AUGUST 2008 - New Thread LOL!

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Ta DA!

Lucky the other ladies are being nice. I'd chunk DH to the curb if he was being so stupid. 45min...and it was difficult, he needs a good dose of reality. I don't like folks that act all helpless. I'm with you! Let's figure out the next chapter in your life and get this show on the road!! You need to be able to get out too.

Reese is still asleep. 8pm.......it's 6:41am now. I'd like her to sleep for a few more minutes so she won't sleep through Mom's Day Out (which is what she did on Tuesday).

Pilates at 9:45am!!!!!!

I have carpool this morning. DD1's friend has never done the morning carpool routine alone (get out of car and go into school without handholding). I'm a little nervous because she's high maintenance but her mom needs her to learn and we think this is the only way. We shall see.

Wishing all a BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

Ah Miamla that sounds like my life plan for the most part. The age factor (and the csec thing) made me shape a bit of a plan thus the snip snip. It's scary doing such a permanent thing. More so than getting married strangely. I remember DH calling immediately after the procedure and getting physically sick because we'd done something we couldn't take back. Very serious moment but LIFE has many paths and I need to look down different ones.

TS..keep meaning to ask... what is mom's day out??!
oh and i've spotted you're on skype but i'm not half as groomed as i was last night so it aint happening girl!

hmm, i know there's going to be a day when we don't want more DC but i can't imagine us ever being certain enough for DP to have the snip. i don' know. we're not near that point at the moment so perhaps things will change but i completely understand your DH's reaction. you've closed down a route but by doing that you've opened up a whole lot more

oh dear goodness... DS is in his toy box trying to get his walker thing in there too!

argh, its almost 12! how did that happen! i need to pack what DS and i need over the next few days. op tomorrow and we're moving in with my mum til DP is back. right, off i toddle to be productive but only after i've had another cup of tea!

More DC: I would certainly like at least one more. DP seems set on only having one more. We'll see how it goes DP's mum is adamant that we need to have lots of babies because 'you do make such gorgeous children!' lol

Miamla I'm with you re. the snip, don't think either of us would ever be so decisive as that. But who knows what will happen in the future? DS has been such an easy baby so far, all things considered - we might not be so lucky next time...

Life stuff: I've always been a drifter, for reasons too complicated to bore you all with, but like Miamla my main ambition in life has always been just to be happy, to love and be loved. Think I'm doing okay at that so far BUT since having DS I've found new drive and ambition to achieve all sorts of things. The trouble is, there's not enough time to do them! I like my job, I'm really looking forward to getting my MA next year and starting to write more, then there's all the other millions of things I want to do like set up a roller derby league in my town, get stuck into my charity thing properly, learn Spanish, start using my sewing machine, make more music, oh and have another child (or two) somewhere in between...

Cyteen That's great having a big list like that, don't worry about fitting it all in, just knowing you can have a go at any of it at various times is a nice bit of optimism to have.

I too am a 'drifter'(like that word, have always called myself a slacker but recently people keep boggling at me when I say that.) All I ever wanted was to have my own family and make a nest for them, like my mum. So lucky to have met DH so young and thus now have a fookin massive nest and filled it already. When Kurt turns 18 we'll be 50 and we already have plans to rent out our house and move into a smaller one closer to town and have as much fun as all the groovy 50+ folk we currently know. I envy us (Spinal Tap quote).

i love the way you talk about your life and plans buckets! cyteen i'm intrigued...tell me more about the roller derby...

just smiling at the lovely conversation. we are a group of likeminded individuals. how on earth did we find each other.

miamla mom's day out (or parent's day out...depends on the church) is a drop off place for children to safely stay and play for a few hours while their mom (or parents) do errands or just have a moment alone. reese's mom's day out is at a baptist church 3 miles up the road. the church also has a preschool however she is currently slated to attend the methodist preschool that her sister attended. mom's day out can be for any age 6 weeks to 12 years (again depending on the location). preschool typically starts at 3 years (thankfully the methodist church has a 2 year old class). mom's day out is not really curriculum based (basically just play) but preschool is curriculum based with a child progress review included.

TS your thoughts about how we all found each other was exactly what i was thinking about the other morning. i could soooo easily have been on the july thread and i'd have missed out on meeting all of you guys. without wanting to come across as a completely soppy daft twit... not meeting you all and having your support over the last 18mths really doesn't bear thinking about

right, i really do need to finish packing our bags now!

oh and thanks for explaining mom's day out!

Baby signers! Can anyone please describe (or link to) the sign for dancing? I can do music and singing but dancing is his favourite activity in the whole world (he who cannot even stand unassisted.)
Cheers

oh no sazz sorry to hear that. whereabouts in London will you be? close enough to meet me for lunch? I'm Oxford Circus area.. (trying to find the silver lining for you because obviously meeting me will be that silver lining!)

dancing: upside down v waved back and forth over other hand extended....will go find link.

dancing link: here

Sazzles does that mean commute to London daily or work from home with occassional commute?

Your paths could cross at Stratford!?! Couldn't they????

OH OH OH NO Cannon Street would be the better location if both at work.

or rather close to cannon street.....see my little bit of london knowledge is already getting me into trouble. don't mind my nonsense.

on to something i DO know. Pilates was GREAT! it was just a private get to know things session but I LOVE the STUDIO and the trainer is LOVELY (she's undergone 2 csections so I have faith she knows exactly were I'm coming from). I've signed up for 3 weeks of private 30min session, twice a week. I figure that will allow me to gain a good understanding of the process. The Saturday after my last class begins the PILATES CHALLANGE. They will measure me, allow me to come to numerous classes over a 6 week period, document my progress, hold weekly checkin meetings and provide me with literature to help me reach my goal. Don't have a clue what that goal would be but HEY it might be nice to do anyway. I will have a better body than I've ever had.

hey...no judging, i'm pmsing!!

Heheh TS you do make me laugh. After looking at your link I was inspired to check out the different dialects of sign language and check out how different the BSL version is!

Evening ladies.
Will catch up again properly, but just wanted to say sorry for all the rough nights last night.

sazzles so sorry to here that you did not get the news you were hoping for today.
Is there any chance you still could??

ts the Pilates does sound great.

I have rumblings of period pains today, so all the fuss and upset for nothing, feel a little stupid, but hey at least he might think twice now about his technique.

Been to see the pony this evening to arrange delivery on Sunday.
I am now so very excited, feel like a kid on christmas eve.
She is adorable, and she came straight to me when I went to catch her, and loved the good brush down.

Dd and Ds have both been adorable today too, we went to toddler group this am and ds just loved it, now he is walking about. I let him just go for it,but kept an eye on him obviously. He played with everything especially a huge kitchen.

I got to spend some time with DD doing painting and drawing, which was great as I am usually following ds about and she is left to get on with it. (she is happy to do this though) She was very clingy and cuddly though today. Strange but nice.

I went to get ds when it came to snack time, but he was already there, sat on the mat with the other children with his own dish of toast. He looked so grown up I was filling up. [soppy mummy]
sob sob.

So I am waffling on again, but just had a really really lovely day.

Oh and one more thing, ds has slep through 12 hour last two nights. We are on the third night of him having 18oz of milk for bed.
I would sleep through with all that too.

Hear not here.
I suppose you are all used to me by now though.