October 08 - New Year, New Thread.

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10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - 50ft - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

pistachio - we can get out. I think we're the only ones in the area, though! everyone seems so frightened to venture out. Neighbours came out of their houses and watched me as I scraped off my car to go to tesco and to the GP today I learned to drive in much more snow and took my test in the snow as well (in america), so I'm fine with it.

I do get out and get a little break but I just want some time at home alone with Q

Bloody hell pepper. What a nightmare. Is this all part of one of those monthly package deals with British Gas? Sounds like terrible service. My sister's boiler also packed in at the beginning of the week and they had a completely new one fitted and working by yesterday (not by B G). I hope it's all sorted for you tomorrow.

S doesn't seem to like clementines. I keep trying him with them but he just lets them drop out of his mouth in disgust.

We still have snow pepper - hasn't gone down, and got a small top up today. The roads by us don't get gritted because they are just country tracks really, and I had to brake coming down a hill a couple of mins from home this morning when I met another car coming up it. Brakes didn't work on snow/ice (prob not helped by dh informing me later that we really need to replace 2 of my tires ) and I went into a big skid - thought there was no way I was going to avoid a big accident, tried to drive into skid and up bank to slow me down - other car realised what was happening and reversed a few feet just in time as I ground to a halt maybe an inch from where she had been! I gave her a big thumbs up and smile and reversed back up the hill to let her past - phew! Took that hill very slowly the next time!

star - try 2 years at home every day with your dh... .

CSWS how scary! were the kids shaken up or blissfully unaware?

Only ds with me, who was blissfully unaware.

That sounds terrifying CSWS!

We've got some old snow. The roads are clear, but the pavements are really icy and treacherous. We went out this afternoon and, even though it wasn't very far, I had to drive rather than walk because it seemed preferable to skidding into the road with the buggy which is what I nearly did this morning.

CSWS - how scary, I'm glad you are both ok. I think you were really brave to go out at all, though given your location I suppose you don't really have much choice. Unlike Star, I'm not really a winter driver at all. Dh having grown up in Calgary is not fazed by this snow at all. He doesn't really understand why I don't drive when its snowy (though he has admitted that in this kind of snowfall I'm probably being sensible)

I took the kids in the sledge into town today to go to the supermarket. Nothing wrong with that, except that manhandling two toddlers, a heavy shopping bag and a sledge from the supermarket to get out of the shopping centre to the snowy pavement where I could put them back in the sledge was rather challenging, even though its not exactly far.... However, the kids enjoyed it.

I was shocked at the lack of things on the shelves in the supermarket - almost no potatoes and lots of other shelves empty too. Luckily we managed to get some more red Oatly for Matthew but even it was running low.

my work is rationing food now (i work for tesco) only 3 loaves and 12pts of milk per customer. seriously the place is empty of food, you would think there was a famine coming!

isn't this meant to last a couple of weeks? Why all the panic? It's not like there's a killer tornado coming and we all have to hide away with food in bunkers underground... Why are supermarkets rationing food? Or is it because people are panic buying? Well, should be good for the economy - everyone buying in such bulk

ARGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! I am soooo fed up with the bloody snow. I wish it would BUGGER OFF now. It is such a disruption to our lives as this country is so rubbish. I am also totally fed up with M's screaming when she doesn't get her own way, especially as what she wants to do at the moment is climb on things, bang her head on things or eat all her brother's food. She won't stop. I have no idea how to stop it as ignoring her makes it worse. Rant rant rant..... I am also fed-up with never having any time for myself. I just want to go for a wander round the shops, have a lovely coffee and relax without being a slave to children..... just for one afternoon. But that's too much to ask apparently. DH says I can go on my own on the bus but there's no way he's going to the shops. Thanks mate, I'll remember that next time you want to go out drinking with your friends.

And relax.....

Right off to catch up on news.

Oh Pepper - I can't imagine how grumpy and fed-up you must be by now. I can't believe that BG would leave you and your three children without heating or hot water. It's totally unacceptable. on you behalf.

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oh 50ft So sorry to hear you're down. Did you want dh to go with you to the shops and coffee? Or will he not babysit while you go? Getting out for a bit on your own even if just an hour or two really does help. I do it every saturday (meet a friend for lunch, coffee or something - while Q naps)

Thank you ladies. I get far more sympathy and understand fro you than I do from DH. He just tries to make out that he's hard done by too. Ok, he lets me have the odd lie-in but I'd like to see him cope on 15 months of broken nights and without having anytime for himself.

Star - Alas I have lost touch with most of my local friends as I gave up work almost two years ago and all my childhood mates went to Uni and stayed there! So, I don't have a good friend that I can just pop out for coffee with. I see a couple of MNers occasionally on a Monday afternoon but that's always with M in tow. I enjoy spending time with DH away from the DC but not at the moment as he is annoying the hell out of me because he's being all pathetic and sulky about God knows what.

