Mp - big hugs, hope you're feeling better about the whole thing now.
Ginger - totally agree with you, there is no way I could hang around until an evening dinner,especially with two little ones.
Clare - Lol at the tantrums they have. We had a massive one last night because I put natural yogurt on her chili con carne when she wanted her vanilla yogurt we had bought that afternoon at the shops. I explanined numerour times that her yogurt was just for breakfast, but after ten minutes I told her that if I counted to three and she was still whinging she could go to her room for a couple of minutes - I didn't even get to one and she'd already stopped!
Noni - hope you and the others are on the mend up there.
Trill - welcome back from your holiday, tell us all about it! Did A like playing in the ocean? How many loads of washing have you had to get through??
Childcare Christmas party this evening, hope the sunny weather keeps up and we don't get the showers they are predicting.
Hi ladies just popping in - have been reading on my ph but don't have a lot of oomph so only short little stints. Exhausting work holding ph. Just wanted to pop in give big hugs to mm, noni and
Mp. brendan nelson is lovely, so glad u r all safe- someone is watching over u for sure. Xx
Re bugs - we have introduced the "danger!" don't touch cocncept . Works for bees snakes spiders elec outlets. We use big voice & snatch our hands back gesture to reinforce the meaning.
As for me it looks like I might be in a little longer as there is a bit of worry about the blood supply to the recon when I am upright so still on my back for most of the time. Am downplaying it to family cos I can't handle thevhysterical worry but but my dr is a bit nervous about it failing. So doing lots of deep breathing & visualizing it full of life energy. Accepting all healing vibes!
Can someone copy last para over to mssgs thread. I'm pooped. Xxxxx
MD, I copied your post over to the other thread xx
MP, OMG that must have been so scary! So glad N wasn't in the car and that J is too little to be scared beyond the initial accident.
Ginger, I agree - I would rather eat a sandwich at lunchtime than drag out the whole day waiting for an evening meal. It is presents in the morning, then a quiet lull, then lunch then the day pretty much returns to normal around here.
I have heaps of things I have been meaning to say for ages but I never seem to get the chance. We are going away this weekend to the beach, so hopefully the good weather holds. We ended up buying a dvd player for the car because to go anywhere is at least an hour each way from here and W is such a bad traveller. Hopefully it works.
Both kids slept though last night, A had a feed at 6am then they both slept until 8!
W's behaviour has improved, he isn't as compliant as he used to be but much better than a couple of weeks ago. I don't know if it was just a natural progression or if the vitamins I started him on have had an effect.
G: i too would be peeved at the change of plans. i dont do xmas dinner. mostly because like the others have mentioned..pressies in the morning, big lunch to the point of explosion and then nanna naps on and off until bedtime lol!
MD: sending loads and loads and more bucketloads of healing energy your way. xx you did well to type that message so soon after the op! and totally understand you not wanting to unnecessarily burden the family ATM...of course you dont want to shoulder all of it either on your own. i'm guessing your DH knows though?
Arte: ahhh so the sleep-in of the kidlets explains the cake baking at 7.30 this morning....
Cally: *snap* we too have the xmas kindy party!
hmm it has started bucketing down with rain...and we are on a bike home...shoulda taken the plane lol.
md- so nice to hear from you! healing vibes your way xoxo
clare- hhmm i think getting the plane home in the rain would've been a much nicer option! LOL
arte- i swear you will think the car dvd player is the best thing you've ever bought! we love ours
thanks for all your support re: xmas day. i was beginning to feel like i'm a psycho diva but i just think xmas dinner is stooopid. waiting around all day counting down the hours with 2 liitlies. my bro's gf is a total ball-breaking PITA. i'm tired of her calling the shots.
LOlclare the plane would have been handy!!
Thanks for all the good wishes and positive vibes - i am still a bit feaked uout by it all and of course layed awake half the night (the half iw asnt feeding LOL) thinking about all the 'what ifs...' i'll give myself today to worry/beat myself up and then move on i guess. i have a hire car now - ONG it is MASSIVe - one of those huge fords... dont like driving it! i feel like a 60 yr old man who has spent all his super on his dream car. Outlaws are coming this weekend, my FIL is going to love the car... not quite the yummy mummy mobile i wanted...
MD - so glad you are doing ok... what does it mean re the blood supply? i hope you are feeling good and sharing the burden, how is the fam getting along with you in hospy. thinking of you.
G - well obv i dont do xmas but i wouldnt be waiting around all day...
i reckon my boys and your J shold enter a baby girl comp... lol
btw got a nice shipment of oobi yest... oops! one of te little sunday suits for J - the rest were pressies...
Arte - jealous is all i can say (of the sleep)
md - sending super healing vibes ur way xoxox
mp - big hugs hope ur feeling much better now
g - i agree xmas dinner is a silly idea.. especially with kids!!
had ashas xmas party today.. it was great she really loved it and had a great day. still feeling off.. its really awful how long this is drawing out for i mean im not running to the toilet anymore but just a general feeling of crappyness
hope everyones having a good day!
