The babysteppers Chat thread

[BlackCatTryingToFly]

Please come in for tea and biscuits or and chat.

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Afternoon all!

what plans has everyone got for this afternoon then?

I need to wash up (surprise, surprise!) Same shit different day!

wouldnt it be nice to have a washing up fairy pop in now and again

BC your ds is definitely old enough to do a round of washing up for you. So is your dh. (I will let dd off... for now ) You can't spend your whole life doing the dishes!

Camper I have a friend with a VW campervan called Olive (It's not you is it ) and they seem completely in love with it. It is olive green obviously.

so bc are we popping in and out of here between our 15minute bursts activity or on the man thread

carrots today i have started making a major effort on the drinking more front...am almost up to 500mls water

Oh, god yes, it so would! --mine is called DH at the weekends--.

He has rescued me from washing up hell quite a few times --after it becomes a mountain-- .
I'm o.k. when I'm not feeling depressed cause then I crack on with it but if I have a down day it piles up.

Well, right now I'm having lunch and watching some cheesey tv. I need to:

finish the slow cooker dinner prep
take out the trash and recycling
wash up the lunch dishes and dinner prep stuff (cutting board, etc) -- there's surprisingly not much today
make some calls to the hospital, to the US

When Toddler's up from his nap we'll go to the grocery store to get the nappies that weren't in stock on Saturday night, milk top up and one or two other pieces I forgot on the list.

Why is it the days I hope to get out to the park are the days when it's so crappy out?!

I have had to go to the shop for bread as I was craving a poached egg sandwich.

carrots i wouldnt let any my rabble loose on the washing up...we are a notoriously clumsy rabble and i break enough dishes on my own

bc if you see this and want a buddy i will be back here 1.30.x

I just lost a post in "cyberspace".

so here a second attempt:

I am hoping to start work at 1.15, we could pop in every half hour. If it's chat here, if it's lists the other thread.

How does that sound?

I will pop back in at 1.30 then.

I lost MNet for a while

I know! How very dare they go offline over lunch time!?!?!?

Just having a and starting again at 1.45

I am tempted to have a rest now.

We have the optician this afternoon and I am quite nervous.

I haven't had my eyes tested for years and am pretty sure I need glasses. Dd has been asking to go again (she goes annually) so I suspect she needs too. Ds wears glasses and has lost his swimming goggles so I know he will need them. He may or may not also need new glasses.

I am hoping they behave while I get mine tested. I tried to get a daytime appointment but they put us together and it is a bit of a drive away so it seemed wasteful to go twice.

It could be an expensive and stressful afternoon.

I haven't prepped any tea as when ds goes we often go to Subway for tea afterwards. It is another scorcher here now so we might do that and eat it in a park or similar.

My stomach is churning.

I should get my eyes tested too carrots but have been putting it off (one of my avoidance things) I'm fairly sure it will be brought up in my counselling as one of the things I need to face but I have to deal with potentially more urgent matters first. (see link on our other thread)

carrots FYI I bought my mum some prescription goggles from here a few (perhaps 10) years ago - they were much much cheaper than the ones from the optician (£20 rather than £90)

I have to wear glasses when I use the PC at work & have recently started wearing them at home when on the laptop too as I can feel it straining my eyes without them.

Thanks bessie. The optician ones were about £20 or £30 and came in a kit form so that we could get a different one for each eye.

BC I have put this off too. I take ds and dd religiously but manage to "overlook" making an appt for myself

I decided I was setting a poor example and made myself do it.

bessie I think those might be exactly what the optician sells us. I have added it to my favourites and will check there once ds has his prescription. I might get the dcs to get dh a pair for fathers day so he doesn't swim over people

I was phoned earlier by our psychologist. She has had a look at the questionnaires but I didn't really understand what she was telling me about them. She said they came out as having mild social issues. I don't know if that means it is nothing to worry about or something to worry about iykwim. I tried to ask more but we are having a review soon so will discuss it then.

Our psychologist is also leaving so we will be moving to the one who doubled up with our current one at the start of all of this.

I am really worried now that they will discharge us and I don't feel we have really got anywhere yet, having waited months to be taken.

I am so

ahhh.. that's a shame your psychologist is leaving, but try not to worry about what the other stuff means. Like you say, it could be nothing to worry about, in which case you would have wasted valuable time & energy worrying about it (IYKWIM)

Glad the optician goggles are cheaper these days - I was when they quoted me £90! The goggles I got my mum, weren't (as far as I remember) a kit - they were just normal looking goggles. My friend got some soon after & said they were fab - it was the first time (since she was very young) that she'd actually seen the inside of a swimming pool & said it was wonderful to be able to see the male/female signs on the changing room doors from more than a couple of feet away!

OMG I have just started an AIBU thread, What have I done!!! I must be bonkers!!

I think it's o.k. so far. No one has said anything too nasty yet.

offers carrots a bosie...try not to panic about the psycologist honey.we often let our minds wander to worst case senarios and its rarely as bad as what you imagine it will turn out as