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Jan '07 part 23: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's 2happy's flying shed!

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2happy · 29/02/2008 15:48

Watch out cows, here it comes!

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eandh · 01/03/2008 15:57

2happy - I have changed hatties bed and that is whizzing around machine (and sorted out some bits that were stuffed underneath, done the ironing (was only a small pile so didnt take to long), swept floors downstairs, wrapped mums/mil presents and goddaughters present (her party on wednesday) and printed 21 copies of menu of restuarant we are going to for my birthday and addressed some envelopes to send to everyone coming as we need to preorder as there are loads of us going (this will be the first time in 4 years everyone of our 'group' of friemds is coming out and sorted work/babysitters etc I am so excited.

Wilkie - glad you are feeling better, I am not sure if I'd ever go to another antentael thread but I am not planning on getting pg again , I tried to find a sept 04 postnatel thread when I joined mn but there didnt seem to be one feel bit better but occasionally have waves of stomach ache/nausea its very strange.

Dh still at work so I am sitting here (with my cuppa 2happy)and will leave here at 4.55 (only 5mins to my mums house )

eandh · 01/03/2008 15:58

5.55 even!

Wilkie · 01/03/2008 16:33

EAH - so I can expect my copy of the menu in the post soon then can I??

What date is your birthday?

eandh · 01/03/2008 16:38

of course its winging its way to you, my birthday is 17th april (yes i know I am organising this way in advance but its taken so long to get a date everyone could do!)

these are the menus

eandh · 01/03/2008 16:39

I'll be having

prawn starter
not sure between chicken peri peri or fillet steak
warm choc fudge cake

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tis so yummy there (we have booked one whole side of the restaurant )

Wilkie · 01/03/2008 16:48

Was getting concerned as have just bought all of my March birthday cards and your name wasn't on my calendar - it is for next month though!!

I'm gonna have:

Either Mussels or Brie for starter
Tornado of Beef Rossini for main
Warm choc fudge cake for pud

Yum - can't wait!!

Reggiee · 01/03/2008 17:59

EaH I'll have crispy brie, chicken burrito, then ..mmmm...any one of the puds, but have to plump for choc fude. THanks for the invite

I've got my mum nowt but a card. Does that make me a bad daughter? We've not given gifts for MD for a long time.
Looking forward to tomorrow as am being taken out for a meal in the afternoon. MIL may bob over on their way back from a weekend away too.

LTH to hear about your friend and her parents. YOu're right - we so take our folks for granted. I know it sounds awful but my mum & I (despite not being close) talk about death quite a lot. She was very seriously ill when I was 16, and when she recovered was given an estimated 10 years life span. Almost 20 years later she's not the heathiest person in the world, but as good as she's been for a long time. I do worry for my dad though who is 80 soon, and from what I am aware is hiding a major disease from me & my step sis.

Had a good day today, except the most annoying sales person in the world. Had a recommendation for new bay windows (we need double glazing for two windeos incl large bay keeping original feature), so we got them round. What a mistake. Ten hours later (felt like it) he quoted us £11,900 for two windows an two doors but £6,000 if we signed up that moment. We told him no way as we wanted other quotes, and he just kept going on about further discounts. NO!!!!

Anyone out there like the Eurovision Song Contest??

eandh · 01/03/2008 18:00

anyone else inviting themselves, if so please let me know what you'd like to eat

eandh · 01/03/2008 18:04

I can remember when i was at senior school/sixth form we used to have eurovision parties (round one persons house as her parents didnt care) had to dress up and basically get plastered, oh those were the days.

Rgee - think dh is going for similar menu to you!

I had a small local independent company do my double glazing/conservatory been very pleased with them (they were about average when we got quotes) but there afterservice has been fantastic

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vinorouge · 01/03/2008 18:19

My baking went well last night and the afternoon tea lunch was great. I was so excited when I had set it all up cos it looked lovely, have taken a pic. Got to get DH to work the new camera(I took pics on camera memory rather than memory card and don't know how to use it, then I will be able to post pic of today and of bump. So Wilkie will you still talk to me???? Pretty please???

BTW Wilkie I haven't actually been to lindley but have been to most of the other places Loosh mentioned, mainly to go walking cos thatd what DH and I used to do at the w/e before Ellen.

Tired tonight and got to read thru some stuff for work but wld rather do it tonight than tom night.

Have bought mum a blouse from next. MIL will get something when we visit next weekend, prob some flowers.

Susie - hope you had a happier day today?

vinorouge · 01/03/2008 18:21

Re the bin: as we were setting off for a walk this morning my neighbour was driving off and stopped to ask if our bin had gone missing yesterday.....I felt guilty and said that when I got home I took the nearest one in and had since realised that it was hers, but that as there were no more around I didn't know what to do. She told me where there were some more (in a ginnel)and I gave her hers back. We then found one in a patch of mud so it needs a good clean and after that we will paint 8 on it in BIG numbers.

