Sept 05 - Argh quick baby proof the house they are well and truly on the move.

[mummyhill]

New thread for a new month. Yeah I know I have done it a day early but never mind.

HI to everyone

I'm back from Wales and too as when I'm over there I never want to come back...

Noop took a friend and they looked after C and my sister's two LOs whilst we 'did' a mountain - So very breathtaking my SPD's so much better now I only ache after exhertion now.

The stay has a very sad ending though - we were guests of 'once removed' family, it's a smallholding where my sister and her fiance will be doing a home-build when they've sold their house. Our dear friend/family member, who gifted my sis and her partner the land, very sadly died on Wednesday night... It's come as a shock to all of us but especially her daughters and very loving partner. She's such a life and soul to those she's close to, she'll be sorely missed and seemed to have so much to live for - but saying that, her seeing all the new generation of LOs together must have made her last days truely fulfilled. God Bless Her x

Goodnight all

It's been a long and emotional day

Love to all xxx

Hi Idris by the way - It must be so lovely to be back with your family

Oh my goodness, Wabbit. How sad . I'm sorry.

Glad you enjoyed the rest of your trip though.

Mummyhill - how is the sleeping going? Any teeth?

Idris - glad you are happy to be home. Hope your week away went weel.

Hi all

Have reorted to co sleeping as the only way to get any sleep. Teth are slowly comming through will be glad when they are all here as he seems to make such hard work of it.

WABBITT - Sorry to hear about the sad ending to your stay. Text me if you want a chat and I wil call you back.

Hello!

I'm so sorry wabbitt.

Hope teeth are improving for D - MH.

I got a new job on Wednesday - I'm now a team leader! Not sure if this is great or terrible - will let you know! I hope I still have plenty of time for ds and dd and do not get frustrated by the amount of work - as I'll still be self employed and working from home...

Hope you love your new role SR

Thanks for all your kind words - Mummyhill, you've enough worries of your own without listening to me and mine!!!! Lots of love to you, we will talk soon Take care of yourself first though sweetie - I've told you this before!

I can allways provide tea and sympathy hun. PIL are now getting the support they need from the mental health team so that is a worry off my mind. Have decided to co sleep for now until D is able to settle. Am trying not to sweat the small stuff and go with the flow more iyswim. So no real worries. I am here if you need me.

Mummyhill - you're so special x

Wabbitt - found a link to a lovely site where you can light a candle for a departed friend or to aid a prayer here

At the moment there are a lot of mumsnet members lighting a candle for a little boy called Noah Riccardo from Haitti who has sadly passed away before his adoptive parents could get to him with medication for asthma that could of saved him. This is where I found the link thanks to StGeorge who posted it.

Thankyou mummyhill x

I liked the web site MH - very moving

Hi SR I thought so too and have been lighting candles for other people I know who need a bit of strength, love and guidance.

It's odd I have never realy felt a need to discuss religion or my belifes before but recently have found myself more open. Am not saying that I have just 'found god' he has allways been ther but I am more willing to talk about it these days. Used to feel as if I would be ridiculed or labled as a religious nut now don't mind what anyone thinks iyswim.

Morning

We had a small triumph last night D slept all the way through in the travel cot downstairs.

Hooray

Well done David

Wabbitt - sympathies for your friend/family who passed away. But you are right - I'm sure that they loved seeing the LOs and having gifted thier land, I'm sure that they were very content. Still sad for you though - hugs.
What a clever little boy, D and a clever (and relieved?) mummyhill! Hope this is the start of better sleeping for you.
If anything, I have moved away from religion in the last 5 or six years. I know it sounds terrible but I just don't seem to have the time for it. And things like having to decide whether to send DDs to a local (but fairly rubbish) faith school or to a good CP school has quite upset me. I was brought up quite strictly RC and the catholic guilt certainly haunts me. I actually enjoy and get a lot out of going to mass but since DH is CofE and DDs will not sit still for more than 30 secs it's just so difficult to go lately. Having said that, I am fairly certain that is why I am having such a bad run of luck lately. Keep promising God that I'll pop in and say hello but then something happens!!
Today I am without car which decided not to start again after I dropped off DDs at nursery. So I am having to take a holiday while still paying for DDs to be in nursery. Tomorrow I will probably be without a job if they can't fix my car today, which is highly likely...
Hope everyone else is ok.x

Thanks Idris

JAAMPIRE - I don't go to church and wouldn't send dc to a faith school unless it was loads better than the otherr options.

No pooter at home for a bit will see you all when I get back on line.

Wabbitt call me if you need anything.

Take care all see you in about 4 days.

