Dec '06 - Still clinging onto sanity.

[EasilyConfusedIndith]

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lol, Indith, I am not and have never been a fan of Kraft Mac and Cheese. It's particularly gross if the orange stuff doesn't get all stirred up and clumps together. Bleurghhhh Believe it or not there is a totally organic version that's not too bad but we don't eat it either.

If I were away, what would I crave??? Will have to think on that awhile. I did have a fried twinkie at a fair once that was, I'm sure, absolutely horrible for me but was also completely delicious

First birthday... ds2 is on the 22nd of November. IIRC he was one day before eli's dd2?

PS, not a move just selling dh's house from pre-marriage that has been rented all this time. We were making practically nothing on it after taxes and insurance and were finally convinced that we were never going to get to the point of using it as a 2nd home. Sooo, roll on Monday! (I don't know that I have EVER used that phrase before!)

DD2 is driving me nuts. The amount of arguments we have over clothes is unbearable. She's a little diva who refuses to wear trousers - even the brand new lazytown ones i bought her the other day. If I get her clothes out and she doesnt like them she goes and gets her own, or puts fancy dress clothes on instead. . She is currently Rosetta fairy (from Tinkerbell) and expects to go out to vets dressed as such.

I know it seems so trivial but she's so stubborn and as it's a battle I'm not winning I'm not minded to back down.

Probably my fault as I have indulged her love of dresses as she looks so cute, but it starting to get cold!!

I let DD2 dress herself. She's been doing it since she was 18 months. She's so opinionated it's just one less battle to try and win I do insist she wears tights and a vest now though.

Ds1 has never particularly cared about what he wore. Ds2, on the other hand, has very strong opinions sometimes!

Troble is castles, she tries scaling the wardrobe to get to the summer strappy dresses I've put at the top out of the way.

Ds still doesn't give a fig what he wears, though trying to get him to dress himself is another battle "I'm too tired!" Dd has an opinion, I should reorganise her clothes so she can reach them all herself. She is a fan of her summer dresses too "look mummy pretty dress, look mummy beautiful" so she just wears them with a vest, long sleeved top under and tights. I try to put a cardi on her but she isn't a fan.

If I try and put a vest or top underneath a summer dress then it generates a huge tantrum as it 'doesnt look right mummy.

Fashionista in the making clearly.

Oh Lord, MNT, she sounds like both my dds: raving fashionistas both

I do love school uniform

I've hidden the summer dresses (but she has a photographic memory and uses it loudly), she's got used to vests, but I mostly let her choose. So if they think, at pre-school, that her mother is a colour-blind parrot with a penchant for clashing socks, so be it.

Oh, and she's 4 on the 24th November, along with a couple of others I think? I'm looking forward to it, I still think 3 is the most exhausting age emotionally (till they get to 13, possibly) for girls!

Jabber and Indith, you've brought back a memory of dh and me in Wholefood Markets in Santa Fe, me drooling over a dairy-free whole-everything macaroni cheese...it was gorgeous, nothing Kraft-like or orange about it and I wish I had one now...

So pleased you said that Eli: I was starting to wonder about DD2. She is such a high maintenance 3 year old

I seem to recall Magnolia was an early 06er.

Mmmm kraft mac cheese sounds right up my street. But then I eat crap all day thus putting on nearly 2 stone in a year. Argh.
Ds2 v v interested in fashion, and takes care of his clothes which is great tho unlikely for nearly 4yo. Dd is just a whole other ball game. Never goes to bed without something from a drawer. I still choose everything tho for ds1 who is nearly 7!
Am nearing end of Xmas/birthday shopping. Yay! Rest of my life in tatters but I can shop.

Am finishing off a bottle of Spanish sparkling wine. It's been a hell of a day. Ds1 decided to skip most of chess club yesterday and almost got away with it. His former 1st grade teacher rumbled him (thank goodness) and I have spent the day dealing with it.

More wine, anyone?

Poor Jabber

AQ, I am so with you on the shopping. A week of shingles and nearly all the dds birthday/xmas presents are done...from my entire family...

We recently introduced an easyfundraising thingy to fundraise for the dds' school: I think I'm almost solely responsible for its success

I like that AQ. Think I will quote you regularly! Feel under enormous pressure now though hearing you've done your xmas/bday shopping. Arrrgh!

I have no wine jabber but I do have alcoholic ginger beer. Probably shouldn't open that just now though.

Who needs life? Shopping is the way forwards. Mine is doing pretty well. Dd's birthday present is pretty much sorted, dcs stockings and present sorted. various vodkas and sloe gin maturing the the cupboard for family, need to do the limoncello though. Will hopefully get ds's birthday present int he sales, that is one advantage of going into January! No idea about dh though. I've just renewed his magazine subscription for his birthday (in January) but still have Christmas to do.

Dd had a short nap Thursday then slept all night without a peep. Didn't nap yesterday and only woke up once. Asleep now, will only let her have a little one and see if this night sleeping thing continues!

DD2 wet herself today and is now panicking that she needs a wee again straight after she has been. It seems that 4 days of antibitoics havent really helped :( Swab and urine test results come back Monday - they'd better not say nothing is wrong.

I had a problem with bladder reflux when I was a little girl. If they don't come back with something definitive ask if they have considered that.

Would that just appear though Jabber?

Oh it sounds very upsetting for her :( I have no ideas to add, I just hope that you get to the bottom if it soon.

What happens is that the bladder refluxes urine back into the kidneys where it sits and then sets up an infection. So the problem can exist for a while before the symptoms suddenly appear iirc.

for your dd, MNT, really hope you get some clear info tomorrow.

Happy Halloween to all the LOs...just got back with dds, and am in danger of turning into a witch and turning dh into a frog or worse: it was his turn to go out with them, I'm still unwell, but he somehow managed to stay in with friend's dh and 'hand out' (aka scoff) chocolates

What is it with men and the halloween chocolates Eli? Dh spent the evening saying "so do you think we'll get any more peole round? Can I eat the chocolates yet?"

So, DDs test results all came back clear.

She is not complaining when weeing today, but is miserable. Dont really know what to do.