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!!

[SantasNutts]

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

Have sent you a friend request, Nutts.

A pleasure, m'dear!

ooh, lovely photos.

You look as if you had a great evening!

Wicked pics ladies....
Fei, have done same and felt same, but took iris and the dr told me what i already thought it was...id rather go and know then not and worry
AA - Rosy cheeks?? hm, have seen them on iris and she has been a bugger recently but cant see anything breaking...rosy cheeks = teething?? no fever and a grump....

answers on a postcard to

Kingbeat23
Had no sleep for ages street
dont care coz she lights my life town
asl 33p

The nightmare wasn't actually about him. It was about something that happened a long time ago. BUT, It was caused by the stress and my feelings on helplessness in the situation he's currently created.

Yep, rosy cheeks = teething. Coupled with grumpiness almost definitely teething. Sadly this can go on for months before they actually break through... but I can see the outline of O's top teeth now so fingers crossed the little buggers break through soon or I might emigrate.

This was my night last night:

Oscar to bed @ 7.15pm. Oscar wake up @ 9.40pm, 10.50pm, 11.30pm, 12.20am, 12.35am, 1.00am, 5.50am, up for day at 6.20am.

Argggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!

Fei, how is Hazel this morning?

And bebe - how are things with DH?

Poor you Bicnod fingers crossed it's teeth and it happens quickly. Or it's not and you get some sleep tonight.

Things are civil.
We were up very late last night sorting out more things. He faxed all the documents to respective people and will call them when he gets into work to see if that's 'good enough' or if he will also need to do it the proper way. If he does he's going to do it on his lunch hour.

Meg was up a lot last night too, paired with my late arrival to my soft bed and the beginning of my period I feel like someone's hit ME with a brick. I'm supposed to do my baking today, but unless I get some coffee I think I may need to post-phone the baking until I'm less likely to tumble into the oven or add dish washing liquid to the cookie dough than water. Sounds like Moo's up again.

Let the festivities commence!

Good moaning.

Happy belated birthday Gui. Hope you had lovely day.

Sorry to hear about people's losses. Very hard time of year for that to happen.

Bauble - love the summary of Friday night out. Apologies to everyone for not updating while we were out - my phone is nowhere near advanced enough.

Fei - fevers here too. Both went all glassy eyed and flushed just as I had got them all dressed up to take them out to a Carol service. So didn't go, and then spent the entire night administering Calpol and cuddles to one or other of them. Mysteriously both completely better now, but we are stuck in waiting for DDs christmas present to be delivered 'sometime between 9 and 5'. Grrrrrrrrr.

Bebe - don't know if it is any consolation, but on the desk right next to me as I type is a small pile of receipts / expenses stuff for a contract that DH finished in July.

To be fair to him, he is usually pretty good, but sometimes these things do slip.

Hello

It was lovely to meet up last week - I know what BB means about it being weird hearing people's voices, it makes people suddenly so 3 dimensional. Here are my meeting notes: everyone is very gorgeous indeed, Nutty is just as lovely, or perhaps even more, as you would expect on here, and it must happen again soon with even more fanjo warriors.

My sympathies to those going to funerals.

And to Bebe for having to take over admin duties! GRRRRR I feel for you.

WFH, can IKEA deliver the thing you need for your mother?

Belated Happy Birthday to Gui.

Happy Solstice to all of you! I am going to spend it close to home, doing a few little errands and keeping me and V nice and cosy, trying not to fall on my arse on the ice (again) and looking forward to seeing my family on Christmas eve. It is strange to feel this year slipping away from me - such a big year, and I feel so much better at the end of it than I did at the beginning, but even still there is just a little poignancy to saying good bye to the year of those magical tiny baby days.

Onwards and upwards! Keep warm and safe, all fanjo warriors.

Hello all! Thank you for all the birthday wishes. I had a nice, relaxing day, didn't do anything special. Went to SIL's for Sunday dinner (actually, having someone else cook for you is special enough), played with her cat and her DSCs, did a big jigsaw, family stylee with DH, SIL, BILs in front of open fire, so felt very Christmassy, which was lovely! I have my lovely new Babyhawk and a spiffy new Onbag, which is super-mahoosive. Also (how MN am I?) a butter dish!
If anyone happens to be strolling through a bookshop looking for a bit of trashy chick-lit to read, FIL got me this, which is DH's cousin's wife's (!!!) first novel. Can't tell you if it's any good yet, and don't know when I'll get to read it (haven't read a book in sooooooo long). I believe there may be rude bits.

Bebe - what a horrible situation to be in with your DH. The boy needs consequences. Is there any possibility of you taking full control of finances so that you give him an allowance, and he has to ask you for extra money if he needs it, so that he 'feels' the effects of not being in control (as you are now)? I have a friend whose DH has absolutely no concept of money, and this arrangement works for them, though she is the earner there, so a different dynamic. Does he acknowledge that he is rubbish with money? I know taking control is not what you want to do, you want him just to do it right in the first place, but it sounds like that ain't going to happen.

