May 07.The one where the toddlers try to eat the wrapping paper and climb the Christmas tree!

[TheGreatScootini]

New thread..we-ell it is nearly December and I like to start the festivities early doors

You are not miserable CM..You are going through a horrible time.
Tis a bit tumbleweedy on 't thread these last few days though..

Tell DH I have ALOT of jobs for him to do Mrs JB.I am so sick of the sight of this ruddy shiny wall paper!

Girls back tonight.I am looking forward to seeing them but I cant pretend it hasnt been nice to have some peace

I don't know what thread you ladies are talking about. But as far as cake making goes, yes mixes are abundant. I too am victim of their seduction.

But in my defense I have a book called the "Cake mix doctor". It takes a regular box of cake mix, and throws other things in it, so they become something else. Pretty much all my cakes come from it as they are simple, yet delicious, and they never disappoint a crowd.

Bored bored bored have cleaned the house had a spicy lunch done the ironing and nada not even a twinge. Going for accupuncture tom see if that works. I bloody knew this would happen there was me harping on about not having the baby on my birthday I am going to end up going 12 days over.

BF is 7 days over today and is being induced on Sunday night at 6pm. She has to ring at 4pm to 'make sure' there is a bed available.

No sign of her going before then. She is seriously bored now.

Jam it will be soon my lovely I feel it. Rest lots and then have a power walk tomorrow with the boy and dog.

Pink tell your friend to start some serious nipple stim and maybe consider Cauloplyllum (homeopathic remedy) to get things going before Sunday. A good walk is also necessary.

Packet mixes >

Drinking

Am off out to the toddler Xmas meal tonight, i will be sober (again) and the only one driving (again) >

MKG i out a little parcel in the post for you today, it should be air mailing itself to you soon

Sending labour vibes your way Jam, I hope it all kicks off for you soon. Today at school was the Christmas party and I always think back fondly to 4 years ago at the party when I started in slow labour with C. I think a kiss from Santa was what did it! Today he was there screaming with excitement at Santa himself, I certainly had a tear in my eye when I saw him.
I'm hoping not to get another sleepless night tonight. R has the bug that C had last weekend. She woke up crying last night and she was like a little radiator. At one point I thought she was going to start convulsing as her eyes rolled back and she started twitching. I managed to cool her down before it went any further but it really scared me. She is well-dosed up tonight but has already woken once. When C is ill he just wants to be left alone to sleep but R is the complete opposite. She wnats attention all the time and becomes very clingy. She will only really sleep in my arms, even our bed wouldn't suffice last night. Therefore tonight I am knackered and really don't fancy a repeat performance. I don't feel all that great myself and need my sleep!!
I'm hoping she's ok tomorrow becasue we have a party to go to. Some very close friends of ours had a little boy in June who was born with club feet and he has been wearing plaster casts on his legs for the past 6 months. he finally got fitted for his boot and bars this week so he is having a 'cast off' party tomorrow!
Anyway, I'm off now to try and get some sleep while everything is quiet.

Moring all

lol at you drunkards..

Jam..I know exactly why you are annoyed.When L was born my Mum and Dad were downstairs in our tiny house as I laboured upstairs..(it was Christmas day so they were there for that).
When M was born I was determined to avoid this again..I wanted it to be just me and Dh.I had planned for the CM to take L so Mum wouldnt have to come and be in the house.Then the CM's kids all got chicken pox.As it happened I ended up 12 days over and induced but I was horrified at the thought of labouring with someone else in the house again.
Can DH speak to them?
Or seriously I am off next week.If you have not had the baby yet could I come for initiation with Archie then I could come and take him?

(unless you are in labout RIGHT NOW!)

DH and I are just off to London in a min.He knows nowt about tonight Lordy all this secretism is stressful.I could never be in MI5!

Gingerbread Xmas Tree Cookie anyone........?

Scoot i hope you have a fab time tonight

Jam i am thinking Monday x

Well it looks like my litle monkey is well and truely starting this potty training! She keeps going and doing wee's and has so far done 2 no.2's. I guess she isnt a baby anymore

'oh hello mr tumbleweed, would you like somw gingerbread cookies'

tumbleweed: 'yes please'

AM: 'lovely, my friends seem to be too busy today to log in'

tumbleweed: 'their loss'

Scoot you are so kind DP has had words with them and told them that they need to take the monster away as am not laboring with A at home.

Have a fabby time tonight you DH is very lucky.

