My journey to a debt free life

Cherryfudge

Onebrokelady said:

Cherryfudge said:

Happy birthday! What a beautiful day for it, at least it is here and hopefully for you, too. Enjoy your takeaway.

It was raining 😀 I have an ongoing joke that it always rains on my birthday but the last couple of years have been really hot except for yesterday 😀

Oh dear, that wasn't supposed to happen!

I'm glad you were feeling better and were able to have your feast - that does sound a nice eatery!

Ooh, five days unsupervised! What fun  

Onebrokelady

I was up bright and early today ( well 9am) 😀DD 2 has gone off to Edinburgh for her mini break and I am off to meet my mum in a bit for some lunch.Its a bit of a mixed day weather wise so warm but cloudy with bits of blue sky thrown in for good measure.
I'm going to walk into town because I don't want to sit on a hot stuffy bus unless I have to. Our bus company are now allowing people who don't know each other to share seats so you are literally up close and personal with your neighbour. They have said they are allowed to do it because it's all forward facing seats,no one is allowed to stand up but yesterday I got the bus and it was so full people were standing 😟
I looked after DGS1 yesterday which was interesting😁 we had to go into town so we had lunch on the cathedral green then we went to a big local  park where he made a little friend to run round with and I sat chatting to the little friends granny, we were very naughty food wise and had doughnuts then later ice cream,his Mum is very strict with with what he eats and I always abide by her rules but his other gran doesn't so I thought if she can get away with it so can I and if I send him home full of sugar she might not ask me again for a while 😂😂 I do love my grandsons but I work with children all the time so babysitting is not my top thing on a fun list of things to do with my day. I love spending time with them when their parents are there so I can just enjoy them and don't actually have any responsibility
I think it's because I had my children very young so spent the years when I should have been out having fun looking after children,I see now as my time to do that, there's also the health aspect,I do find it very hard work to have a small child for a whole day. I know this makes me sound selfish but that's just the way I feel 🤷‍♀️

CRANKY40

I don't think that you're selfish at all. Small children are very tiring. 

Sun_Addict

I’m like you, had my kids young, so another one here thinks you’re not being selfish. 

Sunshine_girl2

I don't think your selfish either , they are very tiring small children. I love my grandkids and they are very good, but always ready to hand them back at the end of the day. 

Onebrokelady

CRANKY40 said:

I don't think that you're selfish at all. Small children are very tiring. 

Thanks I always think I'm not normal, everyone I know loves looking after their grandchildren and kept telling me I would love it too ,I knew I wouldn't but just kept it to myself 

Onebrokelady

Sun_Addict said:

I’m like you, had my kids young, so another one here thinks you’re not being selfish. 

I do like spending time with them just not having to look after them. My mum didn't look after mine, I just had to get on with it but it's sort of expected nowadays which isn't fair 

Onebrokelady

Sunshine_girl2 said:

I don't think your selfish either , they are very tiring small children. I love my grandkids and they are very good, but always ready to hand them back at the end of the day. 

I was definitely ready to hand him back 😀my best friend loves having her grandchildren and kept telling me  I would love it too, she doesn't understand that it's not my favourite thing to do, I prefer animals to people and would rather babysit their dog 😂😂

IzzyBee

I don’t think you’re selfish at all children are hard work and we have done our bit I do like to see mine but love it when they go home I haven’t got the energy now 

badmemory

I totally agree with you.  When I got married everyone kept asking when are you going to have children.  My mother never ever did.  Once he was 5 it was different, he was a reasonable, reasoning child so that was okay.  She wasn't that keen on us when we were babies either.  Years later shwe did actually describe bringing us up properly as being a duty!