It's the Christmas party at Mugabe nights, pull up a bar stool and order your shots! August 2015

[FattyNinjaOwl]

New thread for all the regulars at the bar, and the not so regulars too.

Slowwife - I'm going to have to do that too!! An excuse to look around the sales I guess. I'm so unimpressed with my sister! Some of the shit doesn't even have full tags so is clearly stuff she didn't want for her own kids I'm absolutely fuming!!

And by fuming I know that sounds very ungrateful and harsh - I'm not a greedy person at all and would never expect gifts!!! I'd prefer for her to have given nothing rather than do this but there is a bit of a back story!! Xxx

fanby I don't think you sound ungrateful at all. I'm exchanging pretty, flouncy dresses that my Mum insists on buying, every year, despite me pleading with her not to waste her money. I just hate the waste of having unused clothes sitting in their wardrobes

We're off to the in laws today! As you might remember from last year when I was preggo they were invited for Boxing Day but the unannounced decided to all stay the night, and they had the bad manners to 'nip out' for a macdonalds despite me making a Christmas dinner - bastards!! So today I shall be sat back and expecting ALL THE FOOD! 😁

Also because we've not been there I've got no shit pressies yet!! 😉 I'm genuinely impressed by DHs one for me this year though.

Bedtime was a battle last night. I feel like I've got to keep strong on this though as she is deffo sleepy, just needs to go to bloody sleep! It's not an early bedtime (7.30-8) but she falls asleep with me there but wakes about 30mins later so it's a bit up and down the stairs however that may be a good thing for getting the mince pies off!! 😁

Fatty have you started mental wedding lists yet?! I'm thrilled for you!!!!

Right have to get a wiggle on! I may well be 'sales shopping' from my phone at the in laws later!

Ooo! mzzf what did you get??

mzzzf I have started mentally planning, but its going to be a while before anything official. Especially as we've just found out the shop DP is working in is closing down so after the 12th he will have no job and no one seems to be hiring. Plus, we don't live together yet so its going to be a couple of years at least! My mum did say that she will buy my dress for me though. She can't afford the entire wedding. I laughed and told her that should be my dads job, then she laughed. A lot. My dad doesn't spend money on his children or even be there for them once they reach the age of 18, because we are all grown up then

Arrrgghh I just whacked DDs head on the door frame! Fuck!

Slow - I'm a bit of a postbox geek looking out for VR,GR etc on them and he had been slowly collecting pictures of all the ones we'd seen up here and made them into a professional print. Utter geekery but I love the thought and attention that went into it too!

Fatty - your dad sounds like a right charmer. Crappola about the lack of jobs though 😕 Ah well more time in the making makes the eating better - or something like that!!

My dads a dick. And his psycho ex is still kicking off and blaming me for her dumping my dad! Ah well.
mzzzf I've done that to the older two. Not done it to Nathan yet....they seem fine so I'm sure minimzzzf will be. She won't remember anyway. (I know that doesn't stop you feeling crap about it and constantly checking her though!)

Guess what my DC got off nan and granddaddy?
DS1 got the new warriors home shirt,
DD got a cuddly Max,
And DS2 is currently wearing his away kit

Fanby I hear ya on the family gift thing. I have issues with my Bro and his family. He's got 2 kids and for years I've been buying them gifts but asked for what they'd want so I don't get something pointless have they done the same for piper? Nope I got a crappy blanket. What 4 month old needs yet more blankets?! I've got blankets coming out of my ears we have that many. I asked him for a book but didn't get one. And I'm not sure I can return that Xmas tshirt because the label isn't on it. I did get some lovely clothes from other people though so that's ok.

Good afternoon! We were supposed to go to dh's grandmothers to see her and mil today, but due to loads of floods around here and mine and Ds' colds we cancelled. It's a 2 hour journey each way, so we really didn't fancy it.
Instead we're having a frap food and pj day. We're also trying to watch Star Wars when Ds naps, but he's fighting every one so we're not getting very far. I'm another who has never watched any Star Wars 🙂

We've been lucky so far on the clothes and gifts front. I am quite overwhelmed at how generous people have been - Ds has loads of toys now. Our house is tiny, so I'm having a bit of a panic about where it will all go.
Some of the girls from baby groups have been sharing pictures of their babies massive piles of presents from Santa on Facebook. Dh and I were giggling as poor old Ds only got a couple of fruit and veg toys from ikea!

You don't sound ungrateful fanby. Especially if there is history.

Ds has encountered the door frame a few times as well mzzf. I hope it's going ok at the in-laws. I remember your story from last year!
That's a great present. Very thoughtful. Dh and I both got each other new woolly hats. Great minds and all of that.

