June 2007 - the thread where everybody is healthy, has had a great night's sleep and fits into all their old clothes again.

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Here we go. I was too sick, sleepy and preoccupied with my weight to notice the old thread running out

Do you have SATS this week then T?

DS1 is in yr6 and I am a bit because maybe we're encouraging him to not take it seriously enough. Of course I am a bit miffed that the final dyslexia tests didn't get done before the SATS, but I had a feeling it wouldn't get done til he moves up in Sept. Sorry, not a rant about teachers, just an observation about DS1. I would love to teach, and I think I would choose that age group too. Littlies frighten me!

Evening!
So where are Tallulah and Izzy based then? We've had glorious weather again today (Herts).
Jammy I wish I'd thought of the water play in the garden! I shall do that tomorrow if its nice!

Glad to hear that you do like your job Tallulah! So is hubby working from home now or is he on a break post Oz?

Not sure what SATS are? Is that like National Tests? We have our own system here - the kids can be tested at any time, as and when the teacher thinks each individual is ready to move on a level (in theory). I really enjoy this age group, can't stand teaching infants, so demanding & always crying & wetting their pants. They are gorgeous indivdually but on masse give me nightmares.

DH not working. We will go back to Oz @ end of term & he will go back to work there. DD & I will come back in Aug for new term & she will go to some sort of childcare. DH will stay & work & return here at some point. Is my life really this complicated???? Am in Glasgow, btw.

lol tallulah, and I thought my DH's weekly commute was hard enough. Do you not want to move out to Oz permanently?

SATs are standard aptitude tests; done in yr 6 and seem to be the benchmark by which a lot of parents judge the local schools. I don't really agree with testing for primary school children, but other than home schooling (which I don't have the patience for), there isn't a way out of it. Hopefully by the time DS gets there the system will have changed again.

Evening all,

Hope you are all well. DD is still yelling in her cot . Getting her to sleep is so much harder since she has discovered how to get up from lying down, and we keep coming in to find her in all kinds of positions!

Really missing having a garden. When the weather is like this I feel immense pressure to "get out and enjoy it" compounded by the fact that it is DH's and I's only day off together. But while there are loads of parks nearby it's such a faff getting together blankets, snacks, water, suncream, reading material, toys, sun hat etc. whereas if we had a garden we could just go out and make the most of it, and DH and I could have a glass of wine in the evenings in the fresh air.

We are arguing a lot again at the mo as I am so grouchy from feeling so tired all the time. Just don't know what to do to make it better.

DKMA you're on thyroxine? How much and do you feel better on it?

So you & DD will be in Glasgow and DH in Oz? That's a long way apart! Or have I got it completely wrong?

sorry for your troubles bumper.

Thanks daisy, I wondered what SAT meant too. I have told DS not to worry and just try his best. At the end of the day it's his GCSEs that matter, and a lot can change once they get to secondary school, so we'll try to save the stressing for then.

Ria have you tried this for inspiration?

T that sounds complicated! Does mean you are going to be on your own (again?) for a while?

That's right Jammy. Crazy eh?

Hi Bumper. I saw your lighthearted thread about the inappropriate book. God, people are bitchy on here. I am too much of a scaredy-cat to post elsewhere, always someone ready to jump down your throat.

what was Bumper's thread?

Wow Tallulah - very complicated!! (But I'd love to go to Oz!).
How funny Bumper about DD standing in the cot - I remember when dd1 did that the first time, it was such a shock!!

My bargains at the boot sale today for DD - were: a Mamas and Papas lovely cardi for 50p, a Whoozit toy for 50p, a little tikes piano for £1 and some leather soft shoes from Monsoon for 50p. Oh I do love a bargain!!

Question for you - just out of interest - did any of you do that little "job" answering questions online ? and if so - did It make you much £? Not that I wanted to do it, but a few of you were talking about it a while back and I never heard any more.

sorry DD isn't sleeping well again bumper. DD has good days and bad days. We mostly just leave her to cry it out now . She also gets into some unlikely posisitons. She is usally facing the bottom of the bed, on her knees with her bum in the air.
I wish I had some advice on dealing with your DH for you, but relationship expert I am not! Dh and I are rubbing along together but there is a definate shift in our relationship since the handbag incident.....it doesn't help that every time he tried to give me a cuddle I just let out a yelp!

bumper, I thought the silly grinning smileys gave away your thoughts on the book, but maybe that's just cos I know you! it seems people always get flamed by someone on here, no matter how flippant the OP!

I am of your boot sale. I was very disappointed about ours.

thanks for that bumper!

Will try & find it for you Jammy.

My little minx managed to escape from her grobag at nap time. When I went in she was sitting up in the cot shouting her head off dressed only in a nappy. The sleeping bag was discarded at the bottom of the cot- still zipped up completely, she must have undid the studs at the top & wriggled her way out.

gawd jbm, we have that piano (if it's the one with four keys) and it is the most irritating thing we have as you can't make a tune on it at all!! DD not surprisingly loves it to bits.

good bargains though.

We dug out DSs ride-on/push along thing on Saturday and she really got the hang of it very quickly, but she was getting annoyed as it has an anti-tilt thing that kept getting stuck on the grass.

that's pretty impressive tallulah.....sounds like you have a right little houdini there!

There's a toy piano at our children's centre, which only has 4 or 5 keys. i was VERY impressed when I heard a toddler playing a really good tune on it. But later when I got to play with it myself, I found that it doesn't matter what keys you press, the tune plays automatically!

bumper's thread

JBM I love a bargain - well done!

T sounds like you have a houdini on your hands

Daisy, DH and I are ok, it's mostly me being a bitch, but I just can't stop it. I'm desperate to find that there is something wrong with me rather than I am just an intolerant grumpy cowbag. Daisy I remember a certain posting about you and DH when you were pg with DD Is it out of character for him? Do you think he gets pregnancy hormones? seriously though, do you think it makes him feel out of control or something.

As to the thread, I have been going about the rest of the boards long enough to just about stand up for myself, after all, what's the worst that can happen? Tis very unlike me in RL, totally non-confrontational.

It was all a little pointless I think. Obviously you were joking bumper. Don't think I'll get one for baggins though, I might have to explain why other ladies have handbags and mummy doesn't

(though I have now! I have at least 3. Only because DM said something along the lines of my arse is big enough without stuffing my jeans pockets)

Nice Ria, maybe you should stuff her mouth next time she says something like that!

bumper, you have a good memory yes it's very out of character, but tbh, it is more about me and my depressed, emotionally wobbly, hormonal panic attacks pushing him to the absolute limit . I am a right ole mare when pregnant.....obviously

I still hate it when I get challenged on other threads, although my skin is a lot thicker than it was when I started posting. I was surprised at flame though, she is usually very nice, but she is sunburned today so probably in a bad mood!

Yep Bumper - I thought you did stand up for yourself admirably.

Sounds like you are just so tired. I feel like I haven't slept properly in well over a year. DD sleeps through, has for ages, but she's still in our room so the snoring, snorting, snuffling & farting does tend to disturb me especially when there's 2 of them doing it!

at your mum Ria.......

mind you, mine used to say stuff like that too!