Chatting, ranting and some stepping! Come in and have a brew with us.

[carrotsandcelery]

A place to have a blether, and a . All chatters are welcome, stepping or otherwise.

Come inside and settle down on the sofa.

I am fine Scout apart from a major dose of lazyitus

Me too, carrots. I had been doing already and did a bunch of little/easy things or things I had put off (like labelling Toddler's color cards) but I'm so tired now.

I have managed to get through a few more jobs but it is slow and steady today.

A lot of the mums at school were also saying how tired they were so hopefully it is just end of term and all the extras that come with it or the weather or something.

I don't have a school-aged child so don't know what my problem is.

Maybe you are just deeply sympathetic to my plight Scout

I suspect sleep deprivation is the issue and that you should get to bed earlier (make me take my own advice please) and nap when TS goes for his nap too.

I've purposely not napped with Toddler today -- I don't want to let him nap too long or we could end up with another non-sleeping Toddler tonight (and I could probably sleep all afternoon if left to my own devices). I'm hoping to get him to the active music group this afternoon then we need to go into town to go to the bank and the post office.

Ds has a couple of activities on this afternoon and I have to stay dressed and sociable until about 9pm as a friend is dropping dd off for me tonight (as I can't go and get her as dh is away) and is picking up something she wants from me at the same time.

After that it will be pjs and bed as I don't have to wait up for dh coming home.

I am scared to nap as I have this feeling I might never wake up.

I suspect I should phone the doc and find out what my thyroid results were for that test a few weeks ago as maybe I could solve this. The fact everyone else is shattered though makes me think it is just end of term crazyiness.

I have a craving for oatcakes and cheese. Not very waistline friendly but it is quite a compelling craving...

MrScout's working in YOUT this week so is home for bedtime every night -- YAY!

If you were my 11 yo dd and your gymnastics bag was empty, where would you have put your gymnastics kit? It is not in the wash and I have searched her remarkably tidy bedroom. Where else could it be? [baffled]

sadly i took spider into school today while it was dry wihout taking a picture but teacher is threatening to let them all bring costume home after fridays assembly so i will photo and post if it survives then!

carrots cant be faffed is in the air,i have nasty case of it too

cats we have nutty pidgeons that swoop.i suspect "kindly" old dears feeding them has made them a bit too confident around people an they think if you are at teh local park what ever you are eating is fair game

i don t like feathers in my sandwiches

feels like a long week.i think dd2 fighting sonething as very irritable and teary plus dp has decided not come today even though he isnt at work

ds has cold and little zoo just has a touch cant help its

as its quite warm here dcs have opted to abandon jacket potato suppper and want sandwiches and i cant be bothered to argue with them!

zoo I cooked a meal at my dparents tonight and my ddad decided he didn't want it and made himself a sandwich

I have had a quite an afternoon. My dmum usually takes dd to gymnastics on a Tuesday and then she spends time with my dparents while I take ds to his activities. (different villages in opposite directions!)

Today dd was getting her badges so dmum said I should go to gymnastics and she would take ds.

Ds has managed to lose a second coat and to get into trouble from my dmum for mucking about in the changing rooms at swimming. Meanwhile dd was in hysterics as she too could not find her gymnastics gear and then left the house unlocked and then we got stuck in a traffic jam on the way to the sports centre so she was late. How we managed to find a traffic jam where we live I do not know but you could guarantee that you would find the first one in 20 years when you are running late

This was all manageable, albeit unpleasant, but then my ddad thought he would fix it all by interrogating ds about his jacket and raging at him. He had already got into trouble from my dmum so I thought that was enough. Ddad went at it such that he was scared to come in the living room (my ddad is very very scary when he is cross).

I am now just counting the minutes until my friend drops dd and picks up her stuff so I can take myself off to bed.

I'm tired today (no sleep at all last night) but have to drive to school so I couldn't risk a nap either. I've been doing laundry and playing withing puppies. Matched up the socks, sorted undies into DD1 & 2 piles, and drank copius amounts of coffee. Just realised that I have to leave in 15 mins as school finished early today. Only just done some lunch as I haven't been hungry because of anger munching on chocolate all day

Nurse called an hour ago because DD1 bumped her head, no advers symptoms so I'm picking up at the normal time. There's a clinic 5 mis from school, so I'll probably pop in there with her. I'll decide when I see her.

