June 2007 They're (almost all) two which makes them hard work in a whole new range of ways. But just as adorable!

[JammyQueenOfTheSewers]

Unable to sleep thought I'd see what had been going on and saw we were due a new thread. Hope this is OK?

14 holly

If you are in a position to sell any and have some group 1 (if that's the 9mo plus ones) I will definately be interested as we'll need one for bumble before too long.

Ria, if you can get £5 bargains and sell them for £20 then you have the prospect of being a right old hun a nice little earner there

Holly, I would stick to your guns (I hate that expression, but don't know what else to put) on that one. It's your house too. I remember only too well being 14/15 with a 17yo boyfriend. Rermind DP he has a DD who will be that age one day! and if you have to ask how he would feel if her BFs dad let them share a room!!!

Re value lasagne, did I tell you when we went camping we had alpha dads as neighbours? I don't think they had ever seen a blue and white striped product in their lifes ("oh we eat organic sausages"), have to say I never expected to feel lie the poor relation on a camp site! DHs opinion is the cheap products are pretty much as good as standard ones, it's the packaging the money is saved on. My boys have had BOGOF co-op pasta bake twice this week (because I am idle), but they ate the lot, so that's fine with me.

Am v impressed with your expressing abilities natty. (I never managed it)

no hum here. The one I just sold cost me about £22 on ebay & a new raincover. wouldn't want to be ripping people off! (they know where I live) Am happy to have space back I suppose.

obviously that said "no hun" rather than "ho hum".

talking of sex, DS1 was funny today. Our PC is ill, and I was telling him not to open anything on the 'net that he wasn't sure of because it might be dodgy. He asked if I meant "ladies", I said not always, but maybe, and he said it was OK, he knew about "prawn" sites - someone at school had told him a list to look at but he wasn't interested! Bless him. (although then we ended up having a conversation in the street about whether Noel Coward was "queer" or not. DS1 doesn't think the term "gay" is respectful!)

LOL at prawn sites.
Ria makes a good point about 14 and 17 year olds, remind him he has a daughter!

ria, your DH isn't wrong about the packaging thing!!

Just realised my 14 is equally relevant to carseats and underage girlfriends. I would put my foot down about it as well holly; tell him you don't want his DS breaking the law in your house...and remind him he has a daughter!

at prawn sites.

I love the DC's mispronunciation of things. Ds1 is annoyed that we won't let him watch President Evil at his mates house

Wish Jamlet would say things so that she could mispronounce them

Just had a nice meal out with friends - me and some friends that is. DH was home. All full up on all-you-can-eat Chinese now and half a bottle of wine

thanks ria and holly nice to know im not the only resorting to ready meals lol

ive never been able to express before, i have a fantastic pump thats all i can say!
got 2 lots of 3 oz out today, crack is getting there, im hoping i wont have to do this for long tho, its time consuming to pump then feed when i want to just pop him on!

no parcel today daisy hope it comes tomorrow.

jammy she will get there, thomas was a late talker too, now he wont shut up

tom went on a play date for the first time today, and i burst into tears! just seeing him go off happy and doing something so grown up. that and his nursery trial day this week, and he has been dry at night 3 days in a row. he is getting so big, and next to little charlie as well.

he'll be leaving home soon...

natty, even my mum uses ready meals (I suppose she did so much "farmers wife" cooking having Dsis's when they first married, then having me 14 yrs later - that's a hell of a lot of "proper" cooking, that she's sick of it now. And if it's good enough for DM. So long as you're all getting something to eat, that's the main thing, and you can add frozen veg/salad etc.

DS1 said he used "prawn" because DS2 was there

LOL at President Evil!

not yet natty. but it is hard seeing them next to a baby. DS2 seemed so little until baggins arrived. glad he had a good time though, and now it's happened once...

am taking my germs away. hope we all get a good nights rest.

Jammy my DS isn't talking either, the sum of his vocabulary is "bye", "two" and something that vaguely sounds like "cat". In the last couple of weeks he has started copying sounds more so maybe he's almost there. DD was exactly the same, but once she got going she caught up really fast and now we can't shut her up.

God I feel crap this morning, waiting for the paracetamol to kick in.