Yes of coursedh knows - he is often here when the surgeons seeing me- it's more the parents who just don't need to be worrying. Mp the recon is made using tissue & muscle from the back which is still connected to it's original blood vessels. The surg can interrupt the supply & worse case the tissue can die & needs to be removed. My supply is good when I'm lying down but it gets pale& cool when I'm upright so it means I can only get up for short times so hence resting in hossy for longer. Blood supply will get better as time goes on so they tell me. I'm really just concentrating on sending my new boobie lots of love so she wants to stick around LOL. It really is a weird shape, it will settle down but I think it will have a couple of funny lumps & a flat spot permanently. My patchwork puppy LOL
Ginger just have chrissy lunch without them !! Litle kids take priority on christmas
Oz, we are just giving him normal kids multivitamins. I usually consider vitamins to be a giant con, but he really eats bugger all so I wouldn't be surprised if he is deficient in something.
MD, hope the blood supply sorts itself out quickly. How are the girls doing? I am sure your DH is doing a good job of keeping the wheels turning while you are away.
Ginger, I am not dreading the trip so much with the dvd player, I hope it works.
Clare, forgot to say poor L - that face injury sounded very ouchy.
That makes me wonder - how much are your kids eating? On an average day W eats:
half a cup of cereal
half of an apple/banana
chocolate chips off the top of a muesli bar
marmite cruskit
and dinner is anything from half a chicken nugget to 1.5cups rice/pasta, depending on his mood.
Amelia is doing really well. She just about hyperventilated with excitement when W was waving a peice of toast around the other day lol - she is super interested in anything we are eating.
She is around the 90th percentile for her height and weight, she can reach the ground in the Jumperoo and she loves it.
W has been walking around breastfeeding his glowbug, very cute! Better go, he has just told me that our christmas tree 'fell' down yet again lol
MD: ah yeah, I prolly wouldnt give too many details to the extended fam either. In fact, i only just yesterday told mum the details of resus moment in teh middle of the night at the hossy when i had the tonsilitis and blood toxicity thang happening. i guess it is a way of ensuring that we dont need to 'look after' their emotion and turmoil while we are needing to focus on our own ITMS. sending lots and lots of good strong and healthy blood flow vibes your way!!
Arte: Dont know if you wanna hear this but Leila eats like a horse. for brekkie she'll have a bowl of cereal, a tub of yoghurt and a slice of nutter toast (peanut butter on toast). then she'll have a morning tea snack of crackers or fruit. Lunch is a full hot meal usually along with a sandwich and some more fruit or a muesli bar. Afternoon tea is a muesli or fruit bar and Dinner is a plate of whatever we are eating along with some yoghurt chaser... but she is tiny. only in the 25th% on the charts, so i figure she just has a mega fast metabolism and most probably just goes straight through her lol!
Noni: sounds like you are on the mend...have you got multivitamins or some kind of probiotic that you can take to help boost your system after the gastro?
well, i would say Lewis sits somewhere inbetween William and Leila on the eating stakes LOL some days he definitely eats more than others, and sometimes it depends what the food on offer is iykwim? like, he can put away a whole happy meal no worries whatsoever but will pick the cheese out of a salad sandwhich and leave the rest- cheeky bugger!
he has a habit of eating the tops off crumpets, cheese and bacon rolls etc. ie. only eating the good stuff. very annoying.
having a quiet home day around here today. gotta go to a xmas dinner for dh's work tonight- leaving L with dad but taking J.
well Falguni will be happy to know that it looks as though we're staying right here in the hills for a few more years. i think that dh began to realise that the grass may be greener but it's just as hard to mow iykwim? and began to realise how good we have it here. i tell you what, some of the absolute dumps in sydney that we were looking at on the internet for 750k really gave us some perspective on how good we've got it!
I'm away for a week and what happens? You better all get chatting again cos I'm going home tomorrow. New boob starting to look like one, good colour now, not going to turn blue and drop off haha.
That's good because I would hate to think that you are doomed to spend the rest of your life walking around in circles from only having one counterweight Seriously though, it's super wonderful to hear that you are heading home and that the boobenheimer looks like it is supposed to look. I had a tear in my eye knowing that we are going to have you around for a long time yet and that the outcome was the best possible one to get
As for me, well it just never stops around here! I am finally caught up on Avs. Uni is all set to go for next year and the kids are great.
MD: ooohhhh home time!!!!! so so stoked that your booby is healing! what a relief this must be! big phat hugs xx
and you're right, it has been awful quiet lately...hope that's because everyone is busy doing chrissy shopping...
BTW...where is JaZmum?
G: did you read in the paper today that they reckon house prices are going to just get worse (ie more exxy) for the next 3 years at least...urghhh, this means that sydney will get even crazier...if that's possible! so glad that we are no longer in the market.
Sherie: are you excited about going to uni next year? it's for a Bach of Ed isnt it? arghh cannae remember!
