Preparing for winter III

rosie383

Thanks Chirpy chick. I have cut and pasted Rainyday's one, but will have to do yours too as there are lots of wee extra bits on yours that I need.

tiff

Mum popped in this morning. She bought flannellette sheets and pillowcases for the kids beds and said they talked last night and want to give us £500 for Christmas which will pay for a double glazed window for DD's room. Its always soaking wet and is single glazed with a metal frame, horrible. Lovely offer but just wish I could afford to spend that on my Mum instead!

bluebag

tiff wrote: »

Mum popped in this morning. She bought flannellette sheets and pillowcases for the kids beds and said they talked last night and want to give us £500 for Christmas which will pay for a double glazed window for DD's room. Its always soaking wet and is single glazed with a metal frame, horrible. Lovely offer but just wish I could afford to spend that on my Mum instead!

That's really nice of your mum, she is thinking how best to help you, those are gifts that keep on giving.

My mum does things like this too, there is no way to return the gift really, she has everything she needs.

I just try to spend time with her, she can't buy that.

pigpen

SpikyHedgehog wrote: »

Poor little girl! It's horrible when they're in pain:(

Last time I saw the school nurse about it was not very helpful - not her fault though. She'd got the message from the Paediatric Community Consultant that we needed help with his bedwetting, but not the message that he has behavioural challenges, & is possibly on the autistic spectrum...

So her useful advice about making sure he drinks enough doesn't really help much. I know how much he should drink & when, & in the school holidays when I stand over him & make sure he's drinking enough at the right times and not too late, we're usually ok.

Then, to make matters worse, my husband left us earlier this year, meaning that both the boys have needed extra comfort from me. Last time he wet my bed, Errant Husband had picked him up from school to have dinner with him & the girlfriend & her DD... but instead of going there for play and food, they'd driven all over town in search of a coat for the girlfriend. DS2 didn't get a drink at all, so was really thirsty when he got back (1 hour later than arranged), and very fed up. My poor little man, I didn't have the heart to make him go back in his bed

Pead. said he'd prescribe the tablets so I guess I should go to the GPs this week (yay! Half term, time to do the things we can't do other times!) & try them out... I'm rather loathe to give him the meds till we've got a proper diagnosis on the ASD as I don't know about side effects. He has steroids every day with his asthma, plus his eczema's flaring up with cold weather, so it just feels some days as though we've a pharmacy instead of a medicine cupboard!

Over the summer hols, with me making sure he drank enough & early, & DS2 not going to sleep till gone 10 but still getting up early :mad:, he was dry most nights. Back to school & being tired plus not drinking enough, he started to wet again, but really didn't want to go back into pull-ups, so I said we could try lifting as he needs to do a wee later.

Thank you, not just for the advice, but the knowledge that we're not the only family with it! Not something that the mums on the school playground often discuss, though I'm jolly sure he's not the only one in school.

DD3 has just been referred for behavioural assessment for ASDs as well. She had the Desmomelts for 2 years over 1 year periods and they didnt make one jot of difference, she also had he oxybutynin and the slow release ones were fine, helped loads with her day tie wetting but the normal one she went wappy on, aggressive and argumentative and angry .. her teacher was horrified.. it took about a fortnight for her to be her usual self after stopping them. Other than this we had no side effects whatsoever.

Most year 6 classes of 30 have at least 3 or 4 who still wet the bed regularly.. you really are not alone!.. feel free to PM me is you need any back up or just to rant.. believe I know how it is!

AND.... back on topic...

The back door is measured.. and i feel an extendable shower curtain pole might be the thing for the front door with hooks to support the excess weight..

christmas presents sorted into individual boxes..

*miaomiao*

For anyone looking for what to stuff draught excluders with, we used 2 bags of value white rice which cost 40p each. Probably best to use only if you won't be getting excluder wet and haven't any problems with mice (we have a cat!).

dizzybee

thanks chirpy chick for the link to the winter check list,
still got a few bits to do noticed a draft coming in through from the shed into the house [ i have a old coal shed just off the kitchen] so today i have use an old bath sheet sewed at the top onto a old cane and two large cup hooks to hang it on then put Velcro down each side and onto the wall and stuck it down and the draft has gone.and i didn't cost any think.

prettypaula

put the 10.5 tog duvet on last night in place of the 7.5 tog thermo-thingy one and didnt get any night sweats... maybe it was the other duvet?

also picked up a double duck down duvet off of freecycle this afternoon, will take it to be dry cleaned next week and this should help dramatically this winter.

heating on today as weve done a car boot and stood still in the wind for 6 hours... i feel cold to the bone!

rising_from_the_ashes

prettypaula wrote: »

put the 10.5 tog duvet on last night in place of the 7.5 tog thermo-thingy one and didnt get any night sweats... maybe it was the other duvet?

I've still got the 4.5 tog summer one on - I put a blanket on under it last week as I was a bit chilly but every morning I wake up and it's on the floor so thinking I'd be too hot with the 7.5 tog (I hate "duvet changing" time).

Hope the car boot was successful & work 6 hours of bone chilling!:D

Purple_kitten

Lady bugs! I wonder if this could be a sign of bad weather coming on?

1. I was bringing the line drying in and taking the wet load out when I noticed the back of the house was literally moving in the sun, on closer inspection I called my OH out, as we watched literally hundreds of lady bugs off all shapes and sizes and of all colours trying to find somewhere to curl up for the winter, and it was amazing to see. I snapped a few photo’s but it doesn’t really come across as it was the movement that was amazing.

prettypaula

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

I've still got the 4.5 tog summer one on - I put a blanket on under it last week as I was a bit chilly but every morning I wake up and it's on the floor so thinking I'd be too hot with the 7.5 tog (I hate "duvet changing" time).

Hope the car boot was successful & work 6 hours of bone chilling!:D

£120 in my purse ! im now a hppy bunny and DH is a convert