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LatinDAISYcal · 07/10/2009 21:08

As we will still be on this when the first birthdays roll round.

I'll try and find the list to remind us all.

right, off to watch telly; will catch up properly tomorrow.

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PinkyMinxyPie · 26/12/2009 21:50

Hi all
We've had a lovely christmas so far. Dcs have loved their presents and we have had visits from friends round the corner, and been to my Bil's today. DS and DD1 had a fab time playing with their littls JRT.

Daisy we have that pop up springy thing- DS got it when he was 1, it has been one of the most played with toys in our playroom- funny because it doesn't look much, does it, but it provides hours of entertainment!

Hope wee ones are better soon.

OOh did anyine see the Gruffalo last night- my lot were rivited!

twinklingfairy · 26/12/2009 22:55

I am glad you are having a nice christmas pinky
Will this be the first one you have had without your mum around?

I thought I had probs with mine and that getting away to PIL would be soo much easier, but probs down here too
ah well, such is life I suppose.

We are hoping that we can have new year to ourselves.
Have spoken to sis and bro to get them to understand. Mum has already tried to use dad to get me to agree, but you know that your dad loves new year twink. It is up to you whatever you want to do.

ho hum.
Anyway, don't mean to moan.
So lovely to get on here and see everyone so happy

Ceebee74 · 27/12/2009 20:27

Pinky glad you are having a lovely time And yes, we recorded the Gruffalo and DS1 has watched it twice so far - and because I have never read the book, we were in Mothercare today and bought it for DS1 I read it to DS1 when we got back and he pretty much knew it word for word as I think they read it a lot at nursery!!

Twinks sorry you are having a bit of a cr*p time - things always seem worse at this time of year don't they?

I succumbed today and had Hamster measured for shoes in Clarks - it totally goes against my principles as he is not walking but his feet must be getting so cold in just socks so I couldn't hold out any longer!! Anyway, they had some 'cruising' shoes in his size in the sale so they were only £10 so at least they were cheap. And he looks very cute in them

Not sure if I mentioned it before but Hamster's main present was this - it is really cool as the dog follows the remote control bone and sings and dances. I was hoping the remote control bone would cure Hamster's addiction to our remote controls but no such luck - he is totally obsessed with them to the point we have to hide them on top of the sofa at all times!!! And if we do leave one where he can reach it and then move it once he starts heading it towards, he goes into complete meltdown Am thinking we should have just bought a spare Sky remote control for him - would have been much cheaper

festivenameneeded · 27/12/2009 20:31

Hi all, hope you had a great Xmas, we had a good one at my parents but millie was really unsettled I think she was teething, so she was quite miserable for the latter part of the day. I have to say I dont know how lone parents manage I was totally stressed out trying to get everything organised and that was with help at my mums, when I was taking the presents down I thought I had wrapped the girls presents in different paper millie had blue rudolph and ellie had red sants but I realised I had mixed up the paper (dont drink baileys when wrapping presents), so had to peak inside each one then seal it up again. I felt about 10 again waking my mum and dad up at 7am on xmas morning to see if santa had been lol, was good fun though.
Sorry to hear about the poorly babies just now hope they are better soon.
coolkat what is that walker like? It looks really cute, my grandad gave me money for the girls so may buy millie it as she seems to like dolls.
I think Millies fav present is her rocker and her usbourne books.
I got a lovely dressing gown from DH I was eyeing it up in la senza and some jammies from my mum.
rosa I sent you a message on FB I got a message from mr yorky too and said we had agreed to swap pressies lol. Dont worry about it though it sounds like you have alot on, just glad you got here safely.
We are waiting on the toothfairy tonight DD1's second tooth came out tonight x

PinkyMinxyPie · 27/12/2009 23:17

OOH ellie DD1 is so looking forward to the tooth fairy becuase of Peppa Pig!

Twinks hope you get the new years you want. Yes, she is 'away' at my brothers. But she is here- she send me a strange present, all wrapped in black paper with a scalret ribbbon- totally different to the other packages- it was two framed photos of my dead nanas. I had an inkling it was going to eb a strange one so I opened it last wednesday- thankfully not on Christmas morning.

