AUG08 - Sunshine, Friends, Food, & Fun

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Can't believe I didn't just flip the thread but had to wait in suspense like you lot last night! Many congrats Miamla tis nice to be wrong (although I often am according to DH). I completely understand how you feel as I think I would feel the same.

VG sorry to hear about the childcare situation.

Red have been meaning to ask for a while (I may have just missed your post so apologies for that) but was there any news on DH's aunt? Did you manage to get a message to her?

Lovely news miamla, not that a boy wouldn't have been equally lovely of course!
Sorry I ditched out last night, the laptop battery was out of juice and I have to stand up to use it when its plugged in.

Anyway. O was up at 4 yesterday but graced us with a 5am start today. Thats nice.

morning all
why am i awake?? DH fast asleep. DS fast asleep oh yes that leaves DD! the little wriggling thing she is woke me up! still, its nice to have a quiet cup of tea and a little chat with you lovely ladies!

spring thanks for understanding re DD or DS2. I don't think i explained it very well so quite amazed anyone understood me! I'm also amazed you waited in suspense...did you do it in real time? think the poor girls last night had to wait an hour for me to come back

cc don't be silly about ditching, i'm glad you didn't stand up to use your laptop to wait for news...that would have made me feel really guilty!

still can't believe we're having a little girl. i think part of it is down to my hobbies. its going to be lovely, hopefully, to pass some skills down to her but saying that DH is now (since meeting me) an accomplished knitter and sewer so perhaps my thoughts on this are skewed that DS wouldn't be interested in learning He already loves sitting on my lap whilst i'm using my sewing machine so i think that concludes that those thoughts re DD were daft! She may well be like her auntie and run as far away as she can from all things crafty!

sorry, i'm babbling, i'll concentrate on drinking my tea now

yay on baby girl miamla.. was thinking all about u last night.. also had to bow out due to laptop dying... so pleased for u and family! xxx

hi loti
i did look to see if i had a mobile no. for you because i felt guilty about you disappearing too! How are you doing this morning?

it added to the suspense waiting.. girls are fab but i'm biased ..

girls wide awake and bombing around.. dh still in bed waiting to be woken to go to work!! same old same old.. sun is shinning tho

seriously? your DH stays in bed til you wake him? does he not set an alarm?
glad you've got a shining sun, she paying us a visit here today too

Yay for a different flavour baby miamla I am very glad you are happy with the fact you are having a girl. They are pretty fab but then so are boys

Finally took DS for his MMR yesterday, only 7 months late

Oh and just found out that someone at work is 4 months pregnant at the age of 47 It will be her first baby, after years of trying they had given up so this is the most wonderful news for her and her DH

Berlimey hp - 47 for a first! That's quite an achievement. Great news for her. Anyone read the Guardian on a Saturday? There's the column in there of a lady of that sort of age or a bit older with a new baby - not her first though - and I thought that was impressive enough.

So pleased you're so pleased miamla.

Can't you send a DD or two into harass gently wake DH loti. That's what happens round here when I want to make a point to DH .

oops - have been meaning to share with you my latest moment with my spoilt 18 yr old sister... (Thought/hoped you might sympathise). She was in France for the Easter hols, practising her French, pre-A-level. Ash cloud descends, flight cancelled. Now, you would have thought that an 18 year old, who speaks virtually fluent French and is an hour outside Paris could find her own way home on public transport. No. My stepmum AND Dad drove all the way over there to collect her on Friday. This is the father who can't take a day off work to come here to visit his grandchildren ...

lol re sending in a DD or two! when i want DH up at the weekend (he sets his own alarm for work during week), DS and I play the 'lets be quiet game' So we creep upstairs quietly, whispering I say 'daddy's sleeping', DS has a finger on his lips saying 'shhhhh'. We get to our bedroom door, DS tiptoes in on his own, goes round to DH's side of the bed and shouts 'hiya dad-di' and if DH keeps his eyes closed, they get forcibly pulled open by DS! works a treat everytime! loti feel free to borrow any ideas for your own use

thanks hots...actually, when you were pregnant with DS, could you imagine having another DD?

keep meaning to tell you all...anyone remember pregnancy1? think she name changed after babies were here to newmum08 or something similar. Well she had a DD2!

so dizz of all the mums that have had a baby/pg since having an Aug babe, have all had or are expecting girls! preg1,lwfh,oops,me... and not a single boy in there! Are you going to break the pattern? (secretly chuffed i've come up with a new stat before TS!)

Can anyone tell I'm pissed off this morning? An ill husband who shuffled around and sniffed all night combined with a 20 month old who truly believes that the day starts at 5.30 does not a happy mummy make. Mucho sympathy for all others in the same boat (with the toddler at least). I spend most of the year desperate to see more sun and when it finally arrives I'm constantly knackered due to early starts. Roll on the teenage years.

