Aug 08 - odds on this one won't last as long

[dizzydixies]

new thread ladies

wonder why this one won't last as long

No1 hurrah for M's results! What a relief for you. Bit at your DH letting you think it's you - funny how (in general) if wives don't fancy it it's their fault and if husbands don't, well I never, also wives' fault...

VG - kitchen looks lovely and I have enjoyed the paint speculations... I have never decorated anything in my life so it seems very grown up! Please tell me you're a week out though, Easter's not til the 12th is it?!

Seriously gorgeous dress Cyteen and [drool] at pirate shoes. I am browsing frocks as I type, think I've found something so if I get the laptop and credit card into the same room as each other tomorrow I will share!

thanks sazzles I wasnt fishing for compliments honestly
just feeling sorry for myself
Yes we need some or 1 nights out. Hoping to book the hotel we got married in for our anniversary.they do a lovely champagne break.
eveing meal wine champers and breakfast.
unfortunatley anni not till june 2nd. We may just get a few nights out before then depending on his shift pattern and babysitters.

I am only going away for 4 nights with my sister and her 3 dcs. Going to caravan park near Filey/Scarborough. dh staying home to work and decorate house. Dsis partner will be in France working on his house.

ooh many x post again. I am very slow tonight.
Thanks for compliments again
I honestly think deep down dh is worried about another pregnancy, and yes we just need time to ourselves to recharge I think.

glad to be of service sazzles

night all, hope our babies copy those dixie girls tonight

lol sazzles

I am very much looking forward to it, maybe me and dh will appreciate each other a bit more when I get back. I suppose we do take each other for granted sometimes.

night simnel I am loving these easter names btw. I can never think of owt.

dh just gone to work. I am sat on my bed and dd is layed snoring bless.
to move or not to move her

hehe Sazz I forgot Emma was born on your anniversary

no1 I must agree with the others, you are a beautiful laydee (not to want to sound all Swiss Toni about it) and your DH is mad not to be chasing you round the house Benny Hill-style. It did cross my mind that he might be scared of another pregnancy. Stock up on triple strength condoms and let the postman ring twice

(Although you might not want to take advice from me, we are constantly failing to find the time/opportunity here despite both wanting it )

Yay for M

pertelote how is M doing???

and please do share your shopping purchase

pmsl cyteen you are too funny
there is no time is there??
I am sat here looking at dd layed on my bed snoring and I think what a great form of contraception she is.lol
we never know what time of night she is going to toddle in.
She no longer cries just comes in when we are asleep.
Must break the habbit.
I decided that as he was on nights I was going to let them both cry it out.....but I know I wont.

Great news about Marcus, No1. Copy the memo to him so that he starts being visibly well as well as well on paper IYSWIM

I was out with DS at GAA training tonight so I was feeling like the mum of a very grown-up boy. The daffy thing thought I'd gone home without him though when I nipped back to the car to get a hat for DD2. Cue total meltdown. It's nice to be wanted though.

I'm still tingling away in my face and toes here, and I'm dizzy as hell which is a bit wearing, shall we say. My left side doesn't feel right, which sounds like a bad Morecambe and Wise joke doesn't it?

My mum is going to visit for a week starting on Saturday though so I think that will give me a chance to get straight if I can bite my tongue when she suggests that I'm probably imagining some of it... And I'm teaching tomorrow so that will be a change of scene.

Trying to baby-proof for a crawling baby is a nightmare when the house is still upside-down but we might get further with that next week too.

Steaky - I think Sazzles spoke v. wisely (I know others did too, but her diverting window tactics have stayed with me while reading and typing). As to the 1950s' man thing, I married a paid-up, professional, quietly renowned in his field marxist feminist and it took him a feck of a long time to really get what it was like at home with a small baby. I have to say both he and the baby have grown up wonderfully in the last six years, but much of the first year was taken up with hellish misunderstandings on both sides. I do hope the new start helps.

VG - I will have to be Switzerland on the paint as I'm staring at charts here too and my head is already full of twitches extravagant names and shades. A lovely kitchen though and the blinds are very nice indeed.

Steaky- I think 'being Switzerland' is going to be the new 'Fecking ... Genius.' Hurrah!

And, a fab dress Cyteen.
Sandwiches to make I fear.

no1.. agree with what others have been saying..you're beautiful

forgot to say.. when you 'see' me tomorrow, make sure you tell me my hair looks nice even if you hate it!

sibh..sorry to hear you're still not feeling right. have you got an appt booked?

Swiss Toni
Who will translate for TS?

I am still pmsl at swiss tony.

sibh I am worried about you,Hope you get an answer really soon.

miamla thankyou. I am sure your hair will look great.

ds crying sooo night ladies.
xx

on the whole time for being thing here's my 2p worth..

