June 07 - where they become human vacuum cleaners

[LardyMardyDaisy]

well, mine is anyway

It was. It's not luxurious or anything but it was just so nice, friendly and easy!

FF sounds fab you lucky lady. How did DS do in the kis club?

Daisy am of your hairlessness. I am actually pretty hairy, and sweaty too I have slightly hairy toes and fingers too. And I have single line of hairs from my lady garden to my belly button, and on rogue hair that insists on growing in my cleavage. There, I've said it now!

Jammy one of my bfs has two toes joined together on each foot, her dad has too. Has the jamlet inherited your weird deformity

Foxy, feel for you re the weekend. DH is working this weekend too so means nothing to me, just another day of walks with the push chair, cleaning and feeding. I find my friends are about less too at the w/e as they either go away or are spending time with partners. I wish I lived closer to you!

Hello bumper. I'm pretty hairy too

I was a bit worried about DS but he was absolutely fine. No tears or anything. It was only for 2 hours in the morning ever other day, and the ladies in there were lovely. One day they even had a sealife centre visiting the hotel so he spent the time looking at crabs, starfish, lobsters, etc!

I think it helped that DD was in the club as well and DS pretty much wants to do whatever she is doing - in fact they let him be with the toddlers because he's quite sturdy and can be boisterous, and he kept crawling away from the babies and over to DD.

I also grew that line of hair from my tummy button down in a straight line to my ladygarden whilst pg with DD, and it's stayed.

Morning all

Seems like i missed quite a lot of chat after I signed off last night. Good to see you back Fairy, your holiday sounds fab! Have bookmarked your link for future reference And I fall into the hairy category, including line down tummy. But I am fairly lax about it, just keeping legs under control in summer or when I want to wear a nice skirt, or as a treat for DH. There I am now fully labelled as a hairy, unkempt, webb-toed freak Speaking of which Bumper thankfully the Jamlet seems to have nice, normal feet, despite both me & DH having deformed feet in one way or another. Though it is probably too early to tell if she will have hairy toes

Well, despite the Jamlet waking and needing attention twice during proceedings, DH & I bravely continued undeterred last night and {ahem, this is a family thread and it's early}. Was a big deal for both of us (but for different reasons) but I think we both feel better this morning.

Hi Jammy, Hi everyone

Just ducking in before breakfast and footy. LO slept from 7ish to 5 (in her cot) then had a feed and snuggle with me. Shame I didn't go to bed til midnight. Kicking myself for that missed sleep now!

Righto, lets get these kids fed and dressed for two hours in a muddy park. Grrrrrreat!

That's great Jammy, I'm impressed with your perseverence. Was it good?

Foxy, hope your weekend alone goes ok. Great that LO slept. The amount of times I have cursed myself for not going to bed earlier! No repeat of yesterdays 9.30 performance here unfortunately.

Thanks Bumper. Not bad

Foxy - hope you have a nice treat (warming hot chocolate with a tot of rum?) when you get back from footy. Sounds like you deserve it!

Morning all!

I have a hangover HOORAH!

I actually went out with some RL friends for drinks and stuff. I wore a boob tube and I even straightened my hair! AND I'm going out again this evening.

Hope everyone is well...Glad you had a lovely time fairy and sorry about the migraine and the hairy toes daisy!

Maybe you are becoming a werewolf...the headache may have been start of a transformation.

I think it may be time to resurrect this!!

Sorry, I'm in a very silly mood...I think I might still be drunk !

go away you bunch of hairy freeeeeeks

hi fairy, sounds like an idyliic break

I've been up with the DCs for less than three fricking hours and already I have blown my top at DS.......I just want to go and stand in the garden and SCREEEEEEAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMM!

I'm supposed to be taking him swimming so that DH can get on with the garden (we need a fence to keep the baby in and our neighbour's dog out) and I really don't want to do it. the last time I took him I nearly had a nervous breakdown as he wouldn't do as he was asked, and ran off into the gents to shower and stayed in there for 20 minutes.

AIBU to think that he should:
a) do as he is asked firt time, every time
b) not answer back everytime (and I mean everytime)
c) not be bloody awkward, like when we give him a jumper to put on, whinge "I don't want that jumper, I want the other one" etc etc (but for jumper add, toy, coat, sandwich filling, meal, book, video etc etc etc ad nauseum after he has refused to express a preference in te first fecking place)

sorry for moaning about him again......I'm sure this isn't doing any favours to those of you with younger DCs.....they're not all like this, I promise.

I know he is just pushing the boundaries, and trying to exert as much control over his life as he can, and I know what I'm supposed to do, but having this every day from school until bedtime and for three hours this morning I feel like I just want to walk out of here and never come back

ARSE.

Daisy I wish i had some advice xxx

morning all

daisy they can be such hard work sometimes can't they I have taken to saying do I speak english to ds1 when I ask him for the third time to do something I know it's early but have some galaxy (andiem passes daisy her secret stash)

welcome back fairy glad you had a good hols

I have hairy toes too I shave them when I do my legs

jammy glad you and dh had a productive evening

well half term is over went to tate modern yesterday with a friend and her dd kids had a fab time and lo was great

am vv excited as we are going to buy a flat at the seaside to use at weekends and holidays we have settled on bournemouth area as the beach is sandy and the new forest is close by dh says I can start getting details yipeee

Oh daisy, I don't know what to say. Maybe you could take ds somewhere else. Maybe a soft play area? That way he can run around and let off steam and you don't have to be on your guard all the time.

How exciting andie! Fancy a Bournemouth meet up? I live in Southampton, so only down the road!

holly we could that would be fab we could have a mn weekend where we could all stay at the seaside together we are going down the first weekend in april to start looking properly

must dash am suppopsed to have got dcs ready to go out but am on mn

Yay, house party at Andie's new pad!

Bournemouth is brillo! I've had some VERY messy and wild nights there. The nightlife is fab!

I love to sit on the prom and eat chips!

Yum!

Daisy that sounds really hard and depressing....my DD1 was being a bit of a nightmare like that a couple of months ago, but seems to have turned a bit of a corner now. I'm not sure if it's because she's started pre-school, or got a bit more used to DD2. That book 'how to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk' really helped me - not that I think it changed DD1's attitude, but it maybe helped me to cope with it a bit more and do better damage limitation. Maybe I should send it to you so you can have a read?

andie am v v of your holiday pad. One day we hope to be able to buy something somewhere and are always on the lookout for old derilict sheds that are ripe for conversion.

DON'T BUY THAT BOOK DAISY

You can have mine. I'll put it in the post Monday.

The theory is good, but I just didn't like the book itself.

I also have the sibling book. I'll have a look at it tonight, and if I don't like that I'll do you a double bundle.

You are not alone. DS1 is particularly good at this behaviour. My advice is to ignore his requests. I like to do that. Teach the little feckers what its like not to have someone do what you want them to, when you want them.

It doesn't really help, just makes me feel better. Petty? Moi?

Andiem, Bournemouth is lovely - I, too, had some very messy nights there as it is my old stomping ground too. I went to college there. Lucky, lucky you.

Andie:

Will you be my new and very best friend?

Hello Everyone. I've just put in my 5th load os washing since getting back from holiday - how do we get through so much stuff????

Andiem, I'm very envious of your holiday flat, it sounds lurvely. You and the DCs can decamp to the seaside for the whole summer . After our trip, I'm loving the English seaside again. in fact I think we're going to forget about going abroad in september, as we'd planned, and instead load everything in the car and go back to Cornwall instead - it was so much less stressful than flying.

Foxy, I'll fight you to be Andiems best friend