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

Fei - LOL K has learnt to dismantle ours now, he takes away the candles, then the pictures one by one, then take each piece of coal out and puts it on the carpet, then takes out the tray and then pull the front down and then looks round at me as if to say - look at me mummy, aren't I clever!!!

Anyone else got clingy baby syndrome at the moment? K constantly needs to be held and fed!! grrr xx

Ladies, in my experience, without fault - and I've known many drummers - they have all been imnsho arseholes including Roxy Petrucci from Vixen. Empirical evidence suggests that this is the case for the vast majority of drummers, plus your first to arrive and last to leave at both rehearsals and gigs. No drummers girlfriends EVER want to help carry the kit.

Nothing against drummers per se just in general

LifeLongLoathingOfDrummersShe'sMetTiggaxx

Moo's being clingy,but I fear it's the jetlag with us.

My BIL is a drummer and he's a sweetie.

God I managed. All I want for X-mas is a set of attic stairs.

i wouldnt mind being a drummer tbh, always wanted to be like animal

i wouldnt mind a lead singer (crooning softly in my ear ) or a guitarist (have you seen how they stroke those strings!!!! mmmm yum yum)

Yeah Animal! One of DDs favourite things in the world.

BB yes S is unusually clingy. I think he is sleep deprived due to teething and his poor little arse is baboon red with nappy rash. Not his sunny little self and only happy if being carried around on my hip and allowed to chew on my clothes. Makes it very tricky to get anything done.

Wriggly get yourself to asda lady!!! they have animal t-shirts/ jammas loadsa stuff and in next too xx

I never knew how funny dadsnet is

That youtube clip is hilarious Wriggly!

Ginger, I have known them for years and years, and many of them are indeed educated, but you wouldn't know from the way some of them carry on. And they can be dead dull to boot, and terribly bitchy. Trust me on this.

Helloooooo all.
Ginger, nice to hear from you, hope V is better. Must have been worrying.
Your skype idea is not trite, it is a good one, but I am so sad that I have no mates I can really do that with. All of my close friends are in the middle of the blimming Indian Ocean, as I lived there from age 21 to 31, and the time difference makes conversation tricky. Part of the problem, I think, is that here I only really know other women who have young kids, and none of them is very free of an evening to chat on the phone/come round for a drink or whatever.
DH got in at midnight last night, and has already rung to say he'll be late tonight. The chinese restaurant below his office is making a fortune out of him.

Nutty, hope your DD is OK. Girls are indeed bitches. I went to an all-girls school and can testify to that. But they do seem to be starting a bit young, this lot.

Is garland/tinsel on a tree an absolute necessity?I've just finished decorating and I forgot dh likes it on the tree...

I heart Kirsty.

And yes tinsel is most definately required.

AgreesTreesShouldBeTasteFreeZonesTiggaxx

How does one add it after the fact?

BeBe you cant, after lights but not after baubles. I am afraid you will have to start again!

Wriggly I wouldnt mind as much, tis just that my milk supply had kind of settled down with the mixed feeding (me morning and night, bottle mid-morning and afternoon) but now it is all over the place again and I am out all day tomorrow so will be full to burst by the end of the day.

My best friend is coming home from New York tomorrow for a long weekend and I cannot wait. Having kids changes your life. It doesn't give you time to dwell on things too much - that is I hadn't realised how much I enjoyed her company - but I seriously cannot wait to see her tomorrow. woo and hoo.

Nutt's how is my little bogey tonight?

Trees, we have a giant 7ft articficial one in the dinig room that is christmas-tastic, lights, tinsel, baubles and chocolates all red and gold and sparkly and then we have a smaller 4ft real tree in the living room with those little tiny posh lights that don't actually look like lights and brown and gold-ey baubles... that K likes to ping off like a cat!

Bebe - no tinsel on the tree tis christmas tree blasphemy!!!!

BB - yay for new yorker visit!! Bogey is ok tonight still quite down though and not herself she was really quiet on the way home but she said that they wanted to be friends again this afternoon. i'm not really sure what to do, she promised to tell me if anything made her feel uncomfortable but it doesnt stop me worrying, bring on crimble hols so i get her all to myself only to share with nice people, i hate seeing her like this she just doesnt do quiet or sad.

awwwww bless lil KaraCat your trees sound lush, how are you dealing with the real tree shedding? xxx

Morning,

Am now officially fed up of being woken up.

Took me nearly 8 months but I'm there.

BahHumbugTiggaxx

I too am so tired this morning.
After a relatively good night previous, last night again was racked with continuous arousals(and NOT the good kind as dh is far away and the delivery men don't stay after 9 ) .
Mommy needs some sleep before she flips out again.

Oh dear - commiserations on crap nights. S did a beautiful 10 hour stretch. I am feeling stupidly grateful to him this morning. (Still had to do a nappy change at 5am, but never mind).

Auld - I can totally empathise. DH was almost never home for 2 years. At the moment he is working in London which is bliss but only up until Christmas and we don't know what will be in store in the new year. I have no idea what my neighbourhood even looks like after dark as I am never out after 5pm.

Morning. Bebe no no no, don't put tinsel on, tinsel is horrible. I see everyone else disagrees but Christmas was invented in Germany so my opinion counts triple

Bah humbug indeed for bad nights.

I am going out for a Christmas dinner tonight, yay!

no tinsel here

baubles and lights only.

Our house is a tinsel-free zone too.