Mooloo's struggle with babies and bills

Savvy_sewing

Day off as mentioned before. I have managed to reserect some of the washing that landed on the floor outside. Got the twins to actually find the clothes airer for me, and they draped the wet stuff out over them. :j
I have managed to sort out the ironing pile, and washed 4 loads, so there is only 2 loads left to do. But the girls will have to hang them over the airers etc for me.
I started to sew my new curtains for my bedroom, but I was disappointed that I could only manage 30 minutes before my arm said enough is enough. So I have spent the last hour sitting on the chiar in my sitting room with a heat pad, and my tablets taken.
I feel so frustrated becuase I wanted to do so much, but my arm has let me down today. (the mind is willing but the body is not!!).
I did manage to put the twins hair dyes on for them. (earlier),but they washed them off themselves. What a difference it makes to see them with bright shiney hair and no great big tram lines as my mum calls the roots.
Wasnt bad it only cost me £8 for the two hair dyes. ( I will claim it back through the girls housekeeping later).:T
Its looking very dull and cloudy outside now. I am not sure I will manage the walk with the dog, I am still waiting for my son to come home.
Told him to be home for 3pm. He rang at 5 to 3 to ask if he could stay at his mates, I said no. (He had asked before he went out and I had said no), What part of no does he not understand. So Now I am waiting to makesure he comes home before I go to BF's.
I am not sure I am able to drive now that my arm is bad, so I will have to think about taking a bus. Bit time consuming, but safer than using my arm if its bad.
Bit of forced watch tv, Midsomer Murders anyone.?:rotfl: :rotfl:

Savvy_sewing

Is my luck changing? Hope so. BF picked me up yesterday, and I stayed at his last night. So I was able to relax etc and had my tea cooked for me as well. He really has been so good to me of late. :j I went into work this morning, and sorted out paperwork etc, then did a window display for easter. Mind you I spent just short of £10 on eggs and bunnies, some for the family and some for the shop. I managed to only work an extra 45minutes today. The good news is that my assistant manager is coming back tomorrow and so my area manager told me to take tomorrow off. So I will now not be back at work until Wednesday. 5 days off, wonderful. 2 Days ago I thought that I had to work everyday over easter except Sunday.!
I am going to work at our Cowley branch from the 31st March for 2 weeks at my reduced hours, to see how things go, and to see if it is better for me, and if I would like to work there. If I cope and we all get on then I can apply for that shop, the only thing is one day a week I will have to work for the full day to let the assistant have a day off. But thats fine, I can cope with one full day.
They have also ordered a suitable chair for me, and I can take it to which ever shop that I will be working in. (with the help of the van driver of course!).:T
I ordered 2 folding pushchairs to be delivered for tomorrow, so that the twins and I can take the babies to Northampton on Sunday to go and see my other daughter and her chap. We cant fit the ones that they have into the car with all the 6 seats in use. I am not sure how my arm will cope with the driving but we will see.
My eldest daughter has just told me she has ordered a highchair for BBP so that will be good. She really does need to get into one now that she has started on solids, and she is straining to sit up in the bouncy chairs now.
The down side of having gone out last evening and then coming home today is that the washing is still as it was and there wasnt a clean plate or cup in the house. I have just asked twins to wash up the mess they made and then I will cook up the tea.
Chilli concarne and Rice I think, with a bit of a side salad, to make sure we eat up some of the lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and possibly some onion. Perhaps I will do a tomato and onion salad, with a cucumber and mint yoghurt. I know thats normally served with a curry but I fancy a chilli. I had planned to do spaghetti bolognaise but the girls used the mince last night, and so I am going to use the remains of it.
Son finally came home about 4.45 yesterday. He is terrible, he will be the death of me.
All I need to do now is get my head around what I want to do over the weekend, whats needed to be done, and make sure I dont overdo it and that I rest my arm accordingly.:rotfl: :rotfl:

Savvy_sewing

Twins are arguing over the pots and the mess. So I am off to sort them out and do the dinner.

