April 2009 - Episode 10 - Christmas time!! we can all drink wine, while children gurgle nursery rhymes, with logs in their nappies, and pee by the tree fun will be had by baby and me!!

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here we go then Merry Christmas One and all!! xxxxx

Oooooooooooooh Fei - have a great time!

Holdups? Naughty girl.

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Silly computer.

WFH, I'll check that legal typology out with DH then before I do him in.

A major event has now occurred; he has got 2 weeks off over Christmas!!!!!!! It's holiday time that was due him, but it's still very good news and I am astonished Bastard Boss said yes. He will in fact have more holidays than me, as we have to teach up to and including Dec 22nd . Like there'll be many students around then. .

Fei, have a lovely night.

bebe, have you really not got a tree?
I am torn between thinking tinsel is naff and trying to relive the distinctive smell of the tinsel we had when I was a kid.

I am even more about missing the night out now that I know it involves (if only for a select few) the possibility of a night in a posh hotel with a spa.

A is sleeping really, really badly. I don't know if it is his teeth (no signs of anything imminent though, I think he's going to cut his first one very late) or a cold or separation anxiety or all three or something else, but it is killing me. I have got to bed at 1am the last 2 nights, and been woken up twice between then and 6am.

Back to work...

Oh Auld - fingers crossed for a good nights sleep for you. It probably is teeth. I think they hurt more before they are really visible.

Very about your DHs time off. My DH was supposed to be finishing early for Christmas but told me yesterday that he is working right up to it now. Including this Saturday, which is his birthday. I'd invited all his family round for cake in the afternoon so now I've had to ask them round for dinner instead. Which means I have to cook something. Plus DH has booked someone in to come and make bookshelves on Saturday, so the house will be a shambles and inch thick with dust and footprints.

(My MIL is the type to run her finger over the top of picture frames to inspect the dust levels and think ill of her DIL for slatternly housekeeping)

Grumble, grumble, grumble.

Auld and any other BA spotters out there, BA is on the butchers thread dropping 'veal' and 'underlings' into conversation in shamelessly un PC style.

%^$&£@(££ !!!!! I got to bed late and OF COURSE Hazel has a snotty nose and therefore woke me up at 2am, 2.30am, 4.30am, 5.30am... then DH's alarm went at 6.20... AAAAAAARGH. Get me out of here.

Aaaw Fei.

Did you have a good night out though? (and did those hold-ups hold up?)

Sounds like a rubbish night Feiera. How was your night out though? I suspect not worth the way you feel now.. Colds here too. I gave up at midnight and went and slept with BW in the spare room. My boobs are utterly deflated from extra feeding. He did a comedy sneeze this morning though that shot out 2 long, green fingers of snot .

Get well poorly babies and sleep well tired mums.

Hello everyone,

Sorry to hear about bad sleeping. Has anyone been on the "sleeping through at 6 months" thread and what do you think?

Auld - hope this means you get a chance to relax over Christmas!

Wriggly - my DP's birthday is on Tuesday - he is practically impossible to buy presents for and somehow at this time of the year it takes me by surprise every time that I have to do it twice! Four times, now, counting the ones from V. But she has very little pocket money and can't carry big things so she gives him things that are pretty small. Good luck for tomorrow.

Fei - yes please - more about your night out!

Everyone - don't hate me - we had a BRILLIANT night here last night. It may never happen again so I am just going to enjoy feeling so rested today. Thank you, sleep gods! It is pretty much a year since I last slept like this - I started the serious insomnia about this time last year even with no babies to wake me.

Have a good day everyone

Further BA spotting - 'tis brilliant! Auld, if you are my secret Santa, I hope you have wrapped my gift in a Provencal supermarket bag for life!

Auld you are not to do ANYTHING over Xmas if your DH is off - let him run himself ragged. If you're working and he isn't he can take over all the household things that you do whilst he's off can't he?

Robin has my birthday off which is nice and will be working at home every day except one day when he has to go and beat up move some servers.

Wriggly If you have a slow cooker I have some pretty gorgeous recipes that work well for dinner parties - saves you slaving over a hot stove. Lamb and 40 cloves of garlic is particularly yum! The 24 hour lamb is dead good if you want to look flash - 'I'm glad you are enjoying it, it takes 24 hours to cook'

ProudToBeASlummyMummyTiggaxx

All why are you stalking BA?????

Can'tStandNotKnowingTiggaxx

Ok - I give in - I can't catch up... tooooooooooooooooooo many posts. clean slate I'm starting again from here:

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Phew.

Fei - you went out - that's exciting I'm going out on Monday and Friday (obviously) next week and can't wait.

We took O to A&E last night. He didn't really need to go to A&E but the on call doctor didn't answer the phone and his croupy cough was getting worse and he was struggling to breathe so we needed to talk to someone. So we were there until 01.30 - they checked his chest (which is what I was really worried about) and said it was fine. Took him to the GP this morning and they think it's an ear infection poor monkey - it's on and on with all these colds and viruses.

On the up side, we're getting our christmas tree tomorrow

Tigga I have no idea.

