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.

Mmm fairly sure I got one too for one dc or another. Yikes. Possibly me even. Haven't even got the dts their MMR yet (they're 15 months) after cancelling 3 times due to illness. DS3 ill again too.
Walked & bussed it this morning, too nervous of driving in the snow after getting stuck on Thurs for a bit!

EV, both mine had it and were/are fine. If thats any reassurance, which it probably isn't! Do feel for you re cabin fever. dd1 has been in the most wonderful mood since school re-started, and plays in the snow there and on the way home (what there is of it). tbh, our snow seems so dry and powdery there isn't much you can do with it - except drag each other around on sledges, which is back breaking and palls after ten minutes!

Will take belly - I mean courage - in both hands and go wobble on Monday, and report back. Thanks...I think ...for encouraging me to try...

x post AQ: stuck ? Yikes!

Was only 10 minutes, I was an idiot reversing into snow drift (must remember to go into 2nd next time, dp's top tip!)!!! Plenty of abandoned cars last night here, poor dp didn't get home until 9.30 as roads were so bad. My wonderful mum came with my stepdad this arvo and took ds2 back on the sled, quite a way to tow him! bless him, could hardly see him for all the layers/waterproofs/scarf/hat and glasses (still getting used to him in glasses, I shall post photo of him when I get a chance).

Glad you got out AQ. Am still recovering from children's party on Sat, and my computer s dying, so won't stop but am lurking.

Belly Dancing sounds fun!

Ds is 3 today so that is the lot of them

My parents made it up from Hull on Saturday for the weekend, sounds like the snow was dreadful down there! They brought our old sledge up though so we had lots of fun

The snow is melting here, I'm hoping that we don't get any more, it is the first melting we have had since before Christmas.

Ds is watching his new Thomas DVD so I suppose I had better dress him while he is distracted. Toddlers starts back today!

Dd has completely stopped sleeping again Am dreaming of those nights before Christmas when she only woke a couple of times. We are back to 8 or so wakings

Happy Monday Am just orf to me 'elf farm. See you when (and if ) I come back.

You've all snuck off with Castles haven't you

Snow now ice. Lots of ice. Gutters coming down left right and centre (ours still up thankfully!). Draggged children out again today, poor ds stepped outside the gate, skidded and wobbled, stood very still trying not to move and declared that he might need a hand to walk

I have finally managed to undo whatever it was that dd had done to the TV that made it have a red block at the bottom of the screen saying "no cassette". I think she had set the timer record which seeing as we didn;t have a remote and the TV only has buttons for up, down, play and stop on it is really rather clever. I had to buy a universal remote to undo it!

I'm around Indith.

More snow overnight means school is closed again. Just glad DD was there on Monday and Tuesday.

Trying to get back some kind of order in the house as being at home so much means it is a bit trashed.

Hows Margo getting on in her new job?

Me, too. Slush here [digusted face]

Happy birthday Indith's ds! And any others I missed All three year olds...anyone else's stepped up the dramatic outrage/hysterics scenarios? dd2 is very tired from first week back at pre-school, and came home yesterday shouting (red faced, fists clenched, tears streaming) 'ITS FRIDAY! Its FRIIIIDAY!!' at top volume, till she'd had some lunch. Of course, she's all smiles at pre-school

Belly dancing was fantastic, and the only bit of me that was stiff the next day was my right shoulder. There were ladies older than me, fatter than me, and stiffer than me (and obviously thinner, younger, and more supple, but I didn't focus on them ) and no one cared what anyone else's belly looked like, it was a blast. And great exercise, I thoroughly recommend it.

AQ, I'm glad you got rescued fast and think the sled is a wonderful idea...need to get one, if winters are going to be like this ongoingly...

Was also thinking abotu Margo, hope its going well!

Belly dancing sounds fun Eli!

My new job is great, I even showed a collegue how to do something that I had worked out how to do earlier

Someone had said how easily I had settled in to the job and the team. It's lovely to do be able to do a job where you are measured on your ability and effort.

Oh and I have had my grievance settled - my boss didn't think I could claim for the time I did and witheld my pay. HR looked into it and I claimed a further 3 hours due to the time it took to compile the grievance and the subsequent phone calls etc. HR agreed to the extra time and they're going to pay me the money owed to me. He offered me a meeting but I now consider it to be resolvedand I can now walk away from it.

