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

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turtle23 · 29/08/2009 07:31

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!

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pantshavenames · 03/02/2010 13:45

Am I allowed to excited about this? DH has just booked us in for lunch at half term and my mum and dad are looking after the kids for us . (apologies to the nauseated amongst us). A belated anniversary present.
I need a little pick-me-up at the moment, am buying a house with the most infuriating man. Won't make up his mind if he wants a new house or an old house, how much money we can really afford to spend, whether he really wants to buy now or see what the market is doing in the summer, and today, after spending 4 weeks looking round new builds in one village has just sent me details of a Grade II listed cottage in the next sodding village! Not detached (previously a must), courtyard garden (previously needed room for a vegetable patch ffs), only 3 bedrooms (ditto with the needing 4). I want to weep.

megonthemoon · 04/02/2010 20:02

pants - i think you are definitely allowed to be excited about that - it looks lovely! I'm excited too - I have my first night out since before Christmas (house move + early pregnancy = zero social life) next Friday. Got a 30% off + glass of champers deal at a local restaurant through olive magazine so decided to go for it Although given I'm pregnant, a snifter of champers will be the only alcohol I can have and I bet the menu will now be all raw egg and foie gras and blue cheese so I'll end up having to have tomato soup or something!

I think DS has acquired conjunctivitis at nursery. We've managed to get through the first 5 weeks with only a snotty nose, so our run of good luck had to end sometime. Sigh.

DH still in Japan with work - partic today as he had drinks and dinner in the Lost in Translation restaurant tonight, the one with amazing views over the city, and he has the day off tomorrow so is heading out to Mount Fuji while I brave Tesco with a gloopy-eyed toddler. Sigh. Back on Saturday evening, and he is being forced to spend Sunday in soft play while I loll around alone at home!

Dontpanic · 04/02/2010 21:59

Ha meg what a great way to knock the jetlag out of him! I know it's supposed to be better travelling this direction, but Tokyo wiped me out years ago.
Merry hope you're feeling better
Pants & Timmy woot & woot
turtle magic pants
TLV you are still completely mad as a hatter. Who doesn't look like Johnny Depp.

My attempts to get fit for the arctic have not exactly gone to plan but I figure they'll just have to wait for me to catch up if I fall off.
1 week to go, stupid 5am checkin, who invented that?

timelordvictorious · 04/02/2010 22:15

Dontpanic

So exciting about your imminent trip, Arctic-ers! I will transfer sponsorship money at the weekend, sorry it is so delayed. Bloke actually threatened Girldog (joking obviously, I think he loves her more than he loves me) with her own Dogstrust ad this week. She is in season, and kept escaping over a five foot fence to take herself for a walk looking for cock. So Bloke built the fence up to 7 feet, and so she spent chewed through the mesh and burrowed through... One rottweiler merrily wandering around the camp, which is frowned upon.

Jealous of you both, pants and meg. I want to go out for a nice meal. Have been tentatively told that I might get to go for a curry for my birthday in a few weeks, but that's hardly being wined and dined, is it? (I am actually being spectacularly unfair to Bloke here - he knows as well as I do that I am a simple creature at heart and am more than happy with a vindaloo and bucket bottle of Kingfisher. But that's not the point.)

Has anyone got any nice plans for the weekend? Mine are generally rugby related.

timelordvictorious · 04/02/2010 22:16

'spent chewed'? That is clearly not right.

she chewed

Ewe · 04/02/2010 22:35

Ooooh pants, that looks LOVELY!

I have nice plans for the weekend, I am at a wedding on Saturday which I am so excited about. It's a late afternoon one so will involve lots of drinking and yummy food, reception is at the Bluebird on the Kings Road and they have a great menu and fantastic wine selection.

Rugby related plans sound good though and would be what I would be doing if I wasn't at a wedding, it's my plan for meeting nice men over next month

J has finally completed on flat so starting to move his bits out this weekend which is both a relief and a bit scary. We keep having terribly cliched moments which make me think that we're making a huge mistake but I suppose time will tell.

timelordvictorious · 04/02/2010 22:58

Must be really hard Ewe.

