December 2006- Here's to pre-school newbies, business starters and twin survivers.

[Indith]

Oh go on then.

I'm rubbish at titles though but I bow down to Oli's cakes and supermum.

Thanks for asking. Last day tomorrow and..and...I found out today that I got the job! So I will be unemployed for a grand total of 0 days. I am very, very lucky and am currently counting my blessings. I bought 2 lucky dips just to squeeze every last bit of luck out of today.

Congrats, margo!!! That's fab, well done you
DS walking, that's great Lenni, bless 'im. DS3 still doing the robot thing 2 weeks later, gives up and crawls half the time. So cute.
Would love to see the photos, castles, went to ds1's school play today and couldn't zoom enough to get a single one so have ordered dp to take his super zoom camera tomorrow. Whole thing made me bawl, had to retreat to toilets later to calm down. 180 children all perfectly behaved, dancing and singing like troupers, just wonderful. All of them in hysterics singing 'and the sheep went baa baa ba-bananas'. There are a few high points in my life still.
thanks, all, will try again to ring gp fri, just no opportunity today or tomorrow to make 18 phone calls in the hope of an appt.
eli, lenni, wish you were closer too
castles, so glad you're feeling better, never run out of that stuff again ok?

Woohoohurray!!! Well done Margo thats great news. You clever thing, you Are you celebrating?

AQ, I used to love jumping in my car and zooming off to Other Parts to visit friends..pre LOs...d'you think that day will come again? I have you earmarked, along with the rest of you scattered lot, for if and when that day comes...

Lenni, how'd I miss that? Congrats small Lennipillar on walking! Hopefully it'll save your Mamma's back a bit.

dds have dreadful colds. Just in time for dd1's party on Saturday, of course. dd1 came home sobbing after nativity yesterday, white-faced, but after a good (medicated ) night's sleep is off on a school trip to a toy museum...kill or cure...

I've got a stonking cold. I've had it since Saturday and today I have finally given up. Hope your DDs are better for the party Eli. DD2 is hanging in there until Santa visits nursery tomorrow

Well done Margo on the job. Didja win anything on the lucky dip?

I've just check my lottery numbewrs and I didn't win on my lucky dips.

But I did win £93.00 with my normal line!

I had a rotten hour at work today which will culminate in me filing a grievance. I'm well rid of them.

Oh, dear Margo, on your last day the b*&stard! But hurrah for the win!

Eli, would love to see you, I so hope I'm going to be up for those things (like taking all 4 of my kids out for the day!) sometime soon . Nanny is leaving at Christmas (sob) and thank god I got some ad's today at dr otherwise I don't think I can get through Jan. Found out work have completely and utterly stuffed up the website I manage whilst I've been away, not back until late Jan to sort it out but it's a mess. Suddenly not looking forward to going back now. But would love to put dt's in nursery anyway!

Oli, how're you doing on the AD's? When I went to dr, he said depression tended to show itself as anger & stress with mothers of young children. Which I hadn't thought about before (I always used to just sob continually). Hope it's getting better and you can give me hope of enjoying my kids again!

castles, grrr headcolds. My ears won't pop it's driving me mad!

AQ, I'm picking up on a daily basis. DS2 spent the whole day today whinging, moaning, tantrumming and generally being a nightmare but I managed not to lose my rag which would have been impossible a couple of weeks back. Anger and stress is definitely the way depression has manifested itself with me since dcs. That and not wanting to leave the house or see anyone. The counselling has made me more tearful this time but I tend to get angry first then dissolve into tears.

Hooray for the job and Lottery win, Margo, Lady Luck is definitely on your side and you really deserve it .

Bleurgh at all the colds. I've just thrown off mine after a good couple of weeks but there's so many lurgies going round scholl that I reckon we won't be bug free for long .

Lenni, that's fab about ds walking, is he really proud of himself? (will FB you back in the a.m, I'm being nagged to cart all the furniture out of the lounge before the carpet fitters arrive tomorrow).

Eli, when you're heading up this way let us know and I'll head east, collect Lenni on the way and we'll have a get together in Hull .

