June 2007 - whoever said 9 months on 9 months off needs a slap!

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Well?

Oh, DD took her first aided steps today...and I missed it because I was on MN

she had pulled herself up on her highchair and was walking it across the floor. I could hear the legs scraping from the other room, but thought she was pushing it. she started getting really cross and shouty, an when I went through she had moved it about three feet. I think it was getting away from her and she got a bit panicky.

Aww well done to your DD Daisy!

Well done DD! It's amazing what they will use as a walker. I turned round yesterday to see DS pushing DD's plastic play kitchen along

daisy. I wouldn't worry too much (well "I" would, just like you are, but we shouldn't.) stick with your plan. Don't employers get subsidised for SSP anyway. And as you haven't been there they must have had someone to do your job, can't that person carry on? sorry about your MS.

FF the only reason we never leave our DCs is because I can't be arsed to go out. You're planning to leave them with people who care for them and will enjoy their company. If you will enjoy yourself go for it would be my advice.

I'm off to put DS2 to bed. The excitement has been too much for him.

DD was stood up in her travel cot/ play pen today. I don't know how she managed it as the sides are really high! She's been pulling herself up for a while but the bars are too high for her to do it in her play pen.

cheers Ria, that has put some perspective on it. Yes, SSP and SMP gets reimbursed to them by 90%, so it'll only cost them a tenner a week effectively (god am i that cheap )

Hope you've had a good day.

how is the spotty one btw?

also if you aren't ever planning to go back to that particular workplace there's no need to keep them sweet (says the human fecking doormat - please wipe your feet on me)

DS2s scabs appear to be falling off (he's not itchy now thank goodness as he hated the calomine) but I haven't seen any of them. It's a bit eewww to think where they are going. He fell and banged his face on the fireguard tonight, just on his eye socket. He did get very over-excited on my behalf (I think the GPs found them both exhausting tonight - they haven't seen them for weeks now and it's usually every day), so he's getting better spotty-wise, but he's still not himself at all. Thanks for asking.

sorry about the delay in post there - I had to walk away from the PC and indulge in some therapeutic, calming cutlery polishing.

Sorry to go on, but had another email from "friend". She has SO out-asserted me. The fecking little rats are coming tomorrow evening and would it be ok if she collected them NEXT Saturday. TENS FECKING DAYS. how is that "over the weekend"? Sorry to rant (I would rant to my mum but currently I only want to use words that begin with F). I wish we were going away mid-week, it would serve her right for not having the decency to ask before. Can't bloody stop to chat apparently because she has a list of "worries" but can happily do this to me by email. I wish I dealt in home truths. I want to be an old lady!!!!!!!!

Talking of old ladies" can people over 60 get glandular fever? (DM still not feeling well - I am only just having my first glass of wine).

Oh Ria, tell her that is not on and she is fecking taking advantage....although it sounds like this may be her homework, lol.

Why do you need to have them for so long if she is only away for the weekend?

LOL at the therapeutic cutlery polishing. I was remembering your mad cleaning frenzy last year when we were all getting too pregnant to do any cleaning

Am off to bed; my feet are so cold I can't feel them any more.

Ria, how about offering to take them back to her house when she gets back (assuming she isn't actually away for 10 days). Hopefully she'll feel guilty and come and get them. Meanwhile think of a favour you can ask her.

I can't really talk though as I usually go away and leave my dog for the neighbour to feed, with about 2 days notice .

The weather here today is bogging.

Morning all

Daisy.... about work....sounds like a good plan to me though...as someone else said you don't owe them anything, you think of yourself and your family......would love to be a fly on the wall when your boss finds out you're pg and signed off.......presumably when you're signed off and not on mat leave you'll go back to full pay? And again when you start your mat leave for a little while?

glad you had a good birthday Ria....when I turned 30, I started using Oil of Ulay (as it was called in those days ...and now I'm staring 40 in the face I have changed from the brassy blonde look to a mid-brown so I can grow old gracefully....

FFS about the rats.....I would tell her to feck off I have to say....its taking the piss!

Well DD had another fever over the weekend and I got a taste of what it feels like last night....my temp was 38.8 and I felt like shit. Took some paracetamol and went to bed and temp now 38.1 and I feel a lot better...so god knows what she must feel like when it gets to 40 degrees!

