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

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New thread here...

Thanks 120. I am such a worrywort. I hate going to weddings - such a faff and expense.

Forgot to say - TEA I replied to your email a bit earlier. So sorry I'm being so slow off the mark - have left my email account open for you now.

That dress is lovely for a wedding, or any 'ing'. YOu could also wear it on more casual occasions too. Very good item to have, I bet you wear it to death actually

Thanks Tree. Do you think I might need some sort of little jacket or shrug over it? I'm not all that keen on my upper arms, especially now one is more muscly than the other thanks to weeks of walking with a crutch.

Well, I'm a slave to shrugs - because I have fat fat fat matronly arms and horrible freckles all over. So I'd say yes for me. But actually I think they can be fattening, they add bulk that aint there - and the assumpton is you have something to really cover up.

Unless you have arms like mine, I'd say no. Only wear if you need too, in my view. If your arms are in proportion to rest of you then go for it!

Well the cake is made but now I have a shed load of washing up to do and still haven't wrapped DD's presents for tomorrow

Why oh why do I always leave things until the last minute

Tea, have replied to your email. The cake is a triumph!

Are you going to upload it to MN so the others can see how clever you are?

Yes I think I've added it to my photos now.

Right I better clean up the mess in the kitchen.

I don't envy you the post cake decorating washing up - everything is always sooo sticky.

Have just looked at your pictures. Your dcs are so cute - I love the one of them sitting together at butterfly world.

Right, am off to try and get this mini-deliquent resettled.

Don't stay up too late.

DOG? You must post and let us know how you are!!! Hope all ok.

Tea, I LOVE the cake! Congratulations. Hope you have a wonderful day xx

hi mm - gemini here too i am awful @ making descions 2!!

luv the dress is fab luv the first pair of shoes so cool and will go great with dress and luv necklace perfect

dog - bh sound painful

yeh definetly list on ebay i have 2 items running out today on ebay have a bid on each
quiet one today i went to bed too late

had a great time with my mum yest went to the park

Your cake is brilliant!! Wow! What cuties you have

Have a brilliant day, I hope the party goes well. Prepare to be exhausted

We are going to visit dd1's year 6 buddy. She really looked after her this foundation year, and is a lovely lovely girl. Hard to believe she is big enough for secondry school tbh!

We are going to her parents cafe for lunch and then to feed the ducks at the pond. Their village has a lovely lake. I'm a bit nervous, and dd1 is putting her lip gloss on. She loves dressing up like mummy. Bless. Had to convince her to brush her hair though, so my little ruffian is still in here, under lipgloss

BTW Dog, glad to hear it settled a bit. DO not envy you the restless legs one bit. Horrid.

Morning

Happy Birthday Mini Tea - hope you all have a lovely day!

Dog, my bh were like that with dd from about this stage. Mw was a bit until they happened while she was examining me then said they were the strongest she'd seen. If bubs still breech? If so, could it possibly have been him/her turning do you think? Other than that, as dd was breech so frequently, perhaps you feel it more with breech babies? I had terrible restless legs with dd as well. Remember my remedy? A glass of milk, dose of floradix and a banana an hour before going to bed - worked a treat for me. Glad its all settled down now.

Still haven't bought any shoes, I'll be going barefoot at this rate!

Have a lovely day Tree. Sounds like you have a really nice day planned.

I am desperate to get out the house now, I haven't even made it outside since last Saturday and am going slightly bonkers. Dh said he will take us out somewhere when he comes home from work, but suggested going to our favourite chip shop for tea, as it's a bit of a drive out through the countryside. Yeah great, then I can sit and watch you all stuff yourselves with chips and scallops while I eat salad in a pitta bread.

surely scallops are low fat?

Scallop pitta sounds delish.. bit of lemon and some crunchy salad?

You're thinking of scollops not scallops 120.

They vary in name from place to place, but basically they are just potato wrapped in the batter they do the fish in. The boys and I love the batter, but of course don't eat fish, so its the only way we can get some. Where we lived in Lancashire they were just called potato fritters.

I will be eating a plain pitta bread with salad and lemon-juice, while they all eat chips and tasty batter.

Am getting seriously fed up with my diet now, have been doing it for 6 weeks, lost 17 pounds and the worst thing I've eaten is a handful of crisps (not even a full packet) but am no longer losing any weight due to inactivity. I know I should be grateful that at least I'm not gaining, but it doesn't feel like much of a reward for all this abstinence.

