April 2007 - Best friends surround us all, mine are the April girls, but Dippy's is her Dyson!

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a joint effort from me and the dippster

but I do have days where I really don't want to get up and start the day

plus dd has to do her chickens and ds has to do his ducks and we have the dog to let out etc all before we go to school..........

Awwww Dippy - my secret santa present has just arrived and I'm off to eat chocolate in the bath this very minute! Actually I'm working, but that's what I'd like to be doing!! Lush are also now mailing you at my house (!), so when are you moving in?!

Octo - great news re job interview - sounds like the perfect job for you (weren't you working in a school before?) All your ideas sound good. How about making up a character (Hattie Healthy?!?) for the kids, to make it more fun? Or rhymes to remember things? N has one about matches that the firemen who visited school told her, which she loves chanting at me: "lighters and matches never touch, they can hurt you very much"!

Pesha - I don't think it's possible to get out of the house for school in the morning without being a shouty old bag - I always end up yelling "now, quickly, now", despite starting off quite low key!

Hi loves

Well, Baby Sensory was really good - much better than I had expected. Sometimes I find the leaders of such sessions a bit twee or ott, but the lady was really lovely. There were lots of different activities - light balls, music, different types of fabric etc etc and the hour flew by. I used to be checking my watch at some of the things I used to go to with B!! K seemed to enjoy it too and was quite vocal

MJ, Pehsa, Bramshott - I totally empathise re getting out of the house for school. I am organised - everything out ready the night before, but B is a bloody nightmare - running off while I am trying to brush her birds nest hair and messing about saying she needs a poo (sorry tmi) but actually she is just time wasting. I turn in to Mrs Shout - God knows what the neighbours think!

Caz, you must be up at the crack of dawn with all the tasks you have to carry out. I find just feeding our 2 cats a pita!

Dippy, my parents moved to Salisbury when I was 21, at the same time that I moved up to London. So, I have never lived there as such, but love the place. They live in Harnham, off the Old Blandford Road. They too love the place.

MJ, so glad that the blackness is lifting and you are feeling brighter. Long may it last.

Good luck with the job Octo - sounds fab. I think Bramshott's idea of making up rhymes is really good, and having lots of visuals.

Forgotten everything else!

Hope everyone is ok.

That sounds good SOL, shame there is nothing around here. We have tumble tots which is ok, but pricey for what you actually get. Was it expensive?

It was 60.50 for 11 weeks. It runs for a good hour - in fact an hour and a quarter today!

hello 'coffee' was good - well I had lemonade as don't do grown up drinks (there for grown ups!!)

had a bit of a clear out today and sorted out dts clothes (at least they have some)

caz - thats what I am going to do when I go back to work, bags packed & in boot, all clothes out and what with the menu planning I will have loads of time to myself

sol - not too bad - usually i get up a 5.45 and have my bath/shower, then i wake up ds1 and dd1 to do the animals, go pack any lunches, go back and wake up ds2 and ds3 although he sometimes wakes before now..... go and make breakfast....eat breakfast round everyone up to go and wash faces, clean teeth get dressed, do hair and make sure we have everything,feed molly and see to her, load all kids into the car - the dog usually nips out with ds1 and then comes in now ....then LEAVE! AT ABOUT 8.10 (hopefully)

I try to ultra-organised too; but have same problems as SOL - that my DD's just aren;t compliant - running around, screaming, throwing tantrums left-right-and-centre, puling off shoes, trying to kill P etc etc - No matter how organised I am or how early I getu p, if they ain't budging, they ain't budging.

Have had a hell of a day Older 2 have been horrific, crying, screaming what seem like all day - Truly awful. DH is home and I've told him I am on strike for at least 30 mins.....

Caz I was worn out just reading that!!!

Just having ds we kinda get up when he tells us... and then go back to bed when he's tired... Managed 9-10.30 this morning

The little monster has just crusied along the sofa He's only a baby!!! He's my baby!!!!

Good news in our house is dp and I have got tickets for boro v Liverpool this weekend so am off to mums Fri night, she's going to look after C so we can go to match on Saturday and then go out on Saturday night... whooooooooo hooooooooooooooooo

Hi Ooogs, glad the lemonade morning went well

Caz, that is the middle of the night! I get up at 6.45 and that seems bad enough!!

Dippy, hope you can get a break. I am hoping dh is back from work soon although I know it won't be for another hour probably. B is being a pita atm - really cocky.

In-laws are down tomorrow - grrrrr.

Ooh GMM a night off - fabulous! Enjoy.

Right, dinner's ready - time to regroup ..... groan .....

quick note before I throw N in the bath, he is currently rolling around naked on the sitting room carpet and I´m sure I´ll be stepping in little wet patches later on

been a bit of a hard day, N had a miserable night, don´t know what was wrong with him and dh and I are both exhausted today. Just hope tonight is not a repeat.

