Oct 2007; This Little Piggy Rolled & Crawled to Market, This Little Piggy Walked Home

[FloriaTosca]

I hope I manage to do this right...I'll kick everything off with a roll call if it does.

Choc;You prob wont see this for ages but Congratulations on the new house and on the sucessful big work event...strange that R should sleep so well in strange surroundings and then revert to bad sleep when settled...I hope you find a solution soon (if only to stick your tongue out and say ner-ner at the know-it-all sil!)and sincerely hope you get reconnected asap..we have missed you

FT - think you may have some valuable input for this thread ... also muppetgirl?

I have a pair of jeans from pumpkin patch I bought for Ben, they are 6-12 months to fit height 76cm, they are two tight on his legs and round waist as he is a chubster, anyone with skinny minnies want them? first come first served

I've got a bit of a problem ... here ... omg omg omg omg

hello everyone
sorry have been awol for a while - so much to do in RL. anyway hope you are all ok. DS is 'tidying' his nappy box at the moment (hopefully not eating the sudocrem this time...). he is pulling himself up to standing now - and so we've had to put the cot on its lowest level as he likes to practice in there - and loves exploring dirt and dust (such a boy )
I am doing a bit of work, using my keeping in touch days to get my brain up to speed before going back in Sept - they have agreed to me working tues, weds and thurs so I'm pleased about that. (crotchet - i hope you get your situation sorted)
Off to a birthday party later this afternoon, and visiting rellies tomorrow with another party on sunday - hope the weather stays nice

Crotchet; have replied on both threads...I'm sure everything will be fine, try not to worry.

Strawberry; good to see you and to hear how well things are going...how dare rl interfere with mn!.. hope the weekend goes really well, we too have lots of parties this weekend (3 birthdays (inc a 1st and a 60th) and an anniversary!!!)and hope the weather improves round here...where are that is nice? I want to come!

And all of a sudden it's Friday - don't know where this week's gone! (Not avoiding here Alice!)

Well Tuesday was interesting - it was for a brand new show called Battle of the Brains - it's replacing Eggheads at 6pm on BBC2 when that finishes its current run (end of the summer I think). We should be on show 4. I won't tell you how we did - you'll have to watch! We had a 'tactics' meeting at 8am where we found out that 4 out of 7 of us were last-minute stand-ins and most of us had the same specialist subjects, so we knew we weren't going to do that well! Because it was a new show they'd done a test programme which they showed us in the green room before recording - and all the contestants were people who'd been on Mastermind/15-to-1/etc so the questions were really hard - we were so nervous after watching that! - but we didn't disgrace ourselves. That's all I'm saying!

FT - glad your back problem wasn't anything more serious. And at least dh wasn't away.

Muppet - not pathetic at all- but I'm sure you'll cope really well over the hols - you seem to have it all well planned! And well done with the running - I feel tired just reading it.

Dal - hope the wedding goes well tomorrow.

LLL - glad your shoulder is a bit better. Poor Sam with his coughing - hope that gets better too.

Crochet - oooh poor you with mastitis. Hope it clears soon.

Inzi - welcome back!

Choc - glad the move went ok.

Back to work on Monday - sort of looking forward to it, but sort of wish I wasn't working at all. Hmmm. May feel ok once I'm actually there.

Hi to everyone else.
x

Congrats Choc (as have said in rl...)

WWAJC - looking forward to watching it!

LLL - Adam would love the jeans if they're still going begging - he is a skinny boy! What do you want for them?

Crochet will check out your thread....

Both boys shrieking so sorry to be brief - back later! x

They're yours alicet, don't worry about payment, they will cost f-all to post and they were in the sale

my email is lisa @ the-fishbowl dot co dot uk, just mail me your address

HI there
I take everything back and are no longer smug as my exercise chappie absolutely murdered me today. He made me do 15 mins on the stairs and then run up and down our driveway each time punching him (he wore pads ) so it went 10 punches, run up and down, 9 punches, run up and down, 8 punches etc... then I had to do 2 different punches and run, then knee kicks and then run. I felt sick! Then press up position for 1 min, then burpees. I was sooooooo dizzy by this point, then situps which I am crap at though I was slightly less crap than last week

Knackered, knackered, knackered.