Best go move a sofa or two......

I wish I could say the same about my patience levels at the mo, Oli, well done! Wish I could get rid of cold no.2 as well (continued directly on from cold no.1). New carpet sounds great. Wish we could get my ds3 and lenni's ds together right now, they'd be so cute doing their robot walk (although his chicken impression today came pretty close, just as I was wondering if he was going to start talking like dd is-ish).

Coming all that way to go to Hull. Are you mad? Have you been to Hull? Surely there must be some fab place in between us all? AQ dreams of summer meetup with 7, no 9 little mumsnetters running around.

I've never been to Hull, fine by me

Oli, glad the ADs are helping and will remember that, re anger/stress, even in a non-chronic way it can easily happen that I'm down or sad for some reason and end up snapping at the dds instead of just acknowledging whatever I'm feeling...whereas pre-LO, I'd have called a friend, watched a soppy movie, done some journalling, etc. Or eaten too much chocolate, that hasn't changed too much

AQ, sounds infuriating re work - Margo, you too. Ugh, at least they're making themselves easy to say goodbye to I suppose

I've just read a thread about tapeworm on the Health Section. Why do I do that kind of thing to msyelf just before bedtime? Hmm? Urgh...

Margo, fab about new job and win and at last day. Good riddance and all that, I suppose.

I don't know anything about Hull but wish I could teleport there to meet you all sometime.

I'm glad the AD's are working oli. I may have a break in getting mine adjusted sooner than March - fingers crossed in the meantime I'm holding my own better than a week or two ago so that's something...

Ooh, I read the tapeworm thread too Eli. Didn't sound like one to me though from my experience

Hope everyone is improving and enjoying the festivities. Took to my bed on Friday with vile cold which left DH to deal with 'my life'. He has been even more charming and lovely to me than normal ever since!

and sympathy, Castles, also have vile cold but no temp so can't quite take to my bed (plus had 9 nearly-6 yr olds over for dd's party yesterday, which dh definitely couldn't have handled!) but love love love the idea. Though I don't think dh would be nicer to me afterwards

Agree re worm, though never seen one, doesn't sound like descriptions I've heard...urgh anyway. Hope you feel better v soon.

Jabber, glad things are a bit easier, especially given your long-distance appointment - how's the festive season building up your side of the pond?

dh is beating up his Impressive Cake and says its very, very complicated
To be fair, I've never made one.

But I did bash the head off dd1's party Pinata yesterday, when all else failed

Hello everyone. Sorry I'm posting so sporadically at the moment. House full of ill at the moment. Any birthdays?

Can I let you into a secret?

I haven't done any Xmas shopping, no cards, I haven't put any decorations up.

I'm shockingly disorganised, aren't I? Am now off to bed. I'm down with the cough/cold virus which seems to be doing the rounds. Night all!

I'm only slightly better ma. We put up the tree the first of the month but then it was a weeks later before I managed to get the decorations down . I have ordered 3 gifts for the boys - total not each and am sitting here on my day off looking at a house that appears to have had a small bomb blast. Dh is having some bad days healthwise so is already back in bed (It's just after 11:00 am here).

Oh, and I forgot to log on to our savings account this month so lost out on our interest which definitely makes a difference - bloody rewards program

I just feel amazingly disorganized and can't begin to get the energy to do anything about it!

I did have a casual chat with our friend who is a psychiatrist and she said to try upping my dosage of Zoloft which seems to have helped so that's a bright spot...

Sorry I'm not posting much, think we're all swamped aren't we? Margo, you're warm now right? Hard to think of doing christmas when you're cold all day! Jabber, hope the improved dosage helps, know exactly what you mean about the energy, have hit a slump now myself although calmer after a few days of AD's.
Life before children (a la Eli's post), doesn't really bear thinking about sometimes, I just want to cry. They're lovely, really they are, but I do miss my life. I guess I must need to get back to work, although feel like I want to quit as soon as I get back too!

