June 07........they get knocked down, and they get up again....they get knocked down and they get up again <repeat ad nauseum>

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Can you not just pay for her repairs Holly - or is it too much?

Hey Holly

I can't go part time - not in my kind of role - and I am just biding my time as in 2 weeks I should find out if I am being made permy or not, if I am then happy days, I will take a holiday. Going part time is no good for me anyway as I still have to pay full price rail tickets and parking tickets for a 5 day week so would only end up out of pocket.

Holly that is shit about crashing it. I assume you are all ok? I also hate it when people with hardly any damage make a real song and dance, it's such an awful, shitty thing

HOMETIME!
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back tomorrow most likely, bye all !

She was really nice about it and everything and said it was fine and we carried on with our day (dp made me drive again, which I wasn't happy about, but was definately the best thing to do). When we got home I went round there with my insurance details, thinking she was going to tell me not to worry about it, but she then started going on about arranging a hire car when it goes to the garage etc. So we will have to go through the insurance I think because of all the hire car stuff. It is wank. I will get dp to go over and talk to her later about trying to get the work done ourselves.

I hope you get made permenant then fury. Will it make you feel less pressured if you are?

PMSL MHC! You have an acrobat there! Maybe we could make a child circus. My ds will be clambo, the amazing climbing boy or destructo, the stuff destroyer!

We are indeed doubles, it's a bit spooky! I am desperately trying to learn to drive, I was doing quite well, but I think the prang has set me back a bit. We are all fine, but I was quite shaken. I'm glad dp made me get back in the saddle again though otherwise I would definately be a lot more nervous about driving again.

gaargh DD is driving me bonkers today....see my thread in chat.....

She has just emptied a whole pack of disposabls onto the floor, then got into the baby box and the massage oil, is having a tantrum because I took it from her and no matter where i put the wipes she bloody well manages to find them and start pulling them out.

she crawld through a maggot ridden dead snail on the drive earlier as well......how the fecking hell am I going to manage with another one????? I can barely cope as it is!

fury, I've read mind over mood and can rate it. sorry things are the way they are for you at the minute, but good counsellors are worth their weght in gold. I hope things ease up for you soon. Our HV team has a mental health nurse attached to them and you can just call her up and arrange to see her for anything that is getting to you. I think my docs must be quite progressive in it;s approach to mental health issues though.

my DD can be the weirdy one who eats anything and everything

Not sure I'd like to eat an egg that is already fertilised. this might be a really dense question, but is there not a chance you can erm get chicken embryos when you crack it into the pan?...i mean do you have to take the eggs away quickly before they start to develop? what if you're not quick enough? feeling really squeamish about the thought of it!

Why do kids have the knack of picking themselves up from something that could have been pretty serious, but will howl at the slightest bump. I managed to crack the side of DD's head on the door frame earlier . I feel reallllly bad as she screamed for ages.

No repercussions from the holly berries yet, but she is pale and very grumpy....but I'm thinking grumpy is her new default state.

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Just popped in v quickly before making tea. Not caught up properly but just wanted to say big hugs to fury. I'm sorry you are having a shit time. Why don't you want to give ADs a try? (Not being funny, I didn't either, but I couldn't explain why). Would defo recommend counselling. You know where I am anyway. You are working so hard, you have got to give yourself a break somehow in someway, I know it's hard with work. The thing is, with the amount you pay for childcare, travel, cars etc. is it even working out worth your while being in this job?

Gotta rush off and make tea but just wanted to say I'm thinking of you. I think you just seem very strong on the outside so people don't realise how bad a time you are having xxx

Daisy, you completely have my sympathy! Ds is just a whirlwind of destruction. Every neat pile gets pulled onto the floor, every full pack of wipes is empty if left within 3 foot of floor level, he has destroyed 2 mobile phones by sucking them and my new blackberry is all scratched and dented where he got it out of my bag and threw it on the garden path, he pulls the keyboard off the computer table and pulls the mouse out and chews it, he pulls the hoover over on top of himself everytime I get it out...the list goes on!

I can't even imagine how tired you must be (((un-MNy hugs)))

I like hugs holly....don't care if they are not seemly

She has now unravelled a roll of nappy liners. Of course if I MNed less and paid attention to what she was doing......

right, bedtime routine here we go. Back later when it;s all quiet.

I didn't get a testing email Willing to help any of you lot though.

Daisy sorry things are so tough for you, they are hard work atm aren't they. I kind of feel at the moment that there is no point tidying anything up as it just gets destroyed again the next day, consequently my house is a tip. Tis very demoralising. My (tiny) kitchen is never free of washing up, my laundry basket never empty, house like a chinese laundry as we have no garden for a washing line and the living room floor always strewn with toys.

Honestly, going back to work today was a break.

Evening all. Just popping in before DH & the jamlet get home. Fury & Daisy, sorry things are so hard for you both (in your respective and different ways). You both have my instructions to be kind to yourself and cut yourselves a bit of slack.

Fury, you fancy getting together one weekend and letting the LOs play? Won't be anytime soon as next few weekends are busy busy but we had such a good time at the outdoor paddling pool at Wallingford last week that I want to share it with everyone! And it's free (apart from £1.30 for an afternoon's parking) Of course anyone else who thinks that they might get there is welcome too I just thought of Fury as it's kind of between us and sounds like she could do with a change of scene for an afternoon.

things you never knew about free range eggs!

I think the accident would have put me off for life mhc, but I'm such a product of the consumer age.

I'm enjoying a leeeetle glss of red wine and waiting for my chinese takeaway to arrive. The house is in a state around me....but feck it; I'll do it tomorrow when hopefully I'll have more energy.

and here the aforementioned chinese is

later

Jammy sounds great. Same as you, I am flat out until Late July, but am definately in!

Right I'm off. night all.

Oh, lol....my thread from earlier is getting quite funny now. Maybe life with DD isn't as much of a challenge as I thought

night jammy.

Hey!

I'm just popping in for a wee bit!

Fury and anyone else feeling frazzled at the mo - I kind of am feeling a bit the same

Just never seem to get everything done anymore! No one job gets finished, and I feel like I am permanantly fire fighting here - it's starting to piss me off!

I took today off and little fella went to nursery so I could get stuff done and get a bit on me time too. I got less than half the stuff done that I wanted and was harrassed by dh on the phone during my 'me time' (which was s jumping lesson ). He called me every 5 mins for about an hour and a half about nothing! Which put me in a bad mood and so a row ensued!!!

Ok - I might be acting like a spoilt brat here but sometimes I just want to go and hide for the day without this feeling of always having tonnes of unfinished jobs to do!

Anyhow - Fury - so sorry you are feeling the strain mate

Right moan over - I've got about an hour of work to do followed by my expenses which are overdue (and some upstart in head office is bleeting on at me about) might be back to catch up later?!

I'm with you on the firefighting DKMA, and sometimes I don't know if it's DD or DH that I am battling.

We had an argument today over how much she is eating, she'd gone from 1.30-6 without anything to eat (well, fortunately she had some BM when I got in) and DH trots out the usual "well, I haven't had anything else to eat since lunch" I keep saying "she's not you!"