MSE Parents Club Part 4

money_maker_3

MrsTine wrote: »

My nutty hound being as we're all sharing

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=81274&id=740875462&l=b7bd4f76c6


I'm off to bed - Alexandra is FINALLY asleep! Whoop whoop!

Honey, is that you in your profile pic?? If so, you is gorgeous

Sami_Bee

MrsTine wrote: »

My nutty hound being as we're all sharing

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=81274&id=740875462&l=b7bd4f76c6


I'm off to bed - Alexandra is FINALLY asleep! Whoop whoop!

They're FAB!! Wish I could take such good action shots!

money_maker wrote: »

OK, random question alert

what do you and your OHs do together? (not the obvious answers please :rotfl:)
Reason I'm asking is that we dont really do anything unless its going to the park with the kids or maybe lunch out somewhere, and I want to start having a bit of a social life and am looking for ideas
My friends are all either single or their OHs are not Chris' sort of people IYKWIM :rolleyes: and all of Chris' mates live in England and he just talks to them online, so its not like we can meet up with other couples for a night out or have friends round for dinner
HELP ME

nothing only time we go out is family meals/parties or the occasional gig/show:(

money_maker_3

well your no help at all sami :rotfl:

elle_gee

I'd be no help either cos we're the same as Sami and her OH!

Our reasoning is that OH has debts so can't afford to take us out and won't let me pay all the time. He used to do work for his sister (spreadsheets for her work that she couldn't do) and she'd pay him by us going out for a posh meal, paying us back and putting it through her expenses She still owes us two meals that we didn't go out for because I was pregnant (and knackered and couldn't drink!).

Other than family occasions, the odd meal out or show/gig, we'd sometimes randomly decide to go for fish and chips and play on the 2p machines at the seaside.. We usually spend the evenings doing our own thing to relax after a big chat/rant about work. Maybe it helps that we work at the same place so there's no having to fill each other in on the background to something - makes for a quicker conversation! We used to try to get away for quite a few weekends away from home but not always each with OH working every other weekend.

I've been looking at the place we went to on holiday in June 2007 tonight.. Really want to go back!

money_maker_3

See, we used to have a really good social life, even after Jas was born, but then 90% of our friends moved to England at some point and the rest we lost contact with for one reason or another. Then when Chris stopped working because of his health, he was in the house all day and had nothing to talk to me about when I cam home from work other than Jasmine
I think I am just scared that if we continue to have nothing together as such, then when the kids grow up, we will have nothing. Does that make sense ??

Sami_Bee

Well my sister n her OH go to a pub quiz most weeks and they go the gym together and go the pub to watch rugby or to an actual match when wigan are playing hull. any of that useful?

elle_gee

money_maker wrote: »

.. I think I am just scared that if we continue to have nothing together as such, then when the kids grow up, we will have nothing. Does that make sense ??

That's what my Mum's always been afraid of, but it's not happened yet in 26 years. I suppose having a wedding to plan (my sister's) then a new grandchild to think about (Rhys) has kept them occupied since we moved out. Plus Mum's constant preoccupation for the last ten years on extending and changing their house has kept the conversation going.. They're starting the third extension in October! :rolleyes:

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Well my sister n her OH go to a pub quiz most weeks and they go the gym together and go the pub to watch rugby or to an actual match when wigan are playing hull. any of that useful?

Which side do they cheer for?

money_maker_3

Chris supports Liverpool, and we have flown over a couple of times but thats a very expensive date !!
The football ground here isnt that far from my house, but the local team are a bit crap !
He would go and have a game of snooker with my BIL once a month but its a bit of a man only pub they go to !
A lot of the pubs that do the quizes round here are very secular and we are a mixed relationship religion wise, so thats not very easy, and the next town over is student city because of the uni !!
This time of year everywhere is packed as I am right beside the coast, so all the tourists and their neighbours are at the places you could go to.
I had thought of doing a night class together, my mum could babysit, but neither of us want to do the same thing

I would love to do an extension to my house, but we have a cc and an overdraft to think of first !!

Sami_Bee

elle_gee wrote: »

That's what my Mum's always been afraid of, but it's not happened yet in 26 years. I suppose having a wedding to plan (my sister's) then a new grandchild to think about (Rhys) has kept them occupied since we moved out. Plus Mum's constant preoccupation for the last ten years on extending and changing their house has kept the conversation going.. They're starting the third extension in October! :rolleyes:



Which side do they cheer for?

:eek:WIGAN obviously!! We're wigan til we die!:cool:

if you fancy a cheap hol sis got the ferry from hull to amsterdamn (didn't stay there tho) then a transfer to bruges she said it was lovely.
although the ferry broke when she went :rotfl: but it was supposed to be that you get on at tea time (take ur own food) go to bed and wake up in another country

money_maker_3

I thought you two were supposed to be starting on the early nights ??
Not that I am complaining about the company, would be a bit boring on here all on my own