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[mrsboogie]

mornin' ladies

and the conversation continues...

well done ermintrude sounds like a good nucal result to me.
Tee she sounds lake a fantastic role model

Well the nativity was cute, the camels kept getting lost on the way to find baby Jesus. I have videoed it all but it will be pants cos I kept getting other parents heads in the way. Ollie was an angel and slept through the whole ting.

ooooh ermintrude how exciting - great news all looked ok on the scan and with the NFT. Now you can break the news and sit back and bask in the reflected glory of your youthful ovaries !!

yikes tee I really don't understand why you are not hanging off this woman's every word of wisdom about pregnancy

so, can I please be told where this half price Chablis is on sale??

Well done ermintrude on your fecundity Glad all is well with your LO. Now all you have to do is field comments such as 'was it a mistake?', 'are you mad for wanting another'?, 'why'?, 'do you realise that when he/she is 18 you'll be....?'. Well, those were all the ones I got so hopefully yours will be much nicer

tee she sounds like you should be on the phone to social services!

Who has had a baby age 70?????

JJ let us know how you got on with Iris at GOSH. Hope all was well on your trip to the big smoke.

I forgot to tell you the stupidest thing she said today. I mentioned that I was going to be naming the baby Olive Pickle because that was all I was craving. She said 'you can't be, I didn't have any cravings until I was 6 months!'

Yes, and everything that happened to you is the only way things can happen.

She was honestly confused. She had the most puzzled look on her face.

Thanks all. And especially to JW for the warning about nosey/thoughtless/stupid questions - I am prepared for them and my responses all include swearing. DH told his dad on the phone, who immediately went on about the 70 yr old who's just given birth .

My mum is thrilled to bits and the kids are bursting with excitement and already trying to think of a good name for the bump - although as DS pointed out there isn't a bump yet, just the usual flubber. Kids, dontcha just love em? . I've told DD that since she'll be 11 when it's born she can do most of the looking after because I'll be far too tired, and she was cool with that...

Awwwwww. Loved your FiL comment ! Time well spent in the Diplomatic Corps At least everyone else gave it a thumbs up

Tee tell her that according to your mother, who is a leading midwife in the states and did, indeed, pioneer the home water birth, that cravings can happen any time in pregnancy. That'll shut the silly witch up...hopefully

Morning!

So I am just received an email from an assistant to a PA to a CEO. I am a PA to a CEO. I just asked if I could have an assistant. Apparently not.

Not feeling too badly today, which is nice. Mostly just tired!

Hope everyone is having a lovely Wednesday!

hmm tee maybe their CEO is bigger than your CEO or something. good to hear you are feeling a bit more chipper today

oh i am very tired. Mr D has played up summink rotten for the last two nights - refusing to goto sleep 'til 2am then waking every couple of hours.

Need cake

Ey up mrsb. Darragh is obviously excited in the run up to xmas. He hasn't been present hunting has he?

You get to 3 months old and think you've cracked it...then it all goes Pete Tong...again

Ooh, my friend's 8 yr old took his 6 and 4 yr old brothers up to their dad's study, got a chair, unlocked the door, opened all the cupboards and showed them every single Christmas present my mate's been carefully putting away for months.

When she found out she burst into tears, alarming 8 yr old, who then got a b*llocking from his dad. The next day her mum and dad took the whole lot to their house and my friend told the boys she'd taken their presents back to the shops or sent them back to Santa and only extremely good behaviour from the oldest boy could win any of them back. That was a week ago and the 8 yr old is still behaving extremely contritely and being an angel. She's almost glad it happened...

My DH remembers scouting out his presents and then being really miserable on Christmas Day and he never did it again. We used to try to find ours but never managed - later found out Mum used to lock everything in the caravan in the yard and close the curtains

Anyone else had to deal with curious children at this time of year?

CAKE!

Morning/afternoon - I would have reported in earlier but my computer died It's been threatening to for some time - so DP has gone off to get relevant spare parts.

We had such a fabulous time yesterday. Iris is fine - all looks fab and they are going to keep her on the books so that if we want/need to go down the cosmetic route as she grows then we can get it all without referal. Plus they are the best at youth cosmetics in the world - we were thrilled. We got home and our Prof was on the telly - which was odd - on that Horizon prog about allergies. He was the one who told us not to bath her every day as LOs with skin disorders often develop asthma but she shows no signs

Then we went to see Santa in Selfridges. Blinkin fab - AND free!! We just bought a pic and donated to charity. Plus he gave both girls a cracking book each

The lights were amazing - the girls loved them. All simple white lights - so beautiful - no tack!! The shops were all covered in a different colour each and down near Selfridges there was just hundreds of dangling cerise pink bows.....gorgeous.

New sofa bed has just arrived and MIL came to pick up Iris and announced she's got a huge contract to work in Bolton for 4 months no - help for me then! Good job I got the nursery place!

tee glad you're feeling a bit better. Loving the name Oliver Pickles perhaps you could be more adventurous and go for Pickles Oliver!!!

mrsB sorry you've been deprived on the sleep front - nightmare

They were talking about the 70yr old at GOSH - won't say what our Prof said - he wasn't supportive of such practice that's for sure!

ermintrude funny you should mention scouting for prezzies. We keep all of ours up in the loft with the stock. Our loft is boarded out with a light and a ladder and last night DH was putting a delivery away...anyhoo, DSS was up like a shot wanting to help (never normally bothers) and says to his dad that he wants to go up into the loft and look at all of his presents. Little git. Not sure how he worked it out until this morning when he said he saw me wrapping a present up and take it up there. Btw he's turned into a 'creeping jesus' so that he can listen in to conversations that he shouldn't do . So, upshot is he barred from going up to the loft. Fortunately he's not tall enough to use the pole to pull the hatch down. However...in a couple of years....we'll have to find a new hiding place.