...off to find the takeaway menu -hee hee x

Muppet at least you can pig out on takeaway with no guilt!! I really really need to start doing some excercise before my tummy muscles wither away into nothing...

LLL thanks loads for offering to send me the trousers. I've sent you a mail with my address...

Well our news is that Adam has chicken pox. Bit of a non event all told as he has about 10 spots and is totally fine so felt like a total skiver this am! Dh looked after him this pm. Thankfully my mum is coming up at the end of next week if he still has weepy spots then so Tues dh and I are each looking after him for half a day again.

A couple of Rich's mates to stay on Sat which will be fun! We tried to get a babysitter so we could go out but all a bit short notice. Never mind - will just cook something nice here and have a bottle or few of wine....

And Monday we're having a picnic party for Sam. There are children at nursery that he chats about all the time so I thought I'd invite a couple of them over. Hopefully the weather will be nice - if not it can be a carpet picnic! And thankfully most of them have had chickenpox already - I was really dreading having to cancel it as since I told him Sam's been so excited!

Anyway - off to finish cooking tea... Back later if poss...

Is it Sam's b'day? hope the weather is kind to you.

We have a couple of friends coming tomorrow too, I'm being lazy and making a huge chilli with salad and garlic bread, J has been and stocked up with wine and fizz

Muppet - well done with the exercise, you are putting me to shame.

WWJC - will keep an eye out for the quiz show then

No not his birthday and not a proper party as such. Just thought it would be nice to have a few of his mates over - esp ones he talks about all the time and I don't really know! If they all come (2 might not now cos of chicken pox) there will be 4 girls and 2 boys incl sam - he is a bit of a ladies man my son! 3 of the girls I know really well already (and their mums). The other girl and boy I don't know. Just wanted to give him a treat as he is really lovely sharing with Adam and stuff and I love him! Probably pfb but who cares - I get to eat the cake too!

Lol - well have a nice time

Sam had his first sports day yesterday, it was so cute. He came 2nd in one race and practically last in all the running ones... bless him, he just wasn't interested at all

Bless him! I am just picturing my Sam trying to understand why he should run in the same direction as all the others when he'd rather stop and look at a feather or a pine cone on the grass !!!

Pine cones are BIG at the mo! Whenever we go to the park it's 'mummy I want a pine cone!' We have a box of about 20 at home and various others scattered about the place !

alice - for us it's stones ... when I put Rhydian's school trousers in the wash, I have to empty his pockets - he has a pocket full of stones every day.

Pine cones are also a favourite though - and conkers in the autumn!

Got really with Rhydian this morning - he had his 1st level 5 swimming lesson this morning, and we all went swimming to cheer him on. After we'd been swimming, we decided to go into Penarth to the butcher's, baker's etc... anyway, Rhydian started complaining of a very sore hip - really laying it on ... so I took him & M to Starbucks while J did the shopping - we had our drinks while R whinged constantly - anyway, when we left Starbucks, with Rhydian limping and crying (I was really worried by this point), he suddenly decided he needed to jump on the manhole covers by the car ... he'd been putting the whole thing on as he didn't want to have to walk around Penarth. I was fuming! J has given him a b0llocking ...

They're off to the PiLs this afternoon - J has agreed that PiLs shouldn't give him any of the presents they usually give him every time they see him - if they wouldn't be really disappointed if we cancelled, they would have stayed home this afternoon!

I'm using mastitis (to them) as an excuse for not going - and J agrees I need a break: he's been working on site all this week, locally, so, although he's nominally "at home", he's been going out early, and coming back late - it's been a hard week this week!

