MSE Parents Club Part 7

SugarSpun

Busy busy busy - just ran in to hug Tara's DD and feelie and be a pro-embryo cheerleader for AM.

Very Best Friend arrives in 5 1/2 hours. Husband has done a lot of stuff without making an appreciable difference today - still on his list are to take out the rubbish (he claims to have done so, but hadn't done the kitchen rubbish and had forgotten about the nappies so I'm not sure what he *did* take out), move a box (I asked him about this earlier and he set about rearranging the changing table) and put the slow cooker back in the cupboard (in fairness he doesn't know I've decided that it needs to move yet). I've been feeding the monster every two hours (she is not cooperating with my plan to increase the freezer stash massively), wearing her in the meantime because she wouldn't settle, have vacuumed the entire apartment and put away a bunch of stuff.

I know he's tired, and I know it's horrible to be ill and tired. But I've been up all last night and the night before - and all yesterday in the daytime and today - and I'm still getting stuff done. I want to be sympathetic but really I'm just worn out ahead of the weekend and I wanted to be rested and ready to have a good time. Waaahhhh.

The monster's first tooth is almost out. She's 7 1/2 weeks. My boobs are cringing in anticipation.

astonsmummy

Please watch this vid, it is soooooooooooooooo hillarious!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=160376183581#/video/video.php?v=129056048416

gizmomum

Don't worry, I'd spend all my time in pjs if I had the chance, I've got hundreds of pairs so have every occasion covered!!

Sami, have you tried Ed with Strictly....Ruby nearly cricks her neck trying to watch it bless her :-)

SusanC_2

chopsticks wrote: »

Ooh, vistaprint are great. I haven't bought t-shirts but their 100 free postcards (only £3-something for P+P on 21 day delivery) are great for wedding and baby thank you cards

And Christmas cards and moving house cards.

money_maker wrote: »

I'm here too, am actually up at 7 most mornings, but just read and dont type !!

I get up at seven (well 6.45 but I call it seven) but there's no way I could do it if I stayed up late.

weezl74 wrote: »

susan what's OH's christmas job?

He works for Royal Mail as a Christmas Casual. I do a page where I enter his hours and then it calculates his pay, tax an national insurance. Those results then feed into the bank balance page (as the weekly pay) and into our annual business accounts spreadsheet as figures needed for the tax return.

weezl74 wrote: »

do handmade christmas gifts prove to be a bit of a struggle in both your families? Sounds like there's quite a few things it's best to avoid. All for good reasons I'm sure

Nobody minds homemade gifts - it's just trying to come up with ideas of things they will want/enjoy. Both sets of parents are comfortably off and four of our five brothers are single and working (and three of them living at home) so there's generally nothing particular that they want or need. Also we're passing OH's family's present over at the end of October which means we can only do things which would keep till Christmas.

money_maker wrote: »

yep :rotfl:
hide like me and you never get told off for posting at 1am and being up again at 7 !!

I wasn't telling anyone off, I was just amazed by the ability to be up after such a late night - I couldn't do it. (Although come to think of it, I did when I was a student - one of my friends used to call me "the girl who never sleeps" so maybe it's all caught up with me.)

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Does anybody have a crane? Block and lifting tackle?

Andrew's put on another two ounces in three days (now 2lb 8.5oz), if he keeps this up then I'm going to need mechanical assistance to lift him

:T for two ounces.

I tell Alice we're going to need a crane soon when I lift her on my knee. Then one time recently she wanted me to lift her up, she said, "Lift you up, need a crane, lift you up."

Claire_Jones wrote: »

Also what does anyone recommend to give baby when weaning for breakfast? DS1 had cow and gate cereals but at 50p a box from our £ stretcher I didn't mind but they don't stock it anymore and its normally £2ish!!

We gave Alice porridge or toast.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Just makes me laugh when the teens all think they're the first to do half of the things they do.
Its remembering pre-internet, top loader VHS players with remotes on a wire, 10p mixes having TEN sweets in etc that makes me feel old!

