June 07 - Do we smell? Yes bumper, I'm talking to YOU!!!!

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you are all very good doing egg hunting and stuff.

long, boring day here. My children have too many clothes.

DS1 gave me a lecture earlier about adultery and Abraham

I am having a retro night and just bought myself some babycham. Am very excited - haven't had any for years

No egg hunts here. They are hidden under the sink. But after tea tonight we opened the little box of "Celebrations" that my sis sent us and all had one. Jamlet had the Milky Way one and loved it, although she did make a right mess

Our picnic ended up being at our friends' house as it was too grey to want to eat outside. But we had a nice 2 mile walk round the lake at a nearby park after lunch .

Enjoy your babycham Ria. No alcohol for me. I had a glass of wine last night.

MIL said it was nice in W Cumbria

Ooh, have just ordered these for myself

Happy Easter

Great weather here, we got our easter egg hunt and have spent all day in the garden....I have sunburn

We got DD a wee night garden egg with a toy; she got a little buttons one from the PILs and some pants , and then a neighbour brought over a wee creme egg one...than there are the little eggs from the easter egg hunt. I'm sure I'll eat most of it.

PMSL at your typo ria.....dosy is right enough

I've finally uploaded some new photos on FB....hot off my new camera!

Great pics Daisy

We had a good day despite the miserable weather. Hope we get a drier day tomorrow though. I want to get some things done in the garden.

hanks jammy....you'd think looking at them that we actually had a good day

DS1 has been challenging in the extreme and has spoiled everyone's day from beginning to end. I got so wound up by him earlier I marched off with bumble in the pram to calm down, and he spent about 60% of the day being sent to the step/his bedroom/time out. He had such a massive tantrum about DH combing his hair after his bath that he was completely hysterical and made himself sick . I had the same this morning over his toenails and later when trying to teach him to ride his bike without stabilisers. Surely not normal behaviour??

Lordy Daisy, I don't know. DS1 is having a time of it at the mo as well. Actually he's been much better the last two days, but he's been hugely moody. It manifests itself in a moody sulkiness, hating his siblings, his life, its all so boooooooring, he wishes he hadn't been born, and worse ...

I think he'd be a good only child. Other than that, I cannot package this behaviour up and stick a label on it (I admit, I just don't understand it). How can such priviledged children be so fucking miserable and ungrateful? Can we put it down to it being a "difficult age" as my mother would call it?

How about having a word with your GPs surgery and see if they can put you in touch with a behavioural specialist? If they can't resolve the behaviour, they can give you the tools to manage it, which is as equally important.

Is it a hormonal thing at this age? He seems soooo aggressive all the time, and explodes out of nowhere. I'm not great at dealing with it though; it's almost as though once the tantrum starts, it has to play out...like we are all following a script and there is no calming down until it's all played out.

DD is lucky, at least she got a small egg with her pants; poor bumble got four pairs of socks ...and two of them are girls!!! DS1 on the other hand got a huuuuuge wispa egg with three wispa bars in it, and a fiver......PFB grandchild???

arse, never mind me; I'm feeling curmudgeonly this evening.

"They need the most love when they deserve it the least"

what happens if you walk away from the tantrum and leave him to it Daisy?

6 puppies Butterfly? Did I miss something?

I'm off for a few days. Back on Friday.

Bye xx

If you are still about foxy....have a good birthday tomorrow

oooh, would love a puppy, but then I watch my neighbours dog licking it's own arse and remember the pervading eau de dog that my obsessively clean sister has in her house in spite of hoovering twice a day and I soon snap out of it

besides until I can look after the children properly, I think a pet that needs looking after is a real no no

arse curmudgeonly again.....just call me victor meldrew.

I'm being chased up to bed by DH.....and not in a good way ; he just wants the sofa to sleep on as usual again.

Hello

Happy birthday Foxy .

Lovely pics Foxy and Daisy.

DD got up at 6.10 this morning...any other bloody day and she goes till 7.30...

