December 2006- where they've grown so much we spend more time talking about our lives than our children

[Indith]

Well that and our pregnancies and other non-dec '06 children

Tis a good thing I feel.

My DD was due on my birthday but born 6 days before. My birthday is now always a non-event

DD was born a whole 27 days after DHs birthday but still manages to overshadow him - think children generally kill off parental birthdays. It's part of the deal isn't it!!??

OK, AQ, will look out for it.

I haven't entered the book yet - but reckon it might be Tuesday - did anyone say that already??

And AQ, am admiring you being pregnant with twins at nearly 39 weeks - you are a obviously an excellent baby factory.

Didn't mean it to be taken the wrong way... oh, the hormones

Have replied AQ. Night all

You can't have Tuesday, isn't that induction day? Which is surely cheating.

Depends on time of induction I suppose though.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell?

Happy Birthday AQ's dh

Indith - get back to your phone!

Nah, nothing to report indith
busy all day with dp's birthday.

Right everyone, we really are going to have to find something to talk about to distract us! I have given up looking at other threads the suspense on here is getting so great . I will have it all coming back to me in Jan too!

Glad you managed not to have birthday duplications in the household AQ. Well, you will have those anyway I s'pose but at least not with DP.

And will you help me out with some names please.... LenniEds unnamed baby and forever remaining that way at this rate thread

I got called a sillyarse by a customer yesterday - that's the first time I've been called a name at work. (I firmly replied "Oh no, no, no! You don't talk to me like that! ")

Why are people so rude?

Oli, I so wish I had your cake making skills (and patience) - I bought dd1 a disney princess cake for her birthday, I'm going to have to think of a place to hide it so dd1 won't find it.

(Excellent job Margo )

Not sure why people are rude but if its any consolation we get a lot of it from our customers. The ones that really get me are the ones who want something for nothing, like we had one guy who threatened to sue us 'cos the size he wanted in something for an xmas present was out of stock

Microwave is where all our cakes live.

Margo but well done for having appropriate reply, I would have either said something rude or not said anything, probably! Cake....wherever you put it, don't forget: I have a nasty habit of hiding things from dds and never finding them again...

I'm fed up of rude people. It's partly why I long to live on a remote Scottish Isle. Even though I know I'd probably go completely mad there I was coming out of swimming on Friday and a lady was driving the wrong way in a mini down a one way lane and expected me to back up a long way and let her through when all she had to do was go forward 2 metres so I could pass her. She finally relented and when I told her nicely that it was a one way road she replied "yes I know that you f*king btch, but the gate at the other end is sometimes f*cking shut" (it wasn't shut). Charming world we live in and it seems to be the more affluent the area the worse it is, esp from other mothers with children. So much for female solidarity

Rant over. Been awake all night and feeling slightly emotional!!!

Has AQ had them then?

, Castles, horrid. No sleep, ugh, poor you - why no sleep though? Hope you, and the LOs, ok?

Hope DP had a good day AQ

Tis my birthday on Monday and DH realised that he is away Monday and Tuesday so he fed me scallops for starter followed by venison steak yesterday

Tsk! at rude customers. Hate is when they just look at you as though you are something they scraped off the bottom of their shoes. So not going to work in retail ever again if I can help it! Our worst ones were late at night when the alcohol section was shut who refused to accept that our being 24 hours didn't mean we could sell alcohol 24 hours. I had some just end up grabbing stuff and walking out with it.

Have been to mothercare and stuff today having a bit of a look at pushchairs and bedside cot etc. Not even sure we will bother with another pushchair now, just can't be arsed. Shall sling the new one until big enough to go in the Maclaren then get a buggy board. Trying to decide between picking up a cosatto or mothercare bedisde cot on ebay or getting the arms reach thingy which does look pretty cool.

Can I come join you on the scottish island Castles? I've always wanted to retreat to one of those, keep pigs, grow veggies and allow my children to run wild.

Ds still being a devil difficult. Has slept the past couple of nights though thank god.

I'm coveting the arms reach thing too Indith - don't like the look of the mothercare bedside cot, but am sure that is just because I want the arms reach one. If only I didn't know any better. We're going to let DD walk as much as poss and then sling the new one and put DD in the pushchair when she gets worn out. Think she'll prob rediscover pushchairs once the baby arrives and there is novelty to it again.

Castles, hope you manage some sleep tonight. Can I holiday on your island please and keep you company? Not sure I could hack it all the time, am about as remote as I can handle as it is, and can't see anyone else from my window, thats about all I think I can cope with.

We've also been to mothercare - tried to buy useful things like a baby monitor but ended up with boy clothes and nothing we went in for must remember not to shop with DH again.

ho hum, errr... well, sure there was something else I meant to mention

I've got the bedside cot from mothercare.

I'm going to put the side away when dd2 is about 2 yo as we're a bit short of space in dds room. So doubles as a kind of cotbed. hth.

See how long it took me to write that post? I need better brain-
to-hand connections .

sorry, dp's mum and partner here (in a campervan parked outside our house until dt's arrive!) so missed the deadline...So anyone who had sunday is probably out of luck now!

castles, hope sleep better tonight and no more rude f&^ng cows out there

oli, puppy sounds adorable!

lennied/indith, sounds so simple with just one baby to figure out (sigh) but I know I found it just as difficult to figure out when ds2 born and there was a 3 year gap not 2! Must send you buggy piccies tomorrow, lennied, dp even told me where they were. I am seriously keen on arms reach, they look fab but not even sure if we can manage to fit that one in our bedroom it's that small. I don't know what I'm doing, all we've got is the cotbed in their nursery, am I going to really trail through there every 2 hours (or whatever) feeding and then go back to my own bed??

Not sure how I feel about IL's being here until I drop (and afterwards) - dp invited them to stay without asking me really, I thought they were coming for his birthday lunch yesterday and then going back. But he seems to be appreciating them being here a lot and I spent much of the day in bed (spd much worse) whilst they looked after the ds's and dp did diy. DP is just different when his mum's around, though, I don't feel like I 'have' him iykwim?

Ah Oli - A puppy! (you know, they're just as hard work as newborns.)

Just remember - D day must be tomorrow!