Hello Ladies... I'm back!! dh is watching the Champions league final in the playroom and I'm sprawled on the sofa enjoying having the remote control for myself for a change!
Just done a big catch up... personals first.
wasabi How's your dad doing? I hope he's feeling ok and not too rough. Fingers crossed everything stays aok for him. I can totally see why he opted not to go for the chemo. With those odds and if he's feeling healthy then it must be a more sensible option to hold off on the chemo for now.
Ooooh dh has just screamed goal so I guess Barca are ahead :o
Congrats to your dh on his new job, lovely to have him around much more. It's so nice that he can help with bathtime. My dh has bought a scooter for his work commute which means he's home just as the dcs are getting in the bath and it is really lovely. We have a great routine, dh puts Francesca to bed and I do Luca. It means we can have them both asleep by 7.30 which is bloody marvellous.
Blue Glad you enjoyed the wedding :o I did work on it, I cut for the news bulletins so if you watched the coverage on BBC1 you wouldnt' have seen any of my work, but if you watched the news bulletins afterwards you would have :o I'm suspecting almost no one watched the news that day, after 6 hours of wedding coverage why would you watch the news and watch a bit more? :o I was pretty much wedding'd out by the end of it.. I was in work for 8am and got to see the whole lot I wish I was a producer... sadly I'm a lowly editor. Not the kind that runs around shouting at everyone that "we're on air in ten minutes people, lets pick it up" (no one does that outside of American tv dramas actually :o) I'm the type that sits in a dark edit suite and physically edits all the pictures together. Used to be on good old fashioned film, then tape, now it's all computers and digital media.
Yay for Ben's new shoes and his super walking skills! Way to go! I'm too broody too, I'm ovulating today and it would be too easy, but dh really really doesn't want another. I think he'd leave me. Like Wasabi I think I'm 40, have two beautiful healthy children, let's not get greedy!
I'm completely clueless on Scottish politics. Alex Salmond slightly scares me, if I were Scottish I think independence would be the wrong thing, breaking up the Union would be ruinous for so many.
Oh and don't think I've forgotten..... :o A big Happy Birthday high five for tomorrow. Congratulations on joining the cool decade to be in :o Seriously turning 40 is a doddle. I clearly remember my sister and her friend both telling me that it's finally the time you take no shit from anyone, finally the time you look great and know it, finally the time when you take no prisoners and actually say and do what you want! I bloody love being 40 :o I hope you have a lovely day and get spoiled rotten. Just don't think about 50 :o:o:o I hope you enjoy your iPhone, I've resisted, but I do have an android phone. You've got to get Angry Birds and Shazam. I can basically fill my day with both :o dh has promised me an iPad for my birthday... he's got a mate in the States who can get one for $500 as opposed to the £500 they are over here (works out to be about £375 I think) I hope he doesn't expect me to buy him such a nice present... I'm still trying to pay back my overdraft from maternity leave.
I hope your teeth are still nice and shiney. I'm shockingly bad at going to the dentist, I really want to get mine whitened, but would a trip to the dentist for a polish really make that much difference? I'm ashamed to say I haven't been to a dentist for years and years, but I am religious at brushing and flossing so they're in pretty good nick. But they are quite yellow They've always been a bit like that so I think that's the natural colour of my teeth, but I was hoping whitening would help, but maybe a polish would be worth trying first.
rogue wooo hooo, congratulations on passing the driving test. And wooo hooo to Aoife on crawling and getting a new tooth in the same week! Clever girl. It's so nice when they get a bit of independence and you don't have to carry them everywhere. Her timing's perfect too, just in time for summer. Winter is no time to be learning to crawl, you can never go outside, because of course they want to be on the ground showing off their new skills, but because it's wet/snowy/muddy you can't. Very frustrating for the little darlings, and boy do they let you know it!
Glad to hear Aoife settled back in to her napping routine, I'm very jealous. Francesca took 8 weeks to get over her sleep regression at that age. Damn near killed me, she woke every hour
Glad to hear you managed to rehome the stray. The photos on FB were mega cute, if I didn't involve a trip across the water I would have been tempted to take him! :o
I hope you're not dreading the return to work too much. I know when I was on mat leave the date when I went back loomed on the horizon for so long, I hated it. When it came to it though I really enjoyed getting out of the house, wearing clothes for a whole day without getting food all over them, eating a meal uninterrupted... if you can get the balance right between having time with your scrumptious baby and being a human being with unsoiled clothes I think it's perfect!
Jumping so lovely to see you back on here... so sorry to hear about your lack of work and subsequent financial worries. It's so hard, petrol is bonkers now, we're paying over £1.43 for diesel around here. It's £80 to fill our car I've had to stop driving all together, apart from short trips to the park... it's a shame because for the first time I've actually got a parking space at work, and because no one can afford to drive the roads are really quiet so I can get to work in 50 mins. Gives me an extra 45 mins at home with the kids in the mornings. I wish I had some top money saving ideas.. I'm not brilliant with it though, I can't seem to get our food bill below £100 a week at the moment. I'm doing packed lunches at work, when we're out with the dcs, anything to avoid spending too much but still allowing us to actually leave the house!
I hope things improve soon. F sounds and absolute delight. I know what you mean about that independence thing... is it just girls? I'm sure Luca wasn't that independent. It's lovely that they all play together, I must admit when my two manage it, it does give me a rosy glow. Not many moments of parenting smugness, but that's one of them.
I hope you're able to come back soon and that in the meantime you can find some solution to your work situation. I don't know how anyone manages to work in the evening... I mean, I work until 10.30pm three times a week, but I'm at the office so I don't have to juggle that with sorting piles of laundry and emptying the dishwasher!
Last (but not least of course :o) Bella So lovely to hear that Georgie is chatting, if not in the right language :o Francesca is adding new words every day.. her latest is sorry, but said in a really sarcastic voice. She sounds like a teenager :o soooorreeeeeee! Another one she just started saying today is cuddle which comes out as cuggle. Very cute :o
I know what you mean about leaving for work in the morning. Francesca stands at the door waving and say byeee in such a cute way it's hard to leave her. I love how G dances too... so sweeet. We should get them together in baby disco. Francesca had a bonkers danceathon the other day... she just bopped around the kitchen. I'd never seen her do it, and I've never seen her do it since. Kerrrazy!
Did you manage to replace your iphone? How horrible you had to miss your holiday... but so nice to spend some time alone with George. How's his hair growing by the way? Francesca's hair is way off a cut, but I suppose girls can get away with it being longer. I did tackle her fringe a few weeks ago as it was getting in her eyes. Big mistake. She wriggled so much I cut it waaay too short and it looked ridiculous. Luckily it's growing so fast, she's finally starting to look normal :o
Blimey, while I've been writing this Barca have won the champions league.. the Titanic has sunk and I've had two cups of tea and a Dime bar :o
Not really any time for me to tell you what's been going on here... actually there's been sod all going on :o Our lovely Polish nanny Karolina is settling in well. Luca and Francesca both love her, and her little girl who's 2 weeks older than Francesca is a real sweetie so it's lovely for Francesca to have someone to play with. Luca's preschool sessions move to 5 mornings a week from September so it's going to be great that Francesca has someone to play with while he's at school.
Bugger all else going on really, just ploddding along as usual :o I'll have to get me a social life so I'll actually have something to post about :o
Righty, I've really got to go, I have an pressing engagement with my bed. Dh is now tweeting away and if I'm lucky I can get the better half of the duvet and the remote control before he gets there :o
Night night ladies, take care xx