MSE Parents Club Part 8

csh_2

weezl74 wrote: »

ooooh 3 and gisi both with policeeemen hubbies sounds like henry will have more than the normal amount of daddy time compared to the son of a 9-5er, so that's good

My OH works 2x12hr days 24hrs off then 2x12hr nights then 6 days off!! All the time! Its really great and means he can do all the childcare when I'm back to work. Unfortunately hes still a lazy slob and does no housework ho-hum, cannae have everything :rotfl:

weezl74

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

Did your OH say anything about waiting 16 months?

I just asked him, he's home for lunch giving fergie some lentils. He says: at first I felt a bit foolish, because you didn't just say 'me too'. You said 'I like you a lot and I think I can get to that place, but I don't want to say it until I know in myself that it's true', and so I respected you for being honest, and I trusted you that you wouldn't lie to me just to make things socially smooth.


I think that's a good thing? We were both wracking our brains though cos this was 12 years ago :rotfl:

csh_2

Mazcabs wrote: »

I havent but am sure that everyone says Asda are the best at swapping nappy sizes over.

My question for the day - Thought I ought to pop the newborn/0-3 months stuff through a rinse and spin cycle to freshen it up a bit... Now normally I would dry on line but it will take ages so do you think it will be ok in tumble dryer seeing as its prob been washed at least a dozen times before... dont want it to shrink....

I tumble dry everything, everytime its washed and never had a problem x

Becles

Happy birthday emlou xx

SugarSpun wrote: »

:rotfl: Becles, a footballer?!

Aye - Charlotte loves football. She likes watching it on the tele and can name quite a few players now

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Christopher has turned into a horrible demon child this week and it's rally upsetting me. He has ripped a massive piece of wall paper off in our bedroom "because I didn't like it" :mad: he keeps trying to ruin his books, touching everything he KNOWS he's not allowed to (and has followed that rule for months) he even keeps trying to rip the fur off his teddy bears. If he is about to do something and I say "don't do that" or after he's kept doing it "if you do that again you can go to bed/get a smacked bottom" he just laughs at me and does it anyway so then we have a massive paddy when he gets the punishment. I'm so frustrated!!

Must be an age thing. Charlotte had the tantrum from hell yesterday

SugarSpun

Mazcabs wrote: »

My question for the day - Thought I ought to pop the newborn/0-3 months stuff through a rinse and spin cycle to freshen it up a bit... Now normally I would dry on line but it will take ages so do you think it will be ok in tumble dryer seeing as its prob been washed at least a dozen times before... dont want it to shrink....

We don't have a line (no garden, no balcony) so all Molly's stuff goes in the dryer. My trousers have clearly all shrunk, though only in the hips , but Molly's are all fine.

redmel1621 wrote: »

Grrrrrrrrr - Why won't my baby eat!!!! He is driving me insane now. He wouldn't eat ANY breakfast, he has mushed his sandwich up in his hands and then chucked it all over the floor, so I gave him a banana and he has eaten about 2/3 small bites out of it and just refuses to eat it.
I am really at my wits end with him now! The older two are constantly at each others throats too, I am dreading the holidays with them. I really feel like walking out and never coming back....

DH is ill and a lazy, selfish pig even when not ill....I wish someone would invent a time machine for me:rolleyes:

Hugs, Mel - you've got so much going on at the moment it's no wonder you're feeling stressy. It'll get better. Littlie will eat when he's hungry enough, at the moment you're just such an interesting mummy that he doesn't want to waste time eating when he could be watching you do stuff. The older two could be put to good use cleaning up bits of sandwich (does Santa watch yours to make sure they're not being arrises?) and your DH would probably benefit from a stint with the broom himself.

How was the bus Weezl, or have you not gone yet?

Carla's making me very jealous with her ham shank. I've just cleared the last sad oven chip remnants from the freezer and had them with samurai sauce - great for weight loss And leftover pasta with mushroom and spinach sauce this evening, unless Husband comes home.

It's getting ridiculous - the only bed available is in a three-bed room, in the middle. The other two occupants are very old men, both doubly incontinent, both with advanced dementia, both expected to pass away during the night. Husband says he can deal with the noise, the likelihood that someone will attempt to hop into his bed with him, the lights-out at 8pm but not the smell of excrement and death. So they might reschedule him, but for the moment he's just sitting there waiting.

I also have a rant, if nobody minds? It concerns my brother. He's midway through his second year of college, but missed five weeks of lectures (planned and with permission) for a five-week pilot training course. He's now finding it almost impossible to catch up and has been offered the option of deferring, extending his deadlines or quitting altogether. He refuses to make a decision and is causing my mother vast amounts of worry. I invited her over here again to see the Christmas markets and to relax away from it all, but Brother has manipulated her emotions (he's implied that he's suicidal, which is a sensitive subject in our family) so she will only come if she can bring him. Which negates her relaxation time and inflicts him on us, all six foot of whiny moody child masquerading as adult. He also has his nose bent out of shape because he's very jealous of Molly usurping the place as the "baby", disturbing since he's 20. I won't rescind the invitation to my mother, but it necessarily includes him, so he will come, reduce her enjoyment, and Husband or/and I will feel compelled to give him a talking-to about basic standards of behaviour in our home (last time he was here Molly was 5 days old, I asked him to carry a cup of tea to my mother and he put it down in the kitchen till I could bring it to her myself) and he will no doubt pitch a fit and increase stress levels all round.

:mad:

elle_gee

Just been txting MM. She's just been given Dylan's meds so they're on their way home

ManOnTheMoon

emlou2009 wrote: »

i was thinking that but i am terrible with words and didnt want to say it in case i made it sound critical, i am very good at offending people when its the last thing i want to do!

Don't worry, i'm thick skinned and sometimes I don't post the right words either. It happens

elle_gee wrote: »

I'm here Everything's fine.. just not felt like posting

Good to see you around :T

tiamai_d wrote: »

MOTM, I did see your white post

Haha it worked :T

Buttonmoons

Age 2 is nothing compared to age 3 paddys. Seriously!! Once they can give you lip and alternate suggestions, then it's hell.

Keira invites every kid back from nursery to mine and then kicks off when I say no.

Kicks off when I tell her she can't wear a dress to wherever we are going, and then the replys are "But mum....XYZ ZYZX I have too!" Errr no you don't. "Im wearing it!!" "Keira, just stop it and put on your jeans" "NO jeans aren't for princesses yadda yadda blah blah I know everything"

csh_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

We don't have a line (no garden, no balcony) so all Molly's stuff goes in the dryer. My trousers have clearly all shrunk, though only in the hips , but Molly's are all fine.
:mad:

Thats strange, cos all mine have shrunk in the hip/thigh area too :rotfl:
Hugs for rant x

Jakesmummy

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Age 2 is nothing compared to age 3 paddys. Seriously!! Once they can give you lip and alternate suggestions, then it's hell.

Keira invites every kid back from nursery to mine and then kicks off when I say no.

Kicks off when I tell her she can't wear a dress to wherever we are going, and then the replys are "But mum....XYZ ZYZX I have too!" Errr no you don't. "Im wearing it!!" "Keira, just stop it and put on your jeans" "NO jeans aren't for princesses yadda yadda blah blah I know everything"

defo agree with that, they should rename terrible 2's, terrible 3's, he's been much harder work since he's been 3, got a right attitude on him!!!