The one where they put their best feet forward

[Soph73]

There you go Ellie

Hi PFJ nice to hear from you and great to hear that everything's OK. Hope you have a lovely Valentine's Day too

hello all

an interesting few days- it would seem I no longer have a baby but a toddler

Oh and harry finally has a palce in a ni ce SN school- yay! Can't start until Easter but still great news.

Sam's IEP (target setting) meeting today- bleurgh. It's often the first time they A) let me know what crap he has been up to (we have a home school book but he bins it and the teachers wont follow a routine so I never know if he ahs ditched it or theys till have it iyswim), or B) spring crap on me such as 'we'll obv have to look at options at senior... blah blah change of subject

er hello? wasn't that soemthing major and significant thrown in there

Anyeway, good d ay so far- baby signing is funa nd the mums are nice even if they've never heard of MN and think netmums is the prime place to be [sad buggers]

Peachy - why do they have to grow up? Hope your meeting goes OK and they don't throw any surprises at you. Great news about Harry's place btw

I wish I could get more fluids into Sam. He won't drink anything but his milk. He occasionally has a couple of sips of water but absolutely hates the stuff. It's a real pain as I know it would help his cough.

Bas will only drink BM (not in any way other than from me!), or a small amunt of ornage juice in a dodiy cup. That's it! Does Sam have a doidy cup?

Meeting went OK actually; reading age has gone from 5-6 to almost 10 in a year! Still a PITA at lunchtime (so he ahs become the job of the libratrian then- bet you're glad you don'#t work at our school Soph LOL!)

I've been offered a voluntary place at the Infants helping deliver the RE Syllabus which is

Aww Peachy.
Panda seems to have found his voice and spends most of his time squat bouncing, singing and yelling

DS1 had crap at school again today [http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/703576-So-the-boys-in-DS-39-s-class-laughed-at Thread here]]

Good day for you peachy! That's cool about the RE - that was my specialism when I did my teacher training. Though I was crap at it and never taught.

Will check out your thread now VS

Well it's my degree Ellie so it was always what I wanted to do, just nto easy finding training in it but if I wanted to do primary there's a training college (hard to get into mind) two hundred yards away LOL

VS posted on your thread. Poor ds.

oops, bad link sorry!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/703576-So-the-boys-in-DS-39-s-class-laughed-at

Oh also! PEachy. May need to pick your brains for one of my assignments. It's a religious thing

Oh yes please, trying to get abck into practice LOL

I did religious studies with bits of philosophy degree at Cardiff - dead interesting I think.

Have posted VS. Ignore the snotty comments.

LOL- mine is resligious studies with erm philosophy

but 10 miles away at Newport (they don't offer it at Cardiff now... wondering if its even the sae thing transferred down LOL)- if you want to go on you usually go to cardiff

It's not for another ten weeks this assignment but I have to do something in Tradition and Dissent in English Christianity.

Question is 'In what ways has tradition been used to justify religious innovation in England'

I found Cleopatra easy, I'm coping with Doctor Faustus, but that!?!??!

*justiofy8 religious innovation? its usually used to escape it- scuh as gay priests / bibles in anythbing bar English / etc

Interesting, will have a good think on that one overnight and get back to you. When they say England are they talking Christinaity then, or do you think they'll want a cross section of faiths represented in the UK?

Not sure, haven't really had a look at that section of the book (It's scary!!)
I'll have a flick through later and see.

Hi girls. I haven't read all the thread, but I did see Scorpio's post - if you're around, I am so sorry, I know how much you wanted it. Thinking of you...

And Sal - I gather MN has been giving you a hard time. Hope the sleep thing is working out now, however you decided to handle it (which will be the right way for you and R).

We're still having a tough time after mil's death, but hopefully things will improve. I'm also finding the winter a real strain - we don't live in a practical place and I'm finding lugging two kids about in the ice really tough at the moment. On the upside - if I can get my fecking credit card to work - I am about to book flights for a holiday, fuck the recession. It's time we had some sun...

Hope everyone else is OK. I shall try to go through the thread...

Hey TheShipsCat! Glad you are OK x

VS - God, I feel SO stupid now. I don't even understand that TITLE! Have forgotten so much - I dug out my old essays the other day and they made no sense whatsoever. Uni is wasted on 18 year olds - would give my eye teeth to go off to uni away from the kids now

Molly has been so teary today - she fell asleep on me too which never happens anymore, she had a big cry, and I was cuddling her and she went to sleep, which was kind of lovely actually. I think is either the end of the cold or perhaps some more teeth

Flippin' heck VS that thread of your has got a bit heated!

Hi again PFJ and TSC, great to see you again!

TSC, yep, was a bit down, but the girls on here were great and hit the others supported me. It was one of these things where now I think I overreacted, but at the time I was just so down and tired that I couldn't deal with it.

A question to you all: I don't know why, but I'm realising that my self esteem is really, really down at the moment. Not so much in my personal life (well, there I'm fine - I really can't give a damn what someone might think of me, as long as I'm basically decent to others), but "work" wise, whether my office job or bringing up R, I'm really doubting myself. I don't know why, because I do think I'm bringing up really well, he's such a happy little boy. And at work too - I know I'm good at what I do. But I find myself doubting myself all the time - over analising every little comment someone might make to decide whether or not they said anything bad (or, get this - I am a nutcase - if they make a compliment, I even think about whether or not it can just "hide" something negative - you know those "praise sandwiches" they always go on about on stupid training days). I am doing my own head in! It really pisses me off (sorry for language, but it does). Why am I like this now, I never used to be. And does it ever get better? Hmm, I do realise that you all sound perfectly sane, so take this as my daily moan. I'm on a roll lately

VS, have posted on your thread. Hope your ds feels better now. Have no idea how to treat the nail polish thing (very traditional upbringing, I have issues ), but this is obviously not an isolated case - it is unacceptable for them to make a 4-year old classmate cry. I'd go and scare the living daylights out of them speak to the head if I were you, but am now not sure whether you said once that they don't take notice? Maybe I'm imagining it. My nail polish on boys hangups aside, bet he looked super cool!

So Ladybee, did they turn up tonight then?

salwhat you feeling is the normal guiltand paranoiathat comes with parenting, you are not mad

Peachy, for ever and ever??? Hmm, it's a good thing I wasn't warned of all these things before, I would have missed out on such a lovely little boy. But hell.

12 pm already Off to bed, try not to get killed (hmm, snow not really helping!) on Friday the 13th!

VS i haven't read your thread but ds2 likes nail varnish and wears it to nursery; complete with my pink hair clips

Sal - peachy is right, the guilt never stops and i doubt myself sometimes; you need to have faith in yourself. No-one gets it right all of the time. Even Mary Poppins was a mean old cow sometimes.

Physically i am ok, bleeding nearly stopped. mentally is a different story.