Countdown to Christmas: the Strictly Come Dancing official countdown has begun edition! Thread 6.

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Here we are continuing from the last thread!

Settle in and get comfy.

DS2 is actually wearing a tie, it's obscured by Bear! 😂

Dropped DS2 off, DD went by herself, paid dinner money for both of them, wrote a note giving DD permission to walk home by herself, having toasted banana bread and a banana today. 😋🍌🍞🍌

NoMrs, not a chicken lasagne this time, just a boring old beef one! 😂

DD's booklet was a Mayan myth about a hummingbird, it was just an excuse to draw birds I think! 😂

Oh Seafood, your poor DS! I'm sure he'll be fine now! All DS2's class, also year 3, were comparing their ties! First time they've had to wear them! 😂 A year 2 boy was saying, "I haven't got a tie, I'm in 2!" 😂

Stationary shopping - when you are en route to work and today's list is those 4-in-1 coloured pens and a project book, yesterday was 3 more hardbacks, and we'd already been as a family twice!! - is not really fun. But at least the local stationers all know me now!

The stove is a plain insert into the old open fireplace, so dark metal surround and a glass door. But it pumps out the heat compared to the open fire! We mostly use wood in it and a small bit of turf.

I hope your DS enjoys Y3 Seafood, once he gets in and settled (and he'd have to make all new friends if he stayed in Y2!).

Philomena your DS looks so cute! I hope they both enjoy their day too.

Fluffy well done on getting back to fitness - I keep intending to go swimming again and something always interferes. (Usually sleep as its so early or late to go).

I really need to stop procrastinating today - and finish reading a legal submission that I started on Monday -its just so dense.....but I will get it done.

The professional carpet cleaner has been to deal with our post potty training carpet and my gosh it looks magnificent.

We need that, Red. Must look into it!

Thank you everyone :) hopefully he'll be in a good mood at pick up time, it feels like it's been months not weeks since I've not had to do the school run, double buggy + bus = booooo!

philomena That's so cute they're comparing ties! no ties here, makes a bit sad as I had them at primary school - we had ties in infant school but they were the ready made on elastic string type! It was seen as a big deal to move onto a real tie so I can understand their excitement!

biddy They probably think here comes the lady who loves stationary! Your stove sounds lovely, I've heard they're really recommended as they're much better at heat efficiency then an open fire. Our fireplace is just a gas one but if we'd stayed here I would have loved to restore it to a normal one.

redgreen That sounds brilliant! how much did you pay? sorry for being nosy! we'll need to get our carpet cleaned for that exact reason although we're still halfway through potty training.

We only go to ties in Year 2, it's polo shirts up to then.

Do you live a long way from school, Seafood? That's an epic trip! I'm sure today will go well. 😁

It was £40 for a good sized sitting room seafood but that was because it was badly stained. Less staining would have been £30. It has got everything up though so well worth it in my opinion. It's like having a new carpet!

I think ours only have shirt and tie in year 6, where their uniform is a different colour! You should see the pride when they get to wear their black jumpers.

I've just done a lunch time dash to the post office, to do some returns at asda, a trolley dash at asda and went to ikea and bought a new kitchen chair. Door to door in 80 minutes. Feel rather pleased with myself. DH has taken two days off work to play games so left Gabe in bed and zoomed off.

We are in the frustrating point of trying to teach G to pedal, he can make a bike go but he gets half way through a pedal and resets and goes again so isn't doing a full rotation. He is flying on his balance bike and zooms about with his legs out straight. He's getting a big boy bike on Saturday and gah, I can't work out how to explain to him how to pedal!

I really need to clean my carpets and the sofa cover in the playroom. Might suggest to DH we do it tomorrow and Friday night (we move half the furniture, wash the carpets and then move back in the morning and then do the second end the next night) ahead of family coming over on Saturday. They always look so good once it is done.

No ties here until they go to secondary school. We don't have infants and juniors either. All the schools round here are pretty small.

DM came, we had lunch in the Sainsbury's café, we both had beef bourgignon pies, mash, peas and gravy, the DC are at Adventure. 😋

Hi all! I’m absolutely knackered, been up every morning at 6 with the boys. Arthur’s settler in great at school, and we have a short list of boys names for the baby. So very exciting!

Sounds like a good few days, bar the early wakings, Heavy!

It’s been alright. I’m loving the walks there and back though, it’s lovely to finally be cold again!

Evening all
Sea, bless your darling son you must have been so upset for him ahhh, l am sure he will soon settle love him
l did 15 bags because it was like a hoarders palace here . I had no choice really . I did another 3 bags today and still have to do loads . I have got the bit between my teeth now and l want to get rid of everything we have not used in the last year . It'll never happen
Heavy, your little Arthur settling in school must be such a relief for you
PSB love the sound of your Beef bourguignon pies YUMMY! The DC look very well behaved, well done PSB DC ! Beef lasagne is very naice too , espesh with lots of crusty cheese on the top .
Wreck, our DDS school was small too but to them it seemed too big
Fur you did really well your feet could not have touched the ground . G will soon be pedalling don't you worry . Carpet shampooing is so tiring but very rewarding after , looks like a new suite /carpet after.
Red that seems cheap to me for carpet cleaning , My DM paid 50 for a very small room that didn't really need doing imho .
Fluffy, well done on the cross trainer. I think you are so disciplined & determined you put me to shame
Better go and do tea , chilli and rice tonight
Have a great evening everyone

Thank you all! Very happy he’s settled. He’s been given a book and some spellings to do, so we’ve spent the evening reading them. They’re all tucked up in bed now. Can’t believe there’s gonna be another one here soon!. It’s been lovely spending more time with just John and Lorcan. Very excited for Christmas now, really loving the cold weather

DD walked home on her own, picked DS2 up, he was in bed by 8, DD was in bed by 8.30, did wash as soon as the DC were in their pyjamas, had chicken tikka masala for supper, hung washing out, in bed now.

Morning! Drinking coffee, waiting for BBC breakfast news and Carol the weather to come on.

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Morning! We're rattling towards double figures now. Exciting!

It's start of school for DS today! He's so excited about it. We filled in sheets telling school what he's like last night. It's funny trying to tell other people his quirks!

Then it's allotment time. Lots of digging and planting to do today. I've got almost 500 spring flowering bulbs to put in the ground!

Morning all
Been awake since 4AM
Just could not sleep , never mind it goes like that sometimes will catch up tonight
Good luck to your DS Fluffy bless him he will be fine l am sure .
Am thinking your allotment will be looking so beautiful next Spring well done m'dear . How is your shoulder is it responding to the tablets ? We have decided to cancel DH shoulder injection until he really needs it being as you can only ever have 2 in a lifetime. He is much better thank God .
Up to the parents this morning just finished watching Morse and on my second cup of strong tea thanks to DH
PSB going to turn over for Carol the weather now!
Hope everyone has a great day

Last working day of the week for me (and fluffy?) have an all day meeting to go too.

To not too!

Ahhh. My bloody shoulder is rubbish, Mrs. The painkillers take the edge off though and I'm sleeping better with the amitriptyline. Work are looking into an OH referral for me as it hurts to use my mouse and keyboard.

Wreck, it was a 3 day week for me this week due to DS starting school. Proper week next week!