November 2012- Jingle Bells tantrums smell mummy needs some wine...

[Pikz]

Just to start us off..

Jealous of tales of sweet nursery rhymes. All I get to hear is fucking let it go!

I thought we'd sorted boys name only for DH to ask this morning what we were calling the baby if it's a boy. When I told him he said "oh christ, I thought you were joking. That's shit" so it's back to the drawing board on boys names. Grrrrr.

Had a lovely relaxing day. After a long lie in DH took girls out for a bit and then this afternoon I had a long relaxing bath. DH made dinner whilst I snuggled on the sofa with the girls and watched ET. Better scoot off for an early night. Got to gear myself up to give birth tomorrow eh pr

Oh dear eliza! Maybe baby boy will look just like the name you have taken a shine to!

Literally minutes after posting my cm texted to say that one of the children she minds has come down with chicken pox and how was p. I did think to myself this morning that the last time she slept very late she became poorly with the ear infection. And over Christmas even my dad commented on her pale colouring and sleepiness. Hmm, are we getting the pox?

Jumps up and down H has rice and lentils for dinner. Yeppie. First decent thing he has eaten in days. Not a lot but was good to see him eating proper food.

Night night y'all

Love the fact you twerked into the thread pass!

Will need to Google the name change as I have no clue.

Glad H ate some lentils :)

Good luck on dday Eliza.... Pr knows stuff so she may be right!

Hope you are busy drinking raspberry tea, eating curries and walking sideways up and down stairs eliza looks like I have a rep to protect

More potential quiche pox pass hope not :( but maybe easier she gets it while you are off work

Sorry to disappoint pr but I'm still in bed again, lazy sod. No sign of baby either which has pleased DH as he has buggered off to golf. The day is yet young though.

pass whilst I wouldn't wish the pox on anyone if it's going to happen, and it will one day, then now might be a good time to get it over with. Hope p is ok.

v v v disappointed eliza enjoy your lie in.

It's something I'm curious about YW, we all have this mental image of brutal cavemen and docile cavewomen but I have no idea what the actual anthropological evidence can tell us about the division of labour. I'm assuming there would be childless women capable of hunting and injured or older men that would be better suited to gathering. There are also all the other tasks that would have been required such as building dwellings, making tools and arrowheads, trapping, butchering meat, smoking meat and fish, defence from wild animals, religious ceremonies and all sorts of things. I wonder how much of our own preconceptions are applied to prehistoric man.

Perhaps I should come in with a different move every time.

Today I shall

P is still asleep. Either she really, really needs the sleep or she is ailing. Hmm

I think mini-eliza will be a hogmany baby

When you said that I just ioxyc I do. I am just generally a bit thick.

What was the actual due date eliza assume I am still i. Witn a chance and what do I get when i win?

The chance to remind everyone in all future sweepstakes that you got one right wanda .

Plus eternal fame and glory of course

Due date is 2nd Jan. Think you went with a week late didn't you wanda? I'd be surprised if I went a week overdue but you never know.

At this rate the prize will be to name it! Actually that's quite a tempting idea........

Ooooh. Eat a curry. Some raw chilli. Crab walk up and down the stairs. Scrub the floors. Or, as one person told me, it was the three times in her life she decided to clean the top of the kitchen cupboards that she went into labour :o

By the third time it was "ooh I want to clean on the tops of the cupboards, warn the mw".

You aren't doing any extreme nesting are you?

Though, have to admit you are best off not giving birth today. Am crap at naming babies. Though I will raffle off the prize to the highest bidder if you do. Would be kinder.

Stunt I think the view of tough hunters and docile gatherers is a modern projection! The vast bulk of the diet in any hunter gatherer group (bar say subarctic groups like Inuit where foraging is limited due to climate) is from the gathering and it is tough work. Hunting involves a lot of sitting around, observing herds, waiting but most of all - being quiet. This doesn't fit with childcare. I'm sure some pre child bearing women would or could help with the hunt - but lots of societies have taboos against it. Even in our own society its considered unlucky to have a woman on a fishing boat for example, even though statistics show women are better at catching fish. Its likely that taboos against women hunting were to keep women in the lower status gathering role - where they could learn about childcare before having their own kids. Anthropology isn't a perfect analog for the archaeological record but its the best we have. Certainly bone wear analysis (where repetitive movements have damaged joints) and injuries of hominds in the fossil record appear to support quite a strong division of labour by the sexes - but this wouldn't have been universal, and I'm not arguing it should be used as an argument for division of labour today. But in prehistoric times - formula didn't exist and this would have tied women to babies much more than today.

I reckon New Year's Day Eliza

If your not nesting I'm doing it for you as I'm cleaning like a nutcase as I have a few days off work

Careful missus pikz is not long since you had your op. X

No nesting. My stupid car is now at in laws as it won't start. At least it is there and fil dropped us home so could have been a lot worse. I now have to sort out getting it recovered tomorrow. Something I could do without but at least I don't need it urgently and it's in a safe place. Just bloody inconvenient!

And sorry to hear about the car eliza

Morning,

O is obsessed with horses. So much so we could not find her toy horses anywhere. She had them all day apart from evening. I turned everything upside down and still couldn't find them. They are somewhere obvious, aren't they? Grrrr

She also insisted on listening to nursery rhymes when going to bed. She is so much like me, when i was young I had to have a cd on at bedtime to be able to wind down.

What is everyone's nye plan? I think eliza will spend the time swearing at her husband while giving birth to their baby. I invited some friends and it looks like they will all come with alcohol and food. O will be with my parents, yey!

I have friends coming but LO was up all night with a suspected ear infection and DD1 has a fever. I also feel like shit.

I'd cancel but I already cancelled their trip when I was ill in November and would feel bad about doing it again. I'm just so tired, feverish myself, and un-partyish.

And French GPs are on strike so will have to drive on icy roads today to get the girls to the paed.

We're going to stay up and watch the Queen concert on NYE but not let DS1 and DS2 stay up as that was a disaster last year.

Pants gg that doesn't sound good.

At the moment we are at home alone. I am making Thai curry and faffing at the stive. DH will decline and enjoy his wine.

This could all change. That was the plan last year but I ended up going next door and BIL came here. Tbh though I would quite like to stay cosy in my own home this year.