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Cass, I hope you can get your health sorted, that sounds terrible :(
Cally, I didn't even know they made hot pink jeans anymore lol.
MD, thanks for the buscopan advice, I had a couple of attacks yesterday and I am sure that gobbling up those pills stopped there being more. I forgot how intensely painful it is. Didn't really need reminding though lol Can you invite someone down for a week or so over the holidays to pass the time/help out a bit? An old friend you haven't seen for ages or family?
Cass - I hope you've called your doctor and made an appointment.
Hot pink jeans - I am currently thinking white or black tops, need to think outside the square, do some google image searches to see what else will work! I have a few blue tops too, surely that will go?? I also got some bright red ones - they were less than $15 each, really I had no choice but to buy both.
MD - wisdom teeth all gone, get eyes checked every two years. I started getting them at uni (interestingly about the time the wisdom teeth got removed, hadn't made that connectio before....). They come and go, I know most of the triggers, starting to think that excessive sugar is part of it as well. Haven't been eating well over the last month or so and they have increased in frequency and intensity since then. Also think they are related to my general fitness. Getting over my Achilles injury now so starting to pick that up again so hopefully that will assist too.
Cally, that sort of recovery story is exactly why DH won't get the snip. He won't have much time off this year (apart from overseas trips!) - his mill is in a do or die situation and he has designed the upgrade that can save it so he has to be there to install it and get it running and all the paperwork that goes with that. He just doesn't have time to sit around with sore nuts.
Cass, sweetie, I hope you're feeling better soon, and fast. :hug: Don't forget that sometimes the simplest things can bring relief: weak salt water gargles as often as you can stand it, a teaspoon of manuka honey down the hatch or in some hot water or tea, and drinking very hot water or sucking ice. I hope the long weekend means you are able to rest up a bit too.
I agree the boards are much calmer than in days of yore but some of the sparkle left with Lulu. :( Mind you, I think that FB and other social platforms have taken over a lot from forums (speaking generally now) and let's face it, FB as a medium is far more suited to virtual spats than a nicely moderated space like this ;).
Arte, I'm sorry to hear the GB attacks are back with a vengeance. I can't remember - are you on a waiting list to get something done about them? The buscopan works a charm, and it comes in a double-strength version too. I've also done a bit of reading and discovered there are a whole lot of other innocent-looking medications that can cause GB-style pain, codeine being the main offender. So if you ever have an attack when you're taking some other medication, it's worth checking out.
Cally, I've seen a few coloured jeans around the place, often worn with 80's style small-print floral tops, but I think really anything with an 80s vibe would work. How about a Wham! t-shirt? :rofl: Funny that your migraines started around the time you had your wissies taken out. Do you know whether you grind your teeth when you're sleeping?
Anyway I hope everyone manages to enjoy the long weekend. xxx
Hello everyone - hope you all have something fun planned with your families for this weekend. We are having a lovely time in noosa.
Cally - jeans sound great! I have a funky green pair- I wear w similar tops to regular denim. Country Rd do lots of colored jeans and have lots of tops that go well. Any suitable treatment for the Achilles?
Cass - yay for your mod appointment. What do you actually have to do?
Hope you feel better soon. Do you take anything for your immune system?
Md - I feel for you with dh travel - as you know dh travels a lot too and it's always a juggle. I find it worst when we are in the " lead up"
trill - I had to lol when you said footy finishes in sept so you dont have long.... Isn't the season just starting???
Md - apparently I grind a little bit, but not significantly (ie the dentist doesn't think it's enough of an issue to need a mouthguard). Also, headaches tend to come on in the afternoon, I would imagine if it was from grinding it would be a wake up headache?
What an afternoon here - in less than an hour Miss K drew on her school library book, painted one board on the deck blue and drew on the carpet in her room and a cane footstool with crayon. I had to go for a walk so I wouldn't completely lose it.
MP - Noosa. Lucky duck.
Happy Fluffy Bunnies Day, everyone!!
Hope you're all having a lovely weekend. Nice chilled out day here today. Had an awesome egg hunt where Messrs E.Bunny, Esq. had hidden pieces of lego all around the place along with (a much smaller quantity of) eggs. Kept the girls looking for ages because there were lots of pieces to find. Inside because it rained a lot here overnight. Anyway, I haven't eaten nearly enough chocolate, I've got a lovely stash that includes Haighs and ferreros. :D
Best part of Easter though - the extra day of weekend you get once it's all over.
ETA - Hi MP - posting from Noosa -aaaaah I can only imagine the bliss!!
Cally, must be the season for silly behaviour! W has been doing really silly things that he didn't even do as a toddler - like sucking on a felt pen tip and spitting the ink onto the couch, squirting toothpaste down the plughole etc, just really mindless and irritating things that he knows he shouldn't do.
Then today A's kindy teacher asked how much chocolate she has had for easter because apparently she was screaming no about everything and being a general screechy brat today. Time to go back to low sugar methinks.
MD, I haven't had much issue with the GB until this recent attack. It seems to be set off by instant oats for breakfast. I can't find any Dr Google evidence to suggest that it would cause it but I was eating it briefly before an attack a year ago, didn't eat it for all this time with no issues and then I eat it again and have another attack? Too much coincidence for me. Anyways, there was no room on the ultrasound list last year but the Dr has dressed it up a bit this time and sent through another referral.
For Easter, we went camping overnight at the river. It was nice. I find camping to be rather boring though. I would love it if someone could enlighten me as to where the fun part of it comes from. Maybe I am just not doing it right? lol.
Silly behaviour - running around the house in undies for 20 minutes and leaving it too late resulting in wee all over the bathroom floor. Not impressed. Especially seeing as there was another incidence on Sunday, although no silly behaviour that time and the toilet seat being down threw her). At least they were both on the bathroom floor. At least the bathroom floor is clean before the cleaner comes tomorrow....
