May 2007 Is foundation really the cure for everything?

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Aaaaghhh im so annoyed and for once its not something Dh has done lol. Went to see my housing officer on Tuesday, had to pay rent anyway so thought I would kill two birds with one stone. He said he wanted to come out to do a home visit again this time with the Estate Manager and a building contractor (obviously to see how much work needs doing to make it liveable). It was arranged for today at 10am. I spent all of yesterday packing more bits so at 10pm last night once all the kids were fast asleep I set about doing the housework, making sure everything was tidy etc so that all I had to do this morning was hoover. At 10.30am I phoned him to see where he was, after making some excuse about a meeting he said they would all be round in 15min. An hour later we were still waiting so I called him again only to find out he wouldnt be coming afterall but wanted to rearrange it for tomorrow at 1.30pm. It feels as though ive wasted a day. On Tuesday he had also mentioned that we may get to view a couple of potential properties today so we had the IL's on standby so they wasted their day too. Bloody council

Nearly all the non-essential things have been packed now, leaving just the clothes and everyday bits left to do, all we need now is the house

Jam the official pics on facebook are gorgeous.

D is now officially walking. He's been doing about 8 steps but since the weekend he is walking everywhere, there is no stopping him. He has also learnt to climb up the ladder to E's bed, caught him at the top the other day , when i grabbed him he looked at me and laughed, the little shiteangel

How is the house of bug, LG&T?

Bug free

Well apart from poor ds3 who has a chest infection and been dx with asthma. I kind of knew that really. Poor lad 3rd day home but looking abit better today.

Am going to FB later to look at pics.

TMAM of course we are not going to miss you out! We will have another
Back soon

Oh no poor J. Hope he is feeling better soon xx
Yay for being bug free - AT LAST!!!!

Off to Center Parcs today and it looks like we are moving out the amount of stuff we are taking!

Hope you have a nice time at Centerparcs AM.

Sorry to hear about DS3 LG&T, hope he his better soon and yay for being bug free.

DD1 went skiing (sp?) this morning. They struggled to fit all the cases on the coach and some are in spare seats on the bus - one of them precariously placed behind DD1 - I was not amused. Since she has gone though I have found out they will not be spare seats on the way back as some 6th formers have not travelled out with them but are flying out on Sunday as another 6th former was killed in a car crash a week or so ago and it is her funeral this afternoon which they obviously wanted to go to. Very nice of the school for them to arrange this BUT where the hell are they going to put all the cases on the way back?

Good luck with the house Pebble x

Hello everyone else x

I am so pissed off!!!!

I had 3 men from the council come out today, we had been led to believe it was yet another way to speed things up for us.We were going to be shown a list of all the available properties and maybe view some. What a joke

They looked round the flat, agreed we are overcrowded and there's a few things to be done in order to fix the damp but that was it. We were then told that as we wanted a house in the local area it could be up to 5yrs so we said we would go farther afield if we had to, they then said that Waterlooville which is a fairly large town has only about 4 3bed council houses so it wouldnt help adding that to our list. In the end they managed to get it down to about an 18month wait if they pull a few strings. At the moment we are 17th on the list. Funny seeing as our housing officer told me last week that we could be moved any day now. I am soo angry and pissed off. My poor neighbour knocked the door just now to see how we got on and I jsut burst into tears.

WE cant stay here any longer, apart from the fact we've packed most of our stuff up because of our idiot H.O. getting our hopes up, none of us are sleeping properly, the kids are always ill with coughs and colds, and im just getting more and more fed up with it all. I think thats why Dh and I argue so much, lack of sleep and privacy. We all live in each others pockets 24/7, J is at an age he need a bit of peace and his own space to do homework but its just not possible unless he waits until the 3 younger ones are in bed but then its too late for him to concentrate. Its not fair on him and when we tell him to go in his room and shut the door to get a bit of privacy its not fair on E, it is his room too after all.

I had been really looking forward to today, it felt we were really moving forward now I feel its all been a waste of time. The council just seem to say what they think you want to hear to keep you off their backs and then backtrack when it suits them.

To make it worse I have no wine or chocolate in the house, the two things that always help calm me down

Oh no Pebble poor you x not the outcome you were hoping for x get some wine and chocolate tomorrow x

no it wasnt. Am just trying to look up all the laws relating to housing, overcrowding, unfit property etc so we know our rights, we are then going to get the HV involved and drs, get in touch with the main council offices in Portsmouth and then if that doesnt work we will go to the local MPs. Other people seem to get rehoused at the drop of a hat when they arent top priority so we will fight this. (shame there isnt an emoticon for 'determined' lol)

Pebble go to your GP and start getting him to write a letter on your behalf saying your flat is physically & mentally effecting you and your families wellbeing. Also get the kids schools onboard they too should be able to write leters for you explaining it's affecting the childrens education. Just start kickIng up a stink.

Spooky cross post.

Jam, I hadnt thought about the schools, will email J's tutor to explain the situation and see what she says. She is really nice so think she will do it.

