Baby Born ~ September 2007 # 73

[Cally]

Cass - no uniform! What I did for DD and day care was have two separate drawers (school and weekend/holiday). The school clothes were all named so if anything ended up on the wrong drawer, she would still know it wasn't a school top if there was no name. But these days they really shouldn't be taking Tshirts and skirts off anyway, so you shouldn't have to name them. Might just have to be really diligent at explaining what is suitable for school. Can you have a uniform of sorts (ie grab the same style of pants in a few different colours) would that be easier?

[AnyDream]

Cally, that's an excellent idea to have different drawers for daycare vs non-daycare clothes. I tried that too but the system fell down because DH cannot discriminate between a paint-besmeared $5 tshirt from Kmart and a nice coordinated outfit. LOL.

Trill, I suggest you go to that halfway place where you wear the capris with the nice top but then you dress it up a notch by wearing slightly dressier shoes/jewellery. Anyway, Sam is bound to swept into Sam-nesia once he catches the merest glimpse of your rainbow of awesomeness You will have to bring him to his senses again by whispering your slow-roasted shanks with garlic recipe lovingly into his ear.

PS: for anyone who doesn't know what the heck I'm on about, check out this thread. It's kinda food porn for lamb lovers. (Not you, Arte, look away).

Cass, glad to hear your holiday was great. You're like the queen of the day trip.

Re the sleep - yep, meds are working, noticing an improvement in concentration & follow-through (and therefore probably some of the memory stuff is better), but there is no actual effect on the quality of your sleep. Esp after Xmas and the strain of having all the extra bodies here, my sleep delay has gotten worse, suspect it might also be seasonal (extra sunshine late in day?) because i remember struggling with it around this time last year too. Anyway I think some light therapy would help but I can't afford the device just yet and I'm too zombified most mornings to get myself outside and light exposed early enough to make a difference. I've got another couple of months on the script, I want to see how it pans out over that time. I've been having a fresh batch of hot flushes and palpitations and mood swings, which might either be side effects, or just a total coincidence (given that it's summer & my hormonal status is dodgy & I'm sleep deprived).

[Cally]

MD - DH doesn't 'do washing' so there was no problem with things going back in the wrong drawers!

[Artechim]

Day something in DH's hometown. I can't keep track of the days anymore lol. We had DH's granny's birthday yesterday which was the inspiration for the trip. Followed by a suicide hoax by BIL on FB - threat, countdown etc so when we saw it half an hour after 'times up' they raced around there to find him sitting at the frigging computer acting like nothing had happened #****edinthehead

However, the kids are having an absolutely fantastic time with the IL's. W has been amazing for the whole trip. I barely know he is around because he is so well behaved! His confidence is soaring so hopefully that carries over for the start of school.

[Trillian]

Fingers crossed he does Arte! Your BIL is a total Douche. I have plenty of sympathy and patience for people with depression and mental illness, but crap like that is just not cool. That's just being downright manipulative! If I were his family and gone around there expecting the worst I would have kicked his damn ass for finding him sitting at a computer.

MD, I have trouble with sleep rhythms over summer too so I can only imagine how much worse it would be for you

So saturday night was brilliant! I didn't get a pic of the big man because he was only there for a short time - he drove up from melb that day and had to go back that night and by the time I got the camera after his speech he was gone. it was a fantastic speech though, I haven't laughed that hard in ages! A lot rude and a bit crude at times, but so brutally honest - the man calls a spade a goddamned shovel But I tell you what, you think I'm passionate about the cause, well I have nothing on him! He's such a perfect ambassador for the sheep industry.

Oh and I can't believe that I forgot to say this but someone had a visit from the tooth fairy on Tuesday night! Not sure if any of you would remember me telling you about his front tooth that went black after a fall at the pool last year? Well he got a gum boil just above it and it was starting to annoy him so I had a dentist appointment on tuesday anyway and took him along. Dentist confirmed that's what it was and had to pull the tooth out. So the poor kid is sitting there completely still while he jams a gigantic needle in his mouth to numb it and then didn't even flinch while it was pulled out. So the tooth fairy brought him $5 for his trouble. Funny thing was that out of all of them, he's the only one that has insisted that he leave his tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy LOL. The others all left theirs on the kitchen sink in a glass of water. Then the tooth fairy has to come back again TONIGHT because the tooth directly below that one came out today! Little turd was opening a bottle with his teeth and it came out root and all. He won't be getting $5 from the tooth fairy again though. That was a one time only deal So he will look like the Turtle Man for quite a while as I don't think his adult teeth are even close to coming through.

[Ginger]

wtf????

[AnyDream]

Whatty? Whatty what? Ginger did we miss something??

ETA
No, I don't think the online thing would work because she's got no idea what size she is or how things fit. It was a stab-in-the-dark kind of thing even picking things to take into the change room. Also, when she gets the clothes home, she doesn't ever spend any time trying things on, seeing what they look like with other things, choosing what looks good together. They just get lobbed into the jungle of a closet, then whenever she has to actually pick something to wear other than the 3 tshirts and 2 shorts that she wears every. single. day. there is histrionics because she hasn't got the first clue about any of it. I do try every now and again to talk her through choosing, but TBH I can't deal with all the dark looks and snappy/rude comments that go with it.

But mostly I just don't understand it because you would think that being taken shopping by someone who loves you who is going to buy whatever you think is nice would be a good thing.

[Trillian]

there was a spammer telling Cally she was lucky she didn't have to worry about stationery

[Cally]

MD - DH doesn't 'do washing' so there was no problem with things going back in the wrong drawers!

Case in point - Miss K away, DH stayed up late watching tennis. I left a note as he was still asleep when I left 'Can you put the sheets in the machine and put it on - detergent already in there'. He's done that. Specifically that - sheets only. Pillowcases still on pillows. When queried 'But you don't always wash the pillowcase'. Yes I do, they are the things that get drooled on, have sweaty heads on etc - Far out!! I suppose I should be grateful they were hung out and brought in, I hadn't asked for that.....

Arte - glad you are having a good time so much that you've forgotten the days. And super good news about W. Not so much BIL.