MSE Parents Club Part 11

Natalie85

kindofagilr wrote: »

Oh my god I cant believe I forgot to rant about this, While E was having a screamathon before I had him on my hip and went to get hi bottle out of the fridge and the freaking door fell off!!!!!!!

I ended up ringin OH in tears cos E was driving me crazy I didnt have a clue what to do about the fridge! so he managed to nip home and screw it back on but I think we need a new fridge and totally cant afford one, its gonna have to go on CC

so we are left with a dilema, do we make do with a normal fridge (that still cost about £300) or do we go all out and get our american fridge we want? (as I would hope a new fridge would have a long lifetime IYSWIM

Do you have accidental cover on your house insurance, you could claim for your fridge on that??? not sure how much it would put up your insurance, but possibly less than the cost of a fridge!!

Becles

Kindof - sorry to hear about your fridge and hope you can get sorted. I would ask on Freecycle. I gave a working fridge and freezer away on there - they were tatty but still worked. A man whose wife had kicked him out and he had nothing came and took them and he was over the moon with them.

All of mine have been in their own rooms since birth. I did have Josh in beside us for a night, but he made snuffly noises and I didn't get any sleep as I was constantly dozing and thinking he's going to wake up in a minute. In my mind it was better them sleeping in another room and we all got a good nights sleep so I was bright and happy the next day, rather than getting no sleep at all and being a grumpy Mammy the next day!

Exam was really hard. I had to answer a five part question based on five functional operations in one organisation of my choosing, then pick two questions from five, so I chose operations management and information management. I managed to waffle on for 21 sides of A4 paper, so I hope that is enough to pass.

There was another girl there who was on my course and she was sick in October and she said she found it really hard as well. Apparantly in the October exam over 40% failed it :eek:

Results out in the middle of June sometime.

Worked on my other assignment this afternoon and then did a Wii Active workout.

SugarSpun

aless02 wrote: »

SS, everything totally up in the air at the moment re: DH's job (AGAIN, long story, but major source of :mad::mad::mad:) so won't know until closer to the time. However, if he's free then would be lovely - unless you want to volunteer to pick us up at a train station and drive us . Or the Sunday. Glad to hear the counsellor went well - was it just a one-off or will you be returning? Was she English or German?

:mad: at your DH's job.
The Sunday I'm meeting friends who are coming over from Worthing. She's due their bairn in June, so it'll be exciting - actually, let me check to see if she'd like company, she's also American married to a Brit and it might be cool for you two to meet.

Counselling will be every two weeks, part of it is I need it for further certification at work but I think it'll help. She's American, and I quite like her.

BeenieCat wrote: »

M'sM thanks for that i will measure C's inside leg later when his friend has gone home.

I left a link for you last night with the advised bike measurement for the inside leg measurement, did you see it?

Well done Becles!

MM, I meant to ask, how's Dylan?

I just met a colleague/friend, he's travelling by train from Italy to Copenhagen and had a 30 minute connection in Munich. So I brought him a kebab and a book so he'd be ok as far as CPH :rotfl:

Picked up Afghan food as a surprise for OH (he loves it, I'm ok with it but it wouldn't be in my top ten) and it tastes great but there's barely any of it and the things I ordered are supposed to come with sides and didn't. So he's gone up to ask !!!!!! they're thinking and I feel very sad that my lovely surprise backfired.

KOAG I'd ask on Freecycle too.

And 8 month old Molly is still in our room, and in our bed - but if we had a nursery for her I'd have moved her into it by now. We're still waiting for a friend of OH's to come and move some of the crap he wants to rent from OH out of the room and to his place and have been waiting almost a year now :mad:

aless02

Will pass on the info to DH who has been offered to have his tonsils out...he's contemplated it but never had time to take off work. But now I know it's not worth it!! Eeek, sounds horrendous. Will also tell him about your parac/ibru remedy, Krystal, good to know.

SS, don't wanna horn-in on your reunion , so we'll just see where we are closer to the time if that's okay.

Boogelly, thanks for the optimism. They mentioned something like that in the follow-up rejection e-mail, saying they can encorporate the things I 'failed' on into my personal development plan when I return to work...problem is, I'm not ACTUALLY interested in developing them, I just wanted more money! :rotfl: I'll prolly be looking elsewhere anyway once I get my citizenship at the end of the yr/beginning of 2011.

elle_gee

Evening all..

