We are Avidly snapping up Primarni brogues, whilst Wisely swapping (for charidee!) our unwanted clothes...

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Morning ladies! Wanted to do some RL shopping today but had a bad night with DD waking at 2am and lots of tossing and turning until the alarm went off at 7. She seemed cheerful and rested this morning while DH and I could barely lift our cups of coffee. Never mind, it is Friday yay!

roma That Boden dress is great. Looks so cosy and I'm tempted by the grey as it is so cold here brrr. Is there a Boden code?

Hope the little two dolcees will recover from chicken pox soon while MamaDolcee is dancing around in her wardrobe singing P-p-p-pokerface . Well done baby-dolcee for starting to walk. It is so sweet when they start staggering round and you can always see in their little faces how thrilled they are at this achievement!

Oh, and when I say the WIT picture today I screamed immediately: That's the cardigan cake spotted in next and was discussed here in SUMMER! You are so FF ladies and I'm sure there are lots of journo lurkers. Remember the Houli-story cake?

blossoming Are you sure about the bread and butter? You are already cutting out sugar and shred a lot. Please be kind to yourself!

Interesting how different and dramatic (notyummy ) everyone's birthstories are. Did you know there is no G&A in Germany? You either get an epi or nothing at all. I had no pain relief as DD arrived 90 minutes after we got to the hospital. Enough talk of birth or we'll scare carciofi away.

Oh and thanks for feedback re: brogues/trousers roary. Maybe I'll try the nude kneehighs today. Must resist temptation to wear Belstaffs every day until spring arrives. Was able to admire their loveliness while I sat in the dentist's chair yesterday .

Sorry for epic post...

Someone's going to have to explain WIT to me. Sorry..!

Sorry about your bad night fritzi. I'm afraid my sugar addiction could be replaced by butter addiction! It would be easier to go back to smoking as means if weight control!!

Fritzi Totally agree re the journo lurkers!

Maybe we should all link to something extreme and sing its praises - and then wait until it ends up in the media as the 'IT BUY' of the week Could be vey funny!

blossoming [http://wearingittoday.blogspot.com/ WIT]

So tired I can't even link properly. Here again: WIT

BabyBlossoming, happy birthday and BabyDolcee, congrats on the walking.

Roary, I don't know what that purple bit is for either. I think I will get the blue cardigan.

Thanks for your kind words ladies. Actually feel quite down and don't know why so I think I will keep my head down for a while and sort things out.

Happy belated birthday to Baby Bloss! Your post about not feeling so alone brought a lump to my throat Bloss.

Christmas always good fun on mn - the xmas traditions threads are sweet/hilarious - come on how many of you do new pyjamas on christmas eve?

Dolcee - yeay for first steps! And loving your leather pencil skirt outfits.

I am feeling better today - had hideous sinus pains/sickness the last few days and boiler has broken and won't be fixed until monday at the earliest. And now DH is ill and lordy - he is not a happy bunny when poorly. So dc's and I will be out and about as much as possible to keep warm and keep out of illing DH's way.

Carciofi - take care. Lovely thread to be able to dip in and out of. Hope it's just preg hormones. Mine are ridiculous. Yesterday was listening to La Traviata recording w our late, great Dame Joan Sutherland. Had trouble seeing for tears. Oh dear.

Tracey - won't say much more than DH's finest hours are not when he is feeling unwell. Good luck this weekend!

Carciofi - I was very up and down in all my pregnancies - combined with terrible sickness/tiredness with DD. Take care of yourself.

Morning all!

Just catching up with the thread. Agree with the journo lurkers - although we are fab-u-lous darlinks, so I can't blame them. LTEC - Thanks for the anniversary wishes - well remembered! Am out for dinner with DH tonight so will need to decide what to wear.

Sorry about your bad night Fritzi - I had one of those on Wednesday night, although to be fair it was caused by sore hip (have issues with my sacro-illiac joint and certain exercise seems to make it worse.)

Carciofi - Hope you feel better soon.

Blossoming - Hope baby had a great first birthday - agree with Tracey that some of the Christmas stuff on mumsnet is cool. We don't do pyjamas on Xmas Eve, but we have a few 'traditions' - every year since we have had dd my mum and dad have babysat on Xmas Eve PM and taken DD out for a long walk to see the lights and DH and I do a little Xmas treat together. Sometimes long lunch, sometimes a film. Mum, DD and I go to childrens church service at 6pm on Xmas eve. We all get stockings! Main presents after breakfast, and then down to the local for a few drinks until my dad serves up Christmas lunch mid afternoon.

Marsha - After a flurry of email yesterday confirming invites/plans, I am now quite excited to have a social life in Nov/Dec! Fireworks party (just lots of nice layers I think), weekend at DHs work including a dinner party and drinks, plus friend's 40th birthday night out (those are Nov weekends.)We are hosting Xmas Party here for NCT mates in Dec, plus long weekend in Geneva to see friends on the weekend before Christmas, and work Christmas night out. Christmas itself, plus DHs family over between Xmas and NY. Friends over for NYE.

