April 2008 - The one with the arrival of little sisters!

[Scorps]

Here's to PM's new little girl to come very soon, oh yes and my dd2

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Ooh, love the new name, Bunny!

Hello everyone else, hope you're well.

I'm sobbing, just found out my mum has a brain tumor. My mom being my mom jokes and says it'll all be fine, but what if not?? It's big enough for all the specialists to have been majorly worried (i.e. they immediately called colleagues and went through all the motions - brain scans etc etc etc), and apparently she has to be operated in the next 2 weeks. At least it hasn't spread yet (or so they think), just one big tumor. Bloody hell, why does she wait until she can't see (pressure) before she goes to the doctor?? Supposedly (well, this is what she says, but my mom is the ultimate optimist) once removed, all will be ok. My mom's such a nice person, this shouldn't happen to her.

Oh Sal. I don't know what to say.

I wish I could give you a very un MN [hug].

What your mum says is optimistic but not unrealistic. My MIL's cousin had a brain tumour and he did have it removed and he has recovered. That was about 8 years ago too and things have moved on a lot since then.

BR

Thanks BR. Stuff MN rules, I'll hug you back and sorry for the wet soppy shoulder that will follow. I know what you're saying makes sense, I just have to keep thinking about the positives (or speak to my mom more!)

Oh Sal, that's really hard news - mums eh? they 're in the middle of a horrible situation and still do their best to make sure their children don't worry about them. Poor you, it's times like this that being so far away is really difficult. Big hug from me too.

And a more joyful hug from me to ParanoidMummy. Am soooooo , although sorry to hear the wound isn't behaving and taking a bit to heal. Sounds like you're doing the right stuff, taking it easy. Congrats

Soph, give Sam a cheer for me too, sitting up vv cool development. I bet seeing stuff like that makes the hours of physio etc seem worthwhile?

Thanks LadyBee.

Sorry Soph, I was a little upset earlier and missed your cool news altogether. Go Sam!!

Cannot believe it is only Wednesday tomorrow. Bloody bloody long week.

Ooh, but hey, I just remembered: We're going to Sussex (Blackberry Wood again) to stay in a bus this weekend. Well, just Saturday night actually, but still. Am really looking forward to it.

Oh sal, just seen your post, am so sorry about your Mom. Am sending you both all my most positive and strong vibes and hope that things are OK. Keep us updated eh? And do talk to us if you need to [hugs]]]

LOVE the name bunny!

Soph - I promise I will make sure Mol doesn't turn into a husband-beater

Sal {{{hugs}}}} from me too. Mums are more precious than gold. Tell me more about the bus - am intrigued and a little bit !
Great news about Sam, Soph

Ellis can say "Buh-bye" now. She is also very taken with her first pair of wellies - red with Postman Pat on them.

Sal - everyone elses advice is so much better than mine, really. I just want to say don't cocentrate too heavily upon the speed on which they dealt with her - i have known 3 people with Cancer now and all times they moved very fast indeed. Things like this, all the bad things in the world, always affect the nicest people IMO. I only lost my Nan last year, when we were heavy pg to Cancer. Just keep your chin up, ready and waiting to be there for her. Does she live with your Dad/a partner? Maybe if she doesn't she will need some help?

MO - Mimi hearts her wellies too, ours are pink with rainbows

Soph - Sam sounds the cutest these milestones make us so proud as mums don't they

DH's birthday tomorrow. Have bought him tattoo voucher for his next one he wants done. It appears as a present but is proabaly legally the maximum amount of pain i can inflict on him

Mimi keeps undressing her self, even out of her Grobag. Right now, she is chasing the cat in just her nappy and trousers. and one sock. Fun!

Scorps at "legally the maximum amount of pain".

I have just made chocolates and have done so much tasting I have no appetite for lunch .

I don't let Ellis run around in her nappy too much, as too scared of her catching a cold but she had one anyway so I put the heating on and said "on you go". She loved it of course!

I have greatly enjoyed changing Ellis' surname from Ex's to mine at doctors, nursery etc. It sounds much nicer and I dont have to keep spelling it

scorps you just made me snort my coffee

Afternoon all.

