What would you wear ...wise & avid girls?

[blossoming]

In reference to a question by ltec the other day.

I am hankering after a necklace - a marni-esque/lanvin type thing which ties with a black ribbon.

However would like to spend rather less than marni/lanvin prices - anyone seen any nice ones anywhere?

Blossoming - haven't seen the modal vest in RL but I do find modal stuff goes bobbly after a few washes which puts me off.

Dolcee - meant to say no ds2 won't be doing any activities without me over the summer - too little really. He won't start nursery until january when he's 3 to my HV's bemusement - what you're going to keep him with you at home .

I am so tired may head off to bed soon with new book and grazia.

Marsha - changed shape how - if it gives you a waist and gets rid of indent - i may have to give it a go.

I've done blw with ds2 and dd as its much easier than pureeing when you've already got a child.

DD is nearly 11 months and can sit and eat a whole apple and chew on anything so I'd say its worked pretty well . However - the biggest downside is the mess but hey - it clears up

Hi TraceyB. Overall I have lost weight but it also seems to finally work on difficult areas, skinnier top of arms and yes waist (which pre-dc had never been a problem). Indent, indent do I have one of these?, I will have to check... It probably would work on an indent.

It is effective and fast, I suppose the challenge is keeping it up and not wanting to throw protein out the window. And not being allowed fruit, I miss fruit.

BLW is slow here one week in, I really want to do it.... dh has just managed to feed ds2 banana crikey! Suppose I will persevere.

Although big thing, sorry am v tired, I remembered you are light already . It could be a bit drastic if you don't need to lose much I think.

Thanks for that advice re modal traceyb.
I am obsessed with what to wear to the airport. I always want to look my very best and as it's Nice we're flying to there's no reason not to glam it up. I have two months to get it right!!

Velour tracksuit and trainers not doing it for you blossoming

Carciofi - tip for the recipe - we added prawns as well which were lovely. Also - use less chickpeas - DH had a plate full of them!

Have just ordererd a jumper for DH and a jacket for DS1 from the Boden Preview site - is it strange that I get just as much satisfaction from shopping for them as I do myself!

A friend has recommended someone who has just started up their own stylist business - have emailed her to see about getting my colours done after our holiday! I get soooo bogged down by the amount of faffing I do over choosing new clothes that surely this will help! ABO - your post-consultation shopping trip inspired me!

DS1's first sports day tomorrow - bit worried as he tends to really over-react if he loses a game or can't do something skilled straight away. Played tennis in the garden yesterday with him with small rackets and a sponge ball and he was throwing strops akin to Mcenroe if he missed a shot! Had a chat about 'its the taking part that counts' etc but I may be cowering with embaressment behind the drinks table tomorrow!

Labels all the way!!! (I can always pretend I'm heading off to Monte Carlo in a helicopter..)

I've been reading avidly but not clicking on links as I am trying desperately to save! I had been working until April minding my friends dd, which was exhausting but lovely at the same time. Initially it started as the odd day here and there but then friend was offered a full time job. The prospect of having my own 3 and a baby 5 days a week was a bit daunting, but by then we had all fallen in love with the baby, my dc adore her. It was pretty hard going, especially when she started calling me 'mummy' as she saw me so much Her mum found it too much too and quit the job at last month. So there goes my shopping and treat money. We all missed the baby so much we mind her on Mondays, but as a favour as her mum isn't working.

Roma love that you are telling your MIL you are going to work to get away from her My MIL and I mainain a veneer of politeness stictly on the basis we see each other as little as possible, in your situation a crime would have been committed by now.

Fritzi great about the job, there is nothing worse than working for someone who doesn't appreciate you.

Carciofi I am an only child, and I have been thinking about your question all afternoon. In truth I rarely reply to questions like that because I am accutely aware that every family is different, and that people may have only one child for medical reasons etc, and I wouldn't want to offend anyone.....but.....my experience of being an only is the reason that I have 3 dc, and would happily have one or two more. I'll elaborate if you like, otherwise I'll keep my opinions to myself.

