Crepeys in the Long Grass of Life

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Thanks Beachy for the frisky title suggestion.

Well, here we all are!

Dp plays golf (like mr BTM on a yearly basis).Midlife crisis seems to have largely bypassed him, no Lycra or skateboards or expensive rare record habits.

He had a motorbike but that went shortly after the arrival of ds and the fact he does most ferrying.... So aside from dodgy trouser purchases (which have been relegated to the back of the wardrobe) he just carries on like he always has.
Stropps lovely pic on FB but i do find the whole prom thing

Blimey about prom excesses. I hope she had a lovely time.

BTM, it will be worth it and summer is a good time. You sound exhausted - can you run away at the weekend?

dd's last day of school ever today, prom tonight (sharing a minicab I believe - think you are right BTM). We marked this with a large row yesterday after weeks of (relative) harmony.

lalsy, we are going off on Saturday afternoon to DH's aunties 70th, back Sunday afternoon, so that is a bit of an escape. I think they are going to be working in the kitchen all weekend too!

Did your DD have a prom in Y10 too? Do we have to do it all twice?

OPM, navy sling-backs from Hobbs sound very grown-up and smart!

I am camping in a field tomorrow night and the weather forecast is not good!

BTM - focus on the end result if you can!

BTM, one in year 11, yes. It was pretty dreary I gather. dd doesn't do dressing up but this year has been easy, so she is growing up I guess . Glad you can get away for some of the weekend.

NU, glad little gds is doing OK.

BTM - where are the aunties? somewhere nice I hope? at the very least, you can do a lot of sleeping. And it will all be beautiful in the end.

Like BD we will be in wet field. BD - where is your wet field? ours is sussex.

I informed DP when he turned 40 that he was too old to be an angry young man and too young to be a grumpy old one, so would have to settle for being a peevish middle-aged man. Fortunately he laughed.

Dd1 apparently having whale of a time in Italy.

NU, I think that the support you're giving must be making a huge difference.

Addle, just outside Bristol. Think it's in the local cricket club or something!

at your DD in Italy, MI. We are struggling to get through to our garden ATM!

Addle, if it's near me, you can come and shelter if it rains....

Glad you are getting away from your kitchen this weekend. Are you taking your teen with you or are you managing a little break from that too?

We have the whole year party (Y4) this weekend. It's going to be mad....

Addle - my field is in Worcestershire - camp over Friday night, festival Sat when I am singing and pulling pints (not at the same time you understand.....)

BTM hope you have a relaxing one.

We are taking DS, but DD has an important party to go to so she is staying and sleeping over at friends. I think there may be some shenanigans at our house before, but as the kitchen/whole of downstairs is in complete disarray and our builder may well be around, I am hoping it won't be such an attractive prospect. Gulp.

Am at the conversations along the lines of "oh, it's raining, shall we go and stay the night with this woman I met on the internet? She's really very nice..."

BTM, yes, I may combust with envy of DD1. On the other hand, imagine how cross I'd be if she wasn't enjoying it?

MI, you would pass out if your DDs said it to you!

I am a bit and hoping I am not borrowing trouble. DD has just texted to say that they had the pox at DGCs' nursery. DGS1 had it a year or so ago, but DGD2 definitely hasn't had it. I know we are the backup for all things going wrong with the GC, but I am now wondering how we will cope if DGD2 catches it, when I am supposed to be helping with DG1 who hasn't had it and whose DM will want to keep her away so there is no possibility of new baby catching it. (That sounds complicated, so I hope you know what I am trying to say). Oh joy!

Italy sounds very appealing at the moment ....

NU, much sympathy - have been there with having zero CP immunity when pregnant, endless scares, virologists, its got a nerve-wrackingly long incubation period. Has ddil had it - if so the new babe will have some protection (from what I remember)?

There is a vaccine, I know...might it be worth a chat with the GP? Mind you, that assumes they haven't got it yet!

Oh the gas mask box.... reverie... sigh. It's all a bit lovely really, often, sometimes, this having kids thing, don'chathink?

I am almost sparking with focus and energy today. It's so unusual I could take all my clothes off and dance..... with my Brabantia. Instead I'm listening, loudly, to Beck with the windows open and writing a first draft of a lovely show (I can say that, it's not my own creation) and life is wonderful.

