radical cross stitch, theological debate, Easter bunnies, changing bags,and a baby brother...it must be June 08!

[spongebrainbigpants]

Welcome to our new thread .

Morning All,

Amber: OMG!!! Keeping everything crossed for you.

This is my favourite joke:

How do you sell a duck to a deaf man?

Wanna buy a duck?

A fairly accurate measure of whether I am pissed at a party is if DH can hear me yelling the punchline across the room.

Deb pleased you have found some luxe toddler free accomodation in London. Good name too.

Hi all. Well bad news preggo test has turned to negative today. I still haven't got my period but I had that horrid dye test so it's bound to have buggered things up. I know everyone will probably say it's still possible but I think my mini fertilisation has gone. Was never meant to happen anyway. I'm not sad I just want my period to start so I can get on with the ivf.

Loved the jokes ladies!

I told the boys the jokes this morning!

Please bear with me while I relate the ridiculousness of my morning so far. I just need to get it off my chest so just skip this bit if you want...

I needed some lunch box supplies (from shop round the corner, had no cash and yesterday didn't want to drag the peaky children to the cashpoint. So yesterday asked DH NOT to buy the supplies (hell no) but merely to get me some cash on his way home from work last night.

Guess what happened next..

Yes, you're right, he forgot, but assured me that he'd get up bright and early and rush out to get the supplies themselves.

Yes, right again, he didn't manage to get up bright and early but instead staggered downstairs at 8.40 saying he needed a 2nd cup of coffee. We need to leave at 8.45.

DD1 was trying to bluff her way into being allowed to go to school in her PJs (which at the moment are defunct school clothes as she loves school so much that she wants to wear school clothes all the time). DS1 was shouting that he couldn't find his trousers (Thea had helpfully carried them away and put them somewhere). DS2 had got dressed and was quietly eating his porridge (he's really good in the morning). Thea was screaming, which she continued to do until 10 minutes ago.

There were no packed lunches ready and none on the horizon. DH periodically made helpful remarks from the chair about how I should be more organised. Eventually he agreed to drop the children off at school (horribly late) and pick up the lunch stuff on the way home.

He came back 10 mins later with no children and no food, but a £10 note telling me that I'd have to get the food myself as he'd been inundated with work phonecalls and had to deal with them.

Eventually got the food, made the lunches, and lovely DH took them to school on his way to work. Thea is asleep and I can now get on with my 100 phone calls.

OK, I'm done now. It was so much more dysfunctional than usual that it actually became very funny.

Deb that Santa site is brilliant. We did it for DD1 last night and I have one ready for DS2 tonight.

Cross-posted with you Amber. I'm so sorry. That's crap for you.

So sorry Amber ((hugs))

Rolf - what a morning!

Oh Amber that is rubbish.

Rolf - sounds like a busy morning!

Hi to everyone else, like the name Debs!

Amber, I'm so sorry .

Rolf, I don't know how you resist punching your dh when he does things like that?!

Love the jokes!

oh Amber, hugs!!!! I will keep my fingers crossed for the IVF though and hope things go well.

Rolf what a way to start the week - hope you and T are at least having a quiet day.

Sponge I wouldn't mind if he'd said yesterday that he couldn't get any cash for me. It's the being messed around that I can't handle. In his defence, he's been working 7-day weeks for ages and is knackered. And he was waiting to find out this morning whether a trial was on or not, which is quite stressful. It's off (hurrah) but he has to prepare for something new for tomorrow. I'm so pleased as it's giving us a better chance of him getting to DD1's nativity play later in the week. All the chopping and changing of the timetable is part of his job so I'm really not complaining, but it's quite difficult to adjust one's mindset to it.

OK, this is what I'm doing about DD1:
I will talk to the GP if
we have a concern about her behaviour or development; and
we think there is a reasonable chance it is caused by the brain abnormality, ie not by something else that any 4 year old could struggle with (like being ill, overtired etc)

She has been lovely the past few days, but even setting that aside, she has a sore ear again and is having trouble hearing (she gets glue ear). She is very tired (end of 1st term at school) and there's a lot going on (it's Christmas). The teacher's request must have been coloured by the complaints from parents but I'm not making a big decision on the back of that without speaking to the teacher.

So we're shelving the issue until after Christmas, when we will keep an eye on her. We saw the community paediatrician a few years ago so the chain of communication is already open if we need it. I can put my head back in the sand for a while .

I really will go back to normal now...

Amber, how crap.

Rolf, wow, what a morning.

oh hey - Fraser's got a new word! "Penis" Fortunately he only says it (gleefully) during nappy changes.

Aberdeen!!!! How funny I'm hoping you dint get penis shouted out when you go shopping! Actually luke has lots of words that only I would understand so fingers crossed it's one of those.

Rolf I think your stance over dd1 is very sensible. No point in raising something that she might just stop doing without any professional help (a phase?). How wonderful that you get to go the nativity what is she playing? I know I would be really embarrassing and howl at luke's nativity!

Now why is it that when like loser I picked out my preggo test from this morning it's gone positive? Just to confuse me even more?

