Jan 09 Summer sun, peachy bums and... toddler tantrums..

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I know, I know Chef, but I am sooo bored. Just tried to call a few of our friends for a chat, but it would appear they all have lives and are out enjoying themselves on this fine Saturday night.

I do love the dress, but am not sure it looks that good on me. I have the hair, but sadly not the figure.

Between that and not being able to wear a nice pair of pretty shoes, that's why I thought going alternative/funky might be a better option. Apparently there are going to be a few alternative types there, mixed in with the designer label gang. Can't quite get my head round the mix of people. Should make for an interesting day though.

Sounds like you have been busy. Is dd feeling better now?

Hi Tink, sounds like you have had a productive day as well. Really must get the paddling pool out for my lot, we never seem to think of it though.

Mine have been on a trampoline today. Dh challenged them to see who could do the most number of bounces. Ds2 won with 448 bounces in a row!

Won't your feet get hot in those boots? They look fun but a lot of money if you'll only wear them once?

The dress looks lovely, probably wouldn't work with my tummy though. Need to think about trying to diet again really

Hi Tea

Actually my feet don't tend to get hot in my DMs. Not sure why really. To be honest as long as they are cooler than my foot currently is in this flipping robo-boot and support sock I'll be happy. My foot feels like its on fire tonight - I don't know how I'm going to sleep.

I probably would wear them again under jeans etc, as when we go out with friends (very rarely) it tends to be to more alternative venues and festivals etc. I've actually found them a little bit cheaper than that as well, but that was the first one that came up in google when I wanted a link.

Dh is all for it as he says they will probably last the rest of my life, lol. I have had my current DMs for about 15 years and there's hardly a mark on them. In fact they are bit too smart for DMs iykwim.

Fortunately my tummy seems to have been the first thing to shrink on me with this diet. If I don't think its flat enough by the wedding I will definitely be investing in some 'helpful' undergarments though.

Did you enjoy your brother's party?

Bookmarking,, I know, I haven't been gone too many posts in between but, I'll be off to Vancouver tomorrow and Monday is going to be busy finishing the garden.

Moose at tummy shrinkage! lol. I just learned the medical term for that area; its a penis, and not pronounced like you think. What you would think is that the medical nomenclature people would be a little more creative in coming up with a term for that.

Its pronounced paynus. At least spell it like it sounds.

Meant to add...

Have a lovely Sunday.

Really getting a feel for you now Moose with that last post about the DMs Do you wear tie dye too Only joking, that's lovely if they will last you for years etc I think I was trying to be sensible again Wish I could find a H who was that fun that I could go to festivals etc my H always was very negative about it all being too stressful to go away with DCs. So we never did anything interesting after DCs.

Glad your tummy is shrinking, wish mine would, in a magic way that doesn't involve giving up all my favourite foods

hi mm - boots look brave if you will wear them again though definetly worth the purchase
good price in the sale
i had blue dms when i was 14

i wish my tummy would shrink too everything else slim but that!!!

Moose, totally go for it with those DM's. They woudl look cracking with that dress. Conformity and cloned fashion sucks I never found them hot either, funny isn't it?

Hello to all.

Sicky dizzy again today, after a better day yesterday when I left the house and called work as fit to return. Hope I haven't jinxed myself!

Yesterday was the pits. DH let me sleep in till 9.30 [good] but then I only had 30 mins to get up, shower, and get dd ready for ballet [bad] So I was as sweaty heaving mess of dizzy byt hte time it was time to go, and nearly crying.
So dh, who was desperate for sleep, had to wake Hbomb and drive us in. I don't know what he was thinking. I shouldn't have been driving anyway!
SO then sat boiling, spnning and fuming in ballet.

Then he came back with dd2, and picked us up. We decided to go get birthday cards for Monday for gd. Grand. Took dd1 and 2 to pizza hut for unch for a treat s it's a big even to dd1, and the kids meals are great value at £3.50.
Great! Except by now it was apparent that dh was indeed half asleep, no dummy, no nappy, a bit of bottle. Had he forgotton he had a dd2, despite being in sole care of her all morning? He was also totally grump and putting a real downer on everything. It was all very tense and strained.
Was I being punished for being ill? For sleeping in? Or did he just not care he was ruining my one trip out of the house for 10 days [not counting work and a visit to the garden centre, with dd2]
I hate it when our precious family time gets crapped on by one persons 'issue' So unfair. We don't do it often at all. Between money and dh's hours.

So I sent him home, told myself I felt well, and took dd to TKmax for a toy in reward for her brilliant school report. Got teachers wine and all the gift bags etc.