I use value ready meals all the time when I am in a hurry or DS is demanding something hot and we're only having toast.
They have less crap in them than the full price ones.
And I get them from the reduced counter too

I prefer the Sainsbo Basics salmon pie over the Annabel Karmel one any day, it's nicer and has more fish in it...!
Annabel Karmel is like £2-£3, Sainsbos basics one from reduced counter 50p.

Holly I would go ballistic at 14 year old sharing a room too.
Wrong wrong wrong

I am off to heave my bulk into the shower, then I am off out to get a pedicure (I can't reach my feet any more and they are minging), then on to Westfield for my leaving do! A bit belated but everyone was on holiday the week I left!
Have a nice day y'all

My DS1 went through a stage of only eating tins of beans and sausages for lunch at nursery (you know the ones, with the characters on the labels ...went on for about six months!! He lived and is healthy as you like now...and the other week professed NOT to like tins of sausages and beans. Point being it won't kill them if they have them occasionally and certainly won't kill them if they have them more often than occasionally.

Jammy, I didn't say much until I was about three.....and then I didn't stop talking until...well I haven't yet

got ur parcel daisy thank you!
def sell the pram if you can, dont wait for me in the mean time, i dont really know whats going to happen here finacially, we may well be this broke until september and its a but unfair making you wait that long if thats the case.
sorry to be a pain, these random bills keep apearing that have to be paid. we had someone on our doorstep this morning from croydon council! demanding money that we didnt owe them as i had a letter from THEM stating the money wasnt owed and that it was a mistake!
poor bloke looked ever so flustered when i appeared in a tshirt and pants and a baby attached to my chest, but come on it was 8am!

Natty the only reason I was wearing more than tshirt and pants at 8am this morning was that I was on the way to nursery/work Arse for you though that you're getting these hassles.

Oh I know Jamlet is almost certainly fine, just more towards the tail end of normal development. Seems we have a family traits of being late-talkers-then-never-shut-uppers She is getting more communicative and more vocal, though still only using a limited number of words (yeah, mummy, dada, look, more (uses more for again as well), door, there, and an attempt at cat). But she makes herself known through signing and pointing and pulling us about etc. So why should be bother really?

my beautiful wee outfit looks like it's only going to sell for 99p

aargh, the finster won't stop grumping this morning. Perhaps he is objecting to wearing camoflague trousers?

aaargh there are three confirmed cases of swine flu at DS's scool and apparently 100 children have been sent home with flu like symptoms!

One of DS's mates mum's has just called me to say she is on her way to collect her DS as her old and frail mum lives with them and she doesn't want to risk her DS bringing it home. She said she's going to keep him off for the rest of the week now as well. Not sure if that's an over-reaction or not.

and why is it, whenever I have ordered a courier before, they have come in the morning, but today when I need to go out they aren't here yet?

Yay, courier here so I am free to go to baby group

Am toying with being a nappy advisor again.....I'm soooo bloody bored being a SAHM.

hope a last minute bidder turns up for you Daisy. I've had quite a lot of success selling cutesy dresses like that on Italian ebay. Mine were all unworn gifts from deluded relatives though.

still feeling rough here. though have just had a bacon sarnie and maybe feel a little better.

Have been to Tesco and am fretting about packed lunches for tomrrow/gtting up early tomorrow/geting DS1 to school on time. He is going on a school trip to the Yorkshire Show,they are leaving school at 7am. Can't decide how much food to pack him. Would it be wrong to let him take extra bottles of frozen water so he can sell the to his friends?

sorry if I'm ignoring anything but no time to catch up now, will be back later.

I just wanted to nudge FOXY and BUMPER - you have facebook mail

yay, it sold for £5.50 finally . That was a gift as well Sputnik; I'm not in the habit of putting 3 months old babies in froo froo and frills!! She wore it for Christmas to the house of the person who gave it to us, and then to a wedding.

another couple of my things sold as well; time to do some more listings. I've decided I'm never going to fit back into the gorgeous Monsoon dress and jacket that has been hanging in my wardrobe for 10 years (worn twice) so I'm going to list that as well....and a load of maternity stuff. slowly, slowly we will emerge from the clutter.