November 2012 - Roll call!

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He must be getting some!

Aging pussy seems to be on the mend.

Radioiodine therapy
Antibiotics
Some sort of cystitus med
One piss covered rug

Bill = a gazillion pounds

But she is currently looking happy and slightly round and is purring on my knee so fingers crossed she is now well and will stay well.

DD2 has vommed 5 times so far. I am amazed so much can come from someone so wee. Surely there cannot be any more in there. Her hair is full of it so she will have to have a bath first thing. I am seriously unimpressed.

I am glad I do not have a pet. They are very expensive it seems.

Sigh. Forgot to tell nursery about inhaler. Silly.
Also undecided about buying the uniform tshirt... It doesn't seem to be compulsory. Only saw 3 kids wearing one. All kids get one free. But might make dressing the boys easier on a day to day bases...
Darn it. Now they are going to nursery I need to buy them more clothes.
H mostly wears tracky bottoms. Almost all of which are a little well washed.
A still lives in babygrows and in hot weather vests. So he needs more actually clothes.
Would be good to have opinions from those more experienced.

How much are the T shirts GT? At least both being boys A can wear all H's hand-me-downs. Do you have any charity shops nearby? Any friends with older boys? A local FB selling page for a bundle?

DD1 has joined the vom fest so I have yet to sleep. I now have to decide what to do about work. Hopefully DH will be sick enough to stay off work but well enough to look after them. Is that possible for a man?

izzy, hope your wee one is ok, that was such a tiny bite for such a reaction.

pikz, what a lovely thing for the lady to say. I kept reading it and it made me well up a little. Hope you had a chance to relax this evening as sounds like you had a long day (if the lady was right)

gt, from experience I would send H to nursery in old clothes as they can get lost (taken home by other kids), stained or ripped at nursery so not worth risking new clothes imo.

Dh keeps farting in his sleep and it stinks. Not fair as he's asleep so doesn't have to breath it.

I asked dh to get up with F one morning, ONE MORNING, and the lazy cunting waste of space couldn't even do that. I am fucking livid.

vq

And yy to 2nd hand clothes for nursery, gt. Ebay is your friend.

Agree with all those GT who say 2nd hand and also sale stuff. I get joggers from supermarkets and shops in the sales for £2 a pair.

Hope your ok VQ and I too would be livid BP

Up for teeth last night. At least now he can tell me he wants milk and capol... Every cloud

Coffee all round... I'll get the toast on for everyone

And thank you to everyone on my supermarket comment. I sat in the car and wept. I have printed it out like VQs suggestion. It was a long day yesterday!

Sorry to hear about vom vq :(

And I'd be furious too pig

gt my girls live in cheap leggings and tops when it is not too hot. Almost all their clothes have been gifts, hand me downs or ebay bundles. Asda do cheap stuff as am sure you know and other places too. You don't need expensive or high quality stuff at nursery. One of DD1's contemporaries comes to nursery in expensive designer dresses every day and the nursery staff bitch about it regularly because the clothes do get torn or dirty all the time and the parents bollock them

J is at Nursery as he is fine, and I am phoning in. DH is insisting on going in but will likely need to come home. He is on sickness monitoring. D&V should be exempt as it is protecting staff and patients by staying off.

I have not been sick yet, but it is coming. Despite eating last night the scales say I am 9lb down so a bug might shift one or two more

My GP said when I was moaning about not shifting some Weight that if I hung around in the waiting room a bit longer I could pick up a tummy bug :) Seriously sorry about the sick monitoring companies are twats. Would having a Dr note even for a day or two help with that? I know you guys don't need them there but here we have Dr sign off from day one. It means companies can't just put you on sickness monitoring without intervention from the Employment department.

Morning morning.

Hugs bp have a

I quite like the idea of nursery t shirts. I always had my own uniform for the kids going to nursery, like you all say, mainly consisted of cheap supermarket clothes and handle downs, at least if there have a nursery t then that is that and you don't have to think about it.

Guests arrive today. Defo sticky chicken and poss a cheesecake actually, just need to check my recipe. Still don't know what to do tomorrow, musing on the bought fish homemade chips plan that I did with the
Americans it seemed to go down well. The other option I am toying with is rogan josh.

