May 2007 - I beg of you... Come out, come out wherever you are Scoot.

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Now where are you Scoot?

Yes! I love it, but oh God, my heart. Have you seen it yet?

I have decided that this will cheer me up. I'm trying to lose half a stone and if I do dh says he will buy me a Christmas present (we don't buy for each other). I need that dress. And martha jeans to match.

Oh The Notebook.

You see, I thought it was rubbish. And me being the biggest sap in the world, well, it just doesn't add up.

It makes me do this

TMAM - my cs is on 29th December.

Tils/CM - can't wait for Sunday. I am in major hormonal mode too.

Poor SOH, she has been my counsellor this week.

LG&T - am gutted that you didn't get any resolution. Whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.

AM - At some point I will get round to posting Lucy's present. I am mucho crap at the moment.

You? George Michael lover? Supporter of the infernal Westlife? You don't like a sappy romantic tearjerker? Actually, it makes sense us being polar opposites. I love it, therefore you must hate it. DH thought somebody had died the first time I watched it. Came home and found me in an utter state. He also sobs at it, which isn't wholly unsurprising as he's a bloody sap. I cry at nothing.

And not poor SOH. SOH loves you and wants you to be happy.

How the hell do you not love it? What's not to love? You're very strange.

I haven't seen it yet - but I want to. Is it doing the rounds on Sky type channels or do I need to buy dvd ? Will have a nosey because I did enjoy the book. DH bought me it last year for Christmas (along with some of his others - The Wedding and another one ?). He chose them himself - I was most impressed.

It's a Wonderful Life is my sobfest film. Nearly the right time of year again. Hoorah

Dress is lovely - I reckon you deserve a treat. DH and I have put a "strict" £50 limit on Christmas pressie spends for each other this year. He wants some weather gadget type thing and Lance's new book He's such a geek

Sorry the counselling isn't cutting the mustard. Why is it the people who give the best advice are the worst at taking any ??

PJ - I am so looking forward to Sunday. My SPD is driving me insane and I'm starting to struggle to drive so I might need to get DH to drop me off and then take Tils off to Chester Zoo or something for the day. The only time it doesn't hurt is when I'm in water so I intend to wallow in the pool/hot tub all day

TMAM - my EDD is 15th December but I've got growth scan/consultant appointment on 26th Nov and they might want to induce early if baby is looking like a whopper and SPD is still bad. I'm in two minds. I've rarely heard good things about induced births but at the same time, I am in agony and the thought of trying to push a 10lb+ baby out when I can barely open my fecking legs is not in the least bit appealing.

LG&T - what a bugger Being stuck in limbo must just be so hard

Oh and Jaffa - sorry you're feeling miserable Don't stay away.

Tils - I will bring the DVD of The Notebook with me on Sunday. I also intend to lounge, hippo like all day on Sunday. It's 10.30am, isn't it? My FB is playing silly beggars for some reason and I can't find the details. Any chance you could resend them to my email addy - [email protected]

SOH - I know, it's very odd. I do have a real dislike of anything predictable though, and because I found it so predictable, I switched off a bit, possibly.

And I stand by the Westlife love. AM has music taste as bad as mine, she just hides it better

I am eating like an absolute horse and feel very ill this afternoon. I now weigh the same as I did full term with A. I choose not to swell on it.

Ha ha, pardon the pun, dwell on it, not swell.

PJ - very Freudian. Just step away from the scales. I haven't been anywhere near mine since about 10 weeks and don't intend to.

Will email info

Oi bugger off Pink dont try any get them to focus on my love of boy bands I'm off to see Bon Jovi dont you know and apparently they play their own instruments!!

Oh, I love a bit of Jon Bon. The boy has aged well

Backstreet Boys 2 weeks today! AJ, here I come, baby!!!!!!!!

Hi all just a quicky.

