New SAHP board!

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This will be interesting! and to MNHQ

Dixie I do not envy you going through the whole mortgage process. It seems to get more and more complicated. Fingers crossed the long sleep has improved your DS4 - I cannot live without snuffle baby in the medicine cabinet.
My older DDs are usually very good at breaking up the afternoon for Dd3 and me. They are permanently rehearsing for the school show just now though so it seems a long time till teatime.

Dixie - I don't know what you normally dose your ill children with, but I've found that ibuprofen really helps with alleviating cold symptoms. Calpol, not so much - but the anti-inflammatory action of ibuprofen helps with the nasal mucous membrane inflammation and reduces symptoms, especially at night. I can't do without it, and use it myself when I have a cold.

Momagain - how much do you really need to do? Unless your house looks like one of those on that hoarding programme, I'm sure you'll be able to get it into a state of acceptability for a 20-something travelling friend of your DD. :)

Maroon - do you mean kicked in? I don't know what quicked in is but sorry to hear that you've been having depression issues, glad the zoo visit helped.

I did smile a bit at the thought of the 6yo worrying he would be shorn like the sheep, Patilla! Was that the Shaun the Sheep film? was it good?

I want to watch Shaun the sheep. just to show solidarity to my fellow prestonian but instead the next time I will be going to the cinema is to take DS (6) and Dbro (13) to see Jurassic world. I watched Jurassic park with DD (17 months) the other Day. and she loved the roar disores but she wouldn't sit through the cinema. yes yes I'm terrible and allow my children to watch dinosaurs and "scary" stuff

Can I join too been a SAHP for nearly 10 years. Been busy with 3 girls

Welcome Candle
Tell us about your girls?

Welcome Cantocandle . I have 3 girls too.

I bet he does! Can he blow his nose yet? DS2 can't still, he's just about getting the idea now, but still blows through his mouth when I tell him to. Can't wait for him to learn how to do it properly (he's 2.7)

Peeps round the corner may I join you I'm a bit late to the party?

I'm a sahp to 4dc 10,5, 20 months and 7 months. I love being at home with them but we've had a trying couple of days. Ds20 months is just into everything at the moment I can't take my eyes off him!

I'm trying to see the humour in it rather than getting cross, I know these days will be gone so soon won't be relieved at all

I'm very late to this party!

Come in, come in - take a pew, vent your spleens.

I have a 2.7yo who is, um, difficult - today he finally showed his true colours in public (normally he has an angelic demeanour out of the house, so people don't believe me when I say he's a bit of a demon) and the other mums at school were shocked!
He's not been too bad, on and off, but he was having a huge tanty at school because people were looking at him and trying to talk to him - how very dare they!
He can't be left unsupervised at any point - he'd be climbing the bookshelves before I knew it. Getting stuff done is a challenge - thank goodness he still lets me put him in the highchair for lunch!

Ahh tricky Thumb - I've had bookshelf climbing children though thankfully (possibly?) more often in a professional capacity than at home

dd has always been much louder and freer at home than at school. Beginning to find her voice outside of home now (at 16) which is all good really!

Oo urgh, sweetcorn up the schnozz? Nasty!

Any tips on how to stop them, Juggling?

Smug mother of dd(3 and a big half). She can blow her nose, but only because it has been running constantly since she went to nursery in August. She is also expert at wiping it on her sleeves and my sleeves and can even sniff it all back up.

Dixie - that does sound horrendous :(. Has he worked out how to open the drawers of chests of drawers and use them as steps yet? A friend of mine, her Ds4 did that. So if he hasn't yet, watch out!

DS2 hasn't managed that yet, but then there's nothing on the top of the chest of drawers that he wants. Plenty of stuff on the bookshelves though!

Juggling, how about ,my girls are 9 ,6 and 3 I am irish but now live in Scotland, no family near to help out so a bit knackering at times

Ooh hello...just found this!

I'm currently on mat leave with no.3...taking redundancy at end of mat leave in October so will be SAHP from then. Tho i'm having a few wobbles that I won't be going back to work for a while & worried a wee teeny bit about money...but we'll cope I'm sure & it appears so far the right decision for us as a family..

I have 3 DC's..DS1 is 4, DD is 22 months & DS2 is 7 months. From Scotland but live in London for the past 8 years so not much of a support network but we manage..somehow!

Sympathies to those who are a long way from family. We moved here when dd was a baby with dh's work and also pleased to move out of London for more affordable housing and more green space. But have been a long way from DP's (DGPs) and DSis and DBro and families.
Even if you're sociable and can build a friendship network it's still a big challenge isn't it? Fortunately here many people are in similar situation which helps a bit - at least there's an understanding about it

Waves at granny, you won't recognise me as I'm in disguise! Someone in real life worked out my previous name but I was on the oct antenatal/ post natal thread. I have 4dc and the last two were very close together!! feels like a spy

God what a night after sleeping through for the last few months 7 month old Ds has decided to start waking at 5 it is killing me!
I'm mainlining coffee in my pjs really did to get us up and out before ds2 starts destroying the house.

my DD does that from time to time. so frustrating.
my two have already been running and screaming around the living room. thankfully I am going to steal my 13 yo brother today so he will keep them amused. they both idolise him.

at buttwing...hellloo!

Dropped DS1 at pre school...forgot his reading stuff so had to nip back home for it (I kicked up a fuss with nursery recently about how no one had covered it off with him in class for almost 2 months...& then I forgot the stuff today!).

House is a shit tip today & I need to clean it & get dinner done today to avoid late afternoon meltdown/chaos around pre school pick up time til tea time.

Just had breakfast...& still starving! Gonna be one of those days already I feel...