AUG 08 - Here we go again and again and again...

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Seriously!

LG - make sure you water them in their rolled up state tonight. It might be a bit pale tomorrow but a bit of good old Irish sun will soon sort that

lol CC! I wondered if 'Swiss Roll Grass' was a delicacy inspired by Miamla's election game!

Am cringing at your situation Miamla! More from thinking that I would probably be the overfriendly other person! I talk to anyone and everyone as if I've known them for years and have been known to pass off a few things that I keep bloody tripping over gems to people! That being said, I just pass things on friends/family members and not people that I've just met. And said items are usually cleaned to within an inch of their life before they will leave to go to a new home! I'd also pretend that I'd taken down the wrong number and go with the 'I misunderstood' line of thought. As for getting rid of her next time, I'm rubbish at this type of thing so will wait for tips on this too!

TS, DD will normally have milk or water but will shout 'I want a juice' for hours on end! If she does get juice I tend to keep it to mealtimes, and only after she's eaten about half her meal, otherwise she'd finish all the juice and have no room for anything else!

Had a lovely afternoon with a mindee's mum at her house, sitting out in the sunshine with a cuppa whilst her 3 dc's played with my DD and one of my mindees. I love the sound of kids playing and could listen to it all day... unfortunately 5mins is normally all you get before they start killing each other!!

evening ladies..

lol at swiss roll ..

ladies who are out tonight enjoy ..

dd2 noramlly only drinks milk/water.. she does take her sister's cup of juice but she is like a devil with it and gulps the lot so she is on rations .. dd1 has tried my diet coke and now wants it all the time .. have told her she may be allowed a little on hols..

once again thank you for all your lovely thoughts and comments today.. they really mean so much.. we had a lovely day with my friend and her ds, out for lunch and a playcente.. had a good chat with her and as i have known her for years she couldn't believe how stressed i was...

dh never even bothered to call dd1 to say goodnight, tho he did text earlier in the day to find out how her eye was {she had a fall at nursery yesterday}.. he also said that he would now be back sunday morn not evening as if that is suppose to make a difference ..

any how dd1 asked to sleep with me tonight as a treat and i can here crashing going on in my room so must go and investigate

LOL yes because Sunday morning means he wakes up before 12, has a leisurely brekker/lunch, maybe a shower/hour long dump depending where he's staying, then rolls off to the station to wait 45mins for the next train. I remember being utterly distraught the time DH did that (was when DS1 was at his most difficult), kept alternating between hating him and feeling mortally wounded and being convinced that he had been killed in an accident as his phone was off. He is now understands that all our fights are about poor communication (on both sides) and is now much better with his estimates.

Kurt is snoring like a warthog behind me, must be getting a cold. He tripped and landed chin-first on the ragged tip of a traffic cone at school today - 5 seconds silence of looking at me and counting votes whether to cry or not. The teary party won, has a nasty graze on his chin.

ladies, incase you hadn't already worked it out Sazz and VG are truely two of the kindest, loveliest people ever.

DH and I are touched beyond words by all your messages of support and your kindness. I can't begin to tell you all how much it has meant to us

thank you x

Who's Sazz?

VG?

ds2 normally drinks juice at breakfast as he has milk on his Rice Krispies then (why why why do I hate so much that they are spelt with a K? It's just so Nite Klub.) During the day he drinks water (often from a sports-top bottle thing) and I like to give him milk at suppertime because I have always been concerned about his lack of bottles meaning he doesn't get enough milk. Also we are thinking of starting a cup of milk after the bath - well to offer it anyway.

And I will just show off a teeny bit, ds2 can hold a half-full 2-litre bottle of water and drink from it without spilling. Useful skill eh?

