The one where the May 07 babies start turning ONE!!!

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Hi Ladies, it said we needed a new thread

Yes SOH, a pile of poo that no touching rule. I mean as if. DH tis very nice when someone comes in hoovers your cabin and refreshes his coffee cup, hope thats all they are doing The 'Lusty' is shocking, the HMS Chatham is all 'Up and at em' malarky too, bonkers.

Shame we cant get on board for a scoosh round at the weekend. May have to set it for next time. J would love that would he not?

I am not doing cleaning, or washing. I cant. SOH is going to have to be mother at the weekend i am officially crappola.

You are a pusher, all pushers come from the country They have nothing else to do

Salty things noted, i ate the oodon with lots of soy. I want some more and we are all out

PPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPP alert!

DD is clearly g+t. She has just pushed the magazine rack over to the dining table, climbed up and retrieved a banana from the fruit bowl. She then climbed back down, peeled and ate said item of fruit, took the peel to the bin and almost put it in (a minor blip, we can work on the attention to detail), said "nana yum yum" and then went to put the magazine rack back.

Sod tables and precocious reading, my (clearly under-nourished) child can forage for food.

J would pop. I can do mothering, you can sit and cuddle my child genius.

Perhaps we could just let M be mother!

Perfick. She's just been and got another banana and I told her 'no'. She pushed it in my mouth and said 'mama mama yum yum'. Will have her brewing an earl grey by the weekend.

Home ed???? You guys are bonkers, its the only time in the day I get any peace and quiet and my dc absolutely adddooooorrreee going to school, even J loves going there, he has a tantrum when I tell him its time to go

TYG, poor you and S. I have no words of wisdom and will be coming to you for yours 7 years hence. I remember being a teen vividly. I just wanted to be the most popular and everyone to like me, especially the ultra cool and slightly rebellious girl. I wasn't a geek but I was a slave to authority (you are talking Head Girl here) and should have just learned to chill a bit. I do wish my mum had just hugged me more often and said that it was ok to feel like crap/upset/lacking in confidence/sensible. But she didn't seem to have much time. I guess you need to sit down and try and have a heart to heart, for her to realise just what the boundaries are and why they are important to you, respect and safety mainly I should think. Could she also be feeling a little put out about your growing family? I came to resent the amount of babysitting I had to do..(youngest sis is 10 years younger).

As for you SOH, I'm afraid M as a teen will turn into a bottle blondie, sporting a load of slap and wearing mini skirts, high heels and no coat in winter, just to annoy her mother. Her brother though will be the most loving of all sons, an avid festival goer and will play the cello like an old long lost schoolfriend

Oh God that cello playing. I wanted to be that cello. He closed his eyes when he played. He still plays now. I couldn't watch as he's gone from beautiful, innocent school friend to rather sexy and I don't want to taint the memory. School would have been so much easier if he'd held my hand.

Will only home-ed till she's 6 or 7 and will take her to lots of groups for interaction and stuff. I'm a lentil weaver, did you expect anything less of me.

Cam, you'll have to teach make-up to her, I don't partake. As DH told me on our first date 'you're not very feminine'.

my dh once told me my backside was like a firm blancmange

Hmmmm make-up, I think you are looking at the wrong lady, I can do mascara?? I have one hour for myself and 3 dc to get up, feed, dress, pick up school bags, and get out the door, dodging muddy paws(I really need to leave just before 8, but weirdly I always leave at 8.06, every bloody day, no matter what I do, I think I am a time warp vacuum) sometimes I don't even brush my hair. I may be the wrong person to consult about grooming. Now Pink, she would be perfect on leaving the house.

dd is 6 nearly 7, if she was at home all the time, one of us would end up living permanently in garage in a gibbering heap, and it wouldn't be her.

I've met your dd. She was divine and mild-mannered.

And I've met you too. You're exceedingly glamourous and very pretty and as her MIL it's your duty to mould M into something suitable for J.

PJ isn't going anywhere near M, she'd be dressed in that colour and I'm exceedingly allergic to it.

I don't think dh has ever seen my bottom, I've spent 9 years turning out the light.

Well, we have returned, with new shoes for Charlotte. Went into Buckles and got a lovely white patent leather pair, I'm now skint of course because childrens shoes cost a ridiculous ammount of money! I got her the second pair you can view here. They're made by Op baby who I'd never heard of before but are apparently very good. £34.00! She'll get 8 weeks out of them if I'm lucky. I hope I can sell them on ebay when she's done with them!

*Baby OP!

Aaah that's her 'how to be charming to everyone in public' persona. She has it down to a tee. It washes off quickly when she passes through the front door.

Actually with her its the endless stream of questions. I know its a good thing, but when driving for two hours today along the world's most treacherous highway, in mist and rain, dodging potholes, corrupt policemen and escaping goats, without dh, I can do without trying to answer why petrol is a necessity for a car engine to work. She loves a good encyclopaedia though. She doesn't love football though and was, frankly, totally rubbish at the football tournament we drove 4 hours to get to. Her and her friend Cara spent the whole time giggling in the corner and backing off when the ball approached. That's my girl

As M's MIL I promise to teach her lots of useful things like, how to make royal icing, how to pee discreetly in the open air, how to get out sea urchin spines painlessly. Important useful kind of things.

4 hours in the car today, and J was fantastic. We fed him breadsticks continuously and sang along to a nursery rhymes cd, all of us. So, good luck on Friday.

