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Minor sacrifices we make for our DC....

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ContessaIsOnADietDammit · 30/03/2019 18:49

DH and I were meant to go out with friends tonight, while DC had a fun sleepover elsewhere. DS2 has now developed poorliness at the 11th hour (stomachache and general malaise), so I have reluctantly taken one for the team and volunteered to stay in with him while DH goes out to meet friends (we have the event tickets). Sigh.

So I'm currently sitting here watching the Lego Movie with poorly-yet-cute DS2. Please entertain me with your own tales of noble self-sacrifice towards your own DC...

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TeddyIsaHe · 30/03/2019 18:50

I gave dd the last Easter nest cake and they are my favourite sweet thing of all time.

Not quite up there with missing a night out, but still feeling pretty noble.

elQuintoConyo · 30/03/2019 18:53

I often give him the last biscuit, the bigger of the two buns, . We regularly wake in the morning to find him in our bed, hogging most of my side of the duvet! I have been known to get into his bed and catch another hour or so of blissful rest with no pokey elbows (or snoring DH!).

And i inclue everytime i sit down for 5 minues i get 'can you me XYZ?' as a mini-sacrifice!

TheWayOfTheWorld · 30/03/2019 18:56

I am camping in my back garden with my two DC. Yes, that's right, I am going to wake up on Mothers's Day morning in a tent having had barely a wink of sleep Hmm

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AgentPeggyCarter · 30/03/2019 19:00

Not using the hand dryer when we go to the loo while we're out. I drip dry every time to avoid the screaming distress...

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 30/03/2019 19:02

we never have risotto at home because dc2 hates it and i can't be arsed to cook more than one meal.

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ContessaIsOnADietDammit · 30/03/2019 19:07

TheWay Shock I think you win!

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lms2017 · 30/03/2019 19:08

My soul ..... to hours of Peppa fuc*ing pig!

PennyMordauntsLadyBrain · 30/03/2019 19:10

I give DD a decent sized chunk of my Yorkshire puddings as she’s too little to eat a whole one herself. There’s literally no one else I’d do that for Grin

happytobemrsg · 30/03/2019 19:11

I gave DS my last Jaffa cake today. He didn’t even finish it 😡

Calzone · 30/03/2019 19:11

Most things really.....

Currently watching Iron Man as ds1 wants to watch all Marvel films before the new Avengers movie comes out......

user1493413286 · 30/03/2019 19:25

My tops ones since DD became a toddler are sharing anything nice that I eat when DD is awake, not getting to watch anything I want to on tv and calculating in my head whether the next glass of wine is worth it when l’ll be up in the night and up for the day at 6am (if I’m lucky, probably 5.30 realistically)

IntoValhalla · 30/03/2019 19:31

I learnt to sleep on about 3 inches of mattress very early on, as it meant both DCs would sleep a million times better starfished in my bed than they did when I tried to coax them into their own.

Rockbird · 30/03/2019 19:38

I spent the money I'd been saving for ages for some AirPods on a desk for DD1.

Florencenotflo · 30/03/2019 19:40

I no longer get the crust (end slice) of the tiger loaf. Dd always asks for it!

Amongstthetallgrass · 30/03/2019 19:48

I gave up my soul and very essence for my kids...

Nice lazy holidays abroad - now it’s places where screaming kids exist.

Decent plane seats

The elasticity of my beast skin

Five years of sleep

My KFC gravy .....

Itsallamysterytome · 30/03/2019 20:16

Cooking mushrooms separately as my DSs have both been allowed to choose one food they don't have to even try.
So for twenty years now Hmm we have had to cook mushrooms separately to the main dish, serve DS2s portion up and then add mushrooms to the pot for the rest of us.
The other DS won't touch baked beans how weird is that? Love those beans myself.

TheWayOfTheWorld · 30/03/2019 20:20

Don't worry OP, I have Wine!

Have also learned to survive on 3" of mattress, particular for when DC2 creeps into us in the middle of the night Confused

MrsMozartMkII · 30/03/2019 20:29

A year of my working life so I can pay for their Masters.

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ContessaIsOnADietDammit · 30/03/2019 20:36

I'm feeling like a right whingebag compared with some of these Grin

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crosser62 · 30/03/2019 20:40

Tonnes of minor things from not being able to watch my own shite on telly as I have to watch his shite to huge thing like giving up my hard earned career and job after 23 years of climbing the ladder to take a lesser paid, lesser status job because

  1. I couldn’t afford the HUGE childcare bills
  2. I couldn’t bear to give him to someone else to have for 40 hours a week. I wanted him all to myself, I’d waited for 10 years for him.
MummatoaMunchkin · 30/03/2019 21:13

Any of my food ds wants, i share with noone else!!

My sleep! He is 20months and maybe slept through a month in total if im lucky

My tidy house! (Not that it was really tidy before)

edwinbear · 30/03/2019 21:17

I got up at 1.50am this morning to get DS to school by 2.30am to go on the school ski trip.

melissasummerfield · 30/03/2019 21:23

Rocking vintage george at asda circa 2007 while my dc look beautiful in their 3 monthly updated wardrobe Grin

Going to bed at 9pm every night so i can get enough hours sleep before the crack of dawn wake up Sad

Starting my working day at 7am Shock everyday so that i can do both the nursery pick up and the school pick up

Also the had dyer thing that a pp mentioned earlier, literally spent the last three years drying my hands on my jeans Blush

MuchTooTired · 30/03/2019 21:36

My stomach skin elasticity for my DTs has been a bit of a sacrifice, but my main sacrifice is sharing everything I eat, and letting go when they toddle over and steal my half eaten biscuit (again!) because it’s just too cute.

A really rather gross sacrifice for me is to take a nibble (or pretend to) of whatever half eaten mushy food they have in their hand when they want to share with me, because it makes them so delighted to share. There’s nobody else in the world I’d do that for 😂

FudgeBrownie2019 · 30/03/2019 21:55

I didn't go to Venice recently because one of the DC projectile-vomited all over his bedroom 3 hours before I was due to leave. He slept for a couple of hours afterwards and was then perfectly fine for the remainder of the weekend to punish me for daring to think of leaving him for a moment.