Crisp I see you also have a sparkling water lover in your house! DS is mad for it, he's straight in the kitchen begging when he hears the hiss of the bottle being opened

So tired, I can't remember or advise on anything else. Although I will now be cheeky and ask you all for some advice. DS has been really not himself the last week or so, really down in the mouth and temper tantrum tastic. Same with nursery - this morning when I took him in, he just slumped over me and burrowed into my chest like he wanted to hide from the world. He's normally such a happy chap, very confident and easygoing, so this has DP and I a bit Is it the start of separation anxiety, do you think? Or maybe a side effect from a big cognitive spurt? He's really started tantrumming too, so I thought perhaps he's feeling wigged out by all these strong new impulses and emotions.

I have kept an eye out for signs of physical malaise but haven't noticed any, bar a bit of teethy/rashy business. It makes me sad to see him so out of sorts

No one around? Ah well, off to bed.

ok, which one out of crisps and lg hacked into Dizz's mn account?

cyteen, DS had a similar phase but I put it down to him moving to bed, changing from highchair to booster etc. sorry, can't help but it did seem to stop as quick as it started

oh, by the way girls, i'm fast asleep in bed I'm quite impressed no one spotted me smuggling the laptop up here with me!
I am absolutely shattered though so there's a limit to how much typing in the dark i'm going to do!

LG oh my DS has been able to do that for months Have you watered your swiss rolls yet?

LNT thanks for your empathy!

sssh...someone's just come upstairs see, i'm asleep!

loti i hope your room survived ok after dd1's crash! i'm really pleased you've had a lovely day

hi ladies

Knackered here. STill sick. unfortunately S is now throwing up due to a viral infection. Dr decided she wanted him checked over by a peadiatrician so trip to hospital undertaken by puking baby and his puking mummy, with SIL in tow to help out (thank goodness).
Anyway we're back, S is in bed

THink I'm heading to bed soon.

well if we get through this message with no spelling errors, I will be mightily impressed. Have been to the pub with dh and now am a few glasses of wine to the wind...
O still poorly
ds1 has now lost his 2nd tooth and he is mightily proud of himself. He will be 6 on monday
I am a bit pissed

Cyteen Reese has been the same way for about two weeks. The last two days I've noticed improvement though. I believe she had a spell of separation anxiety and is formerly entering the terrible twos. JOY

Morning lovely ladies ..

QOD really hope you and S have slept ok and his virus and your sickness have abated a little hugs..

Sorry O is poorly cece but loving you having a pissed night last night ..

Lovely to see you on here Dizzy.. you are always in my thoughts at the mo and i too agree that Sazz and VG are stars .. sorry crispy/lg ..

MrsM hope you are still asleep and didn't get caught out last night ..

went to bed last night with the little hot monster who had destroyed my room .. dd2 woke up once at 3 and all up by 6 but not too bad..

Got called last night which i ignored.. tho sent text asking if he wanted something.. got one back saying that this was stupid he had made a mistake and wanted to come home? he said he was thinking of telling the second stag that he was poorly.. i sent him one back saying that there was no point as me and the girls has plans for the day and we were not cancelling...

i'm truly not cutting my nose off despite my face here but i am sick of dancing attendance to him and we geninuely have plans.. i'v done the right thing haven't i??

Of course you have loti. The cheek of the man He's made his (stained, smelly batchelor's) bed, now he can lie in it

thanks cyteen.. how is ds today? any happier?

Yes, thanks for asking He's been a relaxed and happy delight this morning and slept really well last night. Maybe he does just want to be with us at the moment.

Ewww, thanks for that bed image, Cyteen.

Loti, good to hear that you are a bit stronger. And good too that he is at least doing some thinking about all this.

I know you mentioned your mum a while back and the way her behaviour had shaped yours, and if it isn't too impertinent of me, thinking some of that through while you are away might help.

When my sister split up from her boyfriend after ten years, a good friend said to her 'And what did you do that made things tricky? What will you have to do different next time?' Dsis raged about this for about 2 years, but in the long run said it was the most helpful thing anyone said.

I'd just be sure he hears: 'I'm being independent' not, 'please carry on, I like being the person battling against the odds in martyr mode'.

