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Mornin!

Texted Pebble today and she is ok. Tried getting on the other night but Alana deleted her very long post. She is going to try and get on later

Happy Birthday Mateo! Three is a great age to be..

We have had a bizarre day today. We went to see the baby elehants again and they were having a splash in a large puddle because it was hot here today, very cute. Then we went to a glass making workshop where there were all sorts of little houses and nooks and crannies made out of concrete, old recycled bottles, bits of glass and mirrors! The kids were all shown how glass is blown into shapes of vases and glasses. Quite strange but the dc were in heaven, they even had a swimming pool so they all stripped off and took a dip. Us mummies bought some lovely jugs and vases and went to see an amazing tiny suspension bridge crossing the nearby gorge, made of iron cables and little else. Quite scary but quite remarkable. Nairobi is full of odd little places like this!

Evening

Jam that's so sad about the boys' mum. I hope you have a wonderful evening with them.

Sky, most definitely approve of the name Lewis.

MKG Happy 3rd Birthday to M!

TMAM is hubby nervous about being left alone with all 3 children, does he struggle with them at all? No holiday is supposed to be relaxing with children surely lol? I don't 'do' stroppy/sulky people, mainly because I can probably strop a lot harder Very little patience for it all you see. Mainly why things are so effing awful and non existant great between me and exp. He was a sulky one, I couldn't be bothered.

CAQL have a good journey!

LG&T I have emailed you.

Not much to report this end. Went to meet a friend for lunch. Walked down to the loch and went for a bite to eat in the cafe down there, and then walked round the loch twice. We've both agreed to meet up 2/3 times a week and go walking up there to try and loose baby weight - yes it's still here!

Hope all are well x

Belated Happy Birthday Mateo,
Lews is a lovely name SKY welcome home. Don't forget the painkillers, there are no medals for bravery here you know.

LG&T last one, hee hee will remind you of that next time.

TMAM no more of the F word please. Leave it to Gordon Ramsey .

AM would deffo have been rude to walk past without any KKs. When will they come oop norf?

Jam it makes you feel old doesn't it a little girl I used to babysit for is at Uni now. Where did my life go?

LATL baby weight nightmare still here as well.Wwell the weight has actually gone; I now weigh less than I did prior to last pregnancy and almost the same as the first one' but the polyhydramnios and twin pregnancy have left a veritable blob of a belly and a lovely montage of stretchmarks.

Thinking of starting a campaign to get stretchmarks abnd jelly belly fashionable? What do you think? Anyone care to join me?

CAQL are you here yet?

Hello to all.

Yes charley - when will KK come up oop norf? I've never had one.

Oh no PJ. I did manage to get one last year when G and I drove to Portsmouth to drop an ebay sale off for DH. There was a stall in a Tescos so I bought an assorted box. I have to say they were yummy, some moreso than others but on the whole vey moreish.

P'raps we should have an oop norf meetup and rely on our doon sooth MNetters to post us a batch up for testing.

Oh yes, that sounds like a plan!

Hi

so my boys have just gone home. I do feel so sorry for them the 10yr old really does look like he needs a bit more female love. The older one seems to have very much taken on the responsible older brother role. Such a shame. But it was lovely to see them and Archie defo liked having the older ones around. Although not to sure how chuffed they were at being woken up this morning by A climbing on their heads.

Hey PJ hows the sleep thing going?

Oh meant to say yesterday Happy Birthday Mateo hope you had a good day with him MKG.

Hi Jam - aw what lovely boys they sound like. Did you want to keep them?

Sleep thing is going v v well. She just has her bath, gets dressed, we snuggle in the chair in her bedroom and she has her bottle, then goes into her cot. She lies down, I sit in the chair for a bit, and she just goes to sleep.

Honestly, its a bloody miracle!

Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah, so pleased for you. .

They are lovely boys though as much as I love them glad for them to go home mainly as they have eaten me out of house and home.

Jam, that is so sad, you are very sweet looking after them. I'm afraid the boys and eating thing is a bit of a shocker. Even at 4 ds1 eats more than his sister. I'm going to have to take out a loan when they are 12 as apparently from about then they can eat a whole loaf just for a snack!

Pink Well done you! Do you feel like a new woman? Was it easy?

How's the kitchen Charley?

It was sooooo easy, she has really responded to the routine, and understanding exactly what will happen next IYSWIM.

Fab Fab Fab....

Brilliant - it was obviously just what she wanted too..

Honestly for breakfast they very nearly consummed a whole box of cereal and then ate the contents of the fruit bowl. I took them to Pizza Express fro lunch and came away £60 quid lighter Good job I only see them every few months.

