Good luck with the US MM - will be thinking of you. :hug:
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Good luck with the US MM - will be thinking of you. :hug:
goodluck today MM :hug: hope that it goes AOK.
G: glad to hear the mastitis is clearing up. wow, i didnt realise you could get it still (was under the misguided impression it was a newborn thang! :redface:).
MP: good luck for the Big Move!
AFM: all ok here. my mum is visiting again YAY!! we took the day off today and drove down the penninsula and swam in the ocean....with DOLPHINS! ha ha! such a lovely suprise!
MD, I think there is a link between clingyness and advanced speech. Social interaction and speech/comprehension are on different sides of the brain and it seems that he is very dominant on one side and the social side has been a lot slower to develop. I had a dream about you the other night - you went on a secret weekend trip to NZ and went to Bluff of all places (the arse of the South Island)!
MM, your welcome. Hope your ultrasound went well.
MP, good luck with all the shifting. Yay for N sleeping through! It has been a long time coming! And glad that J doesn't have asthma. Do you have it in your family? I think I remember N having similar problems?
Ginger, bummer about the mastitis again. That sucks. The soccer sounds cool. They have indoor soccer here that we will start W in later this year.
Cally, lol about the fence. My DH is the same - if I ask him about something I am nagging, but then if I don't say anything and it doesn't get done he complains that I should have reminded him! Bedtimes are ok-ish. Still taking about half an hour of me sitting in there but we will get there eventually. How are yours going?
Clare, how is the pregnancy going? Much morning sickness? Cool about the dolphins!
We went camping last night and it was a success! Apparently enough time has passed for us to forget last times spectacular failure lol. W had a great time, went to bed alright(ish) and both of them only had one wake up.
And after my complaints about NZ's boring wildlife...
We left the veranda part of the tent open and a possum came in during the night and shat on a plate!
Arte - LOL bl00dy possum!! Where do you go camping, near to your house or is it a trek and a half? Thanks again for the goodies!!
Clare - How nice! Bet your mum is excited about number 2.
Ultrasound all good, my tube looks as it should and the Dr said there is no reason why I cant fall pregnant naturally. Its good to have that reassurance because I was beginning to lose it a bit.
yah Hayley!!!! that's great news :)
MM - I'm so excited for you...give it some time sweetie :hug: .
Arte that's funny, I have been thinking over the last few days about holidays - not that its in our immed plans - but we do have close friends right at the bottom of the south island. My NZ geography is sketchy - but when I looked up Bluff it's kinda in the spot more or less where I was thinking my friends were. *insert spooky music* I'd say that's an auspicious omen wouldn't you :D!
Clare what a lovely surprise blessing the dolphins were! And what a precious moment to share with your mum!! Dunno why but i feel kinda inspired at how good life can be. :D
Speaking of which - week two of DD1 back at school and all the old problems tumbling back in on us. DD1's impression of the new teach is that she's harsh and that she 'shouts at people' when they get things wrong. Which is bringing up all of DD1's insecurities & negative self talk about learning. *sigh* I'm going to see the teacher this afternoon but it's very hard because she needs to concentrate on engaging H and not criticising her - but H tends to wiggle around doing things and I just know in me waters this is going to aggravate this teacher who is very no-nonsense. Difficult because all her favorite friends are in this class - socially it is perfect - but I just wonder if this year with this teacher is going to be a complete and utter disaster. ARGH I hate this!!! AND when I try to talk to H about keeping up the positive self talk, she thinks I"m criticising her. :cry: I'm damned if i do nothing and I'm damned if I do something. And we've only got 2 years of primary left before I have to abandon her into the clutches of high school which is a very scary thought!!!
MM - great news on the US, so glad that everything looks good.
Clare - wow, dolphins, that would be awesome. We get some in our little bay a bit, last year we had heaps of whales and I had my first sighting ever which was great.
MD - how did your visit with the teacher go?
Arte - so impressed you go camping with the littlies, I bet W has a ball.
Ginger - it is relaxing being near water, we drive along a major river each day on the way to work and it's always interesting, there's always something happening.
