DH back to work tomorrow after a fortnight at home - boo!

[Stiefyloo]

Bugger. Will have to do all the shit jobs myself now. Am not a big lazy cow. Actually very house proud and enjoy cleaning/cooking but am 16 wks with no 4 and have hideous morning sickness. Have been whinging about what a big useless git he is to anyone who'll listen but actually realise how much of the crap stuff he does when he's at home and how much I'll miss him being around. Funny how much you get used to them being about after just a fortnight. Think that perhaps he's due a few cuddles and thank you's.

Give him a big fat sloppy kiss.

Hope you feel better soon.

Know how you feel.

Thinking that actually i have, for once, enjoyed my DP's company and will miss him when he goes back to work. I told him this last night and it boosted his overinflated ego no end

.. And nice to see someone who thinks of and appreciates all the small things about their partner .. bless!

Ditto! Dh works away from home and we all hate it when he goes away again.....(((hugs)))

I will miss my dh sooo much when he goesback to work tomorrow....we have been together 24/7 for almost a fortnight and loved it!!!

He'll not have any more hols until June (maybe even July as baby no 4 due on 20/6 so he's trying to save his annual leave so he can have a bit more time off then. Have so enjoyed cuddly lie-ins and not waking to the sound of the alarm. Am stay at home mum now but the end of his hols mark the return to the fecking school run too. We've both got that Sunday night feeling.

AIBU to be completely pissed off that nice DP vanished this morning to be replaced by a complete twunt who had a go at me for being on maternity leave and him having to go into work (we work at the same company) i know he has a crap time there, its the kind of place with the kind of ppl that make you feel physically sick at the thought of going to work
Had to drop him off as car needs fixing today and had verbal and silence alternated all the way there..do feel sorry for him but ffs not my bloody fault is it.
Lol hope he feels better later

Steifyloo:Totally agree re the cuddly lie ins it'll stop me strangling him

Just seen DH off to his new job this morning. He has had 3.5 weeks off and it's been fab. I will miss him He done loads in the house including letting me have a nap in the afternoons as I'm 33 weeks pg and already have 2 chilldren.

Hey ho, the children go back to school tomorrow so one more day off the school run but this time tomorrow..........

Bluesapphire - sorry to hear your DP was in a grump this moring - that's not what you need but I guess the thought of going back to work after a lovely long holiday on his own to a job he doesn't enjoy is a bit pants. Shouldn't take it out on you though He'll cheer up as the day goes on

Cheers hun. The worst thing is i TOTALLY sympathise and know where he is coming from, i would swap with him if i could. Wish they did better paternity leave for men tho

He's a pain but i love him cos no bugger else would

I even told him (naughty i know) if he was really desperate to get out of there i would phone up and say i thought i was in labour lol (due wednesday)

Worst thing is, when i dropped him off this morning, they're sending him out to a job miles away, what happens if i do go into labour grrr i bloody hate them and i hate that place, glad i'm not there for 12 months

Who the bleedin hell started this thread??!! I'm all hormonal and emotional now

I MISS HIM!!! "Sob sob"

Awww don't be sad He'll be fine!

How exciting though - due on Weds! Is this your first?

my poor dh got up this morning to a world covered in snow ...and a frozen windscreen whlst i continued to lay snuggled up in bed....
I do feel sorry for him, but wouldn't swap unless it was life and death!!

Lol DDF
I wouldn't either but its the thought that counts Trouble is, my works are going through a patch at the moment where everyone is at each others throats, sniping and backbiting..i'm the only woman there out of about 60 employees tho so its not down to womany cattiness

Its ok for me to offer when i know it ent gonna happen shh tho don't tell him !

Yup McDreamy, due on weds < gulp soooo close!! > its our first together but his 4th and my 3rd so building up quite a collection..
Can't wait
Btw i took the mick this morning cos we had a few inches of snow last night, i said "I heard you checking the snow levels this morning, hoping to find a four foot bank of snow was ya" He just smiled the thinnest smile i have ever seen till i hugged him and said, i already checked.. cos i don't want you to go either i'm going to miss you today..

brightened him up a wee bit..

Bet we weren't the only ones hoping to find a six foot snow drift stopping us from leaving the house this morning lol

DH was like a moody teenager on Sunday night. Whilst I appreciate that he's the breadwinner for our ever expanding family and the pressure and responsibility that that brings with it, at the back of my mind, regardless of what he says, I think he thinks that I pack him and the kids off and then sit with my feet up eating biscuits for the rest of the day. Don't know how he thinks the million and one jobs that need doing on a daily basis just to tread water get done right enough.

Furthermore, now that I'm on a rant , having (willingly) given up a well-paid job which I enjoyed to become a stay at home mum, the thought of a 15 min walk to the train station listening to my iPod at the beginning and end of the day to clear my head and have time to think, 30 mins on the train each way to read the paper, an hour lunchbreak each day to actually eat some lunch (!) and have time to digest it too, amongst pleasant adult company in a civilised environment sounds like quite a good gig. Also, I don't think he can ever understand the benefit of having time away from the demands of children 6 days a week.

So the motto of the story is....don't feel too sorry for them ladies!!

Im too feeling sad, my DD is now 5 weeks old and DP had the day off she was born until this Thursday. Yep, nearly 6 weeks. Its be so great, we've fought like cat and dog but we love our little family so much and i cant believe his time off is coming to an end. I think of all the things we could have done, then remember how impossible they would have been! Im dreading him going back

Big hugs babylove Is this your first child?

Yep first one! Tomorrow is his last day and i said "what shall we do?" and we just looked at each other as if to say "whats the point?" Sounds really like im feeling sorry for myself doesnt it when infact ive been very lucky! Guess everyones got the right to have a whinge

It's another precious part of the process which is over all too soon babylove. My DH used to say when he went back to work that he would practically run home in excitement to see DD.

Had you thought about going along to any post-natal groups babylove? Your circumstances might be very different from mine but when my DH returned to work after DD1 arrived (which was also during the winter), I couldn't really be arsed leaving the house because it seemed like such hard work on my own. After a fortnight, having only left the house twice during that time (!) my heath visitor practically frog marched me along to one which was newly formed and set up with first time mums in mind. She was a rubbish health visitor but I'm so grateful for that act of kindness. I immediately gelled with a group of about half a dozen of the other mums and even now, seven and a half years on, there's not a day goes by that we're not in touch, even if it's just by text sometimes. It's strange because we are from all walks of life and would certainly not have come together as a group of friends otherwise. Saying that, I've had 2 more children since then and have tried a few other groups, not out of a need to make more friends but because I've had a bored toddler at home needing to burn off energy and I have sometimes found other to be a bit 'cliquey' and 'tray bake-esque!' so if you do go along to any, be prepared to persevere.