Meanwhile, I curse the person who introduced me to L&L scarves!

Oh and got an email about the Mint Velvet sale being on if anyone is interested

Evening ladies. Just spotted the Little London sale including Cakeys shoes at half price sorry Cake hope you're too busy with your mum to read this!

Zembo I thought of you the other day when I passed a salon with threading for 19 Euro

Just rushing in quickly to say who was it who was lusting after the Current Elliott denim majorette jacket (MM? or Choo?absolutely ages ago - it's just turned up on Outnet

VB 19 Euro is totally outrageous! and well done on resisting the links. The sale linking is going to be a nightmare for my credit card

Hi, thanks for sharing your experiences about being an only child/having one. Verity, I would like to hear your experience if you don't mind. I have two brothers and although we get on well, we are not very close and DH barely speaks to his sisters.

Fritzi, congratulations on the job!

I think I might chance taking DD to the Harvey Nicks sale tomorrow, just for an hour and armed with bribes of chocolate buttons!

If anyone is looking for a new dress, I bought this a while ago and it is now half price.

OWW, thanks, will try that. I am about to order a couple of things for DD from the Boden preview site.

for Tracey

V quick from me. Marsha did BLW with dd and, dare I say it she eats everything now at 2yo. We eat out a lot & made that much easier. She always eats what we have including sushi, Indian food etc. Have you seen the BLW book? The only bit I found useful was about LOs gag reflex being much further forward than ours so when they gag they're far from chokin. Made me much more relaxed. I think (from my vast experience with 1 LO) that you have to try not to worry how little they're eating in the beginning. They actually get a lot more than you think in. Also liked the "stop when you're full" idea that feeding a kid mush overrides their natural full instinct (the games to get them to eat more etc). Hth.

MM - was it you that wanted the majorette jacket?

OK Carciofi[deep breath]

My childhood was happy but fairly solitary. I have only 2 cousins who I had fun with but wasn't close to IYKWIM. I was very close to my mothers family who were all lovely, I adored my grandparents and spent a lot of time with them.

I think I really started to think about this as I got older. Now I am very aware that I have no-one who has the same memories as me, the childhood experiences of holidays and christmas and the like were all with adults many of whom are no longer here. I can't say to anyone "Do you remember that holiday in Westport House where the elephant was behind a flimsy fence?" because I was there with my grandparents who have both died since. I remember a fantastic summers afternoon at the beach with my aunt who is now in her 70s, but soon I will have no-one to reminisce with, IYKWIM.

When I look at my own 3 dc and the fun they have together and the love they have for each other I feel sad that I had no-one to share my childhood with. My dc have no aunts, uncles or cousins on my side of the family. We talk a lot about how lucky they are to have each other and they are very close and get on well.

My mum is very fit and healthy, but who knows what will happen as she gets older and the responsibility of caring for her will come to me alone, not that I begrudge that in any way, but I will have no-one to share that with.

I am VERY sentimental, so these things matter a lot to me, and I possibly over-romanticise the idea of the kind of family I would have liked to have had, but nevertheless, I really feel that the greatest gift I have given my children is each other. I tell them that a lot and I think they believe me! I still have pangs of guilt that dd has no sister, I would have loved a sister, not only when I was young, but now to share in the experiences of having our own families. Of course there is the possibility that if I did have a sister we wouldn't get along, but I still look enviously at my friends and their close relationships with their siblings.

The early years with 3 were hard and sooo tiring but honestly so worth it. The exhaustion passes and than you are left with the love {I told you I was sentimental }

Sorry, this is a frightfully self-indulgent post, please feel free to ignore it all!