Came home and dh and I argued all evening. Nice! He's exhausted, and missed the famly. SO the sad result of that is when he has free time he's too tired to enjoy what he misses!

SO good - I got out, had a treat, spent time with dd1, bad, sat nearly crying in pizza hut, dd1 was very aware of it all [she said don't worry mummy, when you are grandparents I'll be out of the way and not such a problem ], and I realised how very miserable many people in my house are!

We have decided that dh is going to get more sleep, by going to bed with H in the evenings. one of us sits with her from 7 onwards anyway, and he gets up at 5, so he may as well. He'll have no time at home at all in the week, but at least the weekends won't be like wadng through treacle.
We still have a few doses of her sedative, as we never really didi the week the GP advised. So we are going to use that and seee if it sets a new better pattern.

If we get that sorted maybe we can try get our relationshp sorted!

Dh got up with them again today, so am wracked with guilt. Why does no one wake me??? They have had a lovely time and visted grandma and brought home a macd for a treat

Oh well. Families eh?

Whoa mega post! Don't read it, just me dribbling on

How's the foot today Moose?

Tea - I hope you find one too.I am sure you will. You will I'm sure. Best place to look, festivals! Go with them, it's not much harder than being at home.The only hard bit is packing before and after imo. I thought of going to a few on my own this year, as dh has no time off apart fromm one week, until Christmas. It was always just me and my mum, and we got up to all sorts.

Where abouts do you live again? I bet we could find a nice one for you, not too far.

bookmarking

Watford.

Hi Tree. Sorry you had such a difficult day yesterday. Our family days often go the same way. I am usually desperate to get out of the house and the weekend and dh just wants to stay home and chill. I think its the same in many households really.

We have similare issues with dh working full time then doing freelance work at home in the evenings. In fact we had a humndinging argument this week when I had spent so much time on my own and dh went straight to work on the computer as soon as the boys were in bed. I was miffed as I'd had no company, he insisted he was sitting with me so he was being company, I said being there is not the same as actually 'being there' iyswim and so it went on.

Its hard, no doubt about it and whilst he has been very good doing everything I can't do at the moment, I can tell he's biting his lip and resenting it.

Must be so hard not having a break to look forward to as well. We are lucky to have our holiday in 3 weeks to regroup and catch up with each other again.

Hope the extra sleep helps and you have a lovely weekend next weekend.

My green silk dress is a Monsoon maxi.

Tea, not so much with the tie dye these days, but a few years ago you'd've been bang on. I have a very boring school run acceptable 'Mummy uniform' these day, but still have a few bits here and there that give away my past. Nowadays I tend to love the idea of more alternative and funky clothes, but always feel too old and so am never brave enough to buy them.

Well I thought my foot was feeling a lot better this morning. Then we went to my PILs where I sat in the garden with my foot up on an upturned bucket and now it hurts like hell again. I do think its improving though, so hopefully I'll be ok for the boys' sports day on Tuesday.

Gave it a good check over this morning and found that now the swelling has come down with the compression from the cast's inflatable sections the bruising has come through and its a very pretty mix of colours. Also found that there is a definite lump right where the fracture is and learned NOT to touch it as it REALLY hurts! Must have been the swelling that was protecting it, as it didn't hurt that much before.

tea - if you are game, I'd suggest Harvest at Jimmy's. It's about 70 miles away. Which sounds a lot but I used to commute that there and back, so it's actually very very do-able. It also looks very very family friendly, food and music orientated [rather than drug filled haze orientated] and generally easier going and less full-on.

Be worth a go! YOu could even just do one day if camping seems a bit too much. DO you drive? If not it seems trains are really good, and the farm is 10 mins from the trainstation. www.harvestatjimmys.com/index.php

I'm desperate to go, but we can't really justify the 7 hour drive for it. Now if we had a camper..........it would take 12 hours but be more of a laugh.

Moose, your poor foot. Am at your green silk dress. I have a blue jersy one, and I know that when was skinny and backpacking I would have lived in it. So wearing it is a bit of a toughie, my huge boobs fall out, and my backfat seems to make an appearance too. Oh well.
I also have a very bright pink/red hawaian affair that was also £70. I love it but I can't afford t, so it's going back.

Dh has been much more cheerful today. Although he did give a bit of a cats bum face when I said I might pop to town. I dunno, there is something going on, but I can't fathom it. I didn't go to town, apart form town being crap and depressng as it is, I didn't need the baggage you know? I'd have been childfree bliss, but wondering what was up and why the face. So stayed home and did a bit of a playroom kul. SUrely no one can fault me for that? I was really only going to town for Boots, to look at getting dd1 a fibre supplement and some back up disposables [childcare gp's prefer them] so he ended up having to go to Sains to get them.
Is this silly, but I wanted to get them. I have a £1 off voucher, and I wanted to read up and consider the different fibre supplements.

