Jan '07 part 6: PCF's hoping for a different sort of Easter egg than the rest of us!

[2HappyEaster]

Like a lovely, plump, fertilised one

Ok, I can THOROUGHLY recommend making the MN lemon drizzle cake. Its lush. It makes loads though. And the recipie which is on the thread about it made one loaf tin drizzle cake and 12 fairy cake ones. And did I say...its LUSH! Too bad no one lives near me & could pop round for some cake..too bad my boyfriend won't be home till 7pm...hope there is some left for him then! x

CAKE

GIVE ME CAKE!!

(i am the cake princess)

Congrats to your friend.

Liz - I hate lemon cake myself but I make one that's virtually the same from a recipe book I have and everyone likes that.

Dear Cake Princess,
Please find below recipe for cake which will make you happy instantly..well, after about 40 minutes of baking. I am LizzZombie - domestic goddess!

INGREDIENTS
9 oz sugar
9 oz butter
12 oz self-rising flour
4 eggs
3 t baking powder
6 Tbsp milk
grated rind from 2 lemons
juice from these lemons separately

METHOD

Preheat oven to 325 degrees/Gas Mark 3/170C/ Mix all the ingredients together in the mixer except for lemon juice. Bake in 9 X 11 (or 13) baking dish. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes until knife comes out clean. While the cake is baking, squeeze the juice from the lemons and heat for 20 seconds or so in the microwave. Set at least one tablespoon aside to drizzle into the cake when it comes out of the oven. Take the balance of the warm lemon juice and add icing sugar (confectioners sugar) to consistency you like. As soon as you take the cake from the oven, prick cake with fork and pour over the reserved warm lemon juice. Next, spread the icing over the cake to finish it off.

Z had his 2nd lot of jabs this morning, he was giving the HV lovely smiles and then she jabbed him in the leg and his little face just crumpled! then he'd just about stopped crying and she jabbed him in the other leg!!

anyway, then he was grumpy and shouty and running a temp of almost 38, so i dosed him up with Calpol (twas easy - just tilted his head back and poured the stuff down!) and let him sleep on me. but there was a point when he was proper miserable and there were real tears. it was awful.

congrats to your BF EAH. we'l want name/weight/time of birth, the lot (i love details!!)

OMG chatter chatter.......you all been here waiting for the news from EAH's bf? Congrats to her btw EAH. Bet you're glad you can buy blue stuff!!

UD - hope Z's ok this evening. Two down, one to go (well, of this lot anyway). What does SWMNBN mean? I was going to award myself a 4 out of 10, but sorry to be dim but can't work out what this is. Hope your roast was nice last night!

Lizz - why do you always talk about nice food? Each time I see your name now I just dribble (take after my daughter). And to make matters worse I've run out of Easter Egg and have no lemons in the house. Chuck us a slice please.

Jodie - AP looks really heavy going. Not heard of it until Lizz mentioned it.

You all got busy nights on MSN? I may have to talk to DH this evening

Id say I am probablly a 2. Love my routines too. I have to say though, I agree with some of the things on that web site but just not how to get there.

Mind you my MIL told me I was a hard mother this weekend. It is really anoying the way she molly coddles (SP?) my nephew though. If L falls over I say something like 'oopsy daisy' or 'up you get' (as long as it is not REALLY bad). But if nephew falls it is the end of the world and he has to have loads of cuddles and crys for about half an hour.

He ran down a grassy hill and fell over and hurt his finger and cos of all the fuss ended up whinging in his buggy for the rest of the walk. God I hate whinging! They even talked about going to A and E about it FFS!

I think maybe I am hard

Congrats to your BF EAH!

grrrrrrrrrrrrr coming for a rant ladies sorry..but bloody Dh is annoying me. He has been going on and on about when are we putting C in with DD1. So tonight decided to see if I could settle them together. Took me an hour as DD1 was all excited at seeing C in her room etc so of course was in and out of bed. I just came downstairs and he asked why I was settling her in the bedroom. Told him how he had been going on etc, he completely denied it. Then he went upstairs made so much bloody noise that now both of them are awake again. So have told him they are his responsibility until 7am and he now has a face on and is trying to get C to settle. Although I think he is now in our room with her!

nemo at dh and (hugs)

just posted this on april antenatel thread
UPDATE ON EDDAS*

HARRY MICHAEL
*BORN 2.26PM
WEIGHT 8LB 3OZ
LENGTH 54.5CM

eddas staying in hospital tonight, from memory was 3 cm dilated at 10.45 am and 4cm at 1.15pm then fully dilated and pushing only took to 2.26pm. Was prepping for epidural but was to late so managed on gas and air.

She is looking great (feeling sore) and Harry is gorgeous and very awake and feeding brillantly. Have got some pics so will load them onto my profile and let you know when they are on there

hope he manages, nemo! honestly, men! took us until 10.30 to settle ds1 last night after the cat-in-bedroom-fiasco last night!

oh congrats to her

aww congrates

Congrats to your bf, EAH....God I am glad I never have to go through that again!!

Not really into attachment parenting. Like routine and my 3 are perfectly content because they know what's coming next. And carrying you baby around in a sling does not mean you love them anymore!

his photo is bottom on my rofile how cute is hatties toyboy?

msn keeps signing me out again girls, I'll try and get back on later

and a couple of new pics of e and h check out hatties grin/double chins!!

dragonheart - i too am hard mummy! i am exactly same as you and say oh dear you'll be alright but MIL always goes over the top and then DD milks it! Last time we saw her she cut DD's labels out of her clothes as she said they were scratching her - now DD constantly goes on about her labels asking me to cut them out - no way am I getting into doing that!

DH has gone out tonight so had to put them both to bed by myself which was a bit of a challenge but at the mo all is quiet so i'm enjoying being able to MN for a change!

Oh dear - attachment parenting is defo not for me. Would drive me insane!!!!! Love my little routine with J and like you said Annie, he's happy cos there are no surprises. But of course, each to their own. I would say I am prob a 2-3 on the scale

Totally agree about not glossing over any mishaps. My sisters twins are always bumping themselves and we just say 'Never mind, up you get' and carry on. I find if I make a big fuss they seem to cry for the hell of it.

J been a little sweetie today. HE ROLLED OVER!!!!! Put him on his front for some tummy time, he lifted his head and shoulders off the floor, pushed with his left arm and rolled over. He look really proud of himself and grinned at me Aw bless my boy, he's growing up. He is also making loads more sound including blowing raspberries. Hee hee.

I'm having an MSN free night tonight so someone else will have to be bar manager.

EAH - Eddas LO is gorgeous, as I said on my text please tell her massive congrats.

HAVE WE ALL PICKED FOR THE NATIONAL????

Oh and NEMO at your DH - MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

noone on msn apart from me and rgee and shes gone was just going to turn puter off and read chapter 2 of 'toddler taming'

oh and big round of applause for little j well done on your rolling you clever boy

horses taken
Lizz- Hedgehunter
Eah- Jack High
Rgee- Idle talk
Pcf- Simon
Annieapple-Ballycassidy
Lth- Slim Pickings
Wilkie- Graphic approach
Nemo 2007- Silver birch
Laughalot- Lami
hattie2 - mckelvey
Jodie - Celtic Son
Dragonhart - Joes Edge
Shimmer - Point Barrow
2Happy - Monkerhostin

still lots left
grand national