2happy · 01/03/2008 18:31

FFS. Bought a recipe book to go with the slow cooker, last night I made butterscotch bananas thinking gooey, overly sweet bananas - the boys'll love it. Both turned their noses up at it, dh and I ended up scoffing it while watching the masterchef final . So tonight I made coconut and lime rice pudding, assuming the boys really wouldn't go for it. Got some for myself, but ds1 asked for a taste - had a taste, demanded his own bowlful. So I tried ds2 with a bowl, and he nommed it down too. Currently, ds1 is now sitting on the sofa having one spoon for him, feeding one spoon to ds2 (their 2nd helping each).

And me? I think it's bogging, actually

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Wilkie · 01/03/2008 18:46

PCF - I didn't know your sis' DD died. How awful

Reggiee - I HATE mothers day - think it is contrived. It would rather treat my mum wen I want to and not cos the card companies say I should!! Have told DH not to bother and just to get me a card.

Am shattered tonight! This relocation malarky ain't that easy without Phil and Kirsty!!!

vinorouge · 01/03/2008 18:54

2happy - does 'bogging' mean not very nice?

Pics uploaded now. Bump looks tiny on the pic.

2happy · 01/03/2008 19:10

vino - yes, sorry I didn't realise it wasn't a well-known phrase

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looshkin · 01/03/2008 19:55

A Huddersfield thread wilkie - crikey must go for a look I will probably find most of my NCT group are on it and didn't realise it .

All the menus sound lovley, I still yet to unwrap my slow cooker from Christmas so you are all doing better then me.

By the way I have to admit I stole one of your top tips eandh - I now have a separate cleaning set upstairs for quick fixes such a good idea so thank you.

Right off to bed will look at the thread tomorrow and catch up with you all (please note big effort to stop lurking ).

Loosh

eandh · 01/03/2008 20:03

I feel all proud now loosh !

Dragonhart · 01/03/2008 20:44

Hello all!

Had my scan on wed and all is well and only one there (sooooo relieved!!). Was best scan I have had, but felt rather sad when I thought it will be my last one. Spent the last few months feeling crap and being quite happy thinking that I wont have to go through it again!

LTH- Very sad for your friend. DH's mum had breast cancer afew years ago and it is very hard. I think just being there to talk about it when it is hard helps most. It was very advanced and she had to have horrible treatment, but she has been clear for 5years now so fingers crossed it keeps at bay for years to come.

Susie- I know it is not on the same scale at all, but me and DH spent alot of time appart before we got married as his parrents lived in surrey and mine near glasgow. I found it so hard (must be awful for you xxx) and we had so many rows due to misunderstandings on the phone. Is there no way he can rethink his job? Or is that not an option for him?

2happy- think our fence pannels might have squashed afew pigeons here! (not many cows in warrington ) I know 'bogging'. Havent heard it for ages. Do you know what 'nesh' (sp?) means?!

Vino- I have an embarrassingly large fat tummy bump. Had to put on my maternity trousers already as I felt like I was being cut in two!

Wilkie- sorry you are finding it so hard. My brother and his gf are moving in this weekend and are sooo happy, so just keep thinking of what it will be like when you find 'the house' and are inside it. Cant imagine how hard it must be moving area but my mum and dad did it three times, twice with three kids and I have no memory of the earlier two times so it cant have had a neg effect on me Sure j will be fine when he is settled.

Sorry if I have missed anyone. Tea is here so must eat! xxx

Dragonhart · 01/03/2008 23:02

I have felt massive kicks today. Proper, stop you in your tracks kicks! Very freaky as I am only 15wks on mon and with Ruth I didnt feel them til aobut 20wks. Started a thread in pregnancy and lots of people have felt kicks early with 3rd+ preg. So not so much of a freak.

ladytophamhatt · 01/03/2008 23:07

DHart, with ds3 I felt the kicks the earliest if all 4 of them. I was absolutley sure I feltthe fist one at around 11 weeks!!

I've scared myself half to death reading lulus thread. Bloody hell some of the posts have left me terrified!

susiecutiemincepies · 02/03/2008 02:48

hello all... just popping in to say hello.

things no better with DH. I've not spoken to him since friday at 4pm, when he told me about sunday night working. He didn't come home, and has not answered a single call or text either. I go a random text this arvo saying he was not in a mood, but did not like the message i left him last night!!!! I was fuming when I read it! I've sent him about 8 messages, and left 3 voicemails.

I've said everything I possibly can, with no response whatsoever. I just feel so unloved. I can't stop my self thinking it could be the end of the road for us, which fills me with utter sadness and dread. I don't want to leave him, at all. however, I don't want to feel like this again its far to familiar to me, to feel like this now, i've had enough. I can't seem to get him to understand that it's not because he cocked up the dates this weekend, but that he's ignored me, and made no attempt to make it up to me. the ball is in his court now. I'm not making any further contact. Its destroying me, again. BLoody bastard men. I just have to put up with it and shut up, or leave. I have no options at all. I can't change him, he wont change. He manages to justify his behavour in his head, and turn it round so that I feel bad and end up saying sorry for getting so upset and angry.

