December 2011 - the one where we do the Twist and Shout

[ifyourehoppyandyouknowit]

New thread.

these babies are nearly two and a half

(One's)

oi sorry you had a hard weekend. A family brake up is hard on all in that family, maybe your Dad is upset and just needs time to get use to the new arrangments? Like wise for your ex's family as this change will affect how they see you and relate to you now. The older Boi gets the more questions he will ask but if you remain friends with your ex and communicate there is no reason that coparenting will ever hurt your son. He will just have more people to love him. You and Boi will be fine. I love the idea of a dog, a big cuddle chocolate lab?

Figgy im still impressed you have a skunk as a pet

Its such a nice day today the sun is shining

Posted too soon!

Its hot, the sun is out, I feel depressed so im going to take the kids to the big park today and the world and its worries can just fuck off for abit!

Aaron has a cough and is being sick at night, Hope is having a few meltdowns and I cant see my life ever changing/improving and I keep having nightmears about the world ending from things like supervolcanos, metor impact and bombs/missiles. Im clearly working things out in my subconscious!!!!!

Skunks are not for everyone and tbh this will be the last we have as you cant get them descented anymore and there is no way I am having a fully loaded one living in the house. He is lovely and I keep telling myself he has had a hard start to life but please please PLEASE stop pooing in your bed!!!! He is clean with it always in the back never on his mainly not on his blankets but seriously!!

Oi what arrangements have you put in place re: Boi is he staying over with DH in the week? Alternate weekends? Does anyone at work know yet? Your Dad is a product of his generation but regardless shouldnt have made the career comments he wouldnt have if you had been your DH. I assume you just separating and havent discussed the D word yet?

CM just called to say DS been upset all morning and she has put him for a sleep which he promptly fell into, he was clingy yesterday too after his meltdown for DH on Saturday. She said she knows 3 kids with the pox at the moment ........................ i dont like the sound of this. Oh and he is still obsessed with bird poo she said he wouldnt walk home from the school run this morning due to bird poo. Strange kid!!

sory to hear you down Air definitely get outside for some distraction. How is your DH these days health wise did he have to give up work? Sorry cant remember.

Aw ! Poor skunk, and poor you!

We haven't discussed when Boi will stay at his dad's. His room will be comfortable before his first night on Thursday. At some point soon we're going to get our calendars out and see what fits. I guess Boi will go there 2 - 3 nights a week, with us having him alternate weekends. But we'll have to go gently to avoid upset.

No, no mention of divorce. I doubt we will until we've been apart a year, and are sure that there's no going back.

Sorry you're having a rough time Air. Supervolcanoes sound pretty scary!

Gah knew things were bad 10 mins after that post cm called to say he'd thrown up on himself got there he threw up on me he's now lying on sofa on a towel in his nappy with a sick bowl.

2 weeks in a row he's been sent on Monday, looks like I'll be missing dh granddad funeral Wednesday no alternative childcare. buggering balls!!

Oh no! Poor Figgyboy!

Oh no! poor DS!

Oh no figgy, poor baby and poor you.

DS is asleep on his gran. At 5pm. FFS.

Oh no figgy Hope he perks up soon .

Sounds like you're doing great Oi. Course it's going to be hard. . at your dad's career comments.

We are at my parents, Minimopsy seems OK but had major meltdown which made me anxious but seems okay again now.

Everything smells here we had another bought at 5 he's in bath I feel I need one too bleurgh.

Ooh hop 5pm nap you just know you in for trouble

We need an attack menagerie for the thread. Haddocks were the vanguard (well, zombie haddocks, as they had to be dead, cold and filthy-stinking), but the ranks behind should be alive with protective malice! Skunks, geese, dogs, rabbits, chinchillas, bastard cats, bird-poo bombers... any I've forgotten? oh, yes, the ankle-biters themselves screaming, kicking and biting, yup ! Also gin-cake artillery.

Poor Minimopsy, Figgyboy and Aaron sound as though they are (or have been - I hope minimopsy is feeling a bit better than this!) in the infectious wing of our Defence Force, perhaps backing up the zombie haddocks. Poor little things!

Has the weather cheered you up at all, AnAirofHope?

God it'll never end he threw up his sliver of dry toast too and has now gone to bed.

