Ha! Julie, welcome - your boys together are my boy's first and middle name! Please allow me to state the obvious... So, you, too are one of these women to take leave of their senses and have kids close together in age, huh? I'm surrounded! Is it contagious? LOL! They look adorable together, BTW
Bath - *****!!! re: the lamp - my worst nightmare is a house fire. More precisely, my own house (obviously not other people's, cos I'd be pretty useless, then, huh?). Not a funny thing - it's really good that Wade actually appreciates, to some degree, what the implications were. I hope the local brigade has a good Brigades In Schools program!!
Oh, and please don't apologise for venting about the kids! I think it's perfectly reasonable to get on here, have a whinge and have someone else say, 'yep, it's not a walk in the park all the time (in fact, it may only be a walk in the park when you are actually walking in a park...), and you are only being a human mummy for admitting it'. To be admonished for thinking these things out loud is not only unhelpful, but it drives your feeling deeper so that you think you are abnormal and doing your children a disservice by being their 'ungrateful' mummy, instead of the perfect, ever-smiling, martyr. It's just unrealistic! So, vent away. Also, I can understand how the constant chatter can interfere with your own attempt at thoughts!
Good to see some long-termers back, too.
Oscar is being very cute today, I must say, and not the Klingon he was being two days ago. He's just so huggable! We went to visit the pony today and he was squealing with delight at the dogs, the horse (who kept nudging his head on the walk up to the tie-post), the cat, the dogs again, the horse, the people...today was definitely Tart Day. He did the same thing at the local kids recycler, where I bought him one of those twirly bead wooden things.
DP's out tonight with some of his new friends (from CFA Challenge) and I have to be his proxy for a meeting he has to be at tonight at another brigade. So, my dad will look after Oscar for an hour or so...on his own...for the first time...
[just got video footage and still shot of Oscar standing on a box, trying to open the front door...I think he's on a suicide mission...]
OK, better organise a solo dinner and get the shopping in...