December 2008 - Summertime and the children are easy......

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Ha ha ha ha....we wish!

Here's to a lovely relaxing summer and cheery new thread for us all.

Hi deids! X posted. Well done to dd!
Brilliant!
Hay fever just awful. I used to butch my brother out for his constant whinging growing up but I have only had it come on in the last couple of years and it's HORRID! I Dose up daily and then force myself not to scratch my eyes out. And it's almost manageable. I feel for her!

And I cycle to school and need to dose before I go plus wear sunnies
Who is palaeontologist? Vag?

Oh and beans. I've been weird about snip in this house and not for even slightly reasons of wanting any more kiddies. But if it's just him not wanting to, I'd be given you've given him 3 lovely kids and I'd have a (quiet) chat!

It's Indith (I think....)

DH had the snip. Nothing to it. The actual op I mean not his man bits

It is indeed Indith.

dh was fine with the snip too. He took a while to come around to it though, had it done around 3 months ago but we were talking about it before ds2 was even born. Had to be his decision. ultimately it was the mega stress a pregnancy scare caused that made him go for it. It is such a personal thing.

I was told that the implant is easy to take out if you don't like it or decide to try for a baby.

I was really liking the depo jab but I get loads of random bleeding now that lasts for weeks so I can't stay on that.

You know what I really like is spending all day tidying the house and doing laundry and feeding everyone, to then come home after my sewing class the one time I have something that is just mine and find the boys bath towels thrown in the vicinity of the towel rail DHs dirty gym kit left in a bag on the stairs, the washing helpfully brought in from outside but screwed up in the basket on the kitchen table, the bins not put out and general mess. Why do I bother oh and this morning when DH left to go have a breakfast at the Hawksmoor with his pals. He shouts up stairs to me while I am getting 3 children ready for the day (while he just ups showers and is away) that I need to make sure the pots and hanging baskets are watered.

Rant over. Well for now.

And now he has just bought Monty Python tix for him and his mate. It's on the day after he is at another mates for a beer festival. We are meant to be saving. Meanwhile he is dropping money all over the place for what he wants.

Ooh there is going to be a conversation tonight.

omg Jam, I hear you! It's not the fact that you have to pick it up, it's the fact that when they do it, they must think, "I'll just chuck it there, she'll sort it out". My latestbugbear is placing the dirty dishes on the bench above the dishwasher. Is it really that freaking hard to open it up & put them in!

Sorry for hey fever sufferers DH gets terrible hay fever & it looks like DS1 too now. I know a lot of people don't believe in it but DH followed a homeopathy routine for two years and had absolutely no hayfever. He got lazy and didn't do it last year and this year and has had two years of bad hayfever. We are going home to spring so I'm going to make him start on it again.

We are lazy beans and use condoms. I think in a couple of years DH will snip it. Right now we are too busy organising homeward boundness to think about it.

oh I'm so hungry need to eat then school run.

Hello all,

Beans I think you are being v gracious not ringing your sister and giving her a telling off. How awful. She must be v unhappy in her life.

re contraception if you find the perfect solution let me know!

Deids How exciting about the show. Is your dd feeling confident? I did the mum's race on sports day and was joint last. A woman with a 5 week old baby beat me!

Jam Oh yes. Blimey, I hope you left the plants. I get the rage about the pan cupboard. Dh puts them away in a jumble so the door doesn't close. They stack into each other, how hard can it be?

I'm sure I was going to say something else..

DEIDS I THINK YOU RE Dd is awesome!

Not sure why I shouted the first bit...

Might be all the alcohol I just had.

I'm glad I never really have to say goodbye to you lovely ladies of mine.

we really should try a weekend away.

Oh and I think someone spiked my alcohol.

I think we should too Vag - can't we organise something central at a pub that has rooms / b&b etc, that way there's not pressure on one person to book / collect money etc. It's gonna get tricky with school holidays though.
Urgh, I totally get that dishwasher thing - dh finally learning that one. Struggling quite a bit with this stop gap move. Wardrobe issues, outside space, and yesterday the fridge broke so have an engineer coming today - the "window" is 8-6 yeah that's not gonna work. Hope I get plenty of notice as it's swimming day. So it's making it worse as we all have to be ultra tidy and only one of us is. (that's me) dh fixes stuff and then leaves drills and crap laying around. Guess I should be pleased he fixes stuff.
Hay fever killing me and I'm out of meds. Just back from the school run had to hammer it after locking my keys in the garage so had to break in to the garage which was frighteningly easy.

