November 2007 - Sleeping babies, teething and dribble! Our babies are getting big!

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New thread here ladies.

hi Sam! Long time no see!

Sorry you've got the worry of Raimee's heart murmer. I hope everything turns out to be ok tho and it's just because she's poorly, if you know what i mean.

You are right about Monsoon's dresses being a bit expensive, but they only have their first birthdays once i suppose, dont they?!

Hi! LOM I've bought my present for exchange do I send it and remain a secret or do I sign the card from me and DD?

Febes - I think it would be nice to keep it secret but I don't mind if people don't want to.

Must go Dh thinks I'm packing for our weekend away

hiya!
rg- thanx, i really hope so. we had to take her back fri as her temp was back to normal but it was still there. ive been reading online and it seems that most murmurs are "innocent" so hopefully be ok. its just the waiting 5 weeks to find out. ooo im so excited about first birthday!! what is everyone doing? we're gonna have a little tea party on the weekend and hopefully a day out as well.

lom- hope you enjoy your weekend away!

has anyone been watching the family on ch4? i love it, am gutted its finished. the wedding has made me all excited again for our wedding in august. weve just picked a gorge villa in cyprus for our honeymoon in sept but gonna have to wait till everything else is paid for before can book it.

we're off to the little farm today to feed the animals, raimee is a proper little animal lover and gets so excited at each animal we see! so cute!!
Sam xx

LOM- secret it is. I like the idea of a secret .
Sam- How exciting a wedding. I loved our wedding day and wish I could do it again- with DH again of course. We had a very simple registery wedding with a party at the pub afterwards and no family just friends. We went on a 5 months world trip after though to meet each others families. Nearly 6 years ago now .

febes- that sounds brilliant! especially the world trip! where did you visit?you could always renew your vows!i think i would want to do it in the same dress once a year just to wear the dress again!! ours is going to be sort of small- 40 in the day and about 100 in the evening, we're getting married in the same church raimee was christened in. im really excited for it, though am pretty scared in case its not all paid off in time!

We went to South Afica- his family (2 months travelled around in a combi van). Australia for 4 days jst the sights in sydney then New Zealand to see my family. Then Raratonga in the pacific islands for 10 days (twas our affical honeymoon)
I always thought we would renew our vows but I loved our wedding day and it was perfect for us and even though it was a traditional wedding or what I thought I'd do I would change it for the world. DH is so shy that he would hate a big wedding with us as the centre of attention and having to give a speech. He is already stressing about doing a speech at Anabels wedding and she's not even 1 yet.

Will catch up properly 2moz. Just wanted to let you know- I'm handing my notice. Hooo effin ray !!!!!!!

LOM - woohooo!!! You lucky lucky bleeder!!!!

Loopy - Hmmm yeah i suppose i should get it because i might regret it if i dont. Besides, at £11.99, if it's rubbish there's not too much damage to my bank account is there?

Glad to hear that DD3 was better yesterday. DDs 1 & 2 sound like how me and my sister used to be haha! I remember however, that my (older) sister was always finding ways to hurt me or blame me for stuff i never did lol. Kids, eh?!!

LOM- thats great news I'll be joining you as a SAHM in April and I can't wait. I'm looking forward to enjoying my 2 babies.

Sam - Lovely to hear from you again. Sorry you've been having such a tough time. Hope all is well with Raimee. It must be worrying for you. Exciting news about your wedding though. When is it?

Well - since I started back to work I've really stressed and unhappy. I leave the house at 7 get home with T 4.30 - 5 put him to bed at half six and then usually have 2 hours work to do on each night I'm working. I'm knackered and not sleeping well. If I liked my job I could do it but I have so little motivation and I miss T. I respect the fact people do it but TBH it's like skydiving and morris dancing - I just don't want to!

DH has recently got a new job with a slight payrise and has taken on a bit of freelance work through a friend of ours. With that and some exam marking/ private tution and childminding from me ( not all at once) we'll be fine. We've always been happier when we've got lots of time and less money. I just had this horrible feeling that one day I'd wake up and t would be four and I would have spent the time in a stressed out exhausted blur and not remember anything.

I can't leave until Feb half term anyway but I'll actually go at Easter so I can finish everything off properly.

I'm feeling much more relaxed.

LOM - i know what you mean about feeling stressed. I can feel myself getting like that too. I dread Wednesdays now and i willing to bet that if i had a blood pressure monitor and took my BP on a Wednesday morning it would be through the roof! I leave the house at 7.30am and dont get home til about 7.15pm and by the time i get to see DD she's a very tired bunny and grumpy too. I see her for about 30 minutes or so and then she's off to bed. I hate it!

Rg - I was reading another thread earlier in which someone said that women had a moral oblugation to work as women had fought so hard to able to . imho in gaining the right to work women have lost the right not to. Now, as well as being the primary carers and homemakers, we now have hold down jobs too. It's bollocks. Surely equality is about having the freedom to make choices whatever they may be. > I think we should start up an MN hippy commune and keep goats and stuff, that would loads better.

BTW How come you work such long days. What do you do?

LOM - i totally agree with you!! It's my right NOT to work too. Dont get me wrong, before DD came along, i was working full time, plus grabbing all the overtime i could, but now that she's here i dont WANT to work all the hours that God sends! i want to spend all the time i can with her and bring her up to be a decent human being.

I work as a legal secretary in london so have to commute every day. I work 9.30 til 5.30 but the travelling is what really eats into my day. Arse bandits!

hi all!!!!!!!!!!!

Callum is actually walking walking now!!! walks everywhere around the house. He should have been 1 last week, but instead is 13.5 months. He has a chest infection atm, and the GP heard a murmur in his heart last week, so we have to go back next week for a checkup...

still BF... getting fed up now, but he won't drink cows milk...

That must be bobbins. I think you and I shouod should open a shop selling stuff. Then we could sell the shop, make a packet and move to the maldives. With the afore mentioned goat of course.

Sparkly - hello! Blimey, walking walking eh?!! I bet that seems funny to see your little bubbah walking around - surreal! Hope he gets better soon and i hope the murmur is nothing to worry about.....

LOM - yes, let's do that. Let's become hippies and sell erm..... ......i dunno, home grown produce and goats cheese?!

It's a plan. I think we should call the goat Gerald. Whadda yer think ?

hi sparkly

Or Geraldine, if it's a girl?

there is a pic of him on my profile walking. He looks huge in the pic, but actually still in 6-12 months clothes lol

Bless him, he's grown soooo much!! he looks really tiny next to the dishwasher tho!

I know, he is small, but doing well. He is into everything, keeps taking the sky card out of the sky box, and trying to put it back in atm. lol

He's gorgeous Sparkly such a cheeky face. I'll post some new ones of Anabel on tonight.