The 10th Gemini bus - 2nd Christmas stop

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I'm so lucky to continue to have you ladies to chat to Let's all have a merry Christmas and an even happier 2015!

Oh, sorry Frus Maybe start squirreling away some of his hard earned $$ (I don't have pound signs on my american computer, sorry) and then use that to fix it up?

Oh ok. Well, I'd say "good" but it's not good because we're in the same boat and this boat f'ing sucks. Maybe it's 3rd child syndrome?

Bring - bpear has turned into a fussy eater too. I thought it was just the age . Are not all children like this at 2 or approaching 2? After loving all fruits and vegetables he now pushes away most of it which is sad. He is however still eating soup so this week I need to buy a variety of vegetables to make different soups before he changes his mind!! However, he would happily eat all sorts of shapes and sizes of cheese and yoghurt!! Also, he will only eat porridge with me but with DH he will only eat Weetabix. Monkey!!!

Imagine if we could negotiate lie ins with our Dc If you give me a lie in until 9am I'll take you to the swings

So, DH asked me tonight am I going to be in tomorrow? Hmmm my suspicious ears prick up. Why I ask? DH sheepishly says a delivery is coming. Then follows that a new TV is arriving. Then follows the speech about how he's going to sell our peefectly working Tv on eBay and some fancy speakers so we won't actually be paying much to cover the new TV. My reply to him after his long winded speech guilty bs story ended. How many lie ins do I get this week? His reply 2, maybe 3. My reply: OK I'll be in.

This is my life. Negotiating lie ins and not actually caring about the little things like DH splashing out on a new TV (because I'd rather him do that then be down the pub watching football on someone else's TV - not that he actually likes football but you get my point). Anyway, just because I'm mean sane I've also negotiated the baby monitor to now live on his side of the bed

Ha ha pear we have no baby monitor I out room, Christ Alive the bedrooms for sleeping, I can hear screaming without needing to her snores we just use ours for when we are downstairs
And yes making deals with them would be fantastic!!!
Don't feel too bad on the sleepover, it wasn't planned but an impromptu try and we were at home plus dd had kept her two kids up for hours asking were they awake and repeatedly turning the lights on, dsis had given her plenty of warnings that shed have to go in her own room then on last occasion she told dsis that she wanted daddy so she just said right fine and brought her home, can't blame her really it gets to a point where it's not worth the trouble, if wed been out she's have told her tough
Frus I hope he will pay for the car in one way or another I love the contrariness of ds, I have witnessed moments of it with kitten for sure I knew just what you ment lol

Ha, that's a really funny first sleep-over story. You can bug her with it later when she's a teenager .

We don't have a baby monitor either. They don't work in our house for some reason (neither do cell phones for that matter). M's screams are sufficient enough to hear at any point in the house. hence me sitting in the car in the garage And she used them last night and I had to sleep in her bed, again, last night. Problem is that she gets super pissed off if I change positions because she wants to sleep on top of me and therefore I was forced to sleep on my back all night.... which now really hurts .

Oh DH and I make bargains all the time. I'm heading on a girl's weekend this weekend to Vegas (leave tomorrow, huzzah!) and he's still trying to figure out where he's going when the mood strikes. He's waiting to see if our hockey team make into the playoffs and then the deal is that he can go somewhere and see a playoff game. I actually don't even care that I'm going to Vegas, I'm just so excited that I don't have to put any children to bed, wake up for any children in the middle of the night, feed any children in the morning, can drink my coffee while it's still hot, and can just lay in the sun next to a pool for as long as I damn well like for 4 luxurious days. The 3 other gals are mamas too so we ARE SO EXCITED FOR THIS! I think I may even just make like a grandma and forgo the dancing after dinner and just go back to the hotel and read. We'll see what the mood is like but this may be my chance to sleep for the first time in 3 or so months. So excited!

Oooooo bring!!! How exciting :-) Wowzers. I bet you're tempted to pack your dressing gown and accidentally forget all your day/night clothes Have an amazing time!! You deserve it after the roller coaster time you've had recently

I'm jeleous too, ohh to read a book!!
Amazing the little pleasures

Bring I'm so jealous! Days away! Such fun.
Actually a good friend of mine is coming to London for a weekend - her DH is organising it for her 40th birthday. I'm going to be joining her on all her planned activities (exhibitions, dinners, a show, the London Eye) so although I'll come home at night, I'll get a fun weekend with a friend I love. Can't wait.

DS is not fussy with food as such but will only sit and eat if he's being read to - preferably one of his millions of Thomas The Tank Engine books. He just gets bored and wanders off otherwise. Pain in the bum.