My sister has disowned me and my brother barely acknowledges my presence. One of my Aunties has also disowned me. I was warned all this might happen once I started this process, but this Christmas has been very hard, DH has been very stressed about it. He's gone out with his friends tonight which I'm hoping will relax him a bit.

My inlaws are lovely, thankfully, and we saw BIL and the girls yesterday, who are fab, and it has been nice pootling baout with the DC, popping in on friends.

Ceebee, lol about the remote control. Do you have an obsolete one oyu can take the batteries out of? We have lost our cable remote and one of Ds's new shoes. I have No Idea where they are. We have been through the wheelie bin etc.

I am going to get Mimi some cruising shoesfor similar reasons to yours.

Favourite presents here have to be Hotwheels (Mimi also loves this), the play kitchen and a copy of Octopus Socktopus. We have not yet ventured into the huge boxes of lego (well I have to confess I did play with it a little bit tonight

coolkat · 28/12/2009 08:34

Ellie sounds like you had a nice xmas, we do the different paper thing!

Pinky, sounds like you are having a nice time. Hope DH is more relaxed. X

Ceebee, Becca likes remote and phones, think she broke DH's mobile, to much dribble in it. Vodaphone would not repair as say it had 'water' in it

Festive, the walker is good and she likes it but she is quite small and I think it won't last long and maybe we should have looked for a smaller more sturdy buggy, she gets very cross trying to put the baby in and out. Its this one here

I would like to go shopping for some new work trousers and a black cardi but I have no chance!

Very tired here, Becca is not sleeping well although her upset tummy seems better!

Have a good day. x

Oblomov · 28/12/2009 18:53

Hi everyone.
Thank you SS for my lovely presents. I plan to laze in the bath, with the candles, and read my PC book.
We have had such a lovely time.
Pinky, we loved the Gruffalo.
Ceebee I bought 2 pairs of 12-18 months soft crawlers types from Tesco - £4 each.
Ds2 is also remote obsessed.
What esle ? can't think.
Glad we are all doing so well.

festivenameneeded · 28/12/2009 19:54

ceebee must have xposted with you yesterday sorry, I succumbed and got millie measured for shoes as well for the same reason you did but, and I dont know if there is anything in this when she got home she immediately started trying to stand more now she wont stop, which is great!
twink sorry I thought I had replied to you yesterday, sorry you are having a rough time just now I hope it gets better soon.
pinky sorry its been a tough one and hope your dh enjoyed his night out with the lads. I got lovely cruisers from clarks they have nice girlie colours in. Oooh the tooth fairy came last night and Dd1 came into my room at 4am to tell me
coolkat hope you get shopping soon
obs enjoy your bath
daisy loved your longies on fb were they from the pattern that was on the other thread months ago cos I saved it with all good intentions and never got round to it!

festivenameneeded · 28/12/2009 19:54

Just noticed my overuse of smileys [fmile]

PinkyMinxyPie · 28/12/2009 20:55

OOh Ellie ouch at 4am. Mind, Mimi was up for the day at 5am for some unknown reason!

Had a Fab day today. Went for a family Christmas treat to the local 'entertainment thingy', went bowling for the first time with the DCs and they loved it, then went to see Where The Wild Things Are t the cinema, and we all enjoyed it, even Mimi!

twinklingfairy · 28/12/2009 22:44

Oh well, home sweet home, at last!

MIL best quote
Before J had even looked in his santa sack she says agressively, 'Can I have the telly on now, or even the radio? I am sick of this silence!'