Fritzi, agree re the online colour tests being a bit , am planning to get some professional advice when I go to the Trafford centre at the end of the month. You can't beat the personal touch!
I too don't like gold, only ever wear platinum or silver jewellery. For some reason gold just doesn't look right on me, to my mind.
And by the way, your english is impeccable, I wouldn't know it isn't your native language if you hadn't told us.

Blossoming, didn't realise it was only December when you lost LO. My deepest sympathies. It is one of my worst nightmares and for some reason (probably, that) it is a re-occurring nightmare I have. You must be a very strong person.

I am making plans for a move back up to Scotland (near family), I just need to find a job up there. I have to get it out as keeping it secret here is killing me and I don't want to tell my close friends in case it is a bloody great FAIL!

I realise we all feel the pressure don't we? Couples or otherwise, bottom line is there is no difference because we live to our means. Its just a scarey time all round.

And the bloody BP shares are going to dunt my pension. Its just one thing after afeckingnother. Gah!

Morning all!

Por you verity, babies are lovely to have around aren't they!
Thanks Cain, I think the reason we're strong most of the time is because we've got the sweetest baby rolling about, giggling, needing this and that, sleeping through..
I was determined to have another baby even though some people thought it was a bad idea as dc2 needed constant care. I thought another child would help dc1 with the 'looking out for' their disabled sibling after we'd gone. We had no idea she would die. I was keen to have another straight away after too. Anyway we lost dc2 when the baby was 8 weeks old and she has been such a gift to everyone, her brother, us, grandparents, extended family, local people.
I'm so glad I followed my heart and ignored people who said 'how will you cope?'

On my shopping list today is footwear for the Sunday School walk this weekend. I fear I'm going to stray into 'terrain ballet' territory from (sensitive souls look away now) Landsend.
Have a good day everyone.

Oh Bloss. You are such a star.

Have been away from thread as have rubbish cold. Won't be a long catchup as I can hear dd chatting away in cot.

reine dd is 2 and ds was born april 7 so our babies must be close to the same age. Am loving the portable baby stage. Dd wAs a committed routine baby and by 7 months life was restricted by naps so am making the most of it.
marsha more bow here. It's brilliant. If you
like tidy and are a bit anal
it's not for you. Best thing is that babies wil begin to eat whendevelopmentally ready. So your lo is prob not quite ready. All calories really come from milk till about one anywAy!

carciofi love that dress. Can you bf in it ? am still sulking that the anglomania one won't work.

Blw, that is. Not bow!

Also, that colours website is confusing. Were those of you who had colours done confident about colour before? Colour is the one thing I think I'm pretty good with. But i wear mainly winter colours even though I have no idea what my skin tone is!! Those leafy colours do nothing for me!

I'm close to one of my brothers but not the other, though I enjoy knowing that he's there and we holiday from time to time together. My own 3 play together nearly all the time. The flip side of this is that they can be at a loss for what to do when they don't have company - particularly ds3.

I really loved getting pg, having a baby, bfing, all that stuff, and have thought about dc4 quite seriously. I really wanted mine to have siblings for lots of reasons but specific to us is that fact that we make international moves approx every 3 years, and I can see it helps them to share the whole new school/new life experience. Again there's a flip side to that - the major stress of getting 3 children into a school we like at a random time not even necessarily the beginning of the school year.

But the main thing for me is wanting to have a big family when I get older. I see now for my Granny, who's 93, following what her grandchildren and great grandchildren are up to is really her only pastime of interest. My mil is a younger version of the same - her evening entertainment is talking on the phone with her 4 children, 13 grandchildren, 3 sisters, and dozens of cousins/neices/nephews etc. My mum spends several weeks of the year visiting me and my brothers (we all live in different countries!).

On the other hand I can see that having an only child would allow you to experience most of what's wonderful about being a parent with very little of the hassle, exhaustion and problems. There are times it occurs to me that that might have been a more sensible approach

That Little London site is nice, thanks everything. I love the zebra maxi though personally look like skeletor in that neckline so will browse the high-neck tea dresses instead.