December 2011 - me do it mine self

[TheOnlySeven]

Offers round and

Glad the croup beggared off.
My scales have the same attitude. Am hoping that all the work in the garden this weekend may have helped a bit. I have bought all good foods to make salads to take to work this week. It's 3 weeks until we go on holiday. (Shit! It's 3 weeks til ...!!!!) I need to starve myself.
!!!

Oi I never am any good at "making an effort for the upcoming holiday": my solution to this is a)never wear a bikini, b) always try out ALL the local cuisine, and c) avoid all mirror and cameras for the duration. Works for me!

That sounds like a plan.
...that and eat nothing between now and then!

Hey PTP, how's the weekend gone? Have you thought any more about staying/going to your parents? I hope your 'P' has been civil, or at least absent...

And how's DS aethel, has he got croup, or is he just a bit chesty? At least he's done it this weekend, and not next with the bank holiday

Sorry to hear about the carpal tunnel mopsy, that's crap. But great news on the house, hurrah! When you said two years I thought 'naah', but then realised you'd been talking about it for longer than we had... Good time to get it on the market though.

We had another poo-in-the-bath session tonight, really grim. And on other development news (ha!) DS has dropped his nap both days Are we ready for this?!?

DS has also rejected his sleeping pod, and now makes a sort of nest from three blankets and a random assortment of his and my teddies in his cot and goes to sleep...I go in every night, ferret one of the blankets out and cover him up

Right, I am one knackered lady, being out with work Friday night and then waking up at 4am last night means I am off to bed... But four days off next weekend, am taking the Tuesday after the BH for me and the boy to have a day off together!

...took me so long to get that typed up it was a big X post with aethel! Glad to hear he was OK in the end.

Yeah we are slow movers Northern!!! House looks great though.

I always kill the thread

Don't worry mopsy how u feeling?

have curled up in bed with a cup of tea and Game of thrones on the iPad seriously why is it so cold and wet outside? Dh home tomorrow!!

Ha! Don't worry mopsy, me and figster did it last time talking about poo and poo-frequency!

Another terrible night, I could not sleep, and then DS woke in the middle of the night wanting out of his cot and into the cuddle bed. Which we did...only he likes to sleep at 90 degrees to me, with his head on my hip. And so I had to worry about smothering him with the damn duvet.

Next door's baby has arrived, got talking to Dad over the fence- only a 6 pounder, and has dropped to 5 something with the fall in weight the week after. Have invited myself round to coo next week

Cold and wet? It's been gorgeous all day! But the skies turned dark later on, threatening storms and rain but nothing yet.
Hope your carpal tunnel doesn't evolve, Mopsy. That sounds horrid. (How did we forget all the discomforts of pg?)
(I'm not, by the way. At least, I don't feel it yet. Another week before AF yet. - giving up the booze and eating healthier, also more exercise in the garden etc should all help. )

We spent all day Sunday in the garden. I had to buy another 6 bags of stones. I have rediscovered my BodyPump muscles. Or rather the fat that once was muscle has been shocked into life. I will feel it tomorrow!! However, the garden looks great, so it was worth it. It's all ready now to be planted up, prettified and vegetated. Glorious!
Any good ideas for a present for a girl for a christening?
I'm to be godmother to Neveah. I explained that I was honoured to be asked, but I am an atheist. The mother said, "oh I don't believe either. Don't worry, it's in a Methodist church, so it's not a proper church."
I better dust off my best church hat!
(It's all about the party after, and the cake.)
I can't argue with cake.

Me too Oi. My old friend SPD in left bum/lower back also making itself known today. Oh well. I just want it to be 12 weeks so I can be reassured everything is ok. Had forgotten all the worry ...

I got a silver (plated not solid!) piggy bank for a little girl christening. Very cute.

(Shaped like a pig. In John Lewis.)

A good day here: DS spent the whole day in a single pair of pants and trousers!!! Yay!!! no poo but we'll ignore that bit
And I managed to squeeze in a quick Nell McAndrew exercise whotsit. Didn't realise she had a Northern Accent, spent the five minute intro with my mouth open in surprise, for some reason I thought she was a Yank!

And at Methodist churches "not being proper"....

(In the nicest possible way, why is she getting christened if she's not a Christian? Is this a keeping-granny-happy do, or a cunning future plan for getting into CofE school?)

Is crazy aethel. In Ireland practically everyone baptises their kid even though hardly any of my generation actually believes or goes to Mass more than once a month (to keep up appearances). Given the scandals in Ireland with all the child abuse it is amazing they still do. Everyone says they don't want their child to be left out at school when all the other kids are making their communion (age 8) but that's bollocks. If all the people who use that excuse just didn't there'd be barely a kid baptised. If they truly believed would be different but nobody does really. Is a bit mad ...

Ah, I had an atheist Godmother Oi, and I am an atheist Godmother to my brother and sister- I think it's traditional to get silver jewellery? Can't go too wrong with money either!

Woo for DS aethel, sounds like he's going great guns.

Sorry you're still feeling a bit worried mopsy- you'd feel that for karmic balance that if you had anxiety, you wouldn't have any physical issues, and if you were limping you'd be bouncing with unconfined joy, doesn't seem fair for you to have both...

Ahh have finally got a booking in appointment next week, I'll be 10+5. The antenatal team never got the referral from the doctors surgery still at least that's sorted now and then hopefully I will have my 12 week scan in a couple of weeks!

I can't wait to check everything is okay and then I can tell people! Plus in hoping I won't be so tired and I'll be able to eat tomatoes again :)

I'm sure you'll be a great 'god' mother Oi I think it's mainly to be there for the child and offer advice and comfort when they need it.

I had mine today Chip ... at home with the same lovely midwife from last time. So pleased she is my midwife again. She is lovely.

How's Xiao doing aethel, is she keeping well?

Great to hear about the booking in appointments, all sounding good. Then a couple of weeks and then the scans

We had an interesting start to the morning- I was trying to leave the house and DS disappeared into the kitchen: we then hear furtling noises. DP and I both yell for him to come out of there: furtling noises increase. As we can tell he's in the fridge, both DP and I start to move towards the kitchen, but DS comes running out...

...and hurls an egg across the living room. It hits the bookcase and explodes everywhere.

Just, just, WHY?

It's not about keeping family happy. It's not about future schools.
It is about not thinking about it at all. Everyone does, don't they?
Anyway, there's a party after, with a DJ, they've ordered a cake, and all the outfits are sorted.
Priorities! It's about the party.

I'm all for being a positive role model, a support, a friend, a guide...
But I hate party- christenings.
Hey ho! Off down the path of hypocrisy I go!
Skippity-hop-hop!

Watching channel 4 documentary about my half brother's special school in Sussex. He's not in the programme and as someone with asberger's resitting GCSE's he's one of the school's less challenging pupil, but I'm finding it an interesting watch. And feeling sad about his late diagnosis and subsequent battle to get his statement and appropriate support

Or asperger's even. Bloody auto correct is my worst enema!

Sorry, wrong place to post any of that. Please ignore me!