June '07- So DH, what have you done all day today? I have been busy raising your children...

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Ria's suggestion!!

Definately TA - "Chin up " as Daisy said - you wouldnt be normal if you didnt feel sad tomorrow but little S wont understand anything and he'll be fine - like I said before I think its harder to go back when they're older and they DO understand.
Let us know how it goes.

thanks daisy.

good luck for tomorrow TA, it will be awful and hard, but you'll be ok (and so will S), and just think how lovely it will be to be together again at the end of your day.

am off to watch miss marple so early sign-off from me.

nite Rx

Thanks Daisy I have found it very tough tonight, plenty of vom and tears.
I daresay a few would disagree... but I think if I turned back now I would regret it.
I will still get to spend mornings, evenings, weekends with my little man... if I don't take this job, every time the car sputters again, or a bill comes in, or DH is struggling to get enough together for a deposit for our bigger house, I will feel guilty.

He will be well cared for, this job isn't forever, if I have enough I can quit, but I am doing it to provide him with a better life. Still bites though!

TA - good luck tomorrow. I'm sure it'll be hard but it'll be easier each time and as someone else said, in some ways it's better doing it now while they are young enough not to be upset at being left. Hope all goes really well on your first day.

Trace - I'm so glad that Chloe is doing better

Thanks all xx
Signing out xx

evening
TA, good luck my lovely, i'll be thinking of you xx (i went back to work when DS was 4 months old and it WAS hard but we all survived)
Andiem - oh thanks for offering to get my coat is it the London store you'll be going to? i'll call them in advance to see if they have it.
Daisy thanks for HVring in my absense!
Trace delighted things are going well for you - you certainly deserve it x

I'm on borrowed time here as well TA, as the house continues to fall to bits around us (the wiring in the back room keeps doing odd things now ) and we have NO MONEY to get things fixed.

We need to get someone to re-roof our garage....again, and although we should be able to reclaim it from the original roofer through the small claims court, we need to shell ou the money in the first place.

The moral of this story is never let newly birthed hormonal women near any decisions to do with the house...although to be fair DH agreed after speaking to the cowboy roofer!

BTW TA....is your CM happy to use your bumgenious nappies???

oh Daisy, did you used to look out and see the pilot boats dropping off and picking up the pilots on the river forth?
DG forgot to reply to you, but no didn't go to the merchant city thing - missed it!

Evening Derlor

Holly if you're about, the buggy is just lovely. DD likes it cos she can see out at what's happening in the world and the cosytoes is lovely and snug....much nicer than my old XT all around, and it's so nice to have brakes that actually stop the buggy from moving and don't need the shit kicked out of them to get the buggy going again!

I did indeed Derlor....especially with a 3 year old DS....he looooved looking at the boats.

Bumgenius are BRILLIANT, yes she's happy to, so is the nursery, they are just as easy as reusables... I tell you what if I hadn't discovered these I would probably have given up on cloth nappies (again).

Everything else I tried wicked, leaked, or got so sodden he was unhappy.

Swaddlebees one size velour are lovely for night but you can't beat a bumgenius during the day! (and no I don't work for them )

Your support all has meant a lot. Glad to know that others have been/are in/are facing the same predicament.

Just washed my Little Lambs a la yellow poo - I remember you all saying that sunlight gets rid of the stains - so is this normal then?
On taking them out of the machine after a 60 degree wash - there is still bright yellow marks where the poo was?
I thought you meant just the odd small mark.
I used non bio persil, half the recommended amount ( as per little lambs website).
they were so lovely and white as well...........

gotta go...DH will kill me
Night all xx

jbm....don't worry, a few hours on the line in the sunshine and the yellow marks will disappear as if by magic...honest. I was v. sceptical at first, but it works, it really works. If it's dull or they are indoors it takes a bit longer but they will be pristine white again soon!

Hi ladies dropping in from May 2007 to say I love your thread title most funny and very true!

Hope you are all doing well and the little munchkins are behaving themselves.

shame you are not still up here daisy, you could wave to my DH when he was working
just been reading the big slagging match going on over on the thread about a 6 month old baby not sleeping through - people on here can be so bloody nasty

oh hi juliewoolie - i remember you from when you dropped in here when you were waiting to deliver, nice to hear from you x

i missed that one Derlor..it can get quite heated about the simplest of things at times.

Hi juliewoolie ....how is your LO doing now?

i know Daisy, really nasty in fact that's why i just stay in here where it's safe and warm and nice!!!

Glad things are going well Trace.
Good luck with work TA.

Have survived a weekend of visitors (ILs). was lovely to see them, but sometimes I just wanted to go "aaaarrgghhhh!". Like when I said I just needed shoes and would then be ready to go out and was told "and socks". FFS! I can decide for myself if I need socks or not. Anyway, enough ranting, they are lovely really.

Hi everyone. Been away all weekend so lots to catch up on. No time now but just wanted to pop in & wish TA all the best for tomorrow. Good luck.

LOL at the socks Jamantha! in laws eh...

Thanks for giving me hope Daisy!! (JBM prays for a sunny day 2mrow!)

Lol at the socks Jamantha - but I think we all like to "Mummy" people - I find myself saying to my DH "do you need the toilet before we leave?" wtf!!

L has been gnawing at her fists as well, I think that was supposed to be "a sign" for weaning when DD1 was born, but I shall just ignore it - although the number of people that say "Oh look who's hungry now!".

DD also fist chewing. Sign of teething? - ie wanting to chew on whatever?

Does anyone else's LO regularly smack themselves on the nose while asleep?