April 2009 - Chapter 3 - Let us round up the stragglers

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Ta da.

Oh, Guten Morgen Nutty. Nice colour!

LOL Juw I know what you mean re camera and serious face, H does that too!

Thanks Schulte - I think you're right, its just a question of waiting it out... we'll get there in the end I'm sure.

I think I might try moving him to his own room in the next couple of weeks... if I leave both doors open I'll still be able to hear him. Eeek - my baby's growing up...

Juw - I am very of your cake... I promised myself yesterday that today would be the start of the new healthier eating me. I wonder how long that will last

Nutty - LOVE the red barnet

i third that!

hey hey! one handed typist reporting in!

hope you're all ok x i'm alright, lil one has had fever all weekend and been out of sorts due to jabs on friday, and i've been suffering the effects of the morning after pill. but period came today, so it worked and went strawberry picking yesterday, so i'm going to make jam later. lil one has discovered napping! means i can do stuff during the day!

i scored 14 springy. feel ok generally tho. big hugs sweetheart. i didn't get the rush of love either and feel pretty much excatly how you describe in your thread. so you're not alone x maybe tis a less reported normal. don't worry.

(hugs) to those having troubles

Just got reemed by my MIL for not writing thank you's (I sent out emails), and cashing a check someone sent us for Meg (which I seriously don't remember getting anyhow) Poo.
Then she kept asking about DH's job and whether it's wise for us to be doing things the way we're doing it. And Why doesn't he just get a proper permanent job and settle down.
Poo Poo
Then she went on and on about the idea that we should move up by her so she can help out and get us sorted...
Poo poo Poo
And I should get out of the house more.
POO POO POO POO
All this while Meg fussed and I kept saying that I needed to get going because I needed either to put her down and get going on chores around the house, or if it had stopped raining to go into town and run errands.

Sometimes I wish I owned my own airplane...

Hey nutty - DH didn't go in the end as I came down with mastitis and needed his help looking after Oscar and getting antibiotics from chemist. Felt very guilty but as DH said it is hardly my fault. Have just beaten nipple/breast thrush after 6 or 7 weeks of pain so seems a bit unfair... oh well...

Wow - midnight to 8am is fantastic fingers crossed oscar will get there oneday... he's napping at the moment without his dummy (woop woop) so that's progress...

correction - one girly scream later and dummy firmly back in place... plllllleaaaaase stay asleep oscar...

I love you guys for the light hearted banter (when things are going your way)!

Boff how is DD? I agree about the sitcom. Yeah for lovely Chinese.

Hello Conker! How do you find time to sew with a baby? Everytime I sit down Meg seems to act up and/or need something.

Crappy about the sex issues. It's difficult to deal with I know. The only way I ever manage is by finally really talking things out properly with DH. I know some have talked things through already...so I'm not sure what else to offer.
And I do think that men know what rejection does to women. I think it makes them hate themselves and depresses them just as much aas it hurts us when they don't want sex at that moment and know they've hurt us by not wanting it. We reject them just as much as(if not more)they reject us afterall. Men aren't wholly insensitive apes. Sometimes they need just as much help and understanding as we do when dealing with sexual issues.

I've gone with the grobag as I had her in it this weekend and I did not need to rescue her again. (I had cot bumpers up after the first episode Boff thinking they would help too and took them down again after the second episode as she had pulled them up from being tucked down the side of the mattress and then had pulled them over her face which I think scared her quite a bit because she was even harder to console than the time before) I don't think I need more than what I've got so Nutty feel free to offer them to Boff or others as you desire.

I cannot remember whatelse I was going to say... so I'll post and recap as I do remember.

Oh Nutty, love the hair

Has anyone found a tactic that helps them be particularly organised with house work? I never seem to be able to get anything done anymore...

that's what I've been doing (in reference to housework) and the house is a disaster and making everyone very stressed I think.

Ah Bleu, that's one for me (remember Boff once called me the proto queen)

So here goes - how Schulte avoids stays on top of housework.

I have a cleaner who comes once a week and don't do any cleaning myself unless I ABSOLUTELY have to. She's happy to change the bedding, too.

DH cooks dinners on most days. I cook family lunches at the weekend while he watches the girls.

DH irons his own shirts. Nothing else gets ironed in this household.

DH takes the litter out... (starting to feel a bit now)

Washing / emptying the dishwasher - I do in between other stuff, doesn't take long after all.

Tidying - as I go along, I never let things get bad in the first place. So whenever I go from one room to the other, or up/down the stairs I ask myself, is there anything I need to take with me and put back where it belongs?

Does this help? With DD1 I didn't have a cleaner, or a dishwasher, and life was much harder. I found that she was quite happy watching me clean though, sitting in her bouncy chair and listening to my singing

Oh and your MIL... tcha... I hope you didn't listen!

Canon Hill park would be fine by me, we now just need to set a date.

OK so I was wrong about Juw's origins, brain like a sieve . However, not sure that eating cake will help because one of my triggers for feeling shit right now is my weight [shallow smiley].

Hannah wriggles round cot and we get on brilliantly with grobags. I have also removed the bumpers because she seems able to get behind them which I wasn't sure was exactly safe.

Schulte, I also have a cleaner so don't feel bad about that. She is an absolute life saver.

dh keeps suggesting cleaner... but I'd be horribly embarrassed abut having someon around

DD1 is driving me insane today. She is either whining ALL the time or talking non-stop. She is commentating on everything around her and I mean EVERYTHING! Her favourite phrase today is 'whasat mummy' with her hand cupped around her ear to sign 'noise'. I didn't mind explaining about things like a car's tyres screeching but when she is asking me about sounds that she know it drives me loopy. I tried walking around the flat to get a bit of space between us whilst DD2 was going to sleep in the sling. DD1 followed me the whole time. I ended up absolutely screaming at her to shut up (clearly not the best example to set and I should have just whispered but I was about to explode). I know that DD1 is ill and teething and generally just wants attention but I am so fed up having to listen to her non-stop whilst I am so tired. If only DD2 would nap somewhere for more than 10 minutes other than the sling then I would manage to get a nap and peace would be restored in the household.

There we go. Rant over. I whine just as much as DD1, don't I?!

Hi all!

What strange weather we are having - like April in July.

Juw, very impressed with your modus operandi!

I have just been told off by a very officious nursery about not having sorted out childcare yet. I am thinking of going back to work in Jan 10. This is scary. What do the London people think are reasonable costs for a nursery? Are childminders more or less?

I think I will run away from all my money worries by going... shopping.

Ooooooooooooo, quick plea for help Ladies.

Can you all measure how wide your baby sleeping bag is at the widest part (near the feet end, I guess) and let me know the measurement and the make of the bag. DD2 is definitely ready for a sleeping bag as I am fed up of her kicking her blankets off but she doesn't seem to fit just any sleeping bag because of how wide her feet sit whilst she is in the harness.