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Feb '06 You know you've a 2 year old in the house when...

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EachPeachPearMum · 04/03/2008 21:37

the TV remote is in the freezer, your car keys are down the loo, and there are little smears of food at knee height down each corridor!

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CantSleepWontSleep · 14/03/2008 19:54

Am up at mum's now Jas. May get early night, but don't generally sleep well here.

DontDreamItBeIt · 14/03/2008 20:09

I talk to dp on the phone Saves wasting my evening trying to have a converstaion when he is shut in the kitchen!
Leaves me full conrol of the tv/mumsnet time.

I am trying to tidy up before bed, too but have more incentive as we sleep down here and I can't be tripping over toys on the way to the toilet in the night.

Well at the very least I hope you don't wake so early omorrow csws.

mustrunmore · 14/03/2008 20:15

Well, I have to tidy too Jas, as dl has taken to sleeping downstairs even though he has a perfectly adequate bedroom

flame, for what its worth, when I met your dh I thought he was lovely, and not overly quiet given that a strangr had taken root in his house I reckon we'd get on ok if we got to know each other, and I blanked out the computer obsesion!
BTW, you can still love me without needing to get divorced you know

Flamesparrow · 14/03/2008 20:31

just dropped plateful of dinner over the floor. was a special effort made one too

I cried, DH is eating what was on the floor

CantSleepWontSleep · 14/03/2008 20:34
Flamesparrow · 14/03/2008 20:44

I think he probably just decided it was an extra one of me

So you don't want naming in the divorce then???

mustrunmore · 14/03/2008 21:06

Dont get divorced; have the best of both worlds

Flamesparrow · 14/03/2008 21:20

it was nice - showed he realised how much effort I had put in (obv trying to save our marriage )

I have spoken to my mum and reassured her that MRM is just my bit on the side

mustrunmore · 14/03/2008 21:33

Hey. I want equal status, not just being on the side Just not having to actually financially contribute or anything of course.

Flamesparrow · 14/03/2008 21:37

How is telling my mum that you are more than a bit on the side going to put her mind at ease?

(Have you noticed that everyone else has stopped talking now? )

mustrunmore · 14/03/2008 21:46

Dunno. Just thinking of myself!

Frizbe · 14/03/2008 22:08

at the floor grazing. and at your on off visiting! I think your dh is lovely too Flame he's not that quiet? or did I just talk him to death

at Jas, do you shut your dh in the kitchen or does he stay there of his own accord?

Hope you do get some sleep CSWS and dd1 enjoys her time at Grans

Dd1 and I have been shopping tonight at the new westfield in Derby, our 1st girly shopping trip alone. Dd1 now has 2 new pairs of trousers in pink, two t-shirts in pink, pink leggings and a pink skirt her one exception was a brown hello kitty t-shirt, which I managed to sway her to, as she really wanted the 'orrible green my little pony t.......luckily she has better taste in sun dresses and will sway from pink slightly but I didn't let her buy any tonight, as too cold still.

SS has two new pairs of trousers, which he's not seen yet, and dh has a new pair of trainers (he never buys his own and we have same size feet, so easy to fit!)

DD1 most entranced by fashion show at the centre as well, sigh......but she did insist on going in Starbucks, to get 'mummy a coffee' so I've trained her well

Got home to find boiler broken and dh has still not done the ironing, due apparantly to dd2 playing him up (she was fast asleep )

DontDreamItBeIt · 14/03/2008 22:37

Your dd may yet outgrow the pink obsession, Frizbe. DD2 has (almost - she wants to paint her new room pink, even though she will be sharing with ds for a good while).
DP is allowed out of the kitchen, but the cigarettes and beer aren't

Really not sure what to say to Flame and mrm....get a room, maybe

Phoenix · 15/03/2008 11:01

Morning,

Ds likes pink too . He was pushing a pink pushchair round asda the other day. They also had 2 little motorbikes, 1 blue and red and 1 pink. You guessed it he went for the pink one

at flame/mrm getting a room.

