March 08: We're about to get our first little sister or brother!

[turtle23]

Thought I'd start a new thread as as soon as evie pops we're bound to fill it hugely and some of us have phones to work with!

Have cancelled NYE. P now has temp so FAB excuse!

Just a quick check in to say happy new year for later.

We have people coming round - have decided that now is not the time to play Nigella, so we are cooking a big shoulder of lamb, putting out pittas, salad etc and serving DIY kebabs. Hopefully friends will see it as amusing and quirky rather than just damn lazy.

Have fun, whatever your plans, and fingers crossed for sleepy children in the morning!

Happy new year ladies! Hope you are all looking forward to a great 2010 with our soon to be TWO year olds - how the hell did that happen?! I am so besotted with DD, I love this age, she is just bloody amazing and cute and gorgeous.

I'm staying in tonight, just me and DD as J is DJing up in the Midlands. We went out in London and had our own NYE last night though which was good fun and I have some yummy food in as a little treat too!

Not sure what 2010 is going to hold, J is moving out when he completes on his flat - sometime in Jan. Might be my first year being single in a long while! Any of you have any nice, attractive, funny, rich, young male friends/relatives? If so, chuck 'em my way! I'm hopeful for next year regardless of which way it goes with us... we're on and off more than a whores knickers though and that will be changing one way or another, scary.

Anyway, hope you all have a great evening, I will be pissing around on Mumsnet, watching Pirates of the Caribbean with a glass of wine and Ben and Jerrys. Bliss!

Oh and tlv, that food sounds great, I would be impressed! It's usually take away all round at any parties I have

wishing you all a happy 2010, full of exciting things and lots of nice stuff for everyone.
x

Echoing what Ewe said, but make mine not as young and a bit grown up please.

Happy New Year all!

I got 6 hours sleep last night in total. P woke at 725. I was woken by T at 1155 so we saw the new year in together and I challenge any of you to have had a midnight kiss with a cuter guy... It was one of those lovely quiet cuddly moments.

men who are 'nice, attractive, funny, rich, young'

ok, i know:

nice 11
attractive
about 32
funny 7
rich 10
young 5

venn that however, and it all goes horribly wrong. sorry. wishing you all a 2010 of your dreams.

How about a man who would take on someone with two small children and would like to have more immediately. That narrows it down to nil, doesn't it!!!

Flying visit just to say happy New Year everyone, hope you are all well.

Quick update on my side - still living with parents and nothing on the market of interest at the moment. DS being very cute and funny, with a few devil moments thrown in...14.5 weeks pg now and all good so far.

DP - very sorry to hear your news xx

hello MM, 14.5, wow

my tonsils are on fire. ouch.

Are you feeling better, Merry?

How are things with you, DP?

Ewe and Turtle-I live on a RAF camp. Men EVERYWHERE. Mostly in uniform...

Hating revision. Probably not doing enough, if theFacebook statuses as the whippersnappers on my course are any indication.

am fine ta. tonsils remain fiery, but no other symptoms. which is good. i like to have a few days health between colds this time of year

but they are young and disorganised and have done no actual work yet, you could tell yourself. or just ignore them

Oooh tlv - maybe we could road trip up to see you and hot men in uniform?

I want to live in Hampstead, friend lives there in gorgeous large mansion house and I WANT IT. I never want to live in London unless I am in Hampstead, I should never visit.

hello all and heres to hope for the new year, cant believe we will all have 2 year olds soon.....am reminising of the preg chats we had while scoffing (frozen) creme eggs, which incidently i saw in the garage while paying for petrol on boxing day

MM how is the bump? is it a bump yet? are you over the exhausted stage or still holding out for it to end?

turtle good to see you starting the new year with some kind of closure on the events of the last, hope you get what you deserve soon

DP i had no practical advice, but am thinking of you

crashfistfight are you lurking????? or namechanged, long time no 'see'

merry much sympathy for the throat and heres to hoping it doesnt progress to a bigger bug

tlv they say that older maturer students, especially mothers are far more efficent in their studies and so are able to do more in less time, im sure thats the only reason you are failing in the competition to outstudy each other

My children are ill again, just a high temp and occassional vomiting thing but again illness just as i hoped to be waving fareewell to the year of the lurgy. Have resigned myself to never acheiving anything due to unpredictable vomiting I need a cleaner, a nanny and a holiday. In fact i need a wife did briefly discuss booking a trip to euro disney at some point this year, think they would both enjoy it now but if we do i def need to take out insurance for sickness cancellations

Ewe am considering signing up for the running thing.......are you going to do it? could do with the kick up my shockingly ample backside

sainsbury have replaced xmas display with hot cross buns. is it easter, now?

Brrrrr.