AFM: well Dh is coming home tomorrow! YIPEEEEE! have missed him like crazy..which i think is really nice IYKWIM...and we have been calling everyday and chatting for ages: which is a miracle for DH in itself, he really doesnt like phones.
Leila and i went to the rally "walk against warming" yesterday. we had a blast! so many people, it was really fun and friendly and loads and loads of families were part of it. and today we went visiting friends and ate lots of cake...so all good! leila is now having a nanna nap and i will follow shortly.
hope everyone is having a lovely day!
Clare it is a Bachelor of Ed (Primary) - I am really looking forward to it. I guess you will have a pretty good reunion with DH?
Someone said something about the washing I had to do on the trip? It wasn't that bad at all as our cabin had a washing machine so I did a few loads to stay on top of it so all I had to wash when we got home were the swimmers and towels because the kids had a swim while I was packing up. It was wonderful to get away. PP, if you want another weekend away I highly recommend Merry Beach - not that much further up the coast from batemans bay and so tranquil. We had no phone coverage unless we walked up the hill and it was nice not to have that link kwim? The kids had a ball - pool to the back of us and beach to the front of us. A didn't like the ocean much though LOL but had a ball making sandcastles. We are planning on going back in March/April next year with friends and staying longer.
Did a bit of shopping in BB on the way back through - spent a bomb at the surf shop on the corner Cally. Brought new havaiana's for A and the tiniest pair of speedos plus some shirts for the kids.
Took A and P to the Bananas in Pyjamas show on Friday and he HATED it! totally freaked him out. he was fine while they had the crowd warmer out - a woman dressed in mrs claus clothes but every now and then a banana would pop his head out and wave at the kids and every time he did it A would freak out and start screaming to go home. He was terrified of them. I think because they were so tall and I don't think he was expecting that kwim? he was OK by the end of the show and we got to 'meet' one but he wouldn't get too close to him.
sorry Trill, but i had to laugh at A freaking out at the banannas! i think L would've been really scared too LOL glad you had a great time. it's really nice having no phone reception sometimes isn't it?
just make sure you know the word 'pedagogy' before you start your B Ed LOL because you will hear it NON_STOP!!!!! and it will completely do your head in! LOL you'll know what i'm talking about soon
md- yah for coming home!!! woo hoooooo you're doing so well girl, what a wonderful xmas you'll have this year.
clare- i can't believe house prices are going to go up even more! we've decided to just sit tight as we've git it pretty good here and our mortgage is low. we even have our on dirt-bike track, you can't get that in sydney! LOL
enjoy dh coming home. i wonder if he'll notice leila has grown up since he's been gone?
pap- 30% off everything at CR this thurs...i'm there at 9am!
Clare I can't believe your DH is only getting home now...seems like he was gone for aaaaages! Enjoy the reunion (*wink wink*) yaknow absence makes the heart grow fonder....
Trill LOLing at Banana Alert! Glad he warmed up towards the end. Funny little critters. Missy E dances and sings like a cabaret regular at home, FDC, at the shops, etc, but is *always* daunted when it's dance and sing time at kindergym - totally random!
And LOL at escaping a lifetime of walking in circles - tho right now I'm travelling in a loooong slow arc since the NooBoob is BIGGER than the other . Not that it matters since they've both squished into the dang ugliest beige post-surgical grandma bra you have ever seen in Your Entire Life including any times you mighta seen your own granny in her underwear. Kinda grateful now I shopped for christmas clothes with high necklines and frill distractions cos all my regular clothes will look awful with this baby on underneath.
Ginger PMSL @ pedagogy. Been there! Re your decision - The grass on the other side might be greener but it's just as hard to mow (Or am I having an opiate moment and you already said that??!). Enjoy your CR time on Thurs!
Apologies to everyone else, I've been reading on the iphone - but can't remember *anything*. Will try to catch up since I'll be sitting in my recliner an awful lot this week! Is Arte on holidays or something? And yeah where's Jazah
Speaking of Where's....MIssy E's learning her Question Words right now. We're getting (endlessly repeated) What you eating, what you doing, where are you, Where daddy? I can tell we're a very short step away from the ULTIMATE toddler word....WHY???!!! Bracing myself for that LOL
brendan nelson is lovely, so glad u r all safe- someone is watching over u for sure. Xx
i mean im not running to the toilet anymore but just a general feeling of crappyness 
Seriously though, it's super wonderful to hear that you are heading home and that the boobenheimer looks like it is supposed to look. I had a tear in my eye knowing that we are going to have you around for a long time yet and that the outcome was the best possible one to get 
so so stoked that your booby is healing! what a relief this must be! big phat hugs xx
. Not that it matters since they've both squished into the dang ugliest beige post-surgical grandma bra you have ever seen in Your Entire Life including any times you mighta seen your own granny in her underwear. Kinda grateful now I shopped for christmas clothes with high necklines and frill distractions cos all my regular clothes will look awful with this baby on underneath. 
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