March 06 - the other thread ran out of space!!!!!

[laundrylover]

Oh no - the thread ran out of space so couldn't even post a link!!!

Let me know when you find it ladies.......

Hi DTM (waves) nursery, we just lucked out, with local one having good ofstead and being recommeneded by virtually anyone you talk to! one look round clinched it

Astro, YUK! yuk, yuk for the water incident. for you and your dh I'm guessing its better to get any upsets out of the way before holidays though. I think everyone goes through the flat thing at some point, but being in another country and away from your mates, can be even harder being a bloke, as they don't communicate half as well as us girls I shall go and find your other thread and I'm hoping dh has maybe cheered up during the day and particularly as it actually felt like summer might be out there somewhere today? {{{{{Hugs}}}} girl.

Missing that hour here too Uni and Caddy, even though I got a 'lie in' this morning, ie I got up at usual time just felt later!

Yikes just heard the news re the plane crash in Kent

Astro read your thread. It does sound like he's depressed doesn't it....maybe its the crap British winter that's done it? I mean we all go a bit flat at times don't we (or is that just me then?) I guess we just don't always admit it, your relationship must be strong for him to admit it to you, I think, but rather than waffle at this time of night, I'm going to go to bed and check in on you again tomorrow {{{{Hugs}}}}

Hi all,

Nice to see you agin DTM!

Astro, your DH does sound a bit down (not had time to find thread sorry)....maybe it's the thought of the whole moving back to Oz thing eh??

Friz, hurray for school - we haven't got our letter today but should know this week...

Uni, PANTS!!!!!! Broccoli!!!!!

Caddy, schools must be a night mare for you ingeneral with all the moves.

Well, due to the weather being so nice I abandoned work this morning and tried to clear my litte veg patch to be...was going well until I moved the compost bin and found a nest of rats!! I've left them there and was hoping a cat would wander in and chomp them...so far two cats have been and stared for ages and then gone!!! How far have we domesticated them???? Need a terrier methinks....hope they go soon as I'm too wimpy to do them with a spade.

Right, better get some work done really. DP has taken girls to PC World as he had a flex entanglement and the 3 month old laptop fell off the table and is broke. He is hoping to feign ignorance but I bet Tilly blurts out the truth!

PANTS indeed, hes getting good at this game, didn't manage pants today but he did manage 3 wees in potty with minimal promting. I think we go cold turkey next week. Need to buy another pack of thomas pants 1st and a couple more pairs of tracky bottoms he can pull down by him self.
Other than sympathy not much I can say re Dhs.
WAves at DTM - seen you around on other threads when I've been lurking.
Breast feeding peer suport- had a new one today, felt some what useless as unable to offer much more than sympathy to a V tired mum of 1 wk old, sympathy and a unicef leaflet on co sleeping for her dh who thinks its BAD thing. Hope it helps.

LL ick for the rats, can you get the council to come and shift them?

Picked dd2 up from nursery this evening,( and found out from staff before I got her out of the playground, that she'd been in a stroppy opposite mood all day) which I reckon she'd got from her sister from this morning....(dd1 now on all priveleges suspended and star chart) So I said to her how's your day been? reply' I been in a temper mummy' longest sentence I've heard from her, let alone a descriptive one, wonder if she'd been asked if she was in a temper earlier?

Astro, how's things today?
That was meant to go on the last post, but I'm on the laptop and I messed up!

My lovely neighbour drowned the rats for me but the girls think a fox ate them in the night.

Girls are staying at my mum's tonight so DP and I are out with friends for a meal. Will be odd though as I have Tilly's friend arriving for the day at 7.30am!

eeek - rats! Glad your neighbour is gutsy LL!

Fiz - lol at DD2's temper! DS yesterday "Ha Mummy, I put snot on your trowies!" (trousers) . Yes, ha, ha, ha!

Uni - good progress on the pants front! well done DS!

DH and I had a chat (started by me as ever) last night - agreed to have some proper discussions and try to sort him out. He said sorry for being bad at communicating, so that was positive I thought!

Got DD into nursery today and DS with a mate so that I can pack - off to Lakes tomorrow, then Mull, then back via Edinburgh and Durham, so back on Sunday 12th I think. Hope we can fit all our stuff in the van! Hope we will be warm enough too! Must go and get sorted, thanks girls for the tea and sympathy Have a good 10 days!

Caddy, hope you get your school dilemmas sorted and your DH gives you some more time

xxx

Astro, have a FAB holiday and tell us all about it when you get back....hope it cheers DH up! How exciting to be going in the van -I am very!

Friz, your DD2 did make me smile - my two are terrible at the mo. Tilly is a real stroppy madam and Kiah had her first real tantrum last night - she could hardly breathe and I think it scared her.

