September 2006: no longer baby babies (anyone feeling broody) !!

[Coriander73]

Hello...

I need business ideas... Would you like your children to learn Spanish?!! Thinking that maybe I could start teaching? Not sure....didn't like it when I taught in Madrid but that was Spanish-English & this would be the other way around.....I just need to "feel" something...but I'm just devoid of any inspiration! I keep looking at monster & total jobs etc but it's all sales & full time jobs that are being posted & I just don't want to get into that again.....I love being at home but I have to do something 2-3 days to help with bills etc. It's so hard isn't it? I'm also thinking of seeking another opinion re appeal as I've gone through all the paperwork again & I still don't think they given due consideration to my request - perhaps nothing will come of it but I have to know that I gave it my best shot..

On a lighter note I had DD running around the garden yday with her wheelbarrow in tow telling me to get out of the way as she was going to the Diggly's compost heap...

Is everyone out enjoying the weather?!!!Can you tell I'm bored rigid at work & want to chat?!!

Found the new thread Coriander
They teach spanish in schools where my neice is, in Essex, so it might be something people would be interested in

Poor you, at work and trying to think of things that you could do for work when you leave work!!
Yuck horrid word!!

mrs harrypotter (calve) how did you know you'd been recognised?!

cori - maybe we need to join forces and and find some fantastic business opportunity!

Well I had my day out shopping on saturday with my mum whilst DH looked after the boys. Had a fantastic day, lovely lunch and spent a fortune. I went to Bravissimo to get measured and am a 32 FF

Ds2 is now sooo close to crawling and getting v frustrated. He gets up on his knees and is on all fours, but his arms aren't quite strong enough so he collapses.

Have been to the dentist today for a filling so am feeling v. sorry for myself.....but only 5 days to go til our holiday

Hello Hello

I think the Spanish teaching thing is a great idea Coriander, good luck if you end up going to appeal, don't know the whole history but it sounds like a complete bummer.

Good to hear you had a good day with your Mum Mabel, FF Very it's 4 months until my Mum is coming to visit, looking forward to doing something similar.

Thanks again for all the info on the cloth nappies Fairy, have put the proposal together and DH is reviewing it
He did say something about I had'nt factored in the cost of the additional energy and laundry detergent for the extra washing and I could of presented it better than my maths being scribbled on the back od an old envelope.

Just read that back, may-be I should clarify, about the day out with your Mum not the FF

A lady at playschool asked if I used mn, she had recognised my name (it was pretty obvious). Thought I'd better change it before anyone else figured it out!

Ivor - there's a good article in this months' Practical Parenting weighing up disposable vs washable nappies. Might be worth a look.

MrsHarry - what happened??

Cori - I think that learning any second language from a young age is a good idea. There are Spanish and French lessons available round here starting from 3 years old (Essex).

DS still has a cough. Sounds so rattly in his chest. Is still affecting his sleep. Does anyone know if there's anything you can put in their bath to help with the congestion? I use Karvol in his room but I think something mixing with the steam of the bath might be good. Eucalyptus or something? Might start a thread on it...

Ooh, my period arrived on Saturday. Good to know everything's working OK. Also good to be sure I'm not pg But I certainly haven't missed them for the past 17 months! Will definitely have to be more careful with the old contraception issue from now on.

DS seems to have started to drop his morning nap. It was getting to be such a battle to get him to sleep at lunchtime so I thought I'd keep him up and see what happens. He does get tired by the time he has lunch, but he's sleeping better afterwards now. He fell asleep during his lunch yesterday. Sooo cute!

Better go and sort some dinner out. DH will be in in a minute and I'm starving!

Hi everyone. Love the new thread title. Congrats on getting AF Bristols.... so still no pregnancies I feel very excited about who will be first (my life must be very dull!)
MrsHP - that is scary... I'm sure a few people might have 'read' me which is a bit of a worry....
Re. naps - dd hasn't had a morning nap for the last couple of days. She just had about 40 minutes in the pushchair today. It does make her very whiny come 5pm but with ds I used to spend all day obsessing with his sleep so I'm trying to chill out this time... easier said than done

DD has just started to take a 2hr nap in teh mornings!??
I don't knwo where it came from, certainly had nothing to do with me! But I like it!!
Only prob is that it ties me a little to the house cos she likes to go down at 1130 until about 1330ish.
Not sure that she would take the full 2hrs if she was on the go.
My mum has been away, so I have been sticking around at home for a week and that is when this started. I guess I will just have to stop dropping in on her quite so much, I think it had got to be a bit of a habit and then I felt bad for her if I didn't turn up. I think she looks forward to seeing us. But, at the same time I don't think she will be too fussed she maybe finds it a little tying, too.

