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

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Now where are you Scoot?

how did you know I had a hangover?

The knee managed 2k with dd yesterday plus 1k after I ditched her, then 1k with dd today followed by 3k. So I am taking it slowly slowly to see..... When are you going to race?

This autumn. FIL is doing a charity 10k with me all being well. Glad your knee's holding up okay. Meant to say how lovely about your ILs. How long's travelling Pete away for?

And I know everything.

You are a fabulous bunch.

SOH i am glad they were helpful, they are so often not.

MIL is away on holiday, as is my mother although she wouldn't be much help. All my friends have their own children and lives. I wouldn't ask.

I can call NPFS and cry and plead my case but it is no guarantee they will let him come home. They have to deem it appropriate and then ask the Captain who can still refuse.

It is quite a process. I already have NPFS on hand, they are great. They did say they could get him home to appear in the CAFCASS report for court. So on Thursday i may have another reason (not just my broken self) to get him home.

I have made a doc app for Friday.

Bluebell is asleep, so is Beau. I am having a glass of vino but i fear it may just make me cry

The sleep is bad, it is making it worse. I think the not having a moment to myself is driving me insane tbh. He is like another appendage, no room to breathe. Not even in my bed.

MRSJB is she howling? Clinging to your leg? That gets me too. She is only little. I think when they have to go to school you justify it but when i left them for playschool doing that it used to kill me. I would just think it was for me, not them. Not true of course, well i dunno actually.

It is too hard all this parenting malarky.

TMAM running with a sore knee is that wise? Bless D keeping up with you! Clever girl. What hangover?

Stop being so British and ask someone if they can help, even if they have their own lives and own dc. People like to be needed

I was going to ask if you have investigated Turner's support groups but I see a kindly MNer has put you in touch, I hope you did contact them.....

Running on a sore knee is stupid, but I am missing it so much, I have to do some. Dd is about as athletic and sporty as an elephant, poor girl. But they make them do cross country the minute they are back at school and it is a shock to their little systems. They have to do 3 laps around the school grounds . Dd hates it, so I wanted her to feel confident about doing it, I'm not bothered about her doing well, just that she doesn't end up hating it.

Poor you LG&T. I echo all what the others say. You are a brilliant mum who has an awful lot on her plate x

I went on a cm pre briefing course today and I am going to do it. I have already booked on the first aid course. Scarey stuff.

C started play group today. After his brilliant trial day I was not expecting the tears on dropping off AND sobbing on picking up - bless him. Says he isn't going again tomorrow!

SHE IS HOWLING LG&T. I've toughned up now can I come out?
I promise not to wobble tomorrow, Infact I may even boot her out the car window on the way past school and tell her fgs "man up" child you are 2 now, whats the matter with you? She's on 3 week probabtion anyway, It's so important for her to start early for her language but I won't force her, if she's still unhappy I'll wait until after Christmas and we'll try again. The other two whinged abit to start but she was beside herself this morning, I left her kicking and screaming in Maitresses grip.

High on life..... that Norfolk air must be funny stuff.

Sounds good SKY, you go for it!

I can nearly talk French now, I have a new friend, she's french and we talk on skype and I can understand her and she appears to understand me, je fais un peu de progrès. Whoop Oh and those of you who've I've skyped please accept me, it's wicked

I'm on skype. Modern me.

I have oyu on Skype MrsJB. No man up required on your part, we know you are made of stern stuff Hugs was beside himslelf at playschool,just 3 months later and he used to run in and ask for playschool!

Sky well done you It will be liberating now you have decided. You will look forward instead of wandering.

I emailed dh, pretty much what i said to you lot earlier. He called straight away. He caught dd1 in crisis over her injection (same evey night) and heard me go quiet and sob silently down the phone. He said i am mad to think Bluebell has TS and i need to phone NPFS tomorrow. I will.

It is just so overwhelming sometimes.

FGS i hate feeling like this

AM are you ok? How are you feeling?

Hi all, thought I'd better post before this dropped off my threads. Have seen TYG posting good advice to someone struggling with 3 under 5s, and have been away at my mum's for a few days.

LG&T, glad you've talked to dh, hope you can get him home and that you can also draw on other support you need.

AM, have decided to stalk you and one of my April 07 friends on your antenatal thread, will go and look in now to check if there's any news. It's a useful outlet, this vicarious pregnancy thing, isn't it?

Morning

Did you manage to get any sleep last night LG&T? How are you today?

Was a bit twingy last night and the same this morning - not holding breath though! Finally gave in to dh's offers of 'helping to get the baby out' - very comical and not the most romantic but you never know it might do something....

