November 2012 - The run up to our babies' first 'proper' Christmas

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1927883-November-2012-Oh-Christmas-tree-oh-Christmas-tree-your-ornaments-are-history

My shape is the same. I am a size bigger than I would like to be though. Feel quite down about it but have no willpower whatsoever.

We baked gingerbread cookies. They are vile. I put too much spice in them . The oat and apple cookies turned out well, thanks fuck.

FFS just been to get my tyre fixed (drove over a screw en route to work) on a recomendation from next door. The garage have totally ripped me off and I am now stuck using my spare wheel until middle of January.

I am scrawnier than ever. Willing to trade 1.5 stone if anyone would like to donate?

Dog puked in the car on the way back from the vet then ate it then puked again as we pulled onto the drive. Bloody vet and her bloody treats.

Twiglets = eeeeenormous success here.

Sophia yes, have a word, surprised nobody else has so far.

Pidj after your shitty year you deserve each and every one of those.

I'm in team scrawny too pig. Feel rather self conscious about it.

Maybe to make up for your birthday Pidj. Either way, enjoy

Pidj I think Secret Santa must have felt you were a very good girl this year!

BP I have some nice ass fat, saddlebags and belly fat I could donate? About 1.5 stone would be perfect actually.

Chasing glad to see you back briefly, taking time off between shagging eh?

Isles argh. We use Kwikfit because though they're a chain they avoid the 'dodgy mechanic spies lady driver and cons her' ruse. What a shower of bastards to do that just before Christmas! Is next door financially connected to said garage?

As for wee babies, I'd have another newborn tomorrow if J was big enough to wean of BM and took a bottle more readily. I think another 6 months before TTC should give him enough time to wean as I am really scared of tandem feeding and he's too wee to do without milk. I do love a good newborn cuddle though. My bastard ex's girlfriend after me (to whom he was also an utter c*nt, leaving her with a DD, a lot of lies, a disappearing act and no child support), is preggers with her new lovely DH and is finding out the baby's sex today. We're really good pals now having been through a very cathartic series of 'OMG he did that to you too, ahhh I wasn't going mad' drinking sessions - I can't wait to find out what she is having. I hope for her and her DD's sake it's a boy as I think a DD might bring back sad memories of how badly our shared ex treated her when her DD was tiny. Pricks don't deserve babies, they certainly don't seem to make them behave any better to their long suffering ladies or improve relationships .

The nurse who was supposed to be doing the jabs has gone home sick so Oscar has a reprieve until after Christmas

BP if YW's fat donation doesn't work out - I definitely could donate the 1.5 stone. That would be a perfect amount actually to put me at the weight I was on my wedding day.
Just went to Asda, and F who is usually an angel in supermarkets did a great impression of a whingy whiny baby most of the way around until I gave him a box of cat treats to play with (weird child). He just likes to play with them as it usually makes the cats come running - that wasn't going to happen in asda though!
ooChasing I forgot to say earlier - loving your new man news! more details please!

Less said about my weight the better. DH and I rejoining SW and properly bloody doing it in the new year.

Someone brought in their 3 week old to work today. I am very broody. Even though we simply cannot afford it. And the head says no more. Not until S at school (then I could have 2 more !) But DH fancied a shag last nightindicated he really was persuadable (provided I/we magic up £££ for childcare when the time came).

I need to have a rant...

I don't know if I mentioned that I had been emotionally blackmailed into cooking Christmas dinner for the PIL and one BIL, then another SIL, BIL and DNephew decided they were coming too? Anyway FIL was just round and announced that he and both BILs were all having steak for their Christmas dinner and he would buy it and bring it round on Christmas Day for me to cook it. Am I wrong or is this very unreasonable. I don't want to cook for them at all and now I have to cook three steaks as well as a gigantic turkey, ham and all the trimmings. Oh and we have to have three different desserts as well because MIL wants trifle, FIL wants panna cotta and my mum has already made a Christmas pudding for us. I know it's stupid and I should be happy to be surrounded by family on Christmas Day but I'm so pissed off about it all. I just told DH that I'm going to my mum's next Christmas. Fuck it, I'm going there on Friday, supposed to be coming home Monday; maybe I could 'accidentally' miss my flight back.

I would like to lose 3st. I will settle for 2.5st though. I am seriously comitted to doing slimming world in the new year.

