MSE Parents Club Part 12

BeenieCat

Amber's making me laugh. She's feeding but everytime she hears something interesting on TV she turns her head round and watches it for a bit, and then decides she'll have another little drink. And repeat x100 lol. She's a telly addict at 20 weeks

BeenieCat

It's quiet here today

DS's lovely grandma gave me a next stage car seat for Amber, it is as new as it was for her other grandson just in her car which was rare.

However............. it's not a make i've ever heard of (says "Remi 2" on the manual), and it's got really bad reviews. Also found this http://www.consumerconnect.ie/eng/News_+_Research/Product_Recalls/Baby_car_seat_recalled.html ????

What do i do?! She'd be so insulted if i don't use it. But i don't want to risk fitting it wrong and maybe it's one of those that was recalled?

aless02

BeenieCat wrote: »

Amber's making me laugh. She's feeding but everytime she hears something interesting on TV she turns her head round and watches it for a bit, and then decides she'll have another little drink. And repeat x100 lol. She's a telly addict at 20 weeks

Hehe, Finn does this too. If he's really grumpy, I can put him in his bouncy chair and he'll watch anything on TV! It's sad really :rotfl:

fattybooboo

Hello!! Relatively good night for us, up twice for quick feed and straight back down again, so happy enough with that.

Quiet morning here so far bar me popping to waitys to buy crud... haha. Ooh got a couple of Ellas Kitchen Stage 1 Pouches on offer for 71p each, gonna keep them for taking with me when Im not sure if Ill be back in time for next meal.

We are going geocaching at 3pm!! We are going with our friends and their 1 year old daughter. This will be our first time so not really sure what to expect. Have any of you done it?!

Becles

BeenieCat wrote: »

What do i need to pack for DS?! He's going somewhere (should have really asked the parents where, shouldn't i? LOL) in a caravan overnight and coming back tomorrow at 8pm. It's a motorcross thing cos his friend rides.

2 change of clothes/underwear
Pyjamas
Sunglasses & wellies
Travel sickness tablets

Is that it?!

I'd put a special treat in that he can find and share when he gets there - like a box of Maltesers or something.

I don't really agree with the CTF. I'm concerned that children go through school with no money management lessons and the money passes to the child at 18. I wonder how many are going to think "wey-hey I'm loaded" and spend it all on crap in under a week. Yes I know I'm cynical

BeenieCat

Good idea Becles i'll go to the shop now. Orrrrrrrr i have huge bags of Haribo in the drawer that have been there yonks cos we don't eat them, that would be mroe MSE. How much spending money shall i give him? £5? Or is that too stingy?

I have never sent him away for a weekend can you tell LOL

kindofagilr

Glamazon wrote: »

I thought it was the higher paid people that would lose out on TC and as they probably only get £10 a week anyway its not a massive thing. *shrugs*

I thought that too, I thought they wanted to cut it for people on more than 50k a year

Thanks Som I cant wait till they come and he has them on lol

I found the HiP grant very helpful and would be very sad to see it go...we spent it on baby things that may have been difficult to afford otherwise. There's a lot of people that would never qualify for means-tested like Surestart, but that still need a lot of help. HiP is great for prepping for a baby and CB/CTC are great for meeting the increased financial burden after a baby (not so much direct cost of a baby, but more loss of earnings).

I agree with that Aless, we dont qualify for anything else but are not rich by any means, and that £190 helped us get most of the nursery furniture

MFD I agree with your post about the 50k thing

Hehe, Finn does this too. If he's really grumpy, I can put him in his bouncy chair and he'll watch anything on TV! It's sad really

LOL I do that will elliot too if I need to do something in the kitchen he goes in his swing and I put scooby doo or something on and he watches it lol

Ive just uploaded some pics of Elliot from my phone to FB, here's a couple





I still have loads from my camera to upload as well

SugarSpun

Lovely pictures

Beenie, I'd send the Haribo :money: and £5 sounds fine - what's he going to need to buy?

We had an adventure trying to find the place we picked up a secondhand baby toy from this morning (it's awesome, it's a Fisher Price bird bath type thing) and then running a bunch of errands, and now I'm resting before getting on with the rest of the list. Bunch of cleaning, some organising, ebay listing, dropping the height of the crib again and a job application.

If anyone's looking for distraction, I recommend Promtacular.

BrunoM

Kindof, Elliot is lovely in those pics how sweet his expression is!

Back from Wimbledon shopping, bought babyGap swimming shorts, rugby t-shirt and summery hat for the boy, and maternity jeans and top for OH, all good. The whole maternity clothes stressing kicked off because a certain very large size maternity trousers from H&M didn't fit OH, which made her very depressed at how much bigger her waist was now etc, but today at Debenham's some maternity jeans 4 sizes smaller fitted her fine...! Go figure. Cheerful for her anyway

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Whilst I appreciate what you are saying, that isn't the purpose of the HiP so you could argue it isn't working

And for a lot of people to live in London or not is a choice. I would only relocate to London for a significant increase in salary because of that reason. Actually, I prob wouldn't even then, I would be too peed off at feeling constantly diddled!

I don't even remember what a HiP is, will go google after I post!

I agree with the basic viewpoint that high earners "don't need govt assistance". London living means you need to be on a muuuch higher salary to count as a high-earner in my book!
I agree with aless that yes, I'm living in London "by choice", but it's not much of a choice.
I grew up here, all my friends and family are here, the European HQ of the company for whom I am pushing for a career with are here (as are those of their competitors, so even switching companies wouldn't likely get me an equivalent job in a cheap part of the world). It's a bit like saying "why are you living in the Midlands, get to rural Wales, you can have a 5-bed house for £50k there!". On the other hand, while I'm here, despite really quite high pay, I struggle to save much at all (no doubt partly due to such things as babyGap and trips to Cornwall, but oy vey ). Also our high household income only has one tax allowance not two. I'm paying out all those things GISI listed and a nice high inner London rent and it pains me

Anyway no particular point to my train of thought, only that I frequently consider the pain of living in London vs the benefits and the cost/pain of moving, because I am sooo frustrated that I earn way more than I literally thought I ever would, and yet I am not "well-off" :rolleyes: How silly am I!

No-one was offensive by the way and hopefully neither was I. Horses for courses. If the government chose to gave me more money I would take it!, but they won't. Which is fair enough, because we're doing fine

BrunoM

And thanks, Aless and GISI - they do both look like really nice places and the internet says nice things, but they were really chosen very randomly and I have never been to either area so it's an exciting gamble
I did like Cornwall but I haven't been there in .... 20 ... years or so. OH has never been.