Am sat in my work car park needed my laptop and phone charger for tomorrow after working at home with him last week noway I'll get away with it again

Poor little thing (and poor you, too! )

Oh dear figgy one 5ml spoon/syringe of water/dioralyte/squash every five minutes us v helpful to rehydrate. They still puke it up at first but if you know persevere it is very helpful. My major tip, however, is TOWELS! Surround yourself with towels and your bed and sofa. Everywhere. Then get them to be sick on towel. Washing and drying towels way easier than cleaning vom off carpets/mattresses/pillows etc. It helps a lot.

agh typos

IS v helpful
if you persevere

Aaargh it is hot and sticky. "d"S keeps coming downstairs. Am bored of returning him so am ignoring him. He's laid on the floor ocasionally waving limbs at me. I am not playing!

Both of mine didnt sleep well last night both had a nap this afternoon both are still awake. Ds in bed coughing and being sick (he still went to school, its only when he lies down). Dd on sofa bf and playing with toy rolling pin.

I agree lots of towles help.

Yep dh finished in Jan this year.

Aw, poor little figgyboy, sounds grim. Hope it's just a 24 hour job figgy, though I know either way you won't be able to get him back to the CM's in time for the funeral. Y'know, the DCs normally at least wait until winter for their timed illnesses, and give us a bit of a break in summer

I've got a wonderful picture of your DS in my mind aethel, limbs-a-waving (makes me think of our favourite 8-limbed thread pal too!) Have you got him back to bed yet?

Sorry your DF has been a tool Oi, but you were clearly expecting it. He can either get with the programme, or at least find the polite switch, or I guess he won't be seeing all that much of you and BOi!

Bloody knackered, DS had me up in the night (unusually), so am off to bed. He really endeared himself to DP by getting his cereal milk all over himself, and between getting his nappy off in the kitchen to clean him up, and getting to the mat in the living room for a new nappy- distance, one yard- managed to widdle all over the recycling !

Small person asleep on sofa. Will shortly be in his bed. I predict a 4am pitch invasion. Night all!

With that post, Plu, we can see you're a writer! Fabulous wordery!
Well, I have been BUSY!
First room on the list DONE!
Have totally transformed my bedroom. It is no longer functional. It is now lovely. (But actually more functional!)
My dressing table with hair dryer etc has always been in the spare room, because I used to get up for work much earlier than DH. So one spare room became my dressing room. This always sounded luxurious and frivolous. "A dressing room!" But was actually a form of anti-earliness-apartheid. I was banished there.
Now, it is in my bedroom! I can now, if I wish, go to bed early and do the things I have not done in 2-3 years. Things like cleanse and moisturise before bed! Oh the luxury!
Tomorrow I shall work on the "dressing room", to be a spare bedroom, plus fabulous shoe display area.
Wednesday, DH's dressing room shall be turned into spare guest bedroom no. 2, plus (summertime) garden-festivity-store.
I forgot dinner.
Once I'd finished my room it was 21:30, so I settled for a martini. I probably ate enough today as I worked from home.
All the furniture removal noise also (thank you, Plu!) helped the Boi to settle much more quickly!
Bang! Clomp! Stomp! > Snore!
Fabulous!
(Also, moving furniture and stuff all around the house makes it impossible for Gruffalo's and backsun's [theives and nasty types] to hide in closets, to unnerve you when you go to bed!)
Job done!

What is it with these little buggers and their unsettled-ness?

In our case (have only just dumped DD in bed!), it's a daytime sleep (maybe HopSon's problem, too?), thanks to:
(a) hot weather, and bastard hot cars in particular, and
(b) loooong daylight hours. (actually, I must admit, it's doing my head in, too. Need better blackout blinds)

We're going away on Friday, though, and it's only 45N, so will be darker than the UK - hurray.

Lots of preparation needed, though - boo. And no MN in the woods - aargh.

The builders allege that they didn't know we were going away so soon (wtAf?!), so now we've been assigned a massive list of things to sort before departure. Buggers. The next round of shopping won't be anything like as nice as the John Lewis lighting splurge. And no nice nesting like you, Oi!

Morning everyone!

Glad you're having a sort out Oi the photo looks lovely! It's amazing what kids can sleep through sometimes ;)

Hope Figgyboy gets better soon Figster it's too hot to be feeling poorly :(

I'm really fed up with work at the moment, our team has changed a lot recently and when I go to work today I'm sitting in between two people I don't especially like, but even worse, they cannot stand each other. It gets worse as I'm working an extra day a week for the next 8 weeks...must keep my sanity in check!

Morning been up since 4.45 3 bouts of sick including in his bed he's hungry have given him a rich tea finger expect I will see it again soon enough

Poor figgyboy...

How uncomfortable, chipsandspuds, just "Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water"!