January 2008 Shiny New Year Toddlers - first steps to mischief !!!

[Lilyloo]

Hope that's ok all

lost the thread.. have been keeping up but havent posted. need to catch up from fri now.

Lily - yes 7.30 is such a wonderful lie-in here, and it's sometimes 8
(dreams of Tom ever sleeping that late.....)
But other LOs do stay awake more then H, lots more. So sometimes i get a fleeting worry that something's not 'quite right' with him ridiculous i know, just cos he sleeps & naps well.
& he spent 10.5months not sleeping well at all so i am grateful!

What's happening with football today? good luck whatever happens!

Mixedm - hi there, we are chatterboxes aren't we

Been round the block with DS1 on his trike, bought us each a sherbet dip (Dib Dab), yum. his face was a picture
Then went in the garden and put more bird seed out - not such lovely weather today as yesterday but still feels like spring, yey!
Now reading the papers while T watches Wallace & Gromit (his new favourite ).

(oh and positive thoughts to Jade on her wedding day, hope her boys get to see her happy today)

Hi all

Going out for Sunday dinner to a carvery with the whole family. Its a farewell for my 22yr old brother who flies to Poland tomorrow for 4mths

DS is in the process of choosing which books to take. Hope they do the job and keep him quiet/entertained through out meal

Have made lunch to take for DD in case veg or turkey has butter on...

Want to second positive thoughts for Jade's day, hope the weather holds out for her & her family

JKS Dip Dabs yum brings back childhooe memoreis
LaT what an adorable little girl you have there your a very lucky Mummy.
I'm still trying to work out how to put my sponsor page on here. I have asked DH to help but he is otherwise distracted by the sudden death of his best friends Mum
George slept through Friday night then had a bum of a night last night We nearly went to the farm today but the weather is a bit pants today so we went to Clown Town instead. They have done it up and it was a lovely couple of hours.
I had a tattoo done yesterday. It was to cover a rubbish dolphin one I had and it has my three lo's names on it. It's georgious. A lotus flower with the boys names above it.
Bit sore today but well worth it.
Feel yuk today its mooncup weel
Well the kettles boiled and Ghostbusters is on the tv.
Take Care all xxx

Hi all,

Coughs and colds all round here (except DH), so feeling pretty rubbish. DH away to Madrid tomorrow, so it's me solo in Spain for the next few days! (apart from PILs, of course).

Lilyloo- Sabela is an early riser too. If she makes it unntil 6.30 it's a good day!

JKS - IT's possible to worry about anything with a LO, isn't it? Fortunately DH is far worse than me, so I get to feel all sensible!

Gingeme - Thanks! hope you're not too sore. You've been doing loads of fun things with your boys, haven't you? Lucky LOs!

Simpson - Does it look like the egg is going ok? HOw was lunch?

MAdmouse - busy day today? I don't know how you keep up with FB. You must be a marvel!

Mixedmama - Hi. I was wondering how you were getting on, what with the measles and all. I hope things a re a little better now.

Have a peaceful rest-of Sunday!

Hi

Had a fab meal out and DD has been on top form all day, lets hope she is like this next Sat!!

DS has been getting very jealous of her lately and starting to play up, think its because she is old enough to try and "play" now and he wants to play by himself as she gets in the way!!

What ever DD has, he wants....drives me mad!!

Glad everyone had good days.

Was sad to say goodbye to my brother as I won't see him again till end of May when I visit him in Poland for a few days.

Sorry to hear of DH's loss Gingeme

hi guys

having a very bad day sorry

hope you are all ok, will post soon

Madmouse - sorry you are having a bad day hun.

Hope all ok....

Sorry to hear that Madmouse

A problem shared and all that.

Hope you can get a good night's sleep and feel better tomorrow.

MM sorry hope things bit better now ?

Simps do you see much of your brother ? Is he going to live there or on long hol? Great news r/e dd she must have enjoyed the attention. I know what you mean r/e the arguments. I getting it a bit now with dd1 and M there is too big an age gap with ds though.

JKS my dc love dibdabs but i made the listake of having them in the car , never again. My sis lo used to wake at 8 bed at 11 sleep until 3 then back in bed at 6 i was very but it kills her now she has dropped her daytime sleeps! (my sis that is)!