But she (DD, not my mum) has also started to sleep through the night, Yeah! I managed to get her to drop the 3am feed with one night of letting her shout for it. God, that was hard, but worth it cos now I get a whole nights sleep!!

DD has also started to Really crawl now. Before she was just giving it a go but flopping onto her tummy was still faster. Then, all of a sudden, this morning she has decided that actually crawling IS faster!! Ooh, and she might just give that pulling herself up on my legs a go
Mainly when we are on the bed and I am trying to hide my morning yoghurt from her, by sitting with my knees up Next thing I know she is standing up and reaching round!!

I am totally broody too
I am now thinking, just three more packets of pills then I will stop for three months, to give my body a rest, then we are going to go for it.
I am on a count down, how crazy is that!!

Did you really have to give DH a proposal Ivor???
I know, if you are really keen you would factor into it all the fuel cost for washing machines etc!! Nah, too much for me!
Did you show him MrsHP's figures? They were better than mine for convincing someone

Oh My God
That post was Huge! Sorry guys!!!

I think I might of over exagerated the proposal thing but I did give him an old envelope with some maths scribbled on the back!
It's just the way he is, he's also obsessed with facts and figures at the moment as were trying to buy a house
We're putting in an offer on a place I really like but I'm trying not to think about it too much just in case it all falls through. But I did buy a couple of home / interior design magazines just to flick through you understand!

DS has two naps a day, about 90 mins in the morning then about an hour in the afternoon if I'm lucky. Don't want to think about him giving either up, I use that time to have a shower, catch up with stuff and may-be a little bit of MN!

Congrats on the whole nights sleep Fairy, you'll not know what to do with all that rest
Does anyone else have a DH / DP who snores, looking for ways to shut him up with out spilling blood on the bed clothes!

Cori, I really want to find a GENUINE at home job that doesn't involve holding parties or wandering around the streets posting leaflets. There is hardly anything out there. When you think of all these Mums at home with loads of experience and qualifications it's makes you wonder why companies don't want use our valuable expertise. Loads of companies have reps etc.. that work from home so it can't be that difficult [deep breath, rant over].

If you find anything let me and I will do the same.

FB x

(I was with you on the Sept 06 ante-natal thread and no DS is no longer a baby, but I def NOT broody )

Arr! I have just found out that the house next door to my mum is for a sale at a really good price and, if we act fast we could get it at that price too (scottish law is offers over, if you wait you will end up in a bidding war. Nightmare!)
It is a fantastic 4 bed house with a Huuuge living room a good sized kitchen and a fitted utility room. The garden is also a great size, enclosed and gets the sun all day! It also has a garage to please DH.

BUT it is next door to my mum!!! God love her but, you know!?
The garden is totally enclosed from her side though, does that help?? But, lets be honest, you know I would end up with a gate so DD, and the next, could go see Granny whenever they wanted without going out the front.
Which would be ok anyway cos it is a really quiet street.

Oh dear what shall I do!?

My brain says, you don't need to move, the house you have is ok. But it is only two bed and I don't really like this village anyway. Not that it is bad, I am just not a huge fan and don't really want my children to be teenagers here.
DH and I really wanted a house in the country but part of me does not think that is a terribly good idea (ending up taxi drivers etc)

Oh no, heeelp!!

Oh, I think I will have to open a thread I need help now and sometimes this thread is quiet!

fairy - we live in the country and have to drive most places, it is only recently i had my own car so had to walk everywhere or take the bus. On the plus side it is a lovely place for the boys to grow up and the school is brilliant.
However much as i love my mum, there is no way i'd want to live next door to her, it would do my head in!!!!
We live litereally 2 mins from my MIL, she is isn't too bad she ususally rings me before coming round, but sometimes she does just turn up which is a bit annoying.

I am not sure how I would feel about it, mum dropping in that is.
I think I would just hand over whenever she did
PIL were up this weekend and I was able to get so much done cos I just handed over!
they don't see her much so were only too happy for me to run off to do my bits and bobs.

I think my mum would be quite respectful about it all and I could say bugger off it it was not convenient.
Probably need DH to tell me if that is true or not. I tend to wear my lovely rose tinted specs and DH has to be the one to pull them off and show me the reality!!

Fairy, what does your DH say about living next door to his MIL?
House sounds lovely, I can see advantages of living next door to your Mum, but I'm 3000 miles away from mine so absence makes the heart grow stronger.
Did'nt you say in a previous post that you saw your Mum a lot anyway, would'nt living next door to her just save you petrol then?

