It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

kezlou

Oh Giger i'm so sorry to hear about your poor cat (((hugs)))
Feel so guilty because i didn't post about it earlier.

greent i was like that, almost fully organic veg, no chocolate for my kids, well for DS1 this worked till he was about 2 years old then all gone to pot. Now its any veg and hardly any chocolate.
also said i would bribe my kids, yep that went out the window :rotfl:

toomuchdebt hope your feeling better soon x You really have been through the wars x

Well we were naughty today and celebrated OH's news with well earned fish and chips at the seaside . Then the car conked out :rotfl:classic.
ao its now dumped on a steet about 10 mins away from our house. I had to reverse the car while OH pushed. Oh gawd did my left knee hurt when i has to press the clutch down.

Right i'm off to have a cuppa and watch a film!

smileyt_2

Gigervamp, very sorry to hear about your poor cat. How sad. I remember having to tell my neighbours that I had found their cat run over. It is a horrible thing to happen. I am glad you have been able to bury her. They do live on in spirit, you know.

Toomuchdebt, I hope you are on the road to recovery.

Fruball

penelopedee wrote: »

Hope it starts to clear soon and you feel better soon, hugs. Pen x

Good luck with recovery and hope you are better soon x

flipperOSN

Toomuchdebt - that sounds dreadful! :eek: I hope it clears up soon.

Giger - I'm sorry about your cat, they really do become part of your family don't they?

My DSs didn't have dummys - they went for their thumbs instead :rotfl:I tried so hard with DS1 (10lb6) just breastfeeding, wasn't going to wean him until the correct time etc. But he was ALWAYS hungry. I felt a complete failure and he ended up getting some top up milk too and getting solids early. Made him happier straight away! I was pretty careful with first foods though, lots of organic HM veg and fruit puree as well as rice. Batch cooking works for that too :rotfl:. DS2 was even bigger than the first (10lb11) but I had no trouble at all feeding him exclusively for much much longer. He's just got a much smaller appetite full stop.

Me and OH had a few rows when DS2 wasn't sleeping, and I did get a couple of bouts of depression and stress, but now I've come through the other side I wouldn't change them for the world. 14 years and still going strong. We've always discussed these decisions though, if you don't communicate and occasionally compromise it's difficult to keep any relationship going.

JMHO, I'm enjoying seeing the different opinions on here! At least with our OS ways we know how to get the most out of resources and food.

sammyjig

The words said about me helping at school are probably the only positive ones I've heard! Friends I've made through school think I'm mad but I'm looking forward to helping out. The school have had to let go teaching assistants this year due to budget cuts and they approached me to help as they see that OH and I want to be involved in the boys school lives. I had the chance at uni to do my post grad but for various reasons (I used to be married 10 years ago) I didnt, so I have spent time in schools. so far the plan is to be a reading buddy to year 1 and 2 one day a week and a toast lady one day - 13 loaves of bread to be toasted by first break - oh the glamour!!

Lindy-Loo..I am a dinner lady at my local school. I also had to put up with lots of sniggering and comments about my choice of work as I had a fairly high paid job before the kids. I have now been doing it for 3 years and have new friends who don't think I am any less intelligent because of my choice of work. You will love it. Hope it all goes well.

Toomuchdebt.. hope you get better soon.

Toomuchdebt

Thanks all-nurse has just been and said it's looking a bit inflamed so advised me to see doctor just in case I need antibiotics

mardatha

The office I worked in was huge, a bank HQ right in Edinburghs Old Town. The lights were set to come on automatically as you walked under them - leaving you facing a long, dark corridor or huge dark rooms.
I'm not scared of ghosts since my daughter once rented a house that was full of them lol (built over a pit disaster which we didnt know about as the pit was long gone and the thing happened in 1857). I got so interested & into it in fact that I went to mediumship workshops and if I had the money would take that a lot further.
Anyway... the top floor, Level 5, was so odd that none of the men would work up there, even the area manager who was tough ex-army. He was bl**dy terrified if he had to go up there and all you had to do to wind him up was to look fixedly over his shoulder for a minute LOL!!!:D But I liked it, I could happily potter away up there in total, deep, silence all night. never felt threatened at all until one night....:eek:

Kitcaboodle

Hope you get better soon Toomuchdebt.