AM defo send those cookies my way.

Ok ladies has to be tonight had acupuncture and done a spot of yoga today and its a full moon.

Hmmmm did you say ginger cookies? I'm sure thats what you've really made.

Mr tumbleweed is propped up against the front door!

Blimmin Nora jam get shagging. Where's lg&t she knows the home sweep method. Worked for me with j.

Tumbleweed is right....
Jam, so glad your DH sorted A's minding arrangements. I was convinced I would be ok with A at home (mainly because we don't really have any back up near by) but at the last minute I remembered that our BIL was at home for a couple of days (works away a lot) and we called Dh's sister at 6am. I'd started to panic that things weren't moving as quick as they should. Once I knew BIL was on his way to get A, it really kicked off. She was collected at 7 and O was born at 8.15.

My friend also had a homebirth where she was in "early labour" until her sister picked up her toddler and then had the baby within an hour of her leaving.

Am hoping the full moon did the trick last night. I was 12 days over with A and she was born on a full moon . I think I was clutching at straws by then, but hey ho.

I have been sick as sick can be. I was actually convinced I had pneumonia, I felt so dreadful. Hot, cold, vomiting, body so sore and weak I had to get DH to help me feed O yesterday and a hacking cough that still feels like I have a circular saw in my chest.

Of course in a way that only mothers can, I started feeling bad on Thurs, soldiered through Fri with the kids, fell apart when DH got home Fri night, couldn't leave my bed yesterday and am now on the road to recovery, apparently having sweated out the virus if my two sodden pairs of pyjamas are anything to go by. Yeuch. Presumably by the time DH goes to work tomorrow, it will be like I was never sick. (Apart from a few spectacular coughing fits.) Convenient!

Glad DH seems to have escaped. He's been sleeping in the spare bed, so must have saved him. He's asthmatic, so this would have been a hospital job for him.

Am supposed to be making a few dozen mince pies for the playgroup Christmas party. Not sure I'm quite well enough to stand in our freeeeeezing kitchen making pastry.

Quick question girls or actually prob a long rambling one.

So had the acupuncture and cranial and massage yesterday which was lovely. The acupunturist said I would prob have quite a disturbed sleep and lots of tightenings etc. In fact what I had last night was a frantic tummy where John said he could actually see the foot outline where the bubba was pushing and jigging about so much. Also for the first time in days had pretty much no braxtons. So anyway went to bed and apart from the obligitory wee and painful to turn over wake ups NOTHING. This morning however the baby has been vvvv quiet still occasional nudges and wiggles but nothing like normal. So a little concerend but assuming its because its getting into position?? Would that be right??? As I didnt have any of this with A as was in hosp, so have no idea.

And now to top it off DP is having a panic that something is wrong because my belly is so big and so low he is panicing that I will need a c-sec or will not be able to cope at the birthing unit. Way to go after all my stressing and listening to all my affirmations (thanksTYG) I finally feel confident that I can really give it a good try without hospital and epidural. he is also worried that it is going to be a whopper but that might have something to do with my wispa intake And funnily enough this all came out after he spoke with his mother today on the phone I bet that stupid old cow concerned mother has said something to make him worry.

Jam don't worry. You are going to have this baby eventually you know. Just relax. There is nothing else you can do except keep on with life and wait for the rascal to come.

Make really cool exciting plans, then the baby will decided to come.

Jam tis the calm before the storm Please don't worry. He will have been wiggling to get in to a good position last night and hopefully has found it. Keep calm, take a nice long bath and go for a good walk.

You need to reeeelaaaax and be open. I am sure it is all fine.

It was in fact a very full moon last night and he was probably surfing the waves calmly.

JAM, am sure all will be fine and that baby has made his/her way into a nice position. I still think that it will be tomorrow

Thanks I know it is ok just getting myself in a pickle. I think cause its so different to Archie.

LG&T how are you doing my lovely is she behaving herself and staying put for you?

TYG meant to say earlier but forgot in my sefish me me post. Hope oyu feel better soon.

Scoot how was the party did you all have a fab time?

Abby hope R is ok and that oyu managed to get a bit of sleep.

Jam, grr at your mother in law, hope baby starts to come soon and that all goes really well and you get your birth centre delivery.

TYG hope you feel better soon.

TYG are you magically better today? Take it easy regardless as i have known the dreaded lergy to come back for more if i fling myself in to things too soon. No tramping round shops ok?

