June 07 - Better Living Through Chocolate

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yay for sleeping right through!

DS still has milk in the morning and at night. Is this bad? I want to stop but he asks for it.

Nothing the matter with that. DD has a huge cup of milk in the morning (that I still warm up for her), but dropped the evening one herself months ago.

Jamlet still has a cup of milk with breakfast and one with ITNG before bed. (Fridge cold though.) Occasionally we have forgotten the night one and she has still gone to bed and slept OK so she can't really need it, so she tends to get a smaller measure now.

morning

Well, DD's poorliness over the last few days came to head today with puking up her breakfast and being covered in spots (she looked a bit spotty last night). Not sure what is actually wrong with her; she has a sniffle, had a temperature the other day and hasn't really eaten very much since sunday. I think it's just a viral rash, but she has a couple that look like tiny pimples with a head on them so I'm taking her to get checked out. She's also been complaining of itchy ears!

Poor DD, Daisy.

Hope she gets on OK Daisy....

poor DD daisy.

baggins is currently sleeping off the excitement of Jeremiah teddy getting thrown down the well (church group - aren't there any bible stories that are mostly nice?), and school photo (AIBU to really exited about getting it?), the photographer came back today to do the absent kids, so we took DS1 (late for school - I got told off) and baggins down to have theirs done with DS2

Hope DD is OK Daisy.

Our cat has been poorly again recently, since we picked up her food from the vet and it had different packaging, saying a different flavour. So off we went (well Jamlet and I, left cat at home) to ask for a bag of the old stuff please, but they don't make it anymore. They've changed the flippin' recipe, aaarrrgghhh!! So we have a bag of another brand to see if that agrees with her. Fingers crossed and all that...

Morning all

Hope DD is ok daisy. Poorly DD here too, been throwing up all morning, made worse by the fact that she hasn't eaten or drunk anything. Took her to the Dr who said probably a virus, and just to give her whatever she wants to eat or drink. So far even OJ hans't tempted her to drink but she has nibbled on some chocolate. Now laying on her front on the sofa watching Big Cook Little Cook.

I know it's not her fault but it's a real PITA as the car was in for MOT this morning so DH had to take the morning off work to take the car in and take us to the Drs. Plus I needed to do stuff in town as I fly on Saturday, need currency, hair cut, clear bags for fluids. And she won't be able to go to nursery tomorrow so DH and I are taking a half day each with neither of us needs as I am away for a week next week and have been on a course this week and DH only been in his job 3 week and had to take this morning off plus next Thursday while I am away. Very stressed and I have a headache for the third day running. Arrrgghhh! Holidays are so bloody stressful!

I saw you talking about milk, we cut DD's down but it has crept back up, she has a bottle in the morning which she asks for straight away and one large one at night, also in a bottle . And has been asking for more.

Funny about the dessert thing, DH and I have the complete opposite strategy. We just let DD have pudding whatever as we don't want her to associate pudding as a reward and to be conditioned to clear her plate, we would rather she just ate what she wanted. That said it is very difficult to stick to when she takes one mouthful and then says 'yoghurt?' but we try to stick to our guns, and pudding is only natural yoghurt of fruit anyway so not much of a 'treat' . She is a fussy madam and eats like a sparrow so we are usually just happy that she eats anything. Funny how we have completely opposite ideas about how to do things. This parenting lark is tough, it's never obvious what the right thing to do is.

I'm kind of with you on the pudding thing Bumper - not wanting it to be seen as a treat, as something better than the "main course". I try to go along with a friend's idea that they always get offered pudding but in line with how much they ate of their dinner. Only eat a couple of mouthfuls? Only get a tiny pudding. Ate all your dinner? Can have a bigger pudding too. And like you we normally give fruit or nat yoghurt as pudding anyway, though occasionally a mini-milk or sometimes a small piece of chocolate on a Sunday.

she seems fine now . Typical poorly child; at death's door at home and then bouncing around the surgery like a mad thing . Viral most likely. No throat symptoms to indicate scarletina although he said the rash/vomitting looks like it. She says she is itchy, and I don't remember a viral rash causing itchiness before on her or DS1. she has also had four pooey nappies today, which is impressive considering how little she has eaten. We've to keep an eye on her over the next few days. I think she's fine though; is a bit whingier than normal....if that's even possible

right started posting this over two hours ago and haven't had a chance to sit down since.....so apols for any cross posts.

hey bumper...sounds like the same lurgy DD has got. I hope she is better before you go away and that you get all your prep done for your trip .

I'm having an argument with mothercare via email! I ordered that pram, but the confirmation email last night said it wouldn't be delivered for 18 working days! I called them this morning and they said the earliest would be 25th May . so I cancelled it but they muttered about the rest of my order which I also wanted to cancel as I'm not paying £5 delivery on two packs of bleeding vests costing £10....which is down for a five day delivery. Anyhoo I got an email, four hours after I first called , saying they couldn't cancel as it was already being processed in the warehouse but I could return them to store once they arrive. I've emailed back saying unacceptable and that if it hasn't been posted/despatched then it can still be cancelled, explained that getting to my nearest store is too inconvenient and asked them to politely refund the full amount plus delivery.......we shall see what they say.

