OS Daily for Monday 3rd December 2007

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Morning chums ,
well my eldest dd survived being the big 40 yesterday and she had some lovely presents, from not only her work mates but from people who live nearby and folk she has helped over the years. I stayed at her house on Saturday night with her two teenage children whilst her and her husband took themselves off to the big city for a night out in a nice hotel and a bit of time to themselves .They both lead such busy lives (he's a surveyor) and she is a school administrator that it's not often they get time to just be on their own .The kids behaved beautifully ,even her daughter who can be a bit of a handful at times.She was very good and decorated the sitting room with balloons and banners so when her Mum came home yesterday morning she has quite a surprise.

I came home in the afternoon then my youngest DD picked me up, and I went to her house for dinner and some rowdy games of Hangman with her little boys .I saw all the grandchildren this week end, and bless them they were really good.They know that Granny isn't quite up to scratch, and as mobile as normal at the moment ,but they were really good and kept saying 'Your're not too tired are you' and getting me numerous cups of tea.
I went off to sleep last night and thought I really am so lucky with my tribe, they are healthy, and apart from being rather noisy, they are all good kids.
This morning I was having a lovely snuggled down sleep, and suddenly shot out of bed with cramp in my leg calf .I was so cross as its been ages since I had had a really deep sleep. That'll teach me to get too complacent with life won't it.
I have some more Christmas cards to make this morning as my youngest DD snaffled the ones I had made on Thursday and Friday. So it's scissors and glue pens and paper and card out this morning as I intend to get them all done ,written and ready for posting.
I also have to make four birthday cards between now and Christmas as I have some birthdays coming up as well. All of my birthdays in my family seem to be between November and March I don't seem to have any in the summer at all.
Tommorow I'm of to my craft class with my pal from Dartford ,it's her birthday as well tomorrow .
Wednesday I have my hairdresser coming to trim what's left of my hair into some sort of shape .
Thursday I'm off to Maidstone for some retail therapy with my DD and little granson Mikey

Friday morning I have the Nativity play for the little ones school, wads of hankies for that I think, then in the evening I have another grandsons school concert to go and watch.So I have a busy week ahead of me. It's not all beer and skittle being retired you know I take my 'Grannying duties ' quite seriously:D

Only 22 days until Christmas ,where has this year got to.It seems to go quicker the older you get. All my decorations and tree are up, and it's looking quite jolly in my sitting room.
I have the district nurse coming to give me a check over this morning and I have a big box of sweets to give to her to take back for all the girls who have been so helpful with me over the past three months .They really are wonderful ladies who can't do enough to help you when you are not feeling up to doing things for yourself.:j
Well <<hugs>> to those in need and a big to the rest of you .I hope you all have a good week and try not to stress to much ,what you don't get this year remember Chistmas will be here again next year, and you'll still be rushing around then as well
TTFN:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

charlies_mum

Morning :wave:


Lots of hugs :grouphug: this morning as lots of peeps seem to need one. Love to everyone coping with bad news, and ill relatives :heart2:

Mioliere, hope your sister joins in, we're not really scary are we :eek:

Something nice and warm for breakfast, and spag bol out of the freezer for lunch. Not sure about dinner yet, but I have some gammon steaks in the fridge, so might do them with salad and chips (oven chips so I'm being half good )

Some Christmas trees appearing around here, so must get in the mood and wrap some presents, just got to find them first as I have put them safe :rolleyes:

Have a good day everyone x

twink

morning all

its pouring rain here and the cat keeps wanting out then backing off when he sees the rain
i plan to finish off the xmas shopping today and put up the tree etc, had ds1 over yesterday so he is hoping his dw gets back from the falklands on the 15th, she might have to stay over another month so that would be 6 months away, he is managing okay though

Aussie that wasnt praise you were giving me was it, i nearly choked on my porridge
dlb hugs to your ds1
hilstep we are all here for you and thinking of you x
somo1 hugs to your Dad
hugs to penny-pincher

hugs to all xx

donny-gal

Morning everyone, 7.07 and already 10 before me before I start typing.

Still sorting out PC's in between doing kitchen, must tidy up spare bedrooms and lounge today (make some piles and get them filed!)

You are correct Hester, the way to remember it is the envelopes, stationery has an e for envelopes in it.

SOMO1 -:grouphug: re your Dad, must have been a shock to find out like that.

Hillstep -:grouphug: lost my Mum 4.5 years ago after spending 6 months in hospital after a stroke slowly deteriorating, and still have Dad with dementia for the last 4 years, who has no idea of anything going on around him or of us. Lost them both before they died IYKWIM. Its not nice.:grouphug:

:wave: dlb, charlies_mum, Jackie0, Essex-girl, scuzz, HJ, Aussie, jannyAnnie, PTT, and all who follow.

:grouphug:to all those under the weather, or with lo's poorly, or would just like one.

moilliere - you are lucky to have sisters like that , I have just one anti-social brother! :wave:Hi moillier's sister - come and join us - we are slightly mad.

Take care all
DG

mioliere

Massive (((((((hugs))))))) to PRINCESSTIPPYTOES - for your sister, to HILSTEP, for your Mum and to STESSEDOUT, for your Dad. Thinking of you all and those of you who are feeling unwell or have poorly children.

Well, DH has just left so I've whizzed round upstairs and had a tidy up; measured out the water for the BM. By the way, I have shown my sister the joys of the BM. She has had one for ages and had no success with the recipes in her manual so she gave up trying, so I printed off the ones in the indexed collections that work for me and she has gone home inspired enough dig her BM out of the loft. I shall wait with bated breath to hear the results.