Great news about job interviews Octo!

Really really pleased to hear you can see the tips of some rays of sunlight peeping out from behind the clouds mammyjo.. so happy for you and hope it continues.

ok, he´s just puked, that´s my cue...

my dh has to get up at 4.15 so I feel quite priveliged really SOL!!!

Dippy I would tell you that it will get easier as they get older, but I don't think it does - sorry

dyson sorry

but your little girls look sooooo angelic! ( I think girls are far harder than boys fwiw!)

I would agree Caz. Always makes me laugh at parties - the boys sit quietly eating their party food, and the girls are name-calling and generally playing up.

I swear I am going to scream at B in a mo - she is not listening to anything.

we had a tough morning here too - B slept till 2am in her cot (which was good for her) fed and went back to sleep - with me which is usually good for her to sleep on till 6.30 or later. But last nigt she woke just before five and plainly didn't want to go back to sleep - so I bought her downstairs and put her in the seat part of the bugaboo in the living room and we watched news 24 till we both dropped off. Girls came down at 6.45 and were a bit surprised to find us there - they are perfectly capable of playing with B - so I went back to bed, struggling out of it at 8 - so big rush! Dh then spent quite a lot of time telling me how tired he was and what a bad night he had!!! In fairness he was disturbed as well and he did take B out to do school run etc this afternoon so I had an hour and a half nap - yeh!

Sorry to be so boring - my nocturnal ramblings aren't very interesting even to me

We got a £25 M&S voucher from Scottish Power when we switched to them so went and spent it on new plates and bowls today. Means we can get rid of the ones which turned out to be dynamite in the microwave - I've had it in for them ever since I burnt my finger so badly it was blistered for weeks - just after B was born, making nappy changes very challenging!

Ummmmmmmmmmm - nothing else -got to pack for our weekend away tomorrow - we are going up to Scotland to spend weekend in nice country house for fil's 60th b/day. It will be lovely unless we get snowed in - eeeek!

Oh sorry - forgot to put 'personals' in!

Mammyjo - so pleased the clouds are lifting a bit - well done

Dippy - sorry today has been grim - maybe tomorrow will be better?

SOL - v jealous of Baby Sensory

Elkie - how have things gone today?

Maveta - baby rolling naked on carpet - v cute, baby vomiting on carpet and rolling in it not cute

Caz - good job I'm not you - 5.45 -arrrrrrrgh!!!

Hello to everyone else!

Dippy - you have mail

Hi handsome gorgeous sexy mama's.

Ok overdoing it perhaps slightly but hey .

Well nothing new here, am on the laptop or perhaps that should be the paptop as something always seems to go wrong when I post on here - double postings etc etc - ooooh the shame.

T is crawling everywhere and I can hardly keep up with him. His current favourite activity is cruising around the furniture having on for dear life.

Either that or trying to eat my belt.

Most certainly feel like an old hag and at times wish I'd started a family in my early twenties .

Haven't really caught up so hoping haven't missed anything too dramatic............

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Hope everyone's life is as exciting as mine is right now!!!!!!!!???.

Tis all.

hello again, in for another quiet night are we? I´m going to try not to be on here too late anyway, I really need an early night. N is just so full of beans, I find putting him to sleep such a chore when I´m tired and on my own, having to go in and settle, go in and settle, go in and settle when I´ve not even sat down for a cuppa since I got home from work 3 hours earlier. Makes me want to scream. I ended up getting him up again after 30mins and eventually fed him to sleep which feels like just setting myself up for another kind of problem in the future when I no longer breastfeed him.

And my poor cats, they are so attention deprived as it is and then when I finally sit down and they climb up on me I just want to be left alone so they still don´t get a look in!

BLAH.

Oh Maveta, its so hard when its just you isnt it. I remember dh used to go out to college two evenings a week when ds was tiny and I hated it. He would often come home to find me in tears when ds wouldnt settle (he was a bloody nightmare), and I would virtually be crying before he even left some nights. Hope you have managed to have some quiet time xxx

Caz, that time of the morning is not funny! I get up at 7am and that is a real struggle. Only do 6am on days when I go to work.

SOL, hope the meal was/is ok and fil was bearable

NL, crossing fingers that tonight is better than last night xxxx

Am going now as I am knackered and feel miserable, but I think it is just because I am tired as I have had a better day today

Maveta, can totally relate re the cats! Tippy, my black and white boy, will not leave me alone, and as soon as I sit down, he is on my lap!!!

Hope you get a much better night tonight chicken. x

Good to see you too pinions!

really pleased to hear you feeling brighter mj

hi pinions - I do wonder just how crazy you really are