August 2008 - Warning! Stunt Babies At Work

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Here we all are

sambo please PLEASE don't take that to heart at all - that particular CM will have been TLD by the parents that is their wishes, a CM will do what you require/instruct them to do and you should only go with them if your gut instinct gives the green light. Take your time in choosing, get word of mouth references (not from other childminders but from local mothers) meet them, discuss requirements and ask for names of previous clients so you can phone them and speak to them. You'll instinctly KNOW which ones are doing it for the money and which ones are doing it because they love kids

TLD meant told

NO1 But your DH is the obsessively neat one, n'est-ce pas? Remind him that condoms make a whole lot less mess, and you only need to use them 2wks a month (one either side of ovulation.)

Miamla LOL doesn't TS have the coolest name? Would love to call a dd that.

dizzy from the rest of what she said I dont think she'd okayed it with the parents - she was struggling with her mindee being unable to go to sleep in a cot by him/herself and her own baby was being woken by the crying. Sounds grim.

oh no Sambo thats sad I used to mind a wee one for a friend and it was at her insistance I put him in the travel cot and let him cry himself to sleep - thats how she did it at her house and she didn't want me 'ruining' that the arrangement, not surprisingly, didn't last long

just watched this hilarious cartoon, it could be depicting any night over the last 9.5 months here

right, got to get out into the sunshine!

managed to upload some photos onto FB that I've been promising to do for ages, DH now out working in the garden and I'm hiding in here - being of scottish blue skin variety I can feel myself burning just looking at the sunshine [meep

hope all having a lovely day, I think some loud music is in order

Woohoo!!!!!

The property valuer man came today and gave the green light to the bank for a mortgage top-up.

Our ramshackle home will get a proper extension with a fabby kitchen. No more falling out windows, no more mould on kitchen walls.

Oh frabjous day!!!!!!

I've been missing for several days due to the pils (crooked as ever) and then a massive gardening/hidying mission ...

We're celebrating by spending the afternoon at Barleycove beach.

DH is dancing with the girls downstairs.

DD2 is growing up so much this week. She has become obsessed with glasses and hairbrushes and is trying to put them on or brush with varying degrees of success. Too dotey.

I hope the doc has some answers Dizzy. That sounds so painful.

Ladies, it feels like forever since I posted but it was only 2 days ago. Just took me 20 mins to read all your posts.

LOL at you TS and your googling. 1 in 200 is still fairly small odds isn't it? Or would you be that one?

No1 your dh attends the same contraceptive school as mine then! Did you want a dc3?

dizzy thanks so much for T's lunchbox gift. Can you please text me your address? Not wishing to stalk you, just so I can send a thank you . Am also glad you didn't die , but yes, gall stones are incredibly painful. They often give morphine to alleviate the pain so no wonder you thought you were skyward bound!

Where's steaky got to? And Ann? hotpot good news on the driving lessons. Have they let you loose on the roads?

miamla your dp uses the sewing machine Mine wouldn't know how to plug it in let alone attempt to use it

sazzles can you please come and organise my day to fit in those extra 3 hours you seem to cram in? I've asked the secretaries at work but they won't do it for me

oops oooooh lovely new car. Can I have a go?

cyteen aww re J's super cuteness for the ILs. I do declare God's Great Baby Factory was working to a particularly high spec around NOV/DEC 07

hello to anyone i haven't named in person. Its not deliberate!

Red thats great news about the valuation - we shall all delight in another home improvement obsessed thread

CC will FB you

I'm hard at work until 5pm. Obviously.

red have you picked your new kitchen out yet?! How exciting!

Kitchen porn brochures litter our front room as we speak CC

Dizzy, can I suggest an omelette for lunch. DD1 was singing 'Egg pie, egg pie / It won't make you die' so I'm sure it will be safe.

And a few for good measure.

I love a good kitchen thread!!!!!!

have managed to finally finish uploading the photos on FB (was too busy playing with Dylan to pay attention )

Dr agreed with me on the self diagnosis and we had a good chat about some stuff - cream for dodgy rash and back to see her in a month for a follow up

off to hidebyscottishblueskinfromthesun enjoy the day before school run etc etc

lol at omelette suggestion, shall of course give you link to our kitchen people as I adore our kitchen and if you can please please PLEASE get the foldy back doors in your extension - we adore ours especially on days like today

schuller kitchens and folding patio doors and they have a sale on for the doors - tis an omen

Dizzy, any conservatory recommendations? We are hoping to have ours erected as soon as we've chosen our preferred quote out of 3 contenders.

alas no conservatory's here so no, can't help sorry! chuck out a thread in chat and watch them all flood in though lol

Today hasn't started out so well ladies. DH phoned just 10 minutes after leaving the house. Seems he ran out of gas 5 miles up the road. I had to quickly throw the kids and the gas can in the truck. I can't believe we didn't DIE from the fumes and that was with all the windows down, the fan going on high and the rear window flap up. You don't even want to hear DH's excuse.

