May 2007 Is foundation really the cure for everything?

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New thread.

Poor you Tills It will all be over soon.

That top would work well post baby i think, the baby could be shoved under quite nicely and it would not cling to your tummy.

to the title

to tils.

Just place marking back later.

Pink & I are trying to find a concert that we can go to together

Girls dresses are from Next - i have a few things that are the same for both of them. Not going to dress them the same everyday, just every now and again

Sorry to hear of the painful hips/adult bed wetting etc.. Am so pleased i am NEVER doing that again (this time i mean it)

There is a Pimarni near me if you want me to have a look in there - obviously i have no idea what it looks like so would need some direction

Just made cakes with Ella and now taking them to the office for the guys to eat

Lucy weighed in at 11lbs 4oz at almost 8wks

Foundation is the cure for nothing, if you have the grey skin and huge eye bags that Ive got.

No sequin clutches to be found in Hammersmith Primarni,and I had a very good rummage.

How is everyone?

We are all OK,FIL still v poorly, but sort of stable.I am just filling in the forms for Lils school choices and Maes nusery.Its gone too fast, and now ive no babies

I am obviously in a state of total excitement as New Moon is out in only 8 days time!DH and I are going away that weekend and he has promised we can go and see it, on pain of me not going if he didnt

Lucy is doing so well AM!

Oh thank God there's a new thread. The other one wouldn't load at all.

Who's wetting the bed?

End of preg sounds terrible. Scoot, you know what to do about not having a baby.

Yah boo sucks to Twilight. It's drivel I tells ya.

Right, now we have a new thread. Two things.

One. I have never worn foundation. Barely worn make up.

Two. Period is very late.

SOH!!!! Go get yourself a test!!!! We need a 2010 baby

I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere and have a dh who works stupid hours. Unless there's a youtube video from Blue Peter circa 1986 on how to fashion a homemade test with sticky back plastic and a yoghurt pot, I'll be here with my head in the sand thank you very much.

I am not. I am not. I am VERY careful. I am not. See, convinced myself.

If i had known earlier then i would have gone and bought you one and posted it

I wish I had told you. Seeing the sales assistant's face as you bought an hpt while juggling a tiny baby would have been priceless.

Don't worry. No show tomorrow, I'll go to the shop and buy a magic stick.

imagine if i had bumped into anyone i knew lol!!!

Scoot cheer up love. You can have more babies, just start saying 'I definately don't want anymore!'

SOH.... 1. You dont need foundation, you are about 10 years old.

1. How late?

How do you mean you are 'very careful'?Well I suppose 20 million catholics cant be wrong can they, with the old rythum method.

How exciting!!

I do quite want another.But I would need a small (approx 30k which is nowt in the scheme of things surely) lotto win to pay for it.That said would also need a DH that gets home before 10.30 on any given night as otherwise we would be looking at an immaculate conception.

M has got a wierd rash on her face all of a sudden-looks like milk rash.She looks dreadful god bless her.I wonder what it could be?It doesnt seem to bother her really except her poor red face.

SOH you have met Archie and Lachlan my very careful babies.

LOL JAM!!

Meant to say - Mean Mummies' you will like this....

Was at weigh in clinic this morning when i heard the HV telling a friend that Controlled Crying is 'really very harmful' to babies!! I had to stop myself crying out - instead i scoffed quite loudly!! Am pretty sure that that particular hv wants you to have baby strapped to you 24/7. She is the one that bollocked me for not having L in my room.

Scoot - dh i have found the pictures from when you came down last year! They were 'hidden' in a folder on his work computer. Will pop on cd and send a copy to you and pj

I am VERY careful. I know when I ovulate to the hour. I can feel it. I abstain for my entire fertile period. If I do give in to the evilness that is marital conjugations when I'm fertile I use condoms, well he does. You know what I mean. We used condoms twice this month. No breaks. All seemed fine. It's very, very unlikely that I'm pg. If I'm pg you will never, ever, ever, ever hear from again as I slip into the madness never to return.

I cannot and will not be pregnant. I'd give up gingerbread first.

I was 'careful' last December, waiting until after ovulation window had passed and i now have a beautiful 8wk old daughter............

You will be fine then SOH.

Oh yes, you will be just fine. The creation of babies is an exact science after all.

Exact science absolutely, gingerbread will not allow you to give it up so you just can't be pregnant.
Yes, How late? days or weeks? or hours? (perhaps like your egg) Has it arrived this morning... AF v's Stick?

Scoot

Tils and PJ, not too long.. keep going, you will both look gorgeous x-mas day whatever so don't worry. Higly overated Christmas day anyway, just stay in your jarmys and eat chocolate all day.

AM, thanks for the parcel, arrived yesterday. Lucy is doing great. The photo of her and L are very cute.

Getting pregnant is quite a precise art acksherley. Your chances of getting pregnant if you are a couple in your 20s, young, fit, healthy, no fertility issues, having sex at exactly the right time are a measly 25%. This drops off with age, weight issues, fitness, bad habits. Your window of fertility also very small. The egg starts to deteriorate as soon as it is released and if its not fertilised pretty quickly your chances of conception are very, very slim indeed. The average woman can only get pg on 3 days out of her cycle and since we abstain or are Very Careful for at least 7 days of each month, chances of another baby, SMALL. If the NHS would stop carping on about age and possibility they'd let DH have a bloody vasectomy and this wouldn't be a problem.

