Streupflicht und Schneeschaufel

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Thanks Gabster for the inspiration for the thread!

Add your resolutions here & I can slip alongside and pretend I'll make some too.
Still too fragile - my sleep patterns go haywire when I'm home, stay up till 1 or 2am, then awake at 5am (6 here, usual flipping school time) then I come back & keep crashing on the sofa at 10pm and wake up at 4 bright & breezy.

We