I'm actually doing the traditional wifey at home thing at the moment. DP is leaving it up to me as to whether or not i want to go back to work. We can afford me not to as long as I get a finger out and actually start making things to sell. He doesn't enjoy going to work and I feel he's very generous to give me the option to stay at home after my ML finishes. So, as a reflection of his generosity i think its the least i can do to keep the house nice, have a nice dinner ready for him each evening and generally look after him as well as being the best mum i can be. I have asked if he could make dinner on a Saturday night but this has only happened once so far. The thought has been there a few times though! I never thought i'd slip so easily into the role and i don't think he did either.
Had an amusing conversation with him last night...
DP..miamla, do you want a cup of tea?
Me.. yes please
DP..ooh, think we're running low on tea bags though
{DP opens cupboard to find new box of tea bags}
DP.. wow! you're good!

it probably doesn't seem like much but the me pre-DS would have run out of tea bags on monday, plan to buy some on tuesday, forget and use loose leaf instead, plan to buy some on wednesday, forget and use loose leaf instead, eventually remember on Thursday

anyhow, i'm babbling. just thought i'd share what's happening here because since making the decision to 'keep house' i feel a whole lot happier about DP not doing much and actually, now i'm in control it means things get done

Swiss Toni?
Who will translate for Miamla?!

hi Sazzles! Wise words on the career business. I think I am finding it easier to make the most of this time than I did at work - it feels like the first time in my life when I'm not wasting time wishing for the next thing.

No1 M is doing really well, thanks. You wouldn't know she'd had surgery less than 3 weeks ago. She had a bit of a sniffle at the weekend and my heart sank, but she shook it off practically overnight. Extraordinary. I think even her ribs must be better as she's lifting her arms to be picked up and pulling herself up onto her feet all the time.

I think you (and Cyteen) may have hit the nail on the head - fear of No3 (for all kinds of reasons) could be quite offputting for him. He still ought to tell you that though rather than making you feel crap.

For some reason DD is now wide awake, blowing raspberries and wanting to play. Have fed her but she woke up instead of going back to sleep! Grrr. Better go and pay attention to her... Night all.

I'm waiting on a letter from a neurosurgeon at the small local hospital and at the same time I'm trying to make sense of how you go private here, given that there is a waiting period on all bupa-type policies.

A friend of mine here told me off roundly for thinking like someone in the NHS system today. She has a PhD in science and thinks all my problems will be cured if I wear a scarf on the school run.

I found out too that I can get an MRI scan near my mum's in England for less than £180 with three days' notice. So that is tempting but I might go back to my GP and just get her to try to explain to me how best to work the private system here as I frankly don't get it. I think you're just supposed to ring a consultant up and say 'when are you free?' but I'm not sure how the whole system fits together.

Also, my GP's husband, also a GP, prescribed me motion sickness tabs claiming that they were BF-friendly and so stupidly I didn't read the leaflet. Cue much grunting from DD2 until I started to suspect all wasn't right and retrieved the leaflet from DD1's art box.

Sorry for moaning on ....
You have all made me laugh and think interesting things many times over today.

So gald to here she is doingh well. pertelote It is amzing to say what she has just been through very recently.Totally amazing how the little body can heal.
I think you are right as dh knows I really do want more. really really and I am not on th epill and dont intend to be again. Well for now anyway.

miamla I admire you for doing that. On one hand dh is a fantastic provider and very generous, and I am spoilt rotten really. I also realize I am lucky that I dont have to go back to work ever.
However Iam a bit crap at housekeeping.(dh has much higher standards) I also am kind of ehy do it today when it can be done tomorow.Or infact in my case next week.
I am more organised now I have 2 dcs, but prob not in dhs eyes.
One reason I get frustrated is I never dare say I am tired/struggling would love some help with dcs as he does pretty much everything else that I dont get time to do because of seeing to dcs iykwim.
Obviously if I spent less time going shopping, soft play, toddler groups I would get more done at home.(but would be miserabl as sin)
Our house does not have the lived in look that I crave (when dh is about) as dh is obsessed about tidying and everything having a place. I could take pics and you wouldnt know any dcs lived here
My next door neighbour says it looks like a showhouse

rofl at your options sazzles what are they like. Bless him though

what did you say???

sibh that sounds a good price for MRI. I saw the bill for mine even though didnt pay as went private they are very ££££
To get reffered privately I go through my gp and they just refer me.
Hope you get things sorted asap. The worrying won't help you. at the tabs though is everything ok??

That would be a neurologist, not a neurosurgeon. Too much Grey's Anatomy

The deal with the UK scan is that a neuro-radiographer reads the MRI scan and sends the images on disk and a reading of them back to your doctor here, so then I could take it to my neurologist here. I need to ring round here too as it might be easier to get a private MRI done here. Will feel dead silly if it's just a trapped nerve though. [hopeful emoticon]. A chat with my doc will be the best bet I think.

My vote is for 'drink taken' by the way Sazzles. No1-staying in with small ones is the route to madness. Getting out is medicinal.