Weekly Flylady Thread 11th February 2008

pigpen

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

They didnt make a complete hash of your hair then pigpen?

Not quite.. but it wasn't quite how I wanted it.. so.. I came home and finished it off.. so now it is how I wanted it.. and she cut off about 3 inches more than I would have liked but hey.. it's hair.. it'll grow back!! so I'm not too fussed.. I think she hacked off up to the top of the nasty split ends.. so it doesn't matter.

I wouldn't go back there again.. but I might be brave enough to try somewhere else next time.. DD1 loves hers though.. and it looks really thick.. whereas before it looked thin and scabby and had loads of split ends.

Oh.. when she'd done DD1's it went REALLY curly.. and mine.. ARGH!! I looked like Annie!!!!! We ran home with our hoods up and straight up the stairs to our good friend GHD!!

Dustykitten

Hi Poohbear, I hope your treatment went well I bet it is good to be home.

Pub was nice for lunch, food not great, I would not go back but still nice to go somewhere different. Just had tea and cake, fire lit. We started the garden this morning and it is looking good and is quite exciting.

Mudbath, more hugs for you hun not long to wait now x

Ginger_Girl

Hi all! Kids now all sporting nice new haircuts! DS thinks he is the bees knees as hairdresser put gel in his hair! Am sending all requested vibes to Pigpen - the dream house is lovely! (Can't believe houseprices where you are!!!)
Samphire - my 3 were never interested in a potty - we went straight to using toilets (with one of those seat things from Mothercare for DD1 - other 2 didn't care!). Also might be worth checking with the Nursery as on a recent Early Years training course I attended run by our local council, we were told that Nursery providers can't stipulate that children must be dry as it contravenes the Disability discrimination act. (I learned something useful at school!!)
Hope this helps!
Haven't got any flying in today - but did get to chat with other Mums whilst the girls ate their pizza. Got friends coming tonight for supper - should be a nice romantic valentines! Now DH and his mate can talk about cars and engines whilst my mate and I can drink wine and eat icecream!

lil_me

Dusty, I'm another who is now much fussier about pub food, DP is a nightmare, sat slating the food last time we went for dinner with friends in front of the staff with comments like 'I'd rather have proper steak from our butchers unlike that chewy lump of fat they serve here'. I suppose he's right in a way, comments like 'but you can cook it nicer than that at home' didn't used to happen, while pleased he now appreciates it more I do think 'grrr thanks for saying I couldn't cook before'

GG thanks for the reminder about hair cuts, I think I will save that for next week, the boys are a nightmare for haircuts and will only go to one hairdressers which is several miles away. Oh and sorry I'd be the one talking cars and engines

Samphire - There is some info on here about nursery admissions and toilet training http://www.surestart.gov.uk/_doc/P0001741.doc it might be also on your local council website about it being bad practise to exclude children who are not yet toilet trained.

Well I am the best Mam ever, because I found their DS game case they lost on Sunday niight with the games in it they'd just bought that day! Where I told the boys to look in the first place. So had a nag also!

Ginger_Girl

Hi lil_me! I kid myself that I am DH's true love - but I know deep down that that particular honour belongs to the Mark 2 escort RS2000 in the garage! Still DS is already a big fan of the blue oval - so father and son can chat away! A friend of ours once spent most of an evening trying to find out what DH and I had in common - and could only come up with our children! I guess it's true what they say - opposites do attract!

hex2

Pigpen - I have the same problem with my hair - what is it with curly hair that they want you to do the frizzy thing? If I leave mine to dry by itself it does that anyway. I pay someone £30 to make it do something else for once. Sorry, rant over. Have both boys to do, ds1 has hysterics so we do them at home.

I find the whole must be dry at three thing very strange. I can understand for school, but not for nursery. Our nursery says that you shouldn't force them and they will be ready when they are - they also do regular half price offers so I think they are great! DS1 was 4 before he was reliably dry. DS2 is 3 and a bit, and is just in training as he starts school in September.

Made some more hobnobs, wth coconut this time. Bad move, I really will not want my tea.

DH has a couple of days off so we need to do some work on the house. Time to get planning.

I want to go from this


delightful avocado suite and fully 1970s tiled walls

to something like this:
http://www.victoriaplumb.com/Chatsworth_bathroom_suite_packJ.html

Clean suggestions on how I persuade him that he wants to spend the next four days working towards it on a postcard please.....

lil_me

GG - :rotfl: It's been said many times with myself and my partner that if one of us was not into cars we wouldn't be together now. I'd been a bit of a car geek since being a teenager, don't mind getting my hands dirty and do so on a regular basis Mk2 RS2000 nice choice I usually drag my partner to car things now because he seems to have lost interest quite a bit, we traded the Ford in for a Volvo (ok so it's faster than my Ford was ) a while ago now but still go to the RSOC day at Croft when I can drag him there, much prefer the older models.

DP 'having a lay down' feels sick after being to the dentist, poor bloke :rolleyes: makes me laugh as he'll spend 3 hours having a needle in his leg for a tattoo on Monday but is scared stiff of the dentists :rotfl:

Hex2, oh my, now I haven't seen a bathroom like that for quite some time! Grab a chisel and a hammer, start whacking the tiles off the wall, hopefully when you make a mess of it he'll come and show you 'how it should be done' then you gradually withdraw until he's doing it all himself.

Ginger_Girl

Um - need some advice!! DD2 has smeared half a pot of vaseline lip therapy from DD1's bedroom in her hair! Any ideas how to remove the greasy look from a 3 year old! (and how to look cross rather than laughing at the effect!!)

lil_me

http://www.hairboutique.com/tips/tip959.htm

Might help GG. Sure my Mam used washing up liquid on my hair for the same problem (but I put it on my own hair)

gunsandbanjos

Put shampoo on it before you wet it. sometimes put olive oil in my hair when i'm feeling cheap, and you put the shampoo on before you rinse, once its been washed and dried a bit of talc might stop the greasy look?

Oh yes, and :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: