March 2007... soon they will be one!!

[kiwibella]

Well, Jordi is our first one year old.... they will be catching up soon .

I was tempted to write the subject with reference to NM .

Hi Kitty, I don't know how you are coping I really really hope you get relief soon.

Diva... I am also one who suffers from Catholic guilt.

I agree that what the other child has been doing to your dd constitutes bullying - it is targetted and it is repeated. I guess we are on the way back down from empowering our children... instead of labelling everything that happens to them as bullying, they need to understand what bullying is and how they can deal with it. Telling someone is the best strategy... and it's great that you are confident to deal with this for her instead.

You can imagine the incidents that I have dealt with where parents are more of the problem coaching their children in the background.

Gifted and talented is a good thing - it means that your dd's school has recognised that she has a gift (usually academic) or a talent. They are obliged to keep a register of these children and target their learning - ie give them opportunities to extend (can't think of the right word here - themselves??). Don't ever be afraid to ask what something means... and, especially, what this means the school will do for your child.

Kitty ... I am so sorry that you have become so unwell!!! I can't imagine coping with your health probs and your busy family. I hope that you are getting lots of help and rest.

Piff, I'm glad that you are taking it easier and sounding more positive about sorting things out.

oops ... there shouldn't be an 'instead' in my previous post. I was going to say something along the lines of... instead of taking matters in to your own hands (as many of our parents seem to have done!!!) but changed my mind.

Hiya

[cyber hugs] to Kitty's jaw and Piff's pelvis

Just found out DD (aged 4) has been hiding her packed lunch in a bid to get school dinners!!! Its quite funny but am a bit amazed she couldn't just ask me. I guess she didn't understand why some children get them and she has packed lunches given to her.

She has been sneaking into the lunch queue and eating the school lunch which I haven't paid for

foxy-pmsl.should we swap children?ds2 keeps saying he wants packed lunches(i had the same with dd1 when she was in reception).

piffle-glad you are feeling a little better

bella-i can imagine that some parents take matters into their own hands,i have witnessed that happening once or twice.the way i see it is its happening in school,so its up to the school to deal with it.the childs' parents may have no idea its going on.
i have always told my dc not to retaliate,either,as my experience of such was getting into trouble myself and the bully getting off scot free.

i will ask the head about the drama thing when i go in(on my own)on friday.dh had a very different experience of school to me and i dont think he has much faith in the places.

rosy-the theology tutor didnt actually do anything,as my friend told him where to go.knowing him,though,he would have been up for it if mr.theology tutor was young and attractive.
this is the same friend who whispered 'i dare you to drink all the wine' to me just as i was going to communion,causing me to pmsl when the priest said 'body of christ'
we were both in the choir and used to sing our own words to the hymns.ah,those were the days

Diva - can you remember any of your alternative lyrics?

Reminds me of DS1's school's version of Jingle Bells (..."Batman smells, Robin flew away. Uncle Billy lost his willy, on the motorway - Hey!")

we used to mess about in the choir too.
My Dad was forever making mistakes, once he spilled the 'body' all over the place just as he was about to give me communion. He had to gather it all up again and I was trembling and crying with laughter. Poor Dad

we had wonder woman lost her bosoms on the motorway

The interesting book was called 'The powers that be' by Walter Wink (fantastic name) must read it.......

i have a traumatic memory of being sent to bed early(having been screamed at)because i 'dropped' the host once when i was 8.my mum wouldn't listen to me that the stupid woman giving it out had pushed it into my hand,causing it to break and ping onto the floor.she had never been more shown up in all her life,apparently

foxy-the only one i can remember is,insted of singing 'glory to God,glory to God,glory to the father' we sang 'bollocks to you,bollocks to you,bollocks to your father'.we never got in trouble cos the organist was just as bad.my friend was at it with her-she was 43,married,and also taught at our school.

Elsie woke at 1.30am for some reason.she had a bit of milk,then fell asleep in our bed till ds2 got up at 5.30(the wind woke him).i feel like im still asleep.

well I'm off my face on painkillers and other drugs
At least they seem to be working.

