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ginnyknit wrote: »

I was here but I wandered off reading Kidcats blog then onto another blog ....but Im back now. We still have no Chrimbo tree but hope to address that problem Monday, OH offered to get me a small real one but think I will pass on that for now.

Does anyone know what I can use in a sweetie recipe that says corn syrup? I dont want to go searching for it anywhere but the recipe is yummy looking and I really need to make the sweeties - purely for research purposes of course.

http://www.tasteofhome.com/Cooking-Tips/Pantry-Pointers/Substitute-for-Corn-Syrup

Best of luck tomorrow Fuddle, hope it all goes smoothly!
Have just made caramelised nuts for my hampers and they are so lovely I've had to shut them away from myself.

katieowl_2

Evening toughies.

I've just managed to do a bit of shopping online....phew! Needed a table gift for the OH of the friends we are having Xmas dinner with, and found a vintage sign about sheds I thought they'd find amusing, and shopped around until with the P&P it came in under budget. Also remember there was another vintage thingy I wanted to get DD as I thought she'd find it hilarious I saw it as a tin, but found it as a sign instead and got it for £4.09 free P&P on Amazon, and OH suggested a book he wanted so got that too and used my vouchers from surveys!!! Three things crossed off the list! I may get away without a major shopping trip! DD's sign is hilarious it's a standing joke between us that I'm ALWAYS right and it says "OMG my mother was right about EVERYTHING!" LOLZ

We managed to get away with scraping dinner together from various leftovers again tonight, all having something different.
Work was as dead as a dodo again today. Glad I'm not working the weekend! Tomorrow has 1) cleaning chickens out 2) washing kitchen floor (deep joy to both those!) and 3) taking dogs for a nice walk all pencilled in!

Isn't the shooting in the US terrible! Just horrible. Poor People.


Kate

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Katieowl I have just seen a news report about the school shooting in America. I can not begin to imagine what those parents are going through. I am not an overly emotional person but I did shed a tear over this. Let's hope they do something about their gun laws now.

kidcat

Its left me so shocked, finding it difficult to even grasp such evil and the despair that will follow. Having spent most of my day with a school of children of that age and seen them move around the school happy and confident it really brings it home to me.

nuttyp

Just popping by, have work all day tomorrow.

Fuddle good luck with the house move - the start of a new begining, 2013 will be your year!!

Hope all the sickly ones feel better soon, im still very uncomfortable. Have been using th sudocrem everyday, feel like a small child again.

Must shoot off to bed, have to be up early in the morning.

Take care everyone x

mcculloch29

Spent most of the day over at DD's keeping half an eye on DGC. Those poor parents and families in Connecticut. Such shattered lives.
DS still hasn't got the decs down out of the attic for me and DD has begged me not to do it myself - she lives a few miles away. But hey ho...
On the up side, my DNeph sent through pics of DGNis in costumes from the nursery nativity, but pics taken at home. He didn't have a prayer of videoing it, didn't even get to see the kids perform due to the scrum of parents with cameras at the front.

Sign of the times, but the pics taken at home of the children were lovely. I opened the email at my daughter's, so my DGC got to see their cousins, who live 350 miles away.

ginnyknit

I heard on tv one of the people he shot was his mother - it was on the news so I think its right. I couldnt even speak to tell Oh what had happened - terrible thing to do.

Thank you all for your input re my sweetie experiment, i will pass on the recipe when Ive tried it and may well send some to my favourite Scottish tester, think she needs sweeties - hugs Mar hope things are going better for you and your sx

Fuddle hope the move goes well.

Hope you are better tomorrow nuttyp, it must be very uncomfy for you.

thanks kidcat I may well pootle off to Ikea on Monday, great idea.

bluebag

kidcat wrote: »

Its left me so shocked, finding it difficult to even grasp such evil and the despair that will follow. Having spent most of my day with a school of children of that age and seen them move around the school happy and confident it really brings it home to me.

Terribly sad for the whole community, sad too for the young man who was unbalanced enough to commit such an evil act.

So many lives wasted. My prayers are for them.

stiltwalker

Well miracle of all miracles - DD actually spoke for the speech therapist today!!! She also signed including 2 new ones that even I haven't seen her do yet. ST did a speech test with DD that they don't usually do with children that young as it's not something they test until later and DD did very well on it - getting about a quarter of the words to some degree (and some of them were very boring pictures designed to elicit certain speech sounds). She is now completely on board with what we have being saying for months and even years - DD has all the vocabulary and understanding she just lacks the clarity and we need to work on strategies to help her express herself using whatever means she can (PCS cards, makaton etc, maybe looking at commnication devices if her clarity still needs help when she is older). I could have hugged her - it is so wonderful to have professionals recognise DD for what she is and what she can do.

fuddle

Well done little DD stiltwalker. A very proud moment the flip side of having a label can sometimes mean expectations of what individual children are capable are lowered eh? When speech and language cone into schools I get very frustrated because I know the children can do much better than their results on the tests. Often the children are sat in 'no go' staff room, with a stranger, on their own, doing things that they find difficult. It's not ideal. So pleased you could be present, bare it in mind when little one goes to school, maybe push for her support assistant to be present just to help with feelings of security and confidence so she can continue to show 'em what she's made of

Can't sleep. Far too excited. I'm expecting a melt down at about 3pm now passing a tip I found on Pinterest for scratches on leather... Rub in olive oil! Tried it an hour ago and of course the scratches are still there but their appearance has blended in with the brown of the leather now and not creamy/white annoying little lines all over the place

So funny, I bet we all end up with shiny bums!

EVOO is fast becoming my miracle substance.