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PillockOfTheCommunity · 06/02/2008 22:36

too tired for big catch up, hopefully this makes up for missing Ange off the last 2

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runnyhabbit · 12/02/2008 11:11

Morning

dippy have emailed you
caz fingers (and everything else!) crossed for you
oooggs J cries when my mum leaves our house, because he wants to go with her

Could do with some advice on the potty training, please. Considering we only started yesterday, he's not doing too badly. But, we've been invited out to a local farm trust with other friends and their children, later on today. Now, my mum has said she personally wouldn't go anywhere she didn't need to while potty training iyswim. But I've already said yes we'll go. What did you all do? Please?

oooggs · 12/02/2008 11:12

lol Katy superwoman my arse, I'm knackered and would rather have had a lie in as I am sure you would have too.

Your nights are also hard as are early mornings, I have two screaming at me at the moment to be held but I am typing with one hand and eating biscuits with the other .

Hang on to the fact that when they are teenagers we will be waking them up

runnyhabbit · 12/02/2008 11:12

And would anyone like the WW recipe for leek and potatoe soup. (I used fullfat milk for the boys, and they wolfed it down)

oooggs · 12/02/2008 11:15

runny - can't help/advise as I am crap at potty training it took me/ds1 12 mths. I think (but really have no idea) that he wasn't ready and started too early - going to do dts the week before they start school

oooggs · 12/02/2008 11:17

I'll have the soup receipe runny - dh loves leek & potato

Bramshott · 12/02/2008 11:18

Good going oooggs!!

IDOC - lovely to 'see' you, and sorry to hear you're feeling down. This working mum thing is HARD you know, although it sounds like it is mostly your DH who is getting you down. Any chance you could send the kids off with the grandparents on the next weekend day he has off, and go out for a lovely pub lunch? Alternatively, you could come and move here: www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/KEAL814003/ which is 2 doors down from me (whilst laughing at the price they are charging for a very rundown house) and then we can get together and drink gin on a daily basis?!

Caz - good news on the house front.

Runny - at water off for so long. Are they allowed to do that every day for a week? Don't they know you need to be luxuriating in your new bathroom?!

NorthernLurker · 12/02/2008 11:20

Morning all - not great night here - again! B now invariably wakes when we go to bed (and we are so so quiet how does she know?) if I'm very lucky I then get to spend 1/2 feeding and she then goes back her cot for another 2 or 3 hours and what happens after that varies - but none of its good! Still - someone is coming to look at the house on Saturday - maybe they'll want to buy it in three weeks right? Girls and I are going into town soon to look for some shoes for dd1 and then this afternoon I've promised to show them how to make spag bol. I must be mad! Put job form in yesterday so fingers crossed!

Right have been slacking so need to catch up properly now:

Mammyjo - see F woke up snotty on Sunday - strangely enough so did B. I echo you view that these viral things should just bugger off and leave our babies alone! Good work on the weight loss!

Caz - so pleased you've thoughht of a plan! How dramatic with everything yesterday - really hope it works out!

WO - still no news about your appeal?

potc - glad you had such a nice night on Saturday. Hope you can make a hoiday in the med work for you all - it would be so nice for you! I acn't tell you how pleased I am to hear you do not have a wrinkly posterior!

Eddas - hurrah for a newly painted room

Runny - hurrah for a finished bathroom - just in time for the water to go off! Re going out - you'll have to go out sometime so maybe brave it - but take at least four changes of clothes for hima and one for you and warn your friends that you won't be saying much except 'do you need a wee'

Now there's just SPB's bathroom project to follow.....sorry dh was upset about the swing - you can get him to do the first time on the monkey bars though - scary! Can'r believe you were offering him wine after what happened last time you tried to open a bottle!

Pesha - grrrh about the job - that's hardly fair and open recruitment is it!

Maveta about your friend.

Bramshott - good luck with Ebay

Luce - what is a cross trainer and what were you doing to it to break it

Oooggs - re ds1 slamming doors - it's amazing how stroppy toddlers can be isn't it? I remember thinking I must have 'broken' dd1 in some way - but she's lovely now! And the twins screaming - B does that too! Am so glad it's not just me - but it must be bloody very hard with two of them - one is bad enough!! You truly are superwoman!

IDOC - sorry you are having such a hard time. Are you eating properly? A lot of your symptoms can be explained by your running around after everyone else and not taking time to eat and drink as you need. Sounds like you and dh could do with a holiday - any chance of that?