Officially have no more chocolate in the house. Feel like I've been on a two week trip to Willy Wonka's factory Being good for the next 2 weeks...and I mean it this time

Frus - hope you get the peace you're longing for

Lor - hope you had a lovely girls weekend Sounds like lots of fun!

Sorry I've been somewhat absent recently - I've not felt like I had much to contribute that wasn't " at day trips & holidays".

We had a really mixed day today. Some parts were lovely - a few wees on the toilet, nice time at toddler group & I even found the motivation to make fishcakes from scratch instead of trying to convince the boys to eat mashed potato separately. Other parts were basically Calf at his worst - ripping up books, throwing, screaming tantrums, knocking Runt over randomly & then come bedtime he went completely mad. We've had a couple of months without the manic behaviour at bedtime but the last couple of nights have been difficult. I've resorted to threatening to tape his light switch so he can't turn it on & shutting the door which usually seems to shock him out of it. Tonight though I'd actually got him to bed at a reasonable time so it was still light outside so the light switch threat had no impact. He was bouncing really hard on his cabin bed & I was genuinely terrified for his safety if I left him but concerned about how angry he was making me & I didn't trust myself to stay! In the end I lied told him that I'd planned to take him somewhere really nice tomorrow but because of his behaviour we weren't going to do that now. That finally broke the hysterical laughter & made him cry for the next 10 minutes until he fell asleep. That was 45 minutes ago & I'm still on the verge of tears. DH isn't home yet. He was going to be home at 7.30.

Sorry, just needed to vent!

Urgh. He woke up early & hasn't stopped demanding things & grizzling since! I finally got through the morning routine & got him back up to his room with a DVD to watch & he's sitting there watching & casually bouncing his door off the wall. WIBU to tie him up with dressing gown cords just to keep him still for a few minutes while I search for my sanity? It must be around here somewhere - I definitely had it on Sunday...

Nursery starts back tomorrow & he'll be there all day... It'll be nice to have that time to spend with Runt in peace but I'm already dreading the walk home after pick-up. He goes from happy & excited about his day to tired & impossibly grumpy in the 4 minute walk. Plus DH won't be home at lunchtime like he usually is on a Wednesday.

Still, DH's work/pay issue has been resolved & we can afford to take a 24 hour round trip in the car to be trapped in a foreign country with no escape from other people go visit friends in France in the summer... That'll be nice...

I'm in a super positive head-space at the moment. Can you tell?!

Tough time lately Agnu. I don't know how people cope with 2 or more kids! (although it is being talked about in this house....)

Hi, I'm back. Just wanted to pop in and say hello to everyone so I don't lose you all on my threads!

Exhausted. And trying to play catch-up with work so no time to be exciting and say much more.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Welcome back bring! Do come & tell us all about being child-free when you get a chance!

Kitty any news on the schools front?

Oh it was amazeballs. We had so much fun in Vegas! It was my close friend, my friend's sister and her sister's friend. We managed to get a really nice place for cheap, and just came without an agenda. It was low-key and just so refreshing! We laughed so much! I only gambled $15 and at one point I was a whopping $4 up. So... I didn't win big this time. We just ended up getting drinks on the Strip or Downtown and just watching all the people. There were some really funny street performers (like the 80 year old man in a neon blue banana hammock and a hat that said "PARTY", you can't even make something like that up.) and a whole lotta naked people. I also got a lot of text updates from DH on how our children were being complete maniacs all weekend. But I do feel so much more refreshed and able to just deal with them again, so it was well worth it!

Aww yay bring. Welcome home Glad it was a success and your children are still in one piece I bet DH was sooooooo pleased to have you home!!!

Frus - what viewings? I'm confused

Shut your pretty ears bring...Anyone else feel totally unprepared for summer? I still have Bpear in long sleeve vests I feel like I need to take him shopping for sandals this morning. It's just come around so fast!!! I know we've been talking about spring and summer but I can't believe it's here!

TTC update. Cd16 and nothing is happening. I was hoping that my cycles might shorten this month but looks like I'm in it for the long haul again. B O R I N G!! Hopefully my body will lay an egg next week ??

bring that sounds fab! What a great weekend.

frus you WILL be busy! good for you though

pear fx that this is the month. We have DS off to nursery in t-shirts (with hoody and sleeveless puffa in the mornings). We do have some shorts and things lined up too. Summer is coming!

Got a text from my Dbro the other day. Dsil is pregnant! Very early days but a bit of a shock to them apparently. If you remember, they had been trying for about 2 years when I got pregnant. Just after I had DS they conceived too and had a DS a year ago. He's just turned one this month so a second one coming along will keep them busy! Good job they've just bought a house with a few more rooms. They're utterly delighted though. They'd planned to have a second, just maybe not quite this soon.