We're off to the beach today for an invigorating walk with the DCs and the dog .

What colour labs Butterfly? We've got a black lab and they are so sweet as puppies....until they eat the legs of your dining room table and the doorframe (he's very good now though!)

Good morning everyone.

Happy birthday foxy!

So just me who can't wait for the weekend to be over?

DD is in super stroppy mode and cries at everything! It's not a tantrum in that she is not physical and doesn't get angry, but just cries, loudly. Triggers might be because the dolly shoes don't fit on Iggle Piggle, because I won't unclip the straps in the high chair that she is playing with for the 50th time, or because she can't have my scissors/water whatever. It's several times daily and it's very waring. As is the talking, I know I should be really please but there is only so much 'where's daddy?' at work 'where's daddy?' at work 'where's daddy?' I can't take!

And DH is ill, god knows what's wrong with him but he hasn't been well for a week and apparently I haven't been sympathetic enough . I know he has had a lot of stress about his job, but it's not my fecking fault that he didn't get his job, and he forgets that it affects all of us and not just him. I'm so sick of being held to ransom but one job or another of his. I can't wait to get back to work, and I hate work at the moment!

So yesterday we started on our allotment, it needs a lot of work and I am concerned that we won't be able to get anything in the ground in time. DD was ok for about an hour, she at least didn't go wondering off, but she got bored and just whined the rest of the time. And as the weather forecast for today was crap I said we could go to MILs but it's really nice and I don't bloody want to go anyway. I want everyone else to piss of an leave me alone!!! Sorry, grumpy rant over! This is why I don't come on MN anymore, because I don't have anything nice to say...

Hi all.

Sorry for those with troublesome DCs/DHs. Been quite lucky here the past few days. Jamlet has been lovely, but she was a pain for quite a bit before that.

Walk on the beach sounds lovely Norty, am quite . I miss living at the seaside . DH got to do some work this morning, but hope to get him out for a walk somewhere this afternoon, otherwise I'll just take Jamlet and go anyway. And got some DIY/gardening jobs to attend to as well today. Speaking of which your allotment sounds good Bumper. Bet it'll be hard work, especially to start with, but great once you've got it going

bumper. bloody bank holidays eh? can you divide your allotment into chunks and clear it one bit at a time to get stuff that needs to be in now in first (does that make any sense? and sorry to state the obvious - I'm no gardener!) Dsis has an allotment. she was having to plant out her sweet peas the other day as they were "desperate" to be in the ground. Mine are happily propogating and about an inch high. She makes me feel a bit green-fingeredly-inadequate! We have no success with veg at all, though I am going to try pots with mangetout this year, and will have peas. I have a gro-bag in my cold frame for salad leaves and spinach beet. My argument being if it's not fit for human consumption it'll do for the rodents.

baggins has learnt to do high pitched screaming - just for fun.we spend a lot of time with tantrums about going outside, coming inside, taking our coats off...

happy birthday foxy.

I've no idea about DS1 daisy. My DS1 certainly doesn't seem as angry as he used to most of the time, but he is certainly miserable, ungrateful and possibly depressed. (and just a touch weird)

sorry for mammoth post and anything I've missed. Went to bed with the DCs last night, as some arse was having fireworks. Then I had my sleep by 1.30 and didn't even get my babycham! feel rough anyway, and am off jousting this afternoon.

DH just come in (he was doing a buffet breakfast for some point to point racing), he is going back later to meet with someone about a wedding, and in the absence of management he is going to have to cost it all and everything himself. I am quite impressed/excited for him.

Jousting Ria? Great that he has some responsibility in his job.

I miss living by the sea too.

I have no idea about garden Ria, I have no seeds in trays yet, but they all seem to want to be in by April, I'm not so worried about the hard work itself, just that I want it done to get seeds in. We have two small patches about 2x1m that have just been turned over, but I don't know what else we need to do to get them ready for seeds or seedlings.