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dinkystinky · 05/05/2009 08:28

so here we go again

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MarkStretch · 27/05/2009 14:33

Hello.

I have just been to Great Yarmouth and breastfed on a carousel.

mumoverseas · 27/05/2009 14:40

oh, so is there a competition running that I was unaware of at the most bizarre place to b/f?

mumoverseas · 27/05/2009 15:15

ps, Happy wedding anniversary MS F a honeymoon baby?

MarkStretch · 27/05/2009 16:04

No competition MOS, but if there was I am SOOOOOOOOO the winner!

Erm, F was more like a 'Oh my god, we're flying to Turkey tomorrow to get married, I'm so excited, I can't sleep, I know, let's have a quick shag' baby...

dinkystinky · 27/05/2009 16:08

Wow, that's impressive Markstretch!

MoS - hope you enjoy the ball and it helps take your mind off things for the evening. Its great to know that your mum's funeral will be the way she wanted it to be and that it is all sorted.

Herbgarden - have fun at Camber Sands. Hope the weather improves for you. I dread to think what the latest on redundancies at work is - am deliberately not getting in touch with work friends so I dont find out till I go back. Last time I went back to work after maternity leave I was really thrown as there were so many new faces around -this time round I suspect I'll be thrown as there will be so many missing faces around... Sounds like you better get working on your touch typing with the lack of secretaries and recordable hours pressure though - though hope your DH's transfer comes in time to save you from the misery.

Took DS1 to a toddler magic show this morning which he loved and left Danny for a couple of hours with our nanny - he was a total bottle refusnik again and guzzled so much when I got home from me he made himself sick. Took him after lunch for his second set of jabs and he's currently snoozing - a v traumatic day all round for the little man...

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mumoverseas · 27/05/2009 16:10

at F's conception story

PolkSaladLucie · 27/05/2009 16:26

Hello!

Happy Anniversary MS! MOS - Hope you do go to the ball, and watch out with the extreme bf-ing. They'll either cut your boobs off, or you'll end up with sunburnt nips!

Herby - Enjoy Camber - it's such a nice beach. It was always a favourite haunt of ours as kids. Do they still have the crazy golf course? Weather is supposed to be really nice from tomorrow till Monday, so hope you get some sunshine.

We're slowly adjusting to life with a nine year old in the house. My cousin's best friend is a teacher, and she's come down from London to stay with her, so T spent last night back at his mum's which he was really looking forward to, but apparantly she's had some niggles, so he might be back at ours tonight...

Had a lovely lie-in this morning - M usually wakes between 5:30 and 6 for her morning feed, and she started grumbling at about 5:20 this morning, so I got up, came down and made the bottle as usual, then went back up to get her and she was still sleeping. I got back into bed to read, but drifted off to sleep, and woke up when John's alarm went off at 7:30! She's been very clingy today and has slept since we drove back from the baby massage class (2:30) so I know she won't repeat the favour tomorrow, but it's John's day off, so it's his turn to get up !!

rosieposey · 27/05/2009 16:30

Hi all, well its been a week since i posted so havent read back that far (only a couple of pages - will catch up properly when i get the time.)

MOS so sorry to hear your news - hope you are all ok and that the funeral goes ok

Herb hope you have fun at Camber Sands - fingers crossed for the weather too

Oh a Feb 2010 antenatal thread ... Still cant belive that Milo is getting on for 4 months it seems like yesterday i was waiting for my 12 week scan and the 'all clear'. Broody, moi?

I can remember moving to Wiltshire from Guildford the third weekend in May and it was DH and I's first weekend the weekend after - without having to commute to and fro (which we had been doing for nearly two years) and properly living together so we had alot more energy that Saturday - the result was Milo but i havent had the same amount of energy since

Hope that everyone is doing ok with their Lo's and that apart from MOS's sad news that all is well, will really try (scouts honour) to keep up with everyone elses news a bit more.

PinkTulips · 27/05/2009 16:41

aaron cried all morning and has now been asleep for 4 hours

same last night, cried for ages but then slept through which he hasn't for weeks... lord knows what's going on with him now, a mix of teething and growing i think.

happy anniversary MS

mos, please don't.... we like you too much to have you wind up in some saudi jail cell

i'm with the others btw, go to the ball but steer clear of the booze maybe. it's lovely that your mother made those arrangements, at least you know she'll be getting exactly the send off she wanted. it sounds like she understood perfectly why you couldn't come sooner and was delighted you were going to make it over the summer so i don't think you have any reason to feel sad, her last days were filled with the excitement of a new grandchild and the anticipation of meeting him, what better way to spend them than that? you made her happy at the end

mumoverseas · 27/05/2009 16:55

PT is he teething? H is really grotty at the moment and think teeth are imminent. He has been grumpy the last 3 days and one of my friends (RL!) said that babies can pick up on your emotions?
Will try not to get arrested. Am going to mass tomorrow it happens around 4 or 5 times a year and I think the timing is excellent. Even DH (an atheist) is going to come and mass is being said for my mum. Apparently when the priest is here he does about 10 services in 7 days. Good to know we get our moneys worth

Am pleased and relieved that mum made those arrangements and feel happier about what my aunt said about her talking about H and that she was so pleased he was being dunked (baptised) in her church so we are going to go ahead with that in July.
sorry to go on about this but another funeral question. Should we bury mum with her wedding ring on?

p.s. have to say, I love you guys, you've really helped me out of the last few days. can't wait to meet some of you next month. PT, really want to meet you so might have to pop over to Ireland or was in Manchester you will be in in July?

