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

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Seriously!

Sazz - I think DH has my nesting

Miamla - it is cereal but eaten dry is a great meal snack. I walked past them inthe supermarket the other day and bought a couple of boxes there is now only half a box - they used to be called Curiously Cinnamon and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Baby has decided she is not going to put in an appearance any time soon so I am making plans for the next 3 weekends to go walking with friends, go to the theatre and have friends from London for a posh dinner party.

lol re your DH and his nesting skills!
hmm cinnamon grahams sound like a moist cinnamon like sponge cake thing..not so interested in them now!

Oooo Oops that is annoying. I was similarly this week when I asked SiL if she'd seen a bit of my laptop kit that I've been leaving there between my working-at-[their]-home days for the last nine months and she said yes, they didn't know where it had come from so FiL had taken it on his business trip. really at the assumption that anything remotely techy is bound to be DH's and if left at the ancestral home then fair game

Miamla I see where you're coming from too as I have a random day in a couple of weeks when I think SiL will have to babysit (properly, i.e. without me in shouting distance) for the first time. Who usually has T on a Monday? Can you not pull the 'not disrupting his routine' card? M knows very well who looks after her on which days and while additional visitors are very welcome, substitutions do tend to cause a reaction.

Been to York and back today, long day and no time for exploring but quite nice to sit on a train with coffee and book work () and no requests for the Runaway Train (book and song both v. popular with DD).

Sazzles so sorry to hear about the rotten turn your weekend took. Another one here poised to send anything that could be of use... even if it's just faces towards les gendarmes.

about to go catch up. FIRST i just uploaded here on mn what is the 8-MILLIONTH draft of this blasted invitation. would somebody eyeball it and be critical of me. i've already printed one batch that was ALL WRONG. i'm not printing again until the world has done it's review.

off to catch up now....

Cinnamon Graham is a cracker and a cereal.

My DH steers clear of my truck, my purse, my house...okay he does come into the house but he is fearful of moving or removing anything he is not absolutely certain is his.

oops & miamla you had me rolling with laughter. i too have "fuzzy" moments. most like oops where i suddenly realize i can't see because my glasses aren't on my face.

ILs...

okay caught up

TS I'm supposed to be on my way to bed but your invitation looks good to me

thanks pertelote!!

Geez! I've ended up writing a placement request letter too. I wasn't going to do that BUT what the hell, can't hurt. Parents are allowed to request what teacher you'd like your child to have for the upcoming school year. It's not public knowledge but there's a deadline. Anyway, I put it on the invite stationary so it looks pretty too. Maybe that will win me points with the principal of dd1's school.

TS well done on the invitation. I'm sure it will be great.

Sazz so sorry to hear of the car theft and impact on DH's big day - are you still going ahead with the party? Maybe that will help him to celebrate properly.

Oops would love for DS to be bilingual but he just doesn't get quite enough exposure to properly benefit (plus neither of us are mother tongue in anything other than english so suspect it would be largely a waste of time). CM is Indonesian and so speaks Bahasa to him some of the time and he has picked up some words for example he says 'makan' for food and 'makan chair' for his high chair and laki laki (again again). He also yesterday said some words in mandarin at his toddler group (15 mins is completely in mandarin) he said hello, goodbye and biscuit.

DS saw his playhouse this morning. DH and I put it together last night and put it in the garden. DH got up with DS when he woke up so I was having a bit of a lie in before getting up to get breakfast and go to work. Anyway was awakened by loud shouts of 'ouse 'ouse mummy 'ouse. So no more sleep for me! Anyway he promptly went in there shouted 'close the door' and did a poo

TS well done on the invitation. I'm sure it will be great.

Sazz so sorry to hear of the car theft and impact on DH's big day - are you still going ahead with the party? Maybe that will help him to celebrate properly.

Oops would love for DS to be bilingual but he just doesn't get quite enough exposure to properly benefit (plus neither of us are mother tongue in anything other than english so suspect it would be largely a waste of time). CM is Indonesian and so speaks Bahasa to him some of the time and he has picked up some words for example he says 'makan' for food and 'makan chair' for his high chair and laki laki (again again). He also yesterday said some words in mandarin at his toddler group (15 mins is completely in mandarin) he said hello, goodbye and biscuit.

