kyz that was amazing

PP, Pass, PR, GT and Kyz thank you. Pass I remember when you went back to work
. It's just a bit relentless and on top of it DP just will not calm down the travelling which I know sounds ungrateful and please don't think I am. I feel like L and I need a couple of months in our house to just be and do work and nursery etc without going anywhere. It's amazing taking him around the world but DP doesn't see how exhausting it is for me, he says oh it will all get done it always does. Yes because I do it!!

PR hoping all vom is gone and laughalot hope yours goes too.

Yay for puppies and walkers and like Kyz said it good to hear we aren't the only ones struggling food wise.

GT the Tuesday thing is odd! Well done for being naughty!

X post with horsey so running in for a horsey hug and to deliver the quiche fish.

I get it, half my stress is worrying we will be back in hospital with broncholitis again.

Hmmm perhaps E is trying to asert herself eating wise then. She's certainly trying to do it in every other bloody area. Where has my calm mild mannered baby gone? Humpf.

pikz I hope you get some help. Make sure you get lots of rest in your week off. Praying that all the illness shit will be long gone by then.

Shame about the house pr. I'm getting a bit worried about this house I am moving into if it doesn't fall through. I didn't have "the feeling". I love the size of the garden but the rest of it well, umm I just don't love. It has 5 bedrooms which is good, a lovely sized bathroom with a walk in shower which I've always wanted (our current bathroom is small so drives me mad having to bath 2 kids in it) and I love the location as it backs onto the same playing fields as our current house but it's the end near the swings and there is a gate at the bottom of the garden which opens onto the fields so the kids won't need to go near any roads to go and play. But it needs a lot of work and perhaps this is where I'm starting to panic. The whole downstairs needs to be redone and extended, walls knocked through, new kitchen, new bathroom, new roof etc etc. Am I mad to take this on with 2 young kids. We can stay at in laws and my sis at times but not for long stretches. I'm really not looking forward to moving. I know when it's all done it will be fantastic, I've just got to hold onto that vision. And I hope it won't be that long till we can start work on it as I really can't bear to live there too long as it is at the moment. Ah right it appears every evening I now have to have a bit of a rant. That's it done!

I love wrapping presents but after a while I too get bored. I do no more than 5 at a time. I've done the girls and my DN (they're the bulk of it) but they're quite quick as I don't bother doing ribbon etc on them. I take quite a bit of time on the adults as I like them to look pretty.

Sorry to hear about the job pidj

bplp I love a good puppy photo. Really tempted to get one. Maybe in a year or 2.

Aww Pikz (((hug))) I do hope you get some rest and LO is soon well. It can be horrid being a working mum, but there are done days when it has its advantages.

Pass I LOVE the oxygen analogy. Amazingly accurate. Essential to life, yet invisible. Quite a good definition for motherhood.

Well, we have dosed J up two days at nursery and he has coped ok thankfully. I think it is just the jags/snot/teefs combo. Day 6 today and no rash or swelling. Yet. He really is a star. So very brave and a great sense of humour. I just wish he would fucking sleep!!!!

I have decided everyone I work with at the Post Office is a complete and utter wanker. I have to get this job. I just have to. Otherwise I will need to leave. Apparently jobs at this level are like hens teeth so the competition will be really tough. I am likely to have some wobbles in the near future.

Tonight DD2 tried to climb over the stair gate at the top of the stairs using a stool. She fell off. Thankfully back onto the landing. DH was beside himself thinking of what might have happened.

PR I hope you continue to feel better. Sounds horrid

Ah thanks kyz. I like little dot I'd never find you patronising.

horsey It's not easy to not worry about these things. Hugs x

Flouncey I think pink, or rainbow stripes, or rainbow dots. Or dove grey with coloured accessories, so you could change according to your mood.

eliza I suspect it is a wobble. And if it isn't well, so be it and there will other houses later when you have time and energy. I think we put ourselves under a lot of pressure to find the house but that might take some time and, like marriages, a lot of work.

pikz I hope the rambling helps a bit. I have never felt so close to spinning out of my own orbit as I have in the last few months. It can be hard as well when we compare ourselves to others and feel we should just 'get on' but things are not as simple as that. Your comment about "it always gets done' rang a massive big dong bell for me as well. I hope L is better super fast and you can build yourself back up again.

kyz! Luffs ya!

The eating thing is weird and always concerning. For months p has been a champion nommer but this has changed recently. If it isn't finger food then it's nothing generally. I try to channel horsey and relax about it as much as I can. I have started offering less at once which makes her a but less fussy.

(((( pikz )))) I can totally relate to how you feel.

Epic post kyz. I do have a lot on but have a great support in DH and PIL and DPs help too and I have a great nursery although S is less than impressed with his new room. It's hard but I have been back at work for 7 months so we all know the routine now.

