May 2007 Is foundation really the cure for everything?

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New thread.

I've googled the film, it was called Just Like Heaven in the UK.

Hi all, bored housewife from Essex here.

We too are snowed in managed to get out the driveway this morning by skidding to a stop and praying no-one was on the main road. When we got back DP turned to go up the drive and the car went sideways. At least we have restocked the fridge so no need to go out again.

We were meant to be heading up to my mums today as my lil sis is going back to San Fran tom but no chance of us getting back home. ANd my other lil sis had her baby the other night Waters went in the morning nothing doing she cleaned the house etc then went to bed woke up at midnight and the baby was here by 2am They have called her Isla.

SHmoks sleep training is not going well. He just screams the house down. We have now turned the monitor off as the only way he stops is if he is in bed with us and I cant do that anymore as I get no sleep atall. He does eventually go to sleep but its so hard. he is such a smiley chap the rest of the time just dont get it think he is lonely in the night.

Bored bored bored bored.........

Moi its a fairly good film a bit chick flic but easyily watchable.

LG&T can I ask you a baking question have tried this twice now each time it has happened trying to make a Nigella pavlova and it keeps cracking, last time it cracked and weeped this time it cracked tastes delicious but not really the way its meant to look. What do you reckon I am doing wrong?

Oh I like an easy chick flick. Not sure dh will be impressed. Tough!

Jam do you use room temp eggs and let it cool slowly with the oven off and door ajar slightly?

Congrats to your sis too.

Congrats to your lil sis Jammy! I love the name Isla, so pretty

Your oven is too high. Lower temp for a bit longer should do it.

Never heard of the movie MrsJB. Hope it's good. I have the Notebookto watch, bought it in Harrods (get me) before Xmas but dh not keen

Have just marched them all out to the local shop. Decided (from the bickering in sai local shop) they needed more exercise. We went along beach. Verrrrry cold there, stopped in the cafe for a hot chocolate and back home again.

Beau incredibly tired and grumpy. He just keeps screaming when i say "no sleeping Beau". It is such fun >

Mine are on Toad in the Hole and beans for tea. Yummy.

Would it make you all feel better if I said it was 27 degrees and sunny torrential rain here?

You can sympathise with me now about the not going back to school til Tuesday. Mine can't wait.

Seriously though, it all sounds dreadful. I am glad we are not experiencing it.

Our new house is ready . In we go on Monday. This house is half packed. We will move on Monday and Tuesday and yes, of course, dh is away those two days . The dcs start school on Tuesday and J is being special. I think he is just a bit confused about what is happening.

Jam, congrats to your sis DD was so very almost an Isla, it is one of my favourites. How is your other sis doing? I hope she can make it ok to the airport?

Sounds like you April and Pebble both need some anti-bs.

Congratulations to your sister Jammy and lovely name as well.

Haha LG&T at B screaming!

Not heard of the film MrsJB but sounds like one i would watch.. Watched one of Reese's films last night, 'Four Christmases' was very funny.. We did have golden arches for lunch was yummy and sooo nice to get out the house.. think we under-estimated the X5 as it was our first venture out..

We had lasagne for tea. Dh & J&E had it with chips and me and our house guest had it with salad

Interesting LG&T followed the recipie temp 180 then put the merignue in and immediately lower to 120 then cook for an hour then turn it off and let it cool completely. What emp and length do you reckon?

TMAM fab news on the house do we get to see some pics?

I would drop the temp to 150 and leave it for an hour then turn it off.

If i have done meringues before i am sure i have put them in a mega low oven and left them for a couple of hours.

Will check a tried and tested later for you.

Arghhhh the snoooooooooooow, i am SO bored.

I may drive today I hate snow driving. Have crashed once and had a very near miss another time Dh is like "It's fine, lot's of people are driving" and i am all "Yes but you have never DRIVEN in the snow, you don't even DRIVE"

18 days I may vomit actually that would be a good thing, tried my dress on I think I may have consummed too much over the holiday season I have aquired a 4 month bump. UNless I am pregnant how hilarious would that be

Hows everyone have you all the big thaw we are all slushy now thanks god was going loopy being stuck in the village.

Good luck with the move TMAM.

It would be hilarious Jam, go on we need a pregnant May 07er. Congratulations for your sis. Are you slushy due to snow or being in love and getting married? I think you are being very restrained, we need details, what are the boys wearing in the end? What are your plans for the day? Is it still hush hush or have you let slip it is this month after all? Do you have a web cam so we can watch?

Ooh congratulations on the house TMAM. Goodluck with the move. DH is going mad with the snow as it is restricting his running.

Our schools/nurseries have been open all the time although we kept DD off last Tuesday.

LG&T what did you feed the crickets? Is DH off duty now?

PM bow down you your organisational skills.