Oh Lordy! Yeah, but do we need to be moving now.
DH is saying how happy he is where we are and that is good, he is right but, at some point, we will have to move because neither of us see this as our long term home.
He wants to build in the country, I just want a bigger house for my family to grow into.
We had agreed that we would wait until our dream home appeared, but this is such a good price and ticks all the boxes except location

Come to think on it, that is what I said about this house and now I am keen to move. I am just too impatient and scared of missing out on a good house and then regretting it later when I am shoe horning us all into this little house

Fairy - don't rush into anything! Take your time to think about it all. If it happens, it happens and if it doesn't then it wasn't right anyway.

We've had a very traumatic day. Went for DS's swimming lesson this morning. Were in the changing room, turned my back for one second to lock the locker and... you know what's coming... he fell off the bench. Headfirst onto the hard floor. He screamed the place down. I felt dreadful. We then spent the whole lesson sitting on the side of the pool with an ice pack on his head. Which he hated. I know how that feels and it really hurts. I made a complete fool of myself by crying too and all this in front of a gorgeous lifeguard. Never mind, eh?

Thankfully, DH had a surprise afternoon off so DS and I both got lots of cuddles. i also went to bed for an hour as all the drama wore me out!

Have a busy day tomorrow. Have my four closest friends coming round with their children. There will be an 18 month old, an 8 month old and two four week olds here. Its going to be very busy! Can't wait.

Am feeling much more relaxed now as I have added just a tiny bit(ish) of Vodka to my orange juice. Mmm, feel all fuzzy. Lovely.

Bristols don't worry .... it happens - so far we have incidents where i took the tray off DS's high chair undid the straps, then for some reason decided to turn round to put something on the worksurface and of course plop out he fell from his high chair head first, we have also had DS1 pulling him by his legs when he's been in his bumbo perched on a dining room chair - of course he pulled him off the chair, head 1st again and DS1 has hit him with with a wooden hammer above his eye, so all in all he's had a few bumps and bruises!

bristols, I still remember when DD fell onto a marble floor when we were visiting friends in Spain. They don't do carpet over there so it's all hard floors & we'd put DD on the sofa (she had started to crawl already) whilst we just stood next to her...then before we knew it she'd fallen head first onto this floor! DH & I obviously blamed each other as we'd thought it was the other who was supposed to be looking after her......I think first time around (like with everything) you worry a lot more but you soon realise it will happen (even if you are being as vigilent as you can)....Jack has already banged his head quite hard on the floor...but that was because his sister sat him up & pushed him back down again...how he cried! I didn't worry myself this time as you know that they will be OK...just a lot of tlc needed!

DH was feeling rather fruity this morning! I'd put DD into J's cot so they could play (as she insists every morning!), DH stepped out of the shower & cornered me in DD's bedroom putting some of her clothes away! He was upfor it but I was quite taken aback...I just couldn't...I really couldn't! He said but they're both in the cot, I'm trying to be sponteanous but Christ, I just found it all a bit risque & not exactly relaxing thinking that all I could hear in the background would be googagooga & DD being bossy & asking for someone to get her out if the cot...you can just imagine it can't you?.. Does that make me very boring?!

So are we all serious about a meet up then? What we if can't stand each other? Then what do we do?!!!! I can't imagine not having this thread in my life somehow!

