June 07 - Heres hoping for a bug free month!

[NattyPlus2andAHalf]

hey guys

oh Foxy LOVE the sound of the dress

buggeration about the roof!!
are you 'exposed'?!

sorry....bumble needed cuddles then DD fell and hurt herself and then it was time to pick DS1 up from school. I'm still here!! DH is on his way home from work though. Kids are doing my fucking head in. DD is whinging and crying because I won't let her have her just washed and still wet dressing gown, bumble won't stop whinging or be put down (he has only had three 20 minute naps today and is beside himself with tiredness and isn't feeding well either, and DS1 is being his usual mild mannered self . I just want to crawl into a hole and die

sorry for whinging myself

Arse for your roof foxy. Is it open to the elements now? surely you can get an emergency roofer out?

I've whinged at MNHQ about the cbeebies ad. It's driving me nuts as well.

dress sounds fab foxy.

Oh shit Foxy.....can you claim on the insurance?

Sounds shit dealing with 4 on your own.....2 is bad enough.....mind you, at least you don't have to watch the rugby........blimey, they've got the Grand Prix back as well....my weekends are such fun

X-post.

Glad DH is coming home Daisy....need to go to A&E and lay it on thick....no childcare...etc etc and see if you can get this op over and done with.

bugger! i fall asleep and u all are being chatty, yet when i come back ur all offski again!

i would love to work, but in reality i find it too stressful.
plus 3 kids in childcare (tom will get 15 hours a week free) expensive!

Hello

Sorry for the brief visit yesterday. Norty very chuffed you took my advice but sorry it didn't work

Foxy, how's the roof? Well done on the running. I really must get my butt in gear but I've just increased my hours along with my extra day so I will be doing 3x8.5 hour days and 1x7.5hr day (plus lunch breaks) so not sure when I am going to get the time. Part of me would like to be a SAHM but I know I would fail miserable, like Norty I'm not self motivated enough, I need a reason to get dressed or I won't! And I am a house slut. Plus I get sooooo bored and tetchy. What I would really like is to be a SAHM with a nanny and lots of money to join a gym and do classes!

Daisy, hope you are feeling better my love. The sooner you get that op the better.

Another house fury? Will you be renting one out? Is it an investment property? Fostering sounds good. I worked in the fostering section of the local council when I was temping a few years ago and it really inspired me, especially to see a lad who had gone to Uni and come back to stay with his foster family in the hols. That was really nice. Of course I know it's not always like that, it's really hard, but I would consider it.

So what's been happening in my life recently? Well, I have been crocheting a lot! Obsessively watching Desperate Housewives with DH which we have recently discovered. We have all been feeling pretty shitty for over a month now and just as we are getting better DD get a cough from DH, and is on an inhaler every four hours. She coughed herself sick the other night. She is very cute though, having a bit of a word spurt I think. She is suddenly copying what we say a lot more. Favourites at the moment are 'thish' (fish, these little gel fish stuck on her window that she loves to touch), where's dada/mimi (our neighbour downstairs )/mama/nana etc. Fortunately my mum and DH's mum not only have different names (grandma -or baba- and nana) but they are also accompanied by different animals so my mum is 'baba-cat?' and MIL is 'nana-woof' .

She starts nursery on Friday and I have to go to work . Work is actually going much better at the moment, and I am putting more effort in as result which is helping. I seem to have found my confidence a bit more and my boss seems to have learned how to handle me better. Unfortunately we are going though a big re organisation in our area so there will be a lot of upheaval, just as I was getting settled.

Any, it's good to be back, though I am still taking it easy. I go all over mumsnet and get sucked in really easily so it try and temper my usage.

good news about work Bumper. Nursery isn't so bad, honest. DS is less happy at this one than his old one but I really do think it's good for him in some ways, he can actually form sentences now and knows shapes and colours and also does things like dancing and football and yoga which tbh he wouldn't get from me. And he has friends!

I don't want to be a SAHM as I am a bit stepford wife and I get annoyed at mess and obsessively clean and cook and things and DS playing trucks kind of interrupts that. I am better at work where I don't care. Also I get obsessive about making money and start all sorts of internet businesses etc which kind of defeats the object of me staying at home.

