MSE Parents Club Part 10

workinmummy

Just got a minute while OH and Joe have nipped out.

Got breakfast in bed this morning. Thats not happened for a long, long time.
But it is my birthday. And have received Thorntons chocs - Want some SM?
And £50 voucher for a beauty spa. I can feel a massage coming on.

Hope all is well and that MM and Tara are having a good time.

Alex is screeching again. The boy never sleeps and never stops crying :cool:

SugarSpun

Happy birthday WM!!

jillie1974

happy birthday wm!!

ss- he'll make up for the lack of presents then so....

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

Today's our anniversary. OH was not extremely enthusiastic about his present but then it is very early and he was up from 5am with the beastie. We had a mildly embarrassing inequality of gifts though..... he gave me some hot chocolate sachets (Italian ones, I love them, but I get massive sugar rushes and I'm normally not allowed to have them) and a magnetic notebook. I gave him (us) a weekend in the Hundred Acre Wood.

Maybe he didn't appreciate the level it was supposed to be at. We have an agreed guide figure for presents which helps. (I have been known to go significantly over the guide figure for the right thing but that was my choice.)

SugarSpun wrote: »

Oh oh oh, has anyone been reading the news?

You know Jenny McCarthy, used to be a TV presenter and then an outspoken anti-vaccination campaigner because she insisted that her son "caught" autism from the MMR vaccine?

It turns out her son does not have autism at all. He has an interesting neurological condition that children grow out of. And now he is 7-ish he has grown out of it.

She continues to insist, however, that vaccines cause autism and says she will continue the fight against them.

Very interesting. I'll have to have a google.

SugarSpun wrote: »

I have reservations about some vaccines for various reasons (mostly the way they're administered; in Germany you get MMRV and chicken pox is included in the mix; I disapprove for a few reasons) and I know that Susan has legitimate concerns about the contents of some vaccines - but we've both researched our opinions and we're not basing our concerns on absent logic and fashionable mummying.

Apparently they are developing a shingles vaccine in the US as they have had a rise in shingles due to the varicella vaccine.

emlou2009 wrote: »

Vaccinations - I dont know enough about them to make an educated comment on them, really. I havent let Seth have the swine flu one, as he is in otherwise good health and from all the stuff on the news about it all I recall them saying that there wasnt so much of a risk if whoever got it was in otherwise good health, and I wasnt very keen on letting him have a jab that was younger than he was IYSWIM? What I do know is that the other jabs have been going for years and years, and while a few young ones may or may not have developed autism or anything else after having them, many many more will not have suffered any adverse effects at all, and the diseases they immunise against are well worth being immunised against.

We decided not to bother with the swine flu one but we've never been offered it anyway.

Becles wrote: »

Craig has taken some floor boards up and found that two thick copper pipes that we thought were part of the central heating system were not joined onto anything! They must have been left in when I had the old hot water tank taken out and a combi boiler put in years ago. He's taken those pipes out and it's created a lot more room in the space behind the toilet, so he's now wondering if he can do it himself.

Sounds like our house - there are random pipes and wires all over the place not connected to anything. OH found a two foot wire in Alice's room which just went from under the floorboards into a wall and that was it. *confused smiley*

newbie_maz wrote: »

Beenie, Becles, SusanC and any other northeners (not sure if anyone is)- do you fancy arranging a trip to Metro Centre or Giants Den sometime? Or anywhere else you can think of.

There's Angela too. I think we'd settled on Giant's Den but need to sort out a date/time.

SusanC_2

workinmummy wrote: »

Got breakfast in bed this morning.

Alice keeps promising us breakfast in bed but then she decides she needs help making it.

pinkpig08

Happy Birthday WM!!

jillie1974

i can hear 'raspberries' being blown so someone is awake...
and now the soother has been flung out of the cot lol!!

redmel1621

Happy birthday WM and yay for brekkie in bed:)

weezl74

redmel1621 wrote: »

Hi Weezl - How are you feeling now? Hopefully a bit of sleep will help you.
How is Fergie doing? Are you feeling prepared for the new arrival(or does talking about it stress yuo out, like it does me:o)

Awww sorry you're stressed

I'm not quite there and that does worry me a bit, but I feel like this week coming will see off the last of the tasks


What's been playing on your mind about readiness?

xxx

Glamazon wrote: »

hi weezl - we have missed you. I am very :mad::mad: that my fairies haven't pulled their fingers out their !!!!!$ and got the parcel to you.

Yay for more sleep :j

Yeah poor you going to lovely lengths:Aand RM letting you down.... What have they said about it?

SugarSpun wrote: »

Hello Weezlie, I was wondering where you were
YAY for good sleep!

My news is that today is our wedding anniversary.

Happy anniversary :beer::beer::beer:

SugarSpun

SusanC wrote: »

Maybe he didn't appreciate the level it was supposed to be at. We have an agreed guide figure for presents which helps. (I have been known to go significantly over the guide figure for the right thing but that was my choice.)

Apparently they are developing a shingles vaccine in the US as they have had a rise in shingles due to the varicella vaccine.

This was also part of his birthday present IYSWIM - we're gone over his birthday weekend, although I also have some little presents for him too.

Why does there need to be a shingles vaccine when we can just let kids have chicken pox and get natural immunity? I'm not in favour of unnecessary suffering but it does seem to be a bit ridiculous. In general I'm pro-modern medicine but not when it goes so, so far.

I had ten things on my weekend to-do list and nine of them are done. The last one can't be done till tomorrow so this is prime Sitting Time. Hurrah!