Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

lobbyludd

it's her expression that's the killer

liltdiddylilt

The wonky headband stretched eye or the beam at it being on properly LL?

Ninno820 wrote: »

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Millies-Makes/632275980223143
No - just 9 at the moment .....but from little acorns.

I am charging £3.99 plus p n p - you should really measure your bowl to ensure a good fit. If you want one then measure from the rim, down the side, across the bottom and then up to the rim to the other side - mine was 10 inches.

Eeeeh I just bought me two of these! If you look on lovely Ninno's facebook page, they have owls on the outside!!! And if you like it and have the dreaded book of face, please like her tiny wee new page! She is very talented!! Not just at microwaveable fabric bowl holders!!

supersaver1000

I love both, but the wonky headband has some kind of serious cheeky 'tude.

Lilty, my DH worked all hours and was very needy health and otherwise when my little one was little. I was completely drained by the both of them and spent lots of time just me and little one. I often say it was and still is like being a single parent. It wasn't I know as I had some relief, but I can totally empathise. When I went back to work for a few hours a week it was heaven just to have a cup of coffee before it went cold and a wee in private. Oh the little things mean a lot. I'm going to start appreciating those things again actually. I'd forgotten what it can be like - relentless. It does get better though and I hope your OH moving back in helps.

Sending lots of hugs and rest. X

Fmess

Oh but jellytot looks so adorable, she sounds like she can be a right little cheeky monster!

I completely empathise with your OH situation, my life would be a million times simpler, easier and less stressful if I didn't live with my OH! And we've been living together for over 6 years now. I love him and adore him but he's not easy to live with. I admire you for working at it with your OH and having the time apart.

Hope you've had a more peaceful evening.

BILLIE

The last few posts brought back memories of small people banging on bathroom door wailing ' why can't I come in'. A friend who has a daughter and was a single mum, had to take her everywhere and when said daughter was staying with grandma she was shocked to find her in the bathroom with a t....x which she was trying to insert!!! As a single mum there are no secrets!!

Hope you all have a great week xxx

liltdiddylilt

#meanttobeasleep

BILLIE jellytot literally stand in front of me, takes a piece of tissue after I have and *wipes* between her legs I have no privacy... She still thinks tampons are sweeties and gleefully rips them apart out of my handbag in front of strangers though! Dunno which I would prefer!!

Apple and fmess you have my every sympathy. In some ways it's worse when Him is here. He can be very idle and will happily watch as I dangle a screaming soaking wet child from one arm, try to grab a bottle and fill it with the other and then manhandle the both items via the microwave to the changing table to put pyjamas on!

Men are just larger than average children!

Right, sleep... Seriously. Jellytot has school in the morning! I need to not look like I rolled out of bed at 5 to 9. To do so I need to get up before 7! :rotfl:

Night peeps! Xx

liltdiddylilt

I got my wish. Jellytot came running in 'G'morningggggggggggggggggg mummy' at 6:30am. So I dutifully got up, and started packing her bag etc. as I wasn't quite clever enough to do it yesterday forgot all about it to be fair. I ironed a weeks worth of her clothes, then some more for her 'spares' and made myself a coffee. Jellytot ate breakfast whilst I tried to open my eyes properly. Then ploughed both of us through the shower and teeth brushing experience & made sure she was presentable for her first day.

Got her to nursery, only for her nursery nurse to greet her by the shortened version of her name. She then looked very confused and said 'Jelly isn't on the register today. She's not on my list.' - cue much panicking and speaking to the office manager who assures me that 'Jellytot IS on the register' and goes in to the room, pointing out her full given name on the register. Nursery nurse looked a bit embarrassed. She was expecting a boy. To give the poor woman her dues, she met Jellytot briefly for 10 minutes when we first went to have a look around back in July on the last day of proper nursery! She has since had 6 weeks off. She can't be expected to remember everything!

