MSE Parents Club Part 8

BrunoM

Gah. Any suggestions for online shopping, that will arrive before Christmas, for a good present or presents for a 30-year old couple with lots of disposable income who probably have most things I would think of as obvious? Maybe 20-40 quid... been trying to get to a mall or high street shopping sans toddler for 3 days and I'm not going to succeed....

pookie5488

hi girlies

have not been posting for awhile as had problems with broadband, matthew now has two large lumps in his neck but doctors are thinking some sort of birthmark (I am going crazy and thinking things that I don't want to be thinking....).We have a paeds appoint for 29th Dec at hospital (this is worrying me too cos it seems very quick and you usually wait ages for appointments, don't you?)
DD also got her period :eek:. I am not having fun at the end of this year at all wish it was 2010 already.

Off to read back and see what I have missed and have a cup of coffee and try to cheer up a bit lol.

SugarSpun

BrunoM wrote: »

Gah. Any suggestions for online shopping, that will arrive before Christmas, for a good present or presents for a 30-year old couple with lots of disposable income who probably have most things I would think of as obvious? Maybe 20-40 quid... been trying to get to a mall or high street shopping sans toddler for 3 days and I'm not going to succeed....

Hotel Chocolat have lovely hampers and next-day delivery, plus Quidco and I think there's a voucher floating around as well

Pookie, what a time you're having :grouphug:

pookie5488

sm - wow!!! Love those hampers, I am not at all creative.
DD wanted a "pamper box" made up for christmas so I used the wicker basket I got free from huggies/tesco baby club and just put cling film around it:p
Do you think your friend could perhaps realise that you were a little strapped for cash this year and that was why she said just to exchange chocolates to spare your feelings
MM- your snow piccie just leaves me feeling cold lol- I hate snow even as a child I hated it am so glad it's starting to melt where I am need to get to shops and refuse to leave the house when it is snowing as I usually end up doing a slapstick tumble in the street.
Mel- If you also need gaming headsets for the xbox I had to order one for a christmas pressie of amazon and it came really quickly and was much cheaper than Game etc.
Sugar- Yes it's not much fun I have also got my period and think that is why I am feeling extra hormonal and I think matt has a touch of baby acne his little cheeks are really red and rough!

searching_me

((hugs)) pookie ... and bruno i'd look for anywhere that does next day delivery then what they like from the place that do it x

3onitsway

Aw Pookie Poor Matthew and poor DD - how old is she? I dread the day my DD gets the curse! :eek: Maybe the hospital appointment is quick because its christmas and they haven't bothered booking people in for routine stuff during that week.

Bruno I like the Hotel Chocolat idea. For people like that you need to get a treat - something they wouldn't really buy for themselves iykwim!

I agree with everyone else on the fairy post. I haven't had anything - but don't need anything. I have a shopoholic MIL who turns up week after week with pink stuff- far more than a baby could ever need! :mad:
And, if I have anythiing here thats not needed, i'd rather they went to one of my friends who can use them, than sit here cluttering up my small house.

The latest was 5 packs of biccipegs. Who could ever need 5 packs?
So, my fairys have three sealed packs here - if anyone wants a pack PM me.

Thanks for the cellophane stockist ideas - i'll try the florist today. I haven't got time to get to hobbycraft.

Krystaltips

elle_gee wrote: »

Sorry I meant more to play with than cuddle.. Rhys has this which he plays with as soon as he wakes and saves him from yelling out instantly. Sometimes I wake up in the night and he's awake happily playing with it, just smiling If Caitlyn's not wanting feeding mybe she's crying cos she wants to be entertained.. that's my thinking with Rhys and why he has the toy anyway

ETA: Putting the toy in the crib was the turning point for us from Rhys wittering all night and to only waking for feeds, bang on 3hrly, then he'd go back in his crib, play for a few minutes, then be straight off to sleep again, no fussing

Oh yeah, she has one of these hanging from the side of the cot and one of these hanging from the door handle over the cot that she can reach.. She did a bit better last night after the crying episode... Slept until 4:17 then woke again about 6:30... Hubby took her downstairs at 7 because she wouldn't settle but bought her back up at 8 because she was miserable... We ended up stopping in bed until 11:45!

weezl74 wrote: »

Yep, it's the littlest 1 litre one but with 5 doors he'll recline well if he's forward facing. I got the cheapy car seat from Argos

Kristal thanks loads for the offer of the book.I would love it if you didn't mind.

Everyone: I have a question that's been rattling away in my brain for a while, and wondered what you all think. I'm a bit concerned that we all might have quite different perceptions of this whole 'fairy post' idea, and that therefore we might get the etiquette for it wrong and offend each other by accident. I became most conscious of it after NMS left, which I think was in part caused by fairy post misunderstandings.

I for example feel that I haven't been a huge sender of stuff and have still only paid just under £20 in fairy postage . I know a lot of you send things much more often than me and are very generous. So I sometimes worry I'm that annoying person in the pub who never gets their round in!

Anyhow, I'd hate there to be any fairy post induced hurts or misunderstandings, so in the spirit of all staying a happy community, can someone: publish the rules of the fairy post;)/give me a kick up the bum if I do it wrong/say if they're hurt about it before it's too bad etc etc....

I shall go back to catching up now

I have the cheapest argos chair that I used for Aimee, my Aunt used it in her car for a while for my cousin and I shall use it for Caitlyn once she outgrows the little car seat... It does the job... I can't afford to fork out hundreds on one... It's not like we even have a car to justify the cost...

I shall have to hunt the book out, so bear with me (and hope I didn't give it away in the 7 bags of books I freecycled when pregnant!) you do need to pm me your address though

On the whole fairypost thing... I think we offer things because we have them... If I wasn't willing to pay the postage I wouldn't offer to send it out I've sent a few things, recieved a couple of things... Only the same as I would do for my RL friends, but with using the services of the royal mail...

Krystaltips

3, I bought a pack of bickipegs for Aimee and don't think she ever finished the box... They're horrible things lol... I did get Caitlyn a packet of baby biscotti from Lidl yesterday, she loves those!!!

Pookie, I'm sure they've got you in fast just to save you worrying too long, my Aunt found a lump last year just before christmas and they booked her in for routine appointments because they didn't think it was serious, (the Dr said he was only doing it to set her mind to rest) and she was seen on 27th.

money_maker_3

he he he that was fun !! I threw a snowball at chris and he ducked thinking it was going over his head and it got him smack in the face :rotfl:

Jas managed to get snow down the back of my trousers though :eek: god that was cold !!

Here is our finished product

searching_me

love it mm x