Off to see my friend and her 11wk old little boy this morning. Got a few bits to do in town and then an afternoon with the children.

Am back, stuck intraffic so off to catch up.

WOW Jam, How was it?

AM, Ewwww you didn't? Worked for us, so you never know.

AM, L can arrive now, I bought her a little something this morning

J had a better morning, she still cried but did wonder off into the class room without being dragged. She wasn't crying when I picked her up either but shouted across the playground "I missed you Mummy"

lg&t Have you called NPFS yet? How are you feeling?

Jam! Lovely to have you back How was it??

Mrsjb thank goodness she is settling down.Hopefully it won't be long before she gives you a cheery wave in the morning.

AM i swear that is why dd2 came just 3 days late as opposed to the 2 weeks and 10 day nightmares some of the others were. We did it almost every night. Means to an end though.

More of the same here I have called NPFS but am still waiting for themto come back to me.

DD1 had a major melt down last night and refused her GH for the last time. I just cannot force her to do it anymore. It makes bedtime later and later. I have no idea whether she is just being difficult or if she really does hate it and it hurts and she has had enough!

I am just not able to have the same argument every day. She will end up hating me. I don't know what to do. I have phoned her Endocrinologist. She is getting back to me today.

It's just a bundle of laughs in this house atm.

LG&T for poor Phin, either way whether it hurts or not it must be bloody uncomfortable and upsetting for you both. I hope the endo had some good ideas, what about that other association the MNer suggested, maybe they can suggest ways for you both to get through it?

I am glad you called the NPFS, have they replied yet?

Alors Mme JB, je suis jalouse J'ai quelques amies française ici avec lesquelles je parle un mélange, franglais. It's J's first day tomorrow, I may crack too....

Oooooo Jam, I want to know all about it.

April you are a bit quiet this afternoon........

MrsJB oh potty training expert, please advise me. J can now wee wee on command in the toilet no problem. But we are waaaaaayyyyy off on the poop front. So he is in pants and he will then just take himself off to be alone and poop in the pants. All, quite frankly, messy. The other two would conveniently wait until the nappy went on a night.....

Bon chance à J pour demain! Nous parlons franglais aussi. C'est drôle!

It's quite noraml for the pooing to take longer to master, H and M took longer than the wees. Is it around the same time each day? Could you anticipate it and parhaps remove pants for a while around this time and encourage extra loo trips and/or gentle reminders? If he does it in his pants, or on the floor take hime to the loo soiled, try to get the poo in the loo with him watching so he can see where it should go, reminding him that next time he needs to go it might be better to come to the toilet and do it in there. failing that lock him in a cupboard and wait til he can't stand the stench any longer. He'll get the idea.
lesquelles, now thats one I still don't remember to use or really understand well.

How did you get on lg&t?

AM Alix just came in and said Has AM had that baby yet? hmmm well when then? men, you'd think he should know the answer to his second question!

still here, still pg

Managed to get lots of little jobs done this week so far. Nothing exciting, just taking things to the dry cleaners, ironing etc etc. Kids are at nursery all day tomorrow so am planning another ironing challenge (thankfully only 2 loads) and a nice day of rest. ooh the excitement!

I shouldn't be surprised April, after all she is not coming until Sunday.

Thanks MrsJB, he is pretty regular and I almost got to him today, there were a lot of warning signs and I kept asking him but he said no, so I think I will just keep taking him around that time, even if he says no. He is very good at saying 'poo poo not on the grass, on the toilet' but I think he doesn't quite have control over it yet.

As for lesquelles it means 'who/the ones which/those' and in this occasion is fem plural because it relates to my 'amies' fem plural. (though I made a typo - it should say 'amies françaises') You are doing brilliantly on the French, I am super impressed.

SOH did you survive a midday run? You are brave. How far are you running now? I did 5 this morning and it was fine.

Tomorrow is a logistical school run nightmare. Wish me luck.

Poor you AM, she is happy where she is.

Poo in pants here too, he is no regular so i just have to watch carefully. Crouching is a dead giveaway.

I have phoned NPFS, lovely lady. I didn't even have to ask. She just listened to what was going on. She is calling again tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Dh phoned again this evening, he is worried

DD1 still remains firm in her no GH. Endo yet to call.

My lovely neighbours took the children for tea tonight! Even Blubell! Was so nice to have some peace. You know i cleaned the entire house and bathrooms while they were gone...

I'm not bothered now to be honest

How lovely of your neighbour to take them all. Am sure she would have preferred you rest rather than blitz the house

Ella seems to be going backwards on the toilet front. She is getting lazy and STILL has issues with poo. I mean fgs she has been doing it for 9mths or something. She has gone from having the occasional wee accident to having 2/3 a day. its driving me MAD!!