I really should not be on here because I have so much to do but I've missed you all so much so I'm treating myself to five minutes with a coffee. We haven't put our decorations up yet. It's DS2's birthday on Thursday and we have always waited until after his birthday before putting them up so that his day is definitely a 'birthday' and not just part of the run-up to Christmas. He moved into his own house last December (I can't believe it's a whole year ago) but I still feel I want to wait until after he's had his birthday. We'll probablly put them up next weekend. That will take all day - it always does because I get carried away and like to put decorations everywhere - I even have a little tree for the windowsill in the loo. I also like to do something different with the fireplace and mantlepiece each year and we have a little corner shelf in the hall that I put another tiny tree on - the grandchildren love that one so I try and make it different each year. The only problem is that my DH bought a beautiful big pine blanket box earlier this year and it is sitting in the place where the main Christmas tree usually goes so we might have to move things about. Oh, well, it's all part of the fun.

I have three more presents to get which I will try and buy this morning when I go out; then I must get on with the wrapping up. My sister took presents back with her so that's one lot done. I have to post quite a few presents and that limits the sort of things I can buy - I don't want to have to pay an awful lot for postage. One year, it cost me more in postage than the contents were worth for one present. I've never been caught like that again!

Dinner tonight is the rest of the huge stew that I made for us all on Saturday - I made loads because we had visitors but it was way too much. My sister said 'I bet you're hopping mad at the waste'.'Oh, no', I said, 'I'm far too MSE OS to be mad. That will be our dinner on Monday!'

Of course, because we had visitors, my DH did not get round to trying to mend the hoover which broke last week. He said we should get another one but I'm loathe to spend the money so close to Christmas. I have a little mini-hoover which I shall use for now and get him to look at the other one this weekend.

Well, I suppose I had better get on with my lovely housew**k, so see you all later.

KathyXX

cheerfulness4

Morning everyone,

Hugs to all those feeling low and poorly. :grouphug:

Have really got to up my game this week as the hols are drawing closer and the house is not at its shiniest. DS1 leaves the college he works at a week on friday and so officially breaks up for his hols until starting work with Dad on 2nd Jan. DS2 is having an extended xmas hols so he can enjoy this unexpected break with his big brother. Being home -ed does mean we can be flexible about holidays but will have to work like trojans this week and next to cover the work set.

Cats driving me bonkers going in and out in the rain. She whinges to be dried off each time and then goes out again almost immediately. Think she enjoys the game but I feel sorry for her wet as she's old and her joints are nearly as stiff as mine, poor little mite.

Off to load BM and swish and swipe the kitchen before beginning a massive batch bake for the freezer.

Have fun everyone.

Miss_Cinnabon

Morning all

had a great sleep last night:D ds1 down here as his blood was 2, he is fine now though.

lo has his xray clinic tomorrow, so fingers crossed his arm is doing well, also get my tumble dryer, i am really needing it:rolleyes:

got chicken left over so will do something with that today.

mioliere - glad u enjoyed your visitors

princesstippytoes - hugs for u and your sister

jannyannie - hugs, hope u feel better soon

haribo - another one with decs up:j might take u up on the lessons:rolleyes:

hillstep - hugs for your mum and u

dlb - hugs for ds1, hope he is ok

somo1 - what a shock u must have had about your dad, hugs

hugs
susie

frogga

Hello all my old chums, haven't been on here for ages!:hello:

Hope you are all fine and dandy :T When you have posted on here today would you have a quick look at the "do me a favour ~ check your smoke alarms" thread for me. You are all smashing ladies and gents and you'll make a little fat frog happy if I know all my pals are keeping safe this winter

Have a good day all xxxxxxxxx

Pooky

Morning all

Sounds like a group hug is needed this morning :grouphug: , hugs to all those in need.

Kyle - I don't drive - I took lessons when I was 17 but got made redundant before I put in for my test - never got round to it after that. I do find it hard sometimes that I can't just "pop" to pick something up and have to rely on others or public transport. We can't afford a 2nd car so I don't see the point in learning again at the moment, DH works 55miles away from home so I can't even drop him to work and use the car, plus I think I'd probably end up spending far to much on petrol and the "ohh I'll just pop in to town for....."
It is on my list of things to do when the time is right though.

Well I spoke to soon on Friday, DD2 is very poorly again - not with the sicky bug but with a "viral" infection that sounds like it's turning to croup - she was hospitalised with croup a couple of years ago so I'm keeping my fingers crossed she starts feeling better soon....she'll be going for a nice steamy bath in a bit to try and ease things.

Not got our tree up yet, I need to reorganise the living room this week to try and fit it in. Also need to run the freezer down a bit more and make a list of whats left to buy.

Getting one of those photo cakes done for my parents wedding anniversary - has anyone tried them - I can get it done at tesco or asda but haven't tried either of their cakes before.

Roast chicken last night so the rest of the meat with mash and veg tonight or a soup if there's not as much meat as I think.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Penny-Pincher!!

Morning Guys!

Another bad night for me last night and feel like total crap:rolleyes:...have a hospital appointment this morning and have my OT coming out this afternoon...so no rest for the wicked:D

WM & DW on. House pretty clean and tidy apart from DD's room (not too bad)..but thats her problem!

Kyle-Go for it with the lessons and dont let your MIL get to you. My MIL is a pain in the !!!!, so we just stay away. Twink more than makes up for it:D

Miolierre-We have missed you too.

Frogga-Ours are working;)

JackieO-Glad you had a lovely weekend.

Hugs to everyne else too.

PP
xx