Kiah is telling everyone that an aeroplane drove over a tunnel on the road when we went under the runway on Sun...she is very excited by this!

Astro. about what your dh said...
I hope that he vacation helps to smooth things over a bit.

Reading your post made me think about the things that I say to DH... I am often telling him that I feel miserable and unfulfilled. I would hate for him to think that I am really thinking about leaving. It would solve nothing.

Hello everyone else. I am off to the Dr with ds2 who continues to cough endlessly and was sent home from school yesterday with a fever at 10:00 am. Cue the guilt trip for both DH and I because we were both convinced that he was having us on when he said that he was too unwell to go to school. How much do you want to bet that he has a chest infection and will need anti-bs?!? Bad mummy alert--AGAIN!

{{{Hugs}} Caddy, you sound like you need them, its not your fault he's ill, there's a lot of it about at the moment, CH or GB!

Astro, have a great time, I'm so would love to do that trip, you have great places on your list (and I've never been across to Mull) probably too late, but you MUST go to Electric Bray (Ayrshire), anyone else been for a play? and just as Spring is appearing too.

LL, for your neighbour, I honestly wouldn't have thought of doing that, but I will next time I encounter one small enough (did I tell you about the one that got in mums shed and cleared out her store from 2 apple trees, not happy about that, hardly any pies here this year!) even her cat wouldn't go after it, was a whalloper apparently.

Not much going on here today, have done a kids party, bar that work before hand, and hula and pilates this evening.

Hula! as in hoops? I'm impressed.

Boy is lieing in his bed yelling that he want to be up, but seeminly to tired to stand up.... I'm certain he needs a sleep so I'm leaving him there in hope he will give up and fall asleep soon.
Need to make more scrap book sand cut up some more toy catalogues, stay n play this morning used up all my stock, still have one more session to go in "reading awareness week" at childrens centre. I've taken on making books as my contribution

Friz: Thanks for the hugs. (LOL as initial typo read jugs Perhaps a Freudian slip?)

Hula and Pilates after a kid's party= NO MUCH GOING ON! (Cadmum's chin hits the floor!)

I am lucky to make it through the day of laundry, cooking, dishes and the school run... What the h__l is wrong with me then?

Uni: I hope boy goes to sleep. I am not a big fan of these moments...

I need punctuation in your second to last sentence... My pea-sized brain reads: moresrapbooksandcutupsomemoretoycatolgues,

GOT IT! Should read scrap books and right? DS1 having a nosey actually read it properly for me. (Self-professed genius of the highest order!)

I really need to go and sort out the front room. It is a health hazard with so many toys and clippings (to mention nothing of the scissors and cookie crumbs).

Cheers to everyone.

sorry Caddy, my typing really is quite rubbish. Your Ds did indeed read it correctly. I've been encouraging kids to stick pictures into scrap books to take home and "read" with parents. This mornings crowd were much more enthusiastic about it than mondays bunch.

I am sorry Uni! Sleep deprivation may be a factor here as I am in need of a good kip...

Glad the Scrap book plan was better received this morning. Aren't children funny that way? Glad it is going well!

I am really off to sort the living room and to reminisce about the good old days when DS1 was only 2... I can vaguely remember being out and about in society doing things like scrap books... Poor DD2 her life does not even vaguely resemble that of her brother's... (He has just added that this is why she should have been born first.)

Enough MN (more like way too much MN ) I really am off to get on with my RL, honest!

i think it may be that todays kids have more involved adults on the whole, mondays bunch can be a bit " you go play, I'm having a cuppa" Wednesdays crew seems to have more grannys and childminders as well as mums who play with their kids. Thursdays crowd are fairly involved adults as its ryhme time session for the 1st 30 mins then into the play room for free play and snack.
Ok, so it seems boy will eat brocli if bribed to do so. the deal today was eat one peice and you can have yogart for pud, so he ate 3.

CAdyy is your DS1 a boy wonder or something, he sounds very mature and senible. how old? I forget.

Off to Yoga class now, then picking up fish n chips for grown up tea.

DS1 will be 11 on Saturday. He is wise beyond his years. He was born an old man somehow. DS2 is the exact opposite. Very child-like and trusting. Interestingly neither is rough and tumble but rather mellow, cuddly, pensive book worms.

Can't beat a good book worm though, they tend to have better brains and make more money
Lol at Jugs
I meant nothing interesting, not 'nothing going on' nothing really interesting anyway (no scientific discoveries anyway!)