I was going to say I don't remember videos remotes with a wire and then I realised that our first vidoe player didn't have a remote. I actually have an Auntie and Uncle who still have a TV where you have to get up to change the channel. They don't have a computer.

emlou2009 wrote: »

seth does have a chest infection, poor love. have got anti b's for him but getting them into him is another story :eek: even the dummy isnt working for these, and he isnt taking his milk so i cant drug him that way

We had trouble with Alice with antibiotics when she had an infected chicken pox spot. Antibiotics just taste disgusting and they can't disguise it (which is why they generally come in capsules for adults). What if you put a few drops on each spoon of food?

feelinggood wrote: »

I'm probably on here as much as Sami, if not more. I breastfeed and LO likes to feed regularly so I'm on here a lot.

That's how I used to get online more than I do now.

BrunoM wrote: »

Feely, if you think of anything we or one of us can do to help, please do say.

What he said ^^^

gizmomum wrote: »

thanks for the tip, I haven't tried online shopping as felt a bit intimidated and wasn't sure I'd get what I ordered. The same with Quidco so if sparkle has done an explanation I'll go straight and have a look. I'll be hitting Asda's baby stuff heavily as well as their events are usually very good and I also have some vouchers from my last Bounty bag to use.

Online shopping is definitely worth it for big and heavy things in terms of saving time and effort.

If cashflow and space allows it, another thing that could save time is stocking up on longer life things (e.g. tins, pasta, rice, kitchen roll, toothbrushes, washing powder etc. etc.) Obviously this would mean you might miss out on special offers but it depends which is worth more - the time or the money.

Another thing which will reap benefits more in the long run is to include your children in the household jobs. This means that a) you get to spend time with them whilst doing the jobs and b) eventually they will actually be useful and properly help to do the stuff meaning you have more time.

ChasingButterflies

Hey,

just wanted to pop on and say thanks - managed to pick up the last microwave steraliser yesterday - everything went really downhill after that - who needs sleep anyway?!

Need to take the kids to granny and grandpas tonight and not too sure how they will be... Although they were pleased we had finally named dd3 I don't think they liked the name we chose (when do they ever?!) DH is going to have a chat with them this weekend about us trying to find a new time to take the kids there (we always have to take the kids to them) it wasn't such a problem when they didn't have school but now it is school/homework/other activites/birthday parties tbh I am not sure that there is a better time - but I do know it is the last thing any of us really feel like doing on a Friday night especially when going there means that they are up a lot later than normal and we need to leave at 8:50am for swimming lessons on Saturday Sorry I know that sounds really mean - I am just really tired x

hugs for feelie and fingers crossed for AM x

Sorry hi gizmomum I wouldn't be without having shopping delivered/meal plans/batch cooking and freezing however my house looks like a bomb has hit it... well actually it was 4... ages 8,7,4 and 1 month *lol* our garden has the "wilderness" look to it - maybe we will sort it next year...

gizmomum

Thanks Susan, yes I'm trying to involve Oscar more now when I'm doing things instead of waiting for when he's not around. He loves me hoovering, we've got a Dyson cylinder which has an air outlet thingy which blows out air. He walks behind me with his hair blowing all over the place and thinks it's hysterical:rotfl:
Have read Sparkles quidco/tesco genius thing so will be trying that on Sunday

Am flagging now, roll on hometime and cuddles with my little ones :j

SusanC_2

gizmomum wrote: »

Thanks Susan, yes I'm trying to involve Oscar more now when I'm doing things instead of waiting for when he's not around. He loves me hoovering, we've got a Dyson cylinder which has an air outlet thingy which blows out air. He walks behind me with his hair blowing all over the place and thinks it's hysterical:rotfl:

Alice used to cry at the vacuum cleaner until she got a toy one. Now when anyone starts vacuuming she runs and gets hers to join in.

gizmomum

do they do husband sized ones? ;-)))

Lu_T

Geez you girls can talk! Another thread already, yippee! Just popping in before I do some work. Got a call booked at 4.30pm and she's stood me up twice already, so keep your fingers crossed.

Sorry (again) that I just can't keep up. So hugs to those who need them, claps for the others and congrats for anyone else. Does that cover it? Oh, and welcome newbies!

tarajayne

AM, DD is 12wks. XXX Typing one-handed so struggling.