Blethering, havering and general Scotsnet style chit chat....

[ElephantOfRisk]

I'm in the car reading a few threads where folks are fed up with the misery and fighting so thought I'd start a new thread. Not for politics or covid or fighting , just general stuff 🙂

I've had a nice day, off work on hols so we took a wee drive down to Peebles and had lunch, bought a few pies from lovely butcher and now heading home.

@rjacksmiss

Btw - does anyone remember wedding scrambles from when they were little? My DP just dropped a load of change and I was like "weeeey, scramble" and he was so confused by it. I explained it was the father of the bride who threw a bag of change out to the kids as the bride got in the car and he's still like - eh? I'm not imagining this am I?

Yes, but it was just called a scrammy in Dundee.

My Dad collected all his change for weeks before my wedding, and was gutted on the day that there were no kids around. I'd forgotten that until now

I had a scramble at my wedding 23 years ago. I left from my mum and dads and we did it as we left the stair.

Not sure if it's regional @sartorius - scrambles were common where I grew up in Glasgow on 70s / 80s. I wonder if they just fell out of favour over time.

Thanks for sharing lentil soup recipe @ElephantOfRisk We're fans of that hairy biker chicken tray bake too.

The weather sounds horrible outside here. I'm planning a day of jobs around the house while a ham cooks away in the slow cooker. New episode of Succession tonight!

Had a terrible night with baby ds. He's just such an awful sleeper, it really gets me down. I end up feeling so angry with him and then guilty for feeling angry as he's only a wee baby. Just had a pretty crap week anyway with not feeling well and getting no exercise so hopefully next week will be better.

At the gym just now so bit of head space at least.

Starting to wonder how I will go back to work in a couple of months when he still wants to breastfeed so much and sometimes views you trying to spoon feed him as if you're trying to murder him. He's almost 11 months now, thought he'd be on 2 milk feeds a day by now

Ds1 was a dream compared to this.

@shouldistop that sounds hard! No helpful suggestions, but sympathy

Last year I made Boris and Nicola pumpkins for my front step. Lacking inspiration for this year! Any ideas?

A pumpkin with a mask @WouldBeGood

My boys were awful sleepers @shouldistop. I ended up taking them in with me and i had one or the other or both in for years. I know everyone is against this but if it gets you a sleep I'd do it. But its bloody hard going, you have my sympathy too.

@ElephantOfRisk, thanks for the recipes

Nicola had a tartan mask last year @ssd !

@ssd I'd really struggle to sleep with a baby in the bed if he's still doing it as a toddler then I'll reconsider!

Thanks for the sympathies feel a bit brighter after some exercise.

We're going to carve our pumpkins this afternoon. We just do pretty basic scary faces. They look good with red bike lights in them.

@shouldistop

Had a terrible night with baby ds. He's just such an awful sleeper, it really gets me down. I end up feeling so angry with him and then guilty for feeling angry as he's only a wee baby. Just had a pretty crap week anyway with not feeling well and getting no exercise so hopefully next week will be better.

At the gym just now so bit of head space at least.

DD2 was like that too. The first night she slept through was a 13 months and it was a miracle as we were out at a wedding. And then she stopped sleeping through again when DD3 was born. She was also a voracious eater.

Solidarity. I hope your time at the gym helped you feel better.

And I see that it has. Happy pumpkin carving!

I spent the morning tidying the playroom (yet again) and turning it into the school room for home ed. Well, a shared space anyway. Will be so good to have our dining table back again!

For dinner today I'm making a dish from Iraq called Kubba Hamuth (recipe is here if you're interested). It's weird because it's dumplings where the dough is made from ground beef and rice flour, then the filling is lamb mince. And then you cook it in a soup. The flavours sound amazing, though, and I hope I don't mess it up!

We're study one country a week for our home ed, and then I make a dish from that country, so this meal is for that. I'm still trying to decide whether I should serve it with rice.

