December 08 Supermums: We are all doing fine and our LOs love us!!

[kayzr]

Hello.

Trace I went with your idea!!

Whatever you do ladyT don't stick around for the plucking and gutting. I watched my friend do it once and it was simply vile. There was lots of orange coloured fat under the skin, yuk. There are loads of pheasants where I used to live and felt dreadful when I ran one over. It jumped out in front of the car! There was nothing I could do

Any ideas for stopping backache? I was mucking around with DS1, picked him up and my back went. I am walking round like the hunchback of Notre Dame!!

ladyt - when you say a spa weekend do you mean for the three of you? you may mean something more hardcore but i know two lovely family friendly hotel/spas near you:

Calcot Manor is a very child friendly hotel with attached spa (incl a glorious outdoor hottub next to a roaring fire). The bedroom have baby listening so once O is asleep you can go to the lovely restaurant (or hottub) without need for a babysitter. There is also a daytime creche.

Cowley Manor is a similar place. Even nicer building. Gorgeous indoor and outdoor pool and gym. V nice bar. Baby listening from room. I had the best massage ever while there.

Kayz - hot water bottle works for me...

Jolly - I could run HIM over. He has just called to say he's on his way back from court so I daresay he is planning to prepare the revolting thing today. I think I will take DD for a long long walk. Ugh, and triple ugh.

Arti, that is so kind and quite brilliant. I had heard of Calcot but not been, and the other one is completely new to me. This spa idea has snowballed in my mind. I actually just meant the three of us, somewhere in England, on a healthy weekend retreat where you walk, sauna and drink carrot juice. However, I have now found this place in Thailand where you just drink vegetable broth for ages, have colonics (I have never done that before, sounds gross but desperate times call for desperate measures), power walks, yoga and massage. We were really going to keep it cheaper for a hol this year - perhaps a cheapie week somewhere in Europe, and a week in my sister's in-laws' caravan in Dorset (it has been 32 years since I set foot in a caravan but Dorset is lovely and it would probably be a cheap and totally lovely hol) but I am so hung up on this weight thing I am tempted to book us on this thing in Thailand. But only, of course, if it would be feasible to take DD.

Oh and when I complained to DP about the dead pheasant in the hall, he said not to worry as he had covered it up with a pair of flip flops.

Oh GOOD. That's all fine then.

Those 2 places looks lovely Arti

Well, I have made the decision to put off the trip to Aus until April or May. After talking to them back home the weather up North is averaging 34 degrees and everyone is practically locking themselves away in airconditioned rooms. I just can't out little B through that awful heat after only knowing this freezing weather!! I can't stand humidity either, and pool or no pool quite frankly it sounds revolting! my hair frizzes like mad in humidity and since they've had so much rain there are mozzies now and -yuk no thanks!
H wants to go somewhere for his leave, but the Q is where now! He is thinking the US to visit relatives / friends there now!
b has been feeding constantly today I can't even get out the door with the dog! I think it's wind though, more than hunger, but just can't get it out!

ladyT at flip flops!! That Thailand thing sounds interesting!!! what's it called?

I will have to check, I was blinded by the tales of losing kgs but it's on Koh Samui

LadyT yuk at the bird. I would have had a right tantrum had it been left in my hall. And as for the flip flops - I hope they're his flip flops!!!!

The Thailand place sounds fab, sadly my holiday is a place in Cyprus that will be full to busting with kids and no doubt some idiot in a dragon/lion/dog (insert your animal) type costume. We are going with my sister and her brood. It will be entertaining to say the least but I fear it will be more tiring than relaxing. I think I we need to book something more relaxing for later in the year.

Hi all kmp ds2s British passport arrived today it did the check and send at 12.30pm last Saturday so that means it only took the 3 working days to do it, assuming they sent it yesterday, usually you pay a fortune for that sort of express service.

Oh I love Thailand Lady, I've never been there with a child but I know people who have and found it very child friendly. DH has been itching to get back there for years he wants to live there.

