MSE Pregnancy Club V

elle_gee

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Elle - I think my in laws invited my 'rents in once when they came to pick me up together but your a bit grown up for that lol! I suppose being together since teens when we couldn't drive and still lived with our mums n dads has its advantages

Aww, bless you! That's the first time I've ever been called "grown up".. Don't know how old I feel but I certainly don't feel as grown up as I always thought (almost) 25 year olds should!

Millie's_Mum wrote:

Elle are you nervous about them meeting or is it just a case of it hasn't happened yet?

I'm not sure.. I'm sure our dad's would get on fine (they work in similar industries and I'm surprised they've not yet bumped into each other as a meeting or similar), but his mum can be a bit stand offish sometimes and my mum can get nervous so I'm a bit protective of her That said, she's actually a lot tougher than she makes out and I'm sure she could cope but I don't like subjecting her to awkward situations.. I guess it'd only be awkward the once tho!

ETA: My parents survived meeting their youngest daughter's girlfriend's parents so I guess meeting the parents of the father of their first grandchild should be a breeze! :rotfl:

Sami_Bee

Krystaltips wrote: »

I have a bucket you could borrow mookie... Probably has the same effect

My new hoover is now assembled... Planning to go and try it in Aimee's room now it's all tidy... Unfortunately, she appreciates its tidy so much, we haven't seen her since she got back from Nanny's, she's just been upstairs playing!

Realised last night that we hadn't added my step sisters 2 children to Aimee's invite list so that's just pushed the number of children up... Going to cost us £140 just for the party! I'm a bit annoyed really that there's some children on there that I 'have' to invite for political reasons... They are children of a friend and the youngest is in the same year as Aimee but different class... I'm pretty sure they never play together.... But I have to invite them anyway... And the older sibling... Who I know for sure she never plays with... I would just invite the younger one but hubby thinks we should invite both just to be fair (which I have in previous years, but my Mum paid for one party and the other was at my house so didn't matter so much) So I suggested not inviting either... But that could upset the friend... Blummin politics!!!

have you heard about the latest thing in usa? parents putting a minimum gift value on invites to make sure the gift costs at least what the party does per head :eek:

Millie's_Mum

Krystal
We (my circle of friends and mums at school) never invite older siblings, its like an unwritten rule, people sometimes bring them along but if its at a playgym or wherever they pay for the sibling themselves, could you mention to your friend that you can't really invite the older child cos all Aimee's friends have older siblings and you'd end up with twice as many?

Krystaltips

My Mum met hubby's Dad once when they gave us a lift over there to drop Aimee off for babysitting while we all went to the cinema to watch Indiana Jones... We were going to arrange for my Mum to drop us off at hubby's Mum's and pop in to say hello once... But when she started playing silly wotsits over the wedding my Mum said she didn't want to meet her... So the first time they clapped eyes on each other was at the wedding... Pretty sure they didn't speak at all either...

And my Dad is not so much antisocial... Just not bothered... So he met the in laws at the wedding too... Got on with FIL and SMIL... Pretty sure he didn't talk to MIL either though... But then I managed to spend the whole day only talking to her once....

Krystaltips

Thanks Sami, sure that would go down well with all Aimee's friends!

I agree Millie, I know for a fact 2 of the children she's inviting from school have older siblings... It's just because we know both of these children... See her best friend has a younger sibling and we don't mind inviting her because they do play together quite often... It's just difficult...

Icklebeans

Does anyone feel guilty about their state of pregnancy?

I am quite a physical person and my early posts (yest) I think told of us doing our house up over the past almost 4 years. Having reached 25 weeks with twins I am able to do less and less. I am finding this very frustrating because a) I want to get our house done and finished and b) hubby is downstairs heat gunning the ceiling trying to remove the glue used to stick the polystyrene tiles up.

I have never been girly girly and more one of the boys but I am so physically tired. I feel guilty with him doing the work when all I want to do is crawl to bed. I can only imagine me getting worse not better as pregnancy goes on but don't want him to do it all. Hubby is fine by the way but it doesn't stop me feeling like I should be mucking in.

elle_gee

Icklebeans, I know what you mean..

My OH has done so much running around for me these past three months. I'm sure I could have done more for myself and I feel guilty for not pushing myself harder to do it but he hasn't complained once..

We briefly talked about it yesterday and he said I shouldn't feel bad because I'm (well my body) is doing a really hard job right now - and yours is working even harder with having twins!!

My OH is apparently willing to run about after me and let me get away with murder (and sending him out for fish and chips in the middle of a very important battle in his computer games! ) cos I'm growing his child and without me doing it there wouldn't be a child. I think he thinks of him running about as him doing his bit towards the growing of said child whilst I relax and stay calm for the good of the baby.

I'm feeling very guilty about not being able to do anything physical towards the work we're having done on the house. It's dragging on because I don't want to push OH into doing things in his spare time when I can't help (he's currently in the middle of working 19 days straight too!).

Sorry, rambling now.. I bet there are a lot of things you do around the house that he appreciates but you just think are normal. OH is forever banging on about how I "look after him" - what he means is that I make sure all the bills are paid and he doesn't get into more trouble with his debts etc but it doesn't take me much time and just seems a normal job to me.

Sami_Bee

Icklebeans wrote: »

Does anyone feel guilty about their state of pregnancy?

I am quite a physical person and my early posts (yest) I think told of us doing our house up over the past almost 4 years. Having reached 25 weeks with twins I am able to do less and less. I am finding this very frustrating because a) I want to get our house done and finished and b) hubby is downstairs heat gunning the ceiling trying to remove the glue used to stick the polystyrene tiles up.

I have never been girly girly and more one of the boys but I am so physically tired. I feel guilty with him doing the work when all I want to do is crawl to bed. I can only imagine me getting worse not better as pregnancy goes on but don't want him to do it all. Hubby is fine by the way but it doesn't stop me feeling like I should be mucking in.

Well you are cooking up 2 yes TWO babies in there so surely your twice as tired as us I have been much more tired this pregnancy than last time. last time I was up a ladder painting and stripping wallpaper at 8months gone (thats my rebellious side ignoring the rules again!) Try not to feel guilty you can only do so much, growing babies takes a lot of your energy up.

elle_gee

Eeek.. speaking of work around the house, the builder has just phoned - he's coming around at half two to take measurements!

I'd best get dressed..

tiamai_d

Why did I think it a good idea to tidy the kids room? My back aches, my knees ache, I feel sick, the kids have trashed downstairs, I now have the shakes but really can't face eating (mainly cos the kitchen is also a mess, I did ask DH to do the dishes last night but no... xbox till 5am was more important and now he is away out, fair enough he is at our families sandwich shop cleaning and what not for EH visit, but still I'm in a big huge huff and I want to cry!)

I'm fed up and don't want to play anymore!!!! :mad: