MSE Parents Club Part 4

redmel1621

Becles wrote: »

I'm another one with a doorbell problem!

The previous owner built a brick built porch on the front, so we've got the original front door between the porch and the hall. We used to have a solid wooden front door on the porch with a knocker that was loud and could be heard in the house.

The wood door rotted so we replaced it last year with a UPVC one which is about 2/3rds glass to let more light into the hall. We've got a doorbell stuck on the door frame, but so many people just tap on the glass. However as the original door is so thick, you can't hear tapping on the glass when you're in the house. The milk lady always complains that we never answer the door and end up running up a massive bill, and the postman always cards us. I've told both to use the bell, but they never do.

I think I need a big neon sign outside pointing to the bell saying "can you please ring the sodding bell !!!!!!!!!!!" :rotfl:

Yes - put a sign up....Dh spent some time (years ago) as a postie and was told at the office not to bother with doorbells as the majority of time they don't work, people forget/don't bother to replace the batteries etc..
Apparantly they used to get loads of complaints from customers saying they were in, but the postman never knocked on the door, just put a card through the door and when the posties were questioned they said they had rang the bell, no-one answered so they left a card. So they made it an uwritten rule...don't use bells, cos even if they work one doy they may not the next...

So Becles....Put up a neon sign:D

BrunoM

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Benjamin only has an hour or so EVERY day!!!

Well...he gets up at 7am (ish) and comes in with us. Has a nap at 9am (ish) for about 30 or 40 mins. A nap at 12pm (ish!) for 30 or 40 mins and then if I am lucky another 30 or 40 mins at about 3pm!
He then goes down at 7pm (ish!!!) and he either wakes at 4am (he has been doing this recently) or at about 6am but I can get an extra hour out of him by sticking his dummy back in and his elephant on his head

But getting more than an 90 mins of sleep from him in a day is very unusual.

Those daytimes sound very like Elijah until a few months ago (well, even now he just has the one nap, which is between 1-2 hrs after lunch), although we had even less of a routine. It freaked us out for a while but he was clearly not over-tired so we learned to accept it mostly.
He has never been a good night sleeper though, reflux set him on a dodgy path from an early age!
I bet if I put an elephant on his head he'd shut up too! :eek: but I think a bit harsh.

cazscoob wrote: »

hello ladies! i have spent most of the day sleeping just feeling a bit carp and think my sister has passed her cold on? so took erin up and she cuddled in beside me and we slept for hours! am absolutly starving as i got kids fed and dressed this morning and never had anything myself!
OH has cleaned the living room and the kids washed the dishes and cleaned the kitchen so sitting here not knowing what to do!

Aww Caz if anyone deserves some slack time it's you, even if you don't have a cold, hope it's minor and goes away soon but take advantage to recharge a bit, you're so impressive with your non-stop activity despite everything!


Our new place has a non-working doorbell too, lots of cards under doors etc already... that's life.

Wheeeeeew nearly the end of a very busy but productive day! "Worked from home" today, euphemism for taking advantage of the system and also avoiding my boss a bit, as he has taken the news that I'm changing jobs and that his boss gave me the permission he would've withheld, very badly indeed

Let OH get a sleep-in by taking Elijah out for breakfast, so that was nice for everyone one way or another, and Elijah charmed Carluccio's staff by trying to "dance" (bob up and down grinning) to the Italian music they were playing, getting them all bobbing along!

Did a couple hours work, then when E had his after-lunch nap I sent OH off to the cafe and worked out how to use the inherited petrol strimmer, and over the course of the afternoon mowed and strimmed back and front gardens in preparation for Sunday's barbecue/1st-birthday-party/housewarming we're having. Assembled a new bookcase from the flatpack, swept and mopped the floors, had a house-clean of recyclable things and put them out, made a crust for the beef roast and let it flavour it for a couple hours, assembled the garden table and parasol, persuaded a subsidiary of one of our customers not to delay their implementation plans, prepared a pan-ful of roasting vegetables, ran a dishwash and a clothes wash, and then read 8 pages of this thread ;p I feel victorious, like I did a full mum's job for a day :T

Caz, 3, anyone else with 3+ kids, do you have cars and if so, what do you drive? Are they cars that can fit 3 child seats etc? Are the only options MPVs if you want to fit the whole lot in?