Tut.

WHat a moany old tart I am.

Tree, my dress was bnwt off ebay a few years back. Think I paid £30.00 for it. Ebay is great for Monsoon dresses, there are literally 1,000s to choose from. Fortunately, its not a strappy one, its a v-neck with little capped sleeves, so everything pretty much stays put.

There are lots of maxi's for sale on ebay at the moment from a company called Kushi. They seem to do a really wide range of styles and are usually less than £20.00. Have been seriously tempted a couple of times as I would love to have a daywear maxi-dress, but there's no point at the moment as it would just keep getting caught on my roboleg.

No, its not silly that you wanted to get the stuff yourself. I am forever having to rely on dh to get things I/we need because I don't drive and therefore can't get to the right shops. I hate that I don't get to shelf browse and label read and make an informed decision based on what's available. Instead I always end up with what was on offer, cheapest or nearest to hand and then I end up feeling cheated.

Foot is feeling a lot happier now it is back in its favourite place on a pile of cushions on the sofa. Its ok a long as I don't try and walk on it tonight - so quite frankly, I'm not going to. Dh will not be impressed at having to organise all the Monday morning school stuff himself, but so be it.

Actually, I am sitting here pricing up uniform, lunch bags, pe bags and trainers etc. I usually have it all done by this time of year, so am feeling hopelessly out of control.

Oo that reminds me. They both need new name labels. Ds1's have lasted him since nursery and we only ran out in April this year, not bad as school expenditure goes. I bought less for ds2 and his ran out at about the same time. Still, they did three years, so again, not bad really.

Have just bought the boys one of these new in the box off ebay. Am also buying them some poi which help to integrate the left and right sides of the brain and improve gross motor skills. Am really hoping to try and improve their dyspraxic type problems before they go back in September.

We have just found out this weekend that the really good secondary school at the end of our road (hence one of the reasons we moved and stayed in this area) has applied to become one of these new fangled academies. Unfortunately academies will have the right to exclude SEN pupils from their intake. This is really bad news for ds1, as he will have a formal diagnosis by the time he goes to secondary and his best friend will definitely be going there. All the other 'good' secondaries in our town will be following suit as well and all except the one at the end of our road are at least two bus rides away. I can see tough times ahead if they get approved.

Really makes me grumpy when I think both my DCs are down for the night and then my DD tells me she needs the toilet loudly, wakes DS who is going to sleep, then comes out of the room, mucks about, doesn't go to the toilet and then I send her back to bed again Ohhhh my evenings are too precious, need my down time

Tree you and your H have got a tough time with H bomb sleeping badly and everything else rolled into one, it's going to make things a bit antsy at times

I'll have a look at festival link.

oh no tree with dh

my dh was very moody on sat too
he is the same likes to chill @ weekends and on a sat i like yo go into town in the morning on my own
i was pulling off paper in the lobby on sat and the gilrs were very moody with him
he was better sun

my mum over today

Sounds like it was the weekend for grumpy dh's then folks. Bless, probably their hormones!

I think we had possibly the worst night we've ever had last night. First of all, because dd fell asleep twice in the car yesterday - she was still awake at 12.00! Then, all 3 dc's woke up crying/screaming at different times. The dog woke the whole house up leaning against the kitchen door and scratching her poorly ear (makes the whole house shake and feels a bit like an earthquake). My foot decided to keep cramping up and the place where the actual fracture is was throbbing all night, so got up to take cocodamol once but only took a half dose, then had to get up an hour later and take the other half and it still didn't stop hurting so pretty much kept me awake all night and I woke dh up crying once because it hurt so much.

We are a house of zombies this morning and I am so pathetic, I keep feeling like bursting into tears for no particular reason.

Think I will concentrate on making sure I have everything we need for the holiday ordered and then get cracking on the uniform etc I priced up yesterday. Although thinking about it, I have to make a top-hat for ds2 as he has a 'Mad Hatter' competition this Wednesday and needs to decorate it tonight. Dh was supposed to do it with him at the weekend, but kept putting it off until it was too late - typical.

Can't believe the price of their new school uniform (redesigned last year) have ordered them two sweatshirts each and seen off over £40.00. They will need more of them, but I'll have to buy them later in the year.

Sorry for me, me, me post - I'd better head off until I'm in a better mood I think.

((((((((((hugs))))))))) for Moose. Bloomin school jumpers. It's ok for me as there is only one in them at the mo. I'm hoping dd1 lasts a good few years in hers, she has the smallest but loads of growing room. I'm afraid dd2 will inherit them too, assuming they don't redesign them! I don't think they shoul dbe allowed to do that you know. By all means change suplliers etc, but I don't think the actual uniform chould change.