However, rugby is an excellent way to meet men. They can't resist a woman in a rugby shirt who knows (or can be half-way convincing at pretending she knows)what she is talking about. In my experience anyway.

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turtle23 · 05/02/2010 06:33

Ewe- Just in time for Valentine's Day..how thoughtful

Franky-Hope you are feeling better

Meg-Tis the season. We've just had gunky eye too. Hope you are enjoying new life, though!

DP- It's gone v quickly...I'm sure you and Jfly will have a blast!

I am looking at rented houses. Even if it bankrupts us and D complains I need to start fresh. There is a house for rent halfway between two best support friends. Looking this weekend.

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merryberry · 05/02/2010 08:08

i hope the house is nice turtle. i'm feeling pretty blah still but learning to live with it for now. am not in market for nice restaurants, but very much appreciating all yours. am actuall as jealous as meg over her dh as she is

had a breakthrough here with ds1s behaviour (door slamming when denied tv) that i thought i'd tell you for future reference.
we'd tried everything, raging, reasonning etc. this a.m i leant over the bannister and said: if you don't stop it i will drop my stinky knickers on your head. SORTED.

stick that in yer pipe and smoke it, Gina.

megonthemoon · 05/02/2010 08:14

I did realise this morning that of course taking gunky-eyed toddler to soft play to add his germs to the cesspit ball pool is probably not my wisest idea . eye not crusty or weeping and just puffy this morning so i am hoping he actually just poked himself badly and that DH will be able to take him anyway. If only now because, as DP says, the jetlag is horrid and DH has informed me today, while lolling on the bullet train as you do, that he has slept horrendously in Japan so is knackered. He's clearly angling for a lie-in on Sunday but I'll be damned if he is getting the pleasure of that when I've had DS all week on my own while dealing with nausea and exhaustion and the horror of jeans already feeling too tight at only 8 and a bit weeks

tlv - to be honest I'd be happy with curry and beer too. It's the longest I've ever been without a night out - even accounting for the time when DS was a newborn - so this really has been the longest 8 weeks of my life!

ewe - hope Bluebird cafe takes your mind off J moving out. Must be all a bit rotten at the moment.

turtle - yay for you! i think new house sounds like a wonderful idea, regardless of what D thinks - and let's face it, he long ago lost the right (not that he ever really had it) to dictate what you and the boys should be doing. Happy househunting!

DP - oooh, only a week left! I hope you have lots of spare thermals!

timelordvictorious · 05/02/2010 08:20

Threaten with stinky underwear...awesome.

merryberry · 05/02/2010 11:26

you find funny things at the end of your tether

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turtle23 · 05/02/2010 11:52

Am having a manicure and pedicure this afternoon while ex has kids. Still speechless.

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ilovegreenbeans · 05/02/2010 13:38

MB- you are a wise woman

timmyinatizzy · 05/02/2010 14:10

Enjoy the me time Turtle.

DP and JFly, good luck with the doggies.

I'm in the curry and beer night out camp rather than posh nosh and wine camp.

We're off to Histon tomorrow to see footie, my parents have DS, which means I can sleep on the coach up there. Bliss

Dontpanic · 07/02/2010 21:25

ladies, any of you about in lahndan thurs afternoon? Don't think i could make it for lunchtime as i'll need a lie in, but for the right people i could endure the tube journey into town ;)

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turtle23 · 08/02/2010 06:19

DP-I could be. Not the easiest, but I feel I should buy you a coffee!

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merryberry · 08/02/2010 09:36

am around home area, have to do school run at 330pm. tufnell park or caledonian road tubes any good to you? xfx

JFly · 08/02/2010 13:54

Well hello there!

Thanks for all the good wishes, ladies. I'm getting pretty excited about the trip, although can't quite get me head around what I'm about to do!

Can we maybe start a new thread? I mostly check MN on my phone and the thread keeps crashing. Also, may help me update thread in the Arctic if I actually get a signal.

So glad to hear about all the new babies and other exciting developments.

Hope moves and house searches go well and that everyone gets lots of sleep while I'm away. I know I will!!!!!

merryberry · 08/02/2010 14:43

It's even getting cumbersome on my broadband tbh! So ...

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