MSE Parents Club Part 9

tiamai_d

Debating. Do I sell the loola and get a mura? I really hate it. Like, really, really can't stand it. Too used to my big 3 wheelers that just glide along.

How is everyone? I went to mothercare and picked up this in green and lemon for £20.99 cot size. So quite happy cos sheets and blankets are a rip off!

Oh and Amber has now had all her jags and weighs 16lb3oz.

always29

button - empathise with you about the car, dp's car is a bit of a boy racer one and it just burns cash, the service / repair bill last year was £3k and the seats are annoyingly almost impossible to get the bloomin car seat in!

it is sooooooooooo grey and wet here, really need to go to post office / grocers / butchers but its not a tempting walk! do need to get little man's passport done though as we are off to stay with his abuela (spanish Grandma) on March 6th and it'd be handy to have it by then, bit tricky to get on the already booked flights without it!

anyone have any idea how long child benefit takes to come through? what with the last dregs of my overdraft and SMP only on January payday, it'll be pretty much the only spending money I have in February. We only managed to get Thomas registered on Monday so the forms only went off on Wednesday so hoping it won't be too long!

jillie1974

tiamai_d wrote: »

Debating. Do I sell the loola and get a mura? I really hate it. Like, really, really can't stand it. Too used to my big 3 wheelers that just glide along.

How is everyone? I went to mothercare and picked up this in green and lemon for £20.99 cot size. So quite happy cos sheets and blankets are a rip off!

Oh and Amber has now had all her jags and weighs 16lb3oz.

tia, if you really dont like it and you will make your money back, i'd sell it and get mura if thats the one you want.

So anyone got the MURA to tell tia what its like?

jillie1974

always29 wrote: »

button - empathise with you about the car, dp's car is a bit of a boy racer one and it just burns cash, the service / repair bill last year was £3k and the seats are annoyingly almost impossible to get the bloomin car seat in!

it is sooooooooooo grey and wet here, really need to go to post office / grocers / butchers but its not a tempting walk! do need to get little man's passport done though as we are off to stay with his abuela (spanish Grandma) on March 6th and it'd be handy to have it by then, bit tricky to get on the already booked flights without it!

anyone have any idea how long child benefit takes to come through? what with the last dregs of my overdraft and SMP only on January payday, it'll be pretty much the only spending money I have in February. We only managed to get Thomas registered on Monday so the forms only went off on Wednesday so hoping it won't be too long!

our CB took 3 weeks from what i remember. its backdated to the moday after LO is born

angelfairy

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Maz - I missed your milk finishing. Congrats to you for doing your bit :T you should be proud. xx




Right - 2 questions:


I made a curry in the slow cooker overnight on Wed night and switched it off yesterday morning. Unfortunately I never bothered to take it out of the SC and put it in the fridge. It has just been sat in the SC, with the lid on since Would you eat it tonight? I deffo would if I had fridged it...dunno about sat in the SC??


I got a letter from the tax office to say that my tax code has changed because of my private medical cover. My personal allowance has been reduced by the £700 or so that my medical cover costs the company...but nothing has changed at work *confused smiley*
Anybody got any ideas?


Yes - I know I should ask these questions in the right bit of the board but what it the point when you lovely lot are bound to know the answer!!

oh did you do the curry how it was recommend by glam and sorry can't remember who else

not sure about eating it, is it chicken? if so maybe i wouldn't but if lamb or beef might be okay??

i see life insurance has been discussed -- must look into that but i get so confused over that sort of thing sometimes.

insurance - i cant help there. it's just for hubby as i dont drive (really should :mad:)

i am another that hates clothes shopping for myself. detest it with a passion. although, love it for LO (though i am not good at buying on the spot and often get home wishing i had bought something). i did buy her some clothes from boots doay in their sale (which i had looked at yesterday) and some trainers.

i got a £5 off ruby millie voucher so my treat myself to that No.7 cream

searching_me

always have you sorted out child tax creds x

Buttonmoons

Im not sure how long CB comes through, few weeks? It's backdated though!