Hope you had a good sleep csws or a lie in or both

Don't know what we're doing today yet dh wants to stay in and watch football but hopefully i'll get my way and we'll go out

CantSleepWontSleep · 15/03/2008 11:25

I woke at 5:30 . DD woke up at 6:40, but she went straight to see nanny, and just popped in intermittently to me, so I did get to rest a bit longer. Have had cooked breakfast. Everyone else has gone out (except dh), so we are off to have popcorn for lunch and see Vantage Point at the cinema. Will then pop back here for bags (dd may or may not be back by then), and go off to hotel for night.

I really like brown and pink together.

Flamesparrow · 15/03/2008 13:28

Brown and pink is nice together.

Its is me n MRM getting a room that is causing the problems

I had a nice lie in, followed by a bacon sandwich in bed. Off to my dad's in a bit with the children (currently playing in the bath.... DD won't get in the bath with DS unless he is in swimming nappy now )

Right, MRM - I need help. I have to start exercising. I have put on 1/2 stone. All of my clothes are too tight. I am on crash weightloss until 1st April (need to be back to normal size for the bra fitting), but after that I need to be sensible about doing it so I am just maintaining the size and hopefully getting a decent shape iyswim. I can't afford a gym. I feel foolish running round my lounge (and in public tbh, but I am slightly willing if I can do it in the dark ). Help!!! I think I may be ill... I don't like this whole wanting to exercise thing, it feels wrong, and it isn't just about losing the weight, I have felt like it for a while.

mustrunmore · 15/03/2008 14:18

Er,dont eat bacon butties in bed

God knows why you're asking me; I've only lost 1 lb in 2.5weeks, including being really really ill for 3 days
Lots of exercises you can do in your front room. I'd suggest def doing to music to keep you motivated, else it becomes a bit tedious. Maybe do a bit of cardio stuff, and then use some bottles of water for strength traininig to help metabolism. Crunches are going to be best for your belly unfortunately; I hate the soddingthings. But if you pulse them, its marginally more interesting.I'll email you later to stop everone else's boredom!

mustrunmore · 15/03/2008 14:20

But obviuosly the solution would be to move here. Hurray, an instant runnig partner, and then we wont need to fork out for our dodgy room

Flamesparrow · 15/03/2008 17:31

See I wasn't planning on the bacon buttie, it was brought to me and it would have been rude to say no. I have sod all will power too... cheeseballs jumped into my shopping earlier If I don't eat them then I have wasted money...

I have explained about moving to you before, but you are yet to give me a reasonable response to why you can't buy next door. Have you heard about schools yet anyway???

I got your text, but have no credit for you. I need to book my check up, but I'm scared.

mustrunmore · 15/03/2008 18:51

The house a few doors up is on the market. Got a spare £300,000 kicking around?

You need to have more babies and get yourself on our council waiting list.

Shuddering at your cheeseball fetish! Hope you're still treauring my peg

So out of the 11 DIY items for today, we got 1 done And not even very well, due to most of our front lawn being built on builders rubble, so its very tricky to plant privel out there.

Flamesparrow · 15/03/2008 19:08

privel?

No spare £300000, and not moving to you! You're coming here... how many times do I have to tell you?

mustrunmore · 15/03/2008 19:10

Er, privet.

Well, you have the added attraction of the sea

We find out if he has a school place on 18th April BTW. Get more and more worried already. Such a slim chance of getting1st or 2nd choice, not muchbettr of getting 3rd, which I'm not keen on anyway

Flamesparrow · 15/03/2008 19:13

Frizbe - do you have huge feet or him tiny feet???

I had forgotten that you had met DH too , but am at both you and MRM not finding him desperately quiet - my other friends seem to think he hates them because he doesn't say enough. Maybe they have very chatty outgoing husbands?

My moods have blipped today No idea why. A bit with DD for not doing her resting duvet day as planned! I could have been imposing on MRM! I am convinced that the st john's wort is helping DH though - he says it isn't having any effect, but I think he is thinking it will magically make him like his job/stop worrying about money etc, but I am seeing the old him coming back. I may have said all that a few days ago I remember a conv in rl, but not sure if I had it here too

mustrunmore · 15/03/2008 19:36

Maybe its because dh is quiet too (unless he's hungry, in which case the change in blood sugar sends him into a right temper!)

Flamesparrow · 15/03/2008 19:55

Very rarely seen DH in a temper... he knows it annoys me more to be calm