DS3 & dp have the whatever bug, poor ds threw up everywhere in car on way to ds1 & ds2's party on Sunday! Still v chirpy in between and soooo cuddly it's great. Took him to xmas party today dressed as xmas pudding, very amusing. DS2 hilarious in his homemade lion costume (GM is fab), holding his tail in the rain

Hope all birthdays (haven't a hope of keeping track!) going well and mummies getting better in time for Christmas!

Bookmarking

AQ, hang in there once you have them all in school and/or nursery life improves enormously I was reminding myself recently of how life was only 3 or 4 years back and it makes me shudder (although I did have an un-dx DS, poor heath and an unemployed DH on my hands as well) but hey ...

Will be back later when I have caught up with myself

Oh yes AQ. The boiler was completed on Tuesday and we're toasty and warm now. Have sent off 11 page report re. my last day and it's now time to Xmas shop.

I'm having a problem with buying for the men in my life.

AQ - Losing sight of your purpose and identity in this life is bloody hard to deal with. You think of yourself as "just" a mum to your dcs, well I'm here to tell you that you've been a brilliant friend to me and even though you've not met me, you (and the rest of the motley AN crew) have supported me in what has been the most rotten work year I've ever had. So thank you for the kindness you've shown and I darn well appreciate you.

Awww, margo, that's v. sweet of you to say You have had a rotten time of it. 11 page report good god, it makes me just not want to go back in the workplace really! So glad you're warm again. Can we help with men ideas? Just ordered dp a collage poster of our babies' first year piccies (ordered one for myself too as it was so cute, to put in my office). I love coming up with present ideas, always have loads more than I buy (thank god for present application on the iphone).

castles, is horrible cold dying down now? you're absolutely right of course, I think another year and life will be a lot easier.

dd threw up all night, poor little dt's if it's not one it's the other! They both look really sorry for themselves today.

Margo, I'm so glad we were able to help. I feel as if I have vented quite a bit on this thread in the past year - or two but it has really been great to have all of you to talk to about all of the transitions.

Here's a toast to a better 2010!!

And I actually got stocking stuffers bought yesterday so feeling much better about Christmas in general

Hello

I know, I know I am rubbish. I never seem to get round to posting here.

Dd is 1 tomorrow! Where on earth did the year go? Poor girl has her 12 month jabs on her birthday! Efficient I suppose

Happy pills seem to working well, dcs both ill all last week and I still feel sane. Dd had just started sleeping better when she got ill and now she is recovering she has a very rosy right cheek and ear so it seems the dreaded teeth are coming again. Grrr.

So much left to do! Family coming up for dd's birthday so there are things to sort out, need to make her cake. Still need to do the florentines for Christmas so must make the mixture tonight so they can be baked tomorrow and need to do the last batch of bath bombs and finish and bottle the limocello so the family presents can be wrapped in time to take down to Hull for Chistmas.

We really do need to get a good meet up sorted, either Hull or elsewhere that a fair number of us can make. Getting all the Dec 06 lot and the next generation would be fantastic.

I finally got my joggler and FatFace vouchers. If anyone wants to help me spend them I have no idea what to get! I really liked the look of a dress but the neckline is terrible on Now I need to get the calendar all set up and I shall never forget another birthday again!

Hope all going ok.

Merry Christmas!

Hello all.

Indith - Happy Birthday to DD for tomorrow.

We're all starting to get well again. Yay.

Would love to do a meet up but Hull would be beyond me. Would go for a South one though.

Just back from a lovely 3 day break in Weymouth, then Beauty in the Beast at the panto today. Was starting to think the whole snow thing was a big con until we hit Surrey! Have so much to do re xmas that I am totally overwhelmed and am doing nothing Heading off early on 24th so am hoping the Xmas fairy will wave her magic wand and get it all done bt then.

DD2 has had a D&V thing for 5 days. Am really hoping it's just her.

Pleased the drugs do work Indith. They really do keep you sane during this crazy young baby/toddler stage.

Would also really love to meet everyone.

Merry Christmas

Can't believe you have a dd turning 1 Indith!! Happy Birthday to your dd

would love to make a journey across the pond someday and meet you all I am firm in the belief that I can make it happen at some point.

Still trying to get the boys down. Bedtimegets rather strung out over the holidays