The one where they put their best feet forward

[Soph73]

There you go Ellie

Sal this is the dental practice, I go to dr soltan.

We're not doing a big thing - just a picnic in a park somewhere close to a cafe so there's changing facilities and a back-up if the weather is shite. Lots of our friends don't have kids still, and we're doing it more as a 'we survived the first year' rather than a proper birthday for DS as he won't get it yet.

Thank you very much. (Even knowing he's good, my hands just started sweating! )

I don't think I have any friends left without kids; my ex best mate wandered a few years ago (got into yachting... not compatible LOL) and dh's brother but we can't invite him anyway due to MIL.....

Dh's birthday Wednesday; he's really edgy about whether his mum will acknowledge it - the boys got Christmas cards / gifts but not us. I can mend most things but know she probably will ignore and I can't do anything. Damn the woman!

For George's 'family' party we've hired the function room at a pub in Leicester (where most of the people coming live) that overlooks the cricket ground. We're just doing sandwiches and finger food for lunch, having it from 11:30am on the day.

All the babies we'd invite to a friends party are from the NCT group, and we're having a joint party for all the babies anyway. for that one we've hired the huge function room at a british legion club (we do caterpillar music there so know it's lovely) and just doing the food between us, and taking whatever large toys we have for the babies to play with - someone's bringing a small ball pool, we're taking the pop up tunnel that G is having for his birthday, small wooden rocking horse, etc. There's lots of space for crawling/walking and it's only £20 to hire it.

Peachy, really hopes she'll grow up and acknowledge it - even if she'll have to fake friendliness. I struggle to imagine how you could be so cruel to your own child. Sometimes people are just so unbelievably selfish (don't know if anyone's been following the thread on here about some writer woman having written a book about her teenage son, basically slagging him off to the world imo). I can't imagine how you would get to the point where you think it's acceptable to ruin your child's life (which that woman seems to be doing, even if he is no angel himself - he's still her child). Anyway, sorry Peachy, got a bit carried away there - hope mil's nice for the day.

Btw, have you heard anything again from the Hitler mom? Still a bit confused as to exactly why they did / allowed it.

Where's Ellie btw? Hope dh played nice for the rest of the day to make up for his stupidity grumpiness this morning. (If not, let us know if we should provide alibis.)

Knitter, you are very organised! Think you should visit Greenwich around the 3rd of April

Nowt more about Hitler but amraising nextweek- as they paired him with ds1 can do that now. Was so bizarre, if dh hadnt been there would have doubted myself!

Am baffled by some things, it seems such a stupid thing to do on all levels!!! (not even sure where to start - wbd, the age, the interest, then the whole outfit itself! it's crazy)

We are going to Paignton Zoo for her birthday, then in the early evening will ask family and some friends over for cake and wine

I don't really do them parties until 4 or so; as long as they have a fun day thats all that matters.

We have an american fridge freezer, side by side doors. Well Mimi keeps openign the freezer door and sitting in the bottom

Sometimes i only know when the freezer beeps at me, she cant get shut in its too shallow but there is a ledge and she sits on it! Strange child.

I am back! Less cross now.

scorpio - do you see what you have given us all? Knobber is the best word ever! DH gets called it very regularly (usually) in a jokey way, and so do bad drivers and the competitive lady at my slimming class, and I have passed it on to my sister, who now also calls people knobbers. What a heartwarming place MN is

DH is slightly less of a knobber now. We made up somewhat grudgingly on both sides and went out for tea and cake with the kiddos.

I am back at work the week before DD's birhtday but have the day off as does DH, and we are taking her to the zoo. No room for all her baby friends here, so we will have cake and tea and wine in the afternoon/evening with family. One of my mate's had her little boy 4 days after Molly, so we will probably do a joint picnic in the park for all our little mates and yummy mummy's at the weekend.

