40+ Yummy (or not-so-yummy) Mummies, Come and Eat Cake

[ladymac]

Have taken the plunge, hope this is acceptable to everybody.

Hahaha - i LOVE the phrase 'I can't really do slow drinking'... Go on girl - you neck 'em down!!!

So - what's everyone up to this evening for New Year? We're thinking of taking the girls out in freezing temperatures to celebrate in Trafalgar Square - or possible larging it up in a club somewhere in Wycombe - I reckon they'd like that....

Yep, it's the £10 M&S meal for 2 and the telly. Bet ya all I'll be asleep before Big Ben goes 'DONG!'

M and S meal for two over here too please!

Can not be fooked with going out - last year we paid to be captive in a bar for hours and hours listening to mega loud Northern Soul and they didn't even ring the new year in! Were just dying for it to be over so we could go home - ended up feeling unaccountably depressed and drinking shots just to get through it.

I'm trying to remember the last time I actually did anything for NY....? Think it was a dingy club in Brixton under the railway arches in 94/95....yes, that sounds about right...I vaguely remember my (then) boyfriend picking me up and putting me over his shoulder as we walked back up the road to my house........and I threw up over his back....

Make that 2004 - 2005

Afternoon ladies.

I know I'll be in bed before midnight...DH usually is too. As I said in a previous post, we normally only wake up at midnight to moan about the noise coming from outside. If it wakes K up this year then it'll be more than a moan.

Saw pics of Paul Weller. What a total idiot. Then again you can walk around any town centre on a weekend and see the same sight (unfortunately). Just fought my way around the supermarket where the bread aisle resembled something in Moscow (well the shops are shut for a whole day!). Chap behind me in the queue had a large bottle of vodka and a case of beer. Healthy diet methinks.

Have always hated NYE in my own inimitable bah humbug way. Over priced and highly hypocritical waste of time IMHO.

Not made any resolutions as such apart from lose weight which I've totally not done after all my good work I'm thinking of being doing something organised in an almost name and shame way i.e. join Weightwatchers. I've been before a few years back and lost 2 stone. Put it all back on in the meantime I hasten to add (and more -gulp) but I know it will work for me.

Other than that, not made any others. Kept my last years one of giving up smoking.

Lordy, K didn't wake up until almost 10am this morning. In the end I was standing over her cot poking her gently to make sure she was ok. She was. Just pissed off that some idiot was poking her She really does like sleeping....I can only think it's something to do with being in a hospital routine for a long time.

We're spending the afternoon watching xmas tv that was Virgin +ed. Wallace & Grommit was fab. I'm so looking forward to 39 Steps with Rupert P Jones.

If I get time today I'm going to take the tree down. If not, then def tomorrow. This 12 days nonsense doesn't hold with me.

Hello all!

I was out this morning at the sales, that's where I've been.

I now have enough clothes to get me through this pregnancy. Didn't really find any fabulous bargains, but didn't spend a fortune either. I really do adore Mamas & Papas. Such lovely things.

As for this evening, we'll be eating goulash, drinking dampers (I'll have about a sip) and watching Mama Mia on DVD. Its what we do every year. We don't like going out when its not insane out there!

And no New Years Resolutions for me. I never make them.

Afternoon jw and tee - it's good to see the NY spirit is alive and well with us 40 somethings....

Good to see you hit the shops tee - you'll look lovely for the rest of your pregnancy now. No dungarees for you!

OK - so, tonight for dinner - DP has bought me a PRAWN RING! Oh yeah...roll out the silverskin onions and the cheesy footballs - it's gonna be a 70stastic kinda eve! Plus more Pringles than I can shake my rolls of fat at

PLUS - he's been to Costco and because I've left my phone charger at my parent's house (doh) he's got me a Wind-up mobile phone charger....and torch...... !???! Wind up?????!! Oh God...I bet it takes till next week before I can make a call...!

New Year's Resolutions...in no order

Get to a size 12
Go to the Opera
Be less accommodating of folk who give nowt back - ie: stop having everyone with kids round here!
Learn the cyrilic alaphabet
Decorate the house according to my taste!
Learn to make a quiche

There - that should take me through to July!

Go to the opera huh? I'm still planning just going out...anywhere! Actually I think that the first time we'll get out together since K has come home is on my b'day/wedding anniversary. July 09. Funnily enough we were talking about it over evening meal last night...and in all seriousness it probably will be July. Tis fine with both of us though and we're really not complaining.

We've also decided (again last night) that we shall not be having a 1st b'day party for K. She won't know the difference

Cyrillic alaphabet? One question; why?

Third one on your list is easy...practice saying NO...a lot!

Quiche are easy peasy..that should take you no time at all.

Ah well, the Opera is something I've never been to and thought that should we ever get a babysitter (ok with one - not so with two!) then I want to do something special and not jsut hit the pub! Always fancied the opera - so I thought 09 should be the year.

Mind you - every time we've been out we've sort of just wanted to get back!

We didn't have a 'party' for Iris - MIL turned up and that was it! Get away with it while you can

Cyrillic - cos I've lived abroad where they use it and never bothered...and may be nice for the girls to eventually learn Serbian - be good to join in ....a bit!

I'm already walking around going NO, NO, NO....sorry, no I can't do that...NO, no, no, no

Quiche - easy? Really? Well, it looks like that resolution could be a goer...Ar*se to the rest. Oh i forgot to say - I'd like to actually finish a book this year

Oh how I love prawn rings. I miss the 70s...

I'm having a small dilemma, ladies. I know that as my pregnancy progresses I won't be able to sleep on my back or my right side. Only I have a bad left leg and sleeping on my left side makes it fall asleep and ache. So what the heck am I suppose to do? Sleep standing up?

tee I find you can sleep in most positions whilst pregnant if you use enough pillows.

