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

[Pikz]

Just to start us off..

Agree with all of the above bplp. I would be raging.

It's my gran's funeral today and I've managed to bust the zip on my only black dress. Can I wear a suit? I have a black skirt and jacket combo that I could team with a smart black top. I'm dreading today and just realised someone's blocking my driveway too, ffs.

Of course a suit is fine isles. I hope today goes as well as could be expected

A suit would be totally fine. Hope today goes as well as it can Isles.

Well its back to reality with a bump as DH has gone back to work today. Note to self, make sure you go to the toilet before the school run not quite so heroic.

isles hope it has gone as well as can be expected x

Isles hope today was ok.

Eliza do spill!

Not much news from here. Am stepping up to a 4 day week at work. Good in one way as I feel more useful but I don't get as much L time.

First cycle since my operations wasn't a success so feeling a bit raw about that.

To all in need and too!

pikz.

I am also intrigued eliza. I hope whatever happened wasn't too mortifying.

P woke this morning and very dramatically announced that she had a sore ear and was vair hot. Her temperature was high and she seemed a bit down in the dumps so I had a mass of emails to work with cover arrangements and rearranging appointments so she could stay at home. Our doc has changed its emergency appointment system to a drop in which meant hanging around with p who was clearly fine for 45 minutes. I wouldn't have gone but it was the same ear as her perforated one and it would be her second only ever one so I am not sure what the norm is. Anyway, after cheerfully presenting her ear for inspection she was declared absolutely fine.

No idea what the temp spike was about in the morning but she stopped complaining about the sore ear fairly quickly. So now I have the major guilts for another day off. I feel like I haven't done a full week in months! On the flip side I haven't been feeling great and had I not had so much on today I would have been staying off for me anyway so I suppose it worked ok.

Quiet day otherwise. P and I washed all her chums. She cheerfully rammed them in the washing machine with a "bye bye. Safe and sound. See sooooon"

Oh eliza do tell! Well done on "everyone fed nobody dead" day 1 - I seem to remember we lived by that motto in the early days?!

Pass sorry you and P are under par
We must get round to washing bedtime bear. He's only been washed onve so is a little aromatic Lately he has been stuffed under the duvet to the foot of the bed at night - it emerged tonight that this is because he might get cold, and it might rain in the dark!? Funny girl.

Fs new trick today is to shout "54321 ready, not, COOOOOOOMMMIIIIN" and stand with her hands over her eyes.

Evening all :) Had a busy day today, all in all the day bit wasn't so bad but from about 4pm onwards everything has gone wrong. I could murder a bar of galaxy and a large glass of wine!

brilliant sentences from L msJJ, e has started with stringing words together now these past few weeks, it's very cute. Earlier I got him out of his high chair and he piped up 'there you go then!' which made me chuckle

Hope today went as well as it could do isles big hugs

I bet you'll settle into it in no time eliza, go easy on yourself at first!

hugs pikz and

bless her pass hope both you and P are fighting fit soon - very sweet of her to put her friends in the wash :)

E has quite liked teddies before but not much, but three nights ago he picked out his monsters inc teddy, sully, and asked to sleep with it. Ok I said. Now he sleeps with it every nap and night time sleep. He doesn't take it anywhere or anything but wants it for bed. Quite sweet :)

aw bless her bp that sounds adorable

Let's just say I was very glad that I was wearing a maternity pad! Soaked up a fair bit

Ah yes, everyone fed, nobody dead. I have a feeling I will need to remind myself of that in the coming days.

I still go by the everyone fed nobody dead mantra. I think I will for quite a while yet.

Oh dear eliza I can completely imagine how you must have felt :o

Good to see you posting again kyz LO is very attached to Doodoo which is what she calls her favourite stuffed toy thing. Spelt Doudou inFrench but I have a childish soh.

Goodness came on to catch up and see I killed the thread

If anyone wants to chip in on my Moving to Germany thread then it would be much appreciated.

No GG 'twas not you, I have spent all day hoovering, disinfecting and hoovering again, everywhere, becasue of our mouse. The bastard. And DH fucked off to work at 06:30 this morning and won't be home till 21:00 hrs, leaving me alone with the mouse.

