August 08 - We three kings of orient are, one in a taxi one in a car..

[steaknife]

...one on a scooter beeping his hooter, smoking a fat cigar

Apologies to the goodly and the good amongst us.

see oops - I knew you'd have my back

Crave maternity are having a sale at the moment btw, up to 70% off

Well he is supposed to be coming in February, so I'll just leave things as they are for now and try to sort things out a bit then.

I have peoples arriving in a mo, so catch up with you later.

Thanks for your encouragement and ranting.

we're playing Russian Roulette here with the Roses as I've lost the sodding bit that tells you what they all are - we're normally quality street people in this house but thought we'd go wild this Christmas and bought a box of Roses aswell instead

anyone know their chocs and can help me avoid all nuts and coconut please?!?!

btw, I got a lovely big bunch of flowers and some cards from the girls for our 5th university think DD1 got a bit muddled up bless her!

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Dizzy - Dh gave me some lovely maternity stuff for christmas and today he indulged me and bought me a pair of maternity leggings - I am the most comfy I have been in ages. They also look fab with my new boots and long dress tops - I think my hauuby might have maternity fashion sense I need some stuff for Oz so will pop over to crave to shop browse.

steaky - you just need to leave things FULL STOP - it is NOT up to you to sort him out anymore. His choice, his loss and Izzy will want for nothing because of you. Let him visit and see how he gets on from there.

Have a nice night though

Yes Miss Dizz

well done darling, you're doing great and don't you forget it

now ladies, am off to spend the night with my DH eating chocs (don't tell Sazz) and watching a film, have the troops arriving tomorrow and the house is a complete state so I may not be on in the morning !!!

oh and thanks for the Roses list night all

Dizzy Happy Anniversary. You two make a wonderful couple and I laughed out loud at your proposal story.

BTW all should be happy if they have a proposal story. I don't have one. DH never asked me to marry him. In my presence he told his parents if we ever married it would be in Vegas. By the next week I had our vacation to Vegas booked. That about sums it up.

Oops your DH is totally awesome to help you be comfy. He must want many many children.

Steaky you have done a lot to make sure all is as it should be between Isabelle and DH. He's playing the pitiful card which he's probably played his whole life. Just ignore and move forward. He'll either catch up or be left sitting in his own pitypoop.

We just spent 4 hours in the car driving around the country. Goodness riding wears me out.

TS why 4 hours driving around?

Steaky you have done more than enough, and it is such a shame that he can't put in a little effort for his dd. As I said, some men are tools. Dneice's dad has claimed recently, that if he has his dd to stay more frequently (ie. every other weekend, or once a month instead of once every 3 months) then he will have to reduce the amount of maintenance he pays to my dsis . Fucking fucking tool

Still feeling shite here, full of crud and sneezes. Have just poured myself a medicinal wine

Happy Anniversary mrandmrsdizzy

Meeehhh (Larry David noise) I think that's fine with Himself but I would be inclined to give the PILs one more chance in case they are just not getting it. I know you don't have to but they may just be trying to be polite, sensitive, just thick etc rather than unfeeling. And they potentially they could be useful facilitators/intermediaries for future reference if things turn sour. Could you Skype them? Can you tell them you'd love them to talk to her even just once a month, put it in the calendar kindathing, because you can't chase them or himself to have this relationship. Just spell it out for them it's their one last chance. And could they make some home videos to send over for her to watch as she grows up? To show the family and area, some French kiddy shows, I dunno.

Hi TS - No this is his very last child unless he finds another woman who does pregnancy better or he gets that little snippy procedure he is booked for in June reversed!

I don't have a romantic proposal story either. DH and I were walking down The Strand in London and looked in a jewellers window, I made some comment about the type of ring I liked (not a hint, we had only been together 6 weeks) So he dropped to one knee in the middle of the street and asked me to marry him - I said yes and the next weekend he drove back to where I was living from London at 4 in the morning and brought me a ring he stayed 20mins and went back to work for 8.30am It did make my tonsillitis much better. We planned and cancelled weddings twice due to family interference then we gve them all a weeks notice that we were getting married and they weren't involved at all.

I am watching jermery clarkson and his pals in Bolivia.

Catch you all later.

Wotcha all.

A nice evening, but as one friend was driving and the other not drinking much, not quite as loud and leary as I hoped. And I felt I had to watch what I drank. Both have LOs with SN so much SN chat, which isn't really a mood lightener.

I making dinner for my tattoo artiste mate and her DH tomorrow or night after, should be the right amount of wine carnage that I am looking for. [hgrin]

Can I leave the DH thing at he is not bad just a bit crap. Hopefully some of the things I said today will filter through in due course and he will see the benefit.

I've already started convo with the PILs but they haven't installed skype so I am still waiting. I don't know what has been said between himself and them, I can imagine that he has been under unspoken pressure from them that he might have reacted against. Whatever, will just have to wait and see what happens. [I've had gin and feeling philosphical emoticon]

oops that is a lovely story - apart from interfering families.

Hurrah, Mum and i recovered in style trouncing the boys at Canasta tonight . We I also finally dug the drive out of sheet ice this afternoon only to discover we are to be deluged in snow tomorrow night

steaky sounds like you have a good measure of DH and unfortunately have done all you can. He (and PIL's) will come round in time i'm sure. Hope you get suitably drunk tomorrow

. Off to bed now and hopefully DD1 will not come in and do an impression of a restless spider all night as we experienced last night

Glad to report Dad seems very much back to his old self and managed a little walk up the road today with the girls. very chuffed

Night
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Sazzles your afternoon/evening sounds lovely and the fact that your dad is on the ups...ACES!

