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

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Pull ups/make daddy do it/change him while he is stood up/do it when he first wakes so he's sleepy

Lovely to see you on here.

CM, I'm sorry. Listen to me moaning on and I've just read what you put on the bereavement thread about not having 2 littlies running round at Christmas. I'll shut up whinging now and offer you a big cuddle.

thanks for that. maybe i try a pull up in the morning...good idea!... Daddy had already left (he went just after 6am today) BUT hes gonna try go to work a bit later a few days a week coz freddie doesnt mess him around as much as me!
i tried the standing up thing this morning while he was running away.....and failed....maybe i need more practice....!

one more question.....how much do your 17month olds sleep during the day?
Freddie been ill and had bad cough for about 6 weeks and not sleeping well at night but now its getting silly. ive not had an unbroken nights sleep since end of august....
maybe he sleeps too much during the day? he goes to be around 7.30 - 7.45pm and wakes between 5 and 6am
i told nursery not to restrict his sleep at lunchtime but......

Don't worry SOH, I have tried to move my alter ego miserable fecking bitch side of my personality over there as felt I was being a tad demanding on here moaning all the time.

Could you do proof reading from home SOH to help bring the pennies in if that is making you feel bad, you get to read loads of boring pamphlets good stuff and get paid? If not how about Ann Summers (ROFL) Tupperware parties in the evenings I would comealong if you held one. You can never have enough storage IMO.

MID blardy missed you off sorry, hope you are ok, G sleeps 1.5 hours usually in the day, goes to bed around 8.30 but gets up around 4ish for a snack usually. Cue bags under eyes. He is a little begger as well re the nappy a lady at work recommends a changing mat with straps but have not got round to getting one yet.

MJB well done, nearly a whole year in the dark. Thank-you once again. Can I come for Christmas as well?

tie the beggers down

thank you!

M stopped sleeping in the day months ago so I'm no help I'm afraid!

Tupperware parties would get in the way of my faffing time. Today I have used acrylic paints and big painting boards to do some artwork for M's room. I've done her name, stylised with animals. So the M is a tree with a monkey climbing it, the A is an anthill with an anteater chasing ants up it, the T is a rock with a tiger lounging on it and so on... taken me ages but is quite effective. I need a job that involves me mooching about taking photos, painting, writing and drawing. Wife of a rich man maybe. I'm not bothered about money in the slightest, just feel like a burden.

SOH it sounds delightful post pics please and you are not a burden, you are a SAHM doing your bit for your family. So there.

PS I have to pay £1.25 an hour to park; fuel to get here; childcare ££££££s ; lunch at coffee bar across road as too idle to make butties and think I have to come to blardy work the least I can have is a decent lunch; clothes for work; tea money; based in town so have to walk past lurvely shops tempting me in with their wares; etc etc etc. I beg of you tis hardly cost effectve at the mo anyway. But will need the money when DCs are at school and I'm too crap/lacking in confidence to let myself get out of the workplace as I fear I will never want to get back in.

I can't keep up with you all, I think i will just copy and paste Charley's posts, she is just so inclusive

Scoot good luck, you really need to slow down.

Well Zanzibar was just awesome, it was a little stormy weather wise but the sun shone most of the time. We went snorkelling/diving on an amazing reef in 28 degree temperatures and the best thing was not having to worry about putting on suncream on 3 small people/finding their drinks/feeding them all at set times/answering ridiculous questions (oh hold on, I was with dh so scrap that last one)/stopping jasper from chasing aeroplanes and having cocktails when I liked. Dh and I got on famously. We attended his client soiree which was great fun and so interesting for once to be the only white people in a crowd of 80 Kenyans. I didn't miss the dc once In the meantime they had a ball, all 3 were good as gold and not a jot of fighting, I was proud. When we got back J spent 5 minutes loving caressing my face and saying 'Mum' with slobbery kisses. This morning we played, he had a tantrum about an umbrella and almost fell asleep on the floor, instead he crashed in my arms at 11am!

Good to see you MID! We too have the nappy wrangle, I always do it with him standing up. Could you give him some milk whilst changing it?

SOH, you are so creative. You could try doing it Tinga Tinga style next time. Now get on and finish that book. Or you could knock out a few Mills and Boons to keep you busy?

Tilly - I am dying to know what happened with the dress....How many days to go?

OMG Jam, mini munch could be here SOON!

MID..My long lost John Lewis buddy..Where have you been..We have missed you..

My tip re the nappy changing is as someone else said-give him soienmthing to distract him whistl you do it.Milk, bit of fruit, book or toy.M is lke a contortionist when I change her nappy.I have to get L to help me sometimes by making her laugh/hanidn gme the wipes etc.
My sympathies with the tantrums.I ahd thought L was getting better but she has not been a good girl this weekend.And now M has started asserting herself..sigh.

Have snuk out of meeting for a bit.The pressure of being social was becoming too much.

What would I say to the GP SOH?Would he not just tell me to pull myself together?

