MSE Parents Club Part 15

MERFE

morning all,

we have quite bad snow here this morning, OH still went to work, they came to get him in a 4x4 then he has driven a lorry to northampton but he has to drive it home yet eek. It has not stopped snowing all day.

School text me at 6am to let me know they were closed so the kids are home fighting each other, oh joy. Plus I have completely run out of powdered baby milk now, we have a box of cartons we got for using when out and about so I have enough to last a couple of days but I'm still stressing about it.

got-it-spend-it

Have fun!

We had a few minutes snow play but it wasn't overly popular. I did get some cute pictures though which I'm just putting on Facebook.

Ready for the snow http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=16038148&l=918a8d096c&id=799340299. He wore his reindeer leggings under his jeans to keep him toastie. They are so cute!

Mazcabs

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Some Pampers offers at Sainsburys https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2897782.

Cheers, shame I cant get to Sainsburys...

WAH today as nursery shut and OH got cabin fever so gone to work today - he's gonna have a busy one I think...works for the AA changing batteries!!!!:eek:

William really whingey this morning, he's had a temp for a couple of days that was fluctuating between 36.5 and 38.5 but its come down now. More snow here overnight, about 2 inches, walked to the shop earlier for milk as milkman not delivered today and dont know about tomorrow.

:(I'm gutted that they might be cancelling the annual village fayre as well. Its on Saturday and they shut off the main high street, have loads of craft stalls, entertainers plusstuff in the church like carol singing but they dont know if they need to cancel as the paths may be unsafe, H&S!!!. Its such a shame as its a really nice community day:(

Krystaltips

Merfe, can OH pick some up while he's out in his lorry? I wouldn't worry too much, I think the main highways are relatively clear compared to the side roads...

I have physio at 1:30... Just booked a taxi... I've requested a black cab, don't fancy having Caitlyn floating loose in a taxi in this weather, and can't really roam around the hospital carrying a car seat with me, I figure with a black cab I can just strap her in the pushchair and just put her in the back like that... Hubby assured me earlier it's only our road and the next road that are snowed up, once you get to the motorway bridge it's all clear...

Caitlyn was just sitting on my knee rocking backwards and forwards singing "seesaw seesaw" I pointed to her rocking horse and suggested she go and rock on it... She climbed off my knee, went and climbed on top of the cat and sat on him singing seesaw instead!! Very cute... But he was not too impressed lol...

SugarSpun

I'm going to kill my husband.

That is all.

Edit: I hope he doesn't die in the next few days otherwise this will look very suspicious. But the cabin fever is setting in and I am sick of him sitting at his computer ignoring Molly and me and then echoing me whenever I tell her not to do something :mad: as though I hadn't just said it and as though he'd actually seen whatever it is she'd done. And he has so much crap open on his computer that his Facebook won't load (wireless in the hotel is shaky and I can only have two tabs open before it slooooows down; he has 30 or more and several windows), so he asked to use my lovely baby netbook - then managed to force it to shut down so I lost everything I had open :mad:

MERFE

krystal we live walking distance to asda but it is quite a walk in the snow with 3 kids so I'm waiting till he is home and I can go on my own. I just hope he does make it home, he didn't on tuesday night because of all the stranded lorries on the m25.

I normally love the snow but baby is a bit young to be taking out in it just yet.

krystal I hope the journey is not too bad to the hospital x

RealButter

MERFE hello, don't think we've met before (p.s. when yoiu get a sec you need to change your siggy )

Aww Caitlyn is so funny!

Not sure if there's more snow here, if there is there's not much more but still quite a lot hanging around! Our road is covered but not sure about the main road.

As it's no longer snowing I'm going out for a walk today with DS in the sling.

I keep thinking of things I want to go and buy for DS and for xmas but I have literally no money We even had to pay rent late this month and had to borrow money off MIL for it. We've never had to do that before :(

gill_81uk

RB - sorry to hear about your money sit At least DS is too young to realise so you can buy all the stuff cheaper in the sales when your financial suituation improves

Cutterby

Morning ladies, hope you're all well. I've not posted for a while, either in here or the pregnancy thread, but I kind of need some advice so here I am, hoping you don't mind me bending your ears... Bit of a long one I think, unless I can condense it in my head - otherwise you're gonna get everything, probably in a jumble too!