Huge hugs to you Sal & like people have said she sounds optimistic (which is good in my opinion) & I wish her the speediest recovery.

Scorps - re maximum amount of pain LOL Yes, I am a very proud mummy at the moment.

Ladybee - yep, all those hours in the car are really paying off. He also restarted his speech therapy today & got a bigger bodyboard which he's strapped to and has to use his arms to propel himself forwards and backwards, so we're going for it in a big way at the moment

Bunny - great name

Thank you so much for all of your messages. I swear I wouldn't have survived the last 17 months if I didn't have you all in my life!

Ellie, sorry, but I had to laugh at Molly's sneak attacks. Hehehe. Get her to Kung Fu classes straight away! If it makes you feel any better - went to a friend's for lunch the other day, her little boy about a month older than R. He happily shared his toys with R. And how did R repay him?? Walked up to him, all smiley, placed his palm against the little boy's chest... and pushed him over! I felt so bad!

Scorp, if there was ever a good reason for a specific birthday present, this is it.

Oh yum MO, I like your home where chocolate making turned out as lunch! Your address will be greatly appreciated.

Soph, Sam is so lucky to have such devoted parents. Well done to all of you. It's times like these that I feel silly for all the times I would moan about nothing, yet you all work so hard to ensure Sam's doing so well. x

Morning all.

Sal - don't be silly you soppy thing. It's places like these where you're supposed to moan TBH I wish I was more devoted & had more time to spend with Sam. He's supposed to do his facial exercises 3 times a day and that's completely impossible when me and DH work full-time. So I have moments where I feel like I'm failing him in a big way. However, I have you lot & you always make me feel better and even though I have attacks of pure jealousy sometimes when I hear how all your LO's are progressing it's nice to know that you're all there cheering us along

Sorry about that ... obviously needed a bit of a vent LOL! Anyway, how are we all?

Ooo, ooo, also forgot to say iiiitttssss CHIP DAY - Horray Gosh I haven't said that in ages!

at chips. It's chinese for tea tonight as DHs birthday. He is going to the pub after work, with instructions for a home time. I think he is thrilled he is allowed out, LOL, and keeps checkign i'm sure.

My parents have been married 26 years today (together 30). Gives me much faith, but as my Dad said, it takes work and its not always plain sailing.

Took Mimi to playgroup today and saw a tiny baby Maisie, think its growing on me more.

Scorps. Chinese was the only thing I couldn't eat while I was preggers with DS1 and I think I only fancied chinese a couple of times while preggers with Sam. Congrats to your mum & dad. My nan and grandad were married for 57 years before my grandad sadly passed away. Can you imagine You get less than that for premeditated murder

Love Maisie btw

When we went to Menorca we had chinese, i still LOL you have chinese where you live!

Mum would be a free woman if she had killed him by now . My Dad said 'obviously it helps she married someone as perfect as me' love my Daddy

Must put on best wife face to give him a happy birthday. Sigh. He is upset that i wrote in his card

To Kev, Happy Birthday, Lots of love, Steff xxxx

instead of the nice things i normally write. Just don't feel them anymore, i guess. Knobber.

I'm sorry scorps but why should you? He's upset ... well tough, he shouldn't have been such a knobber then should he??? Sorry, it just really bugs me when people who know they're in the wrong get peed off by the reactions of the people around them they've hurt. Just tell him that you've given him the best birthday pressie by allowing him to go down the pub & you're not going to write things down if you don't feel them - so there

Sorry another vent there but things like this do annoy me

It used to make me laugh when we used to go in the Winchester Club in Hong Kong .... but I guess you're too young to remember "Minder" with Dennis Waterman as Terry McCann and George Cole as Arthur Daley ... god, I'm old

DH knows what Minder is, i don't

He is just sad about the card i think, not being at all pushy or demanding iyswim.

Having real issues with ds1 at mo.

Scorps, What issues? Give.....

Soph, you are fantastic!! I never do DS1's excercises, I just rely on the school to do them . Now I am a very bad mummy!

BR

Oh by the way PMSL at you being old.... I up there too you know

ds1 is dyspraxic and being very hard to handle at mo. VERY hard. Cannot say more yet the htought of it is driving me mental