SOH I will make all the home ed mistakes and you can get it right

LW the shoes are lovely, you may be lucky dd has very slow growing feet and her shoes last ages

CAM my dd is an information sponge, it is great but it really drives me nuts sometimes and i end up shouting BECAUSE IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!, well done on successful car trip

Hi everyone it is a lovely rainy day here, and I've spent most of it in front of the stove. I'm making dh his favorite meal, and it takes about 5 hours.

Cruz is so funny and thinks I'm the coolest because we played peek-a-boo for a while. It never gets old with that kid. I can't believe he'll be one on Friday. It has gone by so fast.

Well Cruz's birthday party is going to be very small. Some family can't come, and then my sil said she's not up for a party now. In the end it will be nice because we can have a quiet day. It's our anniversary on Saturday too. 5 years and counting. 5 of the longest years of my life (ball and chain emoticon). And if dh forgets again this year . . . heads will roll.

White shoes! A would have them scuffed to bits in about 5 seconds.

S being much more reasonable today. I suggested friends come for a sleepover another night instead of her going the night of her party and she was ok with that and understood where I was coming from.

I also managed to glean that the "cooler" mates also socialise with her old friends - they're all in the same class and two groups have come together, rather than one set getting dumped so that's a weight off my mind at least.

Waves as flits in and out as knackered today and getting an early night. Been laying flooring all day and trying to organise stopping off work a bit longer and moving house. Obv important things like broadband connection to ensure no break to MNetting.

Sorry not caught up. Take care will catch up over weekend hopefully.
Night night CM. [yawning emoticon]

Thanks for all the comments on my predicament. Have emailed J's step-Aunty and said that I would be willing to send some photos and an update so will play it by ear. It will be interesting to see if J's granparents still live at their old address because I got in touch last Jan when J was having tests for his seizures, the dr's needed the medical history from his dads side to help them find the cause of the fits but I never heard anything from them. I hope it turns out that they had moved otherwise it means they blatantly ignored J's medical needs

I took E into town today to buy the last few bits for Alana and Jordan's birthdays and still came home without some of it I got a bit carried away with present buying and then realised once I had got home that I had nothing to wrap them up in, none of the plates, cups etc for the party, E still needs to choose cards for them and although Alana has enough banners and balloons to cover the entire house in I forgot to get some for Jordan Ethan chose a bath toy from the ELC to give Alana, its a pump shower thingy (im sure he chose it because he liked the look of it lol)

LATL I too am having a major tidy up ahead of Alana's party. Have a pile of ironing to do which I keep looking at and then walking away, I think Im waiting for the ironing fairy to do it for me Ive told dh that I need him to sort out the garden and put the trampoline and gazebo up before Thursday afternoon, Im hoping it will be nice and therefore the children can all eat and play outside which means less tidying up for me once they have all gone

Who was it that used to love New Kids? I did too. I used to spend hours ogling Jordan Knight (and no that is not who my son is named after lol) I think I still have their book and probably a couple of tapes too If you find out they are doing a concert over here can you let me know, didnt get the chance to see them first time around, would be great to re-live my youth one last time

Does anyone remember the NKOTB Christmas album?

I used to love Jordan too. I can probably remember all the words to Hangin' Tough.

Won't be going to see any reunion though...

Bleurgh to NKOTB, i was never in to the boy band scene. I think i may have just missed it, i was probably in to snogging and Merrydown cider when they came out

Wise move on the info Pebble, it would only turn in to a 'what if' scenario for J when he is older otherwise. The party planning sounds erm fun.

Beau will be getting a cake (possibly, i am still heaving) and my in laws and sil and bil are coming to see him and of course he will have M to play with Thats enough, right?

TYG glad S is realising what the greater imlications are. It is a hassle i am sure you could do without. Did you join and antenatal group on here for the wee chap? I have posted (dont tell SOH) but cant really get in to it.

Lups how are you feeling?

LW white shoes!!! I echo the from TYG

Cam you are bonkers, i think you should return to blighty at once. The road to school does not sound fun and far too scary. How on earth do you manage? I picture sun and fun for you but it's not really like that i suppose. Be careful [worried emoticon]

Loss adjuster coming in 15 mins. I feel a bit sick. It's not even the money, it's not the end of the world if the insurance doesn't pay (two of the three stolen laptops were on their last legs anyway, for example), but I'm afraid of saying something wrong and it being MY fault that they don't pay as opposed to "b'stard insurance company b'stards" type problem.

Made DD pancakes for birthday breakfast and managed to choose her something in Topshop ra-ra skirt (ffs!) and a couple of tops which she actually went and changed into for school. Not so out of touch after all!

Blardy DH though. Brought him coffee and woke him no fewer than three times to come down for breakfast with her and he kept falling back asleep and didn't see her at all. Then when I got cross with him after she'd gone to school, he said "Well, it's not like she acknowledged my last birthday." Flayed him for that (no child deserves to be ignored on birthday, intentional or not) and reminded him that he "forgot" to come home for her birthday dinner last year. Arrrgghh.

Another thing about teens... I find it irritating, but also mildly amusing when S raves to me about some band that I "probably wouldn't have heard of" and has to be reminded that they were around when she was a baby and yes, No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom album is fab - I owned it on TAPE the year she was born.

Hi all, flying visit to announce that I've joined lgt on January 2009 - scary and excited at the same time. I only just started trying as I felt under time pressure (will be 40 next summer).

Wow! Congratulations! That's great news.

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