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MSE Parents Club Part 11

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  • Becles
    Becles Posts: 13,187 Forumite
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    elle_gee wrote: »
    My SIL has specially requested the "honour" of making Rhys a retro cheese/pineapple/pickled onion hedgehog :D

    I hope it's made with a potato covered in tin foil :D

    Thanks for sharing all the pics. They're lovely.

    I love this one of Charlotte. I love it when they run manically without a care in the world:
    http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs483.ash1/26439_381920682843_606412843_4036716_1556982_n.jpg

    and I just like this one:
    http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs503.snc3/26439_381920707843_606412843_4036720_6562909_n.jpg

    Watched Knowing tonight. It started off really good, but then it got a bit tedious and stupid at the end.
    Here I go again on my own....
  • BeenieCat
    BeenieCat Posts: 6,567 Forumite
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    csh wrote: »
    I'm away from 26th June. Back to work in a fortnight supposed to be but can be flexible.

    Are you thinking of coming for a weekend then Beenie? Or midweek and letting Cam dog the school if it doesn't allow school hols lol
    Well it'd definitely be on the cheap so it'd have to be for a day cos staying over would cost a bomb! So if i can get the cheap train tickets it's 2 hours from here, so i could be there for 10am and stay til 3 or 4, that'd be a nice long day out to make 4hrs of travel worth it i think lol!

    I'm open to what day, i don't mind keeping DS off school (but knowing my luck i'll be the one that gets pulled by a truant officer LOL).
  • elle_gee wrote: »
    OH is apparently DYING of man cold now. He claims he's going to sleep on the sofa tonight so as not to infect me.. hmm, only spent eight hours very close to him today already! *rolleyes* Wouldn't it be better for him to stay contained in the bedroom rather than breathing his germs all over the living room? :cool:

    I dunno...a reckon a whinging man is better delegated to the sofa where you don't have to suffer the moaning ;)


    Anyone else in the 'undecided' pile find it decidedly arkward when every man and his dog feels that they have the right to ask you if/when you are going to have another?

    I have a stock response of 'I am too busy enjoying the bundle of joy I have' or 'One is hard enough, why make it twice as hard for myself' answers but what I really want to say is 'Who the eff do you think you are to enquire into my private business with my husband!!!'
    r.mac wrote: »
    please listen to MFD - she is a wise woman :D
    Proud Mummy to the gorgeous Benjamin John born 14 March 2009, 8lbs 14oz
    A new little seedling on the way, due 30 September 2012
  • money_maker_3
    money_maker_3 Posts: 9,591 Forumite
    Stoptober Survivor
    tarajayne wrote: »
    It was lovely thank-you, weather was fantastic. You all ok? I saw your course was cancelled.

    Well the course is still on, my flight is cancelled and all the ferries are full so I cant get over, although I have been told to try to get a last minute flight as soon as planes are allowed to fly. hmmm, someone sitting in england where you have a choice of 10 - 15 airports is fine, we have 2 and everyone is trying to get a flight, so I really cant see that working.
    Its going to cause an unbelievable amount of chaos for me in the long run as I cannot do my job till I have been on this and therefore cannot earn a bonus which is a very significant part of my wage :(
    The two best things I have done with my life
    :TDD 5/11/02 :j DS 17/6/09 :T
    STOPTOBER CHALLANGE ... here we go !!
  • MadDogWoman_2
    MadDogWoman_2 Posts: 2,376 Forumite
    MFD - it's narks me when it's family that know our history ask when we're having another. I just reply don't know.

    When I just want to shout at them - I had 8 years of hell do you really want me to go back there!

    If it happens with the minimum of intervention ie weight loss and medication, great otherwise Katie is enough for me.

    MM - hugs, we're watching every news broadcast as well as it's affecting DH's job no planes = no work. God knows what's going to happen if it goes on for ages - his company are not going to want to pay the staff for sitting at home.
    Proud to be dealing with my debts
    DD Katie born April 2007!
    3 years 9 months and proud of it
    dreams do come true (eventually!)