Gingeme i would never be brave enought to get a tattoo is it very painful ? Sounds pretty. Sorry to hear of dh bf mum.

LaT sorry to hear about snuffles funny you dont really expect to get coughs and colds over there!

Well did take ds to football in the end. DP gave him last chance talk. I gave him a little stress ball to squeeze if he felt upset. It worked he had good game so fingers crossed.
Took dc to party this aft at soft play. M still bit sicky today and i feel really nauseous this evening.

Sorry Madmouse. Hope it all looks brighter in the morning.

Sabela just vomited all her dinner just as I was abouto to put her in the cot. I feel a bit alarmed that she would have been on her own, lying on her back.

Been a bit of a day, feeling ill with the baby ill and only wanting to be with me. You all know how it goes!.....

Lilyloo - hope you are not getting sickness bug...

Stress ball idea v good, glad it worked

My youngest brother is 22 and studying at uni so don't see that much of him maybe a weekend every 4/5 wks or so.

He is doing a semester in Poland so won't see him till Uni breaks up in the summer (unless I go and visit which I might do in May) then he is going to the US to join his girlfriend till Uni starts again in Sept!!!

Oh to be a student again!!

Sorry for the gloom

I went to church hoping for refreshment and seeing friends. sat in the pew before the service and two people walked in with some children I recognised. my lovely childminder's almost ex-husband with his shameless pregnant hussie, her ex-best friend . The church was her safe place and sanctuary and they just walked in . I was texting her trying to stop her coming but too late. When I managed to run to the door someone had already told her and she completely collapsed on me and said some very strange and upsetting things. Her two kids were standing there 3 and 5 they are. At some point I tried to calm her down and asked her to think of the kids. She said I don't care about the kids. Her little boy looked so lost

In the end she stormed off with the kids, crying and shouting. I could not stop crying. I could not go after her with Nathan in my arms no coat on. An older woman arrived who mentors her and when I told her she went after her.

It was hard for dh too, he was leading the service and his boss was on holiday. I kept on having to go out as I did not want to sit in the pew sobbing. It really upset a lot of people in the church and I came out feeling very down. I nearly lost my precious little man and these poor kids don't seem terribly precious to anyone at the moment

That's out, will pick myself up and dust myself down as Filly would say.

LaT I hope Sabela is ok. Don't worry about vomiting on her back, she will turn, she is not a newborn anymore. Hope it is a one off.

Simpson glad you had a good time.

Lily so glad ds had a good game

Ginge, i want a tatoo too, but I am a chicken

Oh Madmouse - how sad for everybody
except at the soon-to-be-exh & his gf coming to her church!
Can't they go to another one fgs.

Hope she calms down soon and is able to apologise to her DCs who didn't need to hear any of that (though they have probably heard worse in arguments btw their parents i guess ).

Poor you & DH stuck in the middle

Hope you are feeling better having got it out of your system.

Gingeme - i am too much of a wuss for a tattoo!
Although i like the idea of covering up an old one with a new one, good idea!

Lily - fab idea re stress ball
hope he's turned a corner now.

off to bed in a mo. done lots this weekend but still feel like it's too short and ltos left to do. don't know why i put such pressure on myself to 'get things done'. i should just enjoy....
got life insurance forms through (well think we have started policy already i just have to confirm details of medical history).
who can remember all the possible utis they've had in the last 5 years?
It's so i can feel reassured that if i get hit by a bus there will be some money for DH to look after the boys. (& subsequent children...)

Oh and Madm - can i confess to be slightly relieved? thought there were problems with you & your DH.

sorry JKS, I thought i better explain myself after all. It has actually made dh think about the husband he is and he said he knows he has not been very good. So we will see.

Madmouse - those poor Dcs hope she calms down and talks to them about it...3 & 5 is so young I know DS would be devastated if he heard something like that, but then again he has never really heard me & DH argue as we rarely do TBH.

Poor you having to sit through service upset and DH can't help you, must have been tough on him too

LaT - hope Sabela is ok?

JKS - weekends are never long enough are they

DS not back at pre school tomorrow as teacher training, so got to entertain him for one more day....