MD that is a worry. I can understand your dilemma, if it werent for her friends being in the class you could ask to have her moved to the other teachers room. Why does H feel insecure about herself? Does she think she is unable to do certain things, scared of failure etc? Sorry I dont want to pry into it, but my mum went through similar with my youngest sister, she has anxiety and always tells herself she is going to fail before she has even tried. A counsellor told my mum these things need to be straightened out early, not meaning to send you into a worry but just so you know & can save yourself the heartache.
Got some op shop scores today, a fisher price booster seat for the table which is going to grandmas house, a Dora dvd & a carton of the pretend eggs which M is loving to bits, she loves anything to do with chickens & eggs due to collecting them with her nanna down on the 'farm'.
H that is great news that your tube is fine - lets hope that very soon you are pg again!
MD, L's teacher this year is a first year out grad and he wasn't sure about her at first (mind you I have known her since was was 12 because her mother was my editor at the newspaper I worked at) so I told him to give her a chance and that he would have to let himself get used to her. Maybe H is affronted by her teaching style because she just isn't used to it? I'm sure that the teacher wouldn't be picking on her or the other children, but maybe they have just not had a teacher like that so they have been taken by surprise by her kwim? Either way I hope you are able to connect with H and get her through this :hug: Plus one thing I notice with the kids as they progress through the grades is that the higher up they get, the less molly-coddled they are by their teachers. They are marked harsher in reports and schoolwork and are expected to think for themselves a lot more. Of course the alternative is that she really is a harridan and in that case you would have to meet with her to sort it out. So I hope the meeting went well with her.
You might have noticed that I have stepped down from doing the avs because I just don't have time! the time I spend on them each week is time that I need to dedicate to uni now so I had to let it go.
Things are good here - A has made the transition to sharing a room with L quite well - no sleep regression as yet (touch wood!) and I have only had to go in there once and I think that was only because he was cold. he calls it 'my room' and tells the girls to get out 'my room' and it's hilarious - he is like a 3ft tall sargeant general ROFL. It has been bliss just having him at home - I don't hear a peep out of him now except for when he asks for something and I have to admit that I wish the kids were at school a lot longer than they are ;) because as soon as they come home the squealing starts because they are hassling him :rolleyes: And I can't believe how much I get done in a day now only having 1 at home! every single one of my washing baskets are empty, clothes are all in drawers and all the ironing is done! I even sorted the pantry out. So my plan of attack is to hook in and get all the housework done in the morning so I can do uni in the afternoon until the others are home and then get back into it once they are in bed.
Wow Trill, you are very good at getting things done with little people underfoot, I can't imagine doing all of that and uni!
MM - well done on the op shop finds
hi everyone - man it has gone quiet in here! hope everyone is well!
trill - i am impressed with what you can get done with A underfoot. I dont get a lot done when N is here!!
cally - how does the new furtniture look? i am thinking what we will get for the new house - we are underfirnished for a house of the size...though $$ will be a bit tight for a while so i guess my shopping will have to be curbed for a bit
i wonder how falguni is - have you moved yet love? sorry i am a bit out of the loop
clare - how are you feeling?
MM - yay for the healthy tube.. soon it will be your turn i am sure honey!
arte - v impressed with your camping - i didnt think you woud be trying that for a while but glad you enjoyed it
afm all is well - madly getting things ready now... they are packing the house on monday! i have veen cleaning things out, ordering things ready and soooo much organisation to do. but we are def over the worst of it. we are moving into serviced appts for mon and tue (while DH still at work) and then doing a little road trip to beechworth and healesville on the way down... then fri we are in! cant wait!
had a paed appt for J on tue (have i told you all this) - he is v happy with him which is great, we had been a bit worried about a few things. he still isnt rolling from back to front.. hmmm.. doing loads of floor time to encourage that! and unlike N he REALLY isnt into solids.. takes maybe a spoon here and there... i am not too worried about that though, i guess it will all happen. i just have to also accept he may bnnot be a big eater like N which will kill me as i love cookig for N and i want boys to LOVE MAMAS COOKING! LOL
N is great, was trying to get him into J's kindy but they have room only in the older room. i think he would love it socially and for speech etc but not sure re climbing etc. his current kindy think he would be great... anyway will take hin for a play and see... in the meantime i am quite hppy and excited about the one i have him in, i am just nervous as it is used more for a break for mums not for working mums - so i will be like the worst mum in the block iykwim...
anyway just wanted to say hello and see how everyone was...
anyone heard from noni?
