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

Glad to know I'm not over-reacting

J will be 2.7 when mil has them. Thing is, me and dh are not sure that he'll want to go in a buggy. We haven't bought one for ourselves. Granted, I don't walk as much as mil does (I drive, she doesn't) but whenever we go into town, or to a retail park, he walks(do have to time it right so he's not tired iyswim) and he enjoys walking.

I think its more the way she said it. Dh would've much prefered her saying outright will you buy a double buggy for me to use. I'm a little concerned that she'll go and get one now, and ask us for the money. Dh has said if that happens, she can take a running jump(he never says things like that about her!)

I know she is helping us out by looking after them, but, well, it just seems a lot of hassle.....this is the woman that let me carry on taking our pushchair to hers when she was looking after J, and I was pregnant with W. One morning I forgot to put it in the car, apologised when I got there, and she said "oh don't worry, I've got a buggy in the loft, I'll get fil to get it down" I was 6/7mths pregnant at the time!

It would be so much easier if she was nasty, cos I wouldn't hesitate in giving as good as I got, iyswim.

Katy - they are sharing one cotbed at the mo - will put up other cotbed next to it, they could touch between the bars Jack is such a fidget and is getting too big

Luce - 'I'm a star' - love you hun x first thing that has made me smile today

runny - get a cheap double and throw it at mil (sorry - not feeling very forgiving of anyone including your mil )

emmy - would love to dream of chocolate - would love to get enough sleep to dream

hi bubbsy - give us some more info - we are nosey..............

Right, am not going to think about it anymore.
Going to softplay in an hour, need to get the troops ready

Have a lovely day all
xx

Hi,

Im new to this, im 27 years old and have the most handsome baby boy Joshua who is 4 and a half months old, im thinking of starting and mother and baby group in the chelmsford area, so if anyone is local please let me know if your interested, grin , also looking to make some friends with babies of similar age as i feel my baby needs to be around other kids.

Hi Luce - I do see what you mean - I think for one morning a week, a double buggy is completely uneccessary imho, esp as J enjoys walking - Also it might make him revert (i.e. "I use a buggy at Grandma's, I want to use one now ...."??)

LOL @ katy's un-toddler friendly house - have fun!!

Welcome to bubbsy and Joshua!

I'm 25, married to DH for 5 yrs, have 3 DD's (3.5 yrs, 2.3 yrs and 16 weeks) Live in Eastbourne and am as Mad as a Badger - have a look at my profile for pics of my mad lots!!

captain, you'll have to tell the abbreviations of DH and DD and all the others, sorry a bit stupid with things like this

Not stupid at all! DH is Darling Husband or DP is Darling Partner; DD is Darling Daughter and DS is Darling Son - I think there is a "dictionary" type thing to explain the abbreviations somewhere up the top of the page ....

hi bubbsy

I'm 31, been married to dh for nearly 4yrs. Ds1 is 2.4, and ds2 is 20wks (Ds1 is also called Joshua - great name btw) Live in South Wales

have a look at the acronym list at the top of the page for all the abbreviations.

Really must go and get ready.....

Yes - it's up the top "acronums list" or here (Hope that works!!? )

It worked - - even if I didn't manage to spell acronym correctly!

although I sometimes think the D in dh should stand for dimwit, d*head, etc instead of darling, lol

depends on how well their beahving

behaving

someone tell me to go and get ready!

GO AND GET READY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enjoy Soft Play hon and LOL @ abbreviations for DH / DP!

I'm going....

byeeeeeee

Byeeeeeeeeeeee!

So, have you left me all alone??

Morning all

Not many personals as I've got to pack. Going to Northumberland (PILs) this pm until Monday, then I'm going to Newcastle to see my parents and poorly gran until Wed. On Thursday (my birthday BTW) I'll be mostly unpacking, washing and repacking as on Friday we're going to Ullswater for a week in a cottage!

Maveta - hope all goes well today

Welcome bubbsy!

Hi bubbsy, not sure there's anyone on this thread quite near enough to you for a mum and baby group, but we sometimes have regional meet ups - a few months ago there was a south east April thread meet up in Brighton, and I was invited to the May 2007 thread meet up in Bethnal Green, east London. I've also met naughtynuttynormabutty in Leeds station, on my way back to London from my mum's.

