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BumperliciousIsStillNotDressed · 14/03/2008 21:27

Well?

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justplainoldRia · 15/03/2008 21:22

Good night all. Tomorrow will be a brighter day. It will...

EasterBunnylicious · 15/03/2008 21:23

Oooh ria hope you have a fab birthday. Mine is in a couple of weeks, I'll be 27.

Izzybel · 15/03/2008 21:49

Hey. Back again!
Glad you are all getting things off your chest on here. Good to .
Fury, that sounds so scary. Glad your DS seems better. I really hope that you don't have to go through anymore .
Ooh happy birthday for Wednesday Ria. Hope you have a lovely day.

DD was so knackered tonight, she wouldn't have her tea and only had half of her bottle. She just screamed the whole time. She was screaming in bed aswell, which really isn't like her, she usually just plays for a bit and then drops off by herself. Overtired methinks. I usually give her plenty of sleep during the day, but today she has had nothing.

EasterBunnylicious · 15/03/2008 21:55

It's ironic isn't it Izzy, the less sleep they get the harder they are to get to sleep!

lackaDAISYcal · 15/03/2008 22:04

has everyone gone?

It's taken me an age to catch up.

Norty, you sound like you are having a tough time of it at the moment and I so know how you feel wrt parents. when I've had a meltdown with DS, it brings back my own childhood to me as I remember my mum melting down at me and just how flipping terrified I was. We never got on, she was ill after I was born and I was practically raised by my big sister for the first five years of my life and mum and I never really bonded. We did get over that in later years and latterly we had a very good relationship, if a bit volatile at times, but I vividly remember a LOT from my childhood and am so terrified of DS hating me the way that I felt I hated her when I was little. Anyway, for me it is about turning into her and I really don't want that to happen.....sorry if that all sounds self indulgent

fury, sounds like a very scary expereince with DS but sooo glad he is OK. You guys deserve a break healwise, you really do. DS spilt his head open two weeks after I started back at work ans spent his 2nd birthday in the Sick Kids hospital in theatre being stitched up.. Talk about feeling guitly at going back to work! I also struggled a bit with the binding with DD. With DS it was instant, but with Em I think I'd had such a horrible emotional pregnancy and I was worried about Down's that I just didn't feel that rush. Being in hospital alone with her in our wee room for a few days changed all that, but the love I have for her isn;t nealry as intense as that for DS. It's growing all the time though!

....although not today when she farking bit me again. This was at 3:30 and my nipple is still sore. I gave her a bottle tonight as I just couldn;t face it again. she's teething, but still.....

fairy, glad you saw someone and that it's put your mind at rest. fingers crossed he starts to feel better soon.

foxy....just great big hugs and some virtual tea and cake for you

families are odd. I can laready feel the distance between my sisters and I, and it's only been two months since mum died. I have phoned them both several times, and have had one call from each of them in return. My sis sent a cheque with my share of mum's estate and couldn't even be bothered putting in a card, or even a note...it was just a cheque. That shocked me a little.

I am the queen of the marked down meat/ready meal. I feel the whole shopping trip has been wasted if there is nothing there . Steak is the best as it's usually nice and mature and just ready for eating when it's on its date.

jammy and bumoer your meals sound delicious. We had farking expensive gastropub stuff from M&S that was very disappointing. jammy you'll have interesting nappies tomorrow after beetroot

lolling at the garden shed mhc

any more......bloody hell it's been bust on here today.

DS and Dh are doing the Sport Relief mile tomorrow. DS is beside himself with excitement.

lackaDAISYcal · 15/03/2008 22:05

god that was a long post

izzy could it be teething?

LittleMissNorty · 15/03/2008 22:19

Hi Daisy, I'm here - but not for long...

That's really sad about your sisters....but its very much like that here...my dad definitely "held things together"....just goes to show that my family is now DH and DD...I have found as an adult that as my own family gets larger, people drop off around the periphery IYKWIM....not just through passing away, but also not seeing as often etc...I've got a lot of aunts / uncles and cousins and more distant family that I never see any more.

I am beginning to find myself thinking about how DD will think of me and my mothering skills when she's older and comparing myself to my mum...

Fury you poor thing....sounds very scary...it does seem that babies are contstantly ill around this age doesn't it....is it their age, or the time of year? Not sure?

LittleMissNorty · 15/03/2008 22:22

The saying "you can't choose your family but you can choose your friends" is very true isn't it? Especially here it would seem.....you lot are very good to me, even though I haven't met (some of) you, I want you to know how much it is appreciated.