We actually could afford another baby. But I won't even entertain the idea until he has been dickhead-behaviour-free for a minimum of a year.

stunt I would be fucking furious.

Stunt I'd be livid too! Anyone coming to our house (I'm cooking for 8 this year but thankfully sharing the work with DH, who totally pulls his weight and my twin sister, who does too and who will be sharing in the Mummy chef and time off the kids in the kitchen!) gets what they are given - there's been some input into the menu to make sure it suits everyone but that was weeks ago - last minute changes are totally not on. Turkeys are bloody expensive and you might have already ordered it. I'd be deliberately missing my flight and let them have cheese on toast. We're having three puds because of dairy free freaks and Christmas pud haters (sorbet, pud and dairy free Yule log) but that was planned and everyone is chipping in with the effort there.

Isles once I've done 26 weeks of freelance this tax year (should be the case end of January) we too can afford to get updiffed as that would qualify me for maximum rate MA. Exciting! Just need Captain CMPI to chill the fuck out about moo juice so I can wean him.

yw captain cmpi made me

isles are you thinking about staying then? Has his behaviour been much better?

stunt that is fucking outrageous. Guests should eat eat they are given and be very grateful. Am for you. I think it might be time for the deployment of the MN standard "no that doesn't work for me". Don't agree.

stunt they are being very unreasonable.

Stunt they can eat what they're given or fuck off out and pay for yours too while they're at it! We have 2 puds, but only a tiny 2 person xmas one for tradition + the one we actually want which nowadays tends to be my yuletide spiced cheesecake. You are not a restaurant!

stunt they are being v unreasonable. Just think, if you went over to their house would they bend over backwards to do you cod in butter sauce or similar, and a pork chop for Uncle Bob and under/over done veg for Aunty Jean? They should eat what they are given.

The wind here is phenomenal. I have two fires light and the wind is whistling down the chimmnies. I am hoping DH arrives home safely soon, is horrific out there.

O is playing with the door again, this is now he got the split toe, and why I bought him some shoes.

Oo pidj recipe please! that sounds delicious.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10600/triple-ginger-cheesecake

It's that one, but with substitutions. I do the ginger biscuit base, then orange instead of lemon juice; 1/2tsp cinnamon and 1/2tsp nutmeg; ignore crystallised ginger and roasted rhubarb completely. Top with dried cranberries and strips of orange zest, in a pattern if you're feeling poncy.

Freezes nicely and is best prepped a day or two in advance

Stunt I would definitely be missing my flight!!!

Love captain cmpi

I could also donate 1.5 stone

I am not allowed to get updiffed until after the wedding in May... The I hope it happens super quick!

I was actually prepared to do a steak for FIL as I know he isn't keen on turkey. But it seems to me he has been canvassing the BILs and saying I'll cook them a steak as well. I have PM'd my SIL saying I hadn't realised BIL didn't eat turkey, and DH has counter-proposed Beef Wellington which could be bunged in the oven when the turkey comes out to rest. Don't get me wrong I love Christmas dinner and I enjoy cooking for people, it's just that I feel I have been taken advantage of and I have had a whole hose of horrible Christmases with DH's family so I'm predisposed to think it would be awful. One year the ILs all developed food poisoning during the course of Christmas dinner (from a meal out previously not from my cooking) and had to go home to be sick. Another year MIL had a breakdown and locked herself in her bedroom. I've cooked three times and twice missed all the presents being opened because nobody came to get me. Last year I refused point blank to do Christmas dinner since J was only five weeks and they all decided they weren't welcome and said they wouldn't see us on Christmas Day. So I ended up doing a light lunch for them instead and FIL was full of his usual me me me crap getting jealous of the baby getting all the attention. I'm definitely going to my mum's next year. There isn't enough room for everyone and all the presents will be opened in a mad frenzy before 7 a.m. but at least we'll be welcome guests and everyone will muck in together. My mum loves cooking Christmas dinner and having her family there for it means the world to her.

Reading that stunt and gt's post on FB makes me realise how lucky I am with my ILs being so far away

PR I was thinking exactly the same!!!

PR I am also counting myself lucky not to have to deal with any IL crap this year apart from none of them being able to get their arses into gear to see O this Christmas

Stunt, I think that they are being so bloody cheeky. And that's putting it mildly. You are a much better person than me - I would have told them where to shove their steak.