Well I am going to join in the chorus of people who are impressed with Trill's productiveness. Although I will admit Missy E is getting better at self-directed play so I'm getting larger chunks of non-interrupted time - some days anyway LOL.
Trill, how many subjects are you doing - a fulltime or a parttime load? I've still got a couple of weeks to decide if I'm going to do a subject in Semester 1 or not...still undecided although I'm signing up for a rehabilitive exercise program which is a bit of a drive away so that's likely to chew up a fair bit of time, at least for a couple of months. The hydrotherapy one was full (they only have 11 places, wtf??) but i'm on the waiting list, so the world is spared from seeing me in my bathers for a while longer LOL. Am all gee'd up to get back into the healthy eating & exercise - just need a bit of help with it.
MP - good luck with your move, I know better than anyone what a busy time it is. Isn't it nice tho when you're moving to somewhere you've wanted to be for a long time? :)
Clare how are you going sweetie, I was thinking of you yesterday when I read something in the newspaper about morning sickness.
MM - Well done with your op shop bargains...I had an awesome oppy trip where we got a gorgeous painted wooden cradle for $7 - was just about to shell out $50 buying one brand new - so can't complain about that! Thanks for you words re H - it does worry me when she gets into a negative frame of mind but sometimes I think she just does it to hook me in too. She got over it by that afternoon but I'm not going to let her get away with it. I told her how I got those 2 essays done lasgt year in the middle of chemo by getting up every am and telling myself "I CAN do this". I left out the bit about having a personal cheer squad and an endless supply of m&ms LOL. There's a fantastic set of affirmation cards for Teens that I'll be ordering for her birthday this year.
Well all went well with the Teacher the other day. We chatted for well over half an hour and I'm satisfied I've given her a useful window in DD's personality and it also appears DD has made an early favorable impression. There's nothing worse than the teacher taking an instant dislike to your child (BTDT). And I took DD out for an icecream after school by ourselves and she seemed to have taken the positive messages on board by then. But gosh, some days it's hard work.
Gosh look at me I've written a novel. Again. Sorry.
Don't you dare apologise for writing a novel! LOL I love it :) It's great to hear that the meeting went well and that H made a good first impression - and why wouldn't she, she's a great kid! I just hope that H can see that sometimes it might not be all cookies and cream when it comes to school, but tomorrow is a new day and she can start all over again kwim. That's pretty ordinary about only having 11 places? You would think they could at least run a second class instead of keeping a waiting list. I always use board shorts now to hide the legs when I swim LOL. I'm only doing a part time load which should be about 20hrs per week which I think I can handle. It is two subjects though.
PP, that's great that the worst of the packing is done with. I can't even contemplate us ever moving! And don't worry - they will turn into teen boys before you know it and eat you out of house and home LOL.
Cally, that's only the plan - I have no idea if I can stick to it LOL. It's pretty easy to get stuff done because he amuses himself. no doubt there will be days when I can't get anything done but so far so good!
MD, wish I had some words of wisdom for you about the H situation but I am sure you are doing the best you can. Glad the meeting with the teacher went well. How much you care shines though in your post and made me realise how little effort my mum put into us kids - had I ever had a problem with a teacher she would have just told me to get over it. I am a bit p!ssed at her atm because she stopped by on her way though the other day and referred to A as an 'it' (A started crying when mum was holding her and she said "it doesn't like me". So disrespectful.
MP, sounds like you are busy with the move. I hate moving! You won't be the worst mum on the block! People have to work.
Trill, good luck with your workload this year. I think that if it was just W at home that I would have some free time to do some study, he is quite good at playing by himself now. I plan to retrain when A is at kindy so I have another 2.5 years to figure out what I want to do lol
MM, that is great news about the scan.
