AUG08 - Sunshine, Friends, Food, & Fun

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Ooh no I love a good long post dizzy! Glad you are home safe and well, no more spots or vomming and only a hangover for dh which is at least a transient thing! Great to have you back

albs ditto dizzy re warm shower massage etc it could easily be mil-related don't panic for a few days. We will be the first to nag you to go & see someone if it doesn't disappear.

springer welcome back! And good luck with your move, I find moving so upsetting & such hard work but then I hate change and am a lazy slattern. How funny that ds may not (probably won't?) remember his first home, I expect you have lots of snaps though.

Sazz good work on the fpg crown, I nearly had it today what with producing marvellous healthy & invigorating ents for the 2 boys and stuffing some pork steak for them through the miasma of a headache AND voluntarily inviting ds1's friend to stay for supper. However, relinquished it (that must have been when you were getting it) by being snappy all round, ticking ds1 off in front of his friend (that's horrible for them) and skipping ds2's bath (saying to myself he'd been swimming today) and putting him to bed at 7pm when he normally goes at 7.30/45 (disclaimer, I didn't leave him crying in his cot or anything, he lay there sucking his thumb like a lamb, but I felt as if I was trying to get rid of him iyswim hence guilt).

dp gone off to run in a race, am planning to sink into a deep hot bath full of dissolved drugs some smelly oils.

dizzy don't worry I win the Dull Posting award. I've been winning it rather a lot lately .

hi sazz, took me considerably longer to type my post given the time difference between ours and i still managed to x post you!

DS still up here, DH late home from work so we're having a chilled evening together Although he's just worked out how to get my books down from the high shelf

but, he's also worked out how to connect his train and carriages together. now he's so indpt,i suspect he'll be leaving home soon!

and now i've x posted with vg...i give up!

this boy knows how to get to stay up late.. he's now showering me in kisses, tight cuddles and beautiful smiles

ooh, forgot to ask if i can claim the cleaning crown? i've ironed a couple of shirts for dh (fingers still want to type dp!), hoovered all downstairs and stairs, cleaned kitchen and had a cup of tea

OK there are enough crowns to go round, you can DEFINITELY have cleaning.

Hey girls, just marking my spot. Am freakin knackered, have been staring at a computer screen all afternoon and am now about cross eyed
Off to do pub quiz with dh shortly

laters
x

and LOL at Albs Disneyland Parish

eurgh re your bath option sazz! i'd be running a new one if i were you!

Dizz and buckets both should have fpg...in didn't Buckets got all three shipped out last night!

DS in bed now, dinner on, clean clothes sorted and put away (well mine and DS's at least, DH is big enough to put his own away!), suitcase emptied from hols (all those little bitty bits that you don't really know where to put!) and now i'm ironing another shirt! perhaps the nesting thing is setting in early this time (didn't happen til day before DS was due!)

all home and all 3 now in bed. I did miss my chance though as I was about to put D to bed (we were having too much fun pootling about outside and I didn't notice the time, pesky light evenings ) when friend turned up with other 2 so they're only just down, without bath - horribly dirty but happy and tired

DH still a horrid shade of grey in our bed and frankly am tempted to sleep down here away from him and his germs

now, to nip to shop and get bread/milk or to annouce in the morning that there is NO food and we should all go out for brekker - oh if only there were a handy local caff

Disneyland parish
I would bet my small pot of money on it being a milk issue after irregular feeding at the weekend. Do check it out though.

Exhausting day here today. DS had drops in his eyes to check his lazy eye yesterday and was cranky all day afterwards. So when he was cranky this morning I was just annoyed. Drove off to Cork, only to get a call 50 minutes later as I pulled up outside dh's school to say he felt really sick.

Guilt and panic are not a great mix. Luckily a very kind friend picked him up for me and looked after him for an hour. When dh collected him, she did a swap and took dd1, not mentioning that on top of her own two girls she had two of dd1's friends visiting too.

She took them off to her sister's farm to see lambs and pigs. DD1 ecstatic thank God.

The teaching was a bit harrowing, as it was all about poetry written during the Troubles and one of the students had lost a friend in a racist murder two weeks ago. Really wonderful to have the chance to encourage students to think properly about their assumptions though.

I stopped off in m&s and spent my christmas voucher on clothes for the girls. I bought buckets and spades too so that we can make the most of the good weather we're promised.

Can I just nod off here on the chair. I've been gorging on election coverage, but need to turn off and go to bed I think.

None of that makes sense, head still swimming after the teaching.

it made perfect sense Red, hope DS doing ok now and slapped wrist for not treating yourself with YOUR voucher

don't panic Sazz, eggs were brought in abundance from the farm and I too returnclothesfromMIL use vouchers for omm nom nom food from markies

I am apparently going to be 12wks preggers on Fri STILL no symptoms other than exhaustion so am still not convinced - I cannot however (and I use this term VERY loosely) suck in my stomach anymore

Hi all Bye all

Just back from dinner - DD was kept awake by FIL so have just settled an overhyped/over emotional/overtired girl into bed and am not far behind.

Dizzy - Hope DH better in the morning but about exams and resits.

Red (((HUGS))) have a wee dram in your hot choccie tonight

Sazz - I found bath/bedtime routine goes very smoothly without DH getting in the way distracting DD. But she does love it when he does bath as there is more splashing, bubbles and noise.

GG - Helloooo

Miamla - you are taking this married thing too seriously I still, 6 years down the line, don't iron shirts unless it is a life or death situation (which is never!)

Who'd I miss?

YAY for 12weeks Dizzy - I was going to ask but didn't want to be stalkerish about knowing your dates

Sazz - yes food was luverly to the highest order - our local had poached a chef who has just trained under Micheal Caines at the Priory in Bath. Roast pork belly fell apart and had the crunchy top and soft juicy middle, DH's pannacotta and mini brownies looked fab too but I had to chosse between food and breathing again - once this one is out I am going for 3 courses!

Sazz, he's been in bed since 6.30 so he'd bloody better

Oops - sounds lovely

worry not girls, i'm not going to make a habit out of ironing his shirts for him! seriously, last time i did any for him was day before DS was due! But he's having a horrible time at work at the moment. Them calling him and nagging him to deal with work stuff (that he's already shown his colleague how to do) whilst on honeymoon was not one of their finest moment. I wouldn't let him answer the 3rd or 4th call (in one day!!) from them, i took the phone from him, answered it and calmly and politely told her that no, DH wasn't available to talk because he was in the sea paddling with his son. She had the cheek to ask me to get him out of the sea so she could talk to him!! I told her that he'd ring her back as soon as he could but not to expect it within the next 2 hours because we were going on the steam train. She has apparently complained to their boss (who incidentally thinks the sun shines out of her arse) about 'how rude i was to her'. Trust me, if she thinks that was rude, she doesn't want to talk to me when i'm not being polite. Anyhow, thats just one example of the twunts they're being at the moment so the little thing (to me) of ironing a few shirts for him, made him smile and that's what i was aiming for.

my boss' friend is currently looking for a new job for DH so really hoping that happens. its destroying his soul where he is at the moment

oops i knew dizz's dates too (she's exactly 9wks behind me!)