It is tough NOW. So how are we coping

scaty

Hi all
Just an update
DD2 now installed in my home - I say 'my home' but my things are confined to the bedroom. Didn't know the attic could hold so much!!

Baby boy has arrived - she is soooo lucky, he eats, he sleeps, he is totally chilled out, unlike his mum.

There are compensations - so called 'friends' say they have never seen my home so tidy - cheek, I called it lived in and thought it had character.

still tying up odds and sods of her moving in but will get round to finishing soon.

DD2 had a bash at going shopping with baby, pram and GD1 - well the mission took 2 hours in preparation, 20 mins in travelling (I should have drove her car - hormones still raging through I think!!) and 10 mins in the car park where she couldn't get the baby carrier into the trolly, had a blazing fit, got back in the car and went home. I did the shopping later with GD1.

Have got her a notebook for lists, messages and generally remembering things. She has accepted that she needs it. Phew, thought that was going to go down like a brick in a pond.

Mother / daughter relationship still at defcon 3 but at least it not all out war.

Bye for now all

mardatha

yaaaaay scatty ! MUMMY POWER !! and I sympathize. Daughters are IMPS OF SATAN !!!

Kittikins

Hey, I'm a daughter, with a daughter and...........actually, I quite like that title

kidcat

Scaty - well done you are managing to keep it together and that is great, a friend had her daughter and GD live with her till the GD was 4 and says that although she loves all her GC equally, the one who lived with her she has a stronger bond with, so although it may be hard you are building a lifetime bond with your GC. :A Congrats on the baby too,:T:T

taplady

Congratulations Sammy:T

deniseduck

Hello there, just coming out from lurking.
Where is everybody?
Have you all gone to a new thread, cos if you have I can't find you!

Gigervamp

Lol, I think a lot of us have been caught up in the Economy Gastronomy and Preparing for Winter threads!

alice-mary

I've been lurking on the "Preparing for Winter" and the "What worked and didn't work last year" threads too but I keep on looking/hoping that THIS thread is still in use!

Gigervamp

Well, it gets bumped up from time to time, so it's often around.

BigMummaF

I hadn't forgotten this happy band, but sometimes a new thread gets started to herald a new 'year' as it were, so was waiting to see what was happening

Well..it's just gotten a whole lot tuffer for the BMF household. I was just getting some sort of rhythm into my life when WHAM! Poor Pup had to have a small op yesterday so need I say more :cool: He'd been licking at his paw for almost a week, then on Friday it looked swollen & felt quite hard so we were bathing it with warm salt water which seemed to help SIZE=1][I]I would have tried the stuff I've used on the kids but I didnt want to poison Pup should he lick it off.[/I][/SIZE While we were in the waiting room, his foot started to bleed & the vet suspected something had got into his system via the skinny bits between his toes. Anyhooz, they found two grass seeds :eek: beginning to make their way up his leg so he's on pain killers & antibiotics & has to go back tomorrow to have the dressing changed.
Now call me naive, but I assumed the follow-ups would be included in the cost, seeing as it is all part of the one 'treatment' but no--we have to pay extra when the bandage is renewed. Don't get me wrong--I fully understand there's no NHS for pets--but to get a smack with £270+ on Monday, then told it's going to cost more on Wednesday AND almost six quid for them to fill out the insurance claim, just seems to be a tad 'money-grabbing'. I'd much prefer it if they'd said--eg--£325 to cover & be done with.
It would be the same cost to me, but sound an awful lot less mercenary IYSWIM

Just as well I'd used the vouchers from the week-end's papers earlier in the month & we've a goodly store to grub from...must have known something was going to happen :undecided