Hi Ladies,
Long time no post, due to work primarily - evenings seem to be spent getting DS' stuff ready for childminder next day, having tea, making my lunch and his food for freezer - managing to fit in the odd bit of Davina's exercise DVD (I need all the help I can get), but not much time for Mumsnet.
Cori - sorry to hear about your job. i'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason, so I'm sure you will now find the right thing to occupy your working time and get you some income. Teaching Spanish is a great idea - I think there's a good appetite for that sort of thing these days.
Bristols - sorry to hear about your LO's accident, is really horrible when it happends, but I had the same experience as Myrtle on Friday - unstrapped LO in his highchair, but then decided to remove tray and turn round to put it on table - next thing, thud & crying . DH is just relieved he wasn't the first one to have this happen to and thinks it's really funny to read out the warning on the back of the highchair, which says "Never leave your child unattended in the highchair"
Liquid - think you posted long time ago asking how we were doing with weaning v. possible allergies. TBH, all he will take so far is baby porridge, fruit (lots of it), veg (quite a variety) and rusks (don't give them very often). So think we're safe on the wheat front and we did give him a bit of mild cheese on Saturday lunchtime, which he loved at lunchtime, but didn't like at teatime. Won't touch chicken (have tried pureed and in chunks). Also, don't really know what I'm looking for, but so far no dramatic reactions to anything. Am just allowing him to get onto protein in his own time (like he's done with everything else). He's still on hypoallergenic formula, but guess once we have progressed onto more foods, GP will press for move to "normal" formula. We'll see. How is your LO doing with weaning?
Kesaj - as above, my LO is still primarily on fruit and veg and won't eat anything that is the slightest bit lumpy, but hey, they're all different).
Fairy - I'm with Bristols, whatever is meant to be will be, so don't stress over the house thing - easier said than done!
DS tried to crawl yesterday (apparently). DH was at home with him yesterday and excitedly rang me to say that he had moved from middle of lounge to TV unit (about 1 foot) forwards! Hasn't moved like that since and it was not proper on all fours, but more wriggling. Think he is keen to start though, as has mastered spinning round on his tummy and can slide backwards, so we'll just see what happens over the coming weeks. I am so loving this stage though - changing so much, so responsive and just seems to be enjoying life !
Only fly in ointment is childminder. She's really happy with DS and he's happy with her, but she's not happy with hours (doesn't want to do 5 days a week, so we may face having to find another childminder ). Is a real shame, but I think because we've had such confusing discussions around it all, the relationship has deteriorated, so it's not good.
I'm up for a meet up by the way - sounds fab (if a little scary). Shall look out to see what happens re. this on the thread.
Sorry for long post, but have to post as and when can due to work (should be working now).
Glad to hear you all mostly sound cheery and hope you are all getting good weather too - may it last to the weekend.
P.S. Just seen cute mini folding chairs for children in Robert Dyas (think it was there) on my lunchbreak - only £6.99 - DH thinks I'm mad, but I really want to get one for DS - will last until he is several years old - I'm such a sucker

Good to hear from you Jinglebelle..sorry to hear about childminder drama...would you consider looking at a nursery instead? You'd obvioulsy get 5 days a week & the same routine / faces..might be an option? I was only thinking yesterday that we hadn't heard from Angeliz & Norms for quite some while...good to hear from you too Flumpy What a happy thread we are

I don't know why but I just felt I had to re-read some of our original posts on the first Sep post natal thread!! OMG...it's seems like a world away...all the talk of sore nipples, sleeplessness, weight, 0-3 babygros, expressing, need I go on?! I just can't believe how far removed I feel from it all even though it was only 7-8 months ago..

I also wondered how Pol, LexyB, 2bumps are getting on !

Found you!!
already 25 messages!

Fairy ? We?re going through the same thing: teething. At least there?s a light at the end of the tunnel (Claire: !)

Mabel ? we?re still undecided but if Dallas then here , if Houston back into our old neighborhood ? in a townhome, not a house ? with Mom and Dad living down the street from us. It?d be familiar territory in the middle of the city & all our old friends & ?built in babysitters? in my parents. But DH after living in this house doesn?t want to go back to a townhome & the amenities of the Dallas neighborhood are very good.

Fairy, this is our second-to-last move. We don?t want to raise our boys in Texas. We want to move to Colorado. DH is confident he can get us there in the next 5 years. So when I?m sad I just think about the Rocky Mtns ?

at ?safe, friendly and settled? ? you?re lucky!! ? /// Okay; after I wrote that you post you?re considering moving! Well, we?d be down the street from Mom in a townhome, if choice is Houston ? If strict protocols are outlined from the beginning (like always call before coming over), I?d say it?d be a blessing to have insta-sitters. But echo wise advice of Bristols!

Bristols, this weekend DS1?s tricycle went out of control on a walking trail?s slope, neither DH nor I could catch him in time; he ran headfirst into a cement wall. It looked horrible; we were sure we were hospital bvound but luckily looked much worse than it was. It?s awful, isn?t it?? We were never so relieved as when he started to yell ?Pootie!? again.

What is centre parks?

Calve, er, MrsHarry ? LOVE the chunkiness!! Jameson has it too.

Cori ? I have a friend who is teaching Spanish here in Arkansas & she really enjoys it! SO many people want to learn Spanish. I think that?s a great idea!

Flumpy, it?s amazing how many women here do some kind of out-of-the-home selling business ? PamperedChef, scrapbooking, Avon ... But I don?t like these kinds of things, roping friends into BYOW (Bring Your Own Wallet) parties where you?re guilty if you don?t buy anything .. LOL; they don?t really call them BYOW but I do. So, I share your rant. Corporate world needs to get more of a clue about it ? so hard to find a real part-time job!!

Jameson began crawling last Friday!! Now he?s trying to stand up ?
Has to catch up with DS1 on everything, doesn?t he??

Bristols congratulations on that-time-of-the-month; know you?re so relieved.

We are going to Houston on Friday, Jamaica on Sunday!! LOL; after 8 months I think all we'll want to do is sleep ... WOW, full nights' sleep for a whole week!! Can't wait.