MSE Parents Club Part 13

My_Fathers_Daughter

:whistle::whistle:Tantrums? We don't have any of those :whistle::whistle:

I am usually in full on distraction mode! And we now have a 'spare' of everything (remote, house phone, mobile, wii controller, hairdryer, etc) so that Benjamin can 'help' with everything. He even has his own duster (not sure who taught him that though LOL)

Sarah_Joanne

3 I'll be there!

Millie's Mum lovely to see you! Don't suppose you fancy a trip to Liverpool tomorrow?!

gill_81uk

Anyone know how early I can/should register Thomas with a dentist? He's 9 weeks and has no teeth lol

It's just that I've had a leaflet through the door about a local surgery taking on nhs patients. I'm going to register as I'm currently with one where I grew up (20 miles away!) and this one is within 10 mins walking distance. Would be handy to get T in at the same one

My_Fathers_Daughter

Gill - register you both at the same time...he doesn't need it yet but the sooner he gets used to going the easier it will be.

Which reminds me, I need to book us a family appointment.

Millie's_Mum

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

3 I'll be there!

Millie's Mum lovely to see you! Don't suppose you fancy a trip to Liverpool tomorrow?!

I'd love to, but we'd have to leave after school drop off and be back for pick up so we'd probably have about 20mins in Liverpool!

3onitsway

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

He even has his own duster (not sure who taught him that though LOL)

We were at a barbeque yesterday at my Aunties house. She has a cupboard full of toys from her grandchildren (8 & 3). V went rooting in the cupboard and brought the toy ironing board & iron out, set it up and started ironing discarded barbie clothes. :rotfl:

I've no idea where she's learnt how to do that.

Becles

Beautiful pictures Tara and I'm pleased you had a lovely day xx

Millie's_Mum wrote: »

We are fine thanks although I am feeling like a bad mummy because we paid our first visit to casualty yesterday when El whacked her head on a table edge and needed stitches in her forehead.

Sorry to hear that and hope she feels better soon.

James was accident prone and had to go to A&E a number of times, so I know how you feel

I can't drink alcohol very well at all now. My body just can't seem to handle it. On holiday I wasn't having any alcohol until after our evening meal, and then it was just a couple of vodka tonic's, but I still had to have some nights off as I felt sickly

I had two glasses of wine last night and I've felt really sick and headachey for most of the day

3onitsway

Becles wrote: »

I had two glasses of wine last night and I've felt really sick and headachey for most of the day

OH & I shared a bottle of wine on Wednesday, I felt dreadful all day Thursday, like i'd had a really good night out!?!

I'm such a lightweight these days.

Fitzio

Hello,

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend.

Love the photos Tara - you all look so happy. I am glad you had a great day and it all seemed to work out.

Happy 4th July to Aless and Mrs Bruno!

jennynoo

Thanks for all your comments today, sorry I haven't been on to reply until now, I tend to just read in the evening when Erin is in bed.

Aless - glad to know I'm not the only one in this situation. As you say though, we don't have any debt so are in a better situation than you. I hope we both manage to make it work somehow. I have £12k of student loan debt but do very well at not thinking about it!

Ladybird, thanks for your useful comments. I didn't know about the free nursery hours, will have to look into it. At the moment we can manage without the £200 but don't know if we would be better saving it for baby number 2.

Bruno, my life aims weren't high - get degree, get job, get a house (turned into a flat) and have a kid. So now I need new aims! I have two degrees so it seems odd to have worked all that time with the aim of getting a good job only to think now that I may not be able to afford to work in London.

Redmel, some very good points and thanks for sharing your experience. In my mind I wanted my kids about two years apart as that is the gap me and my sisters have and we are really close now but if it's just not viable then we may have to wait. All my family are back up north so way to far to babysit P.S. You have nothing to feel guilty about - you're not superwoman!

I know some of you are in much tighter financial situations and I don't mean to rub it in to anyone (sorry if it seemed that way) but it's still something I need advice on and I truly appreciate everyone's comments and think I have learnt a lot from everyone on this thread even though we are all in different situations.

Does anyone else have any views on working 4 day weeks? Not sure if anyone on here does that.

Tara - lovely wedding photos :beer: it looks like you had a really good day