I was christened Catholic by the Jesuits.
( mum's a Catholic snob)

Mum had stopped practising by then though so I never went to church.
My dad's family are Quakers, a much nicer way to 'worship'.

Hello all.

I went to a Quaker school, and been to a quaker wedding, very different but lovely.

That is great Kitty that you are out of pain.

Diva you could write a book about your colourfull life and it would be full of dark humour.

Diva PMSL!!! Last year, DH got "ptomoted" in our church and was asked to carry the Eucharist wine up to the priest. The priest put his hands out to take it and DH let go of the goblet. For a split second the goblet plummetted downward and great speed but the, very alarmed, priest managed to catch it - goal keeper style. They never asked DH to help again

Kitty - glad you are out of pain There are lots of Catholic snobs in our Church

"promoted" not "potatoed"

It looks more like tomatoed

I was at a hippy churchy youth conference thing as a youth and at communion we had to stand in a circle and take the bread from the person on your left and then give it to the person on your right. So I was given a great massive lump of baguette and with my mouth bunged had to say 'the body of Christ' to the next person without spraying crumbs and without laughing....impossible. It was a boy I fancied on my right too

Hello all

Phew - have been on a conference thingy all week and am exhausted. Very looking forward to 3 days with my boy - I've really missed him!

Hark at you lot with your catholic upbringings! My mum converted to methodism when she was young and then had a nervous breakdown and found she was very unsupported by the church so she took against them with a vengeance so we went to Sunday school when we were really small and since then it's only been weddings and funerals. I have taken communion though as my friend Marcella dared me to come with her one day

Anyway - back to sperm Yes, apparently there are different kinds of sperm and egg. My sister has fertility problems with her DH and they're partly to do with her egg rejecting his sperm apparently. I didn't know either before I had the treatment. Diva - they just squirt about 20 ml of pink liquid through your cervix and then leave the room and you have to stay lying down for 5 minutes. It was the fastest bit of the whole procedure. I didn't have a watch and was convinced if I got up too soon it wouldn't work so I tried to relax and fell asleep. They had to come back in and wake me up

Ow ow ow, piffle and kitty. I'm so sorry you're both in pain. Constant pain is so exhausting on top of the ow factor. Hopefully now they've identified what the issue is, they'll be able to fix you both soon. Sending you very gentle hugs ...

Hoping for some nice weather over the next few days - been holed up in a hotel and I need air!

Maybe we won't be going walking - forecast is predominantly snow showers being blown about by a 22 mph wind and a high of 5 degrees

dang... meant to be having holes cut into our roof tomorrow for our loft conversion... aint gonna happen if there's snow and rain.

Spice - am still so at the different types of sperm and egg - that just is so freaky... do you think on a subconscious level we may have leanings towards certain blokes on the basis of their sperm and our eggs?

Just as an update - a couple of you posted on my thread i started a month of so ago about my sis having 3 miscarriages in a row...
well, she's pg again (4 weeks after last mc ) and is taking aspirin.. hopefully all will work out - will keep you posted

muppet-fingers crossed for your sister,i hope everything goes ok this time

i thought about that as well,maybe thats where the 'chemistry' of attraction comes in,being drawn to a man with suitable sperm.

spice-i would feel wierd about that procedure.i think it would be the not knowing where its come from(says she who has twice been pregnant to someone shes only known for a couple of weeks).

there are blizzards forecast up here tomorrow.its very very windy out there.

Diva - it is weird, no denying. But I think my overwhelming desire to have a baby just overtook the weirdness. So much so that it didn't occur to me until I went in for the cs and was hanging around all day waiting that Elliot might not have looked anything like me! That seems really bizarre looking back on it.