@GrouchyKiwi definitely rice. My dh is Middle Eastern - everything with rice. Do you know how to make it 'properly' as dh would call it?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/persian-steamed-white-rice-em-chelo-em-51109800/amp

Thanks for that recipe, shouldistop. I won't use it this time since my large pan will be used for the soup, but it looks like a grand way to cook rice so will definitely try it one day.

I actually prefer sticky rice but I can't say that out loud

@shouldistop sympathies we ended up gentle sleep training and "night weaning" DS as he was such a terrible sleeper! He still had a 4am feed til he was about 13 months but compared to every hour it was a massive improvement! It's not for everyone though and DH was amazing at taking the lead as I would have caved! He also BF til 21/22 months never planned on that one he just wouldn't give it up and that was despite me being back working ft from him being 11 months!

We are in the throws of potty training 😬 he gets it and can do it (will even tell you!) but is so god damn stubborn about it all!

@Scottishskifun urgh I hated potty training ds1. I'm hoping ds2 will just copy him when the time comes.
Ds2 can go all night without a feed if it's dh turn to get up with him. If I go in he pulls at my top and cries til I feed him
Dh said he's going to do all the night for the next 10 days to see if he stops bothering to get up if he thinks the milk bar is closed. I don't see how he can go with that little sleep for that long though.

@shouldistop this is what DH did after 3 days DS spaced to 2 wakings but 5 days had stopped completely except the 4am one and he only kept that a short time til moving it to 6.30 (when I fed him before leaving for work).
Good luck I recommend wax earplugs for it plus some breastpads!

We did the "toilet training in less than a day" method. It more or less worked and just the odd accident after that but they were both 3 at the time.

As for sleeping, I'm keeping my mouth shut as babies took after me and could have slept for Scotland.

That would be the dream @elephantofrisk unfortunately DS is way too interested in playing then sitting on the damn thing despite toys and books he has used it multiple times over the weekend but it has to be last minute!

That's where that method works, as at the beginning there are no toys or books or screens :o

Im someone who really really needs a sleep and i never had family to take them so i could get a sleep and get my head straight again. Mine just totally wore me down. We never once had to set an alarm for the whole if primary school, ds1 was up at 6 anyway. And ds2 would be up during the night to come in with me. I walked about in a daze. i remember one day workings in the shop i worked in. As i stood in amongst the lovely clothes, i realised i hadn't had a shower, brushed my teeth or my hair. I literally just got up and went. Another time a young mum came in with her mum and her young baby in a pram. I was ooing and aahhing. I asked her how he slept, she said 13 hours straight every night. Mine were 7 and 10 and still didn't sleep like that. I walked off the shopfloor and burst out crying in the toilets.

It passes of course but i dont know how i got through it.

Hello there, I’ve name changed to join the thread as I can see that saying where you’re from in Scotland helps things along.

I’m from Dundee but I don’t live there anymore. I will however be back for a few days very soon.

When I was growing up a scrammy was done just before the bride set off with her dad to her wedding. We’d stand around the car and just as it set off down would go the back window and the coppers would be thrown out onto the road. How none of us were ever run over I’ll never know.

Someone mentioned there weren’t any children around for her scrammy and I can only assume they were at the Saturday morning cinema club watching Flash Gordon.

@ssd

Im someone who really really needs a sleep and i never had family to take them so i could get a sleep and get my head straight again. Mine just totally wore me down. We never once had to set an alarm for the whole if primary school, ds1 was up at 6 anyway. And ds2 would be up during the night to come in with me. I walked about in a daze. i remember one day workings in the shop i worked in. As i stood in amongst the lovely clothes, i realised i hadn't had a shower, brushed my teeth or my hair. I literally just got up and went. Another time a young mum came in with her mum and her young baby in a pram. I was ooing and aahhing. I asked her how he slept, she said 13 hours straight every night. Mine were 7 and 10 and still didn't sleep like that. I walked off the shopfloor and burst out crying in the toilets.

It passes of course but i dont know how i got through it.

I remember this. My youngest didn't sleep until she was 3. Just functioning on little sleep was so hard. I felt pissed or vacant or both about 95% of the time.