MSE Parents Club Part 10

SugarSpun

Just checked Vertbaudet and no sign of my previous order so I reordered with the £5 off and free delivery code

I changed the one sunhat for two bandanas though.

angelfairy

morning all,

just going to warn you in advance that i have a pretty self indulgent post coming on. i think i just need to get it typed out, and out of my head (although i know it wont go away) if that's okay.

i am really really struggling being back at work. i love what i do, but there is so much going on in the company that staff moral is at an all time low (people leaving/penny pinching/hours being cut etc). also, having to deal with colleagues moods (and in turn being offish until they need you do to something for them).

i just can't get passed having to deal with all that rubbish and that it means i dont get to see my daughter all day.

i know have over simplified the above but i spent a good few hours in tears last night over it.

it is best for my daughter of course that her two parents work and i was sooooo into my work before i had her that this feeling is so unknown to me.

i appreciate that all working mums will feel this way but how do you get passed it?

not even sure if this is a good idea to post this as it's a bit personal, but i just dont know what to do.

just know i could burst into tears again at any point. thought i might have felt better this morning after crying last night but unfortunately not.

just going to try and keep my head down today, get through a lot of stuff and give my LO a big hug and kiss when i get home

xx

3onitsway

SugarSpun wrote: »

I'd probably keep her off, 3, but I get horrible headaches and I'd be worried she got the same type as me if she was my littlie, IYSWIM? But without that I'd send her in.

When she described the headache last night, it started around her eye, and she was feeling like she needed to be sick. This morning she said it feels like someone has took her head off, and now there were kickboxers fighting in her brain! :eek:

I've had migraine for years, sounding exactly like her description (without the kickboxers), but i'm almost positive I didn't start them at 9?

Thanks for all your opinions on sending DD to school. There are a lot of mean mummys on here. I've kept her off because its so unlike her. If she was faking illness every week i'd be mean too and kick her backside to school.


Choppy when we had it at the start of December we passed it around to everyone in the family. We visited a friend one evening when I thought we were better, for an hour, she text me the following morning, she'd been up being sick all night.
And OH still didn't miss a day of work! His worst day was the Friday, which happened to be his day off that week. He still went in on the Saturday. :mad: (And spread it around work!)

SugarSpun

I hope you manage to dodge the squits, chopsticks :eek:

3, I started getting migraines at 6 and mostly grew out of them, but if I have a stressful day I still get the sort of headache that makes you wish you could claw your eyes right out so you could rub your brain and make it go away.

AF, I know it's awful and that I've been lucky in that I don't always have to be in the office to be working. But I think that's why people have pictures of their kids as the wallpaper on their computers, to remind them why they're at work making money. What I've tried to do is take a step back from the politics, ignore my colleagues and their weird moods, and just get what I need to get done, done, so I can go home. I hope it gets easier for you :grouphug:

feelinggood_2

Just wanted to share a picture from yesterday:


Toby has a runny nose today, so we are skipping Baby Group, and just going into town to the post office, bank and for shopping, then to a Mummy Meet this afternoon.

weezl74

Aw AF

Horrid.

I wish there was another way forward for you, but I know you have really considered all the options and that you are doing the right thing for V.

Can you isolate yourself from the nastiness at all, either through emotionally distancing yourself, or through just not being there when the low morale stuff is likely to pop up?

I don't know if that's possible where you work, but I have sometimes not gone to team meetings or consultancy and got on with other valid tasks when other staff members are too much for me :rotfl:

BeenieCat

Morning!

SM - can you tell us the news yet?! I'm one of your eBay watchers btw - the Grobag egg

Sami - re. the TMI, i'm glad you said that, i hope i'm the same as you then i was really hoping to have a few months free of my period, plus it's mse after all :rotfl:

Becles i love the pic of Charlotte, there's a girl at my DS school who looks similar and she always stands out in the school plays, she's got beautiful distinctive features

Angela - i'm glad i'm not the only one to find the groups daunting, i totally bottled out of going to the BF group on Monday. I'm going to take her to get weighed today so i'm hoping that will make it seem less daunting when i do go. I've been there before but not for a good few years with DS

I actually caught up last night but i ended up getting sidetracked. i.e when Susan posted about that baby hoax, i googled it and ended up reading about that for ages, and the blogs started to lead me to other blogs and before i knew it the forums were closed :rotfl:

Amber slept from 12:30am - 8am this morning:T so that's 2 nights in a row she's done that. Although i'd slipped out of my bra and woke up feeling like i was in a milk bath.

So thanks to the lovely fairies, i am the proud owner of a freedom sling pouch and i can't do it . I can't get her to look comfy in it, i've looked at some vids on youtube and googled for instructions but i still feel like she's gonna fall out, or if not, her head is squished... I'm a nugget, cos i haven't used it outside yet i've just been practising at home... There must be a knack to it

SugarSpun

Oh! Oh! CUTE!!

They both look like you've disturbed them doing something mischievous :rotfl:

feelinggood_2

AF - I don't have any real advice, just wanted to tell you that I know how much you love your daughter, and I admire you for the hard work you do to make her life better. You are a very selfless Mummy to do that, and I'm sorry it is so hard for you. Try and see it as a temporary thing - hopefully morale will improve and work will become enjoyable again.

BeenieCat

Three2be had her baby the other day and i totally missed this post!! I only went looking cos she sometimes pops in here and i hadn't seen her.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=29278585&highlight=#post29278585