Dec 06 - a new one for Indith and her rubbish dial up!

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New thread for our incessant chatter!

AQ - I went from being a career girl who fully expected to go back to work full-time when DD1 was 6 months to a SAHM !

Primarily because I couldnt see myself working part-time. I felt the need to do either job 100% of my time. Also no way my old company would have used me part-time so I'd have ended up doing full time hours for part-time pay. Money is tight but I have not had any regrets yet. I do DHs books and some other stuff to remind myself I can still 'work'..

I have no desire at all to get a job when I graduate. Is that bad? would need to be pg with the next one I feel to justify it! Dp had better watch out come Feb/March time Besides which I can't really see that it would be financially worthwhile. Most graduate schemes I would start around £18000. With dp's hours would have to either get another car or spend fortune on public transport then childcare, which would involve changing creche as mine only does university terms and 9-5. Not to mention losing my tax credits. Jsut so not worth it for the 2p a week extra it would bring!

Ds having trouble with poo. Super huge ones that he is taking ages and ages to squeeze out while screaming his head off and pushing and grunting like, well, a woman in labour! Poor boy.

Ds is fast asleep on the livingroom floor....I'm thinking I should maybe move him into his cot! I swear he was playing 2 seconds ago!

Awwww bless him
Hiya Lucy I wish it was warmer here, wanna swap??

I can't keep up with you lot!

Ds1 is teething again and snotty with it. Dd4 is poorly and her asthma is playing up
It's half term and I can't get motivated to do anything but really should at least hoover
Waiting for a man to hopefully come and buy our clapped out car (we have another one) Hope he buys it Could do with the cash as usual.
Anyone else use Facebook? I swore I wouldn't but now I'm addicted

I'm on Facebook!

ds has a profile so If you are sneaky you can find him and then his mummy.

Ds is in his cot, hardly woke up at all!

Right-ho how many Russian exercises can I do before he wakes up!

I'm on Facebook too and not sure how to find you guys without disclosing any personal info on here

I tried to find your ds Indith but couldn't It was another 20 mins on there though

I'd be interested to know how much milk your DCs are having now. advice

(I said 11 months to stop negative comments about the cow's milk. Not sure it will work)

FGS, I've posted on your other thread.

I've had a really cr*p day. My back is really bad ATM (I start physio tomorrow - YAY!), and as a result I'm really short tempered and a nightmare to be around. DD1 got it in the neck several times today, and it was really unjustified. Poor wee soul. I just can't work out how I'm supposed to give my back a break when I have a 25lb 10 month old to cart about, and there's nothing more dispiriting than constant, nagging pain.

Whinge, whinge, whinge ...

I keep being tempted by Facebook, but I'm really too paranoid to put myself on it

Hello! Have caught up but need to go to bed, just want this on threads I'm on tomorrow!

Thanks BP. Go to bed, tomorrow will be another day....and DD1 will have forgotten.

I have created another facebook name

Margo Sbeenplaying

So if you want to add me as your friend you're more than welcome and then I will link you in to my normal name.

Hope physio goes well tomorrow BP. I have been stroppy mum for the last week or 2. I would love someone to wave a magic wand and get all the silly jobs done around my house. (putting up shelves, painting doors, finding places to put contents of boxes)

Have sent a message to Margo Sbeenplaying so you should now know who I am and b able to add me

Good thinking Margo

I've been wondering about milk too as ds has almost dropped the lunchtime feed so is now only on 2 feeds a day and not allowed cows milk for another 2.5 months (though like you I'll prob start a bit early, he has it in porridge, think mainly they say a year to stop people feeding younger babies milk instead of the more expensive formula when it still forms the bulk of their diet.) Ah well he is addicted to yoghurt and will merrily polish off a whole adult yoghurt at every meal if I let him!

Wellll...for some bizarre reason, dd3 has gone off yoghurts, and fromage frais, and is getting annoyed with milk too

DD2 has little interest in yogurt, although she loves all cheese (she snaffled some of my stilton the other day - don't tell the food police!) I might try her with some milk today. If I could find a 'comfort' drink for her then DH might take over some of the evening/night routine!

FGS, I didn't mean to imply that you should try formula, just wondered if you had (I couldn't remember ) Sorry if it came across badly.

Thats a great Idea margo, will go add you now.

Not sure on the milk front as ds1 still b/f every 3-4 hours!!!!!!!! But he has cows molk if I go out and dh has him.

I have got a facebook profile under my real name, but since i don't seem to have time to go on it, it would be totally useless for me to add anyone as a friend Sorry.

okay, have added FGS and Indith to my real profile.

And on the basis of that info have added FGS.

Mind you, I'm a bit pants on facebook...novelty wore off a fair while ago, back in the good old days when it was just us young studenty types on there . Still it is the most secure way I have of sharing photos of ds.

My brain has melted.

I cannot speak Russian.

But! Ds didn't wake til 4am! Took half an hour to go back to sleep then woke again at 6.30. Fed him and he went back to sleep! Had to fish him out of his cot to be able to deliver him and his breakfast to creche. Seems we really are getting somewhere with this CC business. The crawling is helping too though I think, I get the odd 1.5/2hr afternoon nap out of him once he has finished investigating the livingroom!

Got you Margo. Can you send me a message with Indith's name when you get a min and I'll add her.

By the way, please can ask you all not to mention MN on my faebook wall or anything as I dont talk about it to RL people and have already had to name change once because I thought I was being found out

BP - didnt read it like that at all. Dont worry

Aha, Indith you are tres clever!

Glad the sleeping is going well! long may it continue.

[admiring, baffled icon] how on earth do you all have time to Facebook as well as MN?! AND Fly?!!? I clearly need some sort of personal organizer type person to come and help me re-structure my life

FGS, my dd is a milk pig, and has about 200mls three times a day. Last night, she had another 200 mls, in two lots, at 2am and 6am Maybe she's on a growth spurt, though - she could do with putting on a bit of weight, so I'm keeping the milk up for now.

And yes, it IS a lovely age!

Well for my part Eli, I only have one child who has recently discovered the joy of crawling and therefore has no desire to play with me at all so he romps around the livingroom leaving a trail of destruction while I keep half an eye on him and half on the laptop!

The excuse being that I can't do work with him around as he is rather distracting.

'William no!'

William stops playing with the oven/dvd player/plants, gives mummy a cheeky grin, turns around and starts again.

Rascal!

Lol...they are at a lovely age though aren't they? How can you be cross - when dd is only totally disobeying you and ripping the Argos catalogue to pieces because she's discovering that she is a separate entity?

And now, dd has discovered that not only can she wind Mummy up to breaking point by not sleeping, but she can also navigate her way onto the top of the nappy box and do mountaineering But my, don't they start young these days