Right, I hardly wear make up, only ever wear eye shadow and mascara, maybe a touch of eye liner sometimes, so I don't have a lot of make up and Moo doesn't get to be as girly as some of the other girls at school... Not that it's ever bothered her before - she does get glitter on if we're going somewhere but I refuse to paint her up to look 10 years older than she is which is how some of the kids in her class come in on non-uniform days - but that's a whole other debate!!! Anyway, she came downstairs one morning a couple of weeks ago looking suspiciously glittery on her face - she doesn't have access to the roll on glitter but my make up is in the bathroom on the windowsill - I ask what's on her face, she's no idea, it isn't that much so I let it go... This morning we ate our breakfast together as always, she goes upstairs to brush her teeth then comes down with huge pink glittery rings around her eyes, I ask what she's put on her face, she's insistent she hasn't done anything... Here come the excuses - you ready for a giggle?!

Maybe it's come from my mouthwash (she had glittery mouthwash from ASDA til it ran out on Monday) - I got the bottle out of the bin and maybe it got on my hands...

Maybe someone's been in the house and put it on me (my response was from eating your breakfast downstairs five minutes ago to coming upstairs to brush your teeth, someone has broken in and put make up on you?!)

I put some moisturiser on my face, maybe it's from that? (This is the baby moisturiser from ASDA so I HUGELY doubt it has glitter in it!)


Now at this point, 15 minutes in, I'm beginning to get very angry, we're late leaving the house and we're still not ready to go and I'm well aware that if I leave it til after school either she or I will forget, so I say we're not leaving until we get to the bottom of it and if she's late for school then it's just tough, thinking she'll tell me cos she doesn't want to be late or get in trouble, tell her to go upstairs to wash it off her face and follow her up... She continues insisting she's no idea what it is or where from or how it got there... Then she says "oh erm.. maybe it's this... X gave it to me at school" and pulls out one of MY eyeshadows from her pocket!!!!!!!!!! At this point I hit the roof and started yelling at her - she's not only stolen my make up, she's lied about it and thought I was stupid enough to believe her!!! I've ALWAYS told her I wouldn't be angry if she just told me the truth and when she has told me the truth I've always thanked her for it so the fact that she's lied for so long (almost 30 minutes!) and directly to my face has really stunned me - I never thought she'd pull a stunt like this and honestly I'm more than a tad upset to think that maybe I've done something wrong somewhere. Anyway, I took her to school, went in to explain to the teacher why she was late and why she was upset - I wasn't letting her stay home to calm down cos I didn't want her thinking she could get out of school and maybe partly that I didn't want her near me at that particular minute and the teacher said "oh it's only a bit of make up and they go through these phases, you have to stay on top of it" - it might only be a bit of make up but that's not the point, it's still stealing and lying and I'm not willing to accept my own child doing that - I thought I'd brought her up better than that!!


So am I over-reacting? Is it just a phase? Does every kid do this? How do I handle it? Cos I don't think yelling at her is the way to go - even if it makes me feel better It's not good for the poor little creature in my tummy wondering what all the fuss is about and it hurts my throat!


Sorry for the huge post, and please don't think any worse of me

Krystaltips

Refresh me Cutterby, how old is she?

I had a similar situation with Aimee the other day.. She has 2 jewellery boxes, one is plastic and full of cheap bangles and magazine freebies... The other is in my room and has things like the crucifix my Nan bought her when she was baptised, and a few bracelets my Mum bought back from America etc... The other day she came downstairs wearing one of her bracelets, which is fine... I've asked her not to mess in it, but we're in the house and not going anywhere... Then a couple of days later the baby suddenly appears with one of the bracelets on, while Aimee's at school (and the night before I'd found the locket she got for being a bridesmaid on my bed)... Once she was at home I asked her why the precious things were just lying around when they're supposed to be away... She started off by saying she didn't notice she'd dropped the locket and she'd forgotten to put the bracelet away, OK... Fine... So if I go and look in your jewellery box, everything else will be in there? Yes... So if I look, the dolphin necklace with your name on is in there <shifty look> I've lost it... In my bedroom... A couple of minutes of argument that you can't lose things in your bedroom and you best get up there and look for it... She's gone for about 10mins, then comes downstairs and says "sorry, I lied... They're in my drawer at school"

I had a bit of a freak at that because A) they're precious things, and she KNOWS she's not supposed to take anything to school... But, I tried to control myself because she'd told the truth... I think hormonally wise, I was having a good day... If she'd got me when I was tired, hungry or stressed then she'd have got both barrells...

I can understand why you're upset, she's taken your things, spent 30mins lying about it when it was so obviously on her face... I'd have been upset too... But it is also something I think they're all prone to do... I would give her another talking to later, when you're a bit calmer... Explain what it is about the situation that upset you so much, and suggest that if she ever wants to wear your make up, it needs to be when you are there, she needs to ask first, and never on a school day...