That's a good theory muppet - I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was some connection with compatibility and pheromones at all. I'm so, so pleased to hear about your sister too. My friend Ali had 5 MCs and now has a six month old DS after taking aspirin throughout her pg. I really hope that it works for your sister too. Fingers crossed

blimey such prolific posters.. have been dipping in and out due to various crappy things happening.

hope that bullying gets sorted diva. i was bullied-shoved down stairs, chased home etc etc- only stopped when her parents emigrated to oz. BUT she re-appeared at the backpackers hostel in oz where she was working in admin. i checked out so fast

it might be worth talking to the pta?

my pa is out of hospital now and wants to go on holiday, bless him. he can't walk 2 yards.

my baby has a couple of red spots about the size of a 5p and they have been there all day. not itchy though, am worried should have taken him to docs now, what if its chicken pox or something? he is coughing as well. advice vvvv welcome as ever

Hi all, feel a bit of a fraud as i dont get on here very much and then when i do i only seem to talk about myself....i do TRY and re up and want to reply but just never get round to it, hope you all forgive me!

Quick update, have approx 4 weeks to go, growth scan yesterday, shows baby isnt breech as suspected - phewee, but also showed big baby, estimated currently at 9.2lbs.... all measurements were off their scales..not suprising really as J was so heavy, anyway, chat with consultant with regards how i want to deliver. They are a little concerned as J suffered Shoulder Distocia, and may be possibility of it happening with this baby... i am choosing to go with natural delivery...wish me luck!! Will keep you all updated, and WILL read up on the thread now!

Hello all, thanks for the birthday wishes again.

Piffle and Kitty, ooh you poor lovelies, I hope the pain gets sorted out. Glad you've got some good drugs Kitty.

On that sperm/egg thingie - a friend of mine's father-in-law got divorced from my friend's MIL a few years back and later met another woman who was about 40 and was also divorced. She and the ex-husband had tried for children for years, nothing worked and I think she was told she was infertile. Anyway, obviously didn't bother with contraception with the new husband - boom, pregnant - friend's husband had little sis 30 years younger than him! I think all the divorces had been amicable, so that is really quite a lovely story I think - thank god for her that they met each other.

Well, it's been a rollercoaster of things wrong with baby boy here. Last week he was really teething badly, got his seventh tooth through at the weekend. He also came down with another cold and cough days after stopping coughing from the previous one which lasted a month. Then on Monday he had his hib booster - on Tues developed terrible high temp, was up a few times through the night with it, hot all day yesterday and awake last night again. Of course I'm back in work so have had to take him to creche even though he's really unhappy when I leave because he's ill, and I'm knackered cos of interrupted sleep... felt awful by the end of yesterday, couldn't concentrate in work through tiredness. I'd gone to see him at lunchtime to give him Calpol and he got so upset when I moved a few feet away from him to sign a form he started choking on his food and was promptly sick everywhere, so I ended up feeding him lunch. I think he must have quite thick phlegm because he's done it ^twice* again today, bless him. And to top it all off, he woke up this afternoon with gunk all around one eye, so I think he's got conjunctivitis. Oh joy.

DP is supposed to be travelling to north Wales tomorrow - where's the heavy snow supposed to be falling?.... He's getting a train, and apparently there's a 60% chance of disruption to public transport. Oh dear.

Diva, hope you get your daughter's bullying sorted out. It's NOT your fault she's being bullied, it's the bully's (or possibly his/her parents ).

In my also Catholic church-going days, I used to very much look forward to the host, because I was usually ravenous by that stage!

Got some news everyone!! Diva especially! i am pregnant!! just found put this afternoon so still a bit shocked though not surprised!! cant beleive it!

I used to be vaguely Catholic (Irish families) but when mum decided to leave my Dad (she was bored and at her bra burning feminist turning point) she also made the choice for us all by renouncing the church, so since then I've been pretty damned Godless

I'm feeling a lot better DP has worked from home alot this week high winds and motorbikes are incompatible apparently
So have had rest and help, have physio tomorrow for more realigment work
Kitty so what drugs are you on doll? Do try TENS it is GREAT!

Muppet hoping this time the aspirin does the trick xxx

Callie sorry Jordy is poorly and suffering, poor little fellow.

Jay 4 WKS only NO WAY?? bloody well done on going for the natural option, I'm terrified of c sections must admit BEST of luck! How's Jensen now?

Sponge? Not sure about the spots? Where are they?