Glorious, beautiful walk in the frosty, misty, wintery wonderland this morning. Let the dogs off, went to unzip Ff from her footmuff and turn her loose too and she pulled it up to her face and gave me a look that demanded, 'Mummy, wtf are you thinking?'. If it's too cold for her to want to chase dogs, it's too cold for anything. So, we are hibernating for the afternoon.

I like your thinking, Littleducks and Merryberry, but I don't think I am any more efficient or hardworking than when I was first at uni. (And I was predominantly drunk that time.) But I've still got a full week, so it will all be fine. (And if not, re-sits at Easter.)

'Yes' is Ff's new favourite word, so my life has suddenly become a breeze. 'Do you want a bath?' 'Yes.'. 'Do you want some fruit?' 'Yes.''Is it time for bed?' 'Yes.'

Plague permitting, Littleducks, do you fancy meeting up next Thursday or Friday? And, ladies, we need to organise our new year London meets.

hi everyone, sorry i've not been replying on here, just lurking for now...but thank you all for the kind thoughts.

Here's to a healthy year for all of us & our families, I'm starting it off by taking E to get his ears checked again tomorrow - is it normal for toddlers to produce so much wax you could make a 3 wick candle from it? Don't know if it's just a side effect of teething (despite all gnashers being there now) but he doesn't half get sinusy. Thinking of trying him on oat milk for a bit in case it's a dairy reaction. He also appears to have turned into a bottomless pit - my mum is horrified by how little she gets to eat as he insists on 50% of her brekkie

And how can you be cross at a cheeky monkey who crawls up onto the tv stand, sits in front of the very large & heavy lcd screen (blocking my view of david tennant, no less) but gives you a big grin to say "I know I'm not supposed to do this but I can twist you round my little finger with a smile"?

Good househunting vibes for those who need it, good househusband vibes for those in need of a chef/butler/escort.
Happy exercising those who are considering it, I'll be back to that grindstone in a couple of weeks, just about a month to go before I'm running with huskies (& Jfly)...hopefully not at the same time or it means one of us has likely fallen off & let go of the sled...

The plague has subsided but we are well and truely snowed in now timelord from pics on news expect you are prob the same

I have hurt my toe (in the snow) and although it doesnt appear to be swelling much, it really hurts. Cant knock out on pain killers as dh keeps disapearing

He went to work today and got sent home as nobody was there, stupid manager just rang and said he wouldnt get paid i think he argued that he damn well bertter be, but says tomorrow he will sit there all day if necessary as we cant afford no pay after all the time he had off due to the giardia last year and the monunmental fuck up they made with not paying his sick pay

Anyway enough of the snow grumping hope you are all well, making snowman, having fully paid snowdays from work but be careful out there!

ld that is outrageous! they send him home and there's no pay? whose he working for? scrooge?

dp gg also bottomless pit this week, catching up on illness recovery. he is eating more than the 4 year old!

thanks be my mum is on a 4 day visit. so we've an extra bit of fun around. otherwise the tendency to cabin fever (me especially) would be too strong. mind you, i was at uchl yesterday and the streets were clear, and the traffic light. it's hard going on our little streets but then we're just off the camden road which even has pavement clearers/gritters each day. so thinkwe will treat the 'baby' to a bus ride to tear up the british museum today or tomorrow. at least he can run a bit then.

ps, up with a cough, but nicely am down to only 1 tonsil of fire. Note to self: when making your mum a lemon and poppyseed cake, don't eat mustard seeds to check what they are. you will burn your throat. the poppy seeds are grey.

Anybody fancy a summertime MN meetup... on holiday? We could all get a villa and eat cheese and drink wine and sit in the sun....

Can i come and leave the children at home ?

Just back from polar expedition...JFly and DP should come and train here. It was MINUS 16 here last night, and isn't much better now. Loving the snow though.

How are E's ears, DP?

Ff similar bottomless pit. Ate virtually nothing over Christmas, because of a cold, existing on chocolate santas and mince pies, but since we got back here I can't fill her. Are they meant to be growth spurting at the moment?

Those of you with two or more...how the hell do you get baby to nap with toddler running riot? T is so badly sleep deprived during the day.

i told the baby it was going to sleep, nice kiss and hug goodnight, lobbed it in bed with it's numnum/cuddly, ignored settling cries. sooner they learn to sooth selves, the better and happier they and all get on, poor NSC as they are.

told the older boy to be quiet and gave him something interesting to do. let him look at 'red fish' with you?

or not, she said unhelpfully, as i am a firm believer in boring my kids to sleep/self amusement, especially when i am unwell or whole-family stuff like housework needs doing.

after indulging PFB in a child led routine wrt feeding and sleep (incuring a dog tired mother) imposing a Gina Ford style routine for them both on arrival of NSC

NB: no controlled crying involved, just pure mindnumbing repetition day in day out means baby is ready for nap at nap time, used to love it when he started weaning and would start falling asllep while eating his lunch