MSE Parents Club Part 5

SusanC_2

Elle - I would just give him some of the lasagne. Personally I just accept that when we eat out or at someone's house that Alice won't necessarily eat as healthily as usual but since we eat fairly healthily the rest of the time I don't think it matters too much.

elle_gee wrote: »

Weezl, Mel, Button - are you ready? Economy Gastronomy is on in ten minutes

But you're not allowed to talk about it until I've watched it tomorrow on iPlayer.

emlou2009 wrote: »

on the going back to work thing, i really dont know what to do. i always planned to go back part time and aim to do 4 days a week to cover the amount i get now in MA, as we can just about survive on that and not have to scrimp too ridiculously. but i'm now swaying towards not really wanting to leave my little man, which is weird, i never thought i'd feel like that we are currently entitled to about £5 a week in housing benefit, but if i go back for just one day a week we'd get £40 short of our rent which would make it affordable? but i feel like it would be wrong to do so when technically i have got a job to go to... also if i did go back i'd be claiming childcare tax credits so either way i'm scrounging i suppose? i just dont know what to do for the best

The way I see it, if you don't go back, OH's taxes will be paying for childcare which enables other people to both work and if he didn't have to pay that extra tax then you would not need to claim the money. (Or in less roundabout way: you're paying into the system whether you want to or not so there's nothing wrong with claiming what they say you're entitled to.)

Krystaltips

emlou2009 wrote: »

the only problem with a childminder is that if they are ill you're stuck.

on the going back to work thing, i really dont know what to do. i always planned to go back part time and aim to do 4 days a week to cover the amount i get now in MA, as we can just about survive on that and not have to scrimp too ridiculously. but i'm now swaying towards not really wanting to leave my little man, which is weird, i never thought i'd feel like that we are currently entitled to about £5 a week in housing benefit, but if i go back for just one day a week we'd get £40 short of our rent which would make it affordable? but i feel like it would be wrong to do so when technically i have got a job to go to... also if i did go back i'd be claiming childcare tax credits so either way i'm scrounging i suppose? i just dont know what to do for the best

weezl, i'm glad you popped in today, i was worried for you :grouphug: its been said already but i'm always here on PM or FB if you want a chat

I don't think claiming what you're entitled to is scrounging... We're not entitled to any housing /ct benefit, but if we were I'd claim it like a shot (I think we might get a fiver a month or something next year when the baby element of the ctc ends). Hubby gets working tax credits because the company he works for pays such a crappy wage, but at least he has a job to support his family... There are a lot of folk who don't even bother trying...

money_maker_3

feelinggood wrote: »

OH still hasn't forgiven me for one thing I said when we first started dating. He suggested we should go camping, and in my very immature way, I told him I'd rather break up than go camping with him! Oops!

I said that too, but over the last 9 years he has somehow managed to persuade me

Oh, and after going to the clinic and for coffee yesterday, I'm going to a coffee morning tomorrow! Meeting up with all the NCT ladies, one has even offered me a lift there!

:j:j you are doing really well lately, be proud of yourself lady

elle_gee wrote: »

Right, dilemma.. What to feed a 17mth old?

OH's "best" mate, his wife and 17mth old son are gracing us with their presence on Friday evening (don't get me started! ). I know it's cheating - and not MSE or Economy Gastronomy! - but we'll probably have a bought lasagne with salad and garlic bread. But what does the LO have?

If it is ''that'' family, then I think the wee boy would probably be delighted with a lasagne, bought in or not !! And I wouldnt worry about it being the same as yours, there is more salt in a Maccy Ds than a lasagne :rolleyes: He will probably love just sitting down eating the same as everyone else

Right my babies are in bed, and I am off out to the Chinese for tea
Back on later xx

Sami_Bee

Elle the AK meals are tasty BUT I would say in this case have you asked if he'll eat it?
If he's only fed yellow food at home he'll most likely refuse the nice stuff :rolleyes:

since I last posted too much has occurred!! I was gonna say things to peeps but its all lost in the ether now.
I txt OH to phone us but before he could chris nodded off whith a poopey nappy on so I tried to change him without waking him which was OK (but something in the nappy made me shudder, can't say though coz r.mac won't like it ) cue screaming when I undressed him and a massive paddy ensued, OH then called and Chris went EVEN MORE mental once he finally calmed down Edgar threw up a full tummy of milk which I mostly caught with muslins and my arm but it splashed on the floor and he did a bit more over the changing table!! some went in his eye so I popped one of his left over anti-b drops in just in case. Chris now in bed, everywhere scrubbed and Ed feeding So I've treated myself to 2 eclairs and gonna have a bar of milka cream to follow

Krystaltips

Somerfield best ever mini chocolate cakes really are the best ever... Damnit, I'll never be thin!

BrunoM

Em, of course it's not scrounging. Look hard at being SAHM and claiming what you're entitled to. Do it!

Elle, I am deeply admiring of your consideration and kindness, but just give him the lasagne the rest of you are having

Truly awful day today -
busiest day at work for weeks, boss who is on holiday til next week decided to come in to the office anyway all afternoon and cause trouble, got told I didn't get the job I wanted (and had had verbally confirmed to me before boss decided to block it), then started getting emails from OH from lunch onwards about how Elijah wouldn't nap and wasn't doing anything but scream and cry and eventually how she had left him in his cot and shut the door for an hour for him to scream cuz she couldn't handle it.
Couldn't leave early today due to all the particular work issues of the day, eventually got home to an over-tired fractious baby and a weepy OH

So yes, bad day! Nearly over though!

searching_me

my SIL has just text saying shes pregnant ... nobody knows as its early days but :D:D:D x

scruffy96uk

Feelie thanx again I have contacted them and feel alot better, cheers x x

I'm waiting for the makro mail to load what a time it's taking!!!

Buttonmoons

Ooh economy gastronomy was quite good, though for some reason I don't think they actually gained much from it, they were quite flippant.

Watching dragons den now, Keira is asleep on the sofa next to me, I got a cat above my head and a cat on my lap. I also have chocolate. Life is good.

Sami_Bee

searching_me wrote: »

my SIL has just text saying shes pregnant ... nobody knows as its early days but :D:D:D x

brothers OH or OH's sister?