MSE Parents Club Part 12

Krystaltips

My Mum's awful for filling Aimee up with sweets and crap... When she was younger she used to come home and throw real wobblers because she couldn't cope with the late night and the sugar crash... She's a bit better now, but still not brilliant... And I can't believe anyone would feed a child 2 donuts and 3 packets of sweets in 1 day... We certainly didn't get anything like that when we were kids!!

workinmummy

You know. I have two boys and one day I'm going to be one of these MIL's. And their OH's are going to think I'm a complete biatch aren't they?

kindofagilr

gill_81uk wrote: »

Kindof - I'm hoping to take Thomas swimming in the next couple of weeks so he'll be too small for the 16lb+ ones so if noone else wants them I would like them please

Yup they are yours xxx

E is fine taking Calpol off a spoon ... for now lol

MFD I can see where you are coming from, she is trying to help but its not really helping lol, can I ask why you dont like towels being dried on the line? I love my towels on the line lol

Sorry lts of you didnt get much sleep, I slept for 9 hours straight, no E didnt sleep through lol but MIL had him for the night lol

Krystal I agree, My mam has had a pay freeze for 3 years and she cant afford another one (she only earns 17k and has to run a house on her own), my brother on the other hand earns 40k a year and is complaining about pay freeze lol

EA - E gets really grumy too if he gets woke from his sleep, it annoys me when people say when they see him and we are trying to be quiet, ohhhh he's a baby he will sleep through anything, and I am like no he !!!!!!! wont, he will wake, be a crancky pants and scream the house down!

MY HANSON PACKAGE IS COMING TOMORROW EEEK SO excited lol

Oh and I lost 1.5 lbs this week

got-it-spend-it

SugarSpun wrote: »

Hmm, I have a question.

I didn't receive an ebay item (low value, £4 inc pp), and left it a while before chasing it up because things get delayed, you know?

I emailed the seller and her response was, I only keep receipts for a month. No offer of refund.

So I asked her to organise the refund and she did it but sent me a snotty note "next time contact seller earlier".

I can see her point at being annoyed at being out of pocket, but I don't get rid of the receipts until feedback is left or the Paypal deadline has passed, whichever is first (60 days). Am I wrong or is she?

You are, of course, right. Set her on fire or something.

To be honest I kind of factor a few odd refunds into my 'cost of ebaying' since I think it is inevitable that a few bits get lost if you sell a lot.

aless02 wrote: »

Morrrrrning!

:T :T David! I know it wasn't perfect but am glad the poor little guy got at least a little bit more sleep.

I got my 1st AF last month (5 months old)...not happy at all, I was wishing more for Sugar's 8 months or similar...I was quite happy not having 1 for over a year, I told DH I should just get pregnant again and then I won't have to deal .

We had a good night too - glad the staying up late didn't hideously backfire. But disproves the theory that he wakes up early b/c he goes to bed early - was still up at exactly the same time (5:30am) this morning as usual! Oh well...I can live with it so long as the night is decent.

The flat looks like an absolute tip (this time I'm not exaggerating) so need to get onto tackling at least a little bit of that...I also have a massive Avon collection to do, which is not my Number One choice of things to do in the heat (hiking around with a pushchair that gets gradually heavier under weight of brochures).

I had this massive, rabid craving for a fruity pavlova last night. Now I think I want some sort of fruity sparkling thing...like Appletiser but berry flavoured. I wonder if they make something like that? I'm sure they do.

Sugar, I was pulling for the USA (obv), England, Germany and Australia, so 3 out of 4 isn't bad. DH hates that I like Germany, so I like to tease him by rooting crazily for him. He says that all English people hate Germany? I was like !!!!!!, WWII is long over, dude. This is from someone who wants to go to Berlin next year for the marathon!

I've just got my first AF so managed seven and a half months. Can't really complain about that! I'd forgotten how rubbish it is though!



Well we had our Breastfeeding Awareness Week picnic today and it was fab. Not sure how much we've raised for the local breastfeeding centre but I think it is quite a lot! Good day had by all, and I won a month of free Pushymum classes in the raffle! I'm happy with that!


On the in-laws debate, I moan about mine but they are fab. Always happy to look after H, do exactly as I ask but live far enough away not to always be on my doorstep!

workinmummy

kindofagilr wrote: »

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MFD I can see where you are coming from, she is trying to help but its not really helping lol, can I ask why you dont like towels being dried on the line? I love my towels on the line lol

Can't speak for MFD, but I too hate line dried towels. Much prefer them from the dryer, they come out much softer for my ever so tender sensitive skin

jillie1974

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yes they are fab, but they can still do things that niggle me (holidays together are usually when i get peed off the most. i used ti like to just lie in the sun and relax and do nothing on hol but IL's consider it bad form if we havent walked at least a mile to the beach etc... am hoping with Kian next year to occupy me this wont be as much a problem)
or not tell us things that we should really know.

but i wouldnt swap them for anyone elses

Krystaltips

I can't bear line dried towels either... And I'm sure when my washing machine broke that my lovely soft egyptian cotton towels have never recovered from being line dried.... They're nowhere near as soft as they used to be...

Not sure Joanna Page is the best choice of voice over...

Anyway... Best go and wake the babe and fetch the biggun from school...

3onitsway

workinmummy wrote: »

Can't speak for MFD, but I too hate line dried towels. Much prefer them from the dryer, they come out much softer for my ever so tender sensitive skin

Me too - they're lovely and fluffy out of the dryer.

workinmummy wrote: »

You know. I have two boys and one day I'm going to be one of these MIL's. And their OH's are going to think I'm a complete biatch aren't they?

I don't think it's any different for boys and girls. I can't wait to be a pita MIL and go round to interfere with their ironing. :rotfl:

But none of mine will ever leave home because nobody will ever be good enough for them.


Jillie I don't think I could survive a holiday with my own parents, never mind my IL's!

Becles

3onitsway wrote: »

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?

I watched some documentary type thing once and a rich lady scoffed at the pittance of child benefit and laughed that it doesn't even cover the cost of her face cream, never mind the costs of children.

It did make me wonder why people who spend that much on face cream need child benefit.

I rely on ours and I'd really miss it if it went.

Another child benefit argument I've seen is people say it is for the children, so they save all of it into a savings account for when the child becomes an adult. I can see the positives of that, but I always thought it was meant to help with day to day living costs of a child, rather than putting it away until they are old enough to fend for themselves.

I've been on holiday with my Mam and the boys before. It was ok and I liked the company, but she didn't like me having too much to drink and we were back in the room early every night drinking cammomile tea.

SugarSpun

I too love tumble dried towels, I find line dried ones rough and uncomfortable. Ze Deutschen seem to think that rough towels are a sign of being a good person, but then they also use two small ones instead of a bath towel to dry themselves after a shower, so the one they use on their butts never touches their faces. I think that if you are concerned about butt germs immediately out of the shower you probably need to hop right back in there cause you're doing it wrong.

The place we're viewing is indeed in the NW, about 40 minutes from my parents' (close enough that we'd be able to see them weekly; far enough away that there would be No Dropping In) and it is a beautiful building that we would be required to do some work on before moving in, so my contract would end well before we were able to move in. Husband is eminently mobile, and I would be able to use part of the building for private-practice counselling should I decide that is what I want to do.