Keira just had to be born on a Tuesday, so I missed a week of it, HMMPH! Could of used it aswell being stuck in the minging hozzie for about a decade.

Yeah Sami, it's a con that, if he ever breaks his leg or something he's being told to go into the NHS hospital and then he can claim £100 a day off the insurance because he didn't use the private hospital :rotfl: I'm gonna push him down the stairs!!

My sister had the dentist yesterday to get a retainer, as she got her train tracks off, she hated her "new teeth" as she was born without some front teeth so always had big spacey gaps, so all her teeth was pushed together and looked a bit funny and there was spaces, anyhow she got her dentures and she is soooo happy with them, it's the first time ever she's had proper looking teeth. Bless.

I got a retainer when I was 7 :rotfl: That's how bad my teeth were! One of my front teeth was right back and the other stuck forward! I also had to get 6 teeth removed at 7 because I grew too many! That's probably why my teeth were squiffy. You think they would gimmie 1 back since I'm missing one now?

and I didn't stop wearing a brace until 17, though I had tracks by then. Then I didn't sleep with my retainer in so one tooth has went back slightly. Hey ho, my teeth are crud anyways.

I met a mum at the bus stop earlier, her kid goes to the morning nursery though, anyways, he is away to start school in Sep (Poor Keira all her friends are going to school *sob*) and his mum STILL pushes him in a buggy, EVERYTIME I SEE HER HE IS IN A BUGGY, dummy in his mouth and a blanket rubbing off his face!!

The reason he is like that is cause she is a fat lazy slob! ANd obv doent wanna run after him. When I say fat, I don't mean just fat, I mean like morbidly obese fat, she has a bum cliff!

newbie_maz

BeenieCat wrote: »

Hi always, good to see you back i was wondering where you'd got to.

Think a few of us are having the same issues with crying babies on an evening - me and Aless are gonna try some gripe water today to see if that helps!

Hi all,

Was just catching up & saw this. We bought some gripe water yesterday cos LO's been terrible in the evenings. She's tended to be awake from 4/5pm until midnight/1am crying apart from when feeding or in the bath. We'd tried extending bath time cos she seems to calm down loads then but there's only so long you I make bath time last!

So we used the gripe water last night - little bit less than 5ml as it says 5ml from 1 month & she's just under - with 2 of evening feeds & IT WORKED!! She was lovely apart from about an hour between about 10pm & 11pm when was still unsettled (but still not the screaming we'd had the last few nights).

Think it also helped that we bought a Fisher Price Sooth & Glow Seahorse yesterday. Bought one for some friends before she was born & wanted one for her since but not got round to buying it. It plays 5 mins of soft music with a night light on it's belly & she loves it. We put her in crib wide awake last night with that & it took 4 times of pressing it but eventually she went to sleep with it all on her own (been taking lots of rocking & cuddles at nighttime recently).

Anyway, back to catching up....

angelfairy

newbie_maz wrote: »

Think it also helped that we bought a Fisher Price Sooth & Glow Seahorse yesterday. Bought one for some friends before she was born & wanted one for her since but not got round to buying it. It plays 5 mins of soft music with a night light on it's belly & she loves it. We put her in crib wide awake last night with that & it took 4 times of pressing it but eventually she went to sleep with it all on her own (been taking lots of rocking & cuddles at nighttime recently).

Anyway, back to catching up....

ohhhh, that's interesting. we have the glow worm (they just aren't the same as when i was little) and i was only saying last night that the songs do not play for very long.

might look at the seahorse. i just assumed it did the same thing as the glow warm.

harley1

jillie1974 wrote: »

hi harley!

did you get the learn and groove centre put together?
does kezia like it??

Hey Jillie,

Sorry, I'm watching Fools Gold so only popping on every so often.

Not got it together yet, might try tomorrow but got a feeling I'll need another pair of hands so will have to wait til next week for Dad to come up. Going down there on Sunday but think it will be too big for car once it's put together judging by size of box.

Dropped some major hints about Kezia trying out my mates jumperoo a couple of days ago but think I was a bit too subtle cos she didn't seem to pick up on it. Either that or she thought she'd shared with us enough

xxxx