That's balls about your dp's job and your dad being a dick fatty.
Wedding planning is loads of fun. I think you should totally go with mzzf's suggestion of having us all as bridesmaids 😉 We can have the hen do at mugabes!

I'm really surprised you got a blanket dozy - I'm sure we were given ALL the blankets in the world when Ds was born!

Right, happy Boxing Day everyone. I'm about to smash into a coffee and some chocolate macaroons 🐷

Oh my fucking god how noisy and crap are other people around babies who are overtired and desperately trying to nap?!!!!
Everyone is trying to grab at her and I'm like 'stoppppp' she's tired. Gaaaah!
Also if I hear one more 'useful' piece of advice then I here by declare that I'm not responsible for my own actions. And no, she's not bloody sleeping through the night for the eleventy millionth time!!!

Sorry for the rant xx

Well frolic you better than us. We got her nothing! But she's always getting things as and when she needs it and looking at pics she won't know we didn't get her anything haha. But I know what u mean about Facebook and seeing other piles of presents and sacks for little babies.

I wanted an engagement ring but got a spacertain saver exercise bike 😂😂😂 maybe if I lose lots of weight from riding the bike while simultaneously entertainING the baby then he'll propose eventually.

Hi all

We had a fantastically busy, fun, noisy xmas. DS and DD2&3 woke at 4am and were still going strong at 10pm. Babyloves got a Jumperoo - think she is still a bit too small for it but sat in it for a little while until toddler decided she needed to be bounced more and nearly shot her into space

fatty many congratulations - loving the sparkly ring - your DP is a lucky man ❤️💑. Hope things work out with a new job - love conquers all X

Braved the sales today - got some baby stuff in Next - baby has lots of hand me downs but nice to get some things of her own too.

Hope you all enjoy the rest of Boxing Day! We are all snuggled on the (very big!) sofa, watching The Minion Movie and eating chocs. Babyloves must be drinking chocolate milk considering the amount of chocs I have eaten these past few days

Have a busy day tomorrow - DD3 birthday party for her friends at a local restaurant / soft play - it's her actual birthday on the 29th so another party in the house then - the excitement is never ending...........🎈🎁🎉🍰

Just caught up... Massive congrats Fatty! What an amazing pressie.

DP did really well, got me a gorgeous bracelet with DS's birthdate engraved on it in Roman numerals but it's not obvious when you look at it. It's really lovely.

We bought DS a cup and some spoons for when he starts weaning 😂 Grandparents and other friends and relatives have spoilt him though so he's not too deprived! Was very impressed by how good he was at opening the presents as well, of course he much prefers the wrapping to any of the gifts.

For Christmas he got me his worst night in aaaages 😴 Then he was miserable and cranky all morning, gave him some calpol and he cheered right up so wonder if he's in pain from teething.

Weird presents - the in laws all got DS a personalised Christmas tree bauble. Lots of them say 'first Christmas' so again it's weird timing as the tree will be down soon, and they are nice and I'm sure we'll use them again but honestly we've got about 5 of them. Just seems odd that they all got him one... Or maybe I'm missing something and personalised baubles are all the rage at the mo?!

MzzF don't worry about the cupboard. We've all done it Hope Mini M recovered quickly.

Frolic - chocolate macaroons sounds like my absolute dream Boxing Day. So jealous right now!

Hope you're all having a lovely day, if tonight is anything like last night I'll be spending a lot of time propping up the bar later, hopefully won't see any of you there (in the nicest possible way )

Oh dear. Now I feel bad. I bought DS loads.......oops. Some nice frugi clothes and toys that I'll pop away and bring out over the year.

Ha mzzzf I hear you on that. If one more person asks me if he sleeps through yet I may scream! Or worse.

He is having a shocker at the moment. Worse than he has ever been. The most time he will spend in his cot is 1 hour. DH and I are shattered. But despite that we had such a lovely christmas. Am loving being with my family. So nice but can't help but feel like be good to get home and try and sort his sleep out. My 3 year old nephew is in the room right next to us so don't feel I can do anything other than bring him into bed with us so doesn't wake him and thus the whole house.

Oh I hear you all on the presents. People keep buying stuff for us that will be for the wrong season. When he was born we got shorts for now and now we have whoolley jumpers for the summer.

Oh and frolic - no we got all the blankets when DS was born. It is clearly the present of 2015. We never use 90% of them.

Weirdest present was a selection box for DS. Not sure I'll wean him on curly whirly's. Still
It was off my 93 year old grandma so can't compain. Plus am sure I can force them down....

