March 2008 - Now we are two

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New thread idea good jfly!

See what I did, now we are two - for those with new number 2 and expecting number 2.

And all the rest of us who get at least 2 tantrums a day from the 2 year olds.

Jfly? named yet?

have to rant somewhere safe:

to the parents of the 5 yr old who described

'my dad can't see me or my sisters because he doesn't pay for us' to me, only 30 minutes in class and almost a stranger to the child, and while looking very sad:

SORT IT OUT.

Oh merry how :( and

Crap day here. Just been to hospital for regular annual smear/colposcopy check which they had thought would be last one as no change for years in my cervix after one abnormal smear 5 years ago, and then doctor takes a look and immediately says 'oh that's not great, we need to remove that. Can we do it today?'. So now I am officially pre-cancerous... I know with cervical cancer it's not really quite the same as others and the whole point is that they have found it so bloody early that it is unlikely to ever be cancer as they have loads of options to treat before it gets there, but still the C word is just so bloody unnerving esp when you have a toddler and very small baby :( He decided best not to do it today as I had DD with me and he didn't want to give me a local and send me home in discomfort/pain when looking after baby on my own. So will now be new year so can have DH with me. Sigh.

Meg just a quick message to say how awful of you to find out that on your own. I hope that your DH can be with you next time

meg how shocking. I hope you are OK today and getting the support you need xfx

Oh Meg, you poor thing, sure it will all be fine but never the less a worry for you all.

Whilst we're on to not so nice topics I need to vent a little about the shitty couple of weeks I have had. My step-Grandmother was diagnosed with Huntingtons a couple of weeks ago and as a consequence my SD, and then potentially my little sister (17) and brother (11) will need genetic testing too. Although they can't actually do the test until they're 18. I cant even think about it without crying and have weird survivor guilt iyswim as I don't have to even go through any of the bad stuff directly.

Oh and as some of you who twitter will also know a family friend, only 21, killed himself on Tuesday night :( I haven't even really seen him since I was a teenage but I know his Mum better and I just can't even imagine what she is going through, just feels like a cursed month and can't wait for it to be over.

thanks, I needed that!

On to brighter things, are you all ready for Christmas? I have done almost nothing, not even got a tree yet but will do so this weekend. Check me out with my partying too, out tomorrow night and Sat and then EVERY night next week. Amazing! Not sure I can even handle it anymore but I am going to give it my best shot!

Turtle, we need a MAJOR update of your love life soon please!

Wow Meg, that's big news. Strength to you & I hope a few weeks of distractions to take your mind off it. x

Ewe -strength to you too.

My little bit of pre-xmas gloom was my aunt dying last week. None of our side of the family going to the funeral (involves flights,car hire, hotels etc), my uncle's too sick to go & none of my cousins can be bothered going. I want to go, but my mum thinks they don't want me there. :( I'd turn up anyway for the hell of it, except it's a 4-5hr journey each way by road, so I don't want to knacker myself out to find the gates shut!

Hello all.

Meg, that sounds like a hideous, but early is good, you know that.

DP, you went to the funeral, didn't you? Was thinking of you.

Wave at everyone else. Can't actually believe that it is Christmas next week. This year I put my foot down and demanded that everyone come here, so we have ILs on Christmas Eve/Day, and my lot on Boxing Day. It means that we don't have to do the M4 trip laden down with gifts, and it also means that we don't have to negotiate our dogs, in winter, in ILs'cream-carpeted house. Eight huge muddy paws crashing around the place was a nightmare last year.

What are the rest of you up to for Christmas?
Are all the children excited? Ff really gets it this year, which is lovely.

Will return later, just wanted to say hello.

It sounds like we're all ready for 2010 to end. Ewe - what horrid news. Really hope you are getting lots of support from hospital - have your family been talking to genetic counsellors there?

Glad you got to funeral DP. Sounded lovely, if funerals can be said to be lovely.

All still going a bit pear-shaped here. DS got potty training brilliantly (no accidents at all by day 3) only to get diarrhea a week later and then a cold so we are back to square one and back in nappies...

Remind me to never do newborn baby, building work, cold winter, decorating, furniture buying, potty training, breaking boiler, health scare and Christmas all within 3 months again please...

Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas planned :)

Hello, merry Christmas, season's greetings, etc etc. How is everyone getting on? Gap in snowfalls means that my family and the ILs will probably manage to get out of south Wales, so Christmas is here as planned.
We (thankfully) don't have room for everyone at once, so ILs arrive tomorrow until Sat, and then my lot will be down on Boxing Day. Hopefully this means we can stagger presents and stop Ff from getting too overwhelmed.
Have managed to track down the last sledge in Oxfordshire, which Ff might get to open tomorrow, just in case we wake up on Christmas day and it's all melted!

Merry Christmas everyone! In-laws here entertaining DS, cuddling DD, so DH and I can get in the kitchen and cook up a storm. Finally in Christmas mood after a tough month :)

Best Christmas wishes to you all x

Happy New Year everyone! Are you still alive? :)

Turtle - am wanting to hear all about your trip. Do tell!

