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

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Ta da.

Apparently today it is only 19 C - don't know about you guys but here it feels just as hot as it has all week! My weather widget is predicting sub 20 C temperatures and a fair bit of rain for next week, which would be rather lovely.

Today I have made a pot of chicken chasseur (with some very iffy chicken), some tandoori chicken pieces for the freezer, for griddling (also very iffy, poorly de-boned chicken), am in the process of making smoked-mackerel fishcakes and a fruit loaf. How do I get a job that will allow me to potter in the kitchen all day?

Hello everyone,
Nice to see you Conker!

Springy, hope you are feeling better...
Boff, in answer to your earlier questions, yes Ryanair do let you take a pushchair, yes you could borrow baby stuff, and I don't actually know if I could get you from the airport, but could prob work sth out as DH will be on holiday and could babysit while I drove. Although if we want to go places together with babies and DS1, one car would not be big enough, so maybe hiring one would be best. Shame to come here and not see the Luberon a bit, and swim in the lake here, etc.
Unless I farm DS1 off to MIL, which I had been kind of planning to do anyway, in which case 2 mothers and 2 babies fit perfectly. Or are you planning to bring all your DC?

Ryanair are very grim and I know you had problems before. Easyjet do flights from Gatwick to Marseille, if that's any use. BMI Baby do Birmingham-Marseille, too.

I am glad I fit the non-psychopath criteria, thanks to the chocolate olives . I haven't managed to sit down with DH and let him know I've invited a potential pyschopath lady I met on the web to come and stay, as he played internet chess till 1am yesterday and we've been at friends' today. But will discuss it with him tonight.

Maybe we should carry on this planning via e-mail, Boff?

Auld enlighten a stressed mum and tell me what the chocolate olives are as they sound vile!

dxx

Dawntigga, Boff sent me some books after I asked for suggestions of light reading matter.

To thank her I sent some chocolates when I returned one of them. Olives being a local product round these parts, the chocolates were olive formed. They were chosen because Boff loves olives and I once unjustly accused her of claiming not to like sweet things.
Apparently, they were not vile at all.

clink

Sound of the penny dropping

Ta muchly!

dxx

kalikaroo - that sounds like a perfectly understandable reason for your dh not to be in the mood (however annoying and upsetting it is for you). I am always amazed by how job worries/money worries can make you really stressed without necessarily fully realising it until something sorts itself out and then you realise how worried you really were. If he is broody though - thats a great sign that its external problems and not an issue with you. Cant quite imagine wanting to be pg again just yet though .

love the idea of boffin and auld driving off to places with the babies in the back. its like a cilla black - buying a hat moment.

Angus' cheeks are just getting bigger and bigger - its getting quite funny. Definitely the first thing people say about him. Think he has been working on a better milk supply - up every two hours last night but what a revelation co-sleeping from the start is. Persevered with an eco-crib with Struan till about 3 months. Did 1 night in a cot with Angus.

Good evening my lovelies. I have just put a battery in the smoke alarm after a whole year. The news is heartbreaking.
Work, sunshine, and some intensive gardening has kept me away and now I have a massive catch up ahead of me.

I am very excited as DH's brother has just been round to borrow his Mum's wedding ring to use to propose to his girlfriend. He's a surgeon and not short of a bob or two so we are expecting a good shindig. I'm already thinking about outfits for the girls.

WFH - I hope DS1 is better?
That weaning quote has got to be from Bounty, no?

Ju - Shame about the wedding. Is it far from your home? Do you need to leave H overnight?

Nutty - Stealing ties? Eh? From people's necks?
Come to Download??
Did you text Trista.
The "labia" on that tomato are massive.
at limericks.
Schulte is fibbing, we were not talking about grobag eggs. We were talking about these.

Boff - Glad my parsnip helped. Has DD bucked up a bit yet? Sounds like a fun job, is it what she wants to do long term?
Oh dear, I see you all ate her. Any leftovers?
You tube it!!!!

Bleu/Auld - Cute baby bed. However, when I put "Réducteur de lit bébé évolutif thème Jardin zen" into babelfish, it translated as "Reducer of bed evolutionary baby topic Garden Zen". What??????????

