Dec '06 - Still clinging onto sanity.

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Oli the end is in sight! Bed you are pleased

The paint was from Homebase but it wasn't own brand so expect you can get it most places. Daily it isn't very magnetic but it is enough for little magnets and to put their paintings up. I'm very pleased with it, I painted the whole cupboard so there is plenty of space at the top where they can't reach to put pictures

AQ kudos for cooking for 10! I don't think summer is easier for cooking/cleaning. It just means dcs are in and out of the garden/park all the time tracking in more soil on shoes and getting everything they own mucky.

Jabber well done on sorting the debt. A very positive step, must feel good to have a plan and know you can manage it. Sorry dh is not too good

I'm feeling virtuous today. Dodn't think it would be a good day when we got to toddlers to find it cancelled as someone had broken into the church (scumbags ) but then we went to the bakers to get some snacks and bumped into a couple of the other mums so we went to the park by my house together. Turned out to be a very good thing as instead of falling asleep on the way home from toddlers as usual and only having a short pushchair sleep dd had a long nap in bed and then ds declared he was sleepy so went to sleep in my bed and I have tackled the kitchen, got the bol sauce for dinner tonight bubbling and pureed and frozen a mountain of strawerries from the self pick.

Hi Everyone
I'm around

Have got into the Twilight series of books and have read all 4 in the last 2 weeks which is why I've been awol. Went to the cinema to see Eclipse the other night with DH, too

My house is a tip. DH is away. And I'm finding it a bit gard to get going atm.

Indith, that sounds wonderful!

Another secret Twilighter here I've told dh I want a Mommy Goes to the Movies night to see it. He would hate it so there's no sense in doing a couple thing.

Indith, debt-sorting still underway. Got turned down for the 9% card First time that's happened in 20 years. But then, I've never been in quite this situation before. I'm going to try again in a month or two when things are in a little better shape.

Don't know what the future holds for dh health=wise really. I guess just maintaining status quo is about all we can hope for.

jabber, about debt and dh. It must be really hard for you to be the breadwinner. I'm sure things will ease up for you in time now that you've faced up to it.

Just had long convo with dp tonight as business problems (again, when are there not) with the recession here and another things. Poor bloke. Selfishly the thing I think of is whether we can buy a new house. Guess not.

Not getting the twilight thing. Sorry. Don't think RPatz attractive at all compared to...um...George Clooney, Daniel Craig or Clive Own for a start. Hmmm.Sigh. Dream.

Watched fab movie I've loved you so long on DVD the other night, with Kristin Scott Thomas. Wow. I'm trying to read and watch more and even read the paper every day on my phone to keep in touch with the world. Otherwise I' m just buried in mumdom.

Torturo, it is hard to keep going when other half not around isn't it? Funnily enough house always way messier when he's away, but I seem to relax more.

Oh goodness not Twilight? I thought you lot were rational! Mind you, there were those conversations about daddy pig........

I completely and utterly give up with my daughter and sleep I really do. She has stopped feeding so much int he day, just first thing, bedtime and sometimes naptime. She is pretty much only feeding once at night now but she wakes up so much! Last night it must have been around 6 times. The night before technically she only woke once. Trouble is she woke at 11 and didn't go back to sleep until around 3.30 What the hell do I do with the child?

I have no words of wisdom as mine were just as bad They did grow out of it finally, if that's any consolation...

Going to a conference after work today and won't be back until Sunday. yippee! My usually lovely employees have been rather bitchy this week and yesterday I had just had enough. You know how it can be with 3 women....

Have fun Jabber

No, not Twilight. I tried to watch it with a friend who is a fan and couldn't help taking the p throughout, I wasn't popular.

Hope you have a good weekend Jabber. Sorry that DH having a bad spell. And money worries too

AQ, we are in same boat re: DH's business and recession. There are so many days we are on the verge of packing it in, all that work lost - not to mention the money. But as yet we've just kept plodding from one crisis to another hoping that this damned recession will end sooner rather than later. I think that is hope in vain though.

Indith - wrap her up and post her to your MIL with a note saying "Please feed the child" a la Paddington Bear and go get her in a week. That should do it

Oli - Great news on kitchen, will have to give me a tour sometime!

Did you see my FB picture of the beautiful babies my DCuz gave birth to? They are so gorgeous!

I did - they made me broody. We've kind of been thinking about having another. Not now or anytime soon just in the future sometime. We were getting everything ready to sell, all the baby stuff. I've given a lot away and sold some things but DS went in his big bed last week so we dismantled the cot and DH said we should take a photo to put it on ebay and then we ended up deciding to keep it so who knows. Maybe one day.

I can't imagine a third!! But maybe I would have is I had started about ten years earlier.

Conference was disappointingly boring so I skipped out early but we did have fun at the hotel. It's sooo nice and on the historic registry and all that. The boys always love going there.

Okay, here's something weird. I took my diamond pendant (es-H) and egagement ring (ex-p) in for an appraisal on Wednesday to see what I might sell them for. I never wear either of them so thought it was stupid to keep them around. Anyway, the gemologist commented on my lovely engagement ring from dh, it's very unusual and always draws comments. At some point today the center stone fell out of it

Oh, dear, jabber, was it a proper gemstone? I never wear my engagement ring be gutted if I lost a bit of it, still remember that dp carried it around in his pocket for 2 weeks b4 asking me to marry him. Sigh.
Indith, hope hope hope that little miss dd has changed her mind and decided to sleep. You need to meet my friend who lives up the street, her dd is exactly the same, I think I'd rather have 4 and some sleep (sometimes...).
Ooh, up till midnight last night at a Pampered Chef party. Fab, free wine, food and great company. Great stuff. 3 nites out in a row! [aq returns to usual spot on the sofa]
Lenni, I can see you with 3, definitely (just pray you don't get 4 instead hee hee)
DW, babies are beeoootiful

AQ, luckily not. My engagement ring is a very unusual art-deco antique that was, by all expert opinions thus far, probably a custom design involving French enamel, blue sapphires and a Persian turquoise. It was the turquoise that came out. So, not so expensive stone-wise, just worrisome as far as a proper replacement color-wise and just the doing of it all on top of everything else

Am searching for photos to take to the jeweler.

