November 2012 - What are your New Year's resolutions for your baby?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1937565-November-2012-The-run-up-to-our-babies-first-proper-Christmas

It is indeed more riveting than a soap opera! There are some cracking ILs on here

Found the brackets vq so obv haven't been naughty enough of late.

isles I'm looking forward to the property porn. And landlord does indeed sound like a pita. Your house buying plans sound vair sensible. Would love to be in a position to buy a house. Super jealous.

forgot to say, good luck in advance to vq, here's hoping you get the recognition you deserve. What is the presentation on?

Santa bought dh a wooden "make your own car" set, he is currently stuck on instruction #1 lol. Long, quiet night ahead! Nice day today, silly amounts of pressnts for the girls, who are v v lucky indeed. And thankyou of course to my SS who sent a lovely bear for F, and some treats for me including my fave lip balm .

Oh of course, happy Christmas BPLP

I am not entirely 100% sure we are in a position to buy a house. Together, yes. Alone, probably not until summer. But if he is serious about legally ensuring the house is 100% mine, then I am happy to go for it. I just need to keep looking, as I am not sure I really love either of today's houses. Will go and have a proper nosey round them in the new year. Either way, I need to move out of this place asap and I am done with shitty landlords.

Hello quiche! I've missed you all but life seemed to get in the way. I'm just over 6 weeks post op now and can drive! Yay!

Resolutions this year are identical to vq's

J needs to learn to sleep, preferably in his cot and ideally in his own room.

DH has done fantastically well while I'm useless and manages to put j down upstairs (kinda almost in the cot which is attached to our bed just now) and he will sometimes sleep in there for an hour!! Yip one full hour which sounds like fuck all but for us that means we can watch some telly!

I'm going to do something about my weight when new year hits. I need to. I have the most horrendous mummy tummy overhang which flaps when I run up the stairs

Currently sitting on my bed MNing with hair dye in my hair wearing the nighty I birthed Emily in...I look hot! NOT!

Had a lovely Christmas. Dinner was perfect and the kids got spoiled but everyone. Way too many presents . DH did well with mine, almost, a lovely handbag, Lancôme lipgloss and he tried to get me the bare minerals make up I like but never justify buying, he got the shade very wrong but he tried and we swapped it today so I shall be pretty tomorrow, albeit with my stripy home dyed hair!

Em...new years day is DHs 30th birthday. Hogmanay we will be going to his cousins who stay in the middle of nowhere. I won't drive as the roads are twisty dark and yuck so poor DH will need to. I feel bad but I'd be shitting myself. New Year's Day we are going out for dinner then his best friend is coming round. We are meant to be having a joint birthday thing on my birthday however I've arranged for kids to be watched on the Saturday after his and for around 25 people to be in a local pub to surprise him :-)

Failed prediction. She woke up. Kids asleep though. Still not eaten. Served up 3 dinners. Cold. No 4th. Bollocked. Fail. Night quiche.

really happy to see a positive post from you izzy xxx

Not many sleeps to go now pr...

I will start a thread on FB about the job, presentation etc in a few days as it would identify me with a huge big red arrow.

There was an interesting article on the bbc website a few months back, about a photographer in the US who had gone around photographing post-baby tummies in all their glory. It's a tricky one because on the one hand, you celebrate the body that has produced a baby, but on the other, you perhaps wish that things were more how they were.

Dh is having a meltdown over the wooden car. It has foxed him good and proper!

He is off playing golf tomorrow so have a girly day with F. Happy times. Shattered now so off to bed, night quiche xx

Hello quiche. Loving the resolutions. Mine for H are to ensure he feels happy and secure, to get him in his own room and stop him hating his shoes. For me l need to loose weight, finish my phd and sort out a more secure job. Makes me tired just thinking about it. Good news on the interview VQ. Hope you‘re feeling ok today evill.

Used balsamic vinegar in my salad dressing this evening. BOLLOCKED. After 6+ years of no complaints how could I not know she didn't like balsamic? Eh?

