Jan '07 part 29: ...Or should that be Due 2009? Who will be next? Shimmer/Trixy/Lizz...

[Wilkiepedia]

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I have never heard of a bridgestone tyre

Lizz its about 5ft (same as me its normally £9.99 (norwegian spruce???) but they had 10% off day plus I had 10% voucher, its huge and bushy (in fact my ad had to chop some of the lower branches off so I could fit it in a bucket! (never having had a real tree I didnt think what I was going to put it in) Our tree is shoved placed in the corner although had to move the fish tank and cupboard and tree is slightly squished in but not really anywhere else to put it without moving sofas etc.

Vin - mmmm dinner sounds lovely we often have a cinema afternoon if I have soemthing to get on with (that afternoon was applying for Ellies primary school place and 'proper' clean downstairs so wanted to move sofa/cupoards etc (in fact ended up sorting through the cupboards and clearing some toys in preperation for christmas )

Had much better night last night. Didnt wake til morning. Luke and Ruth are sleeping better too now as it is dark in the morning. So a much more rested Dragon household today.

EAH- Hope you have a better night with H.

Pink- Glad parents evening went well. Are you happy with the school?

We are not doing parties either Rgee. Think I will have to give Luke a party next year as he will be 4 and has been invited to quite afew. Luckily his bday is in July so some hope of good weather. Same with Rachel being in Aug but poor Ruth in Jan will be inside I think!

Lizz- I used to love my micra as you could get all 4 tyres replaced for less than £100 and that is with goodyear ones.

Vino- Love the new pics too. I am about the boots as I wanted them for Ruth but they wouldnt let me get them as she has a shoe shop assistant phobia. Does this really sad face, her eyes fill up and then she starts bawling as soon as they look at her. So she went ridgid and wouldnt let anyone put them on her feet. So we had to get ankle ones that have velcro. Nice but not as nice.

Oh DH that's interesting bout R's shoe shop assistant pheobia! I took F to get new shoes today and when the nice lady in came towards him with the foot measuring thing he had a complete fit. All sort of distractions and bribary WOULD NOT entice him to put his foot into the thing (even after me, my mum and the lady in the shop had done it!). We had to just try on a couple of sizes and guess in the end. (Size 6 and a half now! ) I thought it was such a wierd reaction!!! We went to a 2nd birthday party this afternoon and one of my friends said her little girl freaks out at having her feet measured too! So maybe it's not so odd?!?

Lizz LOL at DJ sniffing himself and "lying" about having pooed!

RGee everytime I see Flat Stanley in the shop now I think of you. I wish I'd got you for SS

Shimmer- with Ruth it is only women fitters. When we went to John Lewis there was a male fitter and she just beamed at him!

Hello!

Chat chat chat. Will try and remember what everyone said but pg brain has already kicked in...!

Lizz - glad you got tyre off, shame no sexual favours had to be called though. PMSL at D's poo poo comment.

Reggiee - Please tell me the tiredness wears off soon - I have no energy to do a sodding thing. Not good.

EAH - £8 tree - bargainous. We have just spent £50 on an artificial one from B&Q - I love real trees but the pine needles dropping off are a pain PLUS I cannot believe you have your tree up already!!!

PCF - am gonna demand MW listens to hb at next appt. I loved it last time - used to make me well up (saddo)

Vino - please can I come for tea roast beef dinner sounds bootiful

M&D coming over this afternoon so am cooking stew and giant yorkshire puddings (yes home made no Aunt Bessie's crap for me)

Anyway, J has pooed so must go and change nappy...

Hello Girls, you're absent friend here.

Haven't read teh whole thread but just noticed vinos question about my name.
Yes its from Thomas. Dh is a train driver so yonks ago the MN naming society renamed me. SirTophamhatt is the geezer in charge of all the trains so thats the link between me and Thomas.
DH = train driver.
SirTophamhatt = Not really a train driver but train related.

I'm DHs wife, LadyTophamhatt is his wife.

I've written far to much to explain that.

Nothing to report here. everything teh same as the last time.
My life is a whirlwind of excitment.

eandh....have you got you tree up already?????

yes purely because it made Ellie shut up for at least 3 hours whilst we bought it and she decorated it (and obviosuly started a theme because the neighbours have put theirs up too!)

God, you nutcase!

I have been known to put our up on teh 1st Dec but this yr it'll be goinbg up on Xmas eve and back down boxing day.

I really cannot be botherted this year....

it'll be down on the 27th/28th I hate having the tree up after Christmas plus I like to have a week of normality before Hatties birthday cards go up!

