MSE Parents Club Part 12

Evansangel

jennynoo wrote: »

EA, usually when people ask for references you just tell them who to contact and it's then up to them to contact those people. That's what I did when renting and also for jobs.

I could give the number for SKY and get him to ask to speak to a mananger.

Thats honestly the easiest way of contacting a manager at our place! :rotfl:

SugarSpun

:wave: What a lovely party!!

I have wonderful friends and it was really, really nice. I'm up now because it's so hot, but it was a great night. And tonight we have dinner reservations at a lovely place, I am very much looking forward to it all.

OOoooooooooooh and the gift two of my friends gave me was a day of them, in our flat, cleaning, organising and babyproofing!! It is exactly what I wanted

The only vague problem was that a friend's husband who I've never met before congratulated me on my second pregnancy. I gave him a social "out" - Oh, you must mean Other Friend - Molly's my only child and he just barrelled on, Oh, I thought you were pregnant again! and looked meaningfully at where my dress was a bit tight. Bastage.

BrunoM

Happy birthday SS and yay for nice evenings out, and yay for gifts turning out the way you want them! Obviously I claim all credit for cleaned apartments hurrah for your kindly friends!

aless02

What a knob, SS! Happy birthday all the same . Have fun at ur posh dinner tonight.

Fitzio

Happy Birthday SS!

Morning everyone! I have a splitting headache. It's aching right behind my right eye, in the socket and I've had it since last night.

And I was a horrible mummy last night as I let H cry herself to sleep for the first time. It only took 20 mins but I felt bad (although I would have felt worse if I hadn't had my sore head to occupy my mind). She used to be a great sleeper, but she seems to have lost the ability to settle herself (although she is fine for naps). She just cries as soon as we get near her cot when it's bedtime. I can't soothe her in the cot as she bats my hand away manically. If I pick her up, she falls asleep on my shoulder, but everytime I try to put her down, she starts crying again! It starts off as put on crying, but ends up with proper tears. I just figure I need to try and sort it before I go back to work. And I am scared by AF's stories!! She just wants to be with us as she has so much fun, but the not settling herself at bedtime has led to waking up during the night and not settling herself, so really need to nip it in the bud. Need to make time with us more boring!!

Becles

Morning

Happy birthday SS xx

Hope you feel better soon Fitzio.

I had a stonking headache yesterday and went to bed early as I felt poorly. Woke up just before 3am with awful tummy cramps and had to run to the loo. Been several times since. Tummy pains have eased off but I've still got the headache

Didn't go to boot camp this morning and was supposed to be taking the bairns to the Eat festival in Newcastle, but I don't feel like going Have said I'll take them tomorrow instead and hopefully I can get rid of the headache by then.

Fitzio

Hope you feel better too Becles. I used to get really awful headaches all the time, but they completely disappeared during pregnancy! It's been a while since I had one. Just took some Ibuprofen.

Last night DH said he would get up with Holly this morning (he usually has a lie in on Sat, I have a lie in on Sun), but he kind of said it whilst accusing me of being in a "foul mood" so I was raging (wasn't in a foul mood, was just tired and had a headache!) and played the martyr by saying I will do it myself!! But I wish I was still in bed! Never mind, it will be my turn for a long lie tomorrow.

SugarSpun

Thank you lovely ladies! I'm just drinking tea and wondering how I can possibly bring myself to put clothes on, it must already be 25 degrees :eek:

I got a lie in!! And Husband has given me a packet of Sour Zoo sweets because I said I wanted to go there but has suggested I spend the day with my parents as they're leaving tomorrow. So no zoo. I don't know what to do with them - there are courtyard flea markets but people always seem to want silly money for their old broken crap.. and my parents aren't really into anything and keep saying they want to not intrude. I'll wait till they get here and think of something. But now I'll finish my tea, forage some breakfast and take a shower.

pinknico

Happy Birthday Sugar.x

Sarah_Joanne

chopsticks wrote: »

Thank you, that's really helpful. I am going to go for it (as long as the cake shop has the "1" tin available to hire when I need it. I was thinking of perhaps using giant and normal chocolate buttons for decorating to make my life easier , so they'd be quite good to cover up the mistakes!

No problem. Chocolate buttons are good but circles of fondant are easier to stick on (just use a dab of water) or if you change your mind about the fondant you could always use a palette knife to smooth chocolate buttercream over the cake then stick buttons onto that, bit like this:



Now feel free to keep my nose out if you like, I just get excited abiout cakes!