MSE Parents Club Part 12

Sarah_Joanne

Fitzio wrote: »

Glad you all had a good day at the sling meet and enjoyed SJ’s cakes. SJ – can I invite you to the next Scottish MSE meet as my special guest please?! Or maybe Rmac can bring us some cakes next time!!!

Holly’s sleeping is great again (for now!). That’s the past 4 nights she has gone to bed with hardly any or no complaints. And sleeping until after 7 in the morning so can’t ask for more really. I am so glad she has gone back to sleeping through – I don’t know how you ladies do it long term (Hammy, Glam, WM, Aless etc). Hope your babies are good for you tonight.

I'd love to come! I'm in Dundee(ish) in July sometime

Yey for Holly's sleeping, you must be pleased.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Anyone get the impression that the media are reporting much worse news about the budget than 'real' people are experiencing?

The media do not like good news! They only like the doom and gloom and scaremongering. At the end of the day, savings have to be made. I have the same issue with my personal finances, for a long time I spent beyond my means and at some point I had to cut back, sort it out and am now paying for it!

Ok night here. I find it so random when Alfie wakes up at different times. Oh well. Hats off to you ladies with long term sleep issues, I don't know how I'd cope with it.

Som how are you feeling now? You sounded quite down the other day.

3onitsway

Morning everyone.

It's cooled down here today too. Looks like it might rain.


MFD Could you hide your washing/ironing in a locked room? How annoying!

The only thing my Mum does when she's here is my dishes, washing them and leaving them on the drainer rather than just putting them in the dishwasher!

She wouldn't dare touch my ironing, because she knows she can't do it to my [STRIKE]anal[/STRIKE] high standards. :rotfl: I've done my own ironing since I was about 13 because she's rubbish at it.

csh wrote: »

Totally! I find it really annoying! On our local radio news yesterday the headline was 'horror budget' and I was like 'eh?' They took the angle about public sector pay freeze and made it sound like 20k was the poverty line.

IMO shows it was a good budget with a good level of cuts if the media are struggling to rubbish it and the public are supportive

OH will be affected by the pay freeze, but won't really notice. As he's new to the job he'll still get the rises at the end of training and the end of probation.

If I was back at work I wouldn't be affected anyway as i'm well below the 20k threshold.

The bit I saw in the paper yesterday saying how it will affect people; The low earner, the unemployed family, the single mum, the average earner and the pensioners, were all better off, only by pounds a week - but it didn't take into account shopping going up.

I actually think it was better than expected. The only thing that should have been done differently was Child Benefit. They shouldn't pay it to everyone. Do the very rich really need there child benefit every week?

Krystaltips

I think I'm cracking up... Just had the same conversation with Aimee at 3 different levels of shouting... (it's going to end in a smack, I can feel it) The baby has done nothing but screech all morning, I'm supposed to be having a driving lesson this afternoon but the person who is looking after the baby just txt to say she can't, I don't know what else to do now...

I've spent the morning dry heaving, there's a surveyor coming to check out the kitchen ceiling between now and 1 and the kitchen/dining room is a state because I have been asking hubby to help me for a week and he only helped with half a job last night...

Sarah_Joanne

Anyone watching GMTV? They're saying the cost of being a mum to a child from birth to 18 years is £1.5million :eek:

SugarSpun

Krystaltips wrote: »

I think I'm cracking up...

Right, lovely. Big deep breath.

Send Aimee off to her room for five minutes.
Give Caitlyn something to occupy her so she isn't screeching for the same five minutes.
Sit down with your sick-receptacle within reach.

Your driving lesson can be rescheduled if you can't think of anyone to mind your littlie, or do you have a carseat you can load her in if your instructor doesn't mind? Your surveyor is supposed to be looking northward of the mess and it doesn't matter anyway because he is a workperson and not someone whose opinion is important to you. And later on you can unload all of this onto Mr Krystal and tell him how embarrassed/mortified you were and insist he finishes the cleaning [STRIKE]with[/STRIKE] for you.

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

Anyone watching GMTV? They're saying the cost of being a mum to a child from birth to 18 years is £1.5million :eek:

I don't think it has to be, surely?!
Edit: they always seem to have unreasonable notions about how much people spend; their "budget night out" outfits are always pushing £100, and if they think people do that 5-6 times a year they must be mad! And their Christmas toy suggestions!! :eek:

Edit again: :wave: Tigs, I see you lurking!

csh_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

Your driving lesson can be rescheduled if you can't think of anyone to mind your littlie, or do you have a carseat you can load her in if your instructor doesn't mind? Your surveyor is supposed to be looking northward of the mess and it doesn't matter anyway because he is a workperson and not someone whose opinion is important to you. And later on you can unload all of this onto Mr Krystal and tell him how embarrassed/mortified you were and insist he finishes the cleaning [STRIKE]with[/STRIKE] for you.

AFAIK learner drivers are not permitted by license or insurance to carry passengers.

Sarah_Joanne

Sugar it was taken from some newspaper, didn't catch which one as I was only half watching it.

csh_2

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

Anyone watching GMTV? They're saying the cost of being a mum to a child from birth to 18 years is £1.5million :eek:

Is that one of those stupid survey things that includes the hourly rate of a cleaner for housework?
Cause you totally don't clean your house when you don't have children :roll eyes:

SugarSpun

csh wrote: »

AFAIK learner drivers are not permitted by license or insurance to carry passengers.

Really? I didn't know that; my instructor often had people in the car when I was learning *shrug*

Of course he was rubbish and dodgy and I didn't take my test in the end.

Rescheduling it is then.

Sarah_Joanne

csh wrote: »

AFAIK learner drivers are not permitted by license or insurance to carry passengers.

I'm not sure about that, DH was learning last year and he was added onto my insurance, I never saw anything that said he couldn't carry passengers, and he did when we went out to places and took other people in the car.