Am sat here jumping repeatedly at the phone. It is on speakerphone to tax credits to let them know of changes, and so far 19 minutes and counting of hold music and two different ways of saying thanks for waiting which seem to override each other. Keeps making me think someone is picking up! Hurrry uppppp I need the loo! (edit: I decided to just go. The 30 seconds it took... and still 5 minutes on and they haven't picked up!) - ok, this is weird. Tax credits pay childcare for 3 weeks after you have stopped paying for it? Why? How bizarre! *more money shoved into the savings pot mentally*

Shower savers - forgot to tell you, my pack arrived from the local water company. it has a 2 minute teeth brushing egg timer, and a 4 minute shower timer which can be stuck on the shower wall and spun around. For the first time in my life, my usual 25 minute hair washing shower became 6 minutes! 2 hair washes, a condition, face scrub, and all over wash. The timer beat me this time (I just spun it to continue my timed session) but I will get under 4 minutes. It may require a shaved head... :eek: - on the plus side, my usual non-hair day shower was 3 minutes

I am off to make toast, put music on, and dace around the kitchen with my coffee whilst sorting washing!

TTFN peeps. I am freeeeeeeeeeeee

apple_muncher

We have a 4 min timer too. I start showering, then turn it off to shampoo hair, back on to rimse, off to condition, shave and full body scrub with evoo + salt, then on to rinse. Except I keep forgetting to twist the timer! Am sure total shower time is umder 4 mins!

liltdiddylilt

Ohhhh Apple you are so much braver than I. There is no way I am standing next to the open window (for ventilation or I quickly pass out from the billowing steam in my tiny bathroom) with no shower on to warm me through!! My superhuman effort with the shower on (eco setting) actually got me so wide awake and excitable I was up for doing a lot more (Mr L, 99p store & Sainsbugs) that day! P.S shaving? What's that? :rotfl: reminds me, I have the osteo tomorrow... I should probably de-fur or he may tell me to go and see a vet.

Dodgy tummy. Made a homemade veggie curry from scratch yesterday and had leftovers today. Something in it does not agree with me peppermint tea being sipped but I am nowhere close to going to sleep.

Planning my homemade Xmas cards from jellytot. They are going to take a lot of work. Need some red & green card, a glue gun... white pom pom thingys & a black sharpie. Got the rest. Tomorrow I have a feeling I am going to drop jellytot off at nursery and just lay on the sofa for 6 hours until I fetch her.

Nursery went down well... Ahem

liltdiddylilt

So just had a tiny visitor in the dark for the first time.

Eyes pinged open, as only a mummy's do. I waited... Ahh, door opening... Small feet pitter patter, little person staggers into view. She can't see so does it by memory and knowledge which works right up until she is in front of my face, inches away. She pokes me in the face gently as she isn't sure I'm here. "Henno mummy" and in she climbs, pushing me back.

I say hi and debate not letting her in. She puts her head on my pillow, button nose almost touching mine. "Cold" she says. I pull her under the duvet and she strokes my face as I hug her in and discover a soggy onesie. Nappy leakage. I ask if she would like a change. Yes, until I lift the covers... NO!!!

So I relent and we have 3am snuggles while she keeps repeating "moon" like a miniature werewolf. Then I scoop her up and trot to her room to change her, grabbing pyjamas from the ironing pile as I go. We get there only for her to cling monkey like and sob uncontrollably when I put her on a changing table she has been on thousands and thousands of times.

"I got you! I got you!" she says as she cries. Jellytot speak for "I don't feel safe, have you got me?!" - not a good time for her to develop a fear of her changing table. Eventually after much sobbing and fighting she is back in bed. Quiet.

Too many late night chats about giant spiders breaking international treaties and window borders however has me freaking out at just about everything. And I am convinced there was one on the toilet roll.

So there you have it. Tonight, Jellytot (2 years 5 months) and I (28 years 5 months) are scared of the dark. Together we are much stronger. Separated and tucked in our beds, not so much.

Night guys.... Again. Xx