Oh blimey Amber, how agonising, not knowing what is going on.

DD1 is an angel . She is madly excited about it. I will definitely cry. I cry just singing the songs around the house. DS2 is involved in the school carol concert and I'll cry at that too!

Amber, that's an evaporation line hun, you can't read pg tests more than 10 mins after you've taken them cos then you get a false positive. You need to test again to find out what's going on .

Rolf, I always cried at the Christmas concert when I was a teacher, so god knows what I'm going to be like as a parent .

Oh, and your plan re DD1 sounds good .

*Amber" nope, that word in particular is as clear as day. Since DS1 didn't have any words at this age it just sounds so odd...

And it must be very frustrating to not know what's going on at the moment - can you call your doctor tomorrow and see if you can see them about it?

DS1 is a snowflake in his nativity tomorrow - I think all the four year olds have real parts and the three year olds are getting walk on cameos (which is fine by me - I think the teachers are incredibly talented if they get all the kids to sit still at once).

Rolf I think your plan about DD1 sounds sensible.

Rolf, how you didn't manage to string your DH up by the baubles I don't know. I think you're being v sensible about DD1.

Oh Amber, I don't know what to say, apart from I have everything crossed for you. If you did get a BFP in the first place, then that's a positive isn't it - you can't get a positive test without being pg? I'm sure it's driving you mad, so I hope you can find out one way or the other soon.

Abdn, can't help but snurk at Fraser.

Glasvegas, ah, the prawn joke was worth waiting for...

Ooh Christmas smilies

Amber I am so sorry, that is the crappest news ever . Good on you for staying positive going into IVF. But fingers crossed it's not all over for this PG yet. Was there a difference in the 'strength' of the wee, like, was one done really early in the morning and another after you'd just drunk loads of liquids? As it's so early on there might not be much of the hormone around.

Amber - Have you done any more tests?

Aberdeen - I'm very impressed at Fraser's vocabulary!

Rolf - sounds like a sensible way to deal with things.

All the nativity plays sound lovely.

I'm going to a work Christmas lunch tomorrow, don't know what it will be like because they found out last week that quite a few of them are being made redundant on 31st Dec. Rather poor timing. So it might be a bit of a miserable affair.

I'm just watching Delia's Christmas programme, it made me laugh when she was busy cleaning out the cupboards. I thought I was being organised buying a few packets of mince pies and a tin of biscuits more than a few days before Christmas!
We're nearly there in the present buying, which is probably the most organised I've ever been

We've I've actually done all the Chrimbo shopping but we haven't done any cards or wrapping! Since we've moved to the new house we've gone all festive and have lights outside and a wreath. It feels like a proper family home it's ace! Actually I'm starting to worry about the food order now as I have't thought about it yet.

Kt, I am not going to do any more tests. I'm fairly sure that this my period is going to turn up soon. I think that test probably messed about with my cycle. We'll see anyway. Let's forget about it for now and i'll let you know if there's any movement one way or t'other! Feeling remarkably OK about it all though.

It's awful when people are made redundant before Christmas isn't it? As ours was voluntary my Christmas party will be great as it'll be a lot of people's leaving dos as well. Still not sure whther to drink or not if I'm trying to get myself healthy for the new year but i'll be a shite affair sober I must say!!

Arse - I can never get those strike outs right!!!! We've I've actually done all the Chrimbo shopping is what it should have said!

Amber I'm jealous of the wreath, this house doesn't go straight onto the street unlike our last one so I was all ready to buy one from the local farm shop which has some lovely wreaths but DH pointed out it might be a bit hard to attach it to the uPVC door, unless anyone has any good tips!

I've heard it's pretty miserable where I used to work at the moment, glad I'm not there anymore, I feel sorry for them having no idea about any of it until the beginning of December.

Ha ha - we haven't actually tried to attach the wreath to the door yet ktpie!

Amber you'll not appreciate me dwelling, but just to say that sucks. Glad you're ivf can go ahead as planned though.

Rolf sounds like a sensible plan to me. I think you need to get through Christmas, and look again with fresh eyes in the new year. Thanks for Liverpool suggestions - once we decide when we're going and if/ not with S I'm sure I'll ask again!

ktpie Lakeland do a sucker hook thing that attaches to glass for wreaths if that helps. I think they also have an over door hook.

Had a fab day today, but too knackered to post anymore!

this thread is hilarious

Amber we have a wreath too, makes me feel very festive. Also, think the wait and see and retest is a good idea.

rolf i enjoyed the story of your morning very much! I tried the interrupting sheep on DH, he liked it, but he hated himself for liking it!

whinegums glad I hadn't built it up too much. it's my favourite joke.

I am currently on my second wind, having had only 3 hours of sleep last night, and a measly 45 minutes while Lottie was nappping this afternoon.

I managed to get all the way to 9am this morning without finding out who won xfactor, turned on the TV to watch the recording and as I turned it on the BBC presenter announced the winner before I had time to start the recording

Oh, there appears to be no poor little

Oh I hate it when they cut out all the scandalous posts with swearing - someone said they'd rather eat their fanny and they cut that one out!!