Sorry to hear about your cat Giger, I'm definitely a cat person & I was touched by the send off you gave her, the crunchies sound like a lovely touch.

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My DS won't take a dummy. I'm breastfeeding so we tried waiting in case of nipple confusion. We did try him with one at 4 weeks when he was doing a lot of crying - but even the newborn dummy was too big for his mouth. By the time he'd grown enough for it to be comfortable and for him to keep one in his mouth, he had no interest. He just cries with the dummy resting in his mouth until it falls out!

Oh well, I think thumb sucking looks cuter anyway!

He is 4 months old now & I'm starting to wonder about solids. We've been having to supplement him with an evening bottle of formula since 3 months, as my supply just wasn't enough by the end of the day to get him off to sleep for more than an hour or so. In the end I decided it was more important that he (and I!) got some sleep so he could grow and so I wasn't a frazzled wreck! He still gets loads of breastmilk so I don't feel too bad.

I am mostly veggie (I'm a fussy eater and constantly think 'what was that bit?' when I eat meat) and I am frustrated by the high price of meat substitutes. I'm sure they don't need to be nearly on a par with meat, they are just ripping us off.

I often throw some dried soy mince in when I am making a soupy/stew thing. I also make a veggie shepherd's pie by soaking the fine dried soy mince in a strong marmite stock, boiling up some veg, adding bisto gravy & topping the lot with smash with lots of grated cheddar & seasonings. Must make that again soon!

Kittikins

TooMuchDebt - so sorry to hear you've had MRSA, after I had DD I had an infection c-section wound that took forever to heal until I had a new nurse who used dressings with silver in rather than standard ones and that cleared it up really quickly.

If you're not already on the silver dressings, it might be worth asking your nurses?

Hope you feel better soon
Kittikins

ceridwen

mardatha wrote: »

The office I worked in was huge, a bank HQ right in Edinburghs Old Town. The lights were set to come on automatically as you walked under them - leaving you facing a long, dark corridor or huge dark rooms.
I'm not scared of ghosts since my daughter once rented a house that was full of them lol (built over a pit disaster which we didnt know about as the pit was long gone and the thing happened in 1857). I got so interested & into it in fact that I went to mediumship workshops and if I had the money would take that a lot further.
Anyway... the top floor, Level 5, was so odd that none of the men would work up there, even the area manager who was tough ex-army. He was bl**dy terrified if he had to go up there and all you had to do to wind him up was to look fixedly over his shoulder for a minute LOL!!!:D But I liked it, I could happily potter away up there in total, deep, silence all night. never felt threatened at all until one night....:eek:

....and...what comes next after the "Eastenders" style cliffhanger?

I've seen a ghost once as a child - long story I don't want to go into on the Boards. My own house is an old one - so obviously I knew when I bought it that it would have a "history" which would probably include someone having died here during its existence. My preference, in an ideal world, would have been to have a brand new one (but, as you note, it could have been built on a site with "history"). One room in my house "feels different" - is the only way I can put it. I still - a bit superstitiously - shut the door to that room behind me when I go to bed (I know...I know...what difference does it make?:cool:). I have found out the history of the house since - and there would appear to have been just the one person who actually died here - a woman living on her own. She lived in the house for many years and would appear to have been happy enough here. I think I could tell you which room she died in then.....:cool:. But she's not here any more - she has "passed over" okay and I've "cleansed" the house myself just because it made me feel better about it. That particular room is actually the one that is most conducive to feeling more "detached" about life and looking at things from a "better viewpoint" - but I still shut the door after me...

I know the house is "okay" - as I took my parents round it with me when I viewed it for a second time with a view to buying it. My mother is more "aware" of these things than I am in some ways...so I could see that whilst my father was walking round it weighing up how much work needed doing on it that she was walking round with "senses vibrating" to see if it "felt wrong" to her and she came out smiling - so it passed the "mothers sensing test".

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Anyways - back to your cliffhanger.....errr....<nervous cough> tell us what happened....