But Gui that was an excellent BA spot.

Bauble sorry about O's ear infection. Poor boy.

Tree for us on Sunday after b'day festivities.

Oh Bicnod, I hate A&E trips but then it's always better to get things checked out properly and struggling to breathe is not good. Has he got ABs again for his ear infection then?

I feel approximately as tired as I did when H was a newborn today, maybe having red wine didn't help and no, the tiredness was NOT worth the night out although we did have a lot of fun. Went with my NCT girls - there's 6 of us - and we had dinner in the pub at the end of my road. Very convenient. Didn't have to walk far so the holdups did stay up! We still giggle about our birth stories from nearly 3 years ago, how sad are we?

I'm going to a Christmas do on Saturday and don't want to go because everyone going knows everyone else and I don't like people very much.

WillStayTill2230AndIsThenBailingBigTimeTiggaxx

I went for lunch with my NCT group on Weds. It has to be lunch with babies, not dinner without, due to at least one velcro baby (Hugo, of course) and one with a very set routine so her Mum can't make it for dinner at a reasonable hour. We had a lovely time, though with 7 babies in high chairs the table was fairly crowded and we soon emptied our part of the restaurant! Most of the babies enjoyed trying some pizza and garlic bread, and H impressed one and all with his appetite. He ate all of the sauce from my lasagne, leaving me with the pasta sheets! Got in trouble with DH on return home for walking home with H the quick way (15 minutes across the rec and railway bridge) rather than the well-lit main road way (probably 40 minutes, esp if avoiding all shortcuts)

Tig - we are stalking BA because she is fascinating. Puzzle fancies her.

Hello hello

Am still cogitating about the 18th - will keep you posted! Thanks for hotel info Feier, very useful.

I went out for a drink or two last night with a friend. Had a fab time, but feel a little delicate today Got home to find Orbit fast asleep on Daddy having refused lovingly expressed milk. He woke up about midnight and drank the bottle, but then wouldn't settle, so eventually I fed him at 1am He is a monkey. After Christmas I have sworn I will take this night time feeding in hand - just not right now....

Bicnod sorry to hear about O's ear infection - if it's not one thing it's another, isn't it!? I'm hoping Orbit hasn't caught chicken pox, one of the little girls we saw recently has come down with it and he has a couple of suspicious spots. I think DS1 caught it about this age but had a really mild case, cause he then had it again aged two.

Tigga I would love your lamb recipes! Could you post them on the FB site? or on MN Recipes?

DP is taking his employees out on their Christmas do tonight. Given that there's only six of them, and two of them get on so badly that it's nearly come to blows recently, it should be interesting. I am not expecting him home any time before 3am.

Then tomorrow we are going on the Santa train - I told DS1 we were going on a special train tomorrow with a surprise, and he said very grumpily 'Just tell me what it is now please'. Old before his time, that one.

My Secret Santa parcel has come, yay!
When are we all opening them?

Oh Tigga - I didn't mean to diss your lamb recipes but I don't have a slow cooker. Have actually decided to do roast leg of lamb delia style (stuffed with garlic & rosenary) even though I am a lifelong vegetarian myself. But DH loves it. . Oh and once it is in the oven I can leave my guests plied with plenty of booze and nibbles while I sort out bath and bedtime for the kids. Hopefully they will be a bit pissed by the time I serve up and not notice that veggies have no idea how to cook lamb...

Now should I do roast or dauphinoise potatoes. I prefer the latter but no idea if they would actually go with roast lamb? I don't want to have to ask my MIL.

Wriggly dauphinoise potatoes go with ANYTHING! If your MIL doesn't eat them, can I have them?

Haven't posted Secret Santa present yet Have huge pile of parcels to send (I have 10 nieces and nephews) but am not going to go on a Saturday before Christmas, so it will go Monday morning.

Dauphinoise potatoes are in fact ambrosia and will go with anything

No worries Wriggles am no hurt, honest.

WandersOffToFBToFindPeopleWhoActuallyWantHerSobSmallPatheticSobTiggaxx

Lovely - dauphinoise it is then. I'll send her round to you if she suggests roast would have been better. Would have only been setting myself up to fail as everyone seems to prefer them in goose fat which I wouldn't use. I'm doing roast sweet potato, parsnips and carrots anyway and cavolo nero lightly stir fryed with shallots and nutmeg.

Mmmmmm...dauphinoise. Yummy. Anchovies in with the garlic in the lamb. Om nom nom. Goodness I'm hungry.

I am opening my secret santa prior to The Day because I won't be online for Chrimble and also don't want to open it at my Olds' as it is a FW pressie after all and may therefore contain double-ended dildo or some such!

Would anyone like this nursing vest? Friend brought it over from US for me, but is too small. It's in turquoise, and I think it's large (though not large enough, obviously).

Also, I'm giving up on the Storchenwiege ring. Tried it at the weekend again and managed to get over the neck/ shoulder issues, but still makes my lower back ache, so not right for me. It's in Leo Turkis, and I got it from the Babywearing Swap Group so I'm afraid no washing baggy or instruction leaflet!