I've broken all my self-imposed rules about interfering there, I'm afraid. I desperately want you to reach a point where you are acting from a place of confidence in yourself.

Sorry to hear you are illing QOD. Is dp helping out this weekend?

Dizzy, lots of love to you and yours. Shocked and stunned that LG and Crispy turned out to be fabulous, loyal friends. Whodathunkit.

Hotter, your mp is the daughter of my favourite teacher at primary school.

I'm guessing he was 95% sure you would say no and sure he'd get some brownie points for offering, a strategy that means the next time you legitimately complain he can say 'Well, I offered to come home.' So it goes.

We need to stage some kind of intervention on him.

Hello all

Really need to et dressed and nip round to feed my friend's cat but just got time to say I am glad J is feeling better cyteen DS has been grumpy all week and it's been grim but at last I had a cause (MMR) Hope you have a lovely weekend, and yes I agree a mega meetup (or any meetup) is deffo required

loti well done for not caving be strong!

queenie hope you are both feeling a bit better today

cece you boozer! Hope you are also not feeling too sicky today

red she is not my MP any more. Despite having a WF1 postcode and living less than 1.5 miles from the very centre of the city we are no longer in the Wakefield constituency instead we come under Hemsworth which is about 6 miles away . All the boundaries changed quite considerably before this election, some say it was in an effort to let Ed Balls keep his seat... Well it worked, just

Right, cat time...

I agree with red on your H's likely tactics loti. Glad that you're taking control now though. Have a good day. .

Really just popped on to say hi to dizzy. Thinking of you lots. The girls have just been measured on L's height chart. DD1 has grown 5.5cm and DD2 6.5cm since 23 March . DD1 is desperate to see L and we'd all love together when the time is good for you. Give me a shout whenever that is.

Hope the under the weather ones pick up today dnd yay for the recently improved ones. Happy Saturday.

Morning, got a tad squiffy by 9.30 so went to bed. Got up at 8.30. Bliss

cyteen i remember DD1 going through a dreadful phase at 2.2 with molar teething (but she was a very late teether). That was more temper/miserable/defiance etc than clingyness IYSWIM. Sounds like he is just working through all the separation stuff but as his confidence grows that you always return i am sure he will be back to sunny and happy boy all the time very soon.

LOTI well done on your resolve, although i do have a suspicion the same as Red's as to his motives . That or the weekend is as dull as ditchwater and he is looking for an excuse. He may well then put you down to his mates. 'Oh wifey can't cope at home without me . I have to go and rescue her. Such a nightmare, always ruining my boys weekends . Just be careful is all i can say, and enjoy your day with the girls

Queenie hope S is feeling better (and you). Is DP away this weekend? If so, can MIL/SIL help out?

Cece hope O improves too, tis miserable for all concerned. Especially with a hangover

TS tantrums are ramping up here, although i have to say, as yet not to DD1 proportions, although i can't quite remember what age she was when she did the totally out of control scary tantrum for the first time. I could probably search threads on here though as i'm sure i would have relayed such scintillating news directly to you

cyteen DD1 LOVES 'bubble water'. She made the air hostesses on the plane to the US laugh by ordering it from the trolley to go with her dinner

DD2 has just learned to jump with two feet and goes round saying 'dump, dump' and practicing

Morning

I am broken this morning - couldn't sleep between 1 and 3 then DD squeled at 4.30 so I went ot check on her and she tried to stand up and was tied up in her billy. She then announced that wasn't morning lovely and got very upset when I said it was still night. SHe came in with us as I needed to sleep but stayed awake [bleary eyed emoticon] until 7 when she announced she was hungry so 1 banana and 6oz of milk later she went ot sleep and woke at 8.30. Now she is up and demanding dippy eggs and papa to play farm. At least I am being left alone for a bit!

Will catch up later when I can focus.

Dizzy-do - Love to you all and yes VG and Sazz are FAB, I hear LG and Crispy aren't too bad either