April 2007 - A little bit of Pillock, Love, and a few hugs thrown in too

[PillockOfTheCommunity]

Sorry to confuse you all but inspiration just struck!

Sorry to hear you've had such a crap night
Yes I tried PUPD, but don't have the patience! It became pick-up-cuddle-rock-feed-put-down! Which I don't think is the idea really

No idea I am afraid, SPB - never read any books - just make it up as I go along!! Hope you find which one to buy and find it helpful sweetie

Someone just posted a scary old pic of me on Facebook!

Will bear you in mind with the sleeping bags MJ

I think you're right though, the other one seems a bit too old bt I don't ant to buy the other one if it's aimed at a 3 month old
Might have to have a look at them next time I'm in town (then buy them from ebay!)

I think you're right though, the other one seems a bit too old bt I don't ant to buy the other one if it's aimed at a 3 month old
Might have to have a look at them next time I'm in town (then buy them from ebay!)

A silly question - do your LOs lie down when they're tired?

Sorry you have a crap night btw MJ. xx

Oh Pillock you poor love. Sure it will be fine tomorrow.

So let me get this right - you are doing your best for those boys, working hard, looking after them on your own, worrying about them and your narcolepsy etc, and some twat the bloke from housing has never met them, never been in your house, probably never had kids of his own, and doesn't even have the courtesy to show up for a meeting you've arranged with him, has decided that the boys are neglected and the house is unsafe?! You almost have to laugh don't you? Hopefully the SS meeting will be useful and they will see you are doing a fantastic job.

Caz - so how did the DH / house / job discussions go? You mentioned another house - do you have the option of not taking the one which comes with the job?

Ooogs - glad DH is back and hope DS2 gets better soon.

Pesha - fab news about M and school (also meant to say from a few weeks ago, great that N is settling in and being a model of behaviour at lunchtimes).

SPB - where are the Christening photos?!?

So what I need with my e-bay stuff is a spreadsheet with all the info, descriptions etc on, and then when I'm ready I can just cut and paste them across. My Orla's new buggy arrived yesterday and am very excited (last year's colours Maclaren Triumph from Kiddisave for £61) - am giving her old one and some other bits to the childminder, then once the ebay stuff is gone, I will finally be able to get my upstairs sorted out (that's the plan anyway).

Hear. Hear, Bramshott!

Hi all.

Bramshott - dh is being a bit more amenable, but it's just that we don't really have a lot of options

I'm not sure if the farmer would be happy for us to live in another house....it wiuld mean them renting there own one out I guess, but the main trouble is the cost....currently I don't have to pay rent or council tax or water rates, if we rentd privately we would have all of those to pay....and the rent on the house alone is £850 and even if the farmer covered it, it would then push up our earnings so that the tax credits I get would be significantly reduced, but I would actually be no better off iyswim (well worse off!) and I can't afford to be any worse off.....we are skint!!!

we either A)stay here - not a long term option
B)move miles and miles away (with no guarantee that housing and/or money will be any better
C)take the offered job and house - with associated problems
D) try and rent privately and take offered job - money the major issue

or E) rent privately and dh works on a few different farms as a relief and I work too - money still an issue and we would almost definitely need another car.......

decisions, decisions!

sorry for my long rant!!!

hope dd feels much better soon CD! bless her x

of course nursery have no concerns Ellie - and I'm sure ss won't either

Rant away Caz - So hard for you and your family. Thoughts and prayers. xx

Aww Caz, it must be so tricky when your house is tied up with your DH job, but at least you're talking.
If you take the offered job and house, can your DCs stay at the same school? Are there any ways you can compensate for the downsides - eg. you agree to move if the issue of the horses can be sorted out? If the garden is small, is there somewhere else for the kids to play?
Is it likely that there will be other options coming up nearby if he can grin and bear it for a little while?

Caz - hope everything works out for you.

