May 07: The one where SOH gets her tweed clothes and LG&T doesn't get any...

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Eek at Scoot's story, we were thinking of taking D up there to have a look tomorrow evening - we'll retreat if he gets too scared but tbh I think I'm far more easily frightened than he is.

As long as you stay outside it will be fine.They are stunning fireworks, well worth a look.

Email me you postal address then PJ..And I will get directions from the AA.Jolly good!

I deliberately have not bought Grazia for two weeks so I dont get tempted to go shoping.

OMG!dh had the bright idea of asking his Mother to come t help with the girls next week.I beg of you.As if things werent stressful enough

Jaysus lord alive what are they thinking when they say things like that.

Lovley dress AM.

PJ go low lights I used to know a hairdresser and he said if you have naturally dark hair when you try to go lighter it needs loads more attention as it grows out uber quick.

Got to go back to the midwife in a bit they want to re-monitor today to make sure all is ok. I phoned them and said that I am literally being beaten up by the bump today and they said I still have to go. So am taking my ipod and am going to listen to the hypnobirthing CD that TYG sent me.

At least they are being cautious Jam.somtimes I felt like I had to beg to be seen..glad baby has dancing shoes on today

DH is under great duress..its the only way it can be explained..>>shakes head sadly

AM, that dress is beautiful. My last new clothes were a maternity bundle off ebay. That's why I'm so excited about my tweed jacket.

Jam, it's a chance for a lie down I suppose.

Scoot, what in hell's name is he thinking? My own dm is wonderful if a little busybodyish when looking after me. When they visited after M was born they brought food with them, plus baked goods and meals for the freezer. They looked after me, didn't outstay their welcome and were wonderful. The whole set of ILs on the other hand. Sheesh. They came, sat, demanded I make tea for them and wouldn't let me touch dd. Eldest BIL and SIL came round 4 days post-section, uninvited I might add, stayed 9 hours, grumbled they were hungry till I cooked something and just sat there like lemons when the midwife turned up and announced 'I'm here to remove the stitch and check the episiotomy'. When they finally left I sobbed. And sobbed. BIL was so anti-bfeeding that I had to keep locking myself away to feed a very hungry 4 day old and then had her snatched off me as soon as I came back in the room. This all from the children of the woman who said to me while dd was little 'you mustn't think of her as your baby when there are others around. It's only fair you let them have a turn with her'. Fark me, she's a toy. I thought she was my baby. Thank goodness I'm having no more.

Sorry, that was a bit rantish wasn't it?

Sounds like only a rant will do, SOH. My family are the odd ones in our relationship. Your ILs sound frankly, odd. Are you sure your DH wasn't adopted? He sounds so different to them!

Lovely dress AM. I do love to get glammed up.

Elkie - We have previously gone to it and shown up just 10 minutes before the start, by entering via the little "side" gate on Alexandra Park Road (near Palace Gates Road) and not worrying about getting the "best" view. You can't see the ground level stuff they let off in front of the Palace, but you can beat a hasty retreat back the way you came if you need to. FYI, the gate on Dukes Avenue will be closed this year, so there will be additional pressure on the other gates. Hope that helps!

SOH i remember you telling us about that nightmare I will keep them away after the next one have no fear.

Jam i am pleased they are keeping an eye on things, it will make you sit down for a while too.

AM that dress is lovely Hair up deffo. Nice necklace?

Pink i have had highlights theough mine, 3 different colour blondes. I just need perking up and my hair is so wild you dont notice regrowth particularly. Low lights sound nice for a change. Hmmmmm

TYG dont go killing yourself with all the lovely cooking and rushing round. I hope dh is helping with the babies if you are doing all this?

We are off to fireworks tonight too, school display. Hoping to get the children hotdogs for tea and for it to NOT RAIN >

I dont know who Paul Bettany is either but have seen a Nights Tale (v funny) so will ask dh.

The crotch zingers are back FLF reminded me what they were called on the other thread aaaahhhhh!

Scoot nooooooooooooo, stay in your bedroom away from it all. How very helpful of him

Aherm,

By ShowOfHands on Wed 05-Nov-08 10:33:56
Paint systems? How very posh. It's not all Cath Kidston then? Crotch zingers. I remember those. Usually happened in the middle of the super market and I started yelping by the baked beans. Pregnancy, such a magical time. Never, ever again.

Anyway, I'm having my hair done next Thursday. Those of you who have met me, please suggest a style. Please. I hate the hairdresser and I have to have these bloody photos taken. What shall I have done. It's a little shorter than shoulder length atm and has layers in it. I don't like it at all. Please please help.

LG&T, if I ever did have another it would be on the condition that you were here to hold my hand. You know that though.

Paul Bettany is Chaucwer in that..blond guy, introduced Heath Ledger...

Am dreading it..I really am.Plus will now have to clean the filthy house as she will no doubt make comment if I dont.I beg of you.

We just set off to walk to my friends who is kindly making us tea.And it started to bucket down.We are going in the car instead.Ruddy weather.

Hello ladies!!

Well between having my water accidentally turned off, Cruz waking up in his own vomit and proceeding to dance around in it, and two kids with diareaha (sp?), I'm doing great.