Yep Hula as in Hoops, 45 min class every Tue, tis great fun, you don't notice you're getting fit, hurrah!

the scrap books sound lovely Uni, dd1 and I have been doing a bit of that recently as she got a kit for Xmas

Ooooh, at work at the mo, and there are lots of silly young girls in next to nothing across the street, as its under 18's night at a local club (the police breath test them on the way in!! if drunk they get taken home!) That'll be dd1 in 10 years if we don't move house (good arguement for moving to middle of nowhere!)

Friz: hula hoop sounds great. Glad you enjoy it.

I know what you mean about the teenagers in less than appropriate clothing. It is global as it is here as much as Vienna and New York too. It is a shame really but I must say that finding appropriate clothing for girls is a real challenge from about 8 years old (particularly if they are tall.) I wish I understood why those responsible for making girls' clothing knew how inappropriate it is... (Grumpy old-fashioned mum alert, I suppose.)

LL: Where are you?

Astro: I hope you are having a FAB time.

Uni: What great things were you up to with boy today? Your posts are making me feel horrible for DD2... She has never been to a single toddler group. I am sure that they exist here and now that DS2 is in school I need to find her something. She LOVES singing, dancing and all things related to crafts so at least she has some exposure with 3 older siblings. Most of her infancy was spent running around from activity to activity with the other three though...

I looked out the window this afternoon to find dd2 on the back of DD1's bicycle zipping round the cul-de-sac! I didn't really know what to say. The big three were in the back garden while I was starting to make tea and and I allow DD2 to join them because the gate locks and I can hear them. (or so I thought...) They were wearing their helmets and DD2 was furious when I took her off; after recording a short video for posterity... There is no way that her life can be compared in any way to that of the older 3. I would have DIED if my PFB had been on the back of anyone's bike and my feelings didn't change much as I progressed through DD1 and DS2. Somehow, I almost found it sweet that DD1 would even think to cycle with her baby sister... I have told her that it is NEVER to be repeated because it is WAY too dangerous but I will need to keep a close eye on them as DD2 can be very persuasive.

I really need to get a bicycle for me and a proper seat for her. Suggestions welcome though I suspect that we may be off to Decathlon because it is handy and not too expensive.

Oops should have proof-read...

CAddy
decathlon are not bad. better than some for bikes that are bikes rather than just bicycle shaped ojects. even with decathlon tho - if its too chaep to be true.... back away, its probadly too cheap to be a comfortable ride. Anything with only a 1 year warentee is unlikley to be any good. suspension is not worth it on a cheap bike, pay the same for a better quality ridgid and you'll have an easier bike to ride.

Fiz- the ability of teenagers to wear next to nothing is not new, don't you remeber doing it yourself? Am highly impressed they breath test at your local under 18 night.
Surley there are pros and cons to living in middle of nowhere. if rural teens go out they are more likely to be presured into accepting lifts from drunk or just inexperienced drivers than city kids who "could" walk home.

Yeah I know you're right Uni, I sure do remember what I was like, which is why it might be good to move to middle of nowhere with dd1, who is very like myself I was what my gran would term 'a rum 'un' But I'm an angel now

at your dd2 Caddy, sounds so like my dd2, not a thought/care in the world about anything that may be vaguely dangerous!

OOOOUUUCH. went for a multi terrain run last night, training for multi terrrain 5 k in a month. forgot to look where I was going, turned my ankle. OUCH. people were very nice about it, ended up being taken home by Boys childminder!

My parents are staying at the mo, boy is playing upsatirs with granny, grandad and dh have gone to supermarket. all off out for lunch later so I'll see how teh ankle holds up.Managed to do proper R.I.C.E all last evening so hopeing will stop hurting soon.

Friz- So you WERE one of teh scantily clad.... I was far to boring as a teenager,I lived in grubby jeans and band T-shirts for years. Weprobadly wouldn;t have spoken as youth.

OUCH Uni, that is not good [sa] for you hoping it gets better fast with rest.

I was into glam rock back in the late 80's, then I kinda transfered to thrash and grunge

Evening all!

Just catching up as seem to have been absent for a few days.

Uni - ouch for your ankle. I ran to my parents on Thurs, only 5 miles but last mile up an endless hill. Knackering but pleased I did it.

Caddy, I bet your youngest gets more stimulation than most kids. Kiah doesn't go to as many groups as Tilly did but then she has a big sister! Love the bike story...reminded me of Kiah the other week setting off down the pavement outside the house (we live on a hill) on her trike !! Luckily she fell off after about 10 feet...

Friz, I can imagine you in a crop top and hot pants....now, I mean, not as a teenager!!!!

Well my girls have been f**cking awful today! Kiah has developed incontinence since her second birthday which she celebrated by pooing her pants 3 times. Her bum is sore though so am trying to fix it and hope that will stop the accidents as could really do without them.