weezl74

BrunoM wrote: »

....and then read 8 pages of this thread ;p I feel victorious, like I did a full mum's job for a day :T

Just that's enough for a full day's work Bruno;)

SusanC_2

My current postman taps so quietly you can only hear him if you're right by the door (which I was once which is how I know). He does leave parcels round the side though at least - with our old one we used to have to travel 5 miles to collect them until they started leaving them at the local post office.

emlou2009

weezl74 wrote: »

tomorrow til next saturday- 8 MSE less days:eek:

whatever will become of me!

packing going v badly at the mo. Keep thinking of things that should've been on the list and then that scares me about what else I've missed!

Oh well, we'll just buy stuff if we need to

I am not allowed to post again until I've packed 10 things or tidied a room.....

Love to all,

Weezl x

i hope you packed 10 things before you replied to bruno
you will be fine, just remember to leave room for fergus in the car!! :rotfl:

BrunoM wrote: »

Let OH get a sleep-in by taking Elijah out for breakfast, so that was nice for everyone one way or another, and Elijah charmed Carluccio's staff by trying to "dance" (bob up and down grinning) to the Italian music they were playing, getting them all bobbing along!

Did a couple hours work, then when E had his after-lunch nap I sent OH off to the cafe and worked out how to use the inherited petrol strimmer, and over the course of the afternoon mowed and strimmed back and front gardens in preparation for Sunday's barbecue/1st-birthday-party/housewarming we're having. Assembled a new bookcase from the flatpack, swept and mopped the floors, had a house-clean of recyclable things and put them out, made a crust for the beef roast and let it flavour it for a couple hours, assembled the garden table and parasol, persuaded a subsidiary of one of our customers not to delay their implementation plans, prepared a pan-ful of roasting vegetables, ran a dishwash and a clothes wash, and then read 8 pages of this thread ;p I feel victorious, like I did a full mum's job for a day :T

Caz, 3, anyone else with 3+ kids, do you have cars and if so, what do you drive? Are they cars that can fit 3 child seats etc? Are the only options MPVs if you want to fit the whole lot in?

dear lord man, sit down and have a beer! i wouldnt do half of that in a week :rotfl:
my auntie has a frontera, and she has 3 kids. before that they had a previa. she was saying the other day that now 2 of them are older they can get a smaller car so i guess there isnt really anything, at least not low budget!

emlou2009

oh, we have a small letterbox and keep getting cards through to go and pick up big letters :eek:

Fritha_2

This was a bit of a voyage of discovery, I had no idea what I'd pressed multi-quote on!

MrsTine wrote: »

(And they have Mei Tais or whatever they're called )

Whoop whoop

Yay for sling libraries and yay for mei tais (perfect spelling) :-) This site also hire out slings :-)

SusanC wrote: »

Is it battery powered or plug in?

I thought for a moment you meant a breast pump :eek:

BrunoM wrote: »

Caz, 3, anyone else with 3+ kids, do you have cars and if so, what do you drive? Are they cars that can fit 3 child seats etc? Are the only options MPVs if you want to fit the whole lot in?

My friend has a renault laguna estate that can fit three car seats in the back although I think the middle one might need to be a booster (or it could just be that when she put them in the middle happened to be a booster I can't say for definite!)

Is there something you need to tell us Bruno?

Poor Celia is coughing a lot again :-( I hope it's 'just' a cough and not yet another ear infection. I'll see how she goes over the weekend and see if I need to attempt to get her into the doctors!

money_maker_3

bruno, a meriva will hold 3 car seats safely as it has a flat back seat and 3 proper full seatbelts My mummy has one for the 3 grandkids !!

tiamai_d

My megane estate won't nor will a scenic, we tried at the car sales place, guy assured us it would fit, but nope, seats are not flat enough.

We got an MPV for when DH is off.

SusanC_2

emlou2009 wrote: »

oh, we have a small letterbox and keep getting cards through to go and pick up big letters :eek:

Doesn't the postman fold them up? You can fit A4 through ours but even A5 get folded in half. Our old postman even used to fold the stuff from Royal Mail which said "Do not bend" on it.