  • money_maker_3
    money_maker_3 Posts: 9,591 Forumite
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    MFD, there is a really obnoxious woman on my MILs street who feels she has the right to know everything about everyone and when I had Jasmine she kept going on and on at me about a 2nd, and this time she asked me about a number 3 and I told her that it would only happen if the condom split again, same as the last 2 :p Her face was a picture !!
    The two best things I have done with my life
    :TDD 5/11/02 :j DS 17/6/09 :T
    STOPTOBER CHALLANGE ... here we go !!
  • tarajayne
    tarajayne Posts: 7,081 Forumite
    Well the course is still on, my flight is cancelled and all the ferries are full so I cant get over, although I have been told to try to get a last minute flight as soon as planes are allowed to fly. hmmm, someone sitting in england where you have a choice of 10 - 15 airports is fine, we have 2 and everyone is trying to get a flight, so I really cant see that working.
    Its going to cause an unbelievable amount of chaos for me in the long run as I cannot do my job till I have been on this and therefore cannot earn a bonus which is a very significant part of my wage :(

    That's pants. And what if you did get over and couldn't get back, great! :eek: I feel very sorry for families stuck in airports in foreign countries, some have been sleeping there for days. OH said about the uncertainty of it going on for months and affecting our holiday, my answer was it was only a holiday and we would get a refund, it's not important. When's the next course?
    Too many children, too little time!!!
    :p
  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
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    Well the course is still on, my flight is cancelled and all the ferries are full so I cant get over, although I have been told to try to get a last minute flight as soon as planes are allowed to fly. hmmm, someone sitting in england where you have a choice of 10 - 15 airports is fine, we have 2 and everyone is trying to get a flight, so I really cant see that working.
    Its going to cause an unbelievable amount of chaos for me in the long run as I cannot do my job till I have been on this and therefore cannot earn a bonus which is a very significant part of my wage :(

    Would flying from Dublin be an option, MM? I know my mum and dad often fly out on Ryanair from Dublin when they come to visit me, even though the two Belfast airports are closer to them. But nowhere is far from anywhere in Ireland really!

    Recent pic of my beloved follows as its a while since I posted one

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  • money_maker_3
    money_maker_3 Posts: 9,591 Forumite
    Stoptober Survivor
    Its actually not the flying out that is the issue, they expect the Irish airports to open first, but I need to land in England and they are staying shut till at least tomorrow afternoon, but a guy on the news thinks it will be Monday afternoon.

    My sister is in India with work at the minute and is due to fly home on Monday .... shes on her own out there and my nephew wants his mummy home already, not sure how he will cope if she isnt home on time !!

    Next course is the following week, but there are no spaces available till June !!! Think they will just have to arrange to squeeze me onto a different one !!
    The two best things I have done with my life
    :TDD 5/11/02 :j DS 17/6/09 :T
    STOPTOBER CHALLANGE ... here we go !!
  • My_Fathers_Daughter
    My_Fathers_Daughter Posts: 8,691 Forumite
    edited 17 April 2010 at 10:49PM
    MM - :rotfl: (at your response to the woman, obv not at the work situation xx)


    MDW - the way some people assume that they will automatically get caught irks me just as much. I was chatting to a mummy this morning who was telling me that she will be on maternity leave when her 15 month old goes to nursery at 3...she said, 'I am not going to have another this year, I will have one next year'


    I honestly don't know if I will have another. I know I need to be coping with the one I have and have a solid job with good benefits again before I even think about it. And my hubby is nearly 44 and I don't want him to be a very old dad. Circumstances will dictate in some part. I don't feel that desperate to have another to want to intervene and do something silly if that makes sense?
    r.mac wrote: »
    please listen to MFD - she is a wise woman :D
    Proud Mummy to the gorgeous Benjamin John born 14 March 2009, 8lbs 14oz
    A new little seedling on the way, due 30 September 2012
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