Off to lunch with a mummy friend today and don't go back to work until 1st April

thanks guys. You are so much nicer than some people I know.
Apparently they are going away for the full 10 days, but I didn't know this until last night, I suppose I assumed it was just the weekend because they are at one place for the weelend and then going on somewhere else for the rest of the week. If it was going to their house to feed them (guines pigs BTW, I was being childish) I wouldn't be bothered, but it's the same indoor pets that outstayed their agreed welcome at christmas that have to go in my conservatory so we can keep them away from my poor cat (Maybe I could book him into a cattery and give her the bill?)

I have been awake all bloody night trying to work out out to deal with it. I feel I need to say something, otherwise it will keep happening, but my gut instict is to be childish, and I an an ADULT now. I really don't want to be her friend anymore, but I can't do that because her DC is (sadly) one of DS1s best friends and he hasn't got enough for me to mess up his life. I am leaning towards blatant sarcasm but I don't know if I dare.

The weather is poo here, just in time for the bank holiday! Do everyone else's big kids finish school today?
Sorry you feel ill norty, there's some awful stuff going about.

Ria - do say something......can you say you won't be able to do this again cos your cat nearly got to them and you would hate for them to come home to no guinea-pigs? Can you not go round there and feed them? Not fair on you, the cat or the guinea-pigs.

Your DSs relationship with her DS will sort itself out - shouldn't worry about that....need to gradually distance yourself....selfish cow (her not you

Right, gotta wake up DD and get out of here!

later x

When I was little we left our guinea pig with some neighbours when we went on holiday, and it had a heart attack and died, just a thought.

Seriously though, don't let a couple of stupid guinea pigs sour your life, shove them in the garage and give your DS (as he was the one that agreed to take them) full responsibility, he is old enough. Hey presto, not your problem anymore.

Me too - or I'm working on it. I will become an "assertive person".

Thanks norty - have a great day.

I'm off back to bed for a bit with my very sore back.

Just off to get DH to read my sarcastic email before I press send

Have a nice day everyone.

morning

I've just been on the phone to DH and DD was scuttling around on the floor in the hall. I was only on to him for less than a minute and when I went out to see what DD was up to, she was halfway up the bloody stairs , but also at how clever she is.

We've had the stair gates out for ages but just haven't got around to fitting them. No1 job to do this weekend I think

ria, are there no boarding kennels for guinea pigs then? I'm sure the cattery we use will take in rabbits and guinea pigs as well. And why does she want you to keep them for over a week?

norty, sorry you're feeling so crap. I hope DD is better now as well.

good idea sputnik, about the garage that is, not the heart attack.

(actually I was thinking let the cat plague them for a week, but that would be too cruel (I am an animal lover, honestly); it's not the poor guinea pigs fault their owner is a twonk)

grrrrrrr for you Ria. I'd definitely say that this is the last time that you can have them, and put them in the garage and come up with a reallu inconvenient 'favour' that she can do for you in return.

I hope you feel better soon Norty. We really must get this thread deep-cleaned, I'm sure we're cross-infecting each other

at DD Daisy. What a clever girl though. Thankfully we never took stairgates, etc down from DD. We don't ever shut the downstairs one though, maybe it's time we started again.

I am nice and calm now (and ever so slightly guilty because I sent a "jokey" email with a few choice comments in it). Sorry to be so pathetic.Perhaps I need to do some cleaning...

Our babies are so clever aren't they. And what a pain it is!

I am off now, honest.

Tell her you've joined Animal Liberation, and that you will free them to join their friends in nature

Daisy, WOW! What a clever girl.

Bummer about work. If you can get signed off sick, then go back on Maternity Leave you could avoid it altogether. Any redundancies going there?

Unfortunately no redundancies foxy. They are soooo busy and can't get any staff (their reputation as being hard taskmasters who pay shite preceeds them!)

DD is "helping" me with the stair gates (The tool box is the most fascinating thing in the world don't you know!). I had an idea that I could have it fitted in a jiffy. I've just dug all the bits out, and even though I installed them in my flat when DS was little, it was 5 years ago, and there are no instructions anymore. I can't even figure out which way up the damn things go. Thankfully the lovely lady at BabyDan is sending me the instructions so we should get them tomorrow.......if there is a devlivery tomorrow being a holiday?

Bloody hell, just spent a fun hour with DD designing t-shirts and virtually shopping on this site, you can choose colours, text, various prints. If I hit the "Order" button we are ruined!

Hiya Foxy, how's it going?

Hi Sputnik! I'm OK thanks. How are things with you?

We've been mad-busy. Just life stepping up a gear again.

Daisy, is it a surveying company you work for?

BTW Annobal sends her love to you all. I spoke to her this morning. She is busy, busy, busy. And then busy some more.