AM the joys of a 4x4. At least this weather makes me feel justified in having one now Ooh meetup do we have a date (am ignorant of football timetabling)

MJB dance away, dance away.

Right today I am domestic goddess cinderella and goiing to do seventeen billion loads of washing. Ho hum, did not want laundry all over the house over Christmas so I have a back log. Off to get sorting and loading. See yas later.

Oh do you think I should have a word with my Mum we have a fraught crap difficult shit relationship. It is now appearing that whilst she had DD1 and DS the weekend H was born she had a word with DD1 "You won't get as much attention as new baby and you might be jealous" etc etc. I think with the right intentions but it seems to have really upset DD1 and she has been a bit off with us and was a bit quiet when she came back that weekend. She has been trotting out phrases about attention and jealousy and we did not know where she had got them from but it appears it may have been my Mother.

I am a bit fecked off with her as she did not even get to school play (due to weather which was not that bad that day) and did not visit or contact DCs over Christmas apart from coming for her lunch on Christmas day. Why do my DC have shit grandparents? One even lives next door for heavens sake and they beg to go and see them but they never volunteer you always have to ask them and then it always seems an inconvenience. DH just thinks I should write my Mum off or try to change her but I think old dog new tricks. I get let down every time and it upsets me, his skin is harder so he doesn't tend to get disappointed with his Dad but I do. I mean she didn't even come to see H until the evening the day after she was born, and then was bitchy about DHs sister not having visited yet. I despair. Sorry but feel better for having got it off my chest. Thank you.

Charle you just beat me to it with a parent rant. They are a spoilt generation that's what, being allowed to do their own thing whenever they want and don't have the same familial sense of duty and responsibilty as their parents did. My MIL has all three dc for the day. We are staying at a friends for the night. I asked mil to drop the kids there at 5, but friend isn't free til 5.30. Mil has just huffed and says the dc are at the end of their tether. I have told her just to bring them back to me and my boxes then, how bloody unhelpful.

And the truck is still stuck in the drive. We can't get out or in......

Please tell me she is not really dropping them off over 30 mins . I think you are right about the spoilt thing. I remember as a kid going to my Grandparents so Mum and Dad could have a dirty weekend some adult time. I also rember My widowed Nana coming to stay with us (she didn't drive).

My Mum can't be arsed to get off her backside and see DD in school play. I am still boiling over that one, I ended up[ going twice. Oh and FIL couldn't go as his fiancee was working, WTF? I have never relied on them for care DC go to nusery whist I am at work but FFS if I never asked for the small bit of babysitting I do they would never see the GC. FIL also thinks it is ok to pop round either just before meal times (ooh what are you having? I don't think I'll bother getting anything tonight or maybe a boiled egg cue us asking him to stop for tea) or when he is on his way out then we have to deal with 2 children who wonder why Grandpa can't play as he is going somewhere. It breaks my heart for the DC as they beg to go to GP and they don't give two hoots. It also rubs salt in the wounds that my Dad and MIL aren't here as they would be so different. They would be a pain in the arse wanting to see them so much and we would be shooing them away. Oh bloody hell sobbing now, pull yourself together woman, man up.

Yeah man up you lot, try living with them!!

I am joking, it's bloody hard work, they just don't seem to "get it". They'd be very quick to moan if they didn't get the opportunitys to be included I bet. Big MN Hugs to both of you.

Good luck with the move TMAM...

18 days Jam fuck a duck.... [excited]

Charley - its crap isn't it ? I very nearly resorted to physical violence with my mother on Boxing Day (how apt ?). She was a total nightmare . How are you apart from that ? How's H doing ? You sound a little bit down .....hope you're ok xx

Jam - I am officially a muppet. Sorry about the FB slip up. Anyhow - how are the plans for the big day ?

Good luck with the move TMAM - hope the lorry is out soon

I am struggling Blardy child never stops screaming I have a thread in Behaviour but not much response (woe is me, eh ?). I'm just exhausted I think so it all seems a bit much. I think I just need to man up

Tils can you you get a bit of a break sweetie? You do sound exhausted. A night out or even away? or just a few hours shopping to yourself, can make a big difference in the routine of routines.
I had a friend who's baby cried and cried and cried, when he was fed, watered, slept etc he still cried... she took him to see a cranio osteopath (sp) one that specialised in babies. Turned out that he'd unlined (or something like that) his neck/head during birth, after one session with the guy he was a different baby. Could it be pain? I haven't looked at your other thread so I may be way off line.

Is it worth talking to your Mum Charlie is she someone who will listen to how you are feeling?

Thanks y'all. The truck got out, half of the boxes are moved the rest remain til tomorrow. If it doesn't rain again.

