'supporting each other through really tough times'

sevenup01

Thank you everyone. It is such a relief to know my daughter is finally going to be able to feel settled and also be close at hand if she feels she needs support....or dinner, laundry and a mummy cuddle.
I have just enjoyed a lovely cuddle with baby cousin who is 6 weeks old. He did get passed back to mummy very rapidly when he started searching at my boobs though:o. I have a very large family and there is always at least one baby a year to cuddle. This year there has been only been one plus my friends baby. Next year another cousin is due end of january, my sister is due end of february and another cousin is due in june:j.
And all the talk of baking and cooking casseroles made me hungry so i just cooked some chilli chicken noodles and now my tongue is tingling!

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Afternoon Toughies,it's colder outside now than it was this morning. The Lurcher took me round the block and pushed me in the back of the knee to go home, not up the lane, cos he was cold. He's a clever boy!!!

Went into town on the bus this morning and visited Mr.T with a view to purchasing some christmas goods. I was after a piece of gammon but the expensive stuff was not so nice, a bit fatty and just not nice they were £10 each. Down on the bottom shelf were some really lean,nice pieces of their everyday bacon joints so I got two of them instead for £7 and they are good to the end of December, win win !!!! I went into Marks and was lucky to get a couple of reductions and as I came through the checkout the girlie handed me a voucher for £5 off if I spend £35 next week. I have some vouchers to use up so a fivers worth of freebees is coming our way, goody goody!!!

MAR I'm glad there is a bit of hope on the horizon for you and the family, will be thinking of you all and hoping the good things happen to sort out the problems.

Well we made it through the 12th folks, now we'll have to see what happens on the 21st yes? I know what I would like to happen and that would be a nice cup of tea in bed in the morning, wether the world as we know it is going to end or not!!!!! and if it doesn't I might like one the next day as well - ahhhh, simple pleasures!!!

Stay warm, stay safe Cheers Lyn xxx.

missrlr

Woof to that going home quick, Doglet made it to the top of the road and decided enough was enough the short block route it was, usually I am dragged around the big long walk with lots of sniffs, but today as soon as we hit the final corner he was off like a whippet, frankly if I had not been holding him I would not have see the streak of greased lightening that was Doglet. Had to wash his paws as there was evidence of salt on some of the route (nice for me for walking but not for paws) and so then he sulked and went back to bed with DH for a few hours before being unceremoniously dumped back in the living room after booting DH in the ribs when the post arrived and he sprang off the bed ready to defend the house against that dreadful post stuff! Poor DH works nights so 10am is the middle of his night! I suspect I will have a sulky puppyhound to deal with tonight when I get back as a consequence!

Possession

Cor blimey what a day. DH had to be at a meeting elsewhere by 9, but I had to take DD to the dentist at 9.10, and DS to school obviously. DS got dropped for a friend to take, poor DH got dumped outside the meeting venue in the middle of nowhere at 8.30 in temps of -5 and I just about got to the dentist on time. DD was scheduled for sedation for a filling, but in typical DD fashion gas and air did emphatically NOT make her happy and floaty and amenable to having a filling. We left 40 minutes later without her having opened her mouth at all, even for the dentist to have a look. So back to the drawing board on that one. Then I discovered the boy who was/is bullying DS, who the Head told me was being kept in every lunchtime until Xmas, was not kept in today, don't know about yesterday as DS was poorly. Not best pleased about that, a bit of consistency please. Got to collect DH soon as it's DH's tai chi xmas party, they're doing - wait for it- candlelit tai chi, before they go to the pub. As they virtually all drive it won't be a late one. It's also non-uniform day tomorrow and the children need to bring HM cakes for the xmas fair. I was despairing of finding the time or indeed the energy to make them, but then remembered I have strawberry muffins in the freezer, hurrah for OS-ness! (*Plus the children don't like them. Surely someone will?!)

stiltwalker

Grrr - need to vent! Got tree and everything out and discovered we needed new lights so sent DH out to supermarket to get some and he rings 10 minutes later saying he's going to be a while - I askis Mr T heaving then? No - he has a flat tire - B*gger but copable with you would think - well apparently he has go to the age of 45 and never changed a tire!!!! so he's going to ring the breakdown service. I explained how simple it is to change a tire and that all the bits required are in the boot at which he informs me he knows the theory but he's never done it so doesn't know how. If he has to wait for breakdown he'll be hours as he'll be low prioity as a man on own in a safe place (Mr T carpark) - surely it's worth a go. Oh well I knew he wasn't practical when I married him - he has other good points, good job really. He's just called apparently he's going to try to change it but he's not hopeful as he doesn't even know where the jack point is - I suggested he check the manual which is in the glove box!

kidcat

stiltwalker - if he asks the Tesco staff will probably help him:)

kidcat

possession- its worth contacting the school again, it never hurts to remind them that you are watching, if you are still concerned write a letter to the chair of governors, they will put you in touch with the designated bullying governor.

stiltwalker

kidcat wrote: »

stiltwalker - if he asks the Tesco staff will probably help him:)

Specially as it's the one he works at LOL! He probably doesn't want to look like a numpty in front of them. At least he'll be able to go and sit in the canteen and have a coffee. He has had a go now and he can't get the locking nut to shift no matter what he does an he's a big strong bloke so I'll guess I'll have to give him that one. Now I've stopped chuntering I'm actually really glad it went on him on the way to into Tescos going slow rather than on me with the kids in the car on the dual carrigeway going to the hospital tomorrow.

jem132

Stiltwalker. I too have never changed a tire I have been know to have dh ring round his work mates to see witch one was nearest to get them to do it for me in return for my little chicken, stuffing and cranberry pies made in a muffin tin every week on a Tuesday lol so I feel for himx

stiltwalker

Jem - it's probably terribly sexist of me, but you do just expect blokes to be more likely to have done this sort of thing before or at least not be so wussy about trying it. What amazed me more is that in 28 years of driving he says he's never needed to change a flat - and he's driven some right cars in his time - if the tires were ok it must have been the only bit that was!

No shame in swapping skills either though - I'd change your tire for a chicken stuffing and cranberry pie! I once got a new ariel put up for free (they were putting sky dish on a higher pole at the time and I did have to pay for the ariel just not the extra fitting cost) by bribing the fitters with homemade blueberry muffins and jam tarts!