I went to a sleep specialist who is writing to my GP to request an overnight sleep study, he's thinking I might have a sleep apnea/periodic limb movement disorder combo. Meanwhile he said to go full on with the iron as ferratin needs to be over fifty for the treatment for PLMD (which I just wrote down as PMSL ) and mine's eighteen. What with the many weeks wait for the sleep study, I think there will be time to boost it up. Meanwhile, as I may have mentioned, I guess as result of mega iron, I feel gooooood. I actually didn't need to go back to bed after school yesterday which had not happened at all in two months.

Please forgive self interested post but it just makes me realise how rarrrrbish I normally feel.

Yay WAF! That sounds amazing. I too am feeling very sprightly (which I'm putting down to my wheat-less-ness, but could be anything). Sadly, I'm not putting this to any use, just fretting about DS's birthday party.

He's now invited nine children, which will be managable as long as none bring siblings. And at least one can't come. Well, it would be if the weather's going to be nice and they can all go in the garden. BUT the weather forecast for next weekend is looking rather dodgy. I know it's a long way off, but I'm being thrown into a flap.

Ooh, or I could fix up a tarpaulin over the garden, and dangle interesting things from it...

Lovely to hear about the rising energy levels, WAF and Herbs - I need to get me some of that. :)

Dd didn't get in from prom until after midnight and then she needed to tell me all about it and then I got a panicky text from a client at 6am because dh had forgotten to deliver a job last night and she needed to send it to the graphic designer this morning. (aargh) Today is also dd's 16th birthday and also ds's transition day at middle school. And I have a job to deliver this afternoon and a cake to bake and a new parents' evening to go to at middle school this evening.

At 11.30 last night the local McDonalds - which is in a field out of town, thanks to weird planning restrictions - was apparently full of girls in ballgowns and boys in suits. I think maybe there wasn't enough food at the prom for hundreds of hungry teens. I am still reeling from the OTT-ness of last night and not quite registering ds's move up to middle school, whereas there were a bunch of mums of people in his class blubbing outside the middle school this morning. I was all "Bye, yep, whatevs, see you later". I'm sure he'll have a blast, because he is desperate to move up and has been there mentally since about January.

And now back to work. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Blasted heck Stropps. That's one hell of a day. The most strenuous thing I'm doing is making a the Thai chicken curry DS has requested for dinner. I'm trying to expand his dinner repertoire from [item] and chips, or a sandwich, or pasta, but wasn't quite expecting such an off-piste request.

Expect they were too excited to eat at the prom. I remember, vaguely, being too excited to eat when youg. Not these days. Went to see OK GO! at the Forum with best bud a while back and we met to eat beforehand.... and had a pudding, like you do and not only had missed the support act, when we waddled, slowly, in but the actual band had started!

I like the sound of your DS1 Uni open days, QQ. You and he are close, non?

Herbs, I have been wheat and sugar free(ish) since Paris and it's definitely a good (if momumentally, unsustainable) thing.

I must say, being wheat free has been no bother at all. Not sure I could give up sugar, though. Troughed a whole bar of Ecuadorian dark chocolate to myself yesterday, and it was bloody delicious. Gave me palpitations, mind you.

WAF, that's great news! I can only dream of my iron being 50 - it seems to hover between 7 and 20. It should be on the up now, but wasn't tested

Stropps, great to hear your DD's prom was a success Hope your day goes OK today! Has your DS finished for the summer too?

Prom

Can you tell I'm a bit bowled over by it all? I might not have blubbed outside middle school this morning, but I've just shed a few tears looking at the video on the local newspaper website, as I've known so many of those young people since they were 2 or 3. And I was all proud when I clicked on the photo link.

BTM, no, ds just has transfer day. He's not finished at first school until July 18th. Which will be a monster blubfest as they have their leavers' assembly. This is all Top Secret but the whisper is that there is a strong High School Musical component. This means that ds will be in his element. Have already arranged to go straight to the pub with other mums afterwards. I've been taking dcs to and from that school since 2001...

Glad you liked Oxford, QQ. It is a great place to be as a student, and small enough to get about on a bike.

BD/Addle - I will also be in a wet field on Saturday night - it's the annual "party in a field" which is just round the corner from the office. It's always a fantastic evening, with loads of people I know, but the rain doesn't improve things, shall we say. I'm not camping, though - we are borrowing the company flat for the night and leaving DM in charge of the DCs overnight.