Do you all really dress up on Christmas Day? I used to love wearing the clothes I'd had as presents on Christmas Day. I remember laying them out in the bathroom and Looking At Them with glee. Oh Christmas is magical. Unfortunately, these days it's fling open the wardrobe, sigh a bit, discount most of my lovely pre-baby clothes and settle on 'well that sort of fits'. That's after wearing my pyjamas for most of the day obviously.

Right, it's annual laugh at MrSOH day. Do you know what he wants for Christmas? Slippers like these. It's a midlife crisis isn't it? You know, a look at me I'm still wacky crisis? Do I buy them? I've bought him a mug from a company online that lets you design your own. It's got a picture of M on it and a drawing she has done of him. Tis entirely black until you put hot water in it. M thinks it's magic.

Anybody feeling arty? M wants a 'big shop for playing' for Christmas. I know the sort of thing she means (damn you elc). I have neither the room nor the finances for such a thing. I do have a big cardboard box that I think I can fashion into a collapsable shop. Is that a crap idea?

Right, I need a hot water bottle. I have stomach ache. This is a very good sign.

I have to get a little dressed up on Christmas Day or I will feel like a troll next to the rest of my family. I really like this as well, which although not uber-dressy, should be comfy for the day.

I had a huge tantrum last night and accused my nan and my aunty of only caring about themselves and never having any sympathy for poor old me. Not my finest hour.

L absolutely loves playing shop, but she does it using her kitchen and play food. Could you stretch to a till, and just pretend to buy items that you already have?

The slippers are not good.

Not good is very diplomatic. They're one step away from wearing ties with cartoon characters on them. And three steps from divorce.

M loves playing shop. She has lots of pretend food that she uses and was quite happy pretending the fire guard is a shop. Damn bloody elc. We walked past the other day and she saw a toy shop and is convinced that Father Christmas can fit one down our chimney. I'll have a look at tills and see what she thinks. I'm not one for giving in to whims but she's really taken with the idea and it's Christmas, yes? I can turn a box into a shop. It's just Blue Peter again isn't it?

PJ tell us more about your hormonal strop discussion with your nan and aunt. Sounds interesting. What on earth did they say?

Well...

My relationship with my aunt has really suffered in recent years (she is my mum's younger sister). She very much likes to think of me as 'one of the kids'. I am the second oldest grandchild on that side of the family, but my other cousins closer to my age don't tend to visit very often, so she thinks of me in the same vein as my 23yo and 11yo cousins, calling me "madam", this kind of thing - "And how are you, madam?"

Does my fecking head in.

She is extremely boastful and materialistic and as M and I have started to earn more etc, she still seems to think that the rest of us are all beneath her, and is raising her family in very much the same way. My uncle left her 8 years ago, she works full time, has a good job, my grandparents go up there every single day to pick 11yo up from school and do all her washing, cleaning, ironing etc, yet still there is this sentiment of "Our poor Jane" in the family.

Last weekend she made a comment to my mum, telling her a conversation that she had been having with my (extremely above himself for no reason 23yo cousin) whereby he had been saying, rather snottily, "So we are lower class then?" She had been saying that she didn't consider them to be lower class, and if they were lower class, what did that make my mum and dad. I was absolutely furious, and my mum was sorry that she had told me, in that her and my dad think that she is completely ridiculous, and it's just like water off a duck's back to them. I was not so blase about it. So I was already cross with her before I arrived yesterday, in truth. Jane is from exactly the same stock as my mum, and her Hyacinth Bucket tendencies are delusional.

It started with my nan yesterday. She asked me what had happened with the midwife and I told her I have SPD and have been referred for physio. She said, "Oh, they'll always invent something, now our Poor Jane, blah blah..." I felt completely dismissed.

Anyhoo, our poor Jane's lights all then tripped out, and my dad actually had to come home from work to fix the electrics. She waltzed in an hour later, no thanks or anything for my dad, and did her usual, "And how are you, madam?" Again, I relayed the SPD story, and she said, "But what do you think of my new porch?"

I just completely blew my top. Said I was sick to death of hearing everyone's bloody sob stories when no one gives a sh*t about me or how I'm feeling.

Phew, glad I got that off my chest.

SOH I have one, FB me your addy and I will post it tomorrow/later today if pos. Woohoo, go SOH and PC SOH!

Yes Ive got a till too was gonna say d'you want it.You can have a large quanitity of play money too am sick of it all over the house.

Maybe get her some cheap shelves or something to put the play food and till on and then that can be her 'shop' area.Is what we've done with the girls and I made a big sign that says 'L and M grocery' in sparkly letters. (not to be confused with the S and M grocery down the road obv hahahaha)

PJ i think you were within your rights to have a paddy.SPD is horrid.Horrid.And you deserve to be waited on hand and foot.And you can tell Jane I said so.

I am going to pick L up from nursery so no time to write more.I will be back poste haste as I fee rubbish today and plan to sit the girls down in front on 101 Dalmations all afternoon.Thats quality parenting.