Aaaaanyway.
So glad to be home.
My mums christmas pressie to me was to clean my house.
I didn't know I had so many surfaces!
And my bed looks peedy cos there is no piles of clothes surrounding it to make it appear to fill the room IYSWIM
It was a fantastic surprise to see it look so lovely.
I thought I would hate that she had been in my house and that it would just give her further ammunition to slag me off, but she was so lovely about it
We shall see if it turns against me later.
But really I am just very happy to see my mantlepiece again. Dad even sanded it back a bit and re-oiled it!
Lovely

pinky what an odd present to get from your mum. And the wrapping
Disowned blimey a bit extreme from so many.
As my mother always says Let them hing as they graow.
If that is their attitudes is it any great loss or is that an awful, crass, thing to say?

twinklingfairy · 28/12/2009 23:02

Oh did I tell you all?
J took his first steps!
And can now walk half way accross a room all on his own and he Loves doing it so is always getting his blanace and setting off determindly
So I, too, have been out buying cruisers.
And some wellies! Fab!!

It will be odd to see his little feet clad in proper shoes and not his woolly shoes though.

AFingerofFudge · 28/12/2009 23:11

Hi all
Can I have a selfish whinge please??? Before I start, in the grand scheme of things I know it's hardly a big deal, thankfully we've had a great Christmas, the kids are great, we're lucky in so many many ways, and I am grateful BUT....
I'm 40 tomorrow, and although not normally one to get het up about my age, don't feel that great about thinking I'm in my 40's, not my 30's.
Me and DH are supposed to be going away from tomorrow lunchtime until the following afternoon. Just a hotel not too far away, bit of shopping, a meal out etc. I have been so looking forward to it but I sense it's not going to come off. First of all, snow is forecast for our area, and secondly DS has a bad cough,and I think M is coming down with it tonight. He's been whingeing on and off since he went to bed, and seems to be snotty.

So I think it's all unravelling, and I shall be still here tomorrow evening. As I said, it's hardly a big problem, it just I want to go!!!!

Right. Have slapped myself across face in effort to snap self out of it. How are things with everyone else?????

TheTwelveDAISYofChristmas · 28/12/2009 23:31

just passing briefly.

pinky; how very odd of your M; not the photos per se, but the way they were wrapped. My sis gave me a photo of my mum and dad, but it was a "we found this lovely photo of mum and dad and had it framed for everyone" thing; not weird wrappings etc. I hope you are feeling OK about it all though; I can only imagine how hard things must be {hugs}

lol re missing things; we have lost the lid of one of our saucepans and have several baby cups with no lids and lids with no cups and can only think that bumble has thrown them all in the bin . DD went through a similar phase at this age and we lost a few things then as well...or else things are stuck forever down the back of radiators (unless we take the radiators off the wall that is). Our cable remote landed there and we had to call and ask for another one!

Had a lovely morning with Yorky and family today . We met up at a local soft play and then had lunch together and the odd whingy child apart, it was a nice chilled morning. yorky is looking fab as well; I look more pregnant than she does

Oblomov · 29/12/2009 09:07

Daisy, those missing bits are probably with the socks. Between us all we could probably make 3 proper feeding cups and 6 pairs of matching socks !!

PinkyMinxyPie · 29/12/2009 14:07

Twinks that's funny, because my Nana was from Glasgow.

But you are right, Twinks I have to just let things go. It feels like I have lost my entire family in a little under a year, but in all honsety I never really had anything real there. It's just coming to terms with the fact, is all.

Parents who have NPD do this strange thing with their family called triangulation. Basically it is a major programme of disinformation, whereby my mother will be telling everyone she knows as much afwul stuff about me (mostly made up, but how would they know) that she can think of, to turn people against me, so as to isolate me and make me believe it is my fault and so bring me back under control. She has done it all my life, except I saw through most of the things she said about other people, becuase if you really listen to what she says there is little basis in fact- it's manily her 'theories' about what people think. She puts plenty of flattery in it towards the other person, too, so people will like what they hear. It's truly uttery manipulative, insideous and completely bonkers.

Daisy, my Nana died when I was 15, so there is no particular reason to send the photos now, and there was no note with them or anything. She has been sending me or my DS things of this nature since I started trying to withdraw from herr control (toys, poems from my childhood etc) I know it might seem innocent enough but where my mother is concerned you just can't take anything at face value.

Heyho!

Fudge I think you should go. You are only 21 once!

Obs/ Daisy can you guys check wether you have my DS's left shoe?

