A lovely day today at Kedleston Hall with some of the Mums Club April’06 gang  – Kinza with Erin and Elliot, Joanne with Zac and Ethan, Gayle with Amy, Jill with Joey and Cath with Julian. I started posting on this board back in July 2005 when I was first pregnant with Alfie and still post on there now. We’ve all known each other for 4.5 years but have never met up. These ladies have been very important to me throughout my pregnancy and Alfie’s childhood. Yes, my parenting has gone down a different path from a lot of others on there and I’ve drifted away from my other boards onto Green Parent forum (via attachment parenting board which has now become far too mainstream for me!). Despite the differences though we’ve always all got on so well, and today was no different. We were covered in mud and freezing cold but had a lovely picnic (thanks Cath!), the kids all got on great and it was a great day Holly was grumpy all day and needed carrying, apart from when there were muddy puddles to jump in, which was a shame. I wanted people to see her usual sunny personality, but the last few weeks have been pretty grumpy due to teeth and tiredness. She enjoyed herself in her own little way though. Alfie was so shy at first, hiding behind me, but before long he was sword fighting with Cath with sticks (!), running round with the other kids and chatting to everyone! He said he wants to meet all his new friends again, especially Amy lol! He was also very excited to discover snowdrops, his favourite flowers

Jo took lots of pix so I’ll try and pinch some to put up here

Alfie told me tonight that he was very happy at the reduced numbers of tantrums in recent days and said that his body was turning his tantrum brain into a non-tantrum brain