Fab Feb 2009 - hey ho, hey ho, its off to babyproof we go...

[dinkystinky]

off we go again

yuck STW/Z - hope Sam is all better now. Really not pleasant is it... DS1 seems to be starting to get a bit better so Coco's experience of the piggy flu sounds spot on. Sorry to hear about your brother - hope he's ok and hope he gets lots of money from the thugs that beat him up! Really sounds like something off the tv...

STZ Hope your brother is ok. Sounds awful!
Ds1 did his first wee in our travel potty today. Only because we went to the park, when I go to someone's house, I take a normal potty.
I am suprised at how well it is going tbh!

I have an interview to become an Ann Summers party organiser tonight. Not expecting to make hundreds out of it, but every little helps at the mo and there isn't much else I can do what with dp's shift work.
Wish me luck

Hope the interview went well LBB

How did the interview go LBB? Sounds like a fun way to make some extra dosh!!!

Good luck LBB. I read in one of those free newspapers earlier this week about a woman who started being an AVON lady to earn some cash and ended up running a mini empire and taking home more than £250k a year... you never know, it could be the start of an empire for you

Right we're running out of thread space - time to put your thinking (halloween) hats on ladies for a new thread title...

It went well. I have to book 6 parties for before the 10th december in order to get my kit. So far I have 2 definite and 1 maybe and I have just dropped 150 fliers through doors and on car wind-screens in the tesco car-park.
dinky That sounds great, could you imagine? Although I have set my expectations low so anything will be a bonus. At the moment a tenner's a tenner.

Dinky, what about something like:

"9 months in, 9 months out, now they're sitting, standing and crawling about" ?

hugs for the swine flu guys, its awful when they are ill isnt it, especially the high temps BIG HUGS xxxx

I am going to share a very embarassing but highly amusing story to cheer you all up....

Ok you know when you throw on any clothes when its early in the morning but your not getting dressed yet.......... and then someone knocks on the door so you answer it.......and then after they have gone you realise what you were wearing OMG a pair of my hubbys boxers thats not the worst part! They were not fastened at the front I bet the sky man had a right good laugh at the first customer of the day fanjo flashing, .....thats not even the worst bit, i have not been very good at ahem garden upkeep recently ...........

anyone pissing themselves at my amusing morning flashing i am!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaa!!!

I like THHOM! V funny LittleSez. Trying out our new apple mac - impressed at how whizzy it is... though doubt DH will let me play with his new toy for too much longer

pure genius THOM, i love it

littlesez... he he, can't say i've done that myself no, an advantage of having a feezing house is that i'm disinclined to view dp's boxers as day clothes

at least it was the sky man who you'll never have to see again and not the postie

littlesez hahahahahahahaha
Never done that myself but I am a pyjama girl.

It took ages for Luke to settle last night. I think it's the teeth. Poor thing.

Actually - it's me, Pluto, in my Halloween costume and I'm marking my spot so I can follow you all over to the other side.

I have been doing a lot of lurking!

That's quite some name change Pluto!

Am stuck at work waiting on some dunderheads at another lawfirm to sort their crap out so my deal can complete and I can go home. This kind of thing drives me crazy - particularly as I took a hefty pay cut for the privilege of going home at a decent hour each day - but am still stuck here Am hoping Danny goes down ok without me at home...

Oh poor you Dinky. That sucks. How's DS1?

DD totally fine now, seems it was only a 24 hr thing. Went to opticians today and luckily she has not inherited my terrible eyesight....yet....

DH has taken DS off to his Mum's for the afternoon and they're still not home. It's very quiet..

I am contemplating going back to Uni to do a social work degree part time. Please tell me I am not insane? Could I manage 2 children, part time work and studying? DH is being very supportive and it looks like I would only have to go to college once a fortnight and the rest is supported learning I can do at home.

Will keep thinking it through...

go for it MS.... i'm so glad i've gone back to studying, it feels good to be using my brain again

dinky... how irritating for you, hope they get their arses in gear soon and you can go home. fingers crossed danny is settled when you get home

DS1 much better now thanks Markstretch - though tires out really quickly still and we've had quite a few overtired post viral tantrums. But at least he's eating and playing again which is good. Glad your DD is much better too.

I think going back to Uni sounds like a great idea - you should speak to Rosie as she's at uni (though deferring a year) I think and there was someone else - winemakesmummyclever maybe - on the antenatal thread who was studying too. Am sure you'd be able to manage it with 2 - with no 3 may require a little bit more juggling but still doable I suspect.