My SiL puts all of hers in her caravan. It'd be my luck the bloody caravan gets nicked though!

There you are JJ! . So glad that all was well with Iris' GOSH visit and that nothing is needed to be done. Plus, a trip in the big smoke and father xmas thrown in too. Blimey, xmas has come early for your girls

I'm off looking for 'an outfit worn by someone from a fairytale' for DSS. We received the note last night saying that it has to be in school by tomorrow. To say I'm pissed off would be an understatement. What happened to a little bit of notice? Not even any time to get material and knock up an outfit on the machine. May have to cheat and go to TK Maxx or somewhere that sells them ready made. If he ends up as Little Red Riding Hood then so be it (evil grin).

DS#2 has his driving test tomorrow morning so I'm hoping that ice doesn't thwart it.

JJ what is your MiL doing in Bolton of all places?

JW - Velvet curtain, gold cardboard crown - any fairytale king you care to mention - bingo!

Shouldn't you be whooshing up a full-length faux fur wolf costume or something? Why do schools do that stupid short notice impossible request thing? Maddening! Good luck at TK Maxx.

JJ, what a lovely day and good news from GOSH, hurrah!

One of you sane women tell me that I have not just damaged my baby by eating unpasteurized gruyere cheese! I totally didn't think about it, but it was tesco brand and I just checked their website and yup, made with unpasteurized milk.

I feel okay, although I ate some last night and some for lunch.

Tee, I remember discovering towards the end of my 2nd preg that loads of cheeses I'd been eating for months were made from unpasteurised milk - I just avoided brie and blue cheese and didn't realise about the others like emmenthal, goat's cheese etc. And all was fine. Listeria is nasty but rare and I think you'd know by now if you'd got it.

Thanks ermintrude I found a site that lists gruyere specifically as okay. Whew!!

It's a coverall...belt and braces approach.

Lordy, when I had my first 3 the only things I was told not to have was special brew and benson & hedges. Of course the special brew and the benson & hedges was there to help me get pregnant in the first place

My, how times have changed.

JW our school does that sort of thing too. The last request for a fairy tale costume resulted in B going as a power ranger because he wanted too, saved me making a costume.
Tee I think all unpasteurized hard cheeses are OK, must be how they are made.

Wow - a whole outfit jw at that kinda notice LOL@ermintrude's suggestion.

tee i second jw on it being a cover arses
approach to food in pregnancy - even peanuts are being looked into as causing no harm. Panic not

jw MIL is off to be the head of HR at the council! Short 4 day - 6mth contract. My MIL is a 'high flyer'! Pleased for her as she officially retires in 4 years and this council is one of the biggest and best in UK - so her consultantancy work should rocket.

Ladies - forgive me - for I have sinned.
I have - in broad daylight....embraced my inner chav and, and, and, eaten a Gregg's pasty in the street while pushing a pram, with my hair pulled back in a tight ponytail

Forgot to say mrsB you GO girl! I didn't see your post about MMR - but good for you
Which thread was it on?

I bet it was beautifully worded and straight to the point which no doubt unleashed the wrath of the woolly, lilly-livered liberals, eating hemp and sniffing their quorn.....

ERmintrude yay for the 0.3% risk!!

And yay for Iris

And Good Luck to jw's ds for his driving test

My carpet is being fitted at the moment, it's dd's day off so I am oblivious to tea making duties for the fitters.

We live in a cul de sac that is the shape of an H and we are in the horizontal bit with 5 othr houses. They are all bedecked with Christmas lights of various sizes/magnificence and cost. The people across have blue flashing ones which make it look as if there is an ambulance outside. Our outside lights died last year so we need new ones or to do the Bah Humbug thing and go without. What do you ladies all have?

I never put the tree up until quite late as it's dd's birthday on the 14th so I like to get her birthday out of the way before I start with decorations, and to be honest, it's long enough - how do the people who put them up weeks ago not go mad with them all.

We need a humbug emoticon!

jj

You weren't drinking a fruit shoot as well, were you?

lilibet I agree wholeheartedly with you re the putting up of decorations too early. I'm trying delaying tactics for Sunday to put tree up but DSS is very insistent on doing it now....shall have to fake a limp to get out of it.

Loving the ambulance outside! hah!

jj fabulous darling. Loving the new chav you. Did you remember to stick a sausage roll in the pram for Verity? Oh, be a doll and get her ears pierced while you're there

And in response to the fancy dress - we are having a fancy dress in church soon where everyone must go as something from the nativity. We all looked at each other and started talking about going to a different service apart from 15 yr old ds who was quite ok with going he is the one who wouldn't dress up as a 3 year old. Then it all clicked - his name is Joseph!

No costume needed!

Waht about a Pirate from Peter Pan?

I almost forgot to say, sat between 2 chav girls and a chav boy at the antenatal clinic yesterday. The girls were talking over me (I was there first, they sat on either side of me) about how many babies each of their friends had. I think the highest I heard was 5. And the pregnant one? Must have been about 17 or 18.

YIKES!

Also, trying to figure out why the second girl was there. The boy (who looked about 16) was obviously the father of the baby.