August 2008 - 8 months and still not sleeping though the night....

[TwilightSurfer]

you'd think after 33 threads we'd have all the answers by now.

lovely still doesn't begin with an L though does it??!

time for me to take myself off to bed

night all

morning all been up since 5am [bleary][bleary][bleary] and it wasn't Dylan
I woke up and just knew that I hadn't heard DH come in and had that horrible sinking feeling in my stomach, I sent a text but must have fallen back asleep as next thing I knew I heard the door half an hour later - he's shattered after walking for 7hrs straight SO he'll sleep till its time for him to get up and go to work again at 4pm.

Dylan up at 6am which is at least better than 4am!!! She's now happily playing with one of DD2's crocs at least they're relatively new

toast and jam for brekkie is all I can muster this morning sorry - I may manage something more exciting/substantial later on

Eh up Dizzy, so much for a lie-in . In the same boat here, DS awake and crying at 4,5,6, even bringing him into bed with me didn't really help. Poor poppet has got a cold though and is very snotty so not entirely surprising. So now he and DD are rolling around on the floor having a laugh while i ignorethem supervise them

Still sunny here, got a 2 year old's birthday party this afternoon. Hope there's plenty of cake

oh no Hotter, have you tried the old saline solution up the nose trick? hope the party goes well

Ewwwww no Dizzy I couldn't [boak] anyway it's fairly free-flowing at the moment!

How are your doors looking?

lovely thanks although DH belongs to the camp where the protective film isn't removed until absolutely necessary (phones/laptops etc) so they still have those on - apparently its only until the painter is done on Monday

am still sitting in a living room with nothing but a couch and a tv - am actually quite liking it

God my house is just full to bursting with crap, I dream of a minimalist life (or at least a bigger house with better cupboards ). This house seemed huge to us when we first moved in; two children later it's shrunk alarmingly

ours too our 3 bed semi cottage with lovely garden is now a bedsit with a dirt patch

Actually the garden is looking pretty spanking at the moment , the weeds have not yet become rampant and the grass is still nice and green. Won't last though... And if anyone's MIL tries to buy purple sand for your DC instead of the usual sand coloured stuff, JUST SAY NO it looks nice in the play tray but once it's flung sprinkled over the path you can't bloody get rid of it

you should make her clean it up then very re your garden, I'd love to be able to retreat to the garden without mentally totting up how many hours need to be put in to tidy it up

I love the garden, it's the reason we bought this house. After 10 years of tiny terrace back yards I ended up with 10m by 30m it's hard work and has been sadly neglected since DD was born, luckily the soil is so poor even the weeds have not really bothered to take over [phew]. Still, we get all manner of birds, some squirrels and even the occasional hedgehog (and a heron which ate all the fish), it helps to offset the gritty urban-ness of the neighbourhood.

Better go and tidy, grandparents coming in an hour, and as DS and DD have been left to go feral this morning the house is very messy

Lovely days to you all

oh lovely Sazz, glad you had a good night too

Right, all caught up here.
Won't go into the hell of it, but not a good night last night. Which following on from a day when I spent most of the afternoon in tears wasn't great.

However DH has been looking after Izzy since 8.30 and tis nearly lunchtime, so I has better get out of bed and pjs sometime soon.

Sazzles okey dokey another question - how did you get them to settle? At the moment I do food, nappy change, grobag, boob but she either wakes as she goes into cot or won't settle. This week I stayed with her in the room, either by the cot or with her in my arms for an hour or so at a time.
Which isn't practical. Next week I wan't to work towards her being quiet in her cot without me. The only thing is DH comes home each day and asks me how much she napped, so I am always tempted to just plunk her in the buggy and go out. But then that doen'st get her sleeping in her cot.

Gah and oooh Cheltenham's pretty.

Blimey, just had to go back 12 pages to find something from Tuesday. Aren't we nearly up to a new thread.
I've thought of a title, can I name it, please can I, please can I???

the honour is all yours steaky, carry on

oh and I was thinking about something someone said several threads ago - I know I know I'm a bit slow sometimes.

It was the list of things to help keep you cheerful. Didn't they ask if anyone wanted to try to do the list with them - well I do.

So I'll go and try and find it and work out who it was, what they said and you know, try to make some kind of sense.

But you know if anyone can work out what I am talking about and short-cut it for me then feel free.

DH and baby back so looks like it is time to get up and face the day.

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I know it is a little early but I was very excited about naming it...

i'm still catching up but albs does DD really not like risotto? you might want to remind her next time she refuses to eat yours that she happily ate it at my house!