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I have had a bad lurgy making me utterly miserable for a week now. So far DH has....

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Habbibu · 07/09/2010 18:25

Got up with ds at whatever stupid hour he wakes.
Given both children pretty much all their meals
Taken dd, and, when necessary, her friend, to preschool and collected them
Bathed ds and put dd to bed (I bf ds at bedtime)
Kept house pretty tidy and kitchen sparkly clean
Cleaned out the fridge
Taken me for brunch when I felt I was rallying - bad idea in the end, but lovely at the time.
Made me a birthday cake with dd.
Kept children entertained a lot of the time (they sit and play in a travel cot next to his desk. DD think's it's hilarious, and ds just loves being with dd and daddy).
Kept me fed, watered, medicated, boiled hot water for bath when tank ran out and I was desperate to get warm.
Gone to the shop for anything I've needed
Been very very sympathetic to me
Ensured there are always washed dried nappies for ds
Cancelled going to a Scotland football match tonight without so much as a murmur- he rarely goes, and really enjoys it.
AND - carried on doing his own job (academic trying to write a book) without so much as a disgruntled glance.

So, in essence, he's done my job (SAHM), his job, and nursed me. How am I ever going to repay this? He says "but you do the same for me" - well, partly, but don't write your damn book, that's for sure.

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 07/09/2010 21:41

Argh Aitch don't say that! DS was born in July and so will go to school when he's only 4 and 2 months! They will expect him to be doing full days before half term. It is two years away and I'm already worrying about it.

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 21:44

Alibaba - DN is doing fine now, I think - she's been there a year, and coped ok. Still think the option we have in Scotland is better than England. Makes no diff to my October babies, but I think it's good that people have the choice. I can see why dd1 would have been to old at 5.5, though, Aitch - she's a sparky wee thing.

Send me some photos, will you?

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Aitch · 07/09/2010 21:49

aren't you on my fb? will look you up.

we're just stuck, ali, i do think she would have been too old if she'd waited another year... shoulda planned this stuff better.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 07/09/2010 21:49

Oh that's good to hear. He's a bright little chap and has a really good concentration span for his age so hopefully he'll be ok, but it is a bit of a worry.

I'm sure when I started school that the starts were staggered across the year depending on when your birthday was so that you didn't go until the term before you were 5.

Aitch · 07/09/2010 21:51

okay your name too common by half. mine too... i have photo of dh and dd in school uniform (her not him).

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 07/09/2010 21:52

Well DC2 is due end of March, so they'll be 4.5 when they start which is better.

It is bizarre, because DS' 'best friend' who is just 6 weeks younger than him (same post-natal class) will start school a whole year later than him. I expect we'll see him change a lot in comparison to her over that year.

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 21:52

No, am not on fb. It's the website of the devil.

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Aitch · 07/09/2010 21:55

yes dd is split from my post natal group friends as well, which is a shame. but i have to convince myself that she is ready... or at least that she would have been bored out of her tits at nursery.

Aitch · 07/09/2010 21:56

oh fgs... sign up habs, you fool. get with the programme.

hairytriangle · 07/09/2010 21:58

My dp is just the same. It's lovely and just hiw it should be

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 21:59

No, no and thrice no. I hate fb.

Thanks for getting thread back on track, hairy. I was wondering if we were going to ccover the whole gamut of MN topics.

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Alibabaandthe40nappies · 07/09/2010 22:00

yy true about the boredom. DS will have done 4 terms of preschool so I'm sure he'll be ready to move on.

Tippychoocks · 07/09/2010 22:02

Oh and I was just about to re-join on an anti-facebook (spits, work of the devil) rant.
As you were then.

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 22:05

Go for it, Tippy. I feel I have created an MN-within-an-MN on this thread.

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Tippychoocks · 07/09/2010 22:06

What are your thoughts on second-hand car seats and the name "Kai" Habbibu, in that case?

Aitch · 07/09/2010 22:06

and WHAT IS IT with childfree drivers in teh P&T spaces??!!!

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 22:09

Children called Kai should not use second hand car seats. It's been statistically proven they are more likely to be injured by people pulling out of P&T spaces at speed because they have no children weighing them down.

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Aitch · 07/09/2010 22:12

thanks for clearing that up, snotty.

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 22:20

Did you just call me snotty? On my own lovely thread?

Oh, I see - a lurgy ref. I thought you were still harping on about fb... I'm more phlegmy, tbh.

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Tippychoocks · 07/09/2010 22:22

mmmmm lovely.
Your H must be a saint SmileGive him a big slobbery lurgy-y kiss Grin

Aitch · 07/09/2010 22:25

how charming you are. bad news on the football btw, dh had backed two goals.

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 22:25

God, no - can you imagine? "Thanks, darling. Here, have a lurgy". That would be gratitude indeed.

Tippy, are you a namechanger? Or newish? I don't think we've met before, but you have been making me laugh on a number of threads tonight.

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Aitch · 07/09/2010 22:26

watch out tippy, she's trying to give you the lurgy now...

Habbibu · 07/09/2010 22:28

Aitch, I have lurgy. You must be nice to me. I'm very ill.

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Aitch · 07/09/2010 22:32

i'm ill too. just nearer to hampden.