Pistachio - I shut M out of the living room this morning, just for a minute (I timed it) as she was screaming so much. I would ignore it but, to give you an idea yesterday she screamed near my ear and actually temporarily deafened me in one ear. It took almost a minute for my hearing to come back.

I'll swap H's any time you like 50ft. Mine is a fucking twat. He's just had a paddy and kicked the brand new kitchen bin and put a dent in it .

My ds is much the same at the moment too pistachio. Very hard work. And very difficult to prepare a proper cooked meal with him in my arms. And of course like your ds he is very very heavy.

Dh was moaning about having to do all the cooking at the moment but I pointed out to him that if I did I have M round my feet wanting to be picked up and DS jumping around saying "mummy mummy mummy mummy mummy mummy mummy......". So, I entertain the dc and he cooks. It's not as if he's actually been doing any work, what with the snow 'n all. I don't think I would ever eat a proper meal if DH wasn't here. M comes to the toilet with me (or screams her lungs out at the bottom of the stairs if I go upstairs) and she often sits on my lap. She too is full on at the moment. However...... she now refuses to sleep in our bed! She asks to go back in her cot which is a huge breakthrough.

Pistachio - Thank you for you kind offer, your DH is an angel. Mine is pretty good he's just feeling a bit fed up and grumpy himself. DS has been playing up which drives DH CRAZY and he is tired (because he's older than he thinks he is and the late nights are catching up with him).

CSWS - Thank you for your offer too, but I'll stick with my one for the moment. At least he accepts that I am always right. I have a feeling that if we swapped DH's, Mr CSWS and I would probably argue until the world ended. Oh and on another note, I have some Tesco diet lemonade here, it is a clear one (the Premium one) with 5% lemon. It is sweetened with Sucralose. Yay!

Myjob - (nearly put your RL name for some reason!) When are you going for your meal with DH? You deserve a treat and some enjoyable grown-up time.

I am so sick of the snow. We've been having blizzards, or glizzards as they are now known in our house , all day. Hrumph. I want my fluffy post!

If school is closed on Monday even I am not going to be happy!!

Sorry about how things are going 50ft

I have to say that Q is being a lot better recently. He's going to get his nappies when he wets or poos for us to change, so lays down himself now and doesn't cry. If we explain that we're going outside, he doesn't mind getting his coat on and he lets us dress him, too. He'll play happily on his own or sweep/mop/hoover/dust/wipe surfaces to his heart's content and play with us when possible, too... I'd say the only hard part at the moment is night time. He wants in bed with me from between 11pm-1am depending on the night and then is there for the rest of the night... but it keeps dh out - so a more peaceful sleep for me

He gets a bit stroppy when something isn't going his way or he can't figure something out but snaps out of it easier and easier... I just ignored the tantrums when he started. Just walked away from him. He'd follow me. I'd wait until he stopped screaming/crying, and then pick him up immediately when he stopped and cuddle for a while. I think it worked... I know you will all think it was a horrible way of doing it, but he now knows what happens if he has a tantrum... nothing. No one pays him any attention until he stops

Oh dear. Sorry to hear people are fed up with dcs, dhs and the snow. I think everyone's getting a bit stir crazy.

We've just been out to Epping Forest for a bracing walk and stocked up on firewood and wine provisions which is just as well as it's started snowing again here and I refuse to go out again.

I was suddenly seized with the urge to make the sticky toffee pudding from The Book whilst out shopping and grabbed what I thought were all the ingredients, but forgot to get eggs. Gah!

Pistachio S is in tights at the moment too. Only way I can keep his feet warm as he insists on taking his shoes and socks off.

Pepper - Do you have heat now?

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We do indeed have heat - they came this morning and made the boiler work, DH insisted they check all of it and they have admitted that there are a few bits to replace - which they've ordered and will be back Thursday! I'm so glad we have the service agreement as that pays for everything even though this week has been a little tedious .
I am sooo looking forward to a hot bath.
Just been up to the shops for exciting stuff like onions - it's like there's going to be a siege! There's no bread, milk, only fancy butter left, crazy. We're only expecting light flurries from now on I think (till at least wed, anyway).
The shops have signs up like "No wellies left"
Sorry evryone's a bit teeed off with DCs &DHs. We've been bickering too, but that's cos everything so frustrating here.
CSWS. I hope you told your DH what you think of him damaging things cos he's in a temper!
star - I'm praying school starts again Monday!
myjob - have a lovely meal out with your DH.
LOL at boys in tights. I think it's a great idea to keep them warm but DH thinks it's "girly". Muppet.