Oblomov · 29/12/2009 14:52

Can you guys help me. Remember when you all bought jeans. Remind me , was it cheapies from New Look ?
Have lost a bit of weight and my jeans I love from M&S, the Short ones, hanging off me. Discontinued. As is my fave bra. Bugger. Need jeans for 5'2" short-arse. Cheap. Well don't mind paying abit, but I need to know they are good first.
Suggestions ?

coolkat · 29/12/2009 19:00

Hi

Just a quick posting, I now have my mum living with me as her husband assulted her last night. Its not easy but could not offer her a bed. All her stuff has been removed from the house they share and put into storage ready for when my sister moves out of her house!

Wish me luck

Rahhhhhhhhhhhh

PinkyMinxyPie · 29/12/2009 19:42

OOh good luck Coolkat, and I hope your mum is ok.x

Obs I got the Polka ones I think, they were straight leg, the hulas were boot cut I think. They were good, but IMO you can't fault TopShop when it comes to jeans.

Ceebee74 · 29/12/2009 21:06

Coolkat your poor mum And good luck with the living with her again - but looking on the positive side, she may help with some babysitting!

Obs they were Hula jeans and New Look do still do them. However, I bought some high waisted ones to hold my tummy in from M&S a few weeks ago - they were only about £15. They have Portfolio on them - not sure if that is the brand or the style though. They are boot-cut (as are the Hula jeans)

Fudge if your DC's aren't that poorly (i.e. just whingy and a bit clingy) go away! You only turn 40 once and you will have a great time and I am sure whoever was going to look after your DC will cope just fine. You deserve a break so go and have one

Twinks well done to J for taking some steps - hoep you got some photos! And what a lovely thing for your mum to do (even though I know she is not the easiest person) but very thoughtful and it must have been lovely to come home to a nice tidy house!

Hamster seems to have turned a corner here (touch wood) with his temperament. He really has been a grumpy so-and-so for weeks and screaming everytime we dared leave him in a room by himself. But these last few days, he has been happy, giggly, happy to play by himself or fight with DS1 and no longer screams as if his world is ending if he is by himself for a few seconds. HE has actually worked out that he can move from room to room so he can come to wherever we are!!

They are both back in nursery tomorrow for a couple of days to give me and DH time to have lunch and sale shopping do stuff round the house that we can't do with 2 little ones hanging around. It really has been lovely spending the last few days as a family but am quite looking forward to tomorrow!

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festivenameneeded · 30/12/2009 13:22

hana had to reply to your post,I know how you feel re the grand parent thing and am noticing it more now I only do 1 day a week at work (only when DH is home) infact got quite upset about it last night, my mum only said maybe I could have her amd my dad over for a meal on new years day and I said I would if DH was at home but its too much on my own, I dont think she was very happy but I am fed up trying to please everyone. My parents hardly ever have my DD's yet my neice stays over every week so my sis can have a life. The inlaws are better and will watch the girls for me but no one ever offers to take them for a few hours for me when DH is away and my mum knows I am struggling with my anxiety again and she saw what it was like with them when we satyed at Xmas. Right rant over
twinks well done to J
obs I bought the hula's they are good but I prefer others, I like gap, next and Dp's jeans.
coolkat hope your mum is ok.
pinky hope this year is easier for you, oh btw I am being nosy but what is NPD?
daisy I dont know where all millies socks go either lol.

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Yorky · 30/12/2009 14:00

Hi all, sorry for being not around for a while, glad most people had good Christmases - sorry to those with family issues, makes my ILs sound easy to get on with. In fairness we were all very good, it was my family that really annoyed me. SIL had mc when I was about 6wks and everyone has pussyfooted around her and basically pretended I'm not pg, or ignored it completely. DB (the one who isn't married) had forgotten! It was really nice to meet up with Daisy and have someone ask how its going - well obviously it was nice to meet up with her anyway - but you know what I mean V impressed by Bumble's walking, DD not even standing independently yet. Although she did cut 2 new teeth last night, which explains why she was awake for so much of it