Thats a lot of outfits, right? Might need to get started now!

Had a v productive day so far. Load of washing, weeding, mowing, sweeping, tidying and replying to a load of work emails (on my alleged 'non-working-day'

Off for a looonngg run shortly.

Well done if you made it through that - what a ramble!

Mowing notyummy!!!

Christmas I always find difficult with inlaw boxing day constantly on my mind.
Last year my daughter died on the 9th. I missed the school nativity as I was taking her to hospital. The funeral was on the 19th. We were left mainly alone over Christmas then the baby developed bronchialitis on boxing day and the doctor kept her home as otherwise she would have been in the same ward where her sister died. All so awful at the time.
We'll mourn dc2 on the 9th and try and keep the rest of the month normal for the sake of the other two.
I'm very lucky to have my family around me and so glad we moved back home.

Wow, ny you've just made me think how empty my diary is

Carciofi do talk to someone if you carry on feeling low. I felt so lousy all through pg with ds3 and I just didn't get over it until sometime around his 1st birthday. I deeply regret not having taken some action. I sort of missed an important year of all my children's lives, I have very few memories of that time. I know it's why I want dc4 deep down: I feel like I was cheated out of the babydom of both ds2 (he was about 6months when I fell pg) and ds3.

God, what a miserable post. Must be because I'm wearing a minging boden fleece that I feel so shoddy. Must go and change

Gosh bloss, that puts it all in perspective. I'll shut up now.

Blossoming - Last December sounds dreadful for you. Really awful. It must colour how you approach that time of year. I hope the excitment of your other DCs (particularly as they get older) will give you something positive to bring to that time of year in future.

Bloss You are so strong and lovely May you all have a happy and peaceful Christmas.

NY Your energy amazes me. And your social calendar busy!

We have endless things to go to. Cocktail parties, 3 Balls, parties, bonfire night etc - to be honest I find it a bit of a bore sometimes when certain events are an 'obligation', particularly on a school night.

At least dh is sailing across the Atlantic next month so that removes nearly 3 weeks in total and I will be able to get out of some events during that period.

DD will have a new nightie on on Christmas Eve. I will make my own pudding on 'Stir up Sunday'.

My parents will come to stay. Church on Christmas Morning, then back home for Champagne, Canapes and presents! A walk for me, dh and dd. Then we will have Christmas lunch late at about 5pm.

Bloss you are indeed very strong. Christmas must be a hard time, hugs. (I know un-mn but hey)

Sorry I ran out this morning and just saw your qu Bloss; my parents are British but decided to move to Aus so other side of world. I found it really hard when ds1 was new, but now am fine, happy and nice to have somewhere to go to escape from the winter.

We will be eating French Onion soup, and ham, salad on on Christmas eve; Champagne, crayfish, home-made mayonnaise, rare roast beef and chocolate eclairs on Christmas day. Outside on a long table with many flowers around. Lots of wine and probably a sibling in tears at some point . I am really looking forward to it.

Carciofi, I hope you are ok .

NY sounds excellent. I have Diwali party first too. I am happy to be going out to things again .

Just had Harvest assembly, it was lovely. So many newborns! They were tiny and very gorgeous.

bloss I'm sure it will be difficult approaching the festive season but you do sound very strong - I suppose you sort of have to be, at least publicly even if you don't feel it!

roma don't be too hard on yourself! I'm in awe of your ability to up sticks and start life in a completely different country where you don't know a soul (or the language). Have you changed your clothes?

I'm in my dressing gown, working from bed. About to have a sneaky nap...

Apologies yangymac- it was not yummy who had the traumatic delivery!
However, pleased to see that others had much more empowering experiences.

LTEC- LOL re your hips! My big hips came in handy too- think DD2 may have got stuck otherwise as she was facing sideways!

bunny- beautiful, sad opera (most of them seem to be quite tragic) makes me cry when not pregnant anyway :)

Was going to add something trite about having a day off and going shopping but after reading re blossoming's and LTEC's dreadful losses, I don't want to anymore :( You are all wonderfully brave.

Oh blossoming...

carciofi Second what roma said. Please go see someone if you feel low for too long. There was a time when I was so overwhelmed by everything and couldn't stop crying when pregnant with DD and all my doctor said was "hormones" and all would be well after the birth. Well, it wasn't and I was poorly and depressed for too long and missed too much of that precious time when DD was a baby.

I'm in pink fleece and working with laptop from bed today too! Already had a sneaky nap and can highly recommend.

Thanks girls. The strangest thing is that I'm really happy right now: with my weight, my fitness, my 'look'. I have two amazing kids a gorgeous hardworking husband, lovely house.. I know we were very unlucky with dc2 from when she was born. But we must count our blessings in life.

Well I'm having an early lunch: another curry from the new book! Dh wanted it tonight but I didn't think I could cope with my long trip after a late curry! Delicious too, no sugar, no bread and butter!