April 2007 - A new chapter begins, and an old friend says goodbye

[EllieK]

we'll miss you octo

and we already miss you MIAST

new chapter is mine by the way, finally moving on with my life

It's her arms that wake her up though, EM and they wouldn't be "pinned" in a sleeping bag .... may be worth a try though!!? Sadly I've been prone to these feelings for quite a long time, just exacerbated with 3 little one's to care for and a lack of sleep, I think. Pants.

CD might it be worth seeing your GP?
LOL atg local teenagers, though what on earth were they doing up and out at 8am?!
elkie, when are you going to decide about BLW, or are you just going to see when D wants to be weaned and see then? Prob what I'm going to do, and agree with you about the excitement
Emmymummy, small print? Off to look at home page

oh wow lovely
might have to get DH something like that for his birthday

Katy, I think I'll probably start considering BLW seriously and whether D looks ready for it in October - we go away on holiday 25 September and return on 9 October, when D will be just over 5 months (as he didn't turn up until May).

Katy - one of my friends has the 'dog tag' ones on a necklace, with her 2 dd's fingerprints, names and DOBs on - it's sooooo sweet and dh is always commenting on it, so I think he will love the cufflinks (luckily he does actually wear them every day to work).

CD, big to you - hope you can have a relaxed day and start to feel better hon.

katy - Teenagers were probably still out from the night before (remember those days!!!?) They were looking a bit green and rough round the edges!!

At 8am!!! No I do not!
well...maybe once

this morning I have pureed carrot, sweet potato, parsnip, courgette & brocoli.

Also have pear and apple to do bu can no longer be bothered

Afternoon ladies,
the DT's are sleeping till.................................................................7.30am, both of them all through the night

Cd-I can relat to your panic feeling I was like that with dd1 all the time especially if we were out and she wasn't having her nap at the right time, I used to feel so agitated and could feel my heart pounding, it's not nice so you have my sympathy.
I am not like it with the DT's one bit, with them the only routine I am worried about is them sleeping through the night, they fall asleep when they are tied and wake up when they have had enough sleep or when dd1 wakes them up with her screaming!

I want to give BLW a go aswell it looks more fun and natural than other weaning, especially baby rice that stuff is like wallpaper paste dd1 HATED it can't say as though I blame her.

I did well last night I packed dh off to bed at 10pm so that I could begin to relax and try to sleep and I was off before midnight (with the t.v on) but I don't remeber turning it off so that is good, means i am doing it in my sleep now

Gosh, not much action on here today ladies ... have given the house a quick "Lick & Polish", which is all I have time for now-a-days - Will collar DH into cleaning the bathroom tonight!

Hello Twin Mummies! Glad you had a vaguely better night yourself KHIN - but to the lovely twins sleeping through ..... could they have a chat to P?? The 5am starts are taking their toll - I lok about 60 and feel about 100!!

Right, going to give P some boobie and then nip into town for a couple of bits .....

Thanks for all your well-wishes. Tomorrow we´ll know a bit more. It´s all a bit hard really. My Dad has been in remission from leukaemia for about 7 years now but all the chemo and radiotherapy really took its toll on him. He´s only just gone back to work in the last 2 years and him and mum were starting to enjoy some financial independance again and getting their lives back on track. Apparently they´ve known for ages that one of the infections he had while he was ill affected his heart and one day they´d have to operate but he´s put it off. He´s very scared to be back in hospital. I think this is why the doctors are having to have a meeting about it, part of the issue is whether he can cope with such a big operation. He really needs a valve replacement and a bypass but I think they are doubting if he is up to both procedures.

I´m a pretty positive person and if all goes well this operation could be the best thing that ever happened and give him back a lot of the strength that he´s been missing for so long. He´s only 55 yet physically seems about 10 years older as he can´t walk far without getting out of breath etc. But of course there´s the what if. Everything he went through all those years ago has given us an extra 10 years with him and I just don´t feel like it´s enough. It´s so hard knowing how scared he is. My sisters are coming out as soon as we know what´s going on and my aunt is coming out for my mum which is all great. But in a way the fact that everyone is coming here makes it all that much scarier.

I´ll tell you another thing that´s been niggling me all day. My mum has a chinese horoscope book. you know those re. year of the snake/ dragon etc? Well it predicts what e.g. the year of the boar (this year) will be like for a snake (me) and I read it at xmas. Well it said dh had a crap year last year but that this one would be better. So far true, last year his mum had breast cancer and now she´s fine. It said mine would be a year of much effort for little obvious reward which I laughed at, imagining it to be all too true with a newborn. It also said I would have financial problems tied in with losing someone close to me. I just dismissed it. I don´t even believe in these things, not at all, but I like reading them sometimes and seeing if I think they´re true for me or not and this just popped into my head this morning, suddenly I remembered it and it´s made me feel really bad. It´s so stupid I know which is why I´m telling you guys and no one in RL.

Got to hang up the laundry and check on my flea bitten child (stray cats got into my mums house and left a flea on him (he´s fine really))

maveta that you're worried, can see why
I know you know it's stupid but for what it's worth i think it's human nature to focus on the 'right' bits and downplay the rest of this kind of thing. Hope I've not offended anyone, just wanted to reassure you in my own stupid way.
Hopefuully tomorrow will be good as you'll know for definite what they're going to do. xx

Maveta, so sorry you're having to cope with this worry. Your poor dad, what a time of it he's had . Thinking of you xx.

So sorry about your dad Maveta. Thinking of you x

Sorry caught up earlier but didn't get chance to post so have forgotten it all .

Well I went out for lunch & coffee today with a friend dh & I met with a couple of weeks ago. It was nice, had a look round the shops, chatted about nappies and found a lovely cafe. Off out tomorrow to meet some more clothies!!!

Hi liath and norma
bouncy chair in garden - what a great combination!!

haven't time to chat as dh needs pc for college work and I am off to a Rainbow planning meeting!!!!!!

KHIN - sleeping through the night???????? I was up every 2 hours with at least one child out of three [tired]

Maveta - nothing to add except I am thinking of you and your family

Has mammyjo been on since her Longleat birthday visit? Was it good or have she been eaten by a tiger???????

Hi there, anyone about this evening? DP's trying to get D settled and I'm wondering if I can hold off eating stuff out of the cupboard until we can eat properly together. We were having our tea before settling D down but that's not really been possible the last few nights, hence rethink.

Maveta, I don't think it is stupid to worry about your dad, I don't believe in horoscopes, but at moments like this anything and everything can prey on your mind. I'd cross my fingers but that's another superstition.

Where is everyone!!?

LOL @ mammyjo being eaten by a Tiger!!

Just come back from dropping off deposit at the lovely Tapas restaurant we're having a "Mum's Night Out" at tomrrow night - Can't wait! 2 meals out in one week - Oooooooooooh!

Right, pizza is ready so going to scoff and then hit the hay me thinks ......

Hope everyone is ok!!

I'm here...I'm just annoying people with nappy questions ...mainly Flame who prob thinks I'm a mad stalker . Also been buying some wool for my mum to knit a couple of soaker type things with (have got the right type of wool this time - it's only my 4th attempt!)

hi
norma, ever thought of changing your name to nappynutty?

nappy nutty sounds a good one

still no mammyjo - maybe it was a lion

2 meals out???????? lucky cd

back from my Rainbow meeting - its going to be a fun & messy term

Ah Rainbow Brownies - I did wonder

Ah I wondered what the Rainbow thing was!!!

nappynutty ...I LIKE IT but I like my naughty name too...is nappynuttynormabutty too long????

gotta a good ring to it nutty