Ellie had a fab time at panto with mum and dad and eddas dd they were really well behaved unil they came home in the car and they started arguing, however, Dad sorted it

DH took Hattie to local garden centre this morning and took her to see father christmas she loved the real reindeers etc but hated him so cried (like I said she would) then we popped to town and Hattie in her element having us to herself, came home and played with dolly (involves me having to cha\nge it every 2 minutes whilst Hattie feeds it, cuddles it or tells it to 'shut up' )

I've just been up to our loft room and extracted our box full of Xmas decs, which also contained my Xmas cards. Have instructed dh to bring the tree in from the garage tomorrow and am planning to put it up next weekend with help from the lo (so all the baubles round the bottom then ). Also just ordered photos for relatives Xmas cards. Hurrah! First step complete - hope you're proud Eah

Had my first big pg wobble today . Went to watch dh in a 10mile race but Pip screamed full on for most of the time he was racing. In the end I was in tears too and hiding in a corner. Thank god dh was fast - I was in bits. I think that despite the ridiculous number of layers I had the lo in, her feet were too cold. All this boot talk is good timing as I'm going to head to the shoe shop at the earliest opportunity and invest in a fur lined pair. DH was a real sweetie, but when he asked what the matter was as e were both in floods of tears, I replied 'I'mmmmm preeegggnannnnttt'.

What do you do for Xmas LTH? Do you have relatives round or is your houses full enough? I imagine it's lovely with the boys at such different ages

Wilkie am not as tired this last week (18 weeks) but as mentioned above, ridiculous emotions have kicked in instead. Think I preferred the tiredness.

Shimmer I still feel the need to track down an old style Flat Stanley just to prove to myself it did exist!

Vino / Wilkie you both up for coming round here on Sat then? I can do lunch if needed for all. I think there's a Xmas fair up the road if we have the energy.

PS finally got around to putting up pics of Pip on Facebook if anyone wants a nosey. Managed a grand total of 3 pictures before getting hacked off at my lack of technical ability....

well done on the pre christmas prep Rgee. Hattie has these brown boots from next and they have a very snug sheepskin lining (her feet are like hot potatos when she wears these

Eah they look just the thing. What are the next sizings like?

well hattie is a clarks '5/5.5' and she has a 5 in these and plenty of room in them

meant to say I remember those days where everything seems 100 times worse than it really is (and I'd ring dh about 5 times an hour asking when he'd be home)

Yes Rgee, will be at yours on sat morning. 10 ok? Lunch sounds lovely, as does xmas fayre. Is santa there? I saw flat stanley in waterstones last weekend, thought of you,but didn't buy a copy.

Lovely day in vino household.

Hello. Can I have a whingy post? Sorry it is pg related but I don't want to venture any further into MN anymore and the other topics.

I feel so crap. I felt like this with my last pg. I feel anxious and miserable. I am still on 10mg of my ADs but they don't seem to be doing anything. I want to curl up into a ball and hibernate for 9 months. I feel guilty because I haven't the energy to play with J, I constantly feel hungry and sick and retch alot, I HATE my job and am dreading going in tomorrow, I am terrified of something going wrong with the pg and generally am just fucking miserable. I think quite a lot of it centres around my job but not much I can do there as we need the money.

What do I do? Am I being normal?? I felt shit last time but wasn't on my ADs and had the weddding looming at 15 weeks pg. I'm not teary this time just feel really low.

Sorry, maybe just needed to get it written down.

Oh Wilks, sorry you feel so pants.
Is there anyway you can get signed off work for a week, to get your head together a bit?
Or, (& I know you are probably as brassic as me but..) can you book a last minute deal to somewhere hot and sunny and relax for a bit?

Have you tried anything else along side your ADs? Some forms of light therapy are fantastic.
I guess you can't do a sunbed atm (can you?) but those infra red lamps can do wonders too (lidl are selling them for £7.99 atm)

Is work pants because of the people being nasty or the actual job? Can you move away from the nasty people or is it a small office? Is it feasible at all to jack it in and temp? One of my RL pg mates had a high pressured job she wasn't that fond of and when she got pg she just left and has been temping from 8-1 each day and loves it.

I am afraid I can't think of anything else, but, the current feel good medicine in my house is giant chocolate buttons. They are truly gorgeous.

I bumped into a Mum I know this morning when dropping a mates DD off at her nursery as a favour. DJ was shrieking dementedly as I wasn't letting him out of his buggy (as per normal there then!) and she commented that she in no way could have handled that screaming. Her girls, although have plenty of tantruming don't screech like him.
I just assumed the contstant screaming at me was normal behaviour. Does anyone else's child/ren do this? Please let me know as I do feel like I am going to explode soon.
Thank you! x

Oh wilkie that all sounds so pah and crap, like lizz said any chance you could get signed off for a few weeks just for a bit of space? Also get the midwife to check your iron I felt consistently crap when pg with Hattie because my iron level never got above 9.8 (even with 2 iron tablets a day) also worried so much more mainly because of the 2 mc's after having Ellie and also because I was just more 'aware' of what could go wrong (didnt really go on the internet much when pg with ellie and then read all sorts of stuff when pg with hattie)

Lizz - my 2 screech for England and then they compete with who can screech/scream the loudest (my Mum discovered this on Friday when she took them food shopping and Hattie was trapped in trolley and ellie tormenting her resulting in a huge screeching match to which my Mum ended up telling them both off big style in teh middle of morrisons (my Mum is not a big 'shouter' so think it shocked them both as apparently they cried the rest of the way round )

Eah - Thanks for that! I need to hear lots of those kind of stories atm! I can't handle much more of it!
I have an appt at the physio this afternoon and there is no one to leave DJ with and nursery are full, so I have to take him. I have the biggest supply of snacks to tide him over but I am terrified he will kick off in the hospital.