MSE Parents Club Part 12

cazscoob

csh i found the trumpettes to be small, i think a few of us bought them on ebay last year???

elle_gee

Morning all..

I'm no use on cars - currently drive a Fiesta - but interested in the answers because I really need to get a new car sorted very soon. Been putting it off for months already.. :cool:

Rhys is being a bit whingey this morning, just can't seem to decide what he wants to do. Am hoping he decided napping is a good idea sometime soon as the physio is coming round at 11.30am

No plans here except I want to get Rhys' stuff and my lunch for tomorrow sorted while it's still daytime cos I'm fed up of getting caught up in stuff then not being sorted for the next day until about midnight Last week of KIT days this week, then I'm officially back at work from Monday (but starting as I mean to go on and taking my first day off as holiday! ).

Hope everyone has a nice day xx

Bufger

Somnium wrote: »

Now for a rant as we are going to this party/family get together (at my cousins house and starts at 3pm), OH has made plans (without asking me!) to go to his SILs 40th party which doesnt start till 8pm and is an hours drive away, so basically right when T is at her grottiest. I really dont want to go as we dont really get on with her family and generally they ignore us and am worried they'll all be smoking. But OH says if we can go to my family then we have to go to his cos its unfair (I said he didnt have to tell them!), its in less than 2 weeks time too

I agree with him. I always make an effort for my OH to go and see her family and she rarely comes to see my family, they all notice it and start to resent her and i feel caught in the middle AND cut off from my family.

Even though i moan about my family alot to her i still want us both to see them. I have to sit through hours of her grandparents arguing watching nothing but darling buds of bloomin may (no its not perfec, its bloody terrible!)

Its nice if both make the effort no matter how hard that effort is. Just my point of view

weezl74

Bufger wrote: »

Thats a very good point! i hadnt considered that.

We're mainly doing it to replace OH's car, she really wouldnt fit anything in the boot and it has no power steering and no rear doors so it would be a nightmare to get a kid in and out of. I would just swap cars but mine is dangerously unreliable at the moment and i just wouldnt want my family in it as the engine is just cutting out at random. Add the poor fuel consumption to that and the fact im sick to death of it and you have a reason why im looking for a car with a 7 year warranty!

ah right!

I'd probably say go for smaller but super-reliable, and under warranty, and then do bigger trips in a hire car if the fancy takes you.

My neighbours hire an espace to go to disneyland paris with their 3 daughters.

Puts all the mileage on someone else's clock

just my opinion tho...

weezl74

Bufger wrote: »

..... watching nothing but darling buds of bloomin may (no its not perfec, its bloody terrible!)

does a young Catherine zeta-Jones in a bikini not compensate this a bit for you?

csh_2

cazscoob wrote: »

csh i found the trumpettes to be small, i think a few of us bought them on ebay last year???

Do you think I should go for the 12mth+ ones then? Hes 7 months and in a 2-3.5 size sock?

eta: Corned beef stovies are wrong Caz!

Sami_Bee

PP - I was going to suggest the choice thing too, we had that phase about a year ago and I found giving choices helped and also I wouldn't ask just stick a plate on the table and he'd find his way over there to eat it after a while (Chris has his own little table that Ed will join him at eventually)

Chris was sent to bed without any tea last night broke my blimmin heart! (he still had a cup of milk as usual so wasn't exactly starving) I'm sick of him refusing to eat what I give him! It was fish pie which he used to love, I know he is funny about mash now *shrug* so I scraped a few bits of fish so they were on the side but he refussed to even eat those :mad: he loves fish and would easily eat an adult portion of salmon if you gave him one - he's an awkward !!!!!!!

3 - I'm loving your OH proving that men are the most unobservant things ever

SugarSpun

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

Oh and just for info I had just one quote returned from shiply about taking cupcakes from Leeds to Tara - £180 :eek:

:eek: I can email the company I used and ask for a better quote if you like?

csh wrote: »

Sounds great 3! Can't believe he missed all the clues!!! I'm slightly scared that hes a policeman!!!

:rotfl:

Som, how obnoxious - I'd probably ask OH if we could compromise and take the SIL out for lunch, then OH could maybe go to the party and you could look after LO while she's grotty. I think sometimes people who don't spend as much time with a littlie as the primary caregiver don't see the potential disasters of a situation as much as the PC. It's certainly true here, although he's getting much better at looking at stuff like that since he dropped a plastic sheet on the bed without thinking and tiny mistress got into it :eek:

Hello Bufger can't help because we don't have a car at all - but good luck with the impending arrival

My_Fathers_Daughter

Krystaltips wrote: »

Off to toddlers at church this morning... £1.50 and all the toast you can eat

Sounds like a challenge to me :cool:

3onitsway wrote: »

I did ask him if he was in the right job with his lack of observation skills!, his excuse was that he'd taken his work head off and was wearing his home head which is dippy!

I'm thinking of decorating J's room this week while he's on holiday. It's his birthday Sunday so could be a nice suprise for him to come home too - and it's Next cars theme now which is quite childish for a 13yo.
It's a tiny room and I could probably paint it all in a day (tomorrow while V is with MIL), and have enough half tins of creams/beiges/copper paints in the shed to make it very MSE. :money:

I also have two sets of Next cream curtains which will fit his window, they have browns/golds embroidery on saying sleep time and stuff. Also a spare matching king-size duvet set which I could use to make a single one.

Sounds like a goer 3. Glad OH enjoyed his surprise. I take it that you 2 didn't polish off the JD last night then?



Where has the best offers on Pampers Purple Ones (Easy-Fit???) ATM? My chunky legged monkey is moving on up to a size 5 :eek:

Bufger

weezl74 wrote: »

does a young Catherine zeta-Jones in a bikini not compensate this a bit for you?

It could be a Catherine zeta-jones/Megan Fox/Beyonce and Cameron Diaz orgy and it still wouldnt compensate how utterly cheesy and painful the rest of the program is for me!