DS saw his playhouse this morning. DH and I put it together last night and put it in the garden. DH got up with DS when he woke up so I was having a bit of a lie in before getting up to get breakfast and go to work. Anyway was awakened by loud shouts of 'ouse 'ouse mummy 'ouse. So no more sleep for me! Anyway he promptly went in there shouted 'close the door' and did a poo

lol spring on your ds.. sounds like he loves his new house!! ..

ts invites look amazing!!! remind me to get you to do mine next time i need some ..

hope dh is feeling a little more cheery to sazz and you now have mil car to get around in..

oops lol at fuzzy vision.. i am that blid that i n the morning/night time wake ups i spend 5 mins searching around beside my bed to find my glasses cos otherwise i would walk into things!!

qod hope seb's coup is a little better.

nobody came back re cream/black wedding outfit ..please reassure me that sexy black number is the way forward??? stupid dh thought he could wear t-shirt and shorts to wedding???? have now been challenged with finding him an outfit as he is too busy /cannot be bothered .. tempting to get something that would make him luck like a prat but i'm not that mean am i?

my spelling is awful appologies

hi loti personally i'm not keen on black at weddings and was quite amazed at how many wore black to mine but... i reckon if you accessorize with a bright colour, it would look lovely
and no, as tempting as it is, i suggest you don't try and make DH look like any more of a prat than he already is

TS invite looks lovely but you've got DD1's name and your phone number on there.... possibly an idea to take personal info off if you want to leave it on your profile....

loti DO NOT shop for your H. If he can't be arsed to make the most basic effort required for an occasion, let him look like a prat and explain to anyone who asks that he is a grown man and you have been far too busy with the girls.

FFS, he's a grown man isn't he? He does know where the shops are and how to use his bank card, I presume.

Re. black, as long as there's a lot of colour it should be okay. Things like bright coloured pashminas are useful, but you might be a bit too warm if the weather stays like this.

Very of anyone with more than one language. I would love to bring DS up bilingual, I think it's such a gift; sadly, my holiday Spanish isn't quite up to the job. One of the ever-growing list of Things To Do Once My Cocking MA Is Finished is 'work on my Spanish skills'.

but for the record, yes, i agree with Cyteen... don't go shopping for him. Let him explain to other guests why he looks a prat (all by his own doing)

i found out last night that the pil have got the week off work after the weekend they're staying here
FUCKITY FUCK FUCK (sorry, i was going to put a biscuit there but fuckity fuck fuck describes it so much better!)
I'm pretty sure DH doesn't know, that or he hasn't been brave enough to tell me yet
fuck

Miamla do you think someone here will prank call me with UK charges? I just threw it up there for a consult period. Taking it down in a moment.

Lucky my rule of thumb is black is acceptable to a wedding IF the wedding is a 5pm or after affair OR the invite specifies. If it's a late afternoon or evening thing you're covered. Did you post links to the dresses? I'll scroll back and look. Honestly I feel bad when I skip a post. I think the refresh thingy refreshes too much sometimes and I end up loosing posts I've not read. ...off to check my mn settings.

Thanks for the invite praises. It's hard being a Type-A Stay at Home Mom. I'm pretty darn hard on myself.

TS quite possibly not but is it a risk you're willing to take?

oh and re pil... it does indeed turn out that DH knew about their week off work. He was hoping that I'd talk to them about it where's the my husband's a chicken emoticon?!

Miamla maybe now is the time to organise a tour of your hairy trucker friends? Bring T, come visit. A round trip of most of us would take...ooh, about a week wouldn't it?

cyteen sooo tempting.... but seriously, i need to have something set up for the wednes,thurs and fri that can't possibly involve them.... any ideas? the more i think of it, the more a hairy trucker tour sounds appealing!!

thanks for your advice ladies .. wedding is taking place in Cyprus at 5.30pm.. the dress is one shoulder black, short with mesh see thru bits around the front.. thinking of getting some funky pink sandles to go with it and maybe a pink wrap for if it cools in the evening???

Cyteen is right on GPs and Dhs.

Loti, it sounds to me as if he is testing to see if you have got back into the role of put up/shutup dogsbody he likes.

If Finty said he wanted to go to a wedding in shorts and t-shirts it would be all about attention-seeking behaviour and he'd know it. He is 7 ...

Just say, 'That's fine, Dh, wear whatever you want' and pay the whole thing no more mind. Use the time you could spend shopping to do somethign life-affirming with your lovely girls.