MSE Parents Club Part 9

ManOnTheMoon

Talking of Roast Dinners - Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day. Plus Sunday is the day after Boxing Day this year, so another one tomorrow.

Hope everyone's boxing day is going as well as mine. I feel all committed :rotfl:

redmel1621

searching_me wrote: »

3 i do a roast on both but thats only coz i grew up with it like that .. we dont bother with starters why have starters when you can have a few more roasties x

searching_me wrote: »

sure mel jaydens birthday is in june so i definately want to be done before that x

Oh cool...I really don't want all the stress I have had this year so am definitely up for this...I am going to do My mum and Mil a hamper, a chocolate one for MIL ...not sure about my mum, maybe a wine/alcohol one but they can't cost more than £20 each...cheaper if possible:p

I asked my mum to tell my younger sister not to buy me and dh gifts for next year...I feel really guilty because I can't really afford to get her one back and if I do then I will HAVE to get my two brothers something too and at the end of the day I will have 4 kids to buy for next year and onwards, also I would much rather she spent that money on the kids.....She bought me and dh his and hers Burberry perfume/aftershave...last year she did the same but the beckhams ones, and the year before it was similar again...and I'm sure they are not cheap:cool:

I will tell her myself but it is hard to say it without sounding ungrateful that she has bought us something this year...maybe I should leave it a few months What do you think?

searching_me

mel rule in our family was once you hit 16 you didnt get anything from aunts and uncle and only the kids get something and its no more then £10 i come from a family where money was always tight and we all understood that x

redmel1621

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

Talking of Roast Dinners - Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, Boxing Day, New Years Eve, New Years Day. Plus Sunday is the day after Boxing Day this year, so another one tomorrow.

Hope everyone's boxing day is going as well as mine. I feel all committed :rotfl:

Oooh that's a lot of roasts....Glad she got the perfect ring, your right tho, a few extra quid doesn't really mean much when it is (hopefully) something she will be wearing for the rest of her life;)

Yes xbox is all set up and kids are overjoyed (not without it's problems again today, but sorted now)...tbh we have spent an absolute fortune this year, wasn't intentional and is money that we should never have spent...but, well too late now:o Although the money received from grandparents covered the cost of the xbox:)

I am still annoyed about yesterday, me hold a grudge...nah:p But we have stayed in all day today and although he said to his mate as we were leaving, that we would be back today, I think he knows that would be a bad move and hasn't even mentioned it:o

redmel1621

searching_me wrote: »

mel rule in our family was once you hit 16 you didnt get anything from aunts and uncle and only the kids get something and its no more then £10 i come from a family where money was always tight and we all understood that x

This is what's bugging me, we have never been a well-off family, not poverty line but by no means rich!!
It was always once you hit 18 then no pressies except maybe off mum n dad and that would only be £10/£20 in a card. We never got anything from aunties/uncles/grandparents, they only bought stuff for the kids, which in my opinion is tha way it should be.

My sister is not rolling in it but is working (nearly) full-time and living with her fiance at his parents house, so they only pay minimal rent and the rest of their money is their own, yes they run a car between them but apart from that I don't think they have many other outgoings...and I know she can afford it, but it makes me feel bad and that £40+ could easily have gone towards the kids insead...I don't think she bought them much actually:cool:

searching_me

then mel id tell them not to bother say im not being ungrateful but what little money i do have goes for my kids and kid to be .. i get people chocolates if i dont get them a present so at least they got alittle something but only if i know i can afford it x

redmel1621

Yeah, I will leave it a month or so maybe and tell her then. It is lovely that she gets us stuff but I think all she got the boys was a selection box each...I would rather she bought them something else instead.

Mazcabs

searching_me wrote: »

mel rule in our family was once you hit 16 you didnt get anything from aunts and uncle and only the kids get something and its no more then £10 i come from a family where money was always tight and we all understood that x

We changed a couple of years ago in that the kids always get something from everyone but we put all the adults names in a hat and then draw out the names and each person gets one present, mainly as my parents are 75 and have everything, my aunt and uncle are in their 80's (no kids) so have everything and we were finding it difficult to choose presents for the rest of us as well.

Strange Boxing day this as its the first time I can ever remember us all doing our own things... normally we would go to my mums for dinner and then another buffet tea like last night but we decided as my sister is down in a few days we will all meet up again then and have another 'Christmas' with her and her kids.

Breastfeeders....question please.... when do you express? I generally feed William on one breast so do I then express from the other one straight after? PS can I have any alcohol while BF, even just one on NYE?

Have to catch up on tele tonight as didnt watch enders, dr who or anyhting last night apart from Royale family and G&S when everyone went...

redmel1621

Yeah, I will leave it a month or so maybe and tell her then. It is lovely that she gets us stuff but I think all she got the boys was a selection box each...I would rather she bought them something else instead.

searching_me

i only get for about 12 people (including philip and the kids) and that because of the rule we only buy for kids and with my sister because she lives in london where we buy something for the kids and slap each others name on it then we dont have to worry about the post and we know what each others kids want or needs x