Like I haven't enough to do with packing for a holiday, looking after a toddler, doing school runs and finishing an important piece of work before tomorrow lunchtime.

You need a cat.

I love mice anyway. Used to have pet mice actually.

I used to have pet mice too. But when we had some mice running around in the old house we used traps. With chocolate spread on them. worked a treat but poor poor mice.

Hallo. I thought we were about to get surprise meemee loss tonight!
Meemee is what p calls her dummy and for the last few weeks we have been gently suggesting that one day soon the meemee fairy will come and take it away.

Tonight after bath I went to get it and couldn't find the thing anywhere. P announced "fairy taken it" and seemed fine. I was honestly like because I certainly didn't hide it and neither did DH so o had absolutely no idea where it went.

Lots of chatting and cuddles later she did agree to be put to bed without it but within minutes got upset and begging for fairy to give back her meemee. As I hadn't actually planned to start this midweek we did crack but we told p that the meemee fairy said she could have it back tonight but she would take it again in the morning. We left it a while as well in the hope she might fall asleep while waiting but she is a stubborn one!

Nice are cheeky feckers!

^mice

Goodness. You are brave. Am of the opinion that dummies are better than thumbs (seen my teeth?) and since I was a thumbsucker am only just weaning DD1 off dummies for bedtime.

LO still has 5 or 6 hanging around. But the French parents are v relaxed about dummies. I see loads of kids getting in their car and surreptitiously popping a dummy in their mouths :)

Evening everybuddy :)

bless you eliza!

gg it's ever so cute :) He tucks him under his arm and says goodnight to him :)

pass e still has his 'bindi' (dummy) at nap and bed times, I've no idea when to take it away and since the recent bars off the cot drama i'm not sure whether it'd be such a good idea to try just yet!

Grace non pet mice aren't so fun, as are non pet rats!

Busy day today again, but got there in the end :) E keeps telling me his teeth hurt, i'm not sure if it's because they actually hurt or because he likes the taste of calpol!

Tis a teething time kyz the last lot til they all fall out and we start all over again.

No sign of the last 4 with Lo

See, you chaps have already made me feel better about meemee. I hate it and I get sick of comments about it.

Rather worryingly when we were having cuddle chat tonight I asked her what she thought the fairy was doing with meemee. She replied "paint it. Cause it's disgusting" then she said "she burn it" all the while looking sad and a bit distressed.

I am certain she won't have heard those things from us or the cm and I don't like how negative it is. The story we were telling was that you only borrow the meemee until you are bigger then you give it back to the fairy for the very little babies who need it.

I know she won't be deeply impacted by these comments but I have heard random old ladies say things of this nature to her - why is it there business?!

Weirdly, gg in France one lady properly tsked us and said it would stunt her speech before walked off shaking her head sadly - I don't bloody think so

DH said he would put chocolate in them. I think this is just a sneaky way of getting some chicolate for himself as the treats cupboard is now bare.

pass I had the odd comment from old women. I remember one in particular when DD1 was almist 2 but looked older. Really brought out the tiger in me.

DD1 never uses it in front of people now. Her choice. Not mine. Since well over a year. But she will slip it in her pocket when she knows she has a long drive. And definitely has one in her bed.

At creche LO is only allowed it at nap time, and they are strict about that. At home it is a sign for me, she looks for dummy, she is tired. Though she "wore" it round the supermarket today.

But am fairly sure she will be like DD1 next year. It will be her secret. And like DD1 she will start saying, I'm a big girl now, I don't need it. It'll become her secret bedtime thing.

And then it will go.

Of all the little baby things they do and need, if sucking on a dummy is something that comforts them from time to time, meh.

And anyone that criticises me or them, well they can walk a mile in our shoes.

DD1 still has her milk in a bottle occasionally. The teat is so ruined that it isn't a teat anymore. But if that is what she needs at that moment. Fine.
And anyone I have discussed it with here has said the sane thing.

Grace malteasers are "mouse smack" apparently, that's what professional exterminators bait traps with. Get a live trap though for poor Lorraine

Lorraine then little field mouse is now back in the field where she belongs.