April 2007 - Onwards and Upwards, with a new catch up thread to help us keep up!

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Happy Birthday Erin and Jack!

Am stunned by last night - as big girls are away we put B in their room in the travel cot. She slept 8-8!! Nobody throw anything at me please So - the question is - will she do that again tonight???

NL, Wow! I was impressed with 8 till 6 without waking up crying - dp had to get up early anyway to get ready to leave for work at 7. Good luck for tonight.

Happy Birthday Jack and Erin

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY ERIN and JACK

Happy Birthday Erin & Jack!!

Wow NL - where are Big Girls!!? Hope she does - bodes well for that fabulous massive new house you are going to acquire soon!

Happy birthday Erin and Jack

DS' is 2 weeks tomorrow I have 14 children(including mine) here 2 weeks today so I ought to get party bags etc sorted soon

DH has taken dd tot he cinema. They've just got the bus into town. She'll be disappointed though as it was only mini bus sized, she likes big ones(double deckers)

I have lots I could do but not sure where to start. ds is napping and should be there for a couple of hours, yay

Happy birthday Erin & Jack

NL - Fantastic night. Hope it continues again tonight!

Eddas at 14 children for party!!
We shall be having a small family party. Be about 14 adults, not sure which is worse really!

Ring is gorgeous GM.

Dh has gone to work for most of the day So DC and I are still in pjs!

Hope everyone has a good day. xx

DH just gone out with older 2 and not a moment too soon ..... they are completely doing my head in .... argh!

Right, I am just doing a couple of work bits and then I want to actually "achieve" something in the house - cleaning the bathroon ..... I need lots of chastising and goading from you lots to get my arse in gear, please .....

ange, the adults are coming on the sunday for ds' bday

CD go clean

Are you all sitting down, i've just been cleaning my downstairs loo what a rare event smells all clean and bleachy in my house now

if you say so dippy

Had a cuppa now to get over the shock of actually doing some cleaning) Now off to put clean clotehs away and clean the bathroom dh will probably faint when he gets home Domestic godess I am not

Me neither!

I have just hoovered downstairs, put clothes away,put a load of washing on, loaded the dishwasher and cleaned the kitchen

DH will still find something I haven't done when he gets home

I too am not a domestic goddess

dh just rang, he and dd are currently in a wetherspoons having a burger and pint(dh) and curry and lemonade(dd) cute

Bless Well I didn't get round to the bathroom so will try to do tonight. Have made lunch for everyone though and just about to wash up etc then we are off to swimming. DD2 is being a complete nightmare today ..... I'll be glad when she's in bed (and its only 1pm )

hi everyone
Well DS is asleep so we have been moving wardrobes etc back - all the 2 person jobs are dne now I think.
Off to the tip soon, my life is just a whirlwind of glamour (although Eddas and Ange it sounds like yours comes close!)

wow my babies are 1 I was quite emotional this morning - think I am suprised that we have made the first year.

thank you for all their birthday greetings!!!!!

No, no - I insist - my life is waaaay more glamourous!!

.....and off swimming ......

Happy Birthay Erin and Jack!!!!!!

CONGRATS GMM!!! how totally fabulous await all the wedding planning, will give us all something to get excited about

Just received an invite to our friends' wedding today, it's a black and white photo of them from the neck to the knees (face on) with their arms behind their backs. then you open it and on the other side is the back view and shows their hands all chained up! It's really good

NL - what a great night . I am banning myself from more talk of our own nights for a while

I had a complete moment this morning of complete and utter boredom and frustration with my life. another saturday morning washing dishes and feeling the drudge of the usual house chores stretching out in front of me anyway, snapped myself out of it, got N and I ready and went into town to meet up with a friend. And had a lovely morning now having a quick coffee at home and off to see my folks.

no, honestly mine is so much more glamorous than any of yours

I went out earlier and bought ds' birthday present. A little ride nemo on car, so cute and not at all pink

Afternoon all

Nice sunny morning in the park meeting up with someone else who wants to make mummy friends but is at work full time in the week. Stopped at Mothercare on the way home and managed to get on to a bus and get the best seat possible with a buggy in tow, somewhere I assume I'm not going to be able to get on a bus on a Saturday afternoon, and just as the rain started.

Now about to venture out to seek more help from the very patient woman at the knitting group which meets in my local library.

Weeonion, I was so relieved by the end of this story - this thread was a fun read, wonder if it will show up in morningpaper's next roundup.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/2724/503839?stamp=080329150119

Hi allI've had a really nice day today - went over to Leeds for some shopping! This is a very rare event and I really enjoyed it.Got some dungarees for B that were in the Gap sale - they didn't have her size in York so I was really chuffed to see them in Leeds Trousers for me and spent my advantage card points on one of those baby towels that goes round your neck like an apron and you then cuddle and wrap the baby in it. Popped into Harvey Nicks as well - wold you believe they have a D&G bottle holder in there - for £49.50!!!!! The had the bottle to match but that didn't have a price on it! Anyway - think i'm more of an Armani girl

Good everybody seems to be having an ok kind of day so far. Dippy - hope dd2 shapes up a bit for you. Is she coming up on 3? Dd1 was a total pain around the 2 1/2 mark. Really, really disobedient and argumentative. She grew out of it - and is now utterly mortified at the thought! It;'s just their personalities growing out in one direction before the rest catches up. Very, very hard to deal with though.

Thanks NL Yes, she'll be 3 May 20th. SIgh.

Sigh indeed. The thing that sticks in my mind most about that time with dd1 is when we were on holiday. I was about five months pregnant and we'd been for a walk down a hill to the beach. Just got back to the top of the track and she turned tail and ran off. She stopped after about 25 yards and giggled. Wouldn't come back. I refused to chase after her and marched back to the car leaving dh to collar her. He bought her back and found me refusing to speak to her. That did seem to impress her a bit

Just realised I forgot to explain - my big girls are at my mum and dads for the week - miss them though

I am shattered and their party isn't until tuesday afternoon!!!!!!

weather here has been pants and it hasn't stopped raining all day

hows everyone else?