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ailbheMy mother's visit continues charming.
She has even started to come around to the idea of my next baby being a homebirth baby, assuming I get to have a Next Baby. And the absurd fecundity of my family continues, as my baby sister is around 20 weeks on and I have a new nibling due in September.
Linnea loves being five and find it difficult to believe that she's not old enough yet to cross the road unassisted, and Emer loves being two and finds it difficult to believe that she has to have her teeth brushed twice a day.
Rob cooks a mean shepherd's pie.
The only fly in the ointment is that the True Food Co-op gave me 17 days notice of their AGM, and we had houseguests for the first five of them, so I didn't realise when it was happening until 12 days before it was due, and it's miles away and I'd have to bring a packed lunch "dish to share" and the cycle route is horrible, all main roads and ew, and I'm really annoyed, because I'd have worked out a carshare or something if I'd had more notice, or notice when life wasn't so insanely frantic, and anyway, what good is 17 days notice if one is on a three-week holiday or something? If one doesn't send "apologies" then one has broken the terms of the membership agreement and has one's bowler hat punched inside-out.
ON THE OTHER HAND Linnea and Emer showed Mary and Nana around Reading Museum today and there were lots of animals and machines and crowns and weaponry and so on, so that was good. And Linnea spoke to my little sister on the phone and thanked her for the present, and the other day Linnea volunteered to write a thank you card for my Uncle Paaaaatrick (always referred to as Páid within the family, but much prefers Patrick with a BBC accent, thenk you), and it has been lovely.
We are planning Outings.
She has even started to come around to the idea of my next baby being a homebirth baby, assuming I get to have a Next Baby. And the absurd fecundity of my family continues, as my baby sister is around 20 weeks on and I have a new nibling due in September.
Linnea loves being five and find it difficult to believe that she's not old enough yet to cross the road unassisted, and Emer loves being two and finds it difficult to believe that she has to have her teeth brushed twice a day.
Rob cooks a mean shepherd's pie.
The only fly in the ointment is that the True Food Co-op gave me 17 days notice of their AGM, and we had houseguests for the first five of them, so I didn't realise when it was happening until 12 days before it was due, and it's miles away and I'd have to bring a packed lunch "dish to share" and the cycle route is horrible, all main roads and ew, and I'm really annoyed, because I'd have worked out a carshare or something if I'd had more notice, or notice when life wasn't so insanely frantic, and anyway, what good is 17 days notice if one is on a three-week holiday or something? If one doesn't send "apologies" then one has broken the terms of the membership agreement and has one's bowler hat punched inside-out.
ON THE OTHER HAND Linnea and Emer showed Mary and Nana around Reading Museum today and there were lots of animals and machines and crowns and weaponry and so on, so that was good. And Linnea spoke to my little sister on the phone and thanked her for the present, and the other day Linnea volunteered to write a thank you card for my Uncle Paaaaatrick (always referred to as Páid within the family, but much prefers Patrick with a BBC accent, thenk you), and it has been lovely.
We are planning Outings.
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Date: 2009-05-14 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-15 09:47 pm (UTC)i can't say i'd recommend it, but five was old enough for this ppint. to walk back from the middle of hampstead heath to a bit beyond church end, finchley (well north of finchley central tube station) (very nearly all the way home), without at any time taking risks with (london) traffic when crossing roads.
i didn't choose to do it - i didn't want to do it; but there wasn't a choice, so i did it.
kids' abilities and understanding vary a hell of a lot, at any given age, of course, so i'm not advocating it as a general rule, neither; but it is possible.
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Date: 2009-05-14 08:38 pm (UTC)Wait... does nibling mean neice/nephew, or that you are pregnant?!
N.
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Date: 2009-05-14 08:48 pm (UTC)Not pregnant. Not allowed to get pregnant until at least after my wisdom tooth surgery, currently scheduled to be finished at the end of August.
My mother's first blood-grandchild was born in 2002 and her seventh was and her eighth will be born this year. Ridiculous fecundity even when I'm not doing it!
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Date: 2009-05-14 09:06 pm (UTC)I hope you have a homebirth next time round :) I think it would be really good for you ♥
N.
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Date: 2009-05-14 09:16 pm (UTC)I'll have to be careful with my midwife, and it won't be NHS, but I think I can do it. Linnea would love it, too, as long as she didn't have to actually watch! She's about ready to take other babies home with her when she sees them now, and she points out pregnant people to me in the street.
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Date: 2009-05-14 09:17 pm (UTC)*hug*
N.
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Date: 2009-05-14 09:26 pm (UTC)With the last two I had 'Domino' births (Domiciliary in/out), which means if all goes well you can go home as soon as you can pull your knickers up. Second best, but I still preferred the home birth.
Good luck with having a home birth when the time comes (which I sincerely hope it will! You have such nice children :-) )
Elaine
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Date: 2009-05-15 06:30 am (UTC)It's only 4 extra days, but AGMs usually need to give 21 days notice. Could you catch a taxi? I may use one tomorrow evening, as Andy is away with the car & Kate has been invited to a birthday party in the next town. We can all catch a bus there, but the evening will be trickier with less buses.