J is also doing penance - I'd bought myself a new top, and put it on when I went out with friends last night - when I went in to show it off, he pulled a face and said:
"You look a bit lumpy" - my face said it all - he then proceeded to dig himself an even bigger hole by trying to dig his way out!

Right, off to eat sushi and watch ncis ...

have a good weekend all - love to all,

E x

I think Sam has chicken pox he has random red spots, mainly on his lower back atm, he is really out of sorts still and his cough is just as bad. I was thinking maybe he had asthma or hayfever but according to google, a cough is symptomatic of CP and can appear 11-21 days before spots appear which ties in with how long his cough has been worse. Will take him to docs tomorrow.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend

LLL if it's CP then the little red spots will have turned into blisters by tomorrow. Its a lot milder when they're tiny but if the itching bothers him get yourself some calamine lotion which soothes the itch and piriton which is an antihistamine and helps reduce it too.

Crochet at the you look all lumpy comment!!!! Not a good one! At least you get to avoid pils though...

Hello everyone else. Just been out for a lovely lunch with our mates who have been staying. They've just left and I'm shattered after getting quite drunk on hardly any wine last night! Boys both sleeping but probably not going to join them as need to hit the supermarket - oh joy!

LLL;I hope Sam is over it quickly poor mite...I read on here that calamine cream stays on better than lotion, that aloe vera gel is good for cooling the blisters and oats in a sock under the tap when running a bath and the "milk" dabbed on the spots help the healing...if it is CP

Crotchet: hope you have given DH a diet of rabbit food since the comment!!

Alice: Glad you are having a good weekend...hope the shopping went painlessly.

We had the worst ever night from Alex on Friday ..bed at 8 awake 10-11, 12-12.30, 1-3.30!!!! 5-5.40 and up at 6.15!...napped 8-10 and then wide awake all day (no naps)but crabby as all get out 'till 9pm...then followed the worst ever evening (not so bad if we were at home, but we were at Dhs aunts wedding anniversary party)screaming/sleep resisting from 10-12...however he then did sleep untill 4.40, fed and went back to sleep until an unprecedented 8.45!!!!!...
You wont be surprised to learn that after all that we now have a new tooth!!!!
He was still crabby and having screaming sessions today(and yes we were at another party, this time a mass family birthday party..joint 1st, 36th and 60th!)so I think another is on its way ...any bets on what sort of night we get tonight?..esp as poor Dh has to be up at 4am for his flight to Israel!
Yes WWAJC..I was very lucky that Dh was home last week when my back went!..I'm now terrified something equally dreadful will happen this week while he is away...I hope work this week for you is much better than anticipated...
Hope everyone has had lovely weekends...look forward to hearing everyones news.

Hi Inzi!! - fab news on the weight lose hoping that you'll have a better nights sleep this evening -or some teeth at the very least!

LLL/alice- Sorry to hear of CP but a good thing they've got it so early. I had it a 21 and it really wasn't great.

Well, dh and I have been rowing about his mother as he's phoned her and all is well. She hasn't apologised for being rude to him and nothing has been said about those teary, emotionally blackmailling messages she leaves on our answerphone. It's as if she can say and do whatever she likes, be as rude as she likes and no one says anything to her. This started because I hadn't rung her for 2 weeks and she then said I wasn't talking to her so once again she has made it out to be all me and she is poor MIL. I've told dh that I'm not ringing or having anything to do with them until she is told not to leave those messages anymore. He says what can he do about it as it's all settled now and am I asking him to start an almighty family fight? I said it wouldn't have been an almighty fight if he's just told her what was what when it started. I was quite prepared to do it myself my email but he asked me not to send the one I'd written as he didn't want to upset anyone. It seems it's fine to upset me but not MIL/FIL. He says he doesn't care what they do and say as he's really not that bothered and that I shouldn't be getting upset on his behalf. (I am upset by the way MIL talks to him and then doesn't apologise) I've also said that I'm not going to FIL's 70th birthday in sept as I can't stand in the same room as her with her knowing she can say and do what she likes...Dh is really upset by this so really not sure what to do. I would never stop them from seeing the boys but I am really angry at how they treat us and feel after 6 years it has to stop.

