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[Emski51]

I know I do feel old some days pottering around my garden with my watering can discussing tomato feed and whether the lawn looks like its dying !
God just typing that sentence made me feel old ! a lot of my friends either have or want kids so a lot less of socialising these days

We have a 7 month old kitten which is our fur baby he is a very pampered pet not sure how he will react to a new addition

@ Baby.Love12 looks good to me have not used opk myself as of yet but maybe if nothing happens in the next few months I might give them a try I hear the Clearblue digital ones are good but are a bit on the expensive side.

 

[Lithodora]

Kitten!! I love kittens, much more than I love babies We have 4 animals, 2 cats, 2 dogs. The cats always ignore any visiting babies, the dogs *love* all animals, babies, people, so they would adore babies, and are big dogs so I have a vision of propping a baby up against one of them for photos and for bottles when they would be older

My family gardens a lot so I'm used to gardening talk, probably helps with making it seem more normal to me! I like it, flowers are pretty

 

[MnGmakes3]

Gardening must go hand in hand with settling down/ttc My best friend spent last weekend doing the garden of her new house with her husband. Argh that sentence is all kinds of old, what happened to me and her doing shots in niteclubs and kissing boys!

LOL at this. Soooooo true!! just 3 yrs ago I was out at 9 coming home at 2 or 3 or even the wee hours of the morn. Now I'm in bed by 9 worrying about kitty food and cervical mucus.
One of these sounds funner than the other yet here we are trucking along hehe

 

[Loobs]

Baby.love - it looks good! I can't decide if it's positive or very very close. Get on it anyways!!

I would love to HAVE a garden! We have a tiny little patio area at the front of the house and nothing at the back. I have my orchid inside and a little hanging basket outside my door but I'm crap I'm much better at baking - well - getting there!! And having fun practicing!

Nothing much happening TTC wise today. CD8. Planning on jumping my DH when he gets in. Using preseed this cycle. Temping going ok - I think! OPKs start Friday!

x

 

[Emski51]

Yea I quite like baking haven't done any recently though I have to admit I am secretly looking forward to the new series of great British bake off .

Hehe I'm not quite at the point of worrying about cervical mucus oh my who would of though ttc would be so time consuming its really not as easy as they make it out to be in sex ed classes its !!

 

[MnGmakes3]

Yea I quite like baking haven't done any recently though I have to admit I am secretly looking forward to the new series of great British bake off .

Hehe I'm not quite at the point of worrying about cervical mucus oh my who would of though ttc would be so time consuming its really not as easy as they make it out to be in sex ed classes its !!

I have to laugh at what you said with the sex ed. Before we started TTC, my hubby was up to the assumption (from what he learned in sex ed) that "if you look at it, you'll get pregnant "
I wish it was that easy.

 

[Loobs]

I can't WAIT for the Great British Bake Off - I love it!!

I wish getting pregnant was as easy as they made it sound when we were teenagers! And we've spent the last 7 years trying so hard to prevent! x

 

[Emski51]

Tell me about it 11 and a half years of being super careful !! Bah would be nice if hubby could just look at me and I would fall pregnant but I can't complain this trying to conceive business does have its benefits

 

[Lithodora]

In my husband's family they just have to walk past each other and they're pregnant We think it's the girls only that are like that, but we'll see!

I can't wait for the Bake Off, watch it every year. I love baking, but I also love eating, so I don't bake too often unless I have someone I know I can bring the stuff to asap. I'll be doing a lot of baking tomorrow, bringing things to two different friends houses...and actually might make more stuff to bring the my inlaws as they have visitors.

Our garden is too big, well, too big for us amateur gardeners to handle. We're getting better at it, but it still looks shit for now!

 

[MeganS0326]

I'm with you girls on the baking (and the eating)... the gardening not so much.

 

[Bing28]

I'm an amateur gardener too! I love my little garden and I got an allotment in June. Have some runner beans, chillis, peppers, cauliflower, broccoli, turnips, cabbage, onions and Brussels sprouts, rhubarb and several herbs all growing at the moment! I find gardener is the only thing I can do where my mind completely switches off. I've tried massages, reflexology, acupuncture...but my mind just always races, thinking about TTC or what I need to do later that day. Gardening is just so therapeutic (not sure if that's the right spelling!)

When does TGBBO start again? I love that programme!

Xx

 

[Mintastic]

Jealous of all the gardening! I am from NYC so I have never really had an opportunity to garden.
One summer I helped my MIL in Ohio pull weeds and plant flowers around the border of her vegetable garden. It was mostly fun but I have a lot of joint pain from my EDS so as pleasant as it was, even if I ever manage to move out of the city I don't imagine it would be a good hobby for me.

I used to like baking until it turned out DH has a lot of issues with many grains/yeast/gluten - no point in baking just for myself.
Suppose I should try some more GF recipes but the ones I have tried in the past were dry and didn't taste great.

 

[Emski51]

We have quite a large garden I have a veg patch with potatos, beans, pumpkins, broccoli, carrots, leeks, tomato lettuce and some other stuff its nice to go down and pick stuff for dinner I'm not sure when the bake off starts but its pretty soon

 

[MnGmakes3]

I'd much rather bake then garden. .. you have to wait sooooooo long for everything. My parents have a huge garden and it feels like years before anything is ready for the plucking
Baking gives me that instant satisfaction lol
You gardeners should send us bakers the goodies

 

[Emski51]

Hehe yea it does take ages for stuff to grow ! I do like baking but my husband is not a massive fan of cakes so I end up eating way to much and end up feeling like a piggy

How is everyone this morning ?
turned up bang on schedule this morning I have to admire her promptness and seeing as I knew she was coming I am pretty glad she came on time so time for round 2 !!!

 

[Lithodora]

Mintastic some of the stuff I'm baking today is gluten free because one of my friends is coeliac, I try to find recipes that don't require any gluten in the first place so I'm not substituting stuff in, I'm making a cake and macaroons that use ground almonds anyway, so don't have to worry about finding flour I won't use again. Although my husband pretty much has a gluten intolerance...as do a lot of the Irish population, I'm one of the lucky ones here who could eat bread til it came out my eyes

The Bake Off starts next Wednesday btw.

 

[Loobs]

Still trying to get used to the temping over here. I'm getting it at the same time every morning and I'm sleeping quite good at the moment. They seem kinda erratic and I've only managed 4 days so far.

BD marathon has commenced - c'mon little eggyyyy!

 

[Lithodora]

Loobs we commenced dtd here too (I can't bring myself to use the BD phrase), and I wouldn't call it a marathon with us, more like a leisurely jog every two days Not ovulating for another few days, ugh, wishing the weekend away to get to that point!

 

[Loobs]

I sometimes feel like its a marathon - is that bad? His work schedule is hectic, I work erratic shifts. DH is away to work at 6am, usually sleeping by 8pm. On the nights where I'm not home til 10.30-11pm, DTD is the furthest thing from my mind! x

 

[Lithodora]

I sometimes feel like its a marathon - is that bad? His work schedule is hectic, I work erratic shifts. DH is away to work at 6am, usually sleeping by 8pm. On the nights where I'm not home til 10.30-11pm, DTD is the furthest thing from my mind! x

Oh I mean we don't do it every day etc, marathon to me meant lots of sex for the week, whereas we couldn't possibly bring ourselves to do it every day!