Crap day/night here, C has a chest infection and what looks to be excema all over his chest which he is scratching so much its bleeding. Been to doctors - they were running 45 minutes late - great when stuck in a tiny waiting room with poorly child but hey ho. Just trying to keep him dosed up with nurofen/medised/cough stuff poor wee soul. I even bought him some baby blackcurrent juice and strawberry jelly (bad mummy emoticon) to try and sooth his throat a little bit.

Got the car in for service and MOT tomorrow - but as it was short notice they dont have any courtesy cars so going to have to walk round the local shopping centre for 3-4 hours til its done - just hope C is ok

oh no GMM, sorry to hear C is ill. How bad was your night? You're not down here are you? If so, I'm happy to meet up for lunch / kill a bit of time? Don't suppose you are but thought it was worth checking

GMM, have you given him piriton? Might help to ease the scratching a little, bless him.

Mind you, I have just realised that you are using medised which contains a type of anti histamine so should do the same job.

No - up here at the moment SPB, but should be down next week?

Captain Dippy!!!
Are you?? Fancy meeting up? We are getting our bathroom done so will have to find out ikf I'm allowed to leave the house first

oh spb i would love to do that, but no chance!

bramshott - thing is taking the kids anywhere isn't that easy - there is such an age range, and they are very outdoors type kids - they don't really do tv/playstation etc
they can stay at their schools - infact one of the only plus sides is that we will actually be a bit closer
the horses, although not ideal, can be sorted i think
as for the waiting for something else to come up thing, the trouble is that locally so many of the farmers have sold their cows that jobs are very few and far between which is kind of how we ended up here.....we originally looked round here about 10 years ago and decided against it, but when we had to move last year, I was only 4 weeks away from having Molly, and didn't fancy moving to the other side of the country.........

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Everytime I go out of B's eyeline she yells - really yells. Everytime she is crossed in some way she yells, everytime I try to offer her water in a beaker she throws it about and yells!

She is very lovely really

I just feel crap today -really anxious about work and what I need to do but can't get on with - sort of paralysed. We went to baby group this morning which was lovely but then I started thinking on the way home - bad idea! I know I shouldn't worry about it but it is really hanging over me

Anyway - Caz - so sorry you have this hard situation - it does sound like there are ways round some of the negative aspects of the new house at least?
Dippy - good the Eurax is working
POTC - hope you are ok

Sorry everyone else - my brain has emptied

Psychic baby connections again? D's being very clingy today, every time I moved across the room at Baby and Me he wailed.

Ugh it's so tiring isn't it!

Feeling abit today. D has a big morning and bedtime bf, small late morning bf and a small afternoon feed ocassionally. However lately after we get back from school hes been having a quick bf but I dont have much milk then so he just takes what comes quickly and then sits up and starts playing but still seems starving so we end up sticking him in highchair giving him loads of nibbly baby foods while I'm doing tea. I've tried giving him tea earlier but then he still wants to eat loads afterwards. If I could get him to bf properly I'm sure my supply would adjust and increase but hes too impatient. So today decided he needs to have a bottle really. Its obviously a milk feed he needs and better for him than filling up on loads of baby biscuits and rice cakes etc. But I'm because I wanted to avoid him ever having to have bottles. I wanted to bf him exclusively (except food obviously) until he no longer needed/wanted milk anymore. I know its only a little thing and its not cos I think theres anything wrong with bottles/formula, both M and N had stopped bfing by this age, its just not what I wanted to do this time, especially as he is my last. Also worried it might be the start of the end iyswim and gradually start to replace bfs and I really dont want that yet. Feel silly getting this upset about something thats not really a big deal in the scheme of things, it is only 1 feed, but I cant help it, this is not what I want!!!

Oh Pesha - poor you! Will he actually take a bottle though? B won't - well wouldn't months ago and I haven't tried since.

I got sssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooo EXCITED when I read your link to that Dyson trial, but I was too lare

P is much the same atm, NL - driving me NUTS - I can't even walk to the other side of the room without her bellowing and crying. Feels like she either sleeping or crying atm. Very tiring.

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