Then I think a big honking steak for me and DH on
Friday!

Sorry to hear of vom vq.

gt Having the nursery t-shirt saves thinking about what to put him in. That and a pair of joggers is more than suitable. As others have said clothes will get ruined so spend as little on them as you can.

It's my sister's birthday today so going to for afternoon tea.

Had a good shout and sob at/onto dh, and hopefully things will be ok. I've felt increasingly resentful of the fact he is putting anyone and anything ahead of him/our family for weeks now, to the point where he will work so hard in the day for other people, that he won't eat, or drink enough, and has made himself ill. Then he complains about being tired but won't come to bed. And when I need him to step up and support me the day before my exam (eeek) he hasn't got it in him. I told him that the way he reacted to his mum the other night was how he should be reacting to us, but instead he treats her like a wife and me like his mum To be fair, after that tirade, he nodded and agreed, and said he knows he needs a kick up the arse, and to start being more selfish and putting his needs, and our family needs, first.

Phew. Rant over.

I'm not even hormonal god help him if i was

Well done pig looks like you gave him a good telling off. Fx he listened and mans up a bit. That 50p story was ridiculous is your MIL usually so difficult? Is she good with you? Can you tell am fishing for MIL stories?

PR there are more stories than I care to remember. She is by turns quite nice, and a complete nightmare.

My particular fave is when she shouted at me, in front of my children, in my own home, using the immortal line "I am the adult here".... Luckily dh more than backed me up on that occasion, otherwise he could have joined her when she huffed off.

Am feeling better now the sun is out, the rain soaked washing is drying, bread maker is on, and am sat in the hammock.

Can't shake the thought that I am not going to see my baby until Thursday teatime though Bloody 2 day long exams.

at I am the adult here! You'll laugh about that one day. Not with her though I suspect.

Wishing you all the best for your exams. You'll have plenty of time to snuggle F when they are over but that's easy to say I appreciate.

Ahem. The fashion lovers among you will love to know that I have just translated several different product descriptions for bootcut jeans for the new collections (high street not couture). They are coming through thick and fast the last couple of months.

Ahh " bread maker"abandons post and runs off.

What would I do without bp

Today....is one of those actual days.

Ok. Picture the scene. The sky is black and from it pours massive globules of rain. I am off to get my hair cut, get some wine and nip to the supermarket. We have our guests coming this afternoon. Boys are in nursery.

She fashions my hair beautifully. I stick a tea towel on my head, run to car, to wine shop. Tea towel - shop, tea towel - car.

Off to Asda. Tea towel - shop, tea towel - car

Home. Tea towel on head, empty car. Phone call from nursery

"Come and get O he has spots we don't know what they are"

Cunningly I put on a rain coat.

Arrive at nursery (15 min drive)" these aren't spots , these are warts or moluscum, he has had them for ages"

They won't keep him unless I get the dr to check them.

Run to DR the nurse sees him and calls in dr. They are indeed moluscum. Is not fair to dump him back to nursery so I head home. It is now 12:30 I have been running in and out of the car now since 09:30 and have not done ANY of my jobs.

Chuck his lunch down him ( they did send his lunch with him) fling him into bed to put cheesecake together.

Sit down with really insubstantial sandwich and a cup of tea.

Realise I have forgotten eggs, milk, French bread and something else that I have forgotten what it is.

Log on to mumsnet, bp is eulogising about her bread maker.

Shit. I have't put the bread maker on and we have no bread.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyway. The baked cheesecake is looking lush, haven't made it for years. I can' trip out now as O is asleep and peeps should arrive soon. I will run out when they arrive.

Breathe.

Are you still wearing the tea towel?

Thanks everyone. Fh is a lil at 2nd hand other then from his brothers kids (who's old clothes I've already raided)
HnM do joggers for 3/4££ which harjun uses. So will just buy those.
Need to find out the tshirt cost. If reasonable will buy a few.

Reading and wishing BP luck and and for anyone else.

No. But without thinking I did just use it to dry some stuff up

And on a re serious note, yes, bp, best if luck to you. I know you will be fab Anyhoo. Xx