Schulte - In blue, without the bow. I like. I would wear silver flip-flops happily enough.

OMG Is Bleu pregnant?

Would everyone stop friggin going on holiday. I haven't been away for three years people. Three years!

By purplemonkeydishwashe... Fri 03-Jul-09 08:38:42
morning all! (why am I always the first one on here? oh yes it's because I ignore my children during my breakfast)

Oh no you are not the only one!

BTW I hope it is just a "normal dip". But don't be fobbed off by your doctor is you believe otherwise.

Dawn - What is Puddleducks? I'm intrigued.

Ju - Don't stand for any nonsense about your milk not being enough though sweetheart.
But.. could you maybe express from time to time so DH can experience feeding Hugo? DH really enjoyed giving Holly a bottle of ebm yesterday when I was at the hairdressers.

Talking of which, I was gone for four and a half hours and I hated it. You would think I would appreciate the pampering and time to myself but I was almost depressed at being separated from my babies. Bloody hormones eh?

Bicnod - Good to hear from you. Oscar is beautiful. And what a fab weight.

Nuts/Purple - I can't be arsed to go to baby clinic. I know my baby is fine. I just hop on the scales with and without her for a rough idea. With Ellen I went every week for 3 months.

Kali - 12.30 - 5 is good in my books.

Surprise - DH bought me some gardening gloves and a yard broom today and I almost wet myself with excitement.

Blimey, i'm still on friday. I'm going to post this and take a breaK.

Hee hee Puzzle with DD1 I also went every week until the HV told me I didn't actually need to. 'What, YOU again!' So poor H hasn't been weighed for ages!

Went to PYO today. DD1 loved it but now have far too many cherries, red currants and raspberries. What do I do with them?

Hope everyone's having a good weekend xxx

I've been trying to catch up and I'll put my two pence in FWIW on a few things...

Ju - hip dysplasia can develop at any point in the first year of life, it isn't always present at birth. If H's leg creases are uneven when both legs are in the same position then it may put your mind at rest to see the GP. Another tell-tale sign is differing leg movements during a nappy change.

Bleu - personally I'd go with normal grobags and no cot bumpers so that Meg can move around the cot without endangering herself. However, you may like the look of this.

Schulte - so glad that H's hips are OK. I've answered your BF thread.

What on earth is going on with BB's I's?

Aah, Turkish keyboard.

BB - Congrats to your SIL. Fantastic news.
Lenny has cut his hair?
I seriously doubt you still look pregnant. Springy has already told us how gorg you are.

Bicnod - Holly began to wake more often until we got a fan for the bedroom. It seems to have done the trick.

Boff - How's the ear infection? Sorry you had a shitty day yesterday.

Springy - I have only just seen your thread and there not much I can add but if there is anything I can do? I don't have a spare room but you could always have Ellen's bed if you need a change of scenery for a bit.

Urgh, Auld has nits.

Conker - Hooray for a good sleeper. at pole dancing.

Schulte - Jams?

Aha, here comes supper. Laters my dears.

Over 200 posts already and I've spent all day trying to manage to post a birthday email to my mum and failing owing to weird grumpy growth spurty behaviour of Edmund.

Boff and Springy sorry you're feeling . I scored 11 on the Edinburgh Score FWIW. Kali and Springy I'm sorry for your respective DHs troubles - it's horribly stressful, and really difficult not to take it personally. It doesn't help the media portrays all men as gagging for it all the time at the slightest provocation, but that's not necessarily the case anyway, before stress and tiredness etc. rear their heads.

Schulte, we went to PYO and have (had) the most enormous number of strawberries. We made ice cream and an experimental Pimms sorbet, which DS1 adored doing (though he was very cross when he realised we were putting alcohol in it). Am totally of too many cherries (if there even is such a thing) but would love to try making cherry ice cream

Boff how was the dinner party?

Juw that's an impressive lot of cooking.

Sorry to anyone I've missed. I will try to do a better job of catchup.

