MSE Parents Club Part 11

Krystaltips

emlou2009 wrote: »

I hope everything is OK AF hun?

Krystal, friend request sent, I thought you didnt want to be my friend cos I asked before but yay for friends now

Ooh, gremlins must have occured... I'd have definitely added you as a friend if a request came through!!!

Are you OK AF? Anything we can help you [STRIKE]b!tch about[/STRIKE] with?

My_Fathers_Daughter

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SS - you don't strike me as over protective. Just a little down on your hubby???


Edit:
Speaking of which I am going to go rescue mine from a sore neck where he is asleep in a really arkward position on the sofa. I will challenge him to a game of scrabble or lego batman...which do we think he will choose???

tiamai_d

SS, you're not over reacting. You would just rather things changed in a grown up way rather than in an emergency trip to the hospital after she ate a tack/fell on a mirror/stabbed herself with a screwdriver way.

Krystaltips

SugarSpun wrote: »

I'm also a little bit - I don't want to be an overprotective mummy and didn't think I was, especially because when things aren't sharp or poisonous I'm more likely to be relaxed about them than OH is.

I think we all have different things we're paranoid about, it only makes us over protective if we're paranoid about everything...

I won't let Aimee have anything in her bedroom near the window... To the extent I moved her bed to stop her climbing on the window sill, even though the window is double glazed and locked... But I will leave Caitlyn asleep on our bed which gives Hubby palpatations...

And if it's any consolation... I would have been upset about the bag of spikes...

SugarSpun

I'm not really down on him, MFD, but sometimes he does some things that I just wouldn't, or don't like, and I feel like telling him not to do stuff whenever he does it would make me super nitpicky and I don't want to be a nitpicky wife (or an overprotective mummy). But if I don't let out my irritation somewhere I'm a snappy wife so I vent - and here is where I tend to do it. I suppose it does give a bit of a skewed version of events, so for the record: my husband is a lovely husband and an excellent father, and although he does some stuff that infuriates me and a small amount of other stuff that goes beyond my limits, most of it is purely because he is not me and that is ok.

For the record: putting Molly on his head and holding her up there while he dances around scares the pants off me but she loves it so I don't complain; sharp things on the floor are Not OK while there is someone in the house who is not yet able to determine that some things are dangerous and should not be messed with.

ladybirdintheuk

Krystaltips wrote: »

Evening all

I'm Aimee free... She went to stay with my Aunt on Friday night and told me on the phone last night that she wasn't coming back until next Sunday!! I'm guessing it will be a bit sooner... Maybe tomorrow or Tuesday... It's strangely quiet here without her!!

Oh, and Hubby took Caitlyn to bed all on his own tonight!! She was knackered so she settled pretty quickly thankfully... It's a good start and a boost to his confidence though!!

I'm on the side of the [STRIKE]slack[/STRIKE] relaxed parents... I'm teaching Caitlyn to climb down from the settee backwards as opposed to throwing herself off headfirst... It's a work in progress

Well done Mr Krystal. Izzy (almost) always gets down from things backwards - one of the first words she understood was "careful" - I think she worked out that whenever she heard it she was about to hurt herself! No progress on stairs though - we live in a flat, and my parents are in a bungalow, so I let her have a go on the stairs whenever we are at the inlaws. Because I grew up in a bungalow I am still a bit wary of stairs now, and I don't want her to be too! (And I also don't want her to not know how to go up/down safely)... she is quite good at climbing them, but i've not been brave enough to let her get down again. Maybe that is a job for tomorrow.

SugarSpun

Ladybird, are there no public stairs around your flat? I was really excited at the prospect of teaching Molly to use stairs because we're four flights up so there'll be less up-and-down when it comes time, just up-up-up-up and then down-down-down-down, which seems like it'll be much easier on my knees

I want to redress the balance and tell you about a lovely thing OH did, aside from marathon kitchen organising and making brunch and dinner today: I idly wondered a little while ago whatever happened to the band Soul Asylum. And he went off and found out and reported back for me. It's the small things, you know?

Krystaltips

Sings... <Run away train never coming back... Wrong way on a one way track... Seems like I should be getting somewhere... Somehow it's neither here nor there...>

My Hubby just did a whole research project on the McGann brothers since I told him Joe was clearly better than Paul... At least... When you're 11 anyway...

angelfairy

thanks everyone,

unfortunately probs are med/baby/and things only i can sort.

much appreciated though.

xxx

BrunoM

!!!!!!, I just beat a mouse to death with a bottle of purple mimosa handwash