W has started using all the correct pronouns, I, me, my etc. DH took him to a friends house the other day and the guy thought W was 5 because he speaks better than their 4 year old!
He seems to have hit a new level of independence - must do everything for himself. He was trying to fix something the other day and I offered to do it for him and he turned around so I couldn't get it and said "it'll be easier for me to do it"! He was doing really well at dressing himself but we made a big deal of how he was a big boy and it turned him right off it and now he won't make an effort at all.
We went to a birthday party today but as I was getting lunch he packed a massive tanty because the pasta had tuna in it (and he likes tuna!), so we had to leave. It was really hot though and he refused to take off his jersey so he was probably uncomfortable and he can only take so much of lots of people at the best of times.
Arte - yeah I don't think my mum would ever even have *known* if I had a problem with a teacher, mind you I was such a little goodie 2 shoes and meek and invisible to 90% of the school population so a problem was a fairly remote possibility LOL.
I'm pretty floored though by your Mum's comment. Did she think she was being funny???? (*scratches head*) Did you say something or did you just stare at her stonily??
Trill - 20 hours is the same load as I would have with 2 subjects, although I'm happy to chug along at the one subject (10 hours) rate. Although tbh I have never given each subj the full 10 hours except around assignments & exam times...work smarter not harder I say. Concentrate on your reading & notetaking skills and you will save yourself a lot of time and hassle.
MD, no, she wasn't being funny - it is just how she is. I was too shocked to say anything at the time. She also referred to me as an 'it', but I can let that slide. She also refers to W as 'the boy' sometimes, not in an affectionate way but more as an object of inconvenience. She can be cold and I tend that way too - I make quite an effort to make sure I tell my children that I love them because it sucks growing up wondering what makes you so unlikeable that even your parents don't care. She was never really big on talking to us, never asked how school was or how an exam went or took an interest in anything. I starved myself to 39kg once and she didn't even notice! Sorry for the rant, I am just so annoyed at her - I won't let her treat my children like they are less worthy than her stupid dogs.
Arte :hug:. You've got every right to be angry. I always say, the parent's most important job is to love their child unconditionally. I guess part 2 of that is making sure the child knows that!! :hug:
arte: man, that sucks. understatement i know...:hug:
Sherie: i second MD on this one. you'll probably find that you will have mega busy weeks with uni, then some weeks with barely anything. the joy of higher education lol...bludge bludge bludge, FREAKOUT, madwoman study madwoman study madwoman study, FINISH lol!
Arte - not surprised you were angry
Mp - hope the packing went well and N and J cope well with the move. Hope you don't feel too bad about working, K is the only one at her centre that goes each day, although I know there are others who have parents who work part time and use family and friends on other days, it's still just her name up on the board each day - that makes me feel bad. Although she gets holidays with DH, I know some of the other teachers kids still go up to 3 days each week when they are home for holidays.
MD - glad that the school meeting went well.
K and I drove up to Braidwood yesterday to meet my parents for a picnic and to pick up all the Ikea stuff. Got one of the units up yesterday - won't be doing the other one while she is around though, just a little bit too helpful!! She was so excited about the easel, she'd drawn on the plastic with her crayon before DH got the chance to unpack it. Looking good, will post some pics when her room is finished being organised.
Noni - where are you???
Ok, if we're having a feeling-bad-for-sending-your-child-to-childcare competition then I WIN!!! :p Missy E goes 4-5 days a week and I aint even working!! :p
Seriously ladies, give yourself a break. :hug: We know our kiddies are happy there - we know the good solid reasons behind why they go - we're doing what's right for us in the grand arc of our lives - Enough of this mummy guilt please!!!
Cass, I love your take on the semester routine LOL. Although I did have a couple of friends who were much more the slow & steady wins the race type - strangely enough they had lower stress levels than me LOL.
CAlly - wow an easel - mucho fun. I was just thinking this morning that I'd suggest that to the grandparents for her birthday.