Tough day work wise. Something unpleasant and v close to home happened. Been on the cards for a while. I'm fine.

GT you rebel

isles bedtime sounds hard. FX the new routine starts to pay off. How are you doing with (X)P?

evil how are things?

Wrapping - I usually enjoy but with and an Xmas movie. Haven't had time yet and silly season means I am out every night so not sure when I will get to do it. DH might have to help!

pidj something better around the corner maybe?

all round.

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The coughing bear is off on a car trip with his Dad to get him to sleep. Doing it early to get him off to nod. His cough is less frequent but seems more productive (ewww) so hopefully we're getting over the worst.

Ha DH has just called to say he is covered in a projectile phlegm vom. J is prattling away delightedly in the background. Better out than in and all that!

We've had a mad day where everything that could go wrong did (other than my lovely sleep in til nearly ten!!!) and then a massive stroke of luck. We missed playgroup due to sickboy sleeping in. Had a fab time at my sisters meeting her new king of all that is awesome kitten. Am def still a cat person as much as I love Betsy pusskins just rock. Bernard is a teensy ginger tabby. Sadly I was cuddling him when Betsy bounded in and he briefly freaked out and ran up my head using my face for purchase. Once I'd cleaned my wounds and he'd regained his cool he promptly stalked the dog and put her in her place with a lovely left hook. Repeatedly!

Left for home, got two stops on the train and realised I'd left my phone, keys and coat at my sisters so had to turn around and go and get them! She'd realised and rung DH who was on his way home, he popped home to get the car seat so he could pick us up and as he got out the car he dropped his brand new smart phone in the middle of our street. He drove off without noticing. He realised at my sisters what he'd done and was cursing losing something so expensive. We got home an hour later and lo, there it was in the middle of our (fairly busy) street - unharmed. Right in the middle of the road!

Gosh what a stroke of luck YW!

Need to get a move on with present wrapping.

This puppy is bonkers. She's going to fit right in

Wow YW! what a day!

J is still wide awake, but not happy with it. DH is off tomorrow so why the fuck is it me up? Because whenever he takes over he cannot manage J so J gets hysterical and vomits. Just as well I love J. DD2 has only just gone up too. DH couldn't even manage her.

I have not even thought about wrapping. I tend to leave it until last minute.

Mums of reflux babies, a question...

Do your babies suck their thumb? I know P has a dummy, but wondering about other reflux babies. I never see J sucking his thumb. I guess it is because he is always snot-bound.

VQ no thumb sucking and total dummy avoidance here. He has my boobs instead .....

O sucks his muslin. I am going to start a thread to ask if any other children have this weird habit? It started when he was wee by rubbing his face in blankets til he was asleep.

He rejected the dummy at 12 weeks.

He occasionally shoves a thumb in his mouth, but it's more of a 'I'm tired' signal and he just gives it a little chomp with the other rubbing his eyes!

So yes, he does suck, but not the conventional things. Of course.

Thanks pass. I suspect it is. And if worse comes to the worse and I still don't like the house when we have done everything to it we can sell it and move on. There is no reason we have to stay there forever.

vq No dummy or thumb sucking here.

My mum is paying DS1 to do her wrapping .

I don't know why the fuck I didn't think of this in the first place!

Oh yes I do. Because he can't fucking wrap. And I am very fucking anal about wrapping. As neat as possible, with bows and curled ribbon now someone will know who their secret santa was possibly!.

I don't do DS1 or O's like this. Just everything else that goes under the tree!

So those who hate wrapping, I have an 11 year old who will work for peanuts .

After mega-vom, a quick clean up and total change of clothing - stuck him on the boob and droopy limbed, snoring, unconscious within two minutes. Hoping that's the worst of the snot gone fingers crossed!!!!

Priest at playgroup Christmas party "and now, children, we're going to sing our favourite Christmas song to the baby Jesus"

J "The Dinosaur Stomp???? Wow!!!"

Me uncontrollable laughter

Ok so food things is a phase we hope. Lol
I love wrapping. Have no time to tho. During H nap A wouldn't shut up, the half hour he managed on the play mat I spent cleaning. Then A slept and I spent the whole time trying to play with H quietly so he wouldn't cry and scream which would wake A.

Gota find time tomorrow to customise their stockings! And finish bro Xmas gift scarf and start/finish my sisters scarf.
Hopefully get Xmas decs out. No big tree, just a lil one on table (mil idea) but going to hang the wreath up and put out a few xmas ornaments.

Bought a few bits for Xmas day. A colour in table cloth for kids. Napkins. A few lil toys for kids. Not sure what to do. Put them in Xmas box for next year or give to bil for Xmas day.

AIBU to keep for nxt year?