Elkie good news have just left MW and got my HB booked in. Woohoo! Roll on December 2nd 7th by my dates. Honestly and was not really crying from relief in MW, honest it was the sun in my eyes

Aah SOH how thoughtful, thank-you. Are you still planning a jolly to Sunny Sheffield? If you time it right you can be my birthing partner doula and help me get through as both our last ones were a bit traumatic weren't they. ((((((( unmumsnetty hugs))))))). Snap with counselling. I tried it after my Dad died but I loved him to bits told him so was on holiday with him when he died and was just incredibly sad. The counsellor wanted me to have guilt issues and the fact that I was just heartbroken and sad was almost not enough he kept doing the "and how does it make you feel" and all I could say was "so very sad I really miss him". Now if it was my Mum there would be guilt all over the place as I don't think I am the daughter she wants me to be but with Dad it was just sadness.

LG&T sorry no decisions yet, hope MIL can let you get your feet up a little. You are doing a stirling job.

Jam ooh am excited no advice though as crap myself. People just seem to think they can take over and tell you what to do don't they. Did you get the cleaner sorted out? I had a disaster with Time for you a few weeks ago and cancelled them but need an extra pair of hands a the moment. Struggling to bend down as there seems to be this larger protrusion on the front of my tummy.

AM can't believe it is already 5 weeks. Was J ready for the break I think A was. She is at a frineds today and this is the only day I am at work this week.

TMAM well done you. congratulations on running through, hope your knee is okay now. DH did another on Sunday and got 1:43 he is so pleased but he is terrible as two years ago he smoked 60 a day and was 4 3 2 stones a little overweight he is just a converted healthy eating exercise junky now. He is getting smaller and smaller/faster and faster and I am getting bigger and bigger and slower and slower. Brill news on the swimming as well.

TSM my early days with this pregnancy were a constant round of feeling badly ill. All seems to be okay now though just getting tired, think we will all be huge on Sunday, looking forward to feeling normal and not huge. Will it be rude to talk to you in a professional manner. I am wondering if I can pick your brains re a tenancy agreement or could you point me in the direction of a website to advise me on such matters. or just tell me to F arf.

PJ Excited about Sunday, also DH is registering for the Blackpool and Liverpool marathons for next spring are either of these anywhere near you? Will have to meet up if they are.

MJB still have french cakes patisserie though and dancing and cuddling up in front of fire. Come on twill be okay, tis just a phase.

AL hope you are having a good holiday and Happy Birthday for tomorrow.

SKY hope you are having a good holiday.

Scoot am up for visitors if you are around just give us a shout. Hope FIL is doing okay and you have your curtain poile sorted.

Must go as supposed to be working today.

CM - Time For You sacked me as a client for being too picky!!!!! Load of bloody rubbish. Dh has said we must stop our cleaner when I'm on mat leave. Harumph.

Congrats on the home birth, hooraayyy!!

Liverpool city centre is about 25 minutes from me, so pass on the dates and we'll get together.

See you Sunday!

PJ How very dare they?
Looking forward to Sunday so much, can't even remember what I am getting done just the thought of a days peace and quiet will be treat enough. How did you find the current one? Not sure whether to put a notice up in post office or try another agency .

PS I am now 2 stone up from my starting weight. Bearing in mind I lost 10lbs due to S&D in first 17 weeks that is staggering .

I know, the cheek of it. Our current cleaning company is called Well Polished, but I'm not sure what geography they cover. Tbh, I've often wished I could just find someone who would do it for me, rather than going through the rigmarole of an agency. I'd put the notice up if I were you, I plan to do that when I get back to work.

I weigh lots. And lots. I bought a pair of size 12 trousers at the weekend that I WILL fit into next year. I will.

I'm having the pedicure. Reaching my toenails to paint them is now not a pleasant task. Dh, dd and I went to a lovely do a couple of weeks ago, and I was feeling all glamorous in my new wrap dress. It was somewhat spoiled however, by dh having to put my shoes on for me.

Hahaha Charley, at 'Hi all just a quicky' 17 pages later she finishes .

Great news about the HB though, well done you! I'm so excited for you three, so we have 7 , 15 and 29 Dec, I wonder which one will come first? Listen, I put on 30 kilos each time I was pregnant, an absolute biffer. Even after losing it I am still no way half as gorgeous as you three are.

Why the counselling Pink? Why the CS? Tell me to mind my own if you want...