Savvy_Sue

Mooloo wrote: »

Son finally came home about 4.45 yesterday. He is terrible, he will be the death of me.

yours and mine both ... it's their age, Mooloo! :rotfl:

I don't know where DS3 is today: he SHOULD have had an INSET day, but they made those who haven't finished all their coursework go in today, he's normally home around 4 pm. No idea if he will have made much progress at school today. I did text to say that if he didn't have his key he might want to stay out, as we were all going out. And he may have gone to his piano lesson: he texted this morning to ask if his teacher was expecting him, and I had NO idea! But he's now not answering his mobile and he's certainly not home. Ho hum.

He is 16 on Saturday: terrifying to think he could get married (if we gave our permission) if anyone would have him! :rotfl: And yet he's a charming and delightful boy when he loses the 'attitude' and the mumbling ...

Savvy_sewing

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

yours and mine both ... it's their age, Mooloo! :rotfl:

I don't know where DS3 is today: he SHOULD have had an INSET day, but they made those who haven't finished all their coursework go in today, he's normally home around 4 pm. No idea if he will have made much progress at school today. I did text to say that if he didn't have his key he might want to stay out, as we were all going out. And he may have gone to his piano lesson: he texted this morning to ask if his teacher was expecting him, and I had NO idea! But he's now not answering his mobile and he's certainly not home. Ho hum.

He is 16 on Saturday: terrifying to think he could get married (if we gave our permission) if anyone would have him! :rotfl: And yet he's a charming and delightful boy when he loses the 'attitude' and the mumbling ...

Hope hes been in touch by now. Were we that bad as teenagers? did we worry our parents by not getting intouch or home intime? Mine is on line at his friends at the moment. I caught up with him on MSN.
Hope the birthday goes well, and you dont have to put up with millions of sulky attitude full kids over the weekend. :eek:

Savvy_Sue

Mooloo wrote: »

Hope hes been in touch by now. Were we that bad as teenagers? did we worry our parents by not getting intouch or home intime? Mine is on line at his friends at the moment. I caught up with him on MSN.
Hope the birthday goes well, and you dont have to put up with millions of sulky attitude full kids over the weekend. :eek:

He drifted in about 6.30 pm, alleging that he'd been at school until 5.30 pm, and that then the buses were difficult. I am not sure if I fully believe him, as he's now asked if he can to a friend's house tomorrow, and a few months ago we banned him from that friend's house after a couple of incidents involving alcohol.

I do believe this friend was at the coursework day today, so the story that they talked about meeting up tomorrow is plausible, but the lateness of coming home makes me wonder whether he didn't sneak off to this friend's house tonight.

Anyway, we've said no to staying overnight, and as the best bus for this trip doesn't run on bank holidays we've said we'll take him there in the morning and pick him up around 5 pm. He'll get the 'don't come home drunk' lecture while we drive in, along with a 'we're trusting you, so don't blow it' message.

MSN is a wonderful thing, I keep an eye on my eldest that way now he's away. And no, of course we never gave our parents a moment's worry. *

* Unless you insist on counting that time when I was on holiday in the Isle of Wight and went to a pop festival on the mainland, and deliberately missed the ferry which would have got me onto the last bus back to whichever hamlet we were staying in, because two complete strangers I met on the ferry going over offered me a lift. And it wasn't really my fault my parents were worried, we didn't have mobiles in those days, and the holiday flat didn't have a phone, but I knew my parents would ring home where my big brother was cat and dog sitting, and I rang him from a call box and told him what I was doing. Except that he's quite deaf, and couldn't hear what I was saying properly, so couldn't pass on a very good message.

Savvy_sewing

Ah, now I could be reading about my son there. It all sounds so familiar. Must be a teenage boy thing. I didnt have the same problems with the girls.
Just got all their problems now.
I think as I was the youngest of 3, I saw the problems my parents had with my brother and decided it wasnt worth giving them agro. So I didnt. (Least not that I can remember. Nothing major anyway.). Mind you would have been a bit hard the years we were at boarding school, with eagle eyed nuns to watch over us.