Hi All

DD1 off sick (although now playing happy as larry) DD2 demanding every ounce of my attention - any ideas

EV, dd2 hasn't been through that stage yet, but I remember when dd1 did (at about 3) and the best thing to keep her busyish was a pretend house/den, and occasional instructions/ideas from me re acting scenarios: looking after baby, camping, going to work, a desert island, etc. Sympathies, and if sanity is in question I would resort to TV/DVD anyway

Margo, yeay to you and hats off both re job and ex-job! Really, am impressed and glad the assertiveness with ex-boss re money paid off (literally).

CAn't wait to get to bed tonight, I'm soo tired for some reason - so much for my belly-dancing energy

Congrats on all fronts Margo!

eli, I'm so glad you liked the class. Still hoping I can get to one in the spring.

I've spent hours and hours unpacking and organizing books that were in the basement. I can't believe we've been in this house for 2 years and there's still so much of this kind of thing to do.

We're having a bit of a warm-up although it rained today and dh has had some muscle aches from that. Poor man, I plugged in the heating pad and told him to just keep moving it around on the sore parts.

Well done on the new job Margo.

Tell me about it Jabber, we've been here for 3 years and are only just starting to unclutter/unpack some stuff [shame]

Hope everyone's well and starting to thaw out. It's awfully quiet around here ...

oh that was meant to be but [shame] is more appropriate!!

Okay, I've made a fresh start on FB. Have rejoined the group under new account. Looks like last post was in August???

Hello! Sorry to be AWOL so much lately - am still looking for a job and all the applications etc taking up so much time.

Heard from aq by text, think she is finding things hard right now and would appreciate support from us all.

Also heard from Oli who made the dcs amazing cakes for their birthdays, have put the photos on facebook. Am posting from my phone so excuse me not Reading back, will catch up properly once on computer :-)

AQ - hope things are okay. x

I saw the photos Lenni, lovely cake Oli.

We've been here 4 years Castles/Jabber and I still have 2 boxes sat on my landing that need unpacking. WTF they are still doing being tripped over after 4 years I don't know - may as well just take them to the charity shop sealed though, I'm not sure anything we had pre-DCs and haven't used since could be useful to me anymore. They might be interesting anthropology though when I finally do open them.

I'm fed up with trying to find a job, it is such a disheartening process and takes soooo long.

Hello AQ - ((XX)) big huggy kisses from me.

Hang in there AQ. I've had times like this and thankfully they do pass. I just had my AD's tweaked a few weeks ago and it made a big difference.

lenni, I'm sure the perfect job will come along. It's just so difficult atm.

thanks guys (spec Lenni, you just made me smile with your zoo text) dreading going back to work next week, thought I was ok leaving dts but crying my eyes out about it now although they love nursery! It's hard to have quality time with them when ds2 here, he takes over. He's lovely though, getting a nice little bond with him at the moment which has been sadly lacking last year or so
We've been here 5 years, there are still boxes in garage so think I will just chuck as clearly not important!
castles, how was your elf farm?
xxx

oh and glad ad tweaking helping, jabber esp as you can't see dr for a while longer. Had mine tweaked last week, will wait for improvement.

Oh AQ Hang in there, the thought of work is probably worse than the reality of it.

I'm a big wuss over leaving dd, have to remind myself that ds went to creche at 9 months! I've started a bf peer support course and they provide a creche in a room over the corridor, all of us kept going to check on children, bringing them in for cuddles if they were upset etc. Of course at the same age I was merrily waving at ds as he played in creche then leaving him to it.

Have had a bit of a crap week but has coincided with my period so I'm hoping it is PMT related. I get so tired the week before it starts too, as in completely drained which doesn't help, especilly as dd will still happily wake 10 times a night Dr seems happy with things so shall keep taking the happy pills and see.

Dd has MMR Wed then both of them have been offered the swine flu jab on Thurs, lucky children

I have jacked in Rainbows, I am no longer a leader. It was the one thing I really couldn't get back on top of and have a major mental block about tackling so I had a good chat with a leader friend and have quit. Just need to spend a couple of evenings packing up all my resources and other Guiding clutter now! Maybe I can replace it all with beading clutter and start doing crafty stuff again.

You don't want to see our loft. There are a fair few things that have never really been unpacked in any of our moves. I really must get ruthless.

Rats, dd says she is not going to sleep, suppose I should attempt the washing up before she gets too bored of chatting in her bed.

I have discovered co-op fairtrade brownies. They are so yummy. I have eaten half the pack already, may have to eat the rest and dispose of the evidence so dh doesn't realise what a pig I am.