I tried to explain to Missy E this morning when you say "he" and when you say "she" (she just says "he" for everything regardless of gender or even if it's an inanimate object LOL) - hmmm not too sure my explanation helped! She's been a total ratbag lately too. She asks for something, eg toast/toy/activity then when you say yes and go to get it for her, she runs away or scowls and says "NOOO! I don't like toast/toy/activity" - with increasing degrees of drama. The naughty spot in the hallway's getting a bit more of a workout these days.
MD, that's so true! The older 3 only went to preschool 1 day a week in their year before school - they could go up to 3 days a wk - but we knew they only needed 1 day, but come time for Alister to do preschool he will go 2 days a week purely so I can have one extra day on my own to dedicate to uni so in that case it will be all about me.
Luckily we've not had a great deal of tanties like that that are totally irrational LOL, but we have had an increase in the amount of things he HAS to do by HIMSELF! LOL. He has to be the one to get his breakfast - he gets his bowl and spoon out and the container of nutrigrain and pours it into his bowl, then he gets the milk out, but we've managed to convince him that it's best if we do it for him, then he carefully carries it to the table. Plus there is dressing and undressing and all that too. In some ways it's great in other ways its nothing but a PITA, especially if you are in a hurry to go out somewhere. Does she stay in the norty corner MD? Do you think it's effective? I haven't ever used it because I always doubted that they would stay there kwim?
Last night A was playing Lindsay's nintendo DS because he has a farm game with tractors and he thought he was awesome using the stylus to move the tractor around LOL but I had to take it off him because he was getting a bit too carried away with the tapping and then he cracked it!! So I am thinking that maybe one of those leapfrog game consoles would be a good idea for his birthday this year.
Yeah she stays in there because if she doesn't we keep putting her back until she does. She has to say sorry when she comes out. TBH I don't use it all the time - usually try to redirect/distract/remove her from whatever the conflict is - but there has been some hitting and shoving - mostly aimed at DD1 who might I say *never* gets up and walks away from it - so that's an automatic immediate timeout.
I'm LOLing about A making his own breakfast. Missy E loves to get things out of the fridge, and has very unhelpfully undone lids on bottles halfway across the kitchen - thereby slopping its contents everywhere :lol:. E puts on shorts & takes them off, I might teach her to do her tshirt next.
Re leapfrog - we totally avoided all that stuff with DD1 (and she's top of the class with her IT skills - got a distinction in UNSW comp last year for it) - but it's harder this time round to keep E away from it because technology's so much more embedded in our lives than it was 10 years ago (even phones, etc have screen functionality now) - and plus H has all the gadgets so not fair that she has stuff to play with when E doesn't. The leapfrog type thingies are probably a really good solution.
LOL at her sloshing stuff on the floor - he can get some bottles opened, but I usually hear him in the fridge as soon as he opens it so I rush to the kitchen before he can do damage. We have two of those leapfrog things - they are the ones that stick to the fridge - a phonics one with all the letters and then a farm one where you match the animal halves and it makes animal sounds. Normally I wouldn't have been keen on a 3yo having anything like that either, but as you say it is everywhere these days and when I was on the preschool committee we brought laptops and software for the kids to use as young as 3.
And did H get a distinction last year? Good on her! Is she going to do all the comps again this year? L said he wanted to do them again - he does the spelling, english and writing ones.
Thank goodness that W hasn't asked to get his own breakfast yet - I can only imagine the mess that would result!
I loved those school comps, (nerd alert) I was always guaranteed at least a credit and usually a distinction in the maths and science ones.
I am loving the toddler interpretation of things lately too. Today W was babbling on about marbles and since we don't have any and I have no idea where he heard it I asked him what he knew about marbles and he said "they are made of mar" - to him they are mar-balls lol And the other day he was being quiet because A was sleeping and he asked about something and I said he was allowed and he snapped back "I'm not a-loud, I'm a quiet!"
Hi ladies!
Thanks for making me feel better re child care and returning to work...i really appreciate your support, i feel like i can be honest about how i feel and you all make me feel beter about my decisions etc. i know it is the right thing overall. but the micro decisions are hard to not feel bad about. so thanks!
Cally - lol at helping with the ikea... i def think that kinda thing has to be done with them out of the house - i can just imagine the frsutartion with not being able to find the allen key!
