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f0xh0les

apple_muncher wrote: »

Somehow, I think the boys would give you away...

Yeah, they would, bunch of turncoat grasses. The only way to get them to keep a secret is to not let them know it is a secret.



It has been so nice having DS1 back from the NCS, he has realised there are a load more kids out there who actually like him, and are positive, and have ideas, and are going places. His 2 friends are dragging him down. After 5 days away he has realised this, and has come home and asked me how I managed to get a handle on his mates so quickly when I have barely met them. Sadly he also said if he had realised before, he probably would not have chosen to go to the same college as them. I told him it is not too late!

I cannot wait for him to go on stage 2 on Monday. DH comes home from his weekend away tonight, and then goes away again for 3 days on Tuesday, so I will be back down to a family of 4 again. All this has taught me that I need to start batch cooking and freezing in portions. As they get older they are going to be here, there, and everywhere in between, at mealtimes. I have to get past the snobbery inside my head of reheating food in the microwave being a lesser meal than one cooked on that day. I need to organize. - one to consider properly when I come back from Ireland.

Took DS3 &4 to Detective Pokemon movie this morning (urgh) and then to Mr M's, so spent £45 in total today. DS1 has to pack for his NCS Uni residential tonight, all his clothes have been washed and dried and returned to him, so that will take up a bit more time tonight.

Everything is very chilled when I am in single parent mode. Everything gets done, there is no arguing, there is time to read, and everything ticks along nicely.

DS1 has requested we get the shower fixed asap. After a week with a shower block he has decided he prefers life with a shower (still it did not stop him from spending 3 hours in the bath on Friday and 2 hours on Saturday)
Right, stuff to do, I am loving the drop in temperature, although the rain is getting a little tedious.

kerri_gt

Tell them mummy has a job as a domestic household manager...just don't tell them it's of your own house :rotfl:

in_need_of_direction

Isn’t it weird how points of view differ? I always enjoy seeing portions of made by me stuff in the freezer as I knew that it at least meant my 2 wouldn’t just be nuking ready meals. Best though really obvious tip was to line soup mugs with freezer bags, fill, freeze then remove the mug.

f0xh0les

I am annoyed with DH, he rocked up at 6pm, said he had a nice time, really good, great weekend. Then sat in the living room on fakeb00k all night talking to his mates and looking at their photos of the event. I felt so ignored. He didn't even ask what we had done, if everyone was alright, he was home for an hour before I suggested he might want to go and tell his kids he was home. Ask them about what they had done. He just sat and looked at me like he had never realised there were 3 floors in the house and he could venture up on to the top floor and seek his kids. It made me sad. When he goes away, he goes away on his own with his mates, when I go away, I take 4 kids with me. boo! Bit tired of being the house grown up.
I need something from the supermarket. I cannot remember what it is. I remembered in the pantry, then forgot, then remembered when I was tidying the top 2 floors, but I have forgot again. I am sure if I went and stood in the pantry for 5 minutes it would come back to me.......

Took DS1 off to the uni halls of residence this morning for week 2 of NCS, today is a £2 'come dine with me' food challenge. Tomorrow is a sports challenge, Thursday is club night, Friday is a jobs fair and pick up just after lunch. If anyone has a 16 - 17 yr old who has not done NCS I would really recommend it. I know 2 ladies who have daughters in DS1s class at school and they did not do it, they did not feel confident enough to go. DS1 has loved it and made so many new friends, and old friends who had left his school and gone off elsewhere, they all remembered him and they have rekindled friendships. He has met so many new people and more importantly, has met interesting people who have opened his mind to new opportunities. yay!
Right, need to clean some bathrooms and hoover the ground floor before making the kids their lunch. I have hit the shake for breakfast/shake for lunch club, day 5 so far, doing ok. Hoping for a major breakthrough on the scales soon.

Step-gran caved first, she rang this morning to make sure I was coming. She has sacked her carers from the night before I get there, until the day I leave. Even though I told her I might take the kids down to in-laws overnight. She has done it anyway. The menace. Also, she had her home insurance quote in and wants me to find her a better deal.

Now I really must get on and do stuff so that I can sit on the sofa and read a book for most of the afternoon. Volunteering this evening. YS shopping afterwards, must write down whatever it is I have forgotten, when I remember it, so I don't have to take the kids and I can get it tonight. Now that is a much better plan.

Right, I really am going this time.

f0xh0les

It was a crate of soya milk. We are down to the last one and a half.

apple_muncher

You need a soya cow...

joeyjimbles

Completely agree about NCS, DS1 did it four years ago when the programme was in it's infancy and rather badly organised particularly when it came to communication BUT he had a whale of a time, met loads of new people and did all sorts of good stuff. He's not lacking in self confidence, never has been, but it was a good opportunity to actually have to do stuff for himself and did give him a little idea of what uni life would be like - and he's survived two years of that without major incident.

This morning, he came with me to the supermarket and disappeared off - I found him helping some lads who on NCS Wk 2 and doing their food challenge. Their supervisor overheard him and he's now going to do an informal q&a with all the upcoming groups about about the a level years, college choices and uni life...and they're going to pay him. Normally he hates going to the supermarket!

f0xh0les

I did suggest to DS1 he find out how to be one of the mentors, and that it would count towards his D 0f E.... I can only suggest, it is up to him to take it forward.

greenbee

Have you asked step gran whether she can get her carers back if there's an emergency and you can't come.

You have the patience of a saint... I'd be telling her I was too busy. And I wouldn't be very polite to DH either...

f0xh0les

I know it sounds awful, but she is 80 this year, and in poor health, I just tell myself that surely she can't go on forever! However it does not give her license to do whatever she likes and I do pull her up on her rudeness to people who are enabling her to remain in her own home for as long as possible.