Sounds like a plan MS! A great opportunity, why not give it a shot!

Dinky, I hope you are home by now - what a drag to have to sit it out. How did Danny settle?

I'm a bit fed up tonight - well, just feeling sorry for myself. I'm supposed to be out with work colleagues on a guy's retirement do (I've worked with him for the past 8 years - he's real old school and the perfect gentleman) but..... Sam is still being sick and DH has now come down with the same bug and has been in bed all day, so jsut a bowl of cereal in front of the TV for me.

Sam's been vomiting since Monday, but only about once a day (but full on projectile) and has diarrhoea (how do you spell it?) and is off his milk and food, but otherwise happy. his fontanelle is a bit sunken. Do you think a trip to the GP is in order? It's been all week.

It's put me in a difficult spot at work because i'm supposed to be working on a tender that needs to be submitted tomorrow, but have been out yesterday and today and have only been able to do a bit of work from home. I'm likely to be out again tomorrow too, so feeling a bit of a failure really.

Littlesez OMG!!! I'm a pyjama girrrl too LBB so would never be caught out . Even in the dead heat of the summer, I will be wearing some sort of nightie or pyjamas .

Right, off to down some more wine in self pity!!!

Nope still stuck at work STZ - extremely pissed off by it too. DH got home just in time to relieve our nanny and apparently Danny went down ok - just hope I'm home in time for his nightly BF waking (which was at 11.40 last night - but then he slept through till 6.20 ). Sorry to hear Sam is still poorly and your DH is ill meaning you have to miss your night out (though good idea sinking some wine to numb the pain ) - is Sam drinking lots of water? If he's not drinking water and is off his milk and food, then I would take him to the doctors to check he's ok - otherwise it probably just is a virus he's taking a while to kick. And dont feel like a failure re work - its a fact of life with little kids that sometimes work has to take backseat when they're ill and that's just the way it is, its no reflection on you...I count myself lucky in having a nanny who can look after the boys at home when they're ill - if DS1 had been at a childminders or nursery when little I'd have used up all my holiday within a couple of months of coming back to work with having to be home when he was sick.

Oh no Dinky - have you done this before - could it go on til the silly hours?? All of a sudden being at home doesn't seem so bad to me .

Hmmm, not much water taken by Sam and not many wet nappies so think GP will get a call in the morning.

The work thing is really hard, and yes it is hard because nursery/cminder will not take sick children. I was fine at work when it was just DD, but now I have double trouble I feel I will have to take a bit more of a back seat "just in case". It's alnost impossible to do any work from home with an 8 monther and a 2.3 year old!

Hope everyone home safe and sound soon!

Yup, could well go on until silly o'clock thanks to the idiot banking lawyers on the other side... this is the kind of thing that I used to say was brilliant training for motherhood (being up all night waiting for something to happen... like your baby to fall asleep again...). Am now a mother twice over so dont feel I need the training any more and just WANT TO GO HOME NOW... Oh well, at least am off on holiday on Sunday...

dinky that's so annoying, not so bad if you've chosen to stay late to get stuff done that will help clear a backlog but how shit to be just waiting for someone else.

stw i'm also lucky as i have a nanny for children sick days now and luckily dd wasn't sick very often when she was at nursery. please try not to feel bad, you're doing as much as you possibly can to juggle everything and keep everyone happy and well...don't add guilt about work to the list of things you have to deal with (although judging by my week last week i still need to practice my preaching a bit!). it makes me laugh when people say they're going to work from home if i know they've got small kids and no other childcare there....how exactly do you convince a toddler to let you get on with work?

littlesez you'll have made his day even if your topiary needed some work.

Hello

Sorry haven't posts for ages....so much going on.

Off to catch up...hope all are well...

Hi LMN - hope all well with you.

So, finally left work at midnight last night (could have been worse) - and Danny slept through for the first - and probably last - time every . Typical that I wasnt there asleep to enjoy it.

OMG - midnight . I would be seriously pissed off!

Well have caught up and forgotten most things

I don't sterilise after 6 months, give DS tap water but still use cooled boiled water for forumla but not long till he can go onto cows milk.....can't believe he is 9 months old next week.....where has that gone?!

DS has lots of fun educational toys, but his current favourites are my vertical blinds, the bin in the lounge and anything he sister is playing with