I can say things on here that I can never talk about normally and getting things off my chest makes me feel so much better..

so THANKS x

lackaDAISYcal · 15/03/2008 22:24

norty, I'm sure she will think you are a lovely mum

thankfully here we have a few very close friends whose families are in other towns as well, so we are like a big extended family and have big "family" roast dinners every so often. Today I spent the day sat on a friend's sofa eating cake whilst DH helped our other friends (they live a few doors away from each other) dig a big hole in their garden...in the pissing rain!

Our neighbour's have left their dog in the garden and it has been barking incessantly for about two hours. They have until 10:30 and then I'm going over.

Izzybel · 15/03/2008 22:25

Wow Daisy! I think you get the prize for longest post on the thread!
Yes it could be teething, I s'pose. She keeps chewing her fingers at the backs of her gums. She's already got 8 teeth, 4 top and 4 bottom!
Families are weird aren't they. I couldn't agree more!
My dad was one of 7 and none of his brothers or sisters have stayed in touch since he died.
I keep bumping into my uncle in town and we were talking about him. He didn't even realise that it had been 11 years! His own brother

lackaDAISYcal · 15/03/2008 22:25

...well, I'll send DH over

LittleMissNorty · 15/03/2008 22:28

God that's is so annoying ...have they gone out & left the dog outside? I never let my dog bark outside...too many young kids trying to sleep (including mine)!

Sounds good about your extended family . We moved out of the area about 4 years ago so don't know anyone round here really. We both work in different towns as well. I'm still learning the road names and how to get into town

LittleMissNorty · 15/03/2008 22:31

Hello Izzy, blimey 8 teeth! My DD only has 2, but she was still able to polish off a 2 egg omelette and 2 slices of toast and butter for her tea ...she stuffed herself so much, she couldn't eat her pudding

Izzybel · 15/03/2008 22:33

My dog is pretty quiet. Except when DP is pretending to batter me, she starts joining in. Not sure if she is trying to protect me or joining in .

It sounds good that you have lots of friends, Daisy.
Norty, I have lived in this town 24 years and I'm still learning road names my sense of direction etc is crap!!!!

LittleMissNorty · 15/03/2008 22:34

Our dog is a daddy's dog, and when I give DH a cuddle or sit on his lap he barks and tries to join us

Izzybel · 15/03/2008 22:36

Aww, I think they're so cute when they've got two little bottom teeth.
DD has got such a funny smile now, it always cracks me up!

Izzybel · 15/03/2008 22:36

What kind of dog is it?

lackaDAISYcal · 15/03/2008 22:39

eight teeth....wow! It could be her premolars then

I'm crap with road names and diorections. I used to get lost everytime I went out on a site visit/survey at work. I bought a SAT NAV and still managed to get lost , but less lost than without it iyswim

LittleMissNorty · 15/03/2008 22:41

Got a huge black labrador...whose currently lying in his basket snoring his head off whilst DH watches some crap on "Men & Motors" ...

I'm off to bed, night all x

lackaDAISYcal · 15/03/2008 22:41

It's a Westie I think (small white terrier thing)...so very yappy. They are only one step up from Yorkshire terriers on the rat scale imo.

lackaDAISYcal · 15/03/2008 22:42

oh, you were asking norty weren't you

am off too.....DH making come to bed noises!

Izzybel · 15/03/2008 22:45

Night Norty!
Ooh labradors are lovely.
Yes Westies are very yappy!
Did dog grooming for a couple of weeks when first pg with DD. Was grooming a Westie and the thing never shut up!

Izzybel · 15/03/2008 22:46

Night Daisy!

EasterBunnylicious · 16/03/2008 04:43

Grrr remind me why we have kids again? DD woke up at 3am and refused to go back to sleep. We bought her into our bed but I got so fed up with her I have come to sleep on the sofa, I can't get back to sleep. V fucked off. Supposed to be my turn for a lie-in too

Don't know what the hell is wrong with her at the moment. This is the 4th time this week.

justplainoldRia · 16/03/2008 08:23

maybe you'll get a quality "back to bed lie-in" later?

I have spent the night in the single bed with the spotty one. The last thing I feel like doing now is painting, so maybe I won't! All hell will break loose when they find out they are swapping rooms. I am torn between a really pale grey or a really pale blue for 3 walls, with a "feature" wall painted in a camouflage pattern, which was going to be blue but I can't get the duvet set to match. DS2 wants his room to be orange.
It's all speculation though because we're not spending unneccesarily until we find out what's happening. The annoying thing is when we can afford it it won't get done cos DH will probably be working and I'm sure I can't cope with the kids and decorating by myself.

Hmm, not as cheery as I intended to be. I'm going to piss off until I'm more jolly...

Have a good day everyone!

Good luck to DH & DS daisy - is it in Roundhay Park?

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