Savvy_Sue

Mooloo wrote: »

I think as I was the youngest of 3, I saw the problems my parents had with my brother and decided it wasnt worth giving them agro. So I didnt.

I just wish that being the youngest of 3, DS3 would act on such good counsel. However, neither of the older two were / are at all 'typical' teenagers, so I suppose by the law of averages we were doomed to get one.

Today seems to have gone well. I dropped DS3 off at his friend's with a large bottle of Lilt and a heap of nibbles, after a full and frank discussion about the demon drink. He appeared genuinely shocked that I thought he'd be able to GET alcohol at this friend's house - "You don't think we'll be able to BUY any, do you?" I did point out that on the last two occasions when I knew he'd been there, alcohol had been consumed.

Anyway, I did then casually ask if he'd been there on Friday, and he had, but only because I'd texted to say that if he didn't have his front door key, it wasn't worth going home. Only a teenager's mind could interpret this to mean that it was OK to go to this friend's house, because if he DIDN'T have his key that was the nearest to school. "Did you have your key with you? Yes, you did, I know you did because I saw you let yourself in with it. So in what sense was I saying it was OK to go to J's house?"

My eldest has come home, and we all went out for a meal. DS3 was allowed to choose where, as long as it was somewhere with cutlery. Wetherspoons - a batch of vouchers got us reduced meals and a free bottle of wine. Then DS1 cooked DS3's cake for me. Tomorrow we go and buy an electric guitar from a friend, and take it into town to choose an amp. How MSE is that!

Savvy_sewing

Hi again, I have been lurking away from MSE for a few Days.
Savvy Sue, I hope that our respective sons will settle into life and make things easier for the pair of us!.
On Friday night I stopped out at my BF's, and was stopping out the Saturday if all things were going well at home.
My son had one of his friends over, and BF and I, called back home on Saturday afternoon with some Milk and Nappies etc for the twins babies, only to find DS and mate smoking outside the house.!! Great. :mad:
There was a hell of a ding dong. I wasnt sure I was going to be able to go away over night, but the twins said that they would keep them on the straight and narrow if I still went. :cool:
I was home early on Sunday as we were going to all go and visit my other daughter in Towcester. So all six of us were in the car. We had to struggle to get the buggies into the car. :rotfl: :rotfl:
I had ordered on Wednesday, 2 umbrella buggies, from Mothercare on a next day delivery especially so we could get everything into the car. But alas they didnt arrive so it was sardines between the seats!:eek:
It was good to see my eldest daughter, but I was so tired by the time I got home. The driving wasnt as bad as I thought it would be, but by the end of the day my arm had had enough. It was tablets and heat pads as soon as I got home.
Monday I managed to do a little bit more of my sewing. But it was hard going. So it will take me a while to make my curtains. Shows me that I am not ready to take in sewing jobs as yet.:rolleyes:
Today was back to work. News that the chairman of BHF is coming to visit my shop tomorrow or Friday put me in a spin to check that the shop was looking up to date and that things were getting done. Could have done with a full day, but I have been told by my AM to only do the hours I am contracted to. 16 a week at the moment.
Tomorrow I am taking all my daughters paperwork and debt stuff to a solicitors advisor, and hopefully we will be able to start to sort out her mountain of debt. Mind you looking at the money she has coming in, there is really only £3.25 a week spare(ish) to pay off £7K + :eek:
Then I am seeing a solicitor for myself about my rights etc having the girls home etc, and what I am entitled to, an hour later.
I am not in debt anymore, just dont want to get there again.
Gosh what a lot I have said. Brave person that manages to read all this and still survive the boardom. sorry folks, it helps me to unload and the get things in perspective.

Seaxwyn

It's not boring Mooloo! I read your diary with amazement that you keep on top of things and keep your good humour!

I hope your son's issues are just standard teenage bolshiness. Smoking outside is not that serious when you are 15, I'm sure I gave my mum a lot more worries than that.