Feb-May 2011 Mommies

Howdy ladies!

How is everyone today?

Schatsie happy birthday love! Hope you have a grand one!

Kaylae hope you have a fab day yesterday!!

Meags, how is the pain and sickies today? Really hope you come right with the furniture and DH's company get their fingers out their bottoms and sort it out!

Lucy, dont listen to old wives about carrying low etc - you'll also find alot of women who have never been pregnant love making those comments. And you'll feel when she really drops, I promise.

I think PJ"s are the bane of all you ladies at the moment - mgiht actually be worth asking someone to make you some?

Karin, 40 days are always so much fun Enjoy.

Kaylae - I would suggest you go to Dr about being sick love - dont want to freak you out, but I had gastro at 31w with Em and it put me into early labour...

AFM, all is going well - chatted with Em's teacher yesterday and she told me Em was by far the most advanced child she has ever taught. And speaks so much better than any of the other children. So I was a very proud mummy.
I'm now teaching her to write and today we tackled the letter Aa - and she's a aced it.
Baby is still a little worm, and I'm loving it. On my little mission to find a midwife to help us with our homebirth as the midwives I contacted will only do births in the Souther Suburbs. So tempted just to hire a hotel rom out that way when I go into labour...

But otherwise life is good, I'm smiling all the time like a total idiot


Hope everyone else is doing wonderfully!

Oh Meags, hun, so sorry you are having such problems still! Gosh, I would also be fed up and almost at breaking point by now. Like you say, the longer you have to wait the more difficult it will be for you to shop around and do the move and everything combined with that! I can't believe these people and that guy... what a selfish twit!! I hope he gets in trouble when the bosses gets the complaints letter from your hubby.
I really hope they sort this out for you Immediately otherwise your hubby will have to bite that bullet and just hand over the plastic! You can't carry on like this. Good luck to you.... ((Hugs)) may all work out quickly and you'll be settled and happy once again.

Kaylae - sjoe... I don't know... maybe go see your dr to make sure you don't have a stomach virus or something, perhaps they can give you something to stop the symptoms. You don't want it to continue too long and then it triggers pre-mature labour!

Well girls, it's been a hectic day, I'm off to the couch now to relax with the new Your Pregnancy.
Have a lovely evening.

Meags! You poor thing! Nothing stresses me out more than not having access to money! It's a terrible feeling! You can't do anything about the company right now but you CAN try and influence your dh! Credit card charges are irrelevant! You need that card and you need to get some piece of mind (worth much more than R2,000!!!) That will at least solve your immediate feeling of helplessness and help you to start doing stuff for your house, your new family etc! Completely unacceptable! Put your foot down! You don't need this after all you've been through travelling, etc etc etc! You've done great! you now deserve to start making your home!
Good luck!
Cath
x

Meags-Askies that the finance guy is messing you and DH up.Shame that you do not have money for seeing a dr.Hope all gets sorted very soon.

Schatsie-Happy birthday.hope you enjoy it.

AFM-Please help with diziness and diarhoa at this stage.I am beggining to worry but Tshami still moves

hi ladies

sorry this is going to be a selfish post
I am so depressed I dont want to be here.
We are having such problems with DH's company. The rule is they give us an allocated budget to buy furniture and we spend it how we want except there is a limit to how much you can spend on the TV. they are hassling us about staying in the hotel so long - but they are not doing the transfer of the money so we can buy furniture!!!!
one of the expats is leaving Miami so we said we would go look at their furniture and see if there is anything we want to buy from them 2nd hand. so we chose the TV, DVD player, pool loungers, ironing board, iron and blender. now the financial guy is really angry with us that we are not taking bigger things like beds and couches as he says he didnt arrange for those things to go into storage as he thought we'd take it. but we are not forced to take it and if we dont like it, it shouldnt be an issue!!!!!
we have been asking for the furniture money since Friday and we still dont have it. so every day I try entertain myself, driving around, looking at shops, but I literally have no money to spend.
DH has also not been given his full living allowance, so we are on such a tight budget for meals etc. (another reason I dont want to go to a doctor because we actually dont have the money!!)

I am so depressed as I so desperately want to get settled and start on the nursery. I cant even go buy nappies or wetwipes or anything!

So now DH has sent a formal complaint letter to all the bosses about this financial guy. They complain that we are in the hotel costing them money (to stay and also they give him more living allowance while in the hotel), yet they are doing nothing to help us to move! Plus, the longer they leave it, the further I am getting in the pregnancy, thus making it more difficult for me since I have to go buy everything.

I can see DH is stressed and really pissed off with the situation. But I am also stressed. And when I try talk to him, I can see he is not coping and so I feel like I actually cant talk to him about it. So last night I just broke down and cried and I can see it's just making him more stressed.

I am just so annoyed. My mom has travelled here from Switzerland to help me set up everything and now we dont even have money to buy stuff. Plus my cats arrive next week and yes, I can put them in the house, but I dont really feel happy leaving them in an empty house all alone! My mom says she'll just pay for the stuff and we can pay her back. and honestly, I dont know why DH wont just give me his friggin credit card so I can buy everything and get started. He says it's going to cost him 2.9% of everything we buy. ok fine so he might waste R2000. and yes, that is a lot of money to just waste when in fact this should be the company's expense. but this is really stressing the hell out of me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL just saw that I have exactly 40 days left! .... almost feels like high school count down... hehehehe... It's flying by!

Hi Anje... PJ's...

Thats how I'm feeling about that subject right now... Very cross with myself for now buying months ago already... cause I have been EVERYWHERE and all our shops are sold out of summer wear that button in the front.
So..."sigh"... I don't have a clue..sorry. I'm going to visit Mr. Price sport for dark bottoms to wear in hospital and don't have a clue what to do about a top.

Tried looking online too, but jeepers it's expensive.

Good luck!