MSE Parents Club Part 5

3onitsway

My baby is comando crawling - remember like those old action men toys! `:T
She can only manage it on the laminate floor though! Arms ahead, then she drags the rest of her behind! (I should attach a duster to her tummy!)


Thanks to all the ladies who gave info on the tax credits. :T
I've just phoned them (10 weeks of my mat leave was in 08-09), so they've taken £1000 of my last years income figure! Then she confused me about my 09-10 estimate! But we agreed on a figure, then she took £2900 off it (for the other 29 weeks mat pay).
Not sure what difference it will make in money terms - but anything is better in [STRIKE]our[/STRIKE] my pocket than theirs! :T

tiamai_d

I didnt bother with DS1 except the basics, meaning I didn't make a concious effort to teach him to read or write as he simply wasn't ready (he wasn't ready for school either). He learned throughout P1, but by P2 he was an excellent reader but he really struggled to learn initially untill suddenly he got it. I would have preferred him to wait another year before starting school and we would have skipped a whole load of crap. Anyway..

No idea what I'm going to do with DS2, in one sence he is ready but in another how can I teach him to read if his speach is so poor I can barely understand him? Question for the SALT I think.

Is it a good thing or bad thing that people are coming up to me saying they had no idea I was pregnant? I saw them with my huge belly that had it's very own gravitational field and forming a small moon, did they just think I was massively overindulging on the choc ices??

I better go do some housework before DH comes home.

tiamai_d

Jvic28 wrote: »

My insurance wouldn't cover me for driving this soon after an op so be careful.

I called them to check, before and after the op. Their policy is 'as soon as you feel able to do so and your doctor agrees'. My consultant said 'as soon as you feel able to do so and can do it without pain or fear of pain'. I can do an emergency stop (twice yesterday going to nursery along the college 'suicide road' where students just blindly walk across the road!), can do a 3 point turn (have to in my street to turn your car) and can reverse park and twist about and get the kids in car seats etc.

I am quite shocked at how little pain I had and how quickly I have recovered but I've been assured that everything is fine. The only thing I can't do is lift DS2 or heavy items.

Crap, I just remembered that I had an X-Ray app today!

Buttonmoons

MrsTine wrote: »

OK how about a cupboard challenge?

I'd suggest the mince becomes lasagna, cottage pie, spagbol and maybe some HM burgers?
The cheese and tom pizza - whack some extra cheese on and some reggae chicken Maybe if you have the chicken one night and the leftover chick on the pizza next day?
Try to work out how many days you have meals for And if you can manage to not buy anything one week you get a treat
The tinned toms could go in the lasagna, chilliconcarne etc.
If you have red lentils then you can make some HM lentil soup (I like to add carrots too...)

I do have red lentils, not sure how many, I put them in a nice glass jar....I originally bought them to bulk out spag bol, I seen it on the OS board, but bleh, it didn't taste good and OH even noticed that the texture wasn't quite right, and I didn't tell him I had added them.

I do add oats to mince based dishes though, they go hand in hand!

Well tonight I took out a pack of the turkey steaks, I'm going to chop them into chunks and just make it into a curry, probably won't be much leftover as it's only a 350g pack, and it looks WEENY, but I've plenty on onions and peppers so will bung that in and should be enough for OH's lunch tomorrow.

I do normally make spag bol, cottage pie, lasagne etc. It's our staple food!

I am going to try and hold off shopping but sometimes you need little bits and bobs,like the pasta sheets for lasagna and i dont really like the uncooked ones you can buy for cheap, i prefer the fresh ones....BUT there is a recipe in the economy gastronomy book for canneloni (I think!) Can't remember what it's stuffed with but they say to use fresh pasta sheets, but I actually have a box of canneloni in the cupboard I bought from Lidl about 2yrs ago!

So maybe just a top up, say £20 shop at lidl would suffice for us, for 2 weeks, cause I'll need more cheese and butter (I bought blueberries for Keira but she says they are gross ones, must be overripe so turning them into muffins....thanks for the idea )

Anyhow, what am I saying. What can you stuff canneloni with, I know the usual is like spinnach and riccota etc....anything a bit less weird you could do it with? Never had riccota in my life and wouldn't know what it even looked like (I do believe it's a cheese though :rotfl:)

cazscoob

you could stuff it with spicy mince and top with tinned toms and cheese! i usually make a few with no spice at one side of the dish and then spicey ones at the other side!

Pink_Princess_1

Wow 94 pages on a new thread..I've only been on hol for a week and dont imagine I will be able to catch up on all the news!! Have I missed anything important?.. While we were away I have lost my car key and have been quoted nearly £150 to get a new one at the vauxhall garage:eek: Have asked for any info on the motoring thread but if anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful

MrsTinks

Let me know if you need a blueberry muffin recipe

The red lentil soup is easy peasy it really is first time I made it to the exact amounts it lists - never have since lol! You develop an eye for it you really do

Do you want the exact recipe or my "approx this much" recipe? lol?

MrsTinks

Buttons if you do a cupboard inventory then we could see how many meals we can squeeze out of what you have? I might do the same but I'd be cheating as I only did a load of meat shopping at Costco on sunday LOL
2 large pork loin pieces, 2.4kg of mince, 2 large chickens and I still have chicken breasts and pork tenderloins in the freezer as well as sausages, bacon and lord only knows! :rotfl:

feelinggood_2

Back from trip out. Seeing Mummy friend was lovely. Toby weighs in at 19lb 13oz at 18 weeks, following the 99th centile. They want him weighed in a fortnight. GP was good, nipple swab for thush and staph sent off. Also got beta-blockers, but nothing fir nipple pain. SPD returning is normal, if it isn't better in a few months, go back. Toby only cried once, not as bad as last time.

I won't help with budgets. We were so poor when first married that we don't se a budget anymore.

ladybirdintheuk

Re learning to read, my cousins has started with the letters, so he knows what "a" looks like and that it is for apple, "b" is for banana, "c" is for cat, "d" is for daddy etc.... He has some blocks that have letters on one side and pictures on the other, so he can tell you the pictures that go with all the letters, and when I saw him a few months back he could tell you that as well as being "m" for monkey it was also for "mummy" and "g" is for grandad and granny as well as being on the blocks. That might be a good way to start?