My mum has fostered for 10 years. Rewarding for her, and the pay would work out better than me going to work actually. Do need the money right now actually since gambling all of our savings on a house. Of course thre is the SAHM aspect of fostering but I figure that as I will actually be getting paid to do it I might be less psychologically obsessed about making money.

The house we bought is an investment - settlement is on 20th March, it's already being advertised for rental from that date.

hey bumper We thought you had crocheted yourself in knots

Your DD is very cute

oooh, a property mogul. You're very brave fury!! Although the rental market is pretty lively at the minute with all the repos going on!

Pain has mostly gone and feeling much better here . thanks for listening to me whinge. DH will find out tomorrow whether we are covered on BUPA. His director said he would sort it out!

DS was cute today. I was explaining that after my operation I won't be able to do heavy housework, shopping or gardening for six weeks. He smiled sweetly and said "but you don't do those things now mum"....out of the mouths of babes

lmao daisy!

i have piles

anything else to add to my list of bad body bits!

will do my best. will go docs for cream if not cleared up, its exactly the same size and place as the one i got after having ellen. more then likely the bad belly causing it, i have been on the loo most of the afternoon (TMI! i know, but i trust u guys)

feeling very sorry for myself

lol healthy start vouchers!!
will go docs and get cream prescribed cos i cant afford anything over the counter atm, things are super tight for another 4 weeks here, roll on the next pay day!

Sorry, I saw you lot had been really chatty yesterday and I sat and caught up and by the time I had and was about to post DH came in and we had a huge barney Then a bit later when we'd calmed down I caught up again with what had happened while we were rowing, and then we started again . And this morning I can't remember half of what I read last night, and don't have the energy to go back and do it all again . Sorry.

What I do remember is Fury's house news - exciting! Daisy's pain - Bumper's return

OK, gym for me this morning

Natty, I think as you are PG you can get stuff like that for free, you just get stuff over the counter but it's not very well known that you can do it. Daisy posted a link last year - anyone?

Property mogul - lol - hardly.
I live in a rental in london and am mortgaged to the hilt in Aus on a house I have never even seen. Nor has DH. Brave...or stupid?!

luckly its has gone down, and nearly back to normal this morning as the diareeh has stopped. (i should really learn how to spell that as i seem to writing it ALOT recently)
im going to stock up anyway as i know i will get them again after having baby, if a bout of straining can set it off, i dread to think what will happen after pushing this fat lump out.

when this baby kicks now you can actually see a lump, like a foot or elbow poking out. im only 21weeks! i think im having another long baby, i feel like im running out of room already.

aw jammy

its horried when you argue isnt it. hope everything is ok xx

natty, I have some suppositories I can send you if you like (and if you can use them in pregnancy) as my little friend has gone away . fb me . You should be able to get them on the minor ailments scheme though so no need for the docs? Ask at your local pharmacy.

arse for the row jammy . not much of a reunion, but maybe it was down to jetlag?

DH spoke to his director this morning and we are covered under his private health insurance . So, I've seen the doctor this morning for the referral (as well as got some buscopan on prescription), made an appointment to see the consultant tomorrow afternoon and it could be as soon as next week for the operation! Feel a little bit crap about jumping the NHS queue, but my GP made me feel better about it by saying that the NHS is fab for emergency procedures, but elective/non emergency procedures are much better done privately!! And the painnis fucking horrible so the sooner it's over with the better imo.

having another day of taking it easy but am missing out on a meet up with one of my MN friends from the knicker checkers thread . Shame as it's a nice day here and we were going to go to Temple Newsam again.

dont feel bad daisy, leaving u in huge amounts of pain for weeks when u have a new baby to look after is not good enough.
good for you!

sorry u are missing meetup but good you are taking it easy

id eat loads of fruit butterfly but i can afford it. ive got a quid in my purse till friday lol, and have done since saturday.
my god i cannot wait to get this month over with.

that's good news daisy, DH says the food is very good! (While you're there just pop along to orthapedics and ask them to get MrRias funding sorted. He has gone back to bed with tramadol-induced sighing)

very unmotivated today, and tired as baggins restless all night and DS2 delirious again.