Gosh Charley, dh is really going marathon crazy, 1:43 is amazing. he is definitely up for a much more difficult Kenyan challenge.

Next thing we know, SOH will have run a 10k in under an hour.

I've never heard of The Notebook, I'm off to google.... I did watch My Sister's Keeper and thought it was a load of sentimental hogwash, the book was much better.

MrsJB you are the least sad person I have ever met. MAN UP and whinge away on here. We have all done it.

I hope SKY and Abby are having a good half term. Abby, have a lovely birthday tomorrow

Oooo SOH I forgot to say actually I rather like the pinafore.

And LG&T, sorry it wasn't conclusive. I guess these things take so much time, bloody lawyers.

Oh and (god I have only had two glasses of wine and I seem to have forgotten everything and everyone) it seems that the pressure is on for Secret Santa to be resurrected, is it Christmas already in the UK?

If you want to take part in SS, FB me with your address and who you bought for last year. The format is getting a little predictable, i might try and inject a little twist to the proceedings.....

a little twist?

Sex toys? Can LG&T buy for me please. She's the only one privy to the dark machinations of my psyche. It's unfair to unleash it onto everybody else. Can we include likes and dislikes in the message to TMAM and who we bought for BOTH years? Only want to get it started as some of us will be busy birthing in December.

Hurrah for homebirths. Charley, still hoping to get to Sheffield, if not when you're still pg, definitely when you have a littlie. We're controlled by Norfolk Constabulary though and their inability to confirm time off. Our cleaner is roughly the same size, shape, height, eye colour, hair colour etc as me. I'm not very good though so shan't hire myself out. Good cleaning is dh's forte. He likes a good scrub.

Shut up about weight all of you. I've met most of you now and can't for the life of me see what you're talking about re being overweight. TMAM in particular is like a poster of what I'd like to look like in my dreams. And those shoes. Still lusting after the shoes.

That pinafore dress is super isn't it?

I can do 10k in about 1hr 3 minutes atm. It's very annoying. I will improve.

I have Freudian slippers you know. I love them Too Much.

TMAM - A has gone into her own room, well, she did for one night.

Night 1: Successful, she woke up 6 times.

Night 2: She developed a fever, and I immediately panicked and put her back in our bed.

Night 3: Back to square one, back in our bed.

Dh is not amused. SOH has been trying to help me see that I am not pathetic.

The CS - well, if you want the honest answer, because I am a wuss, because I am a control freak, and because it's Christmas and everyone's off work

Aaaaahhh I see, poor you, trying to do it when heavily preggers too, very brave. The temperature thing is a killer, I always cave in then. J often pops into our bed at about 5am, dh hates it. Secretly I quite like it....

I'm not ready to divulge the twist yet. >

at freudian slippers.

I am wearing purple shoes today. Any good?

And that's the problem. I don't want to let her go, I want her with me. This is why SOH is helping me, she understands.

I'm not going to flame you When dh is away they all clamour to come and snuggle with me. Oooo I just love it.

I guess it's not so good for your relationship with dh though is it? And if you are up and down all night with the baby then it's going to really disturb A.

Is she open to the idea of you sleeping in her bed with her? Often when I do this with the dc, they then chuck me out.

PJ fgs is doing herself down again. What she isn't telling you is that L stayed in her own bed, there were no tears at all and mummy was strong all night. L only woke up because it's all a bit new and she was brewing a virus. We all bend the rules when they're ill. It's in the job description. PJ is too hard on herself. C'mon Jen, you expected tears and horrors and it wasn't that at all. It was a success. I'm ready for round 2, just give me the nod.

Freudian slippers.

TMAM, do we need to stage an intervention, you're pished again.

PJ, I can tell you in all sincerity that labour is nothing to write home about. You won't be missing out. Climb a remote and very steep mountain, lie down while some villagers throw rocks at you, vomit until you think all of your organs must now be outside of your body, scream every obscenity you know at your husband. That's labour.

That is just so not funny SOH. They should be banned by international law. Bloody americans.

Where's MKG when you need her?

CM - if you can find my brain, you're more than welcome to pick it

Love the Freudian Slippers