Wow Jabber your ring sounds amazing, I want to see photos now! Such a shame about the stone

AQ the socialite. I like it

Baby photos are lovely. My friend just had a little boy, 4 weeks old now and he is so small and soft and lovely and smells beautful

Dd still does not sleep. I'm thinking of stopping bf. I know it may well not make any difference to her sleep but at least I could escape and leave her to dh occasionally. I'm just sick of feeling so run down. The past few months I have slipped from cold to tummy bug to another cold to a random virus and it feels never ending. I just don't want to regret stopping when I have akways intended to allow her to self wean

Indith - DS stopped feeding in Jan, his own decision but I am still suffering the post bf rundown feeling. Still going from one cold to another and them lasting weeks. My iron reserves are still completed depleted according to my rheumatologist and I need some exercise plus 6 months on I am still producing the odd bit of colostrum so I guess it is going to take longer to fet back to normal. Anyhow, was just sharing since don't want you to regret giving up and then not get the quick fix you are hoping for either.

Ring sounds gorgeous Jabber, so sad to have lost the stone.

Get you AQ, pampered chef, am jealous.

Thank you Lenni

(what has happened to deidre?)

AQ, meant to give you a on the pampered chef thing! It sounds like a lovely evening.

Indith, as much as I loved bfing ds2, when I finally weaned him at 2 he started sleeping. I know it doesn't hold true for everyone but he just liked waking up and having a little cuddle and snack. Pretty nice if you think about it from his point of view but it was turning me into a zombie.

Hello everyone

Hope you are all well. Summer holidays have started today and I'm very happy

Castles, i always fail to understand why you find holidays easier! I'm dreading them but then I clearly don't love my kids enough - ds1 is sooooo high maintenance. Glad you're happy tho
jabber, such a pity about the ring, sounds beautiful. Your dh has taste doesn't he?!
Kudos indith for keeping up bf for so long, if you feel the time has come don't give yourself a hard time.
lenni, hope the health probs clear up soon, are you on iron supps presumably? I think I might start spatone again it does seem to help even tho I'm not anaemic. When is the wrist op btw?
I was v.lucky to get pampered chef invite, friend of a friend. Felt like a proper person for an evening. So funny tho all these women cooing over strawberry hullers and garlic presses!

school holidays are a mixed blessing in this house. Most toddler groups are on a break but on the other hand my teacher friends are available.

I think ds is finally growing he is getting tall!

Dd has been ill with something unknown, she has spent the bulk of the week screaming, especially yesterday when she screamed pretty much all the time unless asleep. I have yet another streaming cold.

WHERE is eli???? HAve I missed something important?

Indith, do you think your dd might have a sensitivity to something like cow's milk? I couldn't drink it at all when bfing ds1 and even though he can now eat cheese and ice cream with seemingly no problems he drinks soy or goat's milk.

Am under dr's orders to stay as immobile as possible this weekend as I may likely have a herniated disc Going to call Monday to set up an MRI to see for sure.

I don't think so Jabber....Eli! Oh Eli where are you?!

Jabber poor you, sounds painful.

I don't think she has any allergy issues, she is for the most part a very happy lunatic. She just doesn't sleep! She is over whatever it was and just has a bit of a cold. Am winding down the feeding as much as possible, hope to stop once she is over her cold.

Dh is away next weekend for BIL's stag do and I have not been looking forward to it but MIL has just offered to have ds for the weekend . Also means I can spend a couple of nights stopping the night feeds again knowing that it is only me she is keeping up and I can catch up during her nap rather than having to play with ds.

Speaking of ds, he has been asleep for about 2.5 hours. Dh has gone out with dd so I should probably wake him up.

When I've checked active convos.....

Doesn't eli normally disappear for most of summer? Goes to France etc? I'm sure she'll come back to the fold.
Indith, did you get sorted for wedding clothes for kids as will be seeing you shortly? Good luck with sleep training! Dd has been screaming (tho not all the time) so must be ill as rest of time she never does. She just does what she wants to do v.v.quietly whilst ds3 has tantrums. Do you think they've discussed a strategy? I am starting to notice big diffs in language b/t her and the 3 boys, must be what people says is true as she's waaaay ahead of ds3 and what ds1/ds2 could do that age. DS2 starting to stammer the way that ds1 did, sigh.
Trying to sort out chaos in house at night-time lately, dp bought me inspiring book on decluttering

Hope you are feeling better Jabber and getting some sleep Indith & AQ!

Saw Eli a couple of weeks ago. She's grand.

Holidays are still going well you'll be pleased (or not ) to hear AQ. We haven't managed to kill each other anyway. Yet!

Glad Eli is fine

Ah AQ, you know it's love when they buy you a decluttering book

I think we are sorted for clothes thank you. Lovely MNer up the road got smartish outfit for her ds to wear to his little sister's christening we are borrowing it after and my mum, bless her, cobbled together a dress for dd from left over material from my wedding dress, she is going to look so cute

Went down to the stream in the woods this morning for a paddle, half an hour later we were home as dd decided to throw herself into the deepest bit she could find and I had to leap in an drag her out the muppet. That'll teach me to think of good old fashioned fun things to do .