june 07 mummies -- SS/WW? - nah, pass the chocs round!!

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hello, we're over here

Anyone else's LO's hard to put to bed tonight? They are both restlessly tossing in our bed tonight: guess DH and I will have to squeeze into Ella's extender bed

Must be all those spirits flying about overhead BadZ

Daisy - ours turned to shit too

the T or T went quite well. They are all young enough to be cute. A couple of houses went to town - one had a creeping hand on the doorstep, and a fake rat which freaked DD1 out a bit, but they did well! We only go to houses with a pumpkin outside - on the wealthy roads.

And they were allowed to eat some of theor stash before tea. only a couple of little things. And once they had their tea there was apple bobbing, flour bobbing, buns on strings and a Casper movie. All they had to do was eat some spag bol.

DS1 behaved beautifully. DS2 and DD1 just complained and whinged. Then the boiler went. Then I had a row with DP over where the sodding garlic bread was in sainsburys, I cried, he was horrible to me, we both shouted, now the whole family feels terrible.

I tried so hard today, put all the washing away, got everything ready for tonight, cooked dinner this morning. bollocks.

Sorry for long post - I know I had all your support yesterday, so I am ranting to vent! Don't take any notice!

But DD2 has done a lot of feeding.

Daisy, what's with the biting? Has he done it before? That's a real toughie.

farking sainsburys and their bastard garlic bread eh.
You poor thing. Got any wine in?
We had a bit of non halloween meltdown and general stress too tonight. tis those evil spirits abroad...

I'm finding chocolate dessert fends them off quite nicely

Aw foxy, hats off to you (witches pointy ones obv) for getting it together to do something in the first place. I'm sure they'll all remember it as being a great time, and the shouting will be forgotten about tomorrow.

DS used to bite....when he was 20 months old . I don't know what's come over him as he knows it's wrong (he was bitten at soft play not long ago so knows how sore it is); and he also knew the consequences of not behaving. Denying him the party was the worst thing I've ever had to do, but I couldn't back down or he'd neve take me seriously again.

I'm making him do a card in the morning to say "sorry" to his wee friend.

He's been pretty good all evening though and went to bed without a murmur (although it was under threat of the bonfire party being cancelled too if he doesn't turn things round at school and here in the next few days.

Sorry for the long post, and for your pointless argument with DP......DH and I had a huge barney the other week about dorritos of all things!

Right off to have some herbal tea and then bed!

Great idea to do a card Daisy.

LO was strapped to my front in her sling with a wee witches hat on. She was cute though.

I can't face doing bonfire too.

Yes, both the wine and chocolate pudding helped greatly!

Now off to bed, cup of horlicks and a final feed for lo.

Night all xx

Morning. Well sleeping seems to be improving again. She's slept until 4 the past few nights, and last night slept until 4.50

Sorry to hear it didn't all go smmothly last night Foxy. Hope today is better.

Not looking forward to Sat night, the pub near us (1-2 min walk) is having a fireworks display. Dreading an evening of DD being woken by all the bangs.

Morning MJ - and any other lurkers (Fury - you around?)

DD had a good night last night, but I think my body is programmed in to wake up at 4.50am

Off to get some breakfast...woken up hungry this morning.

Foxy - sorry your party went tits up...me and DH had a row the other night over who was going to turn the bedroom light off!

Morning all. Sleeping getting better here too. Last night DS woke up at 3.30 and put himself back to sleep before I went to him.

Sorry things went a bit bumpy last night Foxy. You were very good to make such an effort. My sum total was to go to M&S for some witches fingers after nursery then go out and leave them with the babysitter .

Hi Annobal, LMN

hi everyone

foxy you made a real effort and I'm sure that is what they will remember witch's hat off to you [hsmile]

my tiler man will be finished today hooray currently the bathroom is in the dining room and the spare bedroom luckily we have a downstairs loo but 2 days of strip washing is getting me down

have to do lots of psa things today which I am putting off but needs must back later

ooh cafe au play is fine for me on wed haven't been in there but someone I know said it is fine

Morning all.

Damn it, wasn't meant to be on here until tonight. But I forgot

Will be back later. Off to do home insurance.

Andiem, not sure if I will make Wednesday as anything out of my comfort zone is a struggle at the mo, but I will keep up to date and turn up if I feel up to it.

It was like Charlie and the bleedin' chocolate factory last night - 4 of us in one bed. I had to sleep down the bottom of the bed inthe end. FFS.

Will NOT be so self-absorbed today, promise!

Hello all

I am just popping in again briefly whilst DS asleep. A mum at DDs school described it quite well for me - "its relentless" she said. Thats how I feel at moment - I am not down just shattered and it drives me mad that I just can't keep up with everything at the moment - the house is a shit tip and I never get round to doing any jobs - and me time - pah! if I manage to shave my legs its a bonus! Ok so rant over - I know you will all be feeling pretty much the same!

DS hardly sleeps in day and sleeps 10-11 hours most nights, have recently changed to stage 2 milk on HV recommendation and also giving him two 'meals', only trouble is he really likes this new milk and is not very interested in food.

Right off to fit more stuff in while he is asleep!

foxy mn is all about being self absorbed [hwink]

why was everyone in the bed?????

Hi all

Sound like lots of you made a big effort for halloween yesterday. sorry it didn't all work out.

Daisy, hope things with DS are ok. is this behaviour linked in with the arrival of DD?

Foxy, I'm sorry you are having such a tough time. You are brilliant and we all respect you so much for being such a great mum, when some of us are struggling with 1! your kids are lucky to have you and are very fortunate that you stay at home to look after them. you will reap the rewards of that later on, even if it doesn't always feel like it at the moment. you are unilaterally supportive on this thread, you bloody well deserve to be self-absorbed for a change. hope LO is ok, trust your instincts, you sound like you have the situation under control.

Relentless. Hit the nail on the head there. I'm not even picking up the phone as I don't want to get into a conversation with anyone.

DS1 had a bad dream, DD1 is getting into a bad habit, DD2 is co-sleeping/night feeding to get her weight up.

DP didn't even bother coming in, I think he crept into DS1s bed.

Relentless. Hit the nail on the head there. I'm not even picking up the phone as I don't want to get into a conversation with anyone.

DS1 had a bad dream, DD1 is getting into a bad habit, DD2 is co-sleeping/night feeding to get her weight up.

DP didn't even bother coming in, I think he crept into DS1s bed.

Hi sg btw! How are you doing?

Didn't press 'post' there, so don't know how that happened.

Thanks Bumper. You are a love!

I do feel in control, but only because I'm not allowing any variables in. Anything else throws a spanner in the works.

Like MN

gotta go. xx

Hi sg

I sent dh to the spare room last night as he was coughing and snorting and I couldn't get to sleep all I kept thinking was I am going to be woken in a couple of hours let me get some sleep you bu**er

Hi all. Bumper, just sent you an email.

DD seems very demanding this morning. Wants to play with me constantly. Should be flattered I guess.

Relentless! Like that, can we have it in our next thread title somehow??

Why do "working" friends think its ok to cancel a meetup with 1hrs notice? I think they think we're just sitting at home waiting for them or something???? (im sure if she was being sent to another office today for training she would have known b4 11:00).

and now Im started - PAYPAL PAHHHH!
'cos I couldnt provide tracking to China (where I'd returned a faulty item) - they're not going to look into my claim, even though their instructions are ambiguous and say that proof of posting is enough - which Ive got).
Make note to myself - DONT buy anything from Ebay that is abroad.
AND
my second lot of nappies that I bought (off yes you guessed it..Ebay) havent arrived.