Take it easy today Moosey, I hope the leg gives you some rest. If you take half a cocodamol dose maybe you should take half a paracetamol too? 0.5 of paracetamol is no good to anyone who is adult size, you really do need a gram, 6 hourly, regulary. It has been shown to give excellent pain relief post op.
If you get codeine on it's own, you can then dip in and out of that as you want to'feel you can take the sleepness.

Well, dh was good as hs word and was in bed for 10.30pm. It's hard to do in this house! Bugger it though H was up 4 times so he suffered, I slept in bunk bed cos dd1 begged me to. Never heard a thing

So scuppered agan. I just dropped off for 20 mins settling H bomb too.
Blew my diet big style this week, have had many snacks and chocs, plus an entire peperoni pizza last night It was lovely

Pouring here. Mum put a sail up in the backyard paved terrace style outdoor space, it looks great and keeps some uv off the girls. I wonder if I should take it in when it rains

Plastering slowly underway in the backroom playspace/sunroom. I still think it's too small.

That's the annoying thing Tree. We have loads of sweatshirts that were ds1's that still fit him and would do to pass on to ds2, but they changed the rules last year and said everyone has to have the new sweatshirts, which you can only buy from the school. Apparently this contravenes government guidelines, but with things the way they are with ds1, we have to pick our battles. We are already getting a rep for being trouble-making parents just for standing up for our little boy.

Got to walk/hobble to the school with Mum this afternoon to kick teacher's but about the whole home contact book fiasco, then tomorrow I have to go down there for 9.15 for ds1's sports day, then come home and go back again for 1.15 for ds2's sports day. They are bound to let ds2 go home straight afterwards at 2.30, but I will then have to go back at 3.15 for ds1. Another great planning/organisational disaster courtesy of the school.

Sounds like your house is really starting to take shape now. Must be lovely to see things actually happening. Our place has been pretty much stagnant since I was pregnant with dd.

I bet if you just stick with the bedtime thing, H will come round eventually and find her own way.

We really have to do something about dd as well, she was awake until 12.00 last night, which is no good for any of us. I really don't want a repeat of what we had to do with ds1, which wasn't unpleasant, but was time consuming and soul destroying. I think I might just start by going to bed myself, putting her in the cot and being there to soothe her as and when necessary. Once she gets into a pattern/routine with something she's generally pretty good, so am really hoping it'll work. We really need her in her own room and going to bed on time by next September - I have big plans to be uber-organised and on top of everything with the school again next year. Including doing both school runs myself so that dh can come home from work earlier. Seriously need to pick up where I left off when I was pregnant with dd.

I'm having one of those days where I'm feeling very bored and at a loose end. Flat fairly tidy, most important chores done, kids happy and playing, tea cooking but I'm bored. Perhaps I have cabin fever, as apart from a trip to a hardware store for ant powder and the said application of and picking and dropping DD at pre school, my day has been non eventful.

Keep wondering from room to room....

That's amazing books!

Fantastic cake Books! You are building up quite a portfolio. Was wondering where you were - nearly sent you a text at the weekend to see if you were ok, but my phone was dead and I couldn't reach the charger.

I have just wasted spent an hour and a half of my life making a mad hatter's hat for ds2 to decorate. Stupidly decided to do a topsy-turvy one with a sloping top and discovered that that makes it a lot more fiddly, thus taking twice as long as a normal top-hat. Have had to add a band of felt and some jaunty feathers onto it (with ds2's approval of course) to hide where I fluffed it up.

Won't even begin to go into the conversation I had with ds1's teacher after school today. I think !!!!! says it all really.

Also discovered that walking to and from the school on crutches is bloody hard work. Really worked up a sweat and felt really sick and dizzy by the time I got home.

Am doing better with just one crutch around the house now though and its definitely easier with one than two, which is good, as I can only use one crutch whilst pushing the buggy and have to do the school run three times tomorrow thanks to sports day.

Tea, I am with you on the cabin fever - I did get out yesterday, but only to the PILs back garden and think I may actually have lost a few more marbles being stuck in here for so long. I keep wandering around as well, but can't find anything I can do effectively on one foot. This, despite the fact that having left the house in the care of a man for the best part of three weeks - everything needs doing!

120 - do the brownie's harden as they cool, a bit like flapjacks? I cook them at 180 degrees for 25 mins but they're often still soft to touch, when I press the top. So I often leave them in a little longer, I'm just wondering if I'm missing something and could make them taste even better, if I got the timing perfect.