June 07 - Schools Out for Summer; well for some of us anyway

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We've been waiting weeks for someone to come cut our front hedge (is our neighbours hedge really and they've arranged it). Why-oh-why does it have to be the day I'm feeling poorly and want to rest that a man with a chain saw turns up to work on our front drive??

I have just spent £36 on a pair of fecking school shoes. He only had a new pair at the start of the summer term . I spent £36 on a pair of shoes for me; all mine come from the sales and my clothes come from Sainsbury's for the most part.

Still, got DD a really nice wooden rocking horse on the charity shop for £3.50...except she was sitting on it rocking gently then DS came in and stood on the end so she was nearly horizontal over the floor and got such a fright she started screaming and is now giving it a VERY wide berth.

StormE......I see you have joined in the debate on the other thread. I'm not going back to it as I'm fed up being insulted.

oooh lots missing from that post; no idea how that happened.

school shoes for DS
and
I can't remember the last time I spent....

DD seems fine; a bit pale and pasty but no sickness or anything. she is even more wary of DS than she was before as well.

Poor Daisy's DD Hope she gets over her shock and enjpys playing with the horse again in teh future. And her brother of course!

jammy, I hope your Dad doesn't get whatever you and your mum have got; sounds like the last thing he needs.

hope you feel better soon.

I have bought "How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk", "Siblings without the rivalry", "How to talk so kids will learn (at home and school)" and "Raising Boys". I will be far too busy reading about parenting to do any effective parenting myself

We are watching the horse jumping at the Olympics. DS is on the new rocking horse pretending he is a championship show jumper. Why can he be so cute and gorgeous on one hand, but a little shite on the other?

Because he's a bloke?

you have a point jammy. He is already practising for when he has a wife and family

I am not a natural nurse....or SAHM

Please please please please please please can DDs next poo be solid so I can go to fecking work tomorrow....

Norty, DS's nursery wouldn't take them back for 48 hours after their last runny poo or bout of vomitting just incase there was anything still lingering.

DD is getting brave; she is standing next to the horse patting and rocking it.

I'd be interested to hear what those books have to say too Daisy. We still have minor incidents on a daily basis here, and today she came out again with "he's not our baby, I don't want him, he's other peoples' baby etc etc."

I try to explain we're a family, now she has someone to play with and we can do things together bla bla. They do sometimes play together but it's quite rare. Sad because the baby really likes DD and is all enthusiastic around her, then gets pushed away.

anyone about this evening?

I am dying of heartburn, indigestion and trapped wind all at the same time. the trapped wind is especially nasty and horrible and have pains in my back, shoulders, neck, teeth and head . It is as bad as that I had after my CS and gaviscon isn't even touching it.

moan moan moan moan moan...sorry

hi sputnik

I think the novelty is definately wearing off for DS, and he is being shitty with me because of the new baby. He had no idea what a baby meant before; he does now and thinks there will be less time than ever for him. I'm hoping his behaviour doesn't get any worse.

VictorianSqualor posted some useful stuff on my thread earlier.

I'm sorry things are so shit with DS Daisy. I wish I had some solutions to offer.

VS is, as usual, doing a fine job on your thread.

What's on at your local sports centre? Any (drop-off) activities? my life saver last week.

What would happen if you called his bluff? I mean, he refuses to come for dinner, you say "OK, you can eat it later, but it will be cold and you'll be eating it alone, but thats fine if you want to do that". Then you and DD have a lovely time eating together. He either comes and joins in, or kicks off that his food is cold later. You say "well darling angel we did talk about it, and you decided that it was what you wanted". As a compromise you could heat it up. If he kicks off big time, just walk away and get on with your jobs.

You stay perfectly Lovely Mummy all the time. Break the shouty cycle.

Hopefully he'll understand that he is responsible for his choices.

And you will get into the habit of not shouting, and you will notice that you are calm. I hope

Happy Birthday for yesterday StorminanEcup.