Have eaten most of our homemade strawberry ice cream, so am still too fat fat fat fat.

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puzzle Puddleducks is swimming classes for babies and small people.

My son is not going to be like me 40 overweight and female Sorry I meant not able to swim.

The lessons aren't cheap so I thought I'd do a 'term' then carry on at my local baths until he meets the next size up class

Website here

dxx

Mrsgboring, it was Sunday lunch actually, and it was really nice to see our friends. However DD has been admitted to hospital up here for 48 hours for IV antibiotics after collapsing at Henley at her PR job thing with a very bad kidney infection, so I had to simplify things by going to Waitrose and buying some pre-prepared veg and posh cheese and so on at great expense, to be able to produce said lunch easily and efficiently, repaying copious very nice hospitality from friends, after visiting DD in hospital and making sure she had everything she needed.

I came back from doing this 30 minutes before the friends were due to arrive, having asked for help in organising everything, only to find DH and all children in pjs, chickens not in, mess all over the place, and so on. I then had a paddy and DH had a paddy back at me (not like us). We both hid and cried briefly (as we admitted to each other later). I then whirled around the house like a Dervish with my ear aching like mad, trying to hoover and wipe and conquer the Lego mountain and cook all at once. It was all very stressful.

After the lunch we all had to go and see DD again, but I managed to knock myself out whilst opening the car door, feeling dizzy because of my ear. I felt myself collapse on the drive, feeling a sense of disbelief and unreality as I went down, and then I heard DS1 yell "Mum!!" and he went to get DH, who came running out yelling "Oh my God!! Don't move!!" I felt very silly indeed and of course got up. I now have a big lump on my eyebrow.

DH said whilst driving back from the hospital "Could we have one weekend now where someone is not in A and E?" he has a point.

Oh no, Boff that sounds very stressful. Are you sure you're not actually living in a sitcom?

And d'oh, I knew it was lunch, why did I write dinner? Have been watching too much Come Dine with Me on the telly.

LOL! It is a bit like a sitcom here sometimes. Your post has cheered me up no end! Maybe I should write it all up as a chick lit novel. Before Ryanair have me arrested again en route to Marseille.

I will be the Ryanair One!

gosh Boff, hope you're okay now, how scary!

Just a quick question before I fall asleep at my keyboard....has anyone else not had a period yet? And does anyone else still feel a bit tender in their abdomen, especially when pressing it?

Was going to write, "I will bust you out of jail" but then I remembered that I'm not actually a lawyer, nor do I have prison break skills. But if you want a literature search, I'm your woman.

I haven't have one, Surprise. I have my implant all waiting for the big day as well.

Mrsgboring, we could lit search O'Leary to destruction if you fancied a bit of lit search sport.

No period here yet, Surprise. Last time round I got to eight months

No tenderness in my abdomen though, sorry.

Kali, my sympathies, contract research is pants. Total pants. The casualisation of the research industry is a damning indictment of today's society and its attitude towards knowledge.

thanks - not just me then, 8 months, wow, I'd love that! My friend accused me of having hot flushes the other day though - but then that would sort out my contraception!

When I had DS's I'm sure I had a period after about 8 weeks, might be totally wrong though!

will catch up properly tomorrow....who went to Richmond? Was it lovely? Wish I could have come!

Hi all,

sorry have not been on for a while, hope you and babies are all well. I still haven't got the hang of facebook either, I must just be thick .

springy I've replied to your thread, I'm really not surprised you're finding things hard. Sorry if it appears a bit 'self obsessed'

juwes you made the right decision, I took Hannah to be weighed on Wednesday - only round the corner from my house but she ended up really hot and there was literally no-one else there.

puzzle and boffin I don't know how people had babies before aircon was invented.

In terms of sex in general and men specifically I think we are led to believe that most people have it more often than they actually do.

bb how's the heat in Turkey? I barely coped with warwick last week!

kali it's horrible having a bad time at work. I really hope it sorts itself out for your DH.

I've had about 4 periods now . I am waiting for everything to settle down on this new lower dose mini pill . I'm not exactly holding my breath.