Just popping in to say, if Lucy came today she would have the coolest birthdate.

J went off happily to school, 'bye mummy', little wave. The traitor.

AM, my Mum suggested the same thing half hour ago. Cool DOB

Gin, that was really nice of your neighbour. I'm not surprised N is worried, can he come back at least for the court? How is P?

Mercredi shmercredi! They are killing each other upstairs. Going for a bath, will put on my ipod loud through speaker and let the carry on.

I know TMAM - dh keeps saying that today should be the day. I am not holding my breath.

So what will you be doing with yourself to day whilst J is at school? Bless him, he must have been so excited

Tilly, I hope Tils gets on ok today at nursery x

MrsJB, how was J this morning?

ooh wont be long before Ella will be able to have convo's in French with Jorja she had her first french lesson yesterday. This month they are learning the following:
Bonjour!
Comment tu t'appelles?
Je m'appelle....
Ca va?
Ca va bien, merci/Comme co, comme ça/Ca va mal

A few colours plus 1-5

I have a term plan setting everything out - its pretty cool!
Will sit down with both of them and do it with them

AM yeah to not missing the event but sorry you are still hanging around. Wont be long now am sure of it.

TMAM your wk-end away sounds divine and well done on the running.

SOH well done you too on the running. Also big ups for all the continued advice to us all on here you can always rely on you for the voice of common sense and reason although I did PMSL at your comments on the first DB wife mucho snorting in the car this morning.

Tilly your mother sounds like a bit of a fruit loop am sorry you have a strained relationship with her. But I bet it means oyur relationship with Tills will be amazing.

LG&t god you guys are having a crappy time at the mo wish there was a better way of giving DD her meds also wish I could give you a wee bit more support other than the virtual handholding. Do take people up on farming the children out even if its just for a little while an hours peace and quiet can be very restorative.

Charley, PJ, Tills how are those bumps coming along?

SKY I see you have set a date - excellent news. Lovely that your DH is going to be godparent. No-one has ever dared ask my athiest ass to be a godparent they are prob too scared of the ball of fire if I walked into a church.

Abby how goes the new term only a few wks till half term.

MrsJB how did J get on this morning?

We had a fabulous time the boys were complete superstars. They were brill on both flights even though on our flight over they cocked up the seats and John & Archie were several rows behind. There was alot of reading of Thomas the tank and decorating the seat arms with peppa pig stickers but we came out of it realtively unscathed.

NY was as ever the most fantaSTIC city. Archie has visited nearly every playpark in Manhatten been to museums and ran around been to art galleries and slept through them. He has high fived passing strangers lived on bagels and cream cheesed made friends with loads of children and just generally been brilliant. Lachlan was geat too and was smothered with kisses and hugs from BF's little girl. WE shall gloss over Lachlans shocking sleeping.

I went out and experienced the worst hangover of my life one to many margaritas and a v v late night. I woke up the boys when I came in crashing around the apartment and promptly fell into a coma and left JOhn to deal with it all. There was much groaning and head holding with a towel over my eyes the following morning. Also DP and I had a few nights out which was lovely we drank apple martinis in The W did a bit of shopping and spent time with each other without the boys hanging off us which was lush. ALthough it does now mean I am off to Boots for a preggo test.When will we ever learn alcohol and us getting jiggy should not be done . If you hear some loud weeping and wailing this eve you will know whats happened. Spent lots of time with my BF abd her wee girl she is such a poppet but now is definitely known as perfect B as she is just perfect at all times. BF is terrified it means she will be a horrible teenager. Oh and we have set a date and found the place to get married. 22nd October 2010 in the conservatory gardens central park. So if any of you fancy it start saving now.

Wrote most of that last night so excuse spellings etc and I hope there has been no babies born during the writing of it.

Wow Jam - NYC sounds amazing and as for the wedding venue.... yet more . At least October 2010 gives you time to have another and get the baby weight off Let us know how you get on

(((((Gin))))) - I'm so sorry you're going through such a shit time. Poor you and poor P There are people on here who "know" you better and are far more articulate than me but I really wish there was something I could do/say to make you feel better.

I think we're going to make an attempt at Potty training when we get back from hols I'll be here asking for advice no doubt

So Tils is at nursery.... She said she was frightened and kept asking for reassurance that I'd be coming back but there wasn't a complete meltdown (not from her anyway ). Better go and sort some stuff out - we've got builders in from Friday doing various things so I've got lots to do