Sherie - i concur with the others on the load at uni. i reckon if you allow 20 hrs a week on most weeks you can have alittle 'you' time thrown into that mix. sounds like a plan to me!
Arte - i understand why you feel like you do about your upbringing. at least you are breaking that cycle being the loving and devoted mum you are
Sherie - lol at A's antics! N doesnt get his own bfast yet... thankfully.
you should see the stuff he is coming out with these days... his last day of kindy today so we took ice cream in, he told me he may do a speech after his ice cream to tell them all where he is going... he just amazes me everyday with the speech/comprehension...
I love W's marbles story - you need to write these down ladies!
MD - are you back at uni this sem?
AFM all is well. we had the packers in yest so i am in a svcd apartment... uplift today and we head off on our road trip tomorrow. feeling so excited about the move now! I am exhausted but powering through as equal amount of work i guess at the other end.. and then the craziness of work etc starts in 2 weeks. i am hoping to get a day or 2 to rest and get my head back into the 'corporate me' before i go back.
Arte you will love this - DD1 is kind of digging the nerd alert thing right now. She reckons for book week dress up she's gonna go as a total nerd complete with button up shirt, harry high pants, pen in pocket and compulsory thumb drive on lanyard. LOL I love that she has that kind of sense of humour about her own interests. (All I need to do now is introduce her to the world of AD&D and the nerdsformation will be complete) :rofl:
And yes, she enters every year - writing & ICT & usually some other random subject. She got a distinction & a credit last year - quite interesting because we got a print out that identified the exact skills that she scored against & the q's she missed.
LOL at Mar-balls and A-loud. Constant entertainment :)
MP - still deciding if I'll take a leave of absence for the first semester or not (dr has recommended that I do & I'll have rehab exercise things to go to & probably going to try to get back to work - to pay for my dental :o) - but will be back for Semester 2 definitely. Hope all goes well with your road trip & settling in - whirlwind days.
hi girls!
PP: have a great road trip! look forward to hearing from you on the other side of this move!!
MD: leila also is a fridge raider. usually she goes for the fruit as she hasnt mastered the art of opening screw lids....yoghurt is a whole other story though lol!
we are also having the EXACT kinda tantrums lol! lately we havent had her eating dinner because she: 'DONT WANT IIIITTTTTT!' lol. such a PITA, but will keep trucking. it goes for everything too: for example, she will say she wants a paticular pair of shoes, we get them, go to put them on and then she cracks it with a big NOOOO! and shaking of head in dramatic fashion lol!
Cally: yeah leila also likes to 'help' with the ikea assembly. darn allen keys!
Sherie: that is cool that he knows how to use a nintendo though! leila just likes to smash keys on the computer...
hi girls
we've all had gastro this week and all been throwing up constantly! feeling a lot better today. dh has gone to work, hopefully by tomorrow we'll all be spot on. i'm just letting you know we're going away to Echuca on thurs so i'll be MIA. Hope everyone is well and i'll catch up on all the goss next week sometime xoxxo
Poor Ginger - hope you're feeling much better :hug: Enjoy your trip to Echuca!!
Cass, E can get into my Iphone - I had to put a passcode on it because she rang someone one day! LOL
Ginger: oh deary me! gastro is a whole world of 'not fun'. no wonder you have been MIA. the silver lining is that now the holiday away will seem all the sweeter :D
MD: ha ha! well, the most Leila can do is answer the phone :lol: bit off-putting for the caller and sometimes annoying when we realise she has answered the phone before we have heard it and has promptly hung-up :shakehead:
AFM: having a really crap night. our dog has somehow injured her leg and cant walk on it. and it appears that our cat has been hit by a car. all the space of a couple of hours. pretty distraught has had to see poor DH in tears taking the cat to emergency. we just dont have the cash for emergency fees if he is really mega injured IYKWIM. last time this cat was sick it cost us close to $2000 (april last year). we just dont have that kinda cash anymore. and who knows what is wrong with Stella the Dawg. i did a tick search (the QLD gal in me) and nada. but still, have no idea what is going on with her. but strangely enough the leg doesnt seem to hurt her and she is eating, so will take her first thing first to our vet in the morning...as for the cat, well, he is waaay too critical to keep until morning. oh man, i hope he is ok.