Oh mzzf, I feel your pain. Ds likes to fall asleep being rocked in his pram or on the boob. He does not like to be jigged up and down by well meaning mil family members.

Lol at your exercise bike dozy! I would kill dh.

I hope you have a fab party tomorrow loves. So much excitement 🙂

The macaroons wee amazing clstow!- I ate the whole packet 🐷🐷

I also got loads of stuff from frugi kbro, I just didn't think to wrap it up for Christmas. Nothing wrong with spoiling them IMO. Ds has had so much stuff passed down from my sister's kids that we really don't need to buy / have room for anything else.
I'm keeping many of the blankets in their packaging to regift!

Ds is doing his best grumpy old man impression today. Nothing we do for him is right. But at least we have cheese and biscuits to get us through!

DS2 got loads, but that was mainly so the older two didn't think he had been forgotten and most of it DD will play with too. I also wrapped lots of books up separately so it looked like he had more

Clstow, we got a couple of personalised baubles as well. J did pretty well for presents, even from some of my battier relatives. DH and I won weird present of the year so far - a kitchen roll holder.

Having survived Christmas day at the ILs, we are now at my parents for a few days. A bit more relaxed now. J fed virtually every hour yesterday and as I wasn't allowed to bf downstairs, I missed quite a bit of the day. As some of that was playing with my niece and nephew, that was a shame. I just had MIL moaning that J doesn't settle with her (just bad luck I think) and she wanted to give him a bottle to help them bond. I had to point out J has gone off bottles at the moment, plus we do need notice to have bottles available!

We seem to have returned to longer stints of sleep for now - just need to crack getting J to sleep in the first place! Have been lazy recently and just fed him to sleep on me downstairs and then taken him up when we go to bed. Which works (mostly), I'd just quite like my evenings with DH back - I was getting used to at least an hour or so just the two of us.

Anyway, about to transfer to the Moses basket and join my family for dinner - wish me luck!

Ds decided to make up for his grumpiest day ever by rolling over (back to front) just before bed, having a great feed for the first time in days and falling asleep without any bother.
I hope it doesn't mean we're going to be having a long night.

Good luck tindel, I hope he went down ok for you. What is it with this obsession people have with wanting to feed other people's babies? I can't believe they sent you upstairs to feed 😮

Good night everyone- I hope there is plenty of sleep tonight.

You're not allowed to feed downstairs???

MIL decided it would make her brother (never married, not interested in kids at all) feel uncomfortable, so she told me she had set up one of the bedrooms for me. Was sorely tempted to forget and just do it, but in the spirit of Christmas and goodwill, I complied. Have bf'd in front of MIL and FIL before, in fact FIL popped in for a chat during one feed yesterday! I suspect uncle couldn't give a stuff, but MIL loves any excuse to fuss about stuff. That and I think it makes her feel uncomfortable - she keeps banging on about how she formula fed both kids and how easy it was.

J refused to go down tonight, so was sat on various laps chatting and grinning at people all evening. Started to flag about 1030, so brought him up to feed and then going to bed myself as that seems to be the only way to settle him at the moment.

Hoping such a late night will persuade him to sleep for longer anyway. Night all!

I hope I'm solo at the bar!

Mini mzzzf was a 'mare to get to sleep. I'm thinking some massive overstimulation was happening there as she literally moaned herself to sleep - like a sleepy yodel/bad actor dying! Poor poppet.

The mil surprised us with an awesome gift which was wonderfully surprising as she's normally numero uno of crap gifts (think forever friends calendars etc). Well it was an awesome hamper in a giant carved tree trunk bowl thing - amazing! She's still in DHs semi bad books for inviting all the people round to look st the baby. We get the proud grandparent thing but poor DD was constantly being pawed at or having s camera flash pointed at her. On a positive note though I kept rescuing her and taking her away for naps. Which she did off me (!!) on the bed which me next to her. Something to try at home once we get some blackout curtains for upstairs. Total darkness during the day seemed to help her - but I've always been worried shed confuse her night/days up - we'll see!!

Now why the hell didn't I grab a handful of Roses for a nighttime feeding snack?! 😁😁

Oh and tindel your mil sounds like a right charmer! Hope you got some sleep

mzzf MIL is a special case - she's not as bad as some, but she can be a right pain at times.

Got some sleep, but J is back awake now and feeding. Hope mini mzzf went back to sleep. Think J was overstimulated, but we also didn't do enough to wear him out. Think we will need to take him out later today to get him some fresh air to tire him out more.