Stepping and chatting, stepping and chatting!

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Thought I'd Shiny a new chat thread for us!

There's and , help yourselves!

Hello!

Oooh! Exciting!

Has anyone spotted bessie elsewhere today? I thought she might pop up tonight.

I hope you are feeling better bessie!

I am here!

How are you?

I am ok. Not 100% but have kept the small amount of food I've eaten today down.

I am glad you are on the mend at least then bessie. I will do the decent thing and eat your creme egg for you - out of the goodness of my heart and all that

Is it too early in the thread for me to have a moan?

Ranty Moany Content Alert

So much for my great relief about dh's reward vouchers. He is thinking of getting golf shoes or putting them towards a new bike.

Selfish @*%£!

He forgets what everyone else goes through when he works long hours.

Why did he even ask if that is what he was going to do?

thank-you carrots - you are very kind I don't like them anyway (too sickly for me), but the thought of them is making my stomach turn.

oooh dear carrots what did you say when he suggested that?

DH has just been to the golf shop to buy new shoes & said the ones he has always bought now cost £170!! (he got some cheaper ones)

Well, you can imagine my joy that he would suggest that on the day that I have cancelled my sporting activities for the sake of the budget.

I am more sad than angry.

I think he thinks he has earned it all on his own and doesnt' see that I have done more on my own with the dcs while he works and that they have done without their ddad while he works and that we need basics, not luxuries, just now.

I haven't said anything yet. I would rather he had his little pipe dream then came to his senses and shared it willingly than I nagged.

I may have to nag though.

It is bad enough nagging kids.

Bloody hell! However, I get sick at the thought of how much has been spent on gadgets, phones, computers, etc. Ugh.

This rain jacket has made me giggle. Going through all of Toddler's clothes has meant I can give his GrandmaScout a wish list for when she and my dad go away next week and are hitting the outlets. They love buying things for Toddler and my dad goes a bit nuts in the shops and Mom has to reign him in. The last lot of clothes they sent to Toddler Dad chose everything, Mom just checked for correct sizes. Between them and our annual trip to the outlets over Thanksgiving we always make sure TS has some clothes (including pajamas) of the next size up. Nothing worse than realizing small boy has outgrown all of his clothes and has nothing to fit into. I think between them and my PiL I don't have to do any clothes shopping for Toddler for the summer and autumn (unless he has a scary growth spurt I'm not prepared for). I have enough jeans/overalls to get him through until next year too, I think.

Found a plastic box/bin thing to store the 4T clothes in so I've freed up one of the drawers in Toddler's plastic storage unit. Now I can spread out his current clothes into warmer things, lighter weight things and PJs. He's wearing his 2T (barely) and 3T tops and his 3T jeans (cuz the 2T ones just seemed a bit too tight/short). I've realized he's finally into his 2-3 yr trousers/shorts but am now wondering how much longer he'll be in his 2-3 yr tops. He's always been longer in the torso than the leg and I hate seeing little ones sausaged into clothes or showing off too much tummy when they're stretching to climb, asking to be carried, etc.

I noticed dd's jods for the stables are too short on Friday. I then noticed today that when she has her sweatshirt off and sits on the floor in them they separate at the waist and... It is not a good look.

I officially cannot keep up with growing dcs

The rain jacket is brilliant.

I insist on ds and dd having really bright jackets. Ds was a "runner" when he was smaller and I thought the brighter then the better chance of me or a car spotting him.

He had a JoJo one that made him look like a little fisherman's friend, complete with hat. He's outgrown it and has a thin dark blue Buzz Lightyear one I don't like (but was a gift from my Grandma so have put Toddler in it when the weather allows but because it's thin it's not very warm). Mom has said she'd try to find that fireman raincoat for him on their travels next week.

Oh, I meant to ask zoo on the other thread if the number of presents per child were in total (as in, from everyone who loves them and gives them presents) or just presents from her and/or her partner and/or Father Christmas? [nosey] I can see how between Santa, MrScout & I, both sets of grandparents, his aunts & uncles and Godmother TS could easily end up with 50 gifts for Christmas....

carrots, what are jods?

fx mrcarrots comes to his senses! It must be very difficult to juggle/divide the money fairly when only one of you is in paid employment.

scout I have a "too big drawer" in the DC's room for things that will fit soon, and a "too big/out of season" bag under the spare bed in DD2s room. I had a rummage through it a few weeks ago when it first started getting warm & discovered that hardly any of her summer tops fitted so had a look at the supermarket. I found some lovely tops, but the smallest they had was age 6, I got them anyway & was to discover that they fitted her perfectly! (she is 3.5) Like zoo's DD, she has a "sturdy" build!!

I have managed to rein in the gifts from my dparents and my dbrother. My dmil, dsil and her boyfriend always club together and give joint gifts. My dparents used to go mad and get loads because they couldn't when we were wee but they seem to have got the message that they are not doing the dcs a favour if they do. They now buy one big, quite expensive gift which somehow seems better to me than loads and loads of stuff.

The one who went nuts at Christmas was me. The dcs actually seemed fed up with it so it will be seriously reined in by me next year as well.

zoo is right. The more stuff they have and the more easily they get it the less they appreciate it.

Jodhpurs?

Scout Jods are jodphurs - those skin tight riding trousers with the patches on the inner knee.

bessie I really hope dh does come to his senses. We have always treated the money as a shared pot. He is the one with the job now but he knows that I was the one with the job when he did his phd and then when he did his CA qualifications. He knows he can't play the "I am the one who goes out to work" card. Hopefully it is just a momentary blip and he will get a grip

Ooops! The way bessie spelt it.

Auto-correct is my fiend