Any advice? I don't mind if you disagree with me, it's good to get a non-emotive point of view

On the good side I ran 5k yesterday in 29.23 so am really pleased. It was a hard slog but I did it in under 30 mins which was my aim. Am going to stick with the 5k for a while as it was really quite hard.

Ollie has been sick 3 x's today and is laid upon the sofa. He's got the sofa cushion so that's in the wash and the toilet has been cleaned to within an inch of its life he seems okay though, I'm hoping it's just his tummy getting rid of all the gunk he has on his chest at the mo. Dried toast for him for lunch then

Hi to Dal, tles (where are you?) choc (congrats on the house!!!) WWAJC (the quiz sounds fab!) Floria, Crochet (how are the boobs?)Strawberry, Mine and J20.

goodness Muppetgirl, your MIl sounds like bags of fun!

I think if i were you i'd say to MIl in as polite but firm way as you can that you're not ignoring her, you've just been really busy with the dc and that leaving those kind of messages just upsets you and dh.
No point leaving it up to dh to do it as he's never going to confront his parents if he hasn't done so in all these years.
I htink if you stand up to her she might not argue with you so much.. you the ' yeah but..' think they always say when they think they are the victim.
Ignoring this kind of behavour is only going to allow her to keep being rude and childish.

I'm totally on your side. I have a similar situation with my nan and aunt (who like together). Its a form of emotional blackmail that i just can;t stand and refuse to put up with anymore. So i just politely, yet firmly tell them what i think and only see them when i absolutely have to!!
Little diva's is what i call them!!
Too much time on their hands and noting to do or think about but themselves.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but i can;t bare it
Hope Ollie feels better soon.
Hi to everyone else. Its been a bit quiet here recently... don't tell me everyone has got a life!
Congrats on the 5k run btw too xxxx

Hi Mine, you're right...I think it's a situation that I'm going to have to take control of as Dh seems to have washed his hands in a 'what can I do????' way. I actually think my MIL can be a very nice lady in that she has a heart of gold and Oliver adores her BUT you know you have a 'moving onto the next phase of your life' natural pathway ie that you grow up, leave home, meet someone, have a family etc etc well MIL is stuck at the 'had a family' stage and hasn't moved on so can't accept her children can actually do anything without her. FIL and her are retired but he still works doing the odd thing here and there, they aren't rich but are comfortable but don?t want to enjoy life at all. FIL is 70 in sept and he seems to have shrunk more and more into himself (and away from dh as the years go on). He has no opinion on most things, they don?t have any friends, they don?t go out and they don?t really do anything. I find this sad but would accept if they were happy but MIL is always moaning about FIL wishing he would not work and finally retire. When I first met dh his parents bathroom was unfinished -we are talking shower tray but no shower, unit, no flooring just floorboards, bare brick so really not finished and it is still like this now 6 years on. I asked dh when I first met him about it thinking they had just started it and he said they'd started it when he was still at school!!!!!! He's 35 this year and they've not done a thing. FIL seems to control all the money and MIL desperately wants it done. The utility room is just the same bar bricked state. BUT they have decorated the dinning room and the living room and are even repainting the kitchen which yes, needed doing but not half as desperate as not having a bathroom. It's typical of them really, if we don't talk about it, it's not there. His sisters just let her do what she wants so it is just me who has a problem and I have tried to explain about my mother and those phone calls all to no avail. I told dh last night that I was 14 and having constant drunken phone calls from my mother at all times of the day and no one told her not to so she just did what she wanted. She, and her husband and step daughter called me all the names under the sun and still no one said stop. This situation is a little like that and as I said to dh I just want him to defend me and say no, you can?t do this anymore but he won?t. I am going to have to do it but it?s just so blinkin? hard as I know I will be the baddie of the situation because I?ve stood up to her.

Sorry, went on a bit there as just so frustrated.

....and breathe muppet