SOL - loved the pictures of K - good she wasn't sick again - we have much snot here too

Dippy - hope dh feels better soon

runnyhabbit · 12/02/2008 11:23

Leek and Potato Soup (Weight Watchers)

5 1/2 points, serves 4, 1 1/2 point per serving

Low fat cooking spray (I used olive oil)
6 large leeks, split in halt, washed and finely chopped
400g potato, peeled and chopped into small pieces
2pt veg stock
a pinch of nutmeng
1/2pt skimmed milk (although I used full fat when making for the boys)

Heat a large saucepan and spray with low fat cooking spray
Add the potatoes and stir fry for a few mins.
Add the leeks, stir together and add the stock.
Bring to the boil and then simmer, covered, for 20mins, until leeks and potatoes are tender.
Add the milk and nutmeg.

oooggs · 12/02/2008 11:23

how much Bramshott??????????? crikey house prices high there!!!!!!!

oooggs · 12/02/2008 11:24

cheres runny - the welsh girls are doing next weeks menu planning between them anyone else?

NorthernLurker · 12/02/2008 11:29

Bramshott - the location looks lovely - nice for you but what a price for what is obviously a total wreck. I notice there are no interior photos......and the 'lawn' is 'seasonally neglected' - is that estate agent speak for 'totaaly overgrown'? But what really interests me is the clawback clause for 21 years!!! I had no idea you could do that

NorthernLurker · 12/02/2008 11:30

Oooggs - can I recommend a nice beef stew - don't have a recipe as such but always use the lowest salt stock cubes I can find and most of a bottle of red wine

Bramshott · 12/02/2008 11:34

Sadly (not that I'm trying to put you off IDOC ) it is owned by a money grabbing bastard who was renting it but not maintaining it and now it's in a right state. And because he wants so much for it (although it is now down to 350 I think) it hasn't sold and has now been empty all winter. It's SUCH a shame because it is and could be such a lovely house but the longer it's empty, the more it deteriorates.

NorthernLurker · 12/02/2008 11:35

That explains the clawback clause then!

CaptainDippy · 12/02/2008 11:39

Right, need to galvanise myself into action, have a shower and actually get up!! .....

Bramshott · 12/02/2008 11:40

Actually, it says 350 now doesn't it? Last week it was on at 380!

NorthernLurker · 12/02/2008 11:45

Dippy - I'm still in my pjs - I love half term!

StealthPolarBear · 12/02/2008 11:56

argh he has slept for ten minutes since 5.40 - I need some timeStill crawling around and into everything
sleep!!!!!!!!!!

runnyhabbit · 12/02/2008 12:09

Have decided to go out

Just need to take most of J wardrobe a few change of clothes with me. And the potty....

the joys of parenting

Pesha · 12/02/2008 12:31

Am amazed at that claw back cause, money grabbing bastard indeed!!

SPB - sorry you're still having a tough time with his sleeping. Was reading a thread on here the other day and a few people were saying they would never expect a baby to sleep through in its first year, if it does its a bonus but not to is perfectly normal. Dont know if that helps or not but I thought perhaps if you could change your view of it to something normal and aceept that its how he is for now then it might not be quite so frustrating and upsetting. Still exhausting obviously but maybe a little easier to cope with?? Maybe not though, I think I'd be pulling my hair out TBH but thought it worth mentioning

Pesha · 12/02/2008 12:34

With the daytime lack of sleep and into everything, Nathan was like that and it drove me mad!! If I'd really had enough I used to strap him in the pushchair (with reins used an extra harness to prevent escape!) and go into town or just for a walk, anything to keep him in one place and out of trouble! I do sympathise.

StealthPolarBear · 12/02/2008 12:40

lol at extra harness
I know.... I don't really expect him to sleep through, happy to get up once or twice for a feed, it's when he doesn't settle back afterwards that I find it hard. Bramshott (I think) was saying does he go to bed too late? I think he prob does but am reluctant to try to bring it forward in case he gets up even earlier
He has just fallen over while crawling, he must be tired!!

NorthernLurker · 12/02/2008 12:43

SPB - I feel your pain!

mammyjo · 12/02/2008 13:38

It was me asking about him being tired SPB. IME, going to bed earlier does not cause earlier waking, and by the same token, if they go late to bed they still wake up damn early! You may even find that he sleeps better eventually as sleep tends to breed sleep iykwim.

mammyjo · 12/02/2008 13:40

I only asked because I know that when both ds or dd are overtired they are always much harder to settle, and as a baby they tend to yell due to being so tired that they cant relax to go to sleep. Just a thought