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MSE Parents Club Part 11

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  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    I'm good ta SM. Keira's birthday TODAY!!! Since it's past midnight. 35minutes, 4 years ago, she made her gross entrance into this world via my fanjina.

    Bless her. Can't believe I have a 4 year old :eek: I still get on the bus for a child :rotfl:
  • searching_me
    searching_me Posts: 18,414 Forumite
    I'm good ta SM. Keira's birthday TODAY!!! Since it's past midnight. 35minutes, 4 years ago, she made her gross entrance into this world via my fanjina.

    Bless her. Can't believe I have a 4 year old :eek: I still get on the bus for a child :rotfl:

    awwww happy birthday to her .. you gonna spoil her rotten?? .. wait til shes 7 and you're saying that :rotfl:x
    :)Still searching .....:)
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    Well I have her the Giselle dress from Enchanted, a trumpet (lol), her own make up box, and loads of hair bits and bobs and her own make up (that cost a fortune) and she has a few new dresses. I didn't want to go overboard as we are taking her to the beach and carnivals, with my sister. So that will cost a bomb!

    My mum got her a silvercross pram for her dolls. It looks well cool!!
  • searching_me
    searching_me Posts: 18,414 Forumite
    so yes spoilt rotten .. but your birthdays only once a year :D ... i miss zoe being little and cute for dressing up now shes big and lost the cute toddler look and is just a madam :rotfl:... she taking her pram to the beach :D ...

    jaydens 1 in 2 months and im still searching behind the cupboard and under the sofa cushions to where the time went x
    :)Still searching .....:)
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    It passes way too quickly. Not sure about her being 7 though, she's a stroppy g!t as it is now, imagine what she will be like at 7 :eek:

    She was havering on about going to her bed by herself earlier and I was like "yeah yeah Keira, I've heard it all before" and she is bawling" YOURE NOT LISTENING TO ME, LISTEN!!!!!!!!!"

    Eeeeeeeeeeeeek
  • searching_me
    searching_me Posts: 18,414 Forumite
    right philip just starting switching things off so i think that cues bed time cheers for calm my over thinking brain (started to google cervical cancer at one point) ... night night xxxxx
    :)Still searching .....:)
  • searching_me
    searching_me Posts: 18,414 Forumite
    bm .. just wait it gets worse :rotfl: .. night night xxx
    :)Still searching .....:)
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    Night SM , and eek stop googling that!! I'm telling you off! xx
  • harley1
    harley1 Posts: 1,350 Forumite
    Thanks for your help with the nappies last night ladies.

    How is it that when Kezia won't go back to sleep in the middle of the night I could sleep on a washing line, and now that she dropped straight off after a feed and a cuddle I've been wide awake since 3.45am!!! GGRRRR

    Been getting myself wound up about the working tax credits. They couldn't find their !!!!!! with both hands! They now say that they are keeping my £600 that they kept back before, and on top of that are withholding and extra £360 at a rate of £20 per week for the next however many weeks. However, these figures don't add up as far as I can tell. But they are only provisional and I have to wait for the form (which may not arrive until July) before they tell me what they really want to give me.

    They have cut the childcare payment from £32 per day to £14. Now that is one hell of a drop for only a £4k difference in figures. And the money I'm entitled to is around about the same as they were giving me before I went back to work on these KIT days so 6 weeks ago, as far as my tired brain can figure it, I only owe them 6 weeks of childcare over payment and the difference of the £14 per week between what I get now and what I got before when I didn't need childcare.
    Which is not £960. Bloody idiots.

    Anyway, sorry for the whinge. Think I just needed to write it down to see that I'm right. Why it's provisional I've no idea. This damn government seem to make everything 10 times harder than it needs to be.

    Hope you are all sleeping well and it's just me up at such a stupid hour.

    xxxxx
    Cross Stitch Challenge member 11 - May challenge well under way

    Very proud mummy to Gorgeous baby girl - 29/09/09 :j

    Thanks to all who directed me to Quidco - £289.30 since Nov 09 :beer:
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    i have neither so went for peanut butter on toast and tea :rotfl:.. how you been anyway chick? and you pigpen hows the brood? x

    The brood are fine ty.. I have not succumb to the urge to slit Tiddles screamin throat this morning..
    I'm good ta SM. Keira's birthday TODAY!!! Since it's past midnight. 35minutes, 4 years ago, she made her gross entrance into this world via my fanjina.

    Bless her. Can't believe I have a 4 year old :eek: I still get on the bus for a child :rotfl:

    Last time I got on the bus for child fare.. I was 27 pregnant with number 6!! lol I paid for 2 of the children.. 10 and 7.. I don't pay for my tiny 7 year old now!!!
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