Luckily now Cruz is taking a nap, and Mateo is watching a movie and I can sit by myself and cry have a quiet moment.

Tell me again why I'm having a third.

I think I have a hidden camera on me somewhere.

We were out walking in the rain earlier. M stopped, said 'shower' and started miming scrubbing her armpits.

I've decided she thinks I'm boring. I explained why the leaves had fallen off the trees earlier, touched on seasons and the evergreen firs we have in the fields out back. She stared at me for the whole thing and then said 'biscuit mummy?'. Now, I really do beg of you.

You're having a third because otherwise the next next one wouldn't be your fourth would it?

Sadly this will be my last. After the baby is born I'm sending dh for the snip-snip.

Poor you MKG. Vomit. Argh. And when your sense of smell is heightened by pregnancy as well.

SOH - It's no wonder M is such a genius. I read somewhere recently about a family of three girls who had all achieved A stars in heaps of A-levels and all had fabulous university degrees and careers. When asked about whether they were hot-housed as children, they all just said, "No, our parents just told us stuff when we asked questions as children."

Made me feel a lot better about droning on about geography stuff to my kids. "Did you know you're living on a terminal moraine, S?" It's my thing, geography. I do blue questions on Trivial Persuit. S must have said something to her last geography teacher about me, because the woman was under the impression that I was a geography teacher myself. Next life maybe, when teachers get more respect and more money.

Oh man, and I've just realised that with no water, you can't clean up the vomit. Yeuch.

Ohgod so sorry SOH credit where credits due, you did say it

MKG i have days like that, i look for the candid camera guy to jump out. What fun we have as mommies. Hope you dont get the bug too.

Now you hair lady needs a good layering cut to give it shape, this means you can wash and leave, essential for baby filled mornings. If you can bear it i would say some lovely foils through it with caramel and light browns to life it. Get a hair magazine and browse, they are very useful when you really dont know what to do.

I will get dh to take a pic of my mop, bump and silver cross later so you can laugh see me and admire my lovely pram.

Scoot cleaning too! Nooo. I would do the same though am a cleaning addict if people are coming, i cant help it.

LG&T said mommies. How cute.

Yeah I called the water company and apparently they shut us off by accident. They were supposed to shut of someone else instead.
It should be up momentarily.

By the way, last night's baked ziti does not look good this morning.

I can put caramel in my own hair.

TYG, unfortunately I don't think M is ever going to ask. I just waffle on at her and will continue to do so. This afternoon I was explaining osmosis, the example being how if I fall asleep on a book about geography, I will wake up enlightened. Geography is my weak point. Psychoanalysis, literature, catloguing books and purchasing of gingerbread all good. Geography bad.

Oh I can't spell. I'm supposed to be writing my book and I'm slacking off. Joan's at a critical point and I can't write it.

No, no, she never asked SOH. I just babble on.

DH offered to do the food, G&T, but that would involve every pot and pan in the kitchen being used to make one batch of chilli or something. I'm doing the Tunisian veg stew from Feast, with lamb chunks, instead of meatballs. It's a handy one becuase apart from the fact everyone loves it and it's mega cheap; (a) it can all be made tonight (b) by cooking lamb separately and using veg instead of chicken stock, it is suitable for vegetarians and (c) is served with cous cous which doesn't really need to be kept warm and doesn't actually need any cooking. Plus your usual cocktail sausages, spicy popcorn and chips and salsa (homemade of course) and a variety of cakes and desserts. Can freeze leftover cake and save myself baking for playgroup for a couple of weeks. I think there are going to be about 30 adults and teens, plus 10 babies and children.

Oh please can I come?

Haven't seen or heard a firework this year. Food sounds lovely.

Why do men use all the pots and pans? And they don't wash up as they go along like normal folks. Or women as we're better known.

Evening all

LG&T I need your expertise on pushchairs, what twin should I get. I need something lightweight/easy to push, shop/public transport friendly and looks good too of course, oh and it needs to fit easily into car boots, not like the Babystyle one I had for Alana.

Ethan has decided this baby is going to be called Jonathan, god knows where he got that from. Poor Dh thought I had chosen a name without discussing it with him lol. Dont get me wrong its not a bad name but its not something we would choose so now we have to convince him to come up with another name

I had a lovely letter from Jordan's school today, moaning about his attendance and saying that he has been identified as a persistent absentee and is also classed as a persistent truant WTF Ok so he had 7 days off for our holiday but we were granted permission for that. The only other time off he has had resulted from him breaking his arm in PE doing something that he shouldnt have been taught anyway. Even then he only had the time off because the school wouldnt let him back until he had been to the fracture clinic and was in a proper cast which took a week. Im soo annoyed with them. Up until now he has had an excellent attendance record. When he broke his arm everyone said I should have made an offial complaint to the school but I didnt because I put it down to one of those things kids experience. Personally I think our kids are wrapped too much in cotton wool and it annoys me that they are banned from doing things such as contact sport or competitive sports, we all did it and we survived but now they have sent this letter I wish I had said something. They have notified the Education Welfare Officer about it too and if he is absent and they dont think he is really ill they will send the school bus to collect him and return him to school , over my dead body.