Sorry to hear DD is ill Norty.

Hope you are feelig better Jammy.

Hello Sputnik

Good luck Holly!

Umm, anyone I've missed? Sorry!

Daisy. I wish I could help you!

Good suggestions there foxy. Have been calmer mummy today. The only time I shouted was when DD bounced off the sofa, but that was more out of fright than anything. It'll take time I know and i do need to get out of the shouty cycle as you so rightly say. I'm going to see if i can book him into the holiday club for the last week of the hols. Will cost, but i think worth is for my sanity and a few of his mates are going to be there so he will be more than happy. He is going to the PILs for a couple of days. They are picking him up tomorrow at nine and bringing him back Thursday teatime. I suspect DH is behind it all. DD and I are meeting another MNer in the Trafford Centre on Thurday. She has a teeny tiny leetle baby who is very very cute.

VS is great, isn't she?

Am drinking peppermint tea and it seems to be helping with the trapped wind. Glad DH isn;t here as lying next to a burping whale can't be very attractive.

I hope you are coping without DH...i take my hat off and bow down at your alpha mummy feet

LOL Daisy

I'm off to bed.

Trafford is on my radar. Apparently it has a great LEA, and some great schools. Is it easy for you to get to then? Any idea what its like?

Nope, never been but the shopping centre is mahoosive. Don't know Manc at all really (except for a little of the city centre). The trafford centre is about 1-1.5 hours drive for me so not too far at all for meet-ups

i'll do a wee recky on the state of cars and gardens as i drive around on Thursday...always a good indicator of how nice the neighbourhood is

sleep well

BAD MUMMY ALERT Jamlet fell face first off the changing table this morning onto her wooden bedroom floor I am quite with myself as I wasn't watching her properly. She was sitting on the table, half dressed, while I picked a top out. Anyway, while my back was turned she fell off Lot's of crying and cuddles later we have a little girl who has a red patch on her nose/cheek and a huge purple bruise on the forehead. She had a slight nosebleed, but seems OK, if a little clingy. I'll be keeping a very close eye on her today and off to the gp if things don't seem right, and will be more attentive to her in future

Ahh poor DD, and poor YOU Jammy I am sure she will be OK, babies don't tense up when they fall as we do, makes for a softer landing. I hope you are OK. These things do shake us up, but we all have a bad mummy story (I have several). Hot sweet tea for mummy, cuddles for baby

Poor jamlet . I hope she is OK, although agree with foxy that they tend to relax into a fall, especially if they've never done it before! Maybe some pre-emptive calpol as she will no doubt have a bit of a sore head later. I too have numerous bad mummy stories, so try not to feel too bad about it Jammy

DD is back in bed already; she is pulling at her face and ears and slapping herself in the head this morning! It's either teeth or from her fall yesterday. Hoping it's teeth, but she has also been very wobbly on her pins this morning so I'm keeping an eye on her and tring not to be neurotic.

DS has gone off with the GPs, so I have a bit of respite until tomorrow at teatime. I feel like a very bad mummy for being pleased to see the back of him, but he has been doing my head in this morning and got me so wound up that I snapped and paddled his backside for him and said some pretty negative things .

My books have arrived so hopefully we can start to turn things around. He is so down on himself at the minute as well and I think a lot of that is because I'm always yelling at him for one thing or another. This parenting lark really doesn't get any easier.

Anyhoo, a day of sorting things out for me today as we can't get the living room and hallway decorated until we are tidy!

I'd ditch the changing table if I were you, but then putting a nappy or any clothes on Baby Sputnik these days is like dressing an octopus. Thankfully he's been wearing no more than a nappy most of the last month.

Dressing DD takes forever at the minute as well as she wriggles off my lap between garments and I have to chase her to get her back on my lap for the next installment. I can see the amusement of it wearing thin as it gets more difficult to heave myself off the sofa!

of kids running around in nappies. It's been warm enough for that here, but they need the wellies and raincoat on as well