Is the car fixed yet? Tell him you want Father Christmas to bring you a new one!

Jam how are you today?

Scoot how was the party???? Hope it all went well and dh was thrilled with all the effort you put in. Are the girls mended yet?

I am 36 weeks today! The week is going to whizz by as they all have things on nearly every day and finish on Friday. The boy is snotty and grumpy, his new thing is throwing he is so naughty!

Jam - not selfish at all. It's very hard not to be consumed by imminent childbirth, especially when you're overdue. I should know!

Elkie, when are you due again?

Yes LG&T, have gone from coughing so hard last night I made my lungs bleed, to barely coughing at all this morning.

However, I also spent the entire night sweating, so between changing nightwear, turning the duvet round to find a dry spot, feeding the boy, settling the unsettled boy, taking boy into bed, moving duvet round ad nauseum I got about two hours sleep (DH was in spare bed) and I am like a bag of cats this morning.

I'm not going take the kids to the minder today. I don't think it's fair. They're not sick (fingers crossed), but they're bound to be covered in my nasty germs. How can they not be?

Thought the car was fixed (for free!) by nice local garage man, who said it wasn't the big problem I thought (inhibitor switch which lets the ignition know the car is in "park"), but only a little relay to the starter. Hoorah, I thought. DH took it out yesterday with A to meet people for lunch and I got a call at 4 to say he couldn't get it going. I am the AA member, not him, so had to call AA and then go out in the cold with the boy to bring the AA card over. It transpired we were attended by a non-AA van in the end, so he didn't give a fart whether we had a membership card or not. Said vehicle is now back outside the house. Anyway, he says this is the last time we're doing a big repair. He wants to hold out til next year because second hand car values are plummeting. (Sorry to anyone who is selling one...) What I was looking at costing £12K last year is already £7K now so in 6 months, who knows. I can't make a fuss, not with the salary fiasco, so am just gritting my teeth and upgrading to joint AA membership.

Also, given that I talked DH into letting me have the silly old car in the first place; I really don't have a leg to stand on.

He was blinded by the cheap price tag and I didn't alert him to the high maintenance costs. Ho hum, better luck next time.

Bugger about the car! Joint AA seems the way to go.

Send them to the CM anyway, everyone has winter bugs atm. You can go to bed for a couple of hours (will you?)

The boy is driving me nuts, he is throwing stuff at my Xmas tree now!!!

I didn't think it was fair on the kids nor indeed the working parents to possibly inflict this on them. Its more than your average winter bug. DH has just phoned to say he's trying to take a half day to come home and help. Yey.

Christmas Tree... Oh. So, 9 days to go, no tree, not a single gift bought, not a single card sent. Its snuck up on me. Amazon a-go-go I reckon.

Throwing things... Boys are just "boys" from an early age are they? A's new thing is copying dances from the tv. No prompting; it just appeals to her.

So there are benefits in having girls then?

DH and i were discussing nappy changing last night, i am spooked by it all. Too many crevices! At least with boys it all hangs out. DH is saying i can do it. It has been 8 years since i changed a girl!

All my lovely jammas and nighties and new robe turned up today so hospital bag is now packed! Hoping i wont need it tbh.

DH already home, i picked him up at 1030 Busy old time of the year for him

Have swapped my Jane 3 wheeler for a Ziko mamas and papas on the MN board of sale. Waiting in for the courier now. I just wanted a fold up umbrella buggy for keeping in the boot and for when i sling the girl and B is in the buggy. I have ordered an ex display Jane powertwin from ebay to have in the car (bargain £175) Am pretty ready now! Not ready for her to come out yet, i would like New Year please.

Jam????? Where are you?

Scoot???? what happened.

TYG back to bed when dh gets home!

Dont even go there about boys A is currently into everything our christmas tree looks ridiculous as there is no nothing at the bottom it has all been moved upwards. And the little blighter has just done something to my laptop the screen is now black with white lettering I cant get any colour at all. We popped in to see the outlaws yesterday arvo and spent the entire time stopping him from lobbing china ornaments across the living room.

TYg really sounds like you need to take to bed maybe you need to see a doc.

So am still here tis not happening today have just taken A to toddler yoga which entails him climbing all over me and me chasing him around for an hour. We eve had sex this morning I set the alarm so there was time before DP went to work. How romantic am I.

I guess I am going to have to resort to hands and knees cleaning the kitchen floor.

LG&T will it make life a bit easier for you when they are off school, do you have them all home for christmas?