June 2007 - No excuses for gorging on easter eggs this year <sob>

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well, all excpet me that is

DH is very rarely home before 7:30 unfortunately, and often much later. He's still at the office tonight. The night before we went on holiday he was there until 3am. It's getting beyond a joke tbh. I do get very fed up about it but not much we can do really.

I know bumper, but we are not very practical people! I don't think we'd actually go for anything quite that crazy, but along those lines. It is very difficult because we don't want anything dull, but dp will not do flowers at all, which pisses me right off, and we can't have stripes because the plaster is quite uneven in places.

I was supposed to be putting stuff on ebay tonight, but it looks like that plan has gone out the window. Maybe I'll just stay on here instead!

Whoa!!
DKMA is doing cartwheels!!!!!
Just got sales figures through for January (my first month back at work) and ...........wait for it..............I am only £31,729 OVER MY TARGET!!!!!!!
Don't worry Bumper - I'm good for a few more pots yet!!!!

Fairy, that is shit. Your poor dh and poor you.

Well done dkma!

Hello All

fucking hell Holly ....you are showing how young you are...I grew up in a room that looked like that and wouldn't want to repeat it

Daisy ...seems very final doesn't it? I've lost a parent, but not both and it must be very odd. I bet your mum would be made up about the baby ....going to get the DCs something from their nanny?

Good (sort of) news Bumper....its much easier to get a new job when you're working. Hope your work are OK.

Feel like shit....just watched that Whistleblower programme and am sitting here in tears....DD goes to a Just Learning Nursery and I now feel like a shit mum. I know its irrational (we've had a letter from the nursery last week and ours is a fab place) but I know I can look after her so much better myself.....we just can't afford to...

Also had day from hell at work and fucking operation stack was going so it took 1 and a half hours to get home. Fucking French ferry people!!

Sorry rant over

Sorry if last post was a bit insensitive and flash by the way.
Just really please that I still am able to do my job as some days I feel like I've had a labotomy (sp?) not a baby!
I don't actually get the £31k over - either! (sadly)

Hope you get a good bonus for that DKMA!

8 would be a bit early for us too. DH gets home around that time.

LMN - you are NOT a bad Mum!
DH has just been telling me about that thing on tv.

DKMA - meant to say I save a bit of our dinner and DD gets it the next day...unless its spicy or salty (unlikely atm with my gall bladder) then she gets a jar of slop which she loves

We never eat until 8pm

IKWYM about the lobotomy DKMA. I just spent 2 days (well "working" days, which amounts to 4 or 5 hours, but still) trying to fix something I'd already fixed on a website, then fucked up again and forgot what the problem was... anyway, should've taken 5 minutes

Luuuuurve those wallpapers!! But agree too much for the average living room.

I'm with Bumper in thinking those pots look yum (at least if you're little) but pricey. but don't think using them makes anyone a bad mummy! For what it's worth, DH normally gets in around 6 - 6.30, so Jamlet has to eat on her own earlier and we eat after she's in bed. She therefore often gets reheated leftovers from out dinner the night before, and I do tend to freeze batches of stuff up for her in individual portions, so I can always defrost something for her quickly. For instance when we had cottage pie a few weeks back, I made loads, we had ours that night, she had some leftovers the next day and about 5 portions got frozen for her. I also do her quick stuff like pasta & cheese, or use organic fruit pots/fruit & natural yoghurt/selection of cold finger foods if I'm really pressed for time. I agree that at this stage it's all about getting them used to a wide range of different tastes and textures, and am hoping that this will help avoid "faddy" eating later on.

Well done DKMA, it must be a good feeling. I do wonder whether I'd be able to do my job again, having been out of it for 3 years. It would scare me witless going back now. I probably will go back at some point and it'll just get more terrifying the longer I leave it.

thanks guys for your words about my mum

she would be very pleased about the baby, as one of the last things she talked about (seemingly endlessly at the time) was the fact that there was going to be another baby before the end of the year (although she did mention three possible dates), and it would be a boy and he was to be called Lawrence after my Dad......so, watch this space...although not sure about the Lawrence thing, as my Dad put his foot down on any of us calling our DSs that when they were born; he even poo-pood it as a middle name!

saying that though, if it is a boy, we will probably use Lawrence as a middle name!

It was very uncomfortable watching...but like that midwives thing when we were pg, I had to see it....

Meant to say DKMA, we do get a regular AZ lunch in our parts....although it was M&S lunch today courtesy of Roche ...well done on the job thing...I know the feeling of enjoying still being able to do my job - although I'm finding it a bit of a struggle atm

LMN, you are not a bad mum, you do what you need to do. Every family is different. I can't afford to work as it would cost me more in childcare than I earn and I feel guilty for not working! Being a mother, unfortunately, comes with a lot of guilt.

You shouldn't feel like a shit mum LMN, I think they actually get a lot out of nursery, and you're only part-time.

Oh Daisy, that's lovely.....will you find out what your having? Did you with DD?

Norty, don't feel bad. They must have looked at loads of places to find the worst ones. I'm sure yours is fine. The positive thing to take from the programme must be that every nursery will be extra cautious when hiring from now on, which can only be a good thing.

Daisy, I love the name Lawrence! I used to babysit for a little Laurie and he was soooo cute! Unfortunately you would always get the Lewellyn-Bowen references !

Amen to that Holly.

God it was horrible though....I know she is well looked after and I'm sure I will get over it, but blimey it was difficult to watch, especially knowing they were investigating a Just Learning Nursery. They were discussing a 10 month old that died after chocking on a bit of apple...bit close to home...but having said that, the nursery were found NOT to be at fault...

Sorry, I'll shut up about it now

Every fucking lay-by within a 10 mile radius of here has got a bloody lorry on it and I think the whole of Kent is clogged up with lorries!

sorry, norty, missed that bit about the nursery. Don't feel guilty about not being there for her; I don't believe in any of the institutionalised nonsense that gets touted about babies in full time nursery. Being with them in their formative years is also no guarantee of future good behaviour....just look at my DS . As for the nursery itself; I do think that parents have an inbuilt sense of what is and isn't right in a nursery, and if it feels right and she is happy to be left there, and chirpy when you pick her up, then she is most probably doing OK.

These nursery scare stories come around every so often; like dog attacks, nothing for ages and then twenty stories at once. I'm sure there are bad nurseries, but the majority of them are just fine

Meaning the guilt thing

That is very true FF....and the manager of our baby room is lovely and have plenty of staff. DD loves it there