I've figured out why I "think" ya'll get lots of snow (which, by the way, you've had ample amounts of since I've known you). It's all because of Bridget Jones. Anyone for Turkey Curry?

Captain we just started driving randomly. We went from home (Soddy Daisy, Tennessee) to downtown (Chattanooga, Tennessee) then to look at that car DH doesn't really want(Ringgold, Georgia) then to my dad's (Ooltewah, Tennessee) to pull a McGyvor in order to recover his house key I lost between his porch crossbeams, then over to the neighborhood directly across the lake from us (Harrison, Tennessee) to see our house from a distance, and finally home but the lllooonnnngggg way which actually gave me a little motion sickness because it's along a twisty windy hilly road (and I was famished). Pardon the specifics but I thought if you were bored you might map them.

At the moment I'm trying to get all the Christmas decor put away. This is hard to do when I am sitting at the laptop reading and typing. Priorities.

Oops how is it not romantic for a man to drop on his knee at random and ask for your hand???

ye gods i'm shattered .....

was shattered all day and went to bed at 10 asleep by 11.. dh woke me up at 1.20am getting into bed [fangry[.. dd1 came into my bed at 1.30am and moan, kicked and punched me all night (she has a horrific cold) and then dd2 was awake at 6am singing, chatting (ever so sweet but not at 6am!)...

me and dh are in this vicious cirle of me getting up with the girls at the crack of dawn so having to go to bed early and then he bloomin well stays up til stupid o'clock so has had feck all sleep when the do wake up!!!! NOT A HAPPY BUNNY!!!

Good news on your dad sazz...

good luck with the troops dizzy...

sorry about your cold cc, hope the wine helped ...

not much to add steaky but your "d"h is an arse and you are a fantantic mummy so just remember that {{hugs}}...

sounds like a lovely drive ts and inpressed that the decorations are on their way out!!!

Morning LOTI

my tree will be on its way out tomorrow too TS but only because its now more of a twig - otherwise it would be here into the new year

morning all else, we watched the Hangover last night, not particularly high brow but V funny and reminded us of when we were in Vegas - although I hasten to add we didn't steal a police car, marry a hooker or find a tiger in the bathroon worth a watch if you're not wanting anything intellectual!

can't keep my eyes open this morning so thought I'd hop on to check the weather report and ended up here

have a good day everyone

Sazz most pleased about your dad - great news in deed

pil gone, was actually really nice having them here but going to bed late (because we were playing this) and getting up at 4am has marked its toil

off to catch up...

LOL TS we actually did have turkey curry last night

LOTI so sorry you are lacking sleep and caught in a circle with DH. He has to do early duty one daym but not sure how you engineer that one

We have had incredible sleep from DD2, 2hrs in the day and 13.5hrs at night . DD1 has also been a nightmare overtired today so i think the excitement has caught up with them. One thing which is definitely working is turning the heating down low and leaving on overnight

Oh and DD1 is apparently coming to America TS, so if you could pick her up when she arrives (goodness knows where!) and keep her for a couple of years-- i would be very grateful

Hello everyone,

DD has been bright and awake (with brief dozes) for several hours yesterday morning and today.

Today, at the end of my cup of coffee, which I was enjoying with a "no longer pregnant so I can enjoy a nice coffee" feeling, I realised that there may be some correlation between my caffeine intake and the levels of sleepiness in my daughter. Botheration.

Mum left today which is really sad, she has cleaned my kitchen to within an inch of it's life, filled the freezer with nutritious home cooked food and promised to be back soon.

DS doing OK. Strapping him into the buggy has been working fine, a very brief complaint and then he is OK. Wearing DD in a sling is also going better as at a couple of weeks old she is just that little bit less fragile.

DH working tomorrow so I will spend the day with my ILs. Not sure what we will do, but hopefully something familiar for DS. It's interesting. Yesterday we went out to DH's club (a place a bit out of the city with grass, swings and a swimming pool). DH and I both thought that DS would have a whale of a time running around and exploring (nice and safe and clean for this, and he has been inside much more than normal since DD came along). Instead he stayed really close to us all, was a bit clingy and cuddley (this is a change since DD was born, he never used to like being cuddled) and although he had an OK time, I think, it is not quite what we expected. I think that sticking to very familiar places and routines for the coming weeks will be the best. Lots of changes.

Not quite sure when I will feel confident enough to look after both monsters on my own for a day ... but well, having my ILs around tomorrow will be a big help, and I'm sure that I'll slowly work things out.

DH shattered.

Greetings to everyone.

Feeling slightly less ill here but still full of it . O is still poorly too, same as me plus he has conjunctivitis.

lwfh you sound remarkably organised for a lady with a newborn . Is it all flooding back to you?

Sazzles no worries. MidiSazzles will be properly cared for during her stay. All SurferSisters are thrilled and patiently waiting her arrival. If you don't mind allowing her to stay until end of May, we will be returning to our beach home. You and MrSazzles and MiniSazzles are welcome to join again.

LWFH you've got it sooooooooo nice. I was back to managing 2 alone by day 6 (and that was even after my CS). You live the posh life!!

Pizza, Munchkins and a Playdate Friend today. All is well here.