I'm in north east London, Ellie's in Suffolk and tcmummy aka Eca (I think that's right, some of us change our posting names quite a lot) is in Norfolk.

Someone in Chelmsford called chickenmama posted on another thread in Meet Ups headed East London - according to her profile she has a 14 month old.

Have you found the mumsnet local sites? They're much quieter than the antenatal threads but I've made contact with a couple of people near me that way.

Woah Leaky - sounds like a busy time, hope you enjoy yourself and get a bit of rest. about your poorly gran, though i am absolutely certain she'll LOVE seeing you and esp little G!

(Will you be able to get online to play our Scrabble game!!? )

Hello

Too braindead for personals today sorry.

Except to say Maveta - thinking of you and your dad.

Can I join in the moaning about family?! Bloody SIL (remember the email?) after being skint now her and bil appear to be flush again. They have ds2 5 wks younger than my ds2. She had said she'd sold all ds1s things on ebay. I was browsing through freecycle the other day and saw her having a big clearout as they were moving house, fair enough, but they are giving away 4th bday cake making sets and party kits (ds1 will be 4 end sept), ALOT of card making equipment (they recently spent over £100 on card stand for her to sell her cards from as a new business for her), baby toys and a big sack of boys clothes aged 0-3years!! 1. Where the f#ck did they come from if she already sold it all. 2. How much chuffing money have they got that they are giving things away that they are going to need, presumably just to buy all new instead. 3. They took money from family to buy new baby things because apparently they didnt have anything and were so skint. 4. I recently said it was a shame that her baby was so close in age to D as hand me downs would be difficult but I'd give her anything I had for her to try if she wanted and she was very keen to accept (although luckily I didnt as I didnt see her for a while and by time i did her baby is now 3lb heavier than mine! She didnt offer me any of his old clothes.). 5. She knows we are very skint but never thought to offer me any of the baby things she was getting rid of. 6. Why not sell it on ebay like she apparently did before and use the money to pay back some of the thousands of pounds that they owe to their families?!?
Oh and when bil helped me and dp move house a few years ago we gave him £40. When dp helped them they gave him nothing despite him giving up most of his sunday to help when its the only full day we get as a family.
Oh and she tried giving the baby solids a couple weeks ago he was only 13 weeks when she told me that! I know alot of people wean before the 6 months (I always have before) but surely pre 3 months is taking things abit far??

Dippy I'm still here, just freaking out over some worrying news and kicking myself over the fact that I'm feeling so sorry for myself still.

Excuse whine coming up.

dp rang this morning from work to say his mum's back in hospital again. She's 76. This has happened before and it's not yet been for very serious things but her age and general state of health make it pretty scary. dp is on his way from Islington to Kings Lynn now to visit her and he'll come home tonight. He's concerned about me anyway at the moment and doesn't want to leave me alone for longer than can be helped with D.

I haven't had an evening let alone a night or longer alone with D at home (as opposed to hospital), and I know I'm really lucky in that, but now I'm panicking about how to cope and what to do. But really, dp's mum needs him even more than we do at the moment and I have to try and work out how to muddle through somehow and persuade him I can do that.

.... and breathe Pesha!!!! I'd be too - don't have any wise words to say except "sod 'em" hon - they are not worth it, I can see how completely irratating the situation is though. I'd just ignore them, it's up to them what they do, I guess. Grrrrrr though, Grrrrrrr!

Elkie - {{{{{{hugs}}}}}} You'll be fine, just do whatever needs doing with D and concentrate on the fact that DP needs to be with his mum right now - I really hope she is ok. I understand your panicing etc; but you WILL be ok!

Right, need to go and do something more productive!

Oh Pesha, that must be infuriating! I can't imagine not giving family first refusal on things we don't need any more. Very thoughtless.

elkie, how scary, do you know what is wrong with her yet? You will cope fine - all Danny needs is his mum
Pesha, don't blame you for being they sound very grasping
Well, had a nice morning with my friend and her toddler who is lovely and fine with sharp corners - I think I expected anyone under the age of 2 to just run full speed into my sharp corners luckily she didn't! Couldn't believe how grown up she looked, it's been about 4 or 5 months since i last saw her.

I've just had a quick look at your profile (in a panic that I'd got his name wrong and offended you) and that 3rd picture down is so lovely, he looks so peaceful