April 2004 Toddlers - Babies no more!

[Yorkiegirl]

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MrsD if we weren't leaving at the end of August we would be there at the same time but now we are going to have to call the parents and say we won't be back in August at all as we will go straight to travelling and then use our tickets from August to go back in October instead.
Shame that would have been fun.
I can see why your mum is terrified but you returned to UK last time didn't you.

oooo you globe trotting lot am v jealous sounds v exciting
I know what you mean though kind of puts things in another light eh ?
err fennel dh boss is pants !! my g-father is like that so changed ds right in front of him in the garden the other day - face was a pic !! ha ha ! - well u gotta get yr kicks some how my dm was sooo shocked !

Fennel - your dp's boss sounds like an arse!
Don't you hate attitudes like that?
Dd has diahrroea last week, dh took one day off and I took the other - nothing else we could do. Thank goodness his work was understanding.

Dolbear and Mrs D - DP's boss is indeed an arse. actually both Dp's bosses have small children and SAHMs. I have nothing against SAHMs at all but I really wish their husbands weren't so shielded from the realities of working women.

compromise at dp's workplace, he is off to Canada for this week. comes back fri afternoon and we go on 2 weeks holiday on, um, fri afternoon. that will be fun for me with all the kids and school holidays starting and no childcare booked. oh, and a job as well, actually (sorry, it's just dp's workplace won't accept that bit).

grr. rant....

Dot - saw on another thread that you have a broken toe. Hope you are okay

Fennel - I think dh needs to be shielded from working women! He acts sometimes like it's both my privilege and obligation to work, and that I'm simply lucky it's only 30 hours atm! Plus I work from home so it isn't really work... I try to explain about SAHMs but he just thinks they're lazy...

lunavix, i hate it when people think SAHMs are lazy too (I'm ranting in all directions tonight...). My boss, who should know better, thinks her daughter in law is lazy for being a SAHM with two pre-schoolers (and a workaholic barrister husband who's never around to help).

Gosh Chuffed am so impressed at your travelling with dd. It takes me all my time to get my arse in gear to take ds to the local supermarket - never mind all the way round the world!

Gosh the ignorance of some people

I work but I want to which is useful because I have to. Sometimes, dare I say it, it's a break from the non-stop hard-work being 'mummy' at home. And I only have one!!

It's unbelievable isn't it?!! On a Monday morning I feel like i'm starting a working week when it's just me and ds again. He's having a nap now but it's raining and horrible outside and I know it's going to be a struggle entertaining him today. And all the meals etc.sometimes the routine of it all gets me down. Sorry, Monday morning moan over. Don't think it's helped by Toddlers etc closing for the summer!

Well just as I was congratulating myself how versatile ds was at staying up late as we'd been to the village fete and he had a ball getting all the attention from the old ladies and playing with the big kids! Went to bed 8.30 Sat., woke 6.30 sun., napped for almost 3 hours yesterday lunchtime, bed again 8.15 last night - up at 3.50am!!! this morning!!! Took him into our bed and he lay quietly for over an hour before he went back to sleep - but I didn't. He slept till 8am (usually leave the house for nursery at 7.50am) - so I got to work half an hour late and absolutely knackered from being awake since 4! dh is away sailing today and tomoro - so I have to entertain ds (in the rain) myself till bedtime tonight - I can't wait!!

ooo was watching that how young r u thing and they had as a catagory
unemployed/homemaker i.e SAHM !!! cheek
on th go from 7 am -10pm lifting , carrying etc i listed everything I did the other day i was exhausted looking @ it all mums working and none should write down a list if all you do with times ,it will scare u
cos u r @ home all those around u friends , parents etc ask u to do their errands as well !
eek on the broken toes dot , hope u r ok

I think people with that attitude need to spend a couple of days at home being a SAHM/D and they'd see how demanding it is to actually get stuff done as well as looking after the little one.
Tracy travelling is actually a lot easier than just going to the supermarket the hardest thing is sorting out all the things you are going to take and leave behind. Once that is done basically every day has a similar feel to it, as you don't have much to organise at the time as it is pre-done if you get what I mean.
I think the 4 ourfits each will be falling apart by the end of 8wks of travelling but it doesn't matter really.

Have resolved to contribute more regularly to this thread, because I miss you all and the open friendly - never arsey, chats on here.

Am I still welcome back after neglecting you for so long?

What have I missed?

On the SAHM being lazy misconception - I used to think it was a soft option before I had kids - not now, I'm quite relieved to work part time because it gives me a much needed break from the constant demands of small children.

I am pondering being a SAHM - but one area of trepidation is being responsible for a 1 yr old and a 3 yr old for 24:7 without respite!

Always welcome HMC - my transition to SAHM is with a little trepidation too. May have to find something part time to get some time out.

hi HMC. it is a relief sometimes to be on a thread where you don't suddenly find you are attacked viciously by people who don't know you at all

I get the rest of the week as SAHM/single mum to 3 small children and noone at all around to help - all friends and family away and no extra childcare available. I already know it's easier at work... (where I am today, last day of rest and relaxaction for 3 weeks )

I could be a SAHM if I had friends in the same boat and family around me - but I am on my own most days - so would be too much like hard work for me. SAHM in the afternoons are bad enough! employment is a holiday camp! pee when you want, have a coffee when you want (and finish it!) etc etc

welcome back hmc! Ds still not walking and will be 17 months on 1st August. He cruises round the furniture though andwill take a few steps if you hold his hands. Can't really seeing him suddenly getting up and going just yet though

If he is cruising LucyJ it won't be long - a matter of a few weeks only.

I dunno about weeks

ds has been cruising for what feels like months and he's only just starting to begin to walk, after standing on his own last week.

Friday he said 5 words!! Daddy (dh was SO chuffed as he says mama to me now and has said mama for months), hiya, hello, go (as in 'GO!') and bye-ya! Don't know where bye-ya came from! Says baby looking at my mindees a lot but he's the baby!

lunavix, i was going to post that dd3 was cruising for about 4 months i think. now she's half walking half crawling.

i love the way that babies of this age call younger babies "baby"! as if they themselves are so grown up.

well the twins call ds 'baby' (they're both nearly two and their mum calls them 'babies!') but now ds calls them babies and they're months older!

It's just my babies then. Both walked after only a few weeks after starting cruising (but then I guess both walked early)

dd cruised for months, she was cruising at 5.5mths and then walked independently at 11ish. Now she goes up - up - up and climbs everything in sight.