Half past 11 we're still at table. Mil wants to play card game. Going to be a long night.

Fuck fuck fuck I really need a quiche cuddle. I only went and knocked the instructors tooth out. Blood everywhere. He was not happy. Swore at me. Oh and I didn't fancy my date. He REALLY likes me. I agreed to go on a second date. I now need to get out of this somehow...

Shit!

I've made a penis pour a fountain of blood once?

Does that help?!

Consider yourself cuddled!

Hello ladies. Merry Christmas to you all. Can't believe it's all over. We had a lovely one. Went to my parents. It was so nice not hosting which I've done the past two or maybe three years. Just got to relax and eat. H's routine is all over the place which is not good. He's going to bed so late but waking up late too but I'm just so tired. I'm very jealous of all of you that are ttc. I would love to have another but dh doesn't want to for financial reasons which is fair enough. We couldn't afford child care for two and I couldn't afford to stay at home. Stunt sounds like you had a close call. I remember how horrid your dh was to you and your children during the past year and I think you said it was because of the lack of sleep (please correct me if i'm wrong) I really hope you don't ever have to go through that again and I thought your dh didn't want any more children.
And Chasing you said that one of your resolutions was to fall in love. You have come out of something quite major not that long ago and I'm not sure if you've healed completely from it. I really don't thnk you'll be able to fall in love until (I know this is going to sound really corny) but until you love yourself completely and enjoy who and what you are. I think dating can be fun but it can also be a distraction from working on yourself. Not sure if that makes sense at all and do tell me to F off if I've overstepped, but most people don't find the love of their life when they are looking for it. I could be completely wrong.

I haven't been properly in love for a very long time. If ever. I'm ready to be in love and to be loved. If I can't believe that it will happen in 2014 I will find it very hard to get out of bed every morning.

Finally home after a fab couple of days away, ending in a really lovely post christmas party at a friends house near by. Kids have been fab but need a couple of quiet days at home as it's all getting a bit much. My DH is playing golf tomorrow too bplp that's really not unusal though so have a lazy morning planned followed by some serious house sorting that needs to be done.

Have skim read thread and chasing what happened with the bloke you were shagging? Have I missed something or are you still shagging but continuing to browse? Which there is nothing wrong with of course!

For NYE we are going to a shin dig at the rugby club DH used to play for. It's advertisied as a family disco but think we'll leave the kids with the inlaws, lots of our friends are going so should be good fun.

Re resolutions, I tend not to make them as I never keep them so it's not really worth it. But 2014 will be the year I move house even if it kills me which is looking likely!.

Anyway, tis lovely to be home but kinda sad the festivities are coming to an end. I always get the January blues really badly but at least now I have DD1's birthday mid jan to help me through it.

Chasing being in love is amazing and there is nothing wrong with wanting that but it shouldn't be you be all and end all. There is a 50/50 chance that it will happen for you in 2014 but if it doesn't its not going to make you any less amazing and fabulous and much loved by the ladies in this quiche. It will come to you at the right time. I truly believe that. It might be tomo it might be in 10 years but I just don't want kissing too many unnecessary frogs to get to your prince.

RED ALERT! MIL is comparing family backgrounds. She was faaaaar worse off than me, without knowing diddly squat.

Won't even go into deatils, as I don't, but just told her, sorry, am pmsl, have to go to the bathroom as am PMSL.

PR

Am not even answering other than what I just said. Pmsl and running.

2am. Was up at 6. After no sleep.

My kids will be awake in 5 hours. Aaaarrrgh

But am now alone. Me time. First of the day. Fuckit. Have to sleep.

By ny I will be a gibbering wreck.

I have been lovely to him when we did meet btw. Only realised he hated me a year later.

And onernight awakening. Go into kitchen to get some milk for LO. Who's up, reading in the kitchen? MIL. Why's she awake? That's not normal at her age...

Oh, I dunno, something must have woken her.... I have been asleep for less than three hours and do not need a 4h30 conversation tyvm

The why's she awake comments were mil btw. About LO.