Happy new year everyone.

Went back to playgroup today, and Ff made a new friend. Very unusually it was a girl - she is generally surrounded by boys, and her two little best mates are both boys, so it made a change to see her running about giggling with another girl.

Did everyone have a good Christmas?

Just realised haven't been here for yonks. Meg am very sorry to hear your news that is tough. Hope all is ok.

Me? Not much to tell, really. Saw him every day I was home, kids love him, have ring on my finger and he's moving here in a very short time....and divorce being filed on Monday. :)

talk about a whirlwind romance! hope it all works out, you deserve to be happy turtle!

Hey everyone, hope you're all doing ok?
Meg, how's it going?

Hi Dontpanic did you have a good birthday?

Come on, ladies, we'll need a new birthday thread soon, let's at least fill this one first!

Potty training bootcamp here. I am getting tough this time.

Yes, great birthday thanks - went to stalk John Barrowman, but since we had E with us & JB wasn't on set until about 11pm, we had a Chinese and went home! Saw RTD having a meal in restaurant next door when it was too late to change our minds about where to eat, doh.

Really looking forward to LA holiday next weekend, will miss E lots, but grandparents are now skype'd up so can speak to him via the magic of t'internet. And maybe get drunk. Boss half-seriously told me not to get pregnant while I'm away ;)
Am then going to use up all my leave between March & June by having 1 day off a week to work on hypno stuff. Am a little shattered doing the 2 jobs.
Should we start a new thread then for Jfly & her wonky mobile phone? HAve no inspiration for thread titles.

come on girls, im sure we could all do with the moral support!

Hello everyone. Having a lovely time here with delicious DD, who's 5 months next week and at that fabulous 'the world is amazing and i just love everyone and everything in it, please show me more' stage. I remember how happy I was during this phase with DS and then weaning onto solids hit and I hated it again, so I'm trying to hold out as long as possible esp as I've managed to ebf and enjoy it this time round. DS is being in turns a sheer delight and an utter trial. Potty training is very hit and miss - he can physically do it (he is dry in the mornings so has the control) but he seems to have a big issue with nursery, so has always gone backwards after his few days there so we end up retraining him every weekend, although it does get better quicker each time. I think I need to take him out of nursery for a week or two just to try and crack it and hope we get him to the stage where he is so on top of it that he doesn't regress.

Not clear what is going on with me at the moment - letter from hospital came back saying actually the biopsy shows I don't require immediate treatment and just nee dto go back in a year for another check but it's all a bit confused as they don't seem to have my history from previous hospital so GP is writing to them to try and understand why doctor said one thing on visual exam but quite another in letter... Sigh. I just have this underlying unease about it and just want them to explain why they recommended treatment at first and now are saying it's not necessary rather than just pretending the first conversation never happened. I'm going through a redundancy process at work as well so that's just a bit uncertain - tbh I really hope I get it as I want a change and this would give me the kick up the arse I need to do it, and some money behind me too. So keep your fingers crossed for me. Although of course, there isn't really a downside because the worst outcome is that I still have a good job. I really am lucky in that regard.

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the sunny days we're getting (I'm ignoring the frequent rainy ones!)

Three. How is my baby THREE?

Exactly. Three indeed. From twonagers to threenagers in the blink of an eye!

A will be one in 3 weeks and I'm pretty sure shop's shut now... :( :( :(

On a happier note, what are the three year olds asking for for their birthdays? H is mega into Sylvanian Families right now, although I know most of the small bits will not last the month with Alexis the human hoover around...

Hello! (it's Ewe, new name )

Hope they manage to get the health stuff sorted Meg, worrying that you've been so misinformed. And good luck with redundancy, I just hand my notice in at work and feel totally liberated even though it's probably going to mean me working more days I just can't wait to do something I enjoy again.

I can't believe DD is going to be three! I am trying to persuade DP to let us get a kitten but he's not going for it :( so I think we will get her a scooter. We've also got her tickets to see Peppa Pig again which is conveniently on her birthday and local!

Hope LA is fab dp, v.jealous! Also, just got your Fbook message that you sent me ages ago, am shit at checking it. Not sure how I know the guy mentioned!

Its shocking to think that 3 years ago we were all waiting with baited breath to see who would drop next!

I'm currrently off work as I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand 2 weeks ago. Saw the consultant yesterday and he signed me off until the end of March

Unfortunately DS has picked a urine infection not sure how but it may explain why he went backwards with his potty training. He's currently on antibiotics and we have to do another wee sample when we finish the course. The doctor is also referring him to a specialist too! Anyone else had any experience of this?

DSD's are now half way through their first
year of senior school. Can't believe how grown up they've become. We had a parents evening a few weeks back and they seem to be coping very well. All the teachers we spoke to had good things to say about them

Need to stop now as this is taking ages to type on my phone and my hand is starting to ache. Lets see if we can get this thread going again!

New thread here for those on phones.