Would flip flops be big enough to cove a pheasant?

I just checked the postmark on the envelope the passport came in it was dated 13/2/09???!!! Wow how fast is that it arrived before it was sent?!

KMP, the place is called Samui Detox.

Veggie, I love that part of the world but never been to Thailand (DP has cos he is a v enthusiastic diver) - only Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. I think Cambodia might be my favourite place for a hol. Hmm, tough call between that and Cuba.

Yes, they ARE his flip flops. I don't like those either, he wears them to collect me from the station and it's embarrassing

If you go to Thailand you will needs some nice flip flops, DH got me some lovely Ipanema ones when he was in Brazil for work. The toe bit is gold rubber and the foot bit is mauve with an amazing pattern on it. They are so nice I wore them to a very summery wedding when I was last in Australia.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have loads and loads of snow!!!!! I just went to get a sledge and have been pulling DS1 up and down the road!!

Veggie How wierd that it arrived before it was sent!!

Some pics of the boys here

Gorgeous kayz

And I'm at all your snow...its just raining here

Gosh I would love to go to Samui Detox. I reaaly wood. I have just eaten a whole tub of full fat guacomole. I need to go to Samui Detox .

Talk of holidays is making my feet itch. We are thinking of a place called Villa Pia in May. Its a big old Tuscan Villa run by an English couple with a love of food and children. It is exclusively for families. It looks very nice but I am worried it might be too kid friendly IYSWIM.

KMP - where might you go in the States?

arti no jj's dd showed little interest in ds. I think she has learnt already how to play hard to get!

that villa pia place sounds amazing!!

holidays - I want a holiday!

We are meant to be going on holiday to austria with DH's mum. Although she will probably be providing some childcare so DH and I can get break this is not my idea of a holiday. We went this year when I was 10 weeks pg and I was at the height of tiredness and she kept making us get up at 7am to go walking. I got back totally exhausted.

Also DH wants us to go on a mountain biking holiday and take it turns to bike. He thinks I will look forward to it as I love biking. A couple were doing it when we went biking a year or so ago but their baby was older. It would involve not spending much time as a family and so I think it is a shit idea and I wish he would stop banging on about it as it reminds me that I will miss my biking. If he really wants to make me happy he could look after DS for a weekend and let me go biking on my own with some mates (he is going on a long snowboarding weekend on his own)

Nice pics Kays. Quite frankly I'm sick of this cold weather.... but I don't want too hot either.... Just ate bread and I promised myself no carbs (except cheerfulness) after 12 noon. Can't be assed to get on the xtrainer, but I will just to get it over with, and then I can feed ds, express, and have some cheerfulness!

Arti it would be San Diego as H has family there...But I still don't know if I can be bothered.... although I should really...

Veggie great news on getting your his passport so quick also!

Oh I can hear DS heavy breathing and grunting - perhaps I'd better re-organise the order of things and feed him first

ladyt - i was brought up with dead pheasants (dad ran a small shoot), so not as grossed out as everyone else. all i can say, is, it had a happy life.

i used to call freerange chicken "happy" chicken. as my mum used to say, "laughing all the way into the oven"

ladyt - i was brought up with dead pheasants (dad ran a small shoot), so not as grossed out as everyone else. all i can say, is, it had a happy life.

i used to call freerange chicken "happy" chicken. as my mum used to say, "laughing all the way into the oven"

Well, it's dealt with now. Yuckety yuck. But not before DD's dummy dropped from her mouth and bounced off the corpse as we went out for a walk

Can't open your pics Kayz, my browser is too old. But I bet they are nice.

Villa Pia sounds utterly gorgeous, but inducements to drink lots of wine and eat pasta and pizza I sadly do not need

haha, ladyt you may have to get used to such things living in the country.
MIL gave me a lesson on how to gut and pluck pheasant. I could have refused but I don't think it would have been good for family relations.