MSE Parents Club Part 13

searching_me

glam all i have to say is ... im jealous and now dont like you :rotfl: x

Glamazon

searching_me wrote: »

glam all i have to say is ... im jealous and now dont like you :rotfl: x

Don't be too jealous, IL's and BIL are going as well and I'm having to organise all of it!!!

Accomodation only free cos its my Mums villa, she's had it for 8 years and I've only been over once!

tiamai_d

Glam, Nope. About 10 days ago we were at a play centre and there was a very poxxy little boy running around. Tonight Amber has been a miserable, grouchy little sod. I've just got her to bed! And she was looking like being up most of the night.

My kitchen still hasn't been cleaned and I just can't be bothered now. I want a bath!

redmel1621

When the older two had chicken pox, I just kept them well dosed up on paracetamol and ibuprofen (alternated through the day) and piriton/clarityn liquid, and a pot of calamine and aqueous cream......it was like a full time job applying and administering to the two of them!!

T feeds very bizarrely in the evening, she gulps a full bottle down and then an hour later wants more. A few nights now she has done this, although when I get her another bottle she drinks about half and then goes off to sleep! I don't mind especially if like last night she goes 5hrs or more before waking for the next feed...... She has just had her 'top-up' and is now snoozing away, so am off to bed myself in a minute.

xx

searching_me

Glamazon wrote: »

Don't be too jealous, IL's and BIL are going as well and I'm having to organise all of it!!!

Accomodation only free cos its my Mums villa, she's had it for 8 years and I've only been over once!

i like my IL so that would be ok ... its if i went with my own family id have a problem :rotfl: x

MadDogWoman_2

I joined SIL and BIL on their holiday just after I started seeing DH as he went on holiday with them 4 adults, 2 children and a baby in a static caravan in Wales in May!

Followed it up a few years later with a 3 day camping trip.

Never again - our attitudes to holidays are too far apart.

jennynoo

emlou2009 wrote: »

Chicken pox is going round here as well, 2 work friends have children with it and an old school friend's LO has it too. AFAIK S has had no contact with any kids with it as yet, but thats bound to change... I just hope he doesnt get it 3 times like I did, apparantly my body has no immunity to it!

Had a long sit down and a chat with my nan today. She is in her 80's now and ATM still lives in the family home where my mum, auntie and myself were all brought up, but out of the blue she has decided she wants to move out, probably into a nursing home
She has offered it to us to rent though, and she only wants us to cover her rent so financially it makes sense. Plus she had planned to leave us the house anyway, so we can really settle there and know its ours and we wont have to move again unless we want to.
Thing is, she is able bodied still ATM, just has the usual hip/back etc pains associated with old age and is in good health, so I am very surprised she has decided she wants to go into a nursing home, I dont see what possible benefit it would be to her? The last thing I want is to see her go in in a fit state and end up vegetating because theres nothing else to do and thats what everyone else in there does
I suggested a warden assisted retirement flat instead but she wasnt very keen.

I would be confused too emlou, I would be worried she was thinking she should move so she would be less of a burden or needs to make way for you (just thoughts I've had off my aunty who is disabled). There can be benefits to being in a home though if it's a nice one, things like being with other people her age and getting more of a social life, some people love it. The best thing would probably to look at a few and see what it's like then make a decision.

Becles

emlou2009 wrote: »

Thing is, she is able bodied still ATM, just has the usual hip/back etc pains associated with old age and is in good health, so I am very surprised she has decided she wants to go into a nursing home, I dont see what possible benefit it would be to her?

My Gran wanted to move out of her house into a sheltered accomodation flat. We were unsure but it's what she really wanted, so we looked into it and organised it for her.

It was the best thing we ever did! She ended up with a brilliant social life and was always at day clubs or on trips out or playing bingo etc. She became friendly with other ladies who lived there and they were always in and out of each others flats for company. Gran loved books and there was a reading room that you could borrow books from and the library changed them periodically. She really enjoyed herself living there.

Why not get some brochures for local nursing homes and sheltered accomodation and arrange some visits, and see how your Nan goes from there?

I'm not keen on going away with family or friends. Had some awkward holidays with friends of my ex, just because they were into different things and had different views on bringing up children and stuff.

Went away with my Mam a couple of times when I was single and it was ok, but I sometimes felt she was treating me as a child along with the boys rather than a fellow grown-up!

searching_me

mdw i love my SIL and our idea of hols are pretty close if it would be BIL where we'd disagree hes lovely but hes 23 so at that age for "living it up" *rolleyes* x

hammyhunter

Somnium wrote: »

Oh and another rubbish night here with T waking every hour! Really hope it's a growth spurt and we get back to norm soon. I had thought it was the heat but it's coer and she's still doing it

I hope you have a better night tonight Som



GISi - thank you for your fairies :A

redmel1621 wrote: »

Off to the church today for the Baptismal/Blessing preperation assembly.......it is 2hrs long!! My mum is coming to look after the kids for me, but I really don't want to leave my baby:( & the happy face is because I am happy that I am starting to feel like this, as opposed to not caring one way or the other!!

xx

:j That is fab news Mel

Glamazon wrote: »

Well, after the throat infection Jack got a chest infection and gave it to me and now he has suspected chickenpox! He has a very blistery rash which is quickly spreading and a telephone call with the GP says it probably is chickenpox so off out for Calamine and Rhus Tox! (Thanks Tara)

Hi Glam, good to see you back :j

Sorry Jack isn't well . David has a right rotten case of the Pox and has spots everywhere - his eyes, ears, mouth, all over his body and even his willy too . We have used Rhus tox, calpol, neurofen and anti-histamine (which he was already prescribed for his eczema) round the clock. He has had, and still has, a high temperature. We give him oat and bicarb baths. He hasn't been too itchy with all that and so far (fingers crossed) he hasn't broken any spots with his scratching :T

However, on better news of the day, we have our first tooth :j