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MSE Parents Club Part 11

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  • Sami_Bee
    Sami_Bee Posts: 14,555 Forumite
    Susan - thanks for that info I've found it on hmrc now so will try to work out what we should be getting/have got :)

    Also I have a code which I think is for anyone who is signed up to mandmdirect for 1/2 price delivery (so £1.99) WYS £25+ if anyone is interestedyou may want to highlight HP01<- there :cool:
    The very best is sometimes what nature gives us for free.
    3onitsway wrote: »
    I think Sami is right, as always!
  • Sami_Bee
    Sami_Bee Posts: 14,555 Forumite
    ooh Happy Birthday for yesterday Lexi!
    I'm just off but lovely to see you Sparkle, could you make jellybeans 2mo at 10am?
    I'm gonna attempt it and Glam will be there :) x
    The very best is sometimes what nature gives us for free.
    3onitsway wrote: »
    I think Sami is right, as always!
  • redmel1621
    redmel1621 Posts: 6,010 Forumite
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    Morning, if it is by the time I actually press send!

    Have been out food shopping this morning, bleurgh. It is sooo hard trying to do a weeks shop with no freezer, I resorted to just buying a couple of days of fresh meat/veg and will just have to nip back out probably Fri to top up!

    Hoping the work/wages/money convo will end soon:( Which is why I didn't post again last night!

    Got my TC renewel pack through today, so phoned them up and did it straightaway, can't be hard for them to get it wrong....£0 earnings! So will expect half the amazon rainforest through my door over the next week or two.....

    K has got his 5th tooth and number 6 is about ready to burst through anyday now:D

    Hope poorly people are starting to feel better now ((hugs)) Sami hope you get TC sorted out quickly and it doesn't work out too bad for you!
    Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
  • Glamazon
    Glamazon Posts: 8,401 Forumite
    Sami_Bee wrote: »
    Glam I think you are being muchos wise this morning,
    This could be making its way into my sig :cool:
    Sami_Bee wrote: »
    ooh Happy Birthday for yesterday Lexi!
    I'm just off but lovely to see you Sparkle, could you make jellybeans 2mo at 10am?
    I'm gonna attempt it and Glam will be there :) x

    Yay :j Both please come!
    Me and Boo will be there - I'll be the one trying to pick my eyelids up off the floor :rotfl:

    Natalie - what is wrong with that outfit? :(
    I was planning on wearing it on my first day in my new job - should I maybe leave it til Day 2? :think:

    :rotfl:
    A very busy Yummy Mummy to a 1 year old gorgeous boy :smileyhea

    Where does the time go? :think:
  • nikkit72
    nikkit72 Posts: 2,458 Forumite
    edited 20 April 2010 at 12:23PM
    morning all,

    been to baby clinic and Thomas is now 12lb 9oz , 8 weeks on thursday , hes doing very well,

    been to asda and boots to exchange all the nappies i had unopened which he is to big for to exchange without receipts , as these are the only 2 shops that will exchange with no receipt, so well pleased as i thought i was going to be stuck with them , after tesco , sainsburys and mothercare said no chance unless i found receipt

    Thomas had hes first proper smiles last week

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    also doing great with night time feeds he has a feed at 7pm , goes down in the cot at 8pm , doesnt wake again till 3am for a feed , then again at 7 am , hes doing so well knocked the 12am feed on the head ,
    Dont forget that little Thanks button , only takes a sec
  • workinmummy
    workinmummy Posts: 1,479 Forumite
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    Natalie85 wrote: »

    some days i think id love to have a better career but my personal life means so much more to me and id rather leave home at half 8 and be home for half 4 and have a few hours with Am before bed :)

    Exactly, was all for work, before kids and it's amazing how it changes you. I am very lucky to have quite a good paying admin job. Bosses are quite relaxed and allow us to be quite flexible. Alex was in work with me for an hour yesterday, before his doctors appointment. (also get to surf t'internet alot!). I am home after picking both kids up, by 5.30pm.
    Glamazon wrote: »
    I'm just a nosey bint who wants to know how everything works, I also like to know everything - yes I was the irritating person in school who ALWAYS had her hand up but I sat at the back so redeemed myself by being a little shiote :cool:

    "Hermoine Granger" :rotfl::rotfl:

    Welcome to Jolene and Happy belated birthday to Lexi.
  • sparkle03
    sparkle03 Posts: 868 Forumite
    Sami_Bee wrote: »
    ooh Happy Birthday for yesterday Lexi!
    I'm just off but lovely to see you Sparkle, could you make jellybeans 2mo at 10am?
    I'm gonna attempt it and Glam will be there :) x

    I may make it sami, got J off school today with really slight impetigo so shall have to see if he can go in tomorrow :) If he can Im free to come x

    ''I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
    Marilyn Monroe
  • Krystaltips
    Krystaltips Posts: 9,220 Forumite
    SusanC wrote: »
    They do give all the figures on the HMRC website - I always calculate mine.
    2009/10
    Reduction threshold 6420
    Reduction rate 39%
    WTC basic element 1890.70
    Second adult element 1861.50
    30 hr element 777.45
    CTC family element 547.5
    Child element 2237.45
    Baby addition element was similar to child element when we qualified.
    There's also a higher threshold for reduction but it doesn't apply to us so don't have details.
    Sorry Susan, this might aswell be in arabic for all I understand it!! What's the business with reductions and second adults?
    Natalie85 wrote: »
    just looking through the next site at work clothes, under the work wear section

    is it me being boring or is this just sooo not work wear!!! next

    i think i'd get some funny looks if i walked in wearing that lol
    Depends on your job I suppose... ;)

    Nice to see you Sparkle, hope Lexi had a happy 1st birthday and that was a lovely post! :)

    I think I have a dilema about to crop up regarding the fella that got me pregnant the first time and his family... :o
    A very proud Mummy to 3 beautiful girls... I do pity my husband though, he's the one to suffer the hormones...
    Krystal is so smart and funny and wonderful I am struck dumb in awe in her presence.

  • tarajayne
    tarajayne Posts: 7,081 Forumite
    JoleneM wrote: »
    Hello,

    Thought I would graduate to the parent thread as my baby is a week old today! Sophie was born on the 13th April via c-section, we only got out of hospital on Sunday as I wasn't very well after she was born.

    Jolene

    Congratulations and welcome! X :D


    Tara - some insurance companies do take years driving company cars into account for your no claims.

    Thanks, but it seems with the new more eco friendly cars we can get quite a good deal anyway, and it nice not having to think about the upkeep! :A I would like to in the future though.
    always29 wrote: »
    Dad's funeral was on Thursday and we had a lovely service and bloomin good send off for him in his local with dozens of his friends and I then spent some time with family this weekend.

    hoping to get some normality back into our lives from this week - magically we got to the top of the baby massage list at the local sure start centre so start that this afternoon for 5 weeks, bliss, and aqua tomorrow morning. just need to find something for Thursday and Friday now!


    Big (((hugs))) hun. XXX :(
    Too many children, too little time!!!
    :p
  • tarajayne
    tarajayne Posts: 7,081 Forumite
    Yeah for K's tooth.

    Happy belated birthday Lexi! XXX

    Awww Thomas, cutie.
    Too many children, too little time!!!
    :p
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