Lovely to hear of pg1 there miamla. I've thought of her from time to time as I seem to remember her DD1 has a name similar to mine (or was going to) and I also seem to remember being exceptionally (and a little ) by her recounting that she thought she might be in labour only to find she was a lot cm dilated already. Have I got the right person?

The girls are just muscling their way back in having been in the minority in the original group . We always win in the end

Right. Will leave you all alone now to get on with your normal chat . Should probably stop ignoring the growing pile of books DD2 is placing next to me by way of a hint...

morning all, not to early a start here as girls up at 7am and we ignored till 8am DH doing to school run and I'm forcing down special K and banana - sun shining but wont make the mistake I did yesterday in thinking that its warm with it

Poppy - maybe she has an incredible lack of common sense? does she have an exam soon? I'm making excuses I know, I appreciate how infuriating families are hope DH feeling better soon and that E has a lovely long nap at same time as M!!!

two trust members texting me this morning, have calmed down considerably and decided to take wise Sazz advice and lay low - I'm not going to let them bully me out of this and will give them as much rope as they need to hang themselves at the moment. Very interesting phone call yesterday letting me know that the meeting has been reported to the council due to the Egos involved so they're being watched rather closely now

told friend about baby this morning as he and his partner who have a 3yr old dd have lost 2 since and I wanted to tell his partner MYSELF - he has of course phoned her, told her and she started crying and hung up fecking twat. arse for telling her and arse for telling me she's now crying will have to sort that today at some point

DH has two essays to write today so I'll be buggering off out at the hospitality of friends instead of having a nice family day together hope sun shining where you all are

Morning

DD awake 5 times in the night - DH ignored them all, DD awake at 5.30 so I bring her in and persuade her back to sleep, DH pretends not to notice. DD properly awake at 6.15, I say to DH can you get up I've been awake 2 hours in the night. His reply...... Yes I heard the racket and unplugged the monitor. He got up so I thought yay back to sleep but he only opened her curtains and got out some toys and told her to play in her room got back into bed and went back to sleep SO I got DD to bring books into bed, if I wasn't sleeping neither was he! Eventually at 7.30 he got the hint and stomped out with DD and left me until................. 8.15 when he decided to have a nice long hot bath . Apparently he is pissed off because I never want to cuddle anymore - I am a whale sized lump that is constantly hot and tired, I have restless legs in bed and struggle to sleep, so NO I do not want another person snuggled in close so I can't move or cool down. He has gone to work in a strop but it is his own so DD and I are off to do chores and play in her house.

Miamla - I was terrified at our scan they would say we were having another girl thinking DH wanted a son, BUT the look on his face when they said 'girl' was perfect he was scared of having a boy and I really didn't care but knew deep down she was a girl. I can't wait for my new DD and am excited at having another small girl to see just how different they can be. I am expecting she will be like Dizzy's DD2 and as I was

Sunny here too DIzzy but freezing - DH sent DD outside in short sleeves and no shoes

Poppy - missed your story about your sis - Yes sounds like mine!! I would have been told to use my brain and make a plan, No I wouldn't have bothered asking I would have made my own plans!!

DH has just told me he thinks its snowing maybe its ash

Oops, god help you if she's like my DD2 - I love her but feck she's hard work

I like a challenge Dizzy, and a girl with a bit of spirit

Ah no Sazz ((hugs))

what a stupid lady sazz.. poor dd1 sounds like she was very brave too.. sorry your dcs are driving you to distraction... i am just grateful that i have managed a couple of hours off this week as i have been a shouty mum for the last week and a half!!! dd1 is now saying "stop shouting mummy you are hurting my ears" ..

i am dh's alarm clock.. massive bone of contention.. do resort to getting the dds to get him up at the weekend tho

sounds like everyone could do with a cheery cup of tea. its at times like this that I wish we all lived round the corner from each other

poppy sorry, no idea if you're thinking of the right person or not... her DD1 was born a week after my DS so i wasn't on MN that much that first week and can't remember her birth story! If I'd seen your post before toddler group i could have asked her mum (she takes DD1 there)
As for your sister, if that had been me at 18, I'd have had no option other than to make my own way home. If it was my sister at the same age, dad would have chartered a private jet for her
but no, don't blame you for being pissed off at all

sazz can you stick DDs in garden for a bit to give you a break? or put cbeebies on? sounds like you really need 5mins to yourself

oops what a lovely way to look at new DD, made me smile and have realised that a DS2 would still have been adorable. so thank you, feeling a little less guilty now at wanting a DD.
As for your morning tale, I could have written it, esp if you'd added 'and DH put a pillow over his (own) head to block out the noise'

dizz no wonder you were cold outside if its snowing

sorry,just x posted with a million of you!