Then I found 2 seconds to catch up, sat down at DH's computer because it was on, and Reese toppled over bashing her head on the computer's harddrive. Now she has a matching bruise on the other side of her forehead. NICE.

Expectant I can sympathize with you regarding the heat. I'd have to go rent a hotel room if our AC went out at this point. Unfortunately, my BIL's AC went out last night as well. I feel really bad for him because I know money is extremely tight.

Miamla, yes that is my maiden name. Pre-marriage I only had two names. My mother wanted it that way. My first name is a prayer for peace. Add that to my maiden name and you get a wonderful hopeful dream that never came to fruition. My mother use to laugh that HELL RAISER would have been a more appropriate name.

Red That's awesome! I can't wait to hear all about the new kitchen. Mind the dust sheets. Even the slightest bit of work will have crap all over the rest of your house. Invest now in big pieces of plastic and lots of painters tape because if you crew is anything like mine they will "forget" the dust sheets.

Captain it would be my crap luck to be that 1. Hopefully though this is just me being me....the overly worried individually that I naturally am.

sambo that cartoon is very cute I found that very shocking, that CMs would say/do that sort of thing, possibly against parents' wishes. I guess the only thing we can do when it comes to childcare is be crystal clear about the things we absolutely do not want them to do - if the mindee was waking the CM's baby then I'd think the arrangement needs rethinking, not that it's time to get the controlled crying going

Red how marvellous for you, have some congratulatory vintage champagne (calorie-free, of course). Glad you survived the PIL, although in my overheatedness I read it as 'pills' and wondered whether you'd had to resort to drugs

TS and no1 am slightly at your hair-raising contraceptive possibilities. More so at Mrno1 tbh, since he claims to be so adamant about not wanting another

Hello to everyone else We're having a lovely day here; DS slept all night with just one tiny wake-up at 2am, easily soothed with dummy and stroking. If I hadn't been woken up by horny foxes doing the nasty outside our bedroom window at 3am and 4am, it would have been perfect! Still, feeling much restored and this morning DS and I have been to baby group, had a picnic lunch in the cathedral grounds, sent off his passport application and dragged a ton of shopping back from the market.

Now he is busy wedging himself under the sofa, so back in a minute...

Hello - anyone out there??

Laptop still dead but I have installed my phone as a ,ode, on DHs computer so at least I can chat.
I am so glad I have so ,any pics loaded to flickr and facebook but I still think I've lost quite a fe including so,e really nice ones fro, ,y visit with my dad. FFS where is the f-ing m key on this keyboard???

Anyhew. Izzy woke up at 2.45 last night and did not sleep again until 4.30
The only re,otely good thing about this is that it was on DH's dictated bedtime of 8pm so now at least he cannot claim she only sleeps through when she goes to bed at 8.

Nearly got her top two teeth through, so that could be the reason.

For whoever asked earlier; yes we are still seeing the counsellor, but she says we are at a ppoint where we have to decide to go or stay. We don't see her for another six weeks and we have to have a decision by then. so the next six weeks are make or break for us.

We have a behaviour pact to help us get back on track. All the things I wanted on it were to do with how we treat each other and he went for practical points, including number of shags per week. Men and women really are different aren't they?

The big sticking point; of course, was bedtime routine. I have accepted 8pm rather than face more arguments, but he also dictated the time I start giving Iz supper and the amount of soothing after her BF she gets. And for ,e to stick to all of that, rigidly,; he has conceeded that he will put her down to sleep when he is ho,e and IF he feels like it.

Still I have to show willing as the pact was my idea. It just seems so sad that we are so broken that he doesn't feel he can trust me.

oh and has anyone else got a baby that wants milk all the time? as well as solids??

Dizzy I am LOVING the photos you uploaded. I want to picnic on the farm too!!

Steaky I don't get a sense of calm from your post. {{{hugs}}} Six weeks is a very short time. Are you really suppose to determine MARRIED or DIVORCED in that amount of time? As for Reese and food, she's doing incredible since I helped change her sleep/feed pattern. She's eating almost exactly like we are eating now apart from 2 bottle feeds, one mid morning and one before bed. Other than that she feeds when we feed.

Speaking of Reese...CAN YOU SMELL HER? OMG! Diaper time.