Last pregnancy I slept on my back a lot, though slightly propped up on one of those 'V' shaped pillows (invaluable for breastfeeding too) with a couple of pillows under my knees. Or on my side with one pillow between my knees and another supporting my bump.

All those pillows sure make sex something of a challenge DH needed mountain climbing gear just to snuggle up to me. And he charmingly referred to the pillow I slept with between my legs my 'fangini' pillow!

Ooh jeanjeannie yes please to the opera. I am longing to go, have only been once before but that was to see The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany and I'm not a fan of Brecht. Or Lesley Garratt who was singing in it. I find her so annoying, especially when she hams up her jolly Northerner ness.

Right, must away to make Jamie's turkey and leek pie.

Oh, and how fab not to be able to make losing weight one of my New Year's Resolutions

Just wondering heard u cant eat nuts while pregnant? well what about the gulyian chocolate seashells with the chocolate praline centre can i still eat them? oh and cheesecalke can i eat that? it has pasturised stuff it it its made from philadelphia? anyone? xxx

ladymac what is this sex you talk of? Any ideas JJ, mrsb?? I've no idea myself

I had one of the long dream genii which I saw an ad on here for...it's now in the loft but I loved it snaked between my legs and to hug . I think my DH would like to replace the pillow now............

JJ get the girls bi-lingual! It's not too late. How fab that would be and a great string to their bows when they're older.

As for the opera I've been. It's great. Well I suppose it's great if you like opera. I love Carmen myself. Here's one of my favourites. But I also have this one on my desktop that I seem to play a lot especially when I'm busy Both quite popular ones but I think like any music it's whatever takes your fancy.

I took DH to the theatre last year and at the interval he said to me (in a stage whisper) 'well that was a pile of crap wasn't it'? Christ. I got him to the bar where he declared that everyone was far too posh for his liking and I just wanted to kill him. I won't be taking him again, not that he'd go.

I give up with him...

Philadelphia is fine to eat as it's pasteurised. It's cheese like goat's milk and brie that they advise you not to eat.

I was told to avoid all nuts at my antenatal but I think it's just a belt and braces approach. Women have been eating nuts for centuries while pregnant and I bet their kids didn't have a nut allergy .

mum2b09 I think you'll be fine...and so will your LO.

Just to confuse you mum2b09 I have been advised to eat nuts while pregnant is fine so long as no-one in the immediate family has a nut allergy. It is supposed to get them used to it while in the womb. Apparently nut allergies increased when pregnant women stopped eating nuts - possibly because the children had no in utero exposure!

Sex? what's this now jw? I'm not familar with the term I'm sure

Marks and Spencer's Chicken and leek pie for us - principally because there was one forlorn looking one left on the shelf and apart from that the shelves had been cleared like as if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had been spotted in the High Street. I had planned a nice gammon cooked in cola with parsley mash and cheesy leeks so at least we are getting the leeky bit

jj I applaud your resolutions - especially no 3 - you need to take a leaf out of mine and jw's little book of bah humbugness

I do keep pondering Weightwatchers myself - I believe there is a meeting just down the road from me too -joined once before but didn't keep it up. I am dead serious about losing weight. If I don't I will just keep getting fatter, develop diabetes and not have the choice of having another sprog.

Hate New Year palaver as well. It's just another day ffs! Too much expectation placed upon it which always ends in disappointment and anticlimax.

mrsB you can have another sprog if you have diabetes. Look at me! Diabetic and pregnant! And I was diabetic first.

Not that you shouldn't lose weight, but diabetes and not having a baby are not true things!

oh I know tee is that how I made it sound? didn't really mean that - I meant I will get diabetes - cos they have warned me I will if I don't lose weight and lower my insulin resistance - it runs right through our family you see, but I also meant that I won't try to get pregnant if I am still four /five stone overweight as I think I was lucky to get off as lightly as I did healthwise this time but wouldn't bank on it a second time.

Yeah, that's how it sounded, but now that you explained it, it doesn't any more! It was too separate things that got mushed together!

and those are just a couple of the more pressing reasons tee there's plenty more!

now then ladies

Can I be the first to wish you all and Little Ones and Little Buns in the Ovens a very happy and healthy New Year!

Yeah same to you and yours mrsb and all the ladies out there with LO's and sprogs in tums

Might not be around later - but might be. Depends on how sick I get eating chocolate and crisps. DH suggests I get as much in as I can before I go to Slimming World next week. Not sure that his advice is good advice though

2009 will be the year that no one asks me when I'm due (when I'm not)....high fives mrsb

arf jw I think your DH's advice is sound and shall be following it myself

Evening all. Feel sick. Don't mention Pringles or I'll throw !

jw sex.... Ah, yes....tee hee....(stage whisper) 'we did it today' **runs off sniggering

mum2b09 I second the nuts is ok if there is no allergy history. I've also heard that the peanut allergy thing may not be helped by avoidance. Plus, I lived off cheesecake! I reckon it's fine

If I don't check in before - then HAPPY NEW YEAR - see you all in 2009. Crikey, where DID that decade go????

mrsB and ladymac I hope your respective poultry and leek pies are all you hope for...and more. Are they all the rage this year? Random double choice of food there.

Well, I've got a snifter of red wine and watching the World's Strongest Man..... ROCK N' ROLL!

Happy New Year my lovelies and to all your sprogs and sprogs to be!!

I've just broken open my second large bag of Sensations and am gonna swig a diet coke (that's called 'no logic').

Prolly won't be on again now until next year (heh) so HNY laydees.

JJ you're a harlot without shame. I'm just too damn tired for sex and if I had the chance to lie on my back for more than 2 minutes to myself then I'd spend it eating chocolate and watching corrie!