What a pain we have had a bloody power cut since I posted at lunchtime blimey it gets dark in the country. We only had 1 torch with failing batteries and a candle A is not best pleased as soon as it got dark he started screaming. DP popped out at 2.30 still not back and not answering the phone. I beg of you what am I goign to do if I go into labour and he has his phone off the man is a gigantic pain in the arse sometimes.

SOH I competely understand we never have any money DP insists on living on credit as its the only way we can ever afford anything due to his bad budgeting and huge debts from before we met. He also does not want me to work as the only job I could get at the mo wouldnt cover childcare and at weekends he wants us all together. So we often are living month to month. Just think in a few years you will be some massive JK Rowling type millionaire talking about your struggling days as a writer. I do think we all have days of complete and utter desperation at what we are doing should I be a SAHM does it make A a mummy's boy or am I giving him the best start in life or should I go get a job so we can afford other things.

MID we are the same in this house I often have to hold A down to change nappies and he is a master at throwing a wobbler then running away laughing.

As his hands teased their way inside her silk blouse, she turned to meet his kiss, her mouth already open. With the fierce rays of the Kenyan sun beating down on her naked thighs, she fell back and let him explore every inch of her aching body.

And... vomit. I think I prefer pirate porn.

Will photograph the artwork later.

God, how did you know I had a silk blouse?

SOH..Please stop..or the thread wont get through my firewall..
Going back in to meeting now..at the very least they are enjoying the buffet..

X posts with Scoot and Jam.

Country living's great. When our electricity goes, our water goes as our water is pumped from a local spring with a very dodgy generator type thing that relies on electricity. Plus, our house shares electricity with three others. If either of them have more than 3 lights on, our lights fade to nothing. Jolly jolly. Tell numpty to keep his phone on for fark's sake. Being a sahm is the right decision for me but I want to achieve something separate from motherhood. Is that selfish?

Scoot, I would think that as soon as you got into the GP's surgery and started to explain how ill you keep getting, how stressed you are etc, it might all tumble out and be very apparent how much you need a little help and time out. They should bring back convalescing by the sea. They know about your tummy problems. That's the first indication of too much stress m'lovely.

Buffet's my dh's third favourite word after moist and bike.

I'll resist continuing tales of your silk blouse slipping from your smooth, tanned shoulders shall I TMAM? I know a professor who writes Mills and Boons. Makes a fortune.

SOH

Absoloutely not selfish atall SOH I know what you mean I investigated going back to college and doing my PGCE so I could teach or go back into working special needs but decided to delay until mini munch is older as I dont think I could do exams and have 2 under 2. Is there any way you could use your skills and do something at home difficult to fit on with DH's working hours I know but maybe something you could pick and choose the hours.

Am quite frankly disturbed my your DH's first favourite word being moist.

Snort at SOH's writing.

SOH, I know your dh is rotaed to work every shift conceivable at Christmas and New Year, but can you, him and M have a celebration of your own on a day when he's not working. I still don't really believe 19 month olds will care about presents or whatever, I think ds will enjoy lots of food and attention as we're staying at my mum's, and everyone else will give him stuff. I hardly buy him toys but he still has more than we have space for, what's it going to be like with two of them? dp has gone and ordered some In the Night Garden stuff without talking to me about it, grrr. Anyway, you sound like the most lovely mum to me.

Personally I am more disturbed that his third favourite word is buffet.

I agree Scoot, you could easily get him to sign you off for stress.

Music advice needed please, I need some new CDs and am waaaaaaay out of touch. I think I like The Killers and I find The Hoosiers quite fun. Traditionally I like a bit of Coldplay/Oasis kind of guitar not quite rock sound. Any suggestions? Oh and its got to be good to run to.

DH would go anywhere and do anything for a buffet.

I don't know what I could do at home. I could start a cottage industry making name plaques.

elkie, I know M won't give a monkey's left testicle at Christmas. I haven't explained myself properly (sorry JB and TMAM for the repeat, they've been bored already). In a nutshell it's galling that Christmas is becoming more and more expensive with various lists from various family members of what I should and shouldn't buy for them. DH is working ridiculous overtime to pay for all this and all he/I really want is for him to have a day off and for us to cook and celebrate St Nick's Day (December 6th) and bestow lovely little homemade, well thought out gifts on people instead of what they tell me to buy. A general 'ooh I'd like' is fine but 'only this perfume on page 42 of I Want What I Want And I'll Bloody Have It' is annoying me. I want satsumas and nuts and magic and tinsel. I don't want commercial fecking crap. I'm going to church with my Dad in the morning and might go and help out at a soup station as I have done every other Christmas that dh works! It's the grasping I don't like.

I know nothing about modern music whatsoever. I like twiddly fiddles. However, I heard this on the wireless today and I believe it's modernish. I would run to this.

Just tried it, can't run without dancing...

What exactly was on that video? Apparently my country won't support it.

Oh come on, it's good fun.

Me and Tank are dancing like loons.

Honest guv I can't see it.