The one where they put their best feet forward

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There you go Ellie

Good morning. All snotty here, wearing red tracksuit bottoms and a bright orange fleecy top (blame dh for the existance of that monstrosity), oh, and fluffy sheepskin slippers. I look so stylish you wouldn't believe it

Afternoon all, sorry ladybee cant be of much help with the BF thing.

DH on 12 hour shifts this weekend so left holding the babies. They have actually been playing really well and so Ive managed to get washing, ironing and most of the housework done today

Bath is running now so going to give them all a quick dunk and then I can veg for the evening.

Hi Denny it's bath night for ours, too.

Have had M&S dinner = no effort

We are going to the cinema tonight, i just feel like i want to hole up with DH, just him & me. I was getting a little at him and his emotions about my mc - well he bought me a beautiful card of monet's waterlillies (knows i love it) and filled the whole card with beautiful sentiments Physically i am fine now, bleeding stopped, just a bit worried now about what that means iyswim.

I miss BF terribly. But Mimi is happy and appears not to have noticed, lol.

Sal - i have lived in my tracksuit recently thpugh in my defence its black, not red

Red and orange Black sounds suitably lounge-wear-y, so you can still keep hold of your style credentials! Glad to hear you're feeling a little better and that dh is doing this. I don't really know how you must feel, but am thinking of you often. Hope you have a great time at cinema tonight - what are you seeing?

Denny, impressive for a Sunday! (Well, for any day actually, but I've got different excuses for different days )

Planning on watching an old dvd with dh tonight. Fancy something soppy.

Benjamin Button

Is MN being really slow tonight or do we have lurgies in our pc?

Glad ur starting to feel a little better scorpio.

Im in tracksuit bottoms too, but i have an excuse as just done exercise video.

Oh nice, I want to see that SO much. Will ask inlaws to babysit one night this coming two weeks so that we can go to the movies.

I've gone even more downhill (yes, you wouldn't think that's possible) - have now had a bath, so am sitting here (well, for the last two hours) in a bathrobe. There is no end to my unsexyness

Oh, and have no idea whether MN slow tonight, Denny, as can't be fussed to go to other topics today and you lot are ignoring me

Not ignoring you, its just taking about 5 mins to refresh, bloody puter.

The dressing gown could be sexy depending whats underneath

Oh Denny, if only... but at this stage I'm in much better shape with all kinds of industrial strength control underwear at the ready!

LOL not quite the sexy temptress look then

there's nothing wrong with industrial strength undies - have just been trying on clothes for a friend's wedding next weekend and everything looks much better with them.

Scorpio, really sorry to hear you've had to stop BFing, I know how much it meant to you. I hadn't kept up on your support thread, I hope my call for help didn't seem insensitive to you.
Was interested to hear what you said about RL friends not being around. Sadly, on Wednesday I received news that my closest friend had also miscarried and I've found it awful not being able to go around to her. She has said she doesn't want to talk about it (it's her second MC) and we live at opposite ends of London. I've emailed and texted and will text again just to let her know I'm thinking of her. It's difficult to know what to do.
Hope you enjoy your night out sweetheart

'Lo all - sorry not been around Mol been all poorly and had NO sleep for last two nights. She was in A & E on fri cos her temp went up to 41.6 and they said to bring her in. She is fine but still under the weather, won't eat or drink much milk and was awake pretty much all last night, just dozing and moaning. Am bit frazzled and feel a grumpy and teary. I just want her to feel better, and start sleeping again. Put her to bed tonight and I can already hear her waking and crying a bit on the monitor.

Sorry to be so me me me.

Will catch up on thread properly in a mo, but scorpio - glad you are feeling physically a bit better and that DH is being lovely [hugs]

sal - sorry you are feeling a bit up and down. I am much more emotional about things since having Molly and have to take 5 on my reactions sometimes. It will pass lady - try to relax, remember you are probably just a bit sleep-deprived and that R is a lovely happy boy. Who likes chocolate cookies.

