tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post2219927493091513376..comments2023-11-03T07:29:16.334+00:00Comments on The Potty Diaries: Oh brave new world...Potty Mummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-41609913044460768162008-01-14T12:02:00.000+00:002008-01-14T12:02:00.000+00:00Frog - sorry, I couldn't resist...GPM - I know. M...Frog - sorry, I couldn't resist...<BR/><BR/>GPM - I know. Must make the most of any cuddles I can get now...<BR/><BR/>MAL - Actually, as you probably worked out by the following post already - it already did. Get easier, that is...Potty Mummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-59635630424597997812008-01-13T15:43:00.000+00:002008-01-13T15:43:00.000+00:00What a lovely little boy! He is a real cutie. I re...What a lovely little boy! He is a real cutie. I remember that first day at nursery so well... it does get easier. Be gentle with yourself. xxxMotheratlargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08702824820715807897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-22626074789281321762008-01-11T22:14:00.000+00:002008-01-11T22:14:00.000+00:00Just wait until they're 15 and don't even want you...Just wait until they're 15 and don't even want you to say goodnight any more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-1184173503096483562008-01-11T14:43:00.000+00:002008-01-11T14:43:00.000+00:00Too much information!Too much information!Frog in the Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09990222544828204911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-46460714365803317732008-01-11T13:22:00.000+00:002008-01-11T13:22:00.000+00:00Mya, thanks. I would say something more effusive,...Mya, thanks. I would say something more effusive, but I'll just spit cake crumbs into my keyboard...<BR/><BR/>OM, good point, but don't worry. I may be feeling nostalgic, but not THAT nostalgic. I mean, it would be guaranteed as to be another boy - and then I would be outnumbered 4:1. No thankyou!<BR/><BR/>J'sM - and he probably always will be - even when he's 6'4"...Potty Mummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-26325495349544318792008-01-11T03:18:00.000+00:002008-01-11T03:18:00.000+00:00Awww....I can't imagine what you are going through...Awww....I can't imagine what you are going through and with mine 14 months old I don't want to yet....hang in there. He's still your "baby"Lisa @ Boondock Ramblingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11430994283914399581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-53921092255083351652008-01-10T22:06:00.000+00:002008-01-10T22:06:00.000+00:00Potty Mummy: Just don't get pregnant again, overco...Potty Mummy: Just don't get pregnant again, overcome by a wave of nostalgia....it's easily done. Go out to shops where bringing a toddler would significantly cramp your style - you'll find it wonderfully liberating.Omega Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06510548355469861782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-58598064183328981322008-01-10T21:28:00.000+00:002008-01-10T21:28:00.000+00:00What a little charmer. I think I'd be sad too.When...What a little charmer. I think I'd be sad too.<BR/><BR/>When my little Sprog started having a life independant of me, I took a while to adjust. It's natural. It's normal. It's just not that easy.<BR/>But now, I wouldn't have it any other way. He's happy, so I'm happy.<BR/>Embrace your new freedom. And bugger the gym for the moment - eat some cream cakes, it's an emergency.<BR/><BR/>Mya xMyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14106690738320651376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-27847326373609466652008-01-10T20:26:00.000+00:002008-01-10T20:26:00.000+00:00Gosh ladies - you do know how to come through for ...Gosh ladies - you do know how to come through for a blogger, don't you?<BR/><BR/>I think that emotions have been magnified by the fact that he was 2yesterday, so I really can't think of him as a baby any longer; he is well and truly on the way to boy-hood. So starting nursery today kind of rubbed salt in the wound. But he had a great time, by all accounts - and I did (against all expectations and predictions) make it to the gym. But damn those full-length mirrors!<BR/><BR/>RC, you're right, champagne is called for. And I will drink it - but as you say, just not today. <BR/><BR/>Ped, it's funny you say that. When we started Boy #1 at nursery it was totally different; maybe because I was already expecting Boy #2, but mostly because, as you say, I was scurrying off to work. I clearly need something else to think about. Now if only I could find a job I want that allows me to work 4 hours a day 3 times a week!<BR/><BR/>Aims; I'll do my best (and thanks for the sweet comment about the most beautiful 2 year-old in town. Biased? Moi?)<BR/><BR/>Pig, you truly ARE Mystic Meg; we see him as exactly the same thing (with his older brother coaching from the sidelines not wanting to get mud on his knees). And spot on with the whole identity theft thing - I'm hoping to find mine in lost property now that I have time to look for it!<BR/><BR/>(And for a moment there I thought you were going for number 5...)<BR/><BR/>Frog, thanks for the offer but having looked at the photo on your blog I'm not sure my nipples are up to it...