Hope everyone's had a nice day. *hugs* and yays as necessary

Mum said Rhys has been okay but a bit forlorn today Don't think it's anything to do with being with her, not me, but more teeth as he's been munching on teething rings all day. He's quite sleepy too but OH said he woke up screaming (I didn't hear a thing ) at 4am and looked terrified when OH went in (he thought maybe it was a bad dream) and that's how he ended up on our bed :cool:

Work was good. It was nice to go to that meeting and I did quite well for the first time I've ever taken meeting minutes My boss was out after I got back from lunch so I set about clearing some space in my office. He came back to find the waste paper wheelie bin half full and empty shelves. Said he was scared to go out again cos he was afraid I might turn on his office instead Don't know what I'm going to do next week now..

Still no news on my jury service dates

MadDogWoman_2

Evening everyone,

Sorry for disappearing last night, blood donated successfully but DH comandeered the lappy whilst I was out.

I donate blood following my c-section is suddenly occured to me that they would have had to have some on standby for me. Last night was my 5th donation. I had a pause for some hospital investigations in 2009.

Dentist - I couldn't register Katie with our dentist until she was 2! She did come to our check ups though so she knew what it was about. We were advised not to flush her mouth out after brushing. I do use childrens toothpaste at the moment but I will probably move her onto ours when this tube runs out.

Yay for teeth

Hugs for everyone.

Hello Weezl love the photo - come back soon. Grrrrrrr at in laws.

Katie counted to 12 all by herself tonight! She only missed the number 8.

BeenieCat

Boo/Krystal - wow that's a lot of tonsillitus :eek: Twice a year isn't that bad i know, but i'm such a baby lol. I had it when i was preg too and doc wouldn't give me anything for it, but luckily it wasn't as bad as it usually is. Don't like the idea of getting them out really, especially as it doesn't mean i'll never get sore throats again so prob not worth it.

SS sorry, i did see the link i had it open for ages today having a nosey but forgot to mention it - thanks

Millie's_Mum wrote: »

Millie is 120CM tall, her inside leg measures about 51cm (20") and as I say the 18"bike fits nicely now

Ooh i just measured and he's exactly the same as Millie 120cm tall and 20" inside leg

The link says the same - that 18" is the ideal size now.

My problem is that he's desperate for it to have gears and none of the 18" within my low budget have them, only 20" :mad: :mad:

SusanC_2

BeenieCat wrote: »

My problem is that he's desperate for it to have gears and none of the 18" within my low budget have them, only 20" :mad: :mad:

Do you think he would be able to manage gears? (And does he need them?) My brother got gears when he was a couple of months older than your son and he really struggled with them for ages. (I happen to remember how old he was because I had an accident on a bike ride when I'd got miles ahead because he was having problems with his gears.) Do you know whether he wants them because he thinks they'll be good or because his friends all have them?

(I'm not expecting you to give me answers - I'm just hoping they might be helpful.)

BrunoM

Hi all

KOAG, how aggravating would that be! Our stupid fridge is part of the rental too, and is just completely tiny, with a tiny ice-box :mad it provokes me on a weekly basis. Just can't work out where we would put a proper fridge-freezer, too cluttered already.

Doctor decided Elijah's rosy cheek was a form of infected eczema :eek: and we went home with a 7-day antibiotic course, hydrocortisone cream and an emollient cream! Unfortunately he hates the antibiotic with a passion, and it has to be administered 4 times a day already proving quite a big struggle. As a bonus, it is extremely sticky, noticeably more so than Calpol, say - so every battle where drops are spilt is a huge mess!

Running his bath tonight, he came barrelling into the living room looking anxious and poked me and said "Vatter! Oops! Vatter!" (Vatter = water - imagine it exactly like the bird in Watership Down says "Biiig vatter" - it is uncanny similar )

He kept shuffling from foot and repeating himself til I got up and came to the bath, to discover he had flung an entire toilet roll into it... He pointed mournfully and said "Ooooops Vatter ". Crazy little man.

tarajayne

4pm on Saturday 3rd July!!!

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