Hi all
Sorry disappeared for a week or so - no reason really other than sometimes I get sick of being permanently glued to this computer - I think I have mild addiction sometimes so weaned myself off for a while. Been quite busy with stuff too as my sis is getting married soon...
LBB- one of my friends uses a snuggle sack for her kids when away as she finds it a bit better than the blow up things - she says a bit less "sweaty "(!)..
Spotty - sorry you're having a rough time. Don't know what to suggest - DS (2.9 year) was sleeping ok then started waking through the night and early when DD arrived. We've taken to ignoring him and he shuts up when he realises he's not getting any attention and goes off again....(he doesn't want anything generally just hates missing out ) I'm afraid it's a bit of tough love with him before I lost the plot. We're on teh magic timer light thing now with him as some mornings he was thinking that 4.30am was perfectly acceptable. Now he grumbles from 5.30am onwards but we don't get him til 6.30 when the light comes on -don't know what you're DS1 issues are but tbh I've found the night and early wakings are a bit phasey and do go away. DS's also coincided with potty training.
Not sure about the DS2 issue though sorry ! DD is an easier baby than DS and sleeps through now from 11 - 7 with only a few blips when we have to feed her middle of teh night and she's generally pretty chilled in the day with a nice long sleep at lunchtime (Sorry not being smug mummy here it's just the way she is - DS was soooo different). She is though now 16 weeks so I think that really makes a difference. When things were bad a while ago and I was tired and not getting much sleep betweeen teh two of them I left the kids with mum or went to mums and left them overnight with DH for a night at a weekend just to at least feel normal for a day (altho' tbh with more sleep now I feel rubbish)....I didnt' care at that point whether they kept someone else up all night - they could catch up the day after....
MOS good luck with DS's GCSE's - this funny wet weather and lovely green trees at the moment takes me right back to exam time - it was always hot and sunny for revision and then damp and muggy for exam time.....
We're otherwise pottering along fine and DS seems to have calmed down a lot since potty training which is a relief - he's a bit less clingy. Funny what these big changes do to them. DD has another cold so is miss snotty but it's not bothered her much. We're now properly considering a move abroad so are finding out more about it via DH's work. We basically say that we're prepared to go and DH's next move will be to Europe. Eeeeks. We reckon it's the right time, DD is still tiny, DS would have to start int school for a year or so. Our house needs renovating so we'd leave it as is and probably do it up just before coming back so we're not living in the chaos. It all seems to fit into place. I'll find it hard leaving my job, my family and my life here but I think I feel more ready for the change now than ever plus my work is a miserable place at teh moment so not looking forward to going back in August anyway. We'll find out in the next few months where it would be. The biggest European office is in Geneva but I suspect we'll end up somewhere else.....who knows !!
DS wants to go and feed the ducks this afternoon altho looks like the rains coming here....
If you do a meet up in the summer can you let me know? Might come and join you if I have just DS - he's at nursery Mon/Tues. I'm on hols 6 - 13 June......but anyway, can make arrangements if it's another day !
Can't spell "the" today can i???