Bleurgh and a plate of s for teething/ temperatures/ bruises/ snot/ illnesses etc.

Today I would like to:
Finish icing Christmas cake
Mop floor
Start list of stuff to pack for visiting DPs (without list, much will be forgotten)
Read Xmas Delicious
Watch Heston's Christmas Feast on 4OD
Start on final 2 baskets
Hang out washing

not necessarily in that order!

ooohh god how rude am i!! thank you all for my lovely cards and lovely messages inside them!! xxx

i meant to say on friday!!!

i will do a thorough catch up soon, i'm just reveling in having my girlies back!!! and i have them both with me all day FOR 2 WEEKS (this will get a bit old and i will be wanting school to come quicker by the end of the 2 weeks but for now its bliss )!! and there is SNOW!!!!! Happy Days!

have fun xxx

Ooh, yes, forgot today is the solstice! Here's to the return of the sun!

Good morning all

Bicnod, what a horrible night you had. Poor you. Any ideas why he woke up so much?

Wriggly, glad your children are better this morning. Same here, after the Calpol H's temperature went right down to normal and stayed that way. Kept an eye on her through the night but she seems fine. Except for permanently cold hands and feet, as there's such a draft in our house

So Christmas is nearly here and I feel a bit scared of the long drive to Germany. It will be a hell of a long journey in the cold. Should I pack a thermos of hot tea and some blankets? Seems a bit mad in the 21st century.

Yay, the shortest day of the year. Things must get better now.

x posts here. Gui, when I was a teenager, I went to seek out all the rude bits in all my parents' books - and they had many many books

Of course you need a thermos of hot tea and some blankets Fei. Definitely!

Or if you are not a big tea drinker (I'm not) how about a thermos full of hot spiced apple juice?

I must pick your brains sometime. I've always fancied a driving holiday in Germany.

So exciting that it's going to start getting lighter. Apparently there is a Blue Moon this New Year too.

Nutty - have a lovely time with your girls. Bliss.

It's a bit odd reading the rude bits when the book is written by someone you know though.

Oh talking of rude bits - did anyone ever read Edwina Currie's bonkbusters? Uuuuurgh - there was a scene with a banana that ended up all bruised.

Yay - delivery arrived. Off out to Get Things Done.

Laters

xxx

I feel officially inadequate. You lot are gorgeous. I must never meet up with you in person. Looked like a great night though!

Puzzle, you asked me this ages ago but epilators pluck not cut. That's why they're so amazingly painful. I have to have a glass of wine before I do it! I like it because it's free (as opposed to £10 a time waxing) and the last time I waxed a huge strip of skin came off my knee. I still have the scar .

Bicnod, what a crappy night. In our house nights like that are always caused by the cold.

Hard times Bebe. I think what Gui said is good. Isn't it infuriating when you have to take control of everything?

Gui, that's some to do list. You clearly don't have time for MN. If I see you on here again today I will be cross .

I LOVE the rude bits in books. When I was a teenager I used to spend a lot of time in the library flicking through Mills and Boon hidden inside a sensible book .

Found out last night that my Dad fell and hit his head (possibly a bit pissed) on Thursday night, had 15 stitches and got kept in on a drip overnight because he lost so much blood. . I can't believe that as his only child and next of kin I didn't know about it!! To be fair I think he's mortified.

Isn't it funny how the tables turn and you end up being the responsible ones?

I will endeavour to scan for rude bits, and feed back!

Have watched Heston (tick) and made a bit of a list (tick). Best to do sitting down jobs first. Have added 'make cup of tea and eat fudge' (that's fudge, Nutty ) to list (in progress). May possibly do hanging out washing shortly, but I feel I should prioritise the reading of magazine over that. Mopping floor and icing cake may well both be postponed until DH gets home!

Zulu - hope you Dad is okay - wonder if he felt too foolish to call you at the time?

Fei - definitely Thermoses (Thermi?? ) of hot stuff, plus food and blankets. What if you break down and get stuck in a snow drift? Must plan ahead. Be prepared. Dib dib dib!

So the time sheets I did were accepted and with any luck we should have the money in the company account on Wednesday which means a week from today we should have money again.
He's also sorted out a computerized copy of the sheet that he can fill in and print and sign every Friday to turn in.

I decided to try baking any how and remembered everything in the pumpkin pie mix, but it's very runny for some reason. AND my crust/pastry seems to be having difficulties...it's not sticking together well.

In other news Moo's feeding herself cheerios And I'm all teary-eyed over it because I remember giving Cheerios to my youngest sister to eat and now my kid sister is 21 and getting married next years.... damn those period hormones....

Zulu- sounds like something Dad would 'forget' to mention to me too.

Did you use tinned pumpkin (can you even get that here?)? I imagine water content of pumpkins must vary a lot if you use 'actual' pumpkin.

I am adding to my list:
Must must must cut H's nails before I have another chunk gouged out of my breasts.
Make more fudge to use up pot of cream that has been left out of fridge.

fudge cream