Jan '07 part 30: where some of us are postnatal, some are antenatal and the rest are plain ANTInatal!

[2Happy]

Wilkie - congrats on the blue

Shimmer - glad you're enjoying it, sounds totally exhausting

Raisin/eandh - ditto on sleep deprivation. Am shattered. And have so much less patience when shattered

Who was asking about milk? I don't intend to swap mine over to semi skimmed any time soon TBH. I admit I am totally anal about what they eat and drink, but as far as milk is concerned, I feel they are 2 healthy and very active kids in no danger of obesity. I think at this age they need calories, especially since I'm so anal about what they eat otherwise !

We had a burst water main here, which was a PITA as these things are. The whole mains pipe is rusted to hell. But the complete donkey who had the house before us built an extension over the water main, so if we decided to replace the whole pipe to prevent more bursts (or if we don't replace it and wait until it does burst again) we would have to dig up the floor and remove half of the kitchen to reach it . This is the same twat as did DIY plumbing and electrics which left us with an enormous leak in an unearthed house

I am although just eating and looking u weather at east midlands and london airports

I am too. Just reading on Daily Mail website about Jade Goody. I can't stand the girl but god, how utterly awful. Poor poor girl and those little boys

Reg - have you got snow?

I'm here!
Have had an amazingly productive day. (DJ was in nursery this morning and I had my first free morning) Totally tidied up the back yard. Its very very nice and clean and there are no dead plants in it, and I got new covers for the bikes so there are no skanky bits of tarpalin stuff anywhere either. Very pleased with myself. I was out there for nearly 4 hours! (Its only 4mx4m ish!)

Eah - where are you flying from?
Rgee - Hows tricks?
Wilkie - Did you wee on neighbours car?
Raisin - Anymore developments?

Dinner is in the oven, my favourite WW meal (with a lardarse twist) roasted veggies and pitta bread with hummous. Veggies may be a bit raw though as they've only just gone in...

Anyone watching this weeks Come Dine With me?

Oh my goodness, I've just read it on Sky website.
The poor girl. She is so young too. Really tragic.
But - miracles do happen, so you never know.
I was thinking about this the other night. Couldn't sleep for ages wondering about what would happen if I died whilst DJ was so little.
I think having kids makes you really more aware of your own mortality.....am I waffling? Does anyone know what I mean?

Lizz - nom nom at your dinner. We just had fajhitas (sp?) but wasn't in mood for them. Yours and EAH's sounds much nicer

Oh and had MW appt this morning. Measuring spot on but placenta is anterior (at front) which is explaining why I am not feeling as many noticeable 'kicks' as with J, more wriggling and flutters than anything

Lizz - damn I meant to set the sky+ for that

Am flying from stansted and coming back into gatwick

Wilkie - I read the same story and felt exactly the same those boys are so young and she does seem to be a fab Mum regardless of anything she has done

Lizz - yes I know what you mean. I burst into tears the other day whilst DH and I talked about it. The thought of leaving him....ugh, doesn't even bear thinking about

I don't see how she can possibly survive it. They have given her no longer than a year

I nip to scout around MN for a few minutes and you all appear . Better go see what you've all been up to then...

*him - J I mean

glad midwife at went well wilkie so any further decisions on boys names and now you have confirmed def a boy I am dying to know what your girls name would have been

Lizz - this sounds awful but I always think that if something happened to either of us I hope I would be the surviving parent, Eddas Mum dies 5.5years ago and she still misses her so much, her Dad remarried and doesnt really have alot to do with her an dthe children where as she said if it was her Mum alive she'd have them at weekends/overnight etc

A year? I didn't realise it was that long.
God, where would you start?
Travelling? Take boys out of school for a while? Fulfill all your life long ambitions asap? Or just sit tight and keep it normal?

EAH - girl would have been Edie Jane

Boys name - well I couldn't possibly say

Lizz - I would fall to bits

Food talk. My favourite. Your teas all sound lovely, and I am starving. DH has got some sort of beef concoction in the oven for us. On a mission to up my iron. Had rabbit poo today - long time no poo

Agree re Jade. Much as she isn't my favourite person, it is absolutely tragic. Funny (strange not ha ha) how I often think about death too, but in a non morbid way if that's possible. When pg last time I used to panic about dh dying whilst I was pg, and I've started doing it again this time. I can't bear thinking about lo not having a mother at such a young age, but sometimes it happens .

