MSE Parents Club Part 7

Jakesmummy

mookiandco wrote: »

Some ignorant moo moo told me when I was little that black people were people that God had burnt in the oven when he was making man out of clay. It has stuck with me all my life. I personally find it really stupid yet when I visualise it, its kinda funny too!

Our headteacher at primary school actually told us the exact same thing at a school assembly, think its shocking but at the time I didnt know any different I must have only been 5 but I still remember it,

Hope everyones good, am goin out tonite so need to go and sort the kids n house out before I start gettin ready! x

tiamai_d

Santa/Fairy list, simply set up an email list? One person opens it, we add our emails addresses and then when you want to say what santa has/would like, send an email to the list and everybody gets a copy of it. Nothing special needed. Great idea by the way

tiamai_d

I put a box in the cupboard under the stairs and every week from about now I will buy whatever is on offer, crisps, biscuits, tins of sweet etc and put it in the box. Then we have loads of treats for christmas/new years.

searching_me

great ideas i see a big list coming of me sorting ................ lots of orgnising to do x

ladybirdintheuk

We've got a christmas stash too - we pick things up when they are on offer, and then we won't eat it all at Christmas and will probably end up finishing all in february if last year is anything to go by

searching_me

see usually i save and save never seems to be enough though but ive got £130 currently saved in surveys and cashback sites (fingers crossed the cashback clears) x

elle_gee

Oh dear, sad sleepy baby stopped me in my tracks.. Won't settle and when he does the noise of Dad drilling is waking him up

money_maker_3

Right am off out
Wont be back on tonight, and probably wont get too much of a chance to get on till tomorrow night

Hope you all have a nice weekend
xx

searching_me

have fun MM x

SusanC_2

The most violent thing that happened to me at school was someone accidentally on purpose hitting me in the face with a hockey stick in PE. The PE teacher didn't like me though because I wasn't cool.

Christmas food: We usually get goose breast from Lidl along with some smoked salmon (for salmon and cream chesse parcels), some nice cheeses and biscuits for cheese. I get a few sprouts for OH/Alice and make Christmas cake/pudding and mince pies. (And OH buys lots of mince pies whenever they're reduced/on offer.) Other than that we don't really buy anything we wouldn't normally have.

money_maker wrote: »

Susan, my cards arent albumed anywhere, I have them all in my memory box with my garter, hair feathers, copy of invitation etc...

A box for 3D items sounds like a good idea - I just like to have things all orderly. Currently we have a mountain of stuff in a big box which a present came in.

weezl74 wrote: »

mm I'm here, just compiling a list of activities available close to us arranged by days of the week

You have enough that you need a list?

weezl74 wrote: »

we are also getting all the 6-9 month clothes out and archiving the litttle stuff. It's a major job. How do you all do it?

I have boxes labelled by age (and written in red/green depending on whether girsl or neutral but these days it's all girl stuff). When something starts to look a bit small, I put it in the appropriate box. At intervals I check the larger stuff to see if they fit and add them to the current clothes if they do. Sometimes if a piece of clothing is a much smaller size than the current size range I will put it away even though it fits so that I don't have to keep that size box accessible. (This usually only happens with short sleeved t-shirts which all seem to be more or less the same size.) Alice doesn't have enough clothes to be just in one size (and some clothes are wildly inaccurate anyway) so I tend to check them on a regular basis so it's never a particularly large job.

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Oh yeah and I tried to sign up for a contract phone with o2, as they called me and gave me a good offer, passed the credit check fine but I didn't pass the I.D check because I use the surname STEPHEN, it's on my bank cards, and I just use it for everything and have done since I was about 6, when I started using my Step-dads name, it was never legally changed though, so my BC and passport/drivers license has my original surname on it.

So obviously, I have no proof! Unless I got a bank card with that surname? It's so haaaaard. Should I just legally change my name to Stephen, would that sort all the issues out there?

If you've been using that name all that time, you should be able to get it changed on your passport and driving licence just by demonstrating that it is the name you have been using all that time. Citizen's advice have a leaflet all about changing your name which you might find useful. (I read it once because I'm weird like that.)

carlamagee wrote: »

Susan -- have you posted your banana muffins recipe before, or linked to it? I want to make Banana bread....but am so awfully dreadful in the kitchen ive no idea where to start!

It's a bit experimental - I've never done them before (it's only my 4th batch of muffins ever too). OH just offered Alice a piece of one and she said she was too busy cleaning in her room.

searching_me wrote: »

did the wind blow everyone away???

I was afraid it might driving up and down the A1 today. Was a bit :eek: Our next door neighbours huge trampoline has blown across their garden and one of our wheelie bins managed to blow from the front to the back garden through a narrow passage.