December 2012: Now they're all 1

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We needed a new thread!

Whenever there's a possibility he might walk i put R in his reins. We live on a busy main road, I'm taking no chances!

Hope your two poorly DC don't keep you up all night Beasty.

J's poorly again too, either teeth again (as his two molars have poked through) or ears (as I have dreadful earache).

J was knackered but has pepped right up at bedtime Just had tea at my mum's as DP's at his brother's. Got home to a blown fuse and a pitch black house. Luckily it had just tripped out so all back on now.

I need to find our reigns or get some more. Although if A doesn't want to go where I tell him he just sits down rather than running- for now!

Yes WLmum I forgot to say good luck, although I don't want to jinx you! I'd applied for a job with a local company, but they phoned to ask my salary expectations (stupid advert just said competitive) and the starting salary was half what I'm on now!

Pidj I once took one of the DC (forgotten which) to the nurse in a disposable but with a wrap over it (we used reusable with DD, couldn't face the washing on top of A's reflux!) She was saying how lovely it is to see reusable nappies these days. I didn't like to confess! But she's the same nurse who has said a couple of times how lovely it is to see babies come for vaccinations in slings rather than prams. We're in a pretty "alternative" area!

WillYou they were in bed an hour early! There is an upside. But we'll see how the night is.

I live in a pretty conservative area very white, mixed chavtastic and poncetastically middle class but have never had anything but positive comments or interested questions - not that he was negative, just the first one to not even know iyswim.

I may have converted about 75% of the mums I now know to slings

Stupid phone just lost my post.
stacks don't know if it would be particularly interesting, main factors were that its p/t and more money. It's certainly not a dream job but would plug a hole.
beasty poor dc, both nasty illnesses. Don't feel bad, ear infections can be hard to spot.
My fussy monkey wolfed a huge bowl of cauliflower cheese (I do make a mean one if I do say so myself) and then was enjoying dipping into my lentil and veg soup (fast day).

Surprisingly she wasn't interested with what was on the shelves. She was more interested in talking to strangers or walking the opposite way to us or doing sudden stops.

WL good Luck with the job i have my FX for you.

Stacks i vote you don't tell DP.

Willyou i hope you and J are better soon

I actually think I'm about to have some kind of breakdown if I had anyone to look after the children id walk out right now.

Dd is being horrible to ds we've got no food in the house so I've got to take both of them out to do the food shopping which is a forty mile round trip. Dp is working then fucking off to football so it's all left to me again. I can't find ds' birth certificate after dp said oh it ok it's in x place. Er no it's not and a fat lot of help that is now as you're not here as always.

I've shouted at the dc all morning and I just want to cry I'm so fed up. I wanted to get the food shopping done early but won't now as my sugars low and I can't drive for another 45 minutes. I'm hiding in my room the dc are downstairs.

Actually I feel a bit better having written all that down. Still trying not to cry though

Shout at dp, he can't fuck off to football and dump everything on you when you're ill (blood sugar)

Tbf it wasn't low when he left and even if he was he still would have left.... I've calmed down a bit now

Oh Spotty . I hope you feel better now, and that you've blasted through the shopping and are back home with lots of lovely food and fuck all for not-so-DP. I fucking hate when they just fuck off to football like it's the most important thing in the world and god forbid they miss it .

DS fell asleep at 10am as I was trying to get him into a play centre, he's still asleep. Why do they only sleep when you don't want them to? At lease I got to come home and do the ironing

Ooh cross post.

Spotty i hope your feeling alot better now and that the DC are behaving for you. I have developed a theory that if i need to do something then H will invariably play up. I think its something they learn from their dads haha.

WillYou, sorry I have Mr Clockwork these days - he's easy to predict so I just work round the fact that he'll want to sleep at 11ish! Yesterday he was squawking and pointing at the TV at 4:20 - he wanted to watch Nina and the Neurons

Ds will only sleep in his cot so I tend to put him down whenever. It just depends on whether we are going out or not/if I have work etc. I usually try to plan it for when home and away is on after lunch

How you doing now Spotty?

I'm fine thanks. I actually lost it this morning dp doesn't know anything about my meltdown though

Glad you're feeling better now spotty but can you take a bit of time out for you tomorrow? Meet someone for coffee, have a swim or just go for a nice peaceful walk and leave the dc with dp. We all have drowning days. One of my ny resolutions was more me time and I'm loving it! I've started jogging again and aside from getting fitter, the peace and quiet and headspace is amazing.
I took T for her first ride on my bike today, she loved it!

Not really, dp's got to mow the lawn and finish fitting the shower. There's loads of housework to be done too...

Still need to find ds' birth certificate too, honestly why make you do something so important when you're in the newborn fuzz stage?!

DH was meant to have DS today, while I was home upstairs knitting. It was meant to be a trial run sort of for him having DS all day tomorrow, 45m drive away. However he planned in bike cleaning/maintenance instead, so I had DS basically on my own again all day while he was fannying about in the garden. I can't really complain, because it'll save is £50 a month bus fare and get DP home earlier for the rest of the year. Didn't stop me wanting to complain though!
I still get to look forward to having a break tomorrow, but I'm worried I'll be worried about how they're getting on for the day. Am I the only one who's DH has never had their dc for more than 2 hours? He's always agreed to plans to have him, but somehow nothing has ever happened with them. I wonder what I'm going to do with myself all day tomorrow.. Any suggestions?

Glad you're feeling a bit better spotty, but sorry there's no real chance for some me time for you. I at least hope the DCs are better behaved tomorrow, and the housework magically does itself :)

I've made a plan to start running again after this baby is born and settled. Really hope I can follow through on it. I did the couch to 5k program a couple of years ago, ran in a 5k race, then basically stopped. I enjoyed it, but I made the mistake of only ever really doing treadmill running. No idea why, but it seems so much easier than running in the real world. Not to mention completely useless and pointless in comparison.

Dp had to look after the dc when I was in hospital for four days so has some experience but apart from that no he haven't. If he did he would only go to his mums/brothers god forbid if he had to go to the supermarket with them

Regularly and voluntarily, he'd think himself emasculated if he wasn't able

Spotty can you do online shopping to save yourself some stress?

I always used to but I'm trying to save money. Fed up of spending ££££ at tesco every week.

DH has all 3 regularly when I'm working and he's not. Of course I plan the meals etc and don't expect more than perhaps one load of laundry. He rarely had them alone for more than a couple of hours before I went back to work though.
spotty I know it's easier said than done but your well being is a higher priority than housework. Just one hour off will make all the difference.
stacks if it's a beautiful day again how about a walk in the woods? Mine love it. We're off to support DH and a pal of mine in a local half marathon - T will be in the ergo so a hand free for each of the bigs. Then celebratory tea at pizza express (courtesy of tesco vouchers). Yummy!