On a different note - scorpio - have you thought about doing something to mark your little lost one in some way? I only suggest it cos it helped me. What I did was plant some bulbs and some primroses on my gran's grave (my grandfather also commemorated there so kinda family-ish place) - the bulbs come up every spring, which is when I lost my LO. Last year (first year after) I went down there on the day, but have just realised this year I forgot. Not sure how I feel about that - a bit guilty to be honest, but I guess you have to heal up don't you, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Glad Knobber is being spread

Ellie don't feel bad, its just a sign you have moved on into your present day life, not a sign you dont love your bean. I feel like i have moved on quite well, but i have a huge need to be pg again, i think. I was going to buy a necklace with Feb & Oct birthstones in, Feb for loss, Oct for edd. I would have been 10 weeks this week!

Im feeling alot better now though

That's a lovely idea. I know what you mean about the huge desire to be pg after - my lost baby was a mistake, before that I wasn't fussed about having kids - after - god, schemed and connived and nagged DH into Molly! Poor man, he never stood a chance. I think, tbh, only having Molly, holding my little live baby in my arms, actually made me feel finally better too.

OH bloody hell she's woken up. Is supposed to be asleep for at least another 40 mins. Silly baby. Off to club her over head resettle my little angel

Mimi had her nap in buggy in town today, lol

Maybe they're starting to drop naps , I know Bas's is getting shiorter in the mornings and ahrder tos ettle for (its the nly one he'll go down for so the only time I get to do anything)

Scorpio we're in corwall may bank hol( first one),should get group itnerary soon and if we have space to roam unhindered by the rugby massive I shall let you know

Morning all. How are all the knobbers DH's/DP's. Just a fab word Scorpio, well done

Didn't do much this weekend. DH didn't get home from the conference until about 10.30pm on Sat, which obviously cut short his weekend. A friend stayed on Fri & we ate chilli & drank loads of wine Saturday the weather was dreadful so I just took the boys round the shopping centre so I could at least pretend we'd been out & Sun I took DS1 to the park to meet two of his friends. Back to work this morning and the weather's lovely .... typical

Sam has an appointment with the Foniatria (the doc in charge of speech therapy) tomorrow. Hopefully a friend of mine is coming with me so that I can understand properly. I think it's just an assessment though so should be able to gauge what he's saying

Peachy that will be nice

Soph your weekend sounds nice, glad you got some bad weather . Hope my SIL has a good SALT appt.

LOL at being Scorpio's SIL

I know, I shouldn't complain really Have you thawed out yet Peachy?

Had a wonderful incident here this morning. One of the students decided to download a picture of a woman giving a bloke a BJ and used it as the screensaver for one of the Library computers. DH is tracking down the culprit as we speak. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes once DH finds him Little buggers!

LOL

at school once someone got a photo of head of year 11, and drew things on him like horns and a few rude things, and managed to send it out over the schools network as screen savers, backgrounds, everything. Was hilarious!!! I am a little immature

Sofa on Friday, 12-6 apparently! Yay.

I am bad mother, mimi ate cat food she seemed to want more, so couldnt be that bad. Was Felix, too, dontcha know.

Oh scprpio and soph you've just made me snort my coffee all over everywhere!

Molly has one 1 and a half/2 hour nap 4 hours after she has woken in the morning. I really hope she keeps this up when she gets to nursery but probably she won't. It does make me lazy though cos I know I get nearly 2 hours t5o myself if I stay at home, so we tend to stay in for the morning and she goes down in her cot, whereas if go out she will only catnap. Bad mummy.

am redecorating (still, lol) and i wondered - suedette or faux silk curtains? They will be black. DH won't care. Sofa is black as is huge balck fluffy rug. Carper is beigey as are walls.

sofa is diff fabrics

i am thinking maybe suedette, as sofa kinda looks more like that than silk, yes? Am clueless

Scorpio - that's fine & she'll have lovely shiny hair and a wet nose so you'll know whether she's healthy

Either fabric would be fine imo ... do you do anything else other than decorate

hee hee, yes, lol! We stopped after the mc as i needed some rest, and we have just got our arses back in to gear. only one big wall to do now.