Cass, so sorry to hear about your cat and your dog - too much all at once!! Though if Stella seems comfy for now that will be less worrying by the cold light of dawn. I hope little puss is ok. :hug:
:hug:Hi everyone,
Sorry i've been MIA. Have missed out on lots i'm sure. Haven't had much time to jump on here, as I'm cramming everything i need to get done into the 2 hours when H sleeps.
I've been really enjoying spending time with her since the girls have gone back to school. We can go to a cafe for morning tea now - without her having to get off her chair and go exploring. She's loving Kindergym - especially swinging on the bars and landing in her 'motorbike' position, and we've started going to the Library for Story time. She's swimming all over the pool without her floaties, and can now ride her 'hand-me-down' bike. My baby girl is definitely growing up :( (just wish she'd get over her fear of pooing in the toilet - so I can ditch the pull-ups !)
Anyway, hopefully I can pop back in soon and read back over what you've all been up to.
Hope you're all happy and healthy :)
Cass - I hope your furbabies are ok
Clare, hope your pets are both o.k. Is it Stella's front or back leg? I hope she didn't pop her cruciate ligament.
Ginger, bummer about the gastro, hope you are all feeling better soon
MD, OMG about the nerds having thumb drives - makes me feel so old! Back in my day the nerds had a calculator and spiral notebook. And my day wasn't that long ago! I wish there was something like AD&D here, I need an outlet for my nerdyness!
MP, WOW that N wanted to give a speech! Hope all the moving goes well. How is N going with it?
Jazah, WTG hannah! She sounds like such a big girl now
Hi all, Havent had a chance to catch up properly and will try to do so later while L is at CC.
Cass I hope your animals are ok :hug:
Ginger hope your all feeling better this morning.
Have a great day everyone.
Cass - hope your two little babies are feeling better.
Miss K isn't up for opening the fridge (we have an upside down one), but she has free and easy access to the freezer for her post dinner icy pole. Also knows exactly where the Craisins are in the cupboard and will get them and a little dish to eat them off.
Ginger - enjoy your little holiday, hope everyone is feeling back to normal.
Jaz - glad you are enjoying your special time with H. Very impressed at her swimming around the pool! Our lesson last night was not so good (Mummy, hold hands! - refused to jump in by herself - not a lot of Mummy patience left at the end of that lesson when I know she was doing it for DH last week)
Phones - Miss K was walking around this morning saying 'Call Izzy'. Unfortunately she had called DH's work instead.....
Arte - Thats terrible of your mum, how hurtful. :( However a good thing to come out of it all is that you know you will never treat your children how your mum treated you. Your children will know they are loved and you will have a wonderul relationship with them even when they are old enough to have their own families.
MD - Yes I know what you mean about H making it seem more dramatic than it is, just to see what your reaction to it all is - my sister does it to my mum too and of course my mum falls for it. I think all you can do is encourage and build up her self esteem, as you are doing. Maybe its just a phase she is going through and as she gets older and more mature she wont let things get to her so much. Even now for myself I think back to what my worries were as a teenager and realise how petty they were lol. BTW what an op shop score the bassinet was. I have turned into the op shop queen, I am forever finding things we need at a fraction of the cost you'd pay brand new.
MP - I think some mummies need to work to keep their sanity - I am one of those mummies. Dont feel guilty at all.
Clare - Aww no your poor cat & dog, let us know what the outcome for both are.
Jaz - I am another one amazed at H's swimming ability! Thats so great.
Cally - Yes I know what you mean about K getting into the pantry and helping herself to a snack, M does it too. Its cute how they get themselves a little plate too.
Ginger - Hope the gastro has passed.
omg! how dark is it over melbourne right now??!! man, i am meant to be picking leila up soon but we have been advised to stay indoors....hmmmmm.
Cally: soo what did DHs work think of that lol?