I just don't know what to do. I've had to turn my phone off, to stop me calling or sending any more texts, which are falling on deaf ears, and upsetting me even more. I keep thinking of things I want to say to him, since he won't answer the phone, i have no choice but to text it.Argggggggghhhh, I'm so frustrated! I dont need this on top of everything else. Its making me so self absorbed. I hate being self absorbed! what do I do now??

LTH: So sad about your friends mum. life is just so bloody shit and unfair sometimes. I can only begin to imagine what she must be feeling. I would just be destroyed if I had to see my mum going through anything like that. It must be even harder being so incredibly far away.
The thought of losing my mum, is something that upsets me and worries me so often, I just don't know what I will do without her. She's my BF, such an mazing support, I'd not be the person I am now, if it were not for my mums support and love. As someone has said, we just take it for granted I think. I don't know how people cope, watching their mums go through such pain, and not be able to do anything to help. puts all my stuff into perspective.

DH: Thats is fantastic! you are apparently supposed to feel them move so much earlier, the more you have. the thought being that feeling them as early as that is possible with al pregnancies, but you just don't recognise it as that first time round... but i'm sure you know this already

PC: Also incredibly sad about your sister. Days like tomorrow must be so hard to cope with, when you have lost either your mum or a child. I wish it wasn't so over commercialsed as it is. Misses the whole point of it really. much like christmas... makes me annoyed.

e&H: do hope you are feeling a bit better now? I hate being ill, but one of the worst things for me is nausea and the runs. I always get horrible stabbing pains with bugs like that. So debilitating

vino: the bin saga continues hey! We had 3 recycling bags and boxes here. one week they ALL went missing. Me and my neighbour went to library to get new ones each, and the next week, some one pinched them again! Someone round here obviously has a penchant for white recycling bags! I don't understand it, they are free!

Wilkie: don't give up lovely, the house of your dreams is out there somewhere, and I have a feeling its near huddersfield I really hope you ind something soon, so you have one less thing to worry about. Wish I could help in someway, I know I can't, but I'd love to be able to I know how much it prays on the mind, every night, and day! IYSWIM

2happy: How do you find the slow cooker? I've been told i ought to have one as you can do such easy tasty meals in them. Is it worth the money do you think?
I thought of you this evening when I could hear the wind out side, throwing things around the garden, no sign of sheds flying off her though!

so sorry its so long again. Also, apologies to anyone i've missed out, and for being so selfish and going on about me so much.

I can hear a little girl talking in her bedroom... at 02:45, I can't believe she's reading to her animals in her bed at this time of night! I think i'm going to have to take her books out at bed time. Although it gives me an extra half hour or so in bed in the morning as she wakes up and 'reads' until she gets bored! Hmm, not sure what to do about that either! She's perfectly happy, so maybe i should just leave them there...

Hope you are all well, and the LO's too. Have a lovely day with you Dc's tomorrow, and I hpe your DH's are better behaved than mine, and treat you how you deserve to be! Take care all of you.

katylessbumpy · 02/03/2008 03:00

susie ! why are you still up ?
txt me if you want to chat x

eandh · 02/03/2008 06:24

susie not sure what to say except it sounds like you need to see each other face to face (things seem to be misinerpreted on text/phone and making stuff worse) hope you managed to get some sleep.

Well its mothers day, I have been up and down with Hattie since 2am (she is coughing and sounds like a dog barking) she got up at 5.20am and ooo what a surprise I am up with her, dh came down at 5.45 but I was in a bad mood by then so just hissed at him to piss off and he's gone back to bed I've still got these stabbing pains (am sure I've pulled a stomach muscle as I vaguely remember having these before) and they hurt we're meant to be going to Mum and Dads for lunch later but noy sure if I can face it, its one of dh's single mates birthday today and he text dh and said a few of them are going into town drinking, well he can feck off if he thinks he is going.

H filled her nappy so better go and sort that, oh what fun my life is

ladytophamhatt · 02/03/2008 07:13

There nothing here for mothers day for me either.
no card, nothing.
Dh said yesterday he hasn't had time to get anything which I wasn't surprised at because he never has time to sort himself out for stuff like this.
Well make time then, you nobbo!

I heard him say to ds2 yesterday to remind ds1 that its mothers days and it struck me that he hasn't made a single effort. Hand made cards will be lovely but they'll be nthing to do with dh's effort to help them. They'll be on paper, drawn in 2 minutes.
Not on carefully chosen card that he's bought after taking them to teh shop to choose, with paint that he's had to clear up after they'll covered 100m2 miles with it.

Susie, my Dh and his non-exsistent effort for mothers day is like a tiny frozen pea floating the the arctic ocean with you and your dh being the iceberg that sank the titantic with a whole 100,000,000,000 strong gang of frozen peas catching a lift on it so I do understand how you feel even if my situation here is only a teeny weeny farction of yours.
Men are just shite.

Chip up Girl...we're right behind you whebever you need us
(I'm not on drugs BTW....just a little slepp deprived).