<BR/><BR/>Iota, I think the inadequacy thing is an implant they give you in the delivery suite when you're too spaced out from giving birth to notice. And I suspect that my free time will fill up much as yours has. There will be a lot of fussing about, of course, to convince Husband I'm to busy for him to add to my to-do list, but in reality, it will be same jobs but with more coffe breaks.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of which, make mine a tall skinny hot chocolate please (I need something to get through this disgusting weather!)Potty Mummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-74768882761945757112008-01-10T19:14:00.000+00:002008-01-10T19:14:00.000+00:00Pig in the Kitchen puts it perfectly. It's all so ...Pig in the Kitchen puts it perfectly. It's all so bittersweet. You yearn for a free morning, and then you don't know what to do with it. RC is right. The feeling will pass. Unlike her, though, I find that I don't really ever get round to all that stuff I promised myself. I just let everything else expand slightly, to fill the newly available time. The 'to do' list is slightly shorter these days, but only slightly. And the feelings of inadequacy have gone up, of course.<BR/><BR/>Come on over and have a coffee. That'll fill up the time perfectly. Nice Starbucks round the corner here, if you can face the 12-hour flight (not direct, I'm afraid).Iota https://www.blogger.com/profile/08507184283437057648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-78868483368136505622008-01-10T18:30:00.000+00:002008-01-10T18:30:00.000+00:00He's a very cute one, you'll be ok...would you lik...He's a very cute one, you'll be ok...would you like a piglet to cuddle? (apparently they smell a bit, but you won't notice after a while...Frog in the Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09990222544828204911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-26483408146063387232008-01-10T17:30:00.000+00:002008-01-10T17:30:00.000+00:00He is beautiful, the Mystic Meg in me sees him as ...He is beautiful, the Mystic Meg in me sees him as a prop in the England team...<BR/>Motherhood seems to be all about the erosion of your pre-children identity until the day you are handed some free time...and then you have no idea who you are anymore.<BR/>Good luck, i reckon soon you'll be loving it. I only have 9 months until my time comes! (last child starting pre-school, not another baby you understand)<BR/>PigxPig in the Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631525119816074013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-74546731346965049582008-01-10T16:56:00.000+00:002008-01-10T16:56:00.000+00:00Gosh - what a cutie patootie - Do it for the kids!...Gosh - what a cutie patootie - <BR/><BR/>Do it for the kids!!aimshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12685252628734838159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-46193293564701976302008-01-10T16:44:00.000+00:002008-01-10T16:44:00.000+00:00He is a cutie. I started dropping my own little sw...He is a cutie. I started dropping my own little sweetE off this year, but then I scurry off to work. So the whole empty house thing will probably happen next year. You want them to grow up, but you want them to stay little. If only we could slow down time and kind of have both.ped crossinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06360740233306533239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-21581777256859806172008-01-10T15:48:00.000+00:002008-01-10T15:48:00.000+00:00I want to make some flippant comment about how we'...I want to make some flippant comment about how we'll all be there shortly with some champagne to toast your freedom, but I can't.<BR/><BR/>I remember the day my youngest one went off to pre-school and it was scary. No more excuses. No more built in rationalizations. Time to make good on promises to yourself.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The good thing is that <I>that</I> feeling is very fleeting. You will enjoy this. I promise. It just won't be today.the rotten correspondenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02704525054720181936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-35434578124158561042008-01-10T15:40:00.000+00:002008-01-10T15:40:00.000+00:00...and I will have achieved even less than I would......and I will have achieved even less than I would if both boys were home, GPM...<BR/><BR/>Ho hum - time to snap out of it and get on with being depressed by the full length mirrors at the gym (alongside shouting at their scales that they can't POSSIBLY be right). Blast Christmas...Potty Mummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-67849485380164337282008-01-10T15:16:00.000+00:002008-01-10T15:16:00.000+00:00So sad they have to grow up, especially when they ...So sad they have to grow up, especially when they look that cute. But just think of all that time for blog posts! Or for cups of coffee while you decide which job to do first, by which time the clock will have ticked and it'll time to pick him up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-64239490075875846932008-01-10T15:09:00.000+00:002008-01-10T15:09:00.000+00:00Thanks Kaycie - I think so, but then I am allowed ...Thanks Kaycie - I think so, but then I am allowed to be just slightly biased...Potty Mummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-63497754772055033312008-01-10T13:51:00.000+00:002008-01-10T13:51:00.000+00:00That is one adorable little face. I'd miss him, t...That is one adorable little face. I'd miss him, too.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05655321325607087357noreply@blogger.com