Im feeling a bit calmer today, had my sister round this morning for a lovely cuppa and chat so that took my mind off of it. It actually felt good to relax and not be worrying about packing but then after she left the day just dragged. For the past week Ive not stopped but today there was nothing that needed doing and it was horrible (never thought Id say that lol)

Before our bad news yesterday I had been messing around with Dh, saying how odd it will be to be in a house, and I might get lonely being downstairs on my own when hes at work and the kids are asleep upstairs etc so he decided to rectify that problem and bought me a present...his name is Roger More, he's the perfect man, doesnt argue, doesnt hog the tv remote, doesnt moan or answer back, all I have to do if he annoys me is deflate him and put him back in his box lmao. I couldnt believe it when he came home from work with it. He walked into the room arm in arm with it, it was hilarious.He has now been dressed to protect his modesty and has pride of place in my bedroom, sat on a chest of drawers. He lookes quite cool in his jeans, tshirt and cap. We have to take him to MIL's tomorrow to introduce him to the family, SIL's orders .
Most people get flowers or chocolates for valentines, I get a blow up doll but then again that is Dh's sense of humour

Right well seeing as no one is posting I am asking about a period,pill oops mistake question.

ON my 7 day break from the pill last week only bled for 24 hours got a little carried away with DH and did our oh so successful not atall how A & L were conceived withdrawle method. Could I be, please no cant have any more babies yet, when should I test?

Jammy of course you are not pregnant

What day of your cycle are you on?

I have no idea how my cycle works, I know I know ridiculous at my age not to know how it all works. Was the 7day break of the pill so am assuming its all ok . Really must read up properly about cycles and periods.

uh oh.....could the bleed be implantation.....? if in doubt i would do a test now, then if thats negative then wait and see what happens.....

OOoh there could be another baby...

chances are you are ok but if it will give you peace of mind then test but bear in mind a negative may not be correct if you test too early. Also guess it depends how fertile you are as to how easily you could fall.

Test

Could this be the first pregnancy of 2010!!!!

I would think its too soon to test isnt it was only last wk?

The risque sex or the weird period was last week?

If it's the risque sex then no test yet if it's the weird period then not too early to test.

Test, test.

Just had HV come round to do D's 1yr check. He passed with flying colours but i knew he would. She asked about the bruises on his shins, kept going on about them but surely she could tell they were from where he is walking now, he cant help falling over, stupid woman. She also kept going on about A's speech which I think has improved greatly over the past few months. Ok she still doesnt speak as well as most 2.5yr olds but she is getting there. It didnt help that A is quite shy when it comes to talking to strangers, she tends to mumble which then makes it harder to understand her. I had hoped she would help with our move by writing to the council but she wasnt interested in that at all. She knows we are overcrowded and what a waste of time the council have been but she just wasnt bothered. The funny thing was she questioned who had weighed D last time as according to them he had lost 5oz and today he had put on 1Lb 7oz even though it was only a couple of weeks ago. She was going on about how they obviously didnt know what they were doing but it was her that Id seen at the clinic It made my day when i told her and she suddenly shut up

I was also expecting her to say something when i told her I didnt get the LO's vaccinated against Swine Flu but all she said was fair enough its a personal choice

Negative! Will test again in a couple of wks. Phew.

Pebble lol at your HV. What a muppet!

Jammy i am a bit tbh You must try harder next month! Hehe.

Dh duty. Wont see him till tomorrow eve. Am stuck in with the babies. All my friends are off for the half term hol. This sahm malarky is fecking boring when atm.

I feel like i am stuck in groundhog day.

Since coming off the pill (cerazette) i do feel like a black cloud has lifted though. It was terrible. Every day since i have felt a bit better. I didn't realise how bad it was making me feel, i assumed it was the bleeding every day that was bringing me down. Farcking hormones.

Just dunked a digestive in my tea and half fell off. Am gutted. Perfectly good cup of tea now has a wobbly disintegrating mess at the bottom.

I think it mught have ruined my morning.

Not that any of you care. Your all off having RL.

Don't you just hate it when that happens ?? Is DH back now ?

Nothing exciting here - just boring myself and everyone else by moaning and complaining, so thought I'd stay away for a bit. One of the first posts on here was "poor Tils it'll be over soon" referring to end of pregnancy .... and I haven't stopped whinging since Hell, now I'm even whinging about whinging

How is everyone else ? Survived half term in one piece ?

Jam - has your mum come round yet ?

Tils you are supposed to moan and whinge on here < see biscuit post above >

That is why we are here How nis the little tubber? You never saw Tilda (soh) and J (TMAM) did you? Honestly those looked like they had eaten all the other babies. They were the most scrumpcious. I could have nom nommed their cheeks all day. I see Fergus as like that.

Found a pic of B and Tilda in the bath the other day, must post it for a bit. They were so cute.

Hold on to that baby stage, it fies too fast. I know it feels rubbish sometimes but it will all be easier soon.

I have just cleaned the bins, kitchen floor, microwave , hoovered and bleached all those annoying stains that appear on the work surfaces from too many dropped tea bags.

I feel justified in sitting on my arse all day now

DH was only duty for a night. I was just being pathetic.I know it sounds bonkers but i find 2 babies quite hard work when they are on their own. There is no one to occupy them. Just me. They are clearly bored of my attempts at engaging them