I've ordered the same buggy, slightly cheaper and on next day delivery from tesco.com

and in the spirit of complaining.....got a letter from the bank saying I had gone over my agreed overdraft (by less than £25) and they were charging me £35 for the debit card transaction and a further £28 for going over my overdraft . Called them up, they have refunded the charges and increased my overdraft for me. Now why couldn't they have just done that in the first place? instead of causing me unnneccesary bloody grief. (my overdraft limit is only £100 and it is the first time I've gone over it in 20 years....twunts)

mutter....mutter....rant....rant....customer fecking loyalty.....mutter...rant

you don't have much luck Daisy!
I have heard many bad things about Mothercare, but apart from me finding that some of their stuff just isn't great quality I have never had a problem with them. Just lucky I guess, I have heard more bad than good.
I hope you don't have to pay the fiver. I'd go ballistic too. Remember if you paid by credit card, you can get it refunded.

Bumper, Jammy, yes funny how we do it differently. I'm aware I'm a hard-arse bitch when it comes to him eating his dinner...and yes, for him, dessert IS a treat/reward. I take the attitude that if he's hungry, he'll eat what he's given, if he's not, then he doesn't need dessert either.

Although I am also aware that looking at me and DH it's somewhat unlikely he will starve or have anorexia type issues as he grows up, neither of us are svelte

daisy, my boys alwasy itch with viral rashes - could be a temperature irritating eczema? That's what we usually get fobbed off with told.

baggins still has milk morning and night (morning he has tea in it to warm it up a bit), and sometimes in between if I think he hasn't eaten much/he looks like he might fall asleep early (so hardly ever happens). TBH I don't battle with baggins, if he won't eat I give him fruit/yogurt, but I am meaner with the big boys. I do object to any of them throwing food at me though! And it probably defeats the object, but if they're only having a simple sort of tea I have been known to make sponge pud & custard for pudding to fill them up (not that mine are ever likely to be underweight either)

I have that attitude with food too Bumper, and have been pretty lax with allowing DD to eat or not eat as she pleases. She has always had a balanced diet though if not all that varied. She went through a very long phase of not eating dinner at all except maybe a yogurt. Now at nearly 5 she is becoming alot less fussy and will usually have what we do. I am also a bit stricter now, eg 1 yogurt a day is enough, and if she didn't eat much at lunch and gets hungry then she can have fruit only, but really I don't think it's too much of an issue when they're little, and don't want to create a battleground.

Make sure you cover all the bases wardrobe-wise for your trip, we went to DC/NY at the beginning of May too and it was hot one day and freezing the next!

bumper...did you meant to put DD's name in there?

We were having huge battles with food in this house and it was turning into a real issue with DS1 so we are trying to be more relaxed about it. We now guage how much he has eaten and decide if it's enough for dessert (basically they need to clear at least half the plate). We don't withold dessert anymore, but have a rule about supper. If he clears his plate and then half an hour later is asking for supper, he gets it, but if he doesn't eat and then asks for supper later he doesn't. That way we are hoping to discourage him from not eating what he doesn't like/fancy knowing he'll get something else later and he only gets supper if he's actually hungry. If that makes sense

I don't have luck with things fury....things always seem to go wrong/be a dilemma, especially with prams......the bloody zip has gone on the P&T as well now; fecking heap of crap.

Daisy yes it does make sense, that's why we are being so bloody minded about it ourselves - DS keeps refusing dinner/barely touching it as he knows something better might follow!

So we are trying to teach him that in order to get what he classes as 'better', even if it is only a bit of fruit, he has to eat at least 1/2 his dinner first.

Them's be the rules

Yeah we have a "eat at least half" rule as well. We only do yoghurts and fruit as desserts anyway, but if she eats everything she gets a bit of chocolate, but irritated as I get with her, I have never yet said "if you eat that I'll give you ......" and if she has done well, I always tell her that!

Busy ironing loads of stuff to do a boot fair with....what fun!

That makes sense fury, and that's why it is hard to stick by our rules but I guess we have our own logic. And to be honest, if DD thinks a bowl of natural yoghurt or a satsuma is a 'treat' then I am happy with that

Thanks daisy btw, I have reported my post!

Am getting confused about the whole liquids on the plane thing. Can anyone explain? Can I take liquids in their original containers? I'm thinking rescue remedy or some aromatherapy pulse point things. Do they have to be in individual plastic bags? Very confused!

DD really up and down, just vomited again, and then within 10 minutes was up asking for more juice and eating some of my pasta. But now she is on the sofa whimpering again like a little puppy - bless!

poor thing bumper. No idea about plastic bags, sorry. Are you excited yet or just stressed?

bloody ICS advert - DS2 just informed me that I am not a working mum (OK, so what do I do all day then?) and Mrs X (who I cannot stand as she is so sodding superior) who works at school is. Pah!

is this about an Mnetter too?

You can put what you like in your hold luggage Bumper. Anything in your hand luggage has to be 1) less than 100ml and 2) in a resealable transparent plastic bag

We got caught out as we took our washbag in the handluggage by mistake, the guy at security confiscated a nearly empty tube of facial wash because the tube was originally more than 100 ml. And then made us pay £1 for a resealable bag. No one checks it again so totally pointless. Fucking jobsworth.

Stuff, I'm exhausted this morning! Not an early start, 7am, just soooooooooo tired Had no rest since then either. Jamlet been demanding, and for the past 45 mins while she's been "napping" (yeah, right) I've done chores and got things ready to go to the gym this morning and the children's centre this afternoon. Just taking 5 mins for my sanity before I go get her dressed (which will no doubt involve some stress the way she's been so far) and we go off to the gym/creche.