Wilkie really pleased to hear all went well today. Can't believe how fast it is all going. Am now in 3rd trimester .
About 6 inches of snow still in back garden, but city centre is pretty much clear today. It was quite a warm afternoon. We went out yesterday afternoon to build a snowman, and P just stood there unable to move it was so deep. V funny.

Lizz all not too bad here despite major mad week at work. Been so busy due to so many school closures throughout the UK. Only c 15 working days left thought before lovely mat leave!

Eah am sure the airports will be fine come the weekend . My dm texted me today toask what the airports are like as she is due to fly back home from Portugal tomorrow.

Love Edie

Eddas Mum was diagnosed and few weeks later went on holiday with her Dad [although had to fly home early as was unwell] she was given around a year but sadly deteriorated very quickly and died few months later, it was truly horrible but Eddas was so glad that her and her Mum got to say some very special things to each otehr and less than a year later eddas dd arrived and am sure she was a little gift from her Mum [her husbands family never have girls] I think you robably have to get very ractical very quickly and sort out as much as you can whilst relishing every single minute with your child/ren [~I'd be writing lots of lists for dh about what he should or shouldnt do and threaten to haunt him if he didnt comly

Edie what a fab name! We still have our long list of 9 boys names. Only crossed no 10 off which was Tom.

I think I would be very practical if I was given a certain time to live, then try to enjoy any time left. I would also write big long letters to be give to the kids on certain anniversaries. Hard to tell though isn't it, and lets hope we don't have to cross that bridge.

oh and you can guess what key isnt working on keyboard its the one to the right of O

Reggie - you are verging on morbid now

EAH - yes, don't tell anyone one but Edie McCredie was the inspiration (although I would have said Edie Sedgewick to sound a bit more 'edgy')

Right, off to defrag my 'puter

Will be back later x

What on earth is 'defragging' your computer?

Tea is served in the rgee household. Big noms!

Evening
I used to have almost panic attacks at the thought of dying and not seeing my boys grow up. I think I was just diverting my paranoia from thinking about them dying, which is a thought so awful I can't even contemplate.

I had cereal for supper Would have rather had a roast or something!!

dh is out tonight, might sniff around the rest of MN, se if anything's going on.

Wilkie - did you piss on his rangerover?!

Footie now on so may take computer ustairs

Oh and heating/hot water broken and I fancy a soak

Interesting re Edie.
RL mate of mine is due in June and is having DD3 (!) they are pretty sure she will be called Edie too. I wonder how popular/trendy it is atm.

Am off to bed. Its too late for me!
xxx

Lizz - I felt rather smug in the knowledge that there are very few Edie's out there ATM and the name is not in the Top 100 until you said that...

2Happy - don't even go there re loss of a child. My brain won't let me even contemplate it thank god.

Reggiee - Defragging your computer is when you basically set you system to run through all the files on your pc that end up all over the place. It then very anally puts them back into order thus making your PC tidier and more efficient. You can't do this yourself as they are all bizarre and weird files you have never heard of that keep your PC running but over a period of time get jumbled up and need sorting. Laptop is loads quicker now it is done but takes about 2 hours for programme to run and you can't use your PC whilst you do it. It is simple to do if anyone wants instructions.

Footie is on in this house too - am off to bed soon. I woke up in a puddle of nipple leakage last night, think I seriously may need to start putting breast pads into my bra at night - don't like wearing anything to sleep in!

Woohoo! After a little snow and lots of freezing overnight, it started snowing here at about 9.30am and didn't stop at all until about 1/2 an hour ago. There's masses . dh stopped to help a few stuck people, one was a stuck police car. dh was joking with a couple of other stopped blokes about not being nicked by the policeman if he damaged the car, they said back "aye, he's a right bastard that one, ho ho"....turns out they were plainclothesmen .

Less woohoo, though, was that ds2 hated sledging, so ds1 and I couldn't go. All that snow, what's the point if you can't even sledge on it?! We managed one go down the hill (which I fell over trying to drag them on the sledge up it and my knee is sore!) and that was it. Boo. Hope it doesn't go overnight and we'll have another go tomorrow.

Wilkie - defragging sounds interesting, how do you do it? My laptop could do with speeding up a bit TBH.

May be on here a bit tonight, the snow appears to have buggered tv reception (no jokes about another 2H in 9m time )