April 2007 - The one where we despair about coughs and colds; sickness bugs; cheeky behaviour and the amount of tinsel and fairy lights ALREADY in the shops!!

[CaptainDippy]

Happy Sunday!!

Would you believe the internet died again
was the bt line this time though

Belated happy birthday to still very young SPB.

Hi to everyone else.

We had a lovely local NCT party - it was raining when we woke up but the weather got a lot better, and the cafe had put up some temporary undercover areas for us but actually it was warm and dry enough for people to sit and/or play outside too, not bad for 31 October. We had a good mix of people from our local email list and new faces. I think the cafe where it was held should be very pleased too as they got lots of business and there were a few people there who were impressed by how nice it is and will probably return (it's a new cafe in a slightly out of the way place but worth the trek).

Back to work now.

hi elkie, and thanks
glad you had a good party but to back at work

no one around?

I'm here

hi dippy!

Morning ladies Hope everyone (or at least those few that still visit!) are ok today.

My mum is not speaking to me, which has all stemmed from the holiday saga. She is really making me angry. I took the dc's to see her in their costumes for Halloween on Saturday evening. They went in and she spoke to them, but completely blanked dh and me. She hasn't actually argued with me, but this is what she does, as if she is trying to make a point.
I am fed up of her games tbh, and don't know whether to just speak to her about it or let it go. She is treating me like some naughty child, but I am 36! If I try and discuss it with her she will make out that everything is my fault, and I really can't be doing with it.

Anyway, enough of my bleating. See you later x

hello
belated birhday wishes SPB xxx

kids all back to school today

weather is s**t

I have got so much to do, and don't want to do any of it.....................

thanks caz
sorry i obviously missed that SB, what's happened?

SB, she basically lived in my pocket for a fortnight, despite me encouraging her and my dad to go off and do their own thing some of the time.
I really struggled with her constant company, and she does have a tendency to tell me what I should be doing with the dc's which antagonises me somewhat!

She made a fuss one night, and tearily told me that I needed to spend time with just dh and the dc's, and then continued to trail around after us for the rest of the holiday!

She reckons I have given her the cold shoulder and didn't want her there, but it wasn't that at all, I just needed space away from her but she couldn't seem to get that.

She is one of these people who is never wrong, and over the years I have had several run ins with her. She can be extremely nasty at times, and in the past I would always back down. She has said some really awful things to me over the years that I have just swept under the carpet for a quiet life, but I really don't want to be her door mat any more.

I feel as if I have just off loaded many years of angst! Thanks for the therapy SB!!

I didn't go into detail much before, because I feel bad having a go at my mum on here iykwim.

SPB over here!

oh mj glad you have got it off your chest (so to speak ) Families are can be a nightmare

katy - how you diddling?

I have a thumping headache and am cross again dts really pushing the limits, shouting 'NO' and laughing and generally egging each other on. They are wearing me out.

This thread is getting quieter and quieter

Sorry you are having issues with your mum SB.

How's everyone else?!

Some sad news here is that my goddaughter has to have a course of chemotherapy starting very soon. She has something called neurofibromatosis which makes tumours grow, and she has one in her brain behind her eyes. She'll be 4 in December. Feeling crap about it, but can barely imagine how her parents are feeling .

Bramshott, I'm sorry, that's so horrible.

Bramshott, hope you are ok. Fingers crossed that your god daughter makes a good recovery. I work in that field, so feel free to pick my brains if you need to. Thinking of you all xxx

I phoned my mum last night and we have sorted everything out. She kept on saying everything was her fault and I was trying to get her to understand that it isn't. I felt mean, but at the same time the air is now cleared, so hopefully we can get back to some sort of normality! It is very unusual for her to be the timid one, and me the outspoken one!

I have been out and bought some fireworks today in readiness for tomorrow night. My MIL is doing a little bonfire party for the dc's (mine and her other grandchildren) so I have the joy of her company for a few hours! In fairness she has been ok lately, and we have been getting on quite well which is nice.

Bramshot - that is terrible cannot imagine what her parents are going through

mj - glad to hear that it is sorted. Enjoy the fireworks

Hi oooggs Hope dt's are not saying NO quite so much today!

they have been at nursery mj so not my problem

Evening all

Bramshott, what dreadful news re your god-daughter. That must be heart breaking. Hope you are ok. xx

SB, glad you and your Mum have patched things up. xx

Oooggs, kids eh!!!

Hope everyone else is ok. Dooby hasn't been around for a bit has she?

All ok'ish here. Have been feeling pants for days; chest hurts and have gone hoarse. K has been playing up at night (as she has done for the last 3 weeks). Thought things were getting better, but she was up between 2 and 4, and then ended up in our bed, so dh and I didn't get much sleep. We are shattered. B also being a madam.

Can't wait until Saturday, as we are going to see Michael McIntrye in Brighton and my Mum and Dad are having the beggars lovely little girls

Oh Bramshott. So unspeakably awful My love and prayer to that brave wee thing and to her family too. Don't even know what to say. xx

Hey MJ - "It's good to talk!"

So sorry Bramshott.Sending positive vibes

Obviously haven't caught up completely.Hope you ok SB?
sol hOPE YOU BETTER SOON AND THAT YOU ENJOY YOUR NIGHT.and Happy Birthday
We have moved....too old for this malarky/
Went to a home ed meet yesterday[our 2nd]and a woman gave me a magazine called Mother,it has a pattern to make your own reusable menstrual pads to help with your holistic menstruation...so if anyone wants it?!