Hello!

See you later MH!

Feeling spiritual if not very religious. Ds goes to a faith school and it is a good one too! Had is discussion with ds recently on wether Mother Nature and God were one and the same and if not were they married?? Apparently ds told his teacher and she did not reply!!!!!

Hello

That's hilarious SR!!! DD's at a Catholic school, the religion isn't rammed down their faces and there's a certain amount of discussion about beliefs and cultures in her RE classes...

I was brought up Catholic and my junior school was a Convent - which I hated
Mum seemed to have a New Age awakening when I was about 11 and became interested in Spiritualism, she became vegetarian, took my sister and I out of school to 'educate' us at home (they'd actually run out of money and could no longer afford to send all 5 of us to Privat/public schools) The boys stayed on at their Catholic schools.

Jaampire - The 'guilt' thing, I think I was handed down a healthy portion of cyinicism from my brothers and sister - I've never really felt guilt for not attending or failing to pray. I do agree though, there is some special 'closeness' (to a perhaps purer core of oneself) thats offered by the mass... I think this and then I think how much purer and more close to 'God' can we women get than in those wonderful moments after birth? The established church has done far too much to negate the worth of the female role and femininity itself by slandering our intuitive natures to have any respect from me! For we are Witches!!!!

So, I guess (after all that - and apologies if it was a bit of a rant) I consider myself to be spiritual. I believe there's a greater purpose to our lives than we are aware of in the here and now. I believe we have souls and to some extent in some kind of reincarnation.

Jaampire - I wouldn't be able to recite the creed with any conviction! For a start, it would have to begin:

I believe in (at least) One God!!!
The Father (or Mother) Almighty....

anyway - enough of that!

MummyscaryhouseontheHill - well done for getting some sleep - did the cot downstairs work again? Hope things settle into some kind of pattern for you and D xxx

More later!

Yipee dh got the problem with internet provider sorted out and they have reconected us quicker than usual I am back!!!!!!!!

Another disturbed night last night even managed to wake dd up and she has gone to school looking rather plae.

Happy Halloween everyone! How (un)appropriate following our discussion about faith/religion/spiritualism.
DDs both worn out from party at nursery today - they had bat sandwiches and cake that oozed blood so if one or both of them aren't awake with nightmares tonight I'll be amazed.
MH - Welcome back - bet it seems like you've been away for aaaages!!! Sorry the good sleeping didn't last. Could you try to identically recreate the conditions when D slept through.
SR - Wow at your (very intelligent) discussion with your DS re mother nature and God). Bet his teacher was dumb founded!
Wabbitt - no chance of me considering home education. Don't think I would have the patience (though I bet it would be very rewarding teaching your own children) or resources and DDs would definitely miss other children. Would poss consider the vegetarianism though.LOL!
Think it is just the ritual (is that the right word) of going to mass that I like. I certainly don't agree with all of the catholic church's teachings but the time in church gives me a chance to reflect on other things. I too believ in an afterlife. Can't bear to think that the world would go on without me to see DDs (and hopefully GDCs) grow old.
Hope everyone else is ok.

I think my beliefs are fairly agnostic. I believe that there is a higher power that engineers things but not necessarily God iyswim so don't feel that haloween is at all inappropriate.

I had a note on my door telling trick or treaters that they were welcome till 8pm and then the fun is over till next year as my children are going to bed. I only had to turn away one group of older lads who hadn't made an effort. They seemed quite polite and understanding though when I explained that I was trying to put my children to bed. This was maybe helped by d screaming the place down and N crying caues the fun was over. I have had lots of very polite little ghouls, vampires and witches with responsible parents standing at the top of the drive watching them. It has been lovely. All the sweets have gone. To reinforce my note which will remain till dh comes home at 9.30 I have taken all the decorations out of the porch now the children are in bed. If there are any older kids still messing about at that time dh can deal with them!!!!!

Yes Happy Halloween to all

Hi Mummyhill - great news you didn't have to stay away for long

Mamamaaaagh - I'll e-mail tomorrow, just been so busy, my Childminding course starts on Saturday and I've been essay writing for uni tonight amid rings on the doorbell! I had a bucketful of mini chocolate button packs - all but two have gone...

Night night everyone xx

Morning all.

We got 6 hrs sleep last night which is a deffinate improvement.

Morning everyone .

Alice is sleeping better .

Slept until 6am yesterday and today she woke up at 5am (I let DH deal with her) and then went back to sleep until after 7am.

DH and I are also gong to bed by about 10. This all helps.

It's very cold here today but lovely and sunny.

Shall we have a new thread soon?