PinkTulips · 27/05/2009 17:20

not really manchester, the wedding is in chesire out in the middle of the countryside so not even a good shopping opportunity, darn them and their inconvenient nuptuals

have just been checking out their gift list online and my god is it the biggest pile of boredom imaginable tonnes of plain white bedclothes, crockery, etc. and even as a gift i ain't paying for jamie oliver serving spoons ffs!

think i may just buy them something locally as i simply can't bring myself to spend money on the stuff she has listed

PolkSaladLucie · 27/05/2009 17:26

MOS - I would hang on to the ring if I were you, but it might well be that she has already stated what she wants to happen to it - either as part of the plans for the funeral or in her will. She might want you to have it or one of your girls. What did she do with your father's ring? That might give you some guidance.

Will be lovely for H to be 'done' at her church. Things like that create such a link - my gran died two weeks before my due date and I've always been proud of the fact that she knew I was a girl, and what my name was going to be. She actually chose my middle name and named me after her father and brother. H will have the same thing with your mum, even though they never met...

PolkSaladLucie · 27/05/2009 17:28

PT I always go to TKMaxx for wedding presents - including the wedding when the list was at Harrods and included a £75,000 chandalier!!!!

PinkTulips · 27/05/2009 18:54

i think i can get away with a nice irish crafty type thing (bog oak sculpture or somesuch) as it's something from where his family is from that he couldn't get over there but whether it'll fit into her sterile white house is another matter.... god help her when she has kids

bumpsnowjustplump · 27/05/2009 19:02

Evening all. Dinky I used to work at the campsite you are going to..... It was many moons ago when I lived in Hastings and I was young and care free. Hope you have a nice time..

PSL glad things are falling into place for you and hope he is back with his mum before too long.

mos hope you have a nice time tonight and hope it will take your mind of things if only for a few beats of time...

Hi everyone else hope you are all well.

mumoverseas · 27/05/2009 19:30

thanks for the advice ladies,
PSL Thats nice about your nan. no instructions ref ring as far as aware. Funnily enough, I was wondering yesterday about my dad's ring, pretty sure he didn't wear it when buried. He hardly ever wore it, only for special occasions as he worked with his hands a lot and it was set with a diamond (may have come from family jewellers in Ireland so was a bit special) wish I'd paid more attention now

at £75k chandalier, bloody ridiculous.

PT what about a nice small item of waterford crystal or failing that, a few cans of guiness or guiness pint glasses - I'm guessing he is your family and she is a little bit of a snob?

littleboyblue · 27/05/2009 21:34

Evening ladies. Hope everone's ok, I have skim read the last page and half because I'm pretty tired and still need to get the ironing done, but I say that every night and never manage to get it done!

MS I don't think anyone will beat bf on a carasol!
bumps hope you and ds have both calmed down now. Ds1 does that kind of stupid stuff, holding his breath. I give him a whack on his back but seeing as the babies are too small for that, I agree with MS and would blow in his face.
mos Hope you're ok and dp is being a bit more understanding.

We drove up to Warwickshire to visit dp's family today. Was nice, his dad and step-mum seemed a bit more interested, only in ds1 though, they don't like babies and in the 4 times we have been there in the past 21 months, today was the first time either of them held ds1. They did not touch Luke, but at least showed interest in Jacob and I suppose will be the same with Luke as he gets older, it's just annoying when it seems they don't care. The step-mum called babies boring. Now, I know they are a bit, and I much prefer the toddler stage to the baby stage, but I think they could have at least held him. Oh well.

I didn't get a response to my letter, but mentioned it last night and told him it took me all day to write that, so he rolled his eyes and said he'd read it again. I don't even think he knows where it is (under the sofa cushion)!
Luke had his jabs yesterday, but we have to go back on friday because she only had 2 of the 3 in stock so the menengitis jab is to follow.

PinkTulips · 27/05/2009 21:35

only met her once in passing and i was 5 months pregnant with ds1 at the time so not really in a sociable mood that day... i'm just judging her by her wedding list

he one of my favourite cousins though so she'd better be lovely

bumpsnowjustplump · 27/05/2009 21:57

LBB so sorry your dh is being so insensative... It is not on really especially as you put your heart and soul into that letter and really laid yourself bare......

Glad you had a nice day today, my dad is a bit like that re babies he keeps refering to DS as "IT". I dont take offence anymore its just the way he is.

bumpsnowjustplump · 27/05/2009 21:58

whoops how many spelling mistakes

PinkTulips · 27/05/2009 22:07

my dad tried to teach aaron to make mooing noises at me when he wanted a feed yesterday

dad's are weird, i think it's in the job description

turns out the screaming and sleeping loads were the start of a bug, he's been having weird nappies and projectile vomited all over the living room a while ago... lurvely

mslucy · 27/05/2009 23:00

hello there everyone.
Just returned from a day at Thomasland, which was actually great fun until we had to remove DS1.
He threw such a violent tantrum that he made himself sick and covered both himself and DH in currant bun flavoured vomit.

He then crashed out for two hours.

Talk about tired and emotional

Seriously, it is heaven on earth for small boys and much less naff than I'd expected - though let's face it, my expectations were very low indeed.

littleboyblue · 28/05/2009 00:31

PT Hope the bug clears up quickly and doesn't spread to the rest of the family.
mslucy your poor ds and dh
Where abouts is Thomasland? My ds1 would love it

mumoverseas · 28/05/2009 05:23

PT & Mslucy hope your boys are ok poor little things. Its awful when they are aick so young

crappy sleepless night here

littleboyblue · 28/05/2009 07:58

Morning. Sorry you didn't sleep too well mos.
Ds1 only fell out of bed once last night.
Nothing exciting happening here. Hope you're all well today