Morning ladies,
Wow Madmouse what a horrible situation. I hope it makes your DH have a think.
George slept through again last night woke at 6.23. If he does it all week hes going in the big boys room at the weekend.
JKS I loooooooooooove tatoos especialy my new one. The guy is a genious. You have had 2 babys tattoos are a piece of cake compared to that. Go on you know you want to
LaTrucha how are you feeling today? Better I hope.
DH came home looking very sad last night he was very quiet too. Makes you appreciate your own Mum at times like this. Apparantly she died in her sleep on the sofa. She was a bit poorly but nothing to indicate her death. They have to do a post mortem to find out why. I think thats worse the family knowing they are going to do that
Sorry not a nice subject for a Monday morning.
Ds3 back to school today. He couldn't wait.
I'm off to the post office soon to buy some premium bonds this time next year I could be a millionaire
Have a good day all. xxx
www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/wendybrydon
my sponsor page

Madmouse - ugh. he could have phoned her to warn her. sounds like everything has broken down there. Poor LOs. How are you today?

Simpson - What are you going to do with ds? nice weather?

JKS - life insurance a very good idea, although nerve wracking! good luck.

Good luck with you premium bonds Gingeme!

i'm off to sponsor in a tick although Sabela has just fallen asleep on my knee in the most peculiar position. I was doing horsey horsey and she just fell asleep in an instant. guess I'm on MN for a while now!

she's finding it dfficult to sleep with her cough - hence conking out on my knee just now. she seems ok in herself though. I want to prepare for my spanish exam on wednesday but I can't even move my left hand!

LaTrucha George has a horrible cough at the minute too. He sounds chesty too Just give him Calpol every 4 hours and plenty to drink though he s eating ok at the moment which is good

Hi all.

MAdmouse am at the audacity of some people I really am. Her children must feel awful but sometimes it is so hard to just keep it all in she must have been distraught to behave like that.

I am coming to the Meet up...planning on only bringing DS2 and let DS1 have a day with daddy.

Sorry to hit u all for this as well but I am also running the Race for Life in May in Regents Park... so if you would like to sponsor me then here is the link...

www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/zehra

Am having to look for a full time job again... DH job because he is self employed is just not working for us and he doesnt have a career path as such so difficult to get him something whereas i am established in admin work so can always find work (altho perhaps not with the markets how they are). We are stretched financially as it is so cant prepare for the down times which is hard...being off work for chicken pox means my salary this month is not going to be good and since i work part time this is a real dent, whereas if i had a full time salary it wouldnt have mattered so much. DH is trying to move into a different section of his company so that he can get a salary rather than be self employed. Such drama.

Sorry have been rather rubbish and me me me as usual.

Have donated Mixedmama but paypal now offline so will do you later Gingeme - poke me if I forget.

bleuuh am lounging on sofa after being up half the night
M was up so many times i cant remember vomiting , changed her bedding at lest 3 times i think!
She was sick all over carpet too as i dont know where to put her , was like scene from exorcist!
Then dd1 woke up crying she had pooed all over in her bed and was mortified so was bathing her at 3am!
I still feel sick but haven't been as yet just have terrible stomach cramps!

M in bed , dp taken dd1 out for a bit so i can get some sleep (luckily he got 3 days off work) but struggling to get off even though am shattered.

Hope it gone by Sat.

Hi all

I was in bed by 9.45 last night and managed to sleep from about 11-6. Had a meeting in our Birmingham office today (where I used to work) so decided to cycle to Coventry station, 45mins each way, in the hope it would clear my head. It was good actually and I am better today. It helped that my beloved secretary from when I still worked in Birmingham was on her first day back from maternity leave (we went off together, we were due at the same time)so we had a good shriek and hugs and talking at the same time .

Lilyloo poor poor you, especially not feeling well yourself. I do so hope it is all better by Saturday

LaT that reminds me of when Nathan had his bug. I went downstairs to make his milk and when I came back up he was asleep on his playmat clutching his train . I was going to say can you not put her in her cot but i remember the answer to that one

Ginge and mm I will sponsor you both, will sort it out later today.

Sounds like a much better day!

Done Gingeme - though slightly miffed someone has beaten me to being the first sponsor!

Having a good day here in the end, but having dificulty sorting out my past tenses in Spanish. I know the rules, but when I try and write 'freehand' I can't distinguish them. I'm also trying to show off, to be homnest, as I'm trying to second guess what will be in the exam and demonstrate what I can do so I don't get sent to 'basic' Spanish with my head hanging low. I should just keep it simple, I know. Vanity, vanity....