Oh my God sal your MIL sounds as mad as a box of frogs. Best of luck and moan all you like lady! Get some choc in before she comes...

oohh, heaven's Ellie, that must have been a horrible moment, such a high temp. Poor you, poor her.

Hahahaha Ellie, you just made me laugh!!! My favourite saying of the moment (swear, I've never heard it before - prob as I'm only here to steal jobs and can't be fussed with learning the lingo ). Thanks btw.

Poor little Mol (and probably even more needed - all my sympathies to you!) Sounds like a hard time ahead tonight too, so will think of you all night. I'm religious, and have (this was probably a week or two ago when I really had enough) now decided that nothing in the Bible says I can't pray for certain things, so these days I'm praying for sleep! Seriously! Hope I'm not missing something and going to hell for wasting time and all that ...

Ladybee, I'm never quite sure how to handle things either (as I'm socially rubbish!!!) All I know is that,when my brother died a couple of years ago, I didn't really want to talk about it, yet it meant a lot to me that friends were just, well, there, if that makes sense. Even just coming over for a glass of wine, going to a movie with me, even just a text. Didn't matter what was said, it could discuss the latest cloud shapes for all I cared, but was just nice to know they were there.

I reckon you might be on to a winner there sal - my Mum's a priest so am going to get her on the case too. Can't do any harm to have a bit extra going in there can it?

ladybee - would echo what sal says - when I had MMC the most lovely things my friends did was send me an orchid (which is still alive and flowering) with a little note to say they were thinking of us. I knew they sent it because they wanted to send something beautiful that lasted, rather than cut flowers which die (not that they said that, but I knew that was a thought behind it). Other than that they didn't bug me loads to come out and do things cos I stayed in a lot after, but sent me lots of friendly texts and things and when they saw me let me be quiet and mopped me up after a few glasses of wine caused many tears without too much ceremony. I knew they were there, and that was enough.

Ellie, your friends sound lovely!

LadyBee - just don't hide away. Stopping BF is one of the hardest things i have done, i think. I do feel more confident about being pg next time, as i wont be BF and i just contribute that to the loss, iyswim, even though i know it didnt cause it, weird how the mind works.

The film was very good but very sad; made us go in the kids rooms and hug them when we got home.

Hi Scorpio - glad you had a nice time at the weekend. Been thinking about you.

We've booked our holiday . Two weeks in Colombia on the beach staying with some really good friends, I can't wait. It's going to be quite hectic as I have to go to Bangkok for work the week before, fly back, get kids and DH, and then off again... It'll be so good to get out of the cold.

bumpkin - I might have been that awful woman at nursery that didn't shut the gate. Our gate needs two hands to open and shut, and if I am carrying one or two dds, I simply can't do it. Please don't be too hard on her! (But I wouldn't have been bitchy about LO in nursery - as mine is there!)

Afternoon all. So glad to see you back Scorpio. Keep taking it easy & know that we're always here for you.

Wasn't around on Fri as had to take Sam to docs. His chest was just getting worse and he had conjunctivitis so thought it best. She's given him some antibiotics, which she said would help clear everything up. He had 1 spoonful on Fri evening before bed & Sat morning his conjunctivitis had completely gone. He's still coughing but you can hear that it's loosening up & clearing. The nicest thing is being able to watch him sleep with his mouth shut ... and the snoring has lessened

We don't "do" Valentine's Day & I couldn't move off the sofa on Sat as I thought my head was going to explode. I'm a lot better now. Managed to take DS1 to a picnic at his friend's house on Sun. Felt really sorry for him on Sat as he kept asking if I would play with him but I just couldn't I let him off with a lot of his homework as well as I couldn't help him Will have to explain to his teacher why it's not finished though.

Am very of you ladies off on your hols. We definately won't be going anywhere this year - but fingers crossed for next year.

/very of TSC's holiday!

I don't know where to go this year.

sorry you're - just remember though the thought of a long haul flight with 2 small dds...

but I'm sooo excited!