Arte: yep, she sure did! ah my pets know how to do it well...
thanks for the well wishes with the furbabies. so far, no news really. the kat is the real worry, as he needs to eat and do his business. both of which he is not interested in. but then seriously if i was hit by a vehicle as big as a car if i weighed 6kgs, then i dont think eating or moving would be high on my 'to do' list either lol! that said, he did sit up today and take some steps....so that's gotta be something right?
eepp! the wind has picked up! it's so so dark! BBL!
Hi ladies,
Cass, how are the furries going today? Signs of improvement, I hope. :hug:
Jazah - wow sounds like you girls are really enjoying your mornings together! All that swimming sounds great.
Arte - oh yeah I could do with an AD&D outlet too. ;). In fact I need more FUN, full stop. Life is very boringsville at the moment.
Having major rampant-out-of-control toddler issues at the moment. I even took her to the Dr because the behaviour transformation has been that stark. Nothing wrong with her though. Seems like it's just me. A lot of the strategies I used with DD1 don't seem to be working. The asking-for-something-then-changing-your-mind-and-deciding-you-don't-want-it-and-having-a-tantrum-over-it behaviour is just OTT. I felt reduced to a quivering mess this morning after a particularly bad run. I've dusted off my Toddler Tactics book cos I can't handle too much more of this. And I'm not handling that stressed-brain feeling very well - need to get Zenner.
Clare, how are the pets today? My cat was hit by a car and the first day we went to see her she was blind and could only walk in circles and was making a feral growling sound. I bawled my eyes out. But she did improve. For about a month we did cat physio making her walk in circles the opposite direction and her sight came back. For about a year if she got stressed she would start with the circles again (the first bird she caught was a disaster - she let it go inside and then ran in circles with the excitement of it all lol). But now she is perfectly fine, you wouldn't even guess. We also had a dog with the cruciate ligament problem. She was 10 when it happened, had the op and was still o.k when she ran away at 14. Don't stress too much about the hips - it is a problem but we have had a large three legged dog and it didn't bother her too much. You can also take your time to decide - our dog didn't get the op for about 3 months because mum wasn't sure if it was worth it due to her age. The damage is done and won't get any worse if you wait and it doesn't seem to hurt because they know not to put weight on it. She always limped at a run. Is Stella a lab? It is quite a common thing for labbies.
MD, :hug: Tantrums suck. William woke up and launched straight into an hour long one this morning. Grrrr. How did H's week at school go? I am with you on needing any sort of fun. I can't remember the last time I had a good laugh.
Amelia is down to the dregs of clothing, she is in size 0 now but I don't have enough of it so I have to face a trip to the shops. The last time I went was Boxing Day, so now there is a huge list of stuff we need so that is my plan for tomorrow. I hate it. The trip is about 1 1/4hours and she only sleeps for about 45 minutes so the last half hour is spent with her grizzling.
MD, I just ignore tantrums like that. A doesn't do them much thankfully but E used to a lot and I would ignore her because when she got wound up there was no was she would listen to you. With A, I just tell him fine, you can't have anything now and put whatever it was he wanted (then decided he didn't want ;) ) on the bench or table where he can reach it and walk away to a different room and make myself look busy and every single time by the time I go back in there - usually when he's stopped - he has decided to take whatever it is afterall and is completely over the tantrum.
Although we did have a long half hr tantrum the other day because I washed his pillow case. He is very obsessive about his pillow and it's like his blanky. He only has 4 pillowcases that he will let me put on it and to wash them is a nightmare because he always has this transitional tanty LOL where he objects to the old one being taken off for as long as it takes me to put a new one on and convince him that 'frogs/dinosaurs/trucks is just as good as the spots' and then he is fine, but the other day it was just my luck that ALL 4 of them were dirty at once so he had none to put straight back onto it and luckily by the time he realised there was no pillowcase the wash was just about finished so he just had to wait for it to dry but that is the longest that he has ever tantrumed for.
Arte, I hope the shopping trip goes well hun and you can get it all done before you have to bail out :hug: Maybe you could shop for the kids clothes online to save you some of the hassle of a shopping trip away?
Clare, I hope the fur babies are doing OK :hug:
Hi to everyone else!