Tomorrow is our anniversary, unless I do hang draw and quarter him of course. Today I just wasn't in the mood for gift shopping, so I haven't.

I'm just going to put the DW on, and I'm outta here

I would be soooooo tempted to give your dh some fly spray and some cleaning supplies for his anniversary but I suspect that is not in the spirit of the occasion and would not improve relations.

Instead may I suggest that he is strongly encouraged to spoil you rotten

Toddler gets a few episodes of Peppa Pig in the evening (after dinner, before bed) as part of his bedtime routine (when we're home). I set the DVD to "play episodes" rather than choose individual episodes and I ended up falling asleep with Toddler on my lap. Toddler got an entire DVD of Peppa. Double .

Oh poor you Scout. It won't do TS any harm though. At least he didn't fall asleep. That would have been harder to deal with.

No, but he was definitely heavy during stories. I was just about done bedtime when MrScout came home so of course Toddler jumped up "Daddy! Story!" So MrScout ran a story and said that TS nodded off on his lap during the story (so much so his paci came out of his mouth). Fingers crossed he sleeps through.

I think I might go to bed soon.

I am tempted to do the same Scout. I am having a mug of camomile tea first though.

Carrots

OH has continued to do things around the house, un-prompted, and spent time making DDs laugh and telling them how proud he is of them etc. I've never seen him grovel like this. Tonight he not only cleared the table after dinner but also emptied the DW and washed up. He's done demaggoting, and will do so again before he goes to bed. Has asked if I will please sleep in the same bed. Hasn't told the DDs, so when DD2 asked why I used her bed last night he said I was testing all the beds in the house and as hers was vacant I chose that one last night.

Scout great bonus for toddler, hope you sleep/slept well.

I'm really tired now, I'm going to have this glass of wine - that OH opened, poured and brought to me - and then go to bed. Packed lunch will be assembled in the morning, but it's going to be better than today's- tuna stuffed pepper(raw aka "crunchy") with salad and fresh fruit.

Adora

May I suggest a framed picture of a maggot as a gift for your DH on your aniversary?

I am feeling a bit urgh! today. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning. DS is off school not feeling well and full of cold. He might also have a D & V bug. Yuk! I have a feeling the washing machine will be busy!

What's the next "patriotic" type holiday here in the UK? We've missed St George's Day (I wasn't on the ball) and the Jubilee has passed. The Olympics is a chance to wave the GB Flag but it's not really "patriotic". Please don't suggest the football like MrScout did (though he's not a sports fan and doesn't give a hoot about the current series). I suggested Guy Fawkes Night but was told that's not really patriotic (by MrScout who gets wound up when I suggest you're "celebrating/putting on a pedastel a guy who wanted to blow up Parliment").

And why do most bank holidays here not seem to have any reason?

Hi Arti Where have you been hiding?

Scout you couldn't wave a Union flag on St George's Day anyway.

I would say the Olympics. That is when the whole nation comes together again. That is when the rest of our Union Flag stuff will come out. Dd is obsessed with Lee Pearson so we will probably make a big deal of things when he competes. We will watch the gymnastics too and the athletics and the swimming and the cycling... We will watch a lot of it. Going Olympics mad here!

The football does the opposite. It divides otherwise happy blended communities (Spot the person who lives in a blended community!!) Eeeek!

I've been busy Carrots!
My Tah Dah's yesterday included buying a car.
I won't get it till next week as they are servicing it and MOTing it and I have to wait for my money to transfer from my savings bond.

It is a 2002 VW Polo with 77000 miles on the clock and it is costing me 2,500ish. It is silver and a really expensive posh car for me! My current one is 20 years old. (It is still going OK, but it is getting to the point where they don't make parts for it any more so I'd have to start going round scrapyards to get parts, which I'm not really up for!). This "new" car will be the 5th VW Polo I have owned. I really like them.

I am a VW girl as well Arti. Congrats on your new car! How exciting!

I am trying hard to make a bracelet for ds's teacher. She has done such a brilliant job with him this year and I want her to know how much we appreciate the fact she has gone the extra mile for him. It is a complex pattern though so it is taking me AGES. I really hope it works out.

I am doing a little happy dance. The only thing in the wash basket is a white pair of boxers. Having two airers is really helping me to get the sheets and towels processed. Yay!