DD doesn't appear to be nervous at all! I however feel sick on her behalf. Ridiculous really. It's a school show FFS. Although she wants me to do her hair & make up before she goes on stage . Diva much?

I would certainly try to make a night in a pub/b & b. Although school hols are pretty hectic.

Very short notice I think but I'm staying at stanstead on August 9th. I don't know London and surrounding areas so I have no idea if anyone is near Stanstead.

Oh blimey, How I would love a night in a pub or B and B with you lot. Can we do it this time? Conversely, for me school hols are easier in a way. I wonder if a Sat night is a goer.

DB, your girl is a trouper! Hope it goes well. I am impressed she has got the cojones - hope it goes brilliantly.

Had the inquest today. Got through it. Hugely relieved it's over. Hope I never have to attend another one ever. To cheer myself I booked a trip to Corfu just me and the girls (DP will be working) 18-28 Jul. Planning to venture into Albania as well!

Kayz, I am planning a whole week in London with the girls in the holidays, not sure which week that will be yet though.

Beans, I will eagerly await your grand solution to the terrible contraception question. None appeal. DP won't have the snip. Cheeky £ucker suggested I "get my tubes tied " when they do my section. I don't fancy that. Or the coil. Too old for hormonal contraceptives, condoms are a bit duff, the cap sounds like a total passion killer. Not sure where that leaves me, I categorically and under no circumstances want a no. 4.

Jam, I totally understand. DP's mess and disorganisation drives me absolutely tonto.

Jam, I feel your pain. How many men rush home from work in time for their kids' edit me, which just never happens, and does the gardening?

Oops, not edit me, I meant bedtime!!

Woo hoo DD came second! A flight wobble and she bottled it. But came back on a couple of acts later and was fab! She got scared by the audience. Like a sad mum I have put on her Cheryl Cole impression on FB. Couldn't put the actual performance on due to school rules etc. gosh I'm so chuffed for her!

Well done dddeids!

Note to self. Don't leave child in bike seat unattended. Whole bike toppled over as dd likes to bounce it while I was in classroom looking for ds school bag. No one hurt but you'd have thought dd had her arm chopped off. She got a big fright. My class parents helpful but other passers by who help gave some disapproving glances. Especially after they retrieved my phone which was hurled across the path to dis over dd had been playing minecraft on it
But I blame dh. He only had to collect ds from school ride to swimming (about 500 metres) then ride home with all related bags. This morning. No school bag. Left in bike shelter. Fortunately made it's way to his peg. Men
Lady glad you got through it. And no no more of those for you.

We really must try for a B&B / pub. If anyone can throw out some dates I'll do some research. That said I've not even sorted my patents visit, but half done dds birthday weekend. That's right, weekend. Actually it works for us too. Spoilt little minx.

Pub lunch today with a couple of school mums for one leaving. Quite sad she is. Not too far at least but she's a class rep too and really nice. Shame.

I'm an ever changing vegetable starting with A but in disguise.

I want a weekend away. Veggie is it even possible we could see you before you go????

Bit of a conundrum here. DD1 (Y3, aged nearly 8) went to a swim club disco last night and came home full of tales of a 10 year old boy (Y5) she is friends with. They had fun dancing etc then he asked her to hold her hand. After that he told her she was his girlfriend because she held his hand. Then some other girls said this meant they had to kiss "properly" and so they did apparently. I have not got to the bottom of what "properly" means but all this seems rather age inappropriate to me. Am I being over protective or do others agree? Im not sure what, if anything, I should do.

Yikes A!! Your DD is the same age as mine. I wouldn't be happy at all . Although I guess you'd need to know exactly what 'properly' meant re the kiss. Who was supervising? If it was actually a proper kids then I would be having words with the responsible adult. Gosh it's a tricky though...maybe a quiet word with the boys parents if you know them? Surely this is what happens once you get to high school or am I bring totally naive?

I hope you understand that last post! I really should preview before posting thanks to my predictive text

Lady Glad the inquest is over. Must have been awful.

Wow go deids dd! That's great.

Rubes We've all done something stupid, those judgy parents will have. I let dd2 carry a full milk bottle into the kitchen last week. She dropped it, cut her foot on the glass and then told anyone who would listen neighbours, school parents, dd1's teacher, nursery staff. It was a stupid thing to let her do but they all looked at me like this

I'd love a b&b night away.

I've hurt my back and realised no one ever picks anything up off the floor except me. The place is a right state and my back is killing me.