And I forgot that the other day she had also drawn all over her arm in biro.
MIL brought round some bunnies for DD - 3 bunnies (325 g total weight) plus a toblerone bar! Luckily DH intercepted and spread them out for each of us. She always goes overboard, same at Chrissy, I seem to remember last year was around 500g of chocolate for one small person.
Good Easter here, I got a bit done in the garden, caught up with some friends and read a bit. Nice and relaxing. Hope you all had a good time.
OMG don't even get me started on the state of the toilet floor! Kid can't get any in the frigging bowl!
We've had a bit of deliberate silly behaviour - I just put it down to learning other kids' tricks (from school). For us it's more saying silly things and complaining/whinging about stuff she's never even batted an eyelid over before. The whining is driving me BONKERS at the moment. I hope she's past it by school holidays... but I don't like my chances LOL.
Chocolate overload here too - fortunately Miss E seems to have an off-button unlike DD1 who will just keep going as long as there's still chocolate there (LOL). DD1 has inventoried every last tiny portion of her Easter choc, but the rest of it has gone into the family stash, it will keep us supplied for eons.
Arte, that's weird about the oats-GB thing. You would think oats would be a pretty safe food, right? Unless you slather it with butter, scots-style LOL. Have you ever had any suspicions about gluten-intolerance?
I'm not sure about the fun part of camping. We've never been camping as a family - only when we were young and able to drink a lot and lie around by the side of the hot springs or whatever. LOL.
Hi ya lovelies!!! Thought I would try and catch up while I have 5 minutes but I'm waaaaay to far behind.
Congrats Cass on becoming a mod!!
We are getting loads of silly behaviour too. Lots of whinging and not listening. Doing things he knows he will get in trouble for. I'm hoping these school holidays go quick lol. He is doing so well at school.
I have a sick little miss who has cut my 5 minutes short, will try to catch up again soon.
We had major whining last week, I think the break over Easter has helped, but we have also been really prompt on the 'I can't understand when you use that voice, ask me again in a nice voice'
Oz - lovely to see you!! :hug: Great to hear that L is doing well at school :). Hope little miss is much better soon so you can put your feeties up for a nice BB catch up. xxx
Cally - yes - the "I can't hear you" thing should work, except both DH and DD jump to her attention the second she starts up :wall:. So I'm alone in a sea of trying to ignore the whine. Coping strategy for school hols is going to be sending her along to vacation care for a few little outings ... less for her amusement and more so my head doesn't explode :rofl:.
I am getting "I'm booooooooooooooooored" and "but that's too boring". I blame school, he never uttered those words once in his life until now.
MD, we tend to take some camping drinks for after the kids have gone to bed - got to jazz it up someway!
hello lovelies!
I am baaackkk! feeling much better now :) managed to get strep throat A...tonsilitis without tonsils hahahaha.
Re: camping...for me the fun comes with the toasted marshmallows. i am a sucker for those babies.
Oz: wahoo! so great to see you in here! have been FB stalking all those gorgeous photo shoots. you seriously have an awesome job.
MD: loads of norti behaviour in this house too. also Miss L now believes that she is all grown up and has to (s)Mother poor Miss M. i can sense that she is going through some big mental changes as she has also started to have some pretty serious nightmares influenced from the games she has been playing (dinosaurs and dungeon-y games with the neighbour)...wahh she is becoming like a proper kid IYKWIM...sooo not ready lol!
you are so right RE: FB. i am part of this smallish group on there and i thought it was just a pram buy sell swap thingo...but these ppl treat it like a forum! it is so weird and of course seriously not moderated and man, the spats on there are IMMENSE. it is like watching a train wreck.
we have sooo much chocolate. considering that i only had 6 teeny pieces each for the girls (those lindt carrot and bug ones) we are just drowning in the sugary brown stuff. i have hidden most of it away now in the freezer and it has become my night-time snack stash once the kids are in bed :D
MP: so lived vicariously through your recent holidays hahaha.
Cass, I am glad you are feeling better xx
Only one more week until school holidays. Not really looking forward to it in the current whinge climate! And E has had a few whopper tantrums in the last couple of days. My sweet, lovely baby. I don't want to lose her to the terrible twos :(
Cass, I'm glad you're feeling so much better. Hopefully the lack of tonsillage helped your recovery (just thinking what you had to go through to be rid of the damn thaings) but SO. NOT. COOL that you still managed to get the nasties without them (!!). I reckon you could be a candidate for this new (old ayurvedic?) practice that I've just discovered... remind me to tell you about it some time. Sounds weird but I reckon there's something in it.
Yep they are proper big kids now, aren't they? Do you think the dreams are directly related to the games? Some therapeutic drawing/colouring in as quiet time in the period before bed might help her process it out before she goes to bed.
Arte, we get lots of "that's too boring" too. LE SIGH. I think it's just a call for our 100% undivided attention (like any of us have a lot of that to hand out these days LOL). ETA - re the FB stuff. It has been really interesting to me, as someone on BB since before FB even really became a popular thing - to see how much that whole FB dynamic has affected a whole sphere of internet life well beyond FB. This is going to be something that ppl like our kids are going to have to grapple with as they grow up. I had a stage an intervention weekend before last on DD1 re FB chats that were getting out of hand, and TBH this is what i think the main challenge is - when you talk face to face or even on the phone, you get an immediate feedback loop of how the person is receiving what you're saying, and so you moderate what you're saying while it's still coming out of your mouth. But when it's in text and there's any kind of delay - you miss all that feedback info. I think some of these younger ones are losing that awareness of how what-comes-out-of-my-mouth makes other people think/feel/react. Social Danger, Will Robinson!!