MSE Parents Club Part 14

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

AF- thanks and please feel free to show your pal any publicity is good publicity I figure!

susan, did you get a facebook message from me last week? You are always really prompt at responding so I thought maybe a techno snag my end!

Last message I know of was from me to you - I'll just go and check though...

weezl74

thank you I have a home bargains and an asda I can walk to, will do that.

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

Last message I know of was from me to you - I'll just go and check though...

oh!

Will resend, after meeting with Fergies childminder, (it's in a minute so ought to tidy!)

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

susan, did you get a facebook message from me last week? You are always really prompt at responding so I thought maybe a techno snag my end!

Just looked and the last message I have is me to you on 17th at 1319.

SusanC_2

Krystaltips wrote: »

Big budget doesn't always mean lots of stuff... I haven't added up what we've spent on each child but we're getting Aimee a DSi which is over £100 on it's own, and Caitlyn has a playhouse which we will put up inside for a couple of months while the weather is bad, but will go into the garden in spring... Both of them will play with it and it cost me £96 delivered, which is bargainous considering it's less than 12 months old, very lightly played with and they're £400 new...

I've actually reigned myself in this year because we can't physically fit any more into this house... And it's very difficult to get rid of things when you have a child that plays with everything... My friend has the opposite problem, her children don't really play with toys and she struggles with what to buy them... I have no problem buying things for Aimee because she loves everything...

Oh, and I managed to hand over the bunny yesterday with no fuss, she was far more interested in Aimee's guinea pig at the time... Although, so was the little girl that got the bunny lol...

I hadn't thought of things being smaller - I was imagining what we've bought for Alice over the years multiplied up.

Alice plays with most things too and she remembers them so she'd know if something disappeared. Last Christmas we gave her a whole heap of things we'd bought with her Christmas money from my Grandad. One of them was a Winnie the Pooh stationery set but we didn't let her have the pencil sharpener from it. Then in July she had a blunt pencil and my mum asked her if she had a sharpener. She said, "Well Great Grandad gave me one but Daddy and Mummy took it away."

Glad you managed to extract the bunny.

SusanC_2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

very good point. Methinks the rose cottage wotsit you got Susan albeit probably in the garden will take up more more space than what I've got Chris

It's an indoor thing but you're right - it will take up quite a bit of space. It'll go in her room though and we'll get rid of the cardboard box she's been using as a house for over two years.

aless02

Susan, Alice is so very clever. I think she must take after her mom in that respect .

Weezl, I am surprised your beloved IKEA does not stock such a thing!

Just waiting for DH to come home with nommy, indulgent Indian takeaway. Thinking that SS has been very quiet today - off Oktoberfesting, maybe?

got-it-spend-it

How are you feeling now Susan?

Henry is being uber-cute tonight Presumably to make up for the fact that he has given up sleeping through the night. Still, it was lovely to see his little face grinning at me after work today.

Gill- I was loving reading the Stokke Lovers prize controversy on FB today and I saw your comment.

I am :j that Nuby are giving all September baby of the month entrants a prize.

Kindof- how is E's chest now and did my fairies find you?

Becles

James and another lad had a fight on the bus. The other lad was mouthing off so James told him to pack it in. He kept slagging James off, so James twice told him to shut up or he'd punch him. The other lad punched James in the stomach, so James punched his face and he fell back, and everyone else threw water over them both. James has a mark on his tummy and the other boy has a mark on his face and a bump on the back of his head. They were both soaking wet.

My reaction was to tell James off for fighting, told him to sort it out and call a truce with the boy on Monday, and I wasn't going to do anything else. Boys fight each other all the time, and I'm sure they're not the first and won't be the last to have a scrap on the bus.

Then a 15-ish year old cousin came round on behalf of the other boys mother. I've never seen this lad before and he was all full of his self claiming the other boy is innocent and what am I going to do about it. I explained James was hurt too and I'd sort it out. Then he said the mother is going to contact school and get James removed from the school bus.

Pretty annoyed about the kid coming round and sticking his nose in and will be fuming if James gets reported to school. The mother has me on Facebook and has both my landline and home phone number, so quite why she couldn't sort it out herself is beyond me. I don't condone what James did and it's right he should be punished, but the other lad should take some responsibility for his actions and be punished instead of being made out to be the innocent party.

Grrr :mad:

SusanC_2

MadDogWoman wrote: »

I don't spend much on Katie at all, £50 max, but that's because she has lots of relatives who get her lots of stuff so anything we get her is lost in the mountain. It all gets a bit much for her so we split it into lots of short sessions of present opening over 2 days (yes she gets that much!)

Ours get split over days too. She has stuff from us and some friends/relatives on Christmas Day. My family visit on Boxing Day so bring most of their presents then and then OH's parents visit and bring presents in the New Year. We didn't deliberately plan the staggering but it works pretty well - I don't think she would actually get everything opened in one day.