Charley oh Charley, I sobbed when I read your reply. My MIL didn't come to the school plays either, I thought that was the whole bloody point of them moving here. The problem is my mother would have dropped everything to help out or watch the dc. I shouldn't complain really. Poor you, sometimes they need us to say, 'I need some help/you to come more regularly/you to come to the play' as they think we can cope so brilliantly without them.

I don't know how you do it MrsJB, honest I don't. I presume you have an extra large cupboard.

Holy crapy Jammy, only 18 days ? Finally you shall be a respectable woman.

Tills, poor you, it sounds like you are having a tough time with Ferg. I have been thinking about you a huge amount and the fact that he is so unsettled. Dd ate a lot and cried a lot at the beginning and it turned out she had a bad tummy infection. I'm not suggesting Ferg has a bad tummy infection, but it sounds like something may be upsetting his tummy. Have you tried cutting out all dairy from your diet for a week to see if it makes a difference? I also second the cranial osteopathy, we did it with J and it helped enormously with him. Have you mentioned to the HV that he is very unsettled? How is Tills with him? Big hugs to you.

Tills poor you. DOnt worry for a second thankfully I was neglecting the children doing some very important internet stuff. Saw it immediately and figured out how to delete it. I thrid the cranial Archie was a screamer and we took him although it didnt cure the screaming it did make him calmer. Can Mr Tilly take over for a couple of hours when he gets in so you can go lock yourself somewhere quiet?

Hurrah TMAM a lovely new house all of your own.

Charley & TMAM can only sympathise my inlaws are rubbish with the boys and my parents are not much better. Think you either confront her with it all and it could make it better or you keep quiet and just let it all out to DH or us.

Thanks all . I'm definitely going to look into cranial osteopathy. The birth was pretty difficult which I think can cause problems (he was back to back and after taking 36 hours to get to 5 cm dilated, I them went from 5-10 cm and him being born in 40 minutes ). Its no wonder he's a bit traumatised ! DH helps out when he can but Ferg feeds so often and I haven't had chance to express yet so I can't really get much of a break

Tills dd1 was a screamer and super unhappy She was such hard work. I knew it wasn't colic as everyone kept saying.

I took her to the Cranial Osteopath, she was balrdy fab. 3 times and dd was a different baby. Do it, it's worth the money.

Some of mine have been unsettled and difficult to comfort. With a baby you always want to pick them up and hold them but sometimes that is just not what they want. A bouncy chair or buggy put up in the house can be enough to calm them.Tightly wrap or no blanket, muslin over the head (yes really!) head on hand and tummy over arm position, sling, car seat being swayed. The list is endless and you just have to do whatever works for you at the time. It is such a short space of time this goes on.

Don't think you will give Ferg bad habits, he is too little for that. Tune out to all the 'you must's' and do what works for Ferg and you.

Sermon over, apologies for the rambling. It is bloody hard and brings you down. We are all with you.

You too PINK. I see you. Thank you for the pics of Lucas, he is so adorable

TMAM and CM what a farcking nightmare. I have the BEST MIL and FIL but as you know my parents are not great.

I find it sad to think that i am now at a point where i don't really care. I have very low expectations of them and their involvment with the dc. I reached my crisis point about 8-9 months ago. Not sure if it helped but reaching that decision is sort of a self preservation tool.

I had to do it depressing as it was.

I think you have to make it very clear what you want out of the relationship and stick with it.

Don't be swayed. Be firm. Hard i know. They know how to pull our heart strings, especially when it is upsetting our babies

Jammmmmmmmyyyyyyy!!!! OHMIFECKINGGOD. What do you have planned? We need details! Btw i think you are knocked up. I feel it.

Moibiffa back to dancing yet? Snow still melting in to treacherous ice Tis fun.

Stop falling aprt all of you! I need you to hold me together for court on Friday.

You lot are fab - thank you

Gin- can't believe you're having to go back to court

Tills any better?

TMAM is the truck out yet? Do you have an address? I need it please.

How is everyone else?

B and B fighting are driving me insane.

Truck is out, boxes are in, stuff everywhere, confused dc but we are getting there. I handily managed to pass Margaret onto the people who are taking our old house and we now have only Mary. Who is a joy.

However in the process, the baby rabbit kicked the bucket. He ate some unripe avocados that fell into his cage and carcked it Dd was devastated, then went riding and had a bad bad fall I have to see how her wrist is in the morning. Poor wee poppet.

I can't believe you have to do all that court business again, what a knobber. We will be here on Friday. No sane judge will be persuaded by his ridiculous words.

Keep on keeping on Tills, we are here for hand holding.

Excellent français MmeJB. I was replying to you when dd fell off her horse.

Oh no! A dead bunny and a sore dd Crap day in your house TMAM.

Buy a new bunny hopefully she will forget quickly. Hope her wrist is ok. Poor thing. Will she be frightened to ride again?

Thank you for the pic comments on FB

They are acrazy bunch. When i see pics of them it just looks like there are so MANY!