PJ I think however awful it was getting to the stage you did maybe for you and Lexie you had too before she would respond. I take it that means in a couple of months there will be another announcement as you and DH now have all this quality time.

Cereal is strictly rationed in our house Jam and we still go through about 2 boxes a week. It's a shocker, I wish I had weaned the little blighters straight onto porridge. And bread and dripping. According to my dad that's all you need as a child, did him fine.

LOL at 2 boxes of cereal a week... I wont even tell you what we go through in this house!

Jam i bet it was lovely to see them

CM well done on the baby weight, did dh not say if you lost it you could have another baby?

Pink does she stay there all night now?

I took the dc to a museum today, mostly outdoor. It was free and very good, they did a spy mission was so funny, lasers and everything!

Yesterday was not great. DD has a horseshoe shaped kidney, they will monitor her and i have to keep an eye on wee infections as they can get very bad and tummy pains as she is high risk for kidney stones. Poor thing.

Sam had the bug all day yesterday and mil gave him 2 pieces of toast with peanutbutter while i was out so he was sick and had tummy pains all over again!

DH phoned while is was on the way back from hospital, i told him i was driving. He sdaid he just wanted to tell me he had passed his fitness test. Wahooo i thought, clearly he had his head full of that while i had mine full of dd, sick Sam, rush hour traffic and tired children. I know he is out of the loop a bit but i have been emailing him everything so he knows what is going on

He phoned later on too as i sounded so stressed on the phone, i mean duh?!

If i had a bottle of wine handy last night i would have drunk it!

Imagine what it will be like when they are all teenagers LG&T . So sorry about P's kidney, I suppose knowing at least means you can watch out for any problems.

As for dh, I can sympathise with the out of sight out of mind approach. Unless they are there they have no idea and often when they are there they still have no idea.

I am going through a crisis just now I think, I feel sad in my soul about my marriage I am drinking your wine LG&T.

Oh Master how terrible. I have had moments like that, sadly i have just carpeted over it and moved on I was not great at confrontation in my last relationship and was any anything for a quiet life person. It was the begining of the end really.

This time i am much more vocal poor dh gets a lot of grief sometimes

I know you and your dh have had many years together and been through an awful lot, keep talking and i am sure things will out. Talking is the only way, as painful as it is.

Love to you < tops up the wine glass >

Master Talk talk and talk again. Remember you have been through alot in the last 18mth having J and all the stress that goes along with moving to another country also he is away an awful lot which makes it vv difficult to get any continuity going in your relationship and with the DC's. Often goign away like you did on hol can bring alot of this to the forefront. Keep talking be brutally honest with each other and if its meant to be you will find a way through it to the other side. Much love to you. Obviously if you think its none of the above tell me to shut up and mind my own.

Ok PJ when is good for you? DCs nursery is shut bank holiday week so could meet up then one day. Well done on the sleep front think we will have a mare as DD was really settled in the old house and went to her own room every night and since we have moved both are on a mattress on the floor next to us. This is because we do not yet have Gs cot here. Nightmare.

TMAM the worktops were put in on Tuesday and the hob and microwave were fitted today, all I need to do now is get my pots and pans moved in. Woo hoo. Sorry to hear about you soul feeling sad. Just think what you have been through, just keep those lines of communication open. Clinks glass of wine.

Jam DH thinks Tescos boxes of maple pecan crisps are individual boxes.

LG&T Yeah well done on reminding me had to think about if was after DD or the DTs but he just said yes we were supposed to be talkng about it if I lost the weight. Sorry about DDs kidney is it just one of them that is affected? DHs never quite realise what is going on do they.

Deffo have to get off as DH is desperate for a shag feeling amorous "when can we?". They can be so romantic can't they

LOL at CM's romantic dh

That must put you in the mood...

Of course a cheeky grin and a wink would put me in the mood at the moment such is my neglected raging libido... dh is on for a

Must go to bed, so tired. Jilly Cooper calling, shhhhhh

Master--I'm sorry you're having a rough patch. I can definitely echo that when you have a schedule the way you do it's hard. I hardest time in my marriage was when dh worked nights and I worked days. All we ever did together was fight, and I was relieved when he was gone, because I could just get on with life. It really disrupts the routine of life to have them popping in and out.

This phase will end, just know that as long as you talk through it, all will be fine.

My dh's idea of romance is saying, "take your underwear off".

Thanks, you guys. Hopefully we can work through it, I think I just need to find myself again.

We are away for the weekend. Have a good one.

TMAM - I'm in the same boat.