Can't wait until I can up my activity levels. Am seriously hoping the weight starts dropping off again when I get going.

hi mm - ur doing so well with your leg and staying in and with ur diet [grn]
didnt do too well on ebay only sold each thing for £5 each the sarting bid
have put quinny on with a reserve price

Party went really well.

I sent in a card to CBeebies for today and thought it wasn't shown, but it was a friend said and I missed it and didn't record it for her. So I feel a bit sad about that

Tea must think positively as the cake and party were fab!

evening. no Dog, I feel the same at the mo. The kids are better behaved and easier to handle when it's just you. plus no paranoia of whether you are dealing with other people correctly, which is also exhausting when you are already tired and overwired.

Hi all,

Hope everyone well.

Tea- great cake and I'm made up for you that the party went well. Well done!

Moose- keep going with the healthy eating, you are doing really well.

Dog- Can't believe that you only have 5 weeks left! Hope the sleeping settle down and that naughty pup moves round. Z was transverse and then breech till 36 weeks. He was due to be 'turned' but turned on his own the day before IYSWIM

Well, relate was good in lots of ways but I'm still terribly confused and have just been immersing myself in activity during the day. The evenings are hard and I just can't wait till sunday when I am going down to my family, maybe for a week, maybe for longer. Can't go sooner because of commitments and I don't want to 'run-away' from the issues but its so hard when every atom of your being is screaming at you that you need space.
I guess that the main thing the counsellor said to us that made us both think was 'what's the hurry'? I think I had felt rushed and neede to make a decision and I can see its not as simple as that and we both need time to think and talk things through. Anyway, we have a 6 week course booked and DH is going to have some individual sessions too I think to deal with his ishooos.

I honestly thought it wouldn't help as I felt really 'talked out' and felt we were going round in circles but its amazing what a third person can do for facillitating/confronting things. Anyway, we shall see.

On a positive note I saw my friends baby today who was in special care when he was born. He is now 3mths old and doing really well bless him, He is lactose intolerant and has awful constipation (sound familiar tree!) but he is 9.5lbs now and smiling and laughing.

My friends have been amazing, not sure what I would have done without them. Feel so lucky in that respect.

anyway, me, me, me post over........as you were!

Evening all

Tea, so pleased that the party went well. Shame about the card. I think I read something somewhere about someone emailing Cbeebies to say they'd missed their card and them sending them a copy of dvd. Might be worth a try anyway.

Dog, I don't think its weird that you are feeling antisocial at all, but them I'm naturally antisocial all the time.

Pat, glad that the relate appointment was helpful. You come on here and do as much me me me-ing as you need to.

Great news about your friend's baby.

Well I ended up sitting in the car with everyone tucking into chips while I read my book - no salad pittas! I was in a proper strop by the time we got home, but partly because my sinus started acting up with the motion of the car and my head was killing me. Came home lay on the sofa with a blanket over my head and promptly fell asleep right through the dcs' bedtime with all the noise and chaos that brings - couldn't believe it when I woke up. Ended up having a slice of granary toast with peanut butter on - not exactly low fat, but nutritious at least.

Really better shift my bum tomorrow. We are leaving for a two week self-catering holiday first thing on Sunday morning, the vw is in the mechanics workshop - again and we haven't done a thing towards packing yet! I am usually all ready with everything bagged-up/packed and labelled ready to be just put in the van by now. I don't know what's happened to me this year. I've definitely lost my mojo. I've always been super organised and in control of everything and these days I am the polar opposite. Maybe I just need a big kick up the arse backside.

Oh Pat I wish I could help you more, I certainly went through some very hard patches with my H and really wanted to work things out. So I can imagine how you feel I'm sure you will somehow get through this with your H, keep talking, like Moose I don't mind a me me me post either, not at all!

If you ever want to talk, you know where I am ((hugs))

Peanut butter and granary sounds like a plan and well deserved Moose. You'll get there on packing, still days away. Bet tomorrow you really get cracking.

J has suddenly got a cold this afternoon and has gone all snotty, he has woken and cried out and dropped off again many times, he's very snuffley. So off to bed in the hope that I somehow sleep tonight