June 08 - a Coalition for all (even those with May or July 08 babies).

[DomesticGoddessInTraining]

Abdn liked the title so I just went ahead!

Ooh Sybil, poor you. Hope you aren't too stiff in the morning. Falling over as an adult is always a bit of a shock to the system.

You are all right, MIL I conclude has a bit of a thing about body image. DH had his job interview today. He has just come back and we were all asking him how it went. MIL's question was "was the man interviewing you a fat horror?"

WTF?

Poor you Sybil. How horrible for you. I bet the children won't go anywhere near it now.

we are going to be dusting for the rest of our lives. The floor guy "forgot" to cove up the entrance to the room where I'd put all the children's books and all DH's clothes, so they are all absolutely covered in dust. Everything else is covered as well, but not quite so dramatically. The floors are still lovely and whenever I look at them I smile. We're all so pleased to be home, too. DH and I are speaking again and the children are sleeping properly.

Spider your MIL sounds bonkers.

My lovely friend is moving to China. We hardly ever see each other but I'm still a bit sad.

Rolf - I feel your pain with the dust. I remember the dust in an old flat after DH decided tomsand a wall (don't ask). Horrible.

Sybil how awful!

Rolf I remember the dust from our building work and it took months to clear up it just gets everywhere!!

Marking spot- hi everyone. Sybil hope you are over fall, Rolf the dust sounds vile but glad you are home, dewin sorry about your rubbish week, spider your mil a loon- unless you are a MW it's bad manners to say something about size if you are pregnant, deb that's shit re car, hello everyone else.

Oh dear...

I just walked out of the house after dinner after MIL helpfully suggested that what I needed to do differently with the new baby is to put it in a routine. She has forgotten that I tried routines and P resisted them. She then starts telling me how she had DH in a routine by the time they left hospital (they stayed for 10 days back then). I reminded her that when P was a week old we tried out her advice about putting him down for naps to get him in a routine. MIL then claims that she purposefully never gave me any advice which is hilarious as I can remember exactly what she said when P was born.

Anyway I decided the best option was to red card myself from the house. We have both apologised now and she has said she would never want to upset me, but she really has no idea. If she can't remember what happened two years ago, how accurate can her recollections really be of 35 years ago?

Apologies for going on about her. In all honesty she is a good person, but she just has rubbish self awareness and speaks before thinking.

Spider, your MIL sounds like a nightmare. More thoughtless and completely unaware than malicious though which is something.

Sybil - ouch on the fall. Agree that falling as an adult is a real shock to the system. I tripped on my trousers once while walking fast running for the bus and went flying. It was horrible.

Had a nightmare bedtime with S tonight and very weary after our work summer party last night.

Omg spider I would have gone mad with frustration at my surpressed rage. Marks mil was similar when luke was really little and probably will be when these babies are born but she lives far far away!

I wonder if dewin got her job or have I missed something? She said 48 hours...

I think you have to discount mil or indeed parental memory on childrearing- according to my mother I potty trained myself before leaving hospital...

Amber - check fb re dewin

And spider if anyone said something like that to me at the stage of pregnancy you are I would have punched them. Your restraint is admirable.

Dgt sorry about your crap night

Poppy my mum similarly claims that one of my brothers was completely dry at 9 months I have tried to point out this seems physically impossible but she refuses to adnit her memory may be wrong. I just roll my eyes and let her get on with.

Thanks for the sympathy about falling over. My hand is a bit blue an swollen but my bum is surprising not that bad. Obviously I was lucky to fall on a well-padded area!

Sybil, glad your injuries are not too bad - what a nightmare!

Spider, MIL stories are classic so keep them coming (not so funny when it's your MIL though is it). She has no right to tell you how to raise your children. Grr! Daniel is 3wks and there is no way you can put a baby this young in a routine if it doesn't want to be in a routine (and I like routines). They will sleep when they want, be awake when they want and feed when they want and for however long they want. It's lovely . Daniel still sleeps all the time (including at night )

Rolf, sympathies with the dust, I remember it well from when we had work done.a

waves.

I am on call all weekend. boo. I have been called in to do a pointless scan that I could have refused to do if we only had a computer link at home and could look at Xrays there and therefore give an opinion over the phone. grrr.

DGT was it today you were going to see Julia Donaldson at the festival? My friend Neil was inside the Gruffalo costume. Gosh, I have friends in high places don't !?!

Sybil there is nothing more embarrassing than falling over as an adult, apart from falling in a pond maybe. poor you.

spider I feel your MIL pain. Mind you, mine was on best behavious last time we saw her, was v suprised, she managed a whole visit without saying anything too ridiculous!

Biscuits - yes it was! It was a fab show - struan loved the gruffalo appearance. Really enjoyed it, hope they're back next year. It was worth the hours it took on the phone to get through to book the tickets. Am sad the Festival is coming to an end, can't wait till next year!

oh my goodness I'm out of date...

Sorry to here dewin's news about the job on fb and that she's not well either. I hope you're okay dewin!!!!

Glad rolf's back in her house and hugs for deb re car. sybil are you on the mend from the fall? and spider your MIL sounds trying - but it's always good to be the bigger person - I've had a rocky time with my FIL in the past and yet he's bailing us out now and I'm so thankful.

I had a good week away for my course, I did really well I think and won a bottle of whisky for a prize :) I've four days in the office this week and we're interviewing a nanny Monday and a childminder Tuesday. We saw a childminder today that I really liked but she only works two days a week and one of them is Tuesday - which is the worst day for me. So I've high hopes for the nanny... (I think the other childminder isn't registered and I'm not sure how I feel about that.) I really liked the obvious effort the one today had put in and I would happily leave my kids with her - except that she lives 5 miles in the wrong direction and we could really use 2.5 days of care... but the bottom line is we could make it work if we needed to which takes away the pressure a bit.

No time to catch up due to the length of time it took to load the thread - we need a new one!

No inspiration for titles, although especially for Deb, we could go with:

June 08 - counting shopping days til Christmas!

Yes we do need a new thread title don't we.

A twist on your suggestion Eddie:

June 08 - 118 (and counting) sleeps till Chistmas, but don't tell Deb!

Lol! I did think of including the number, but it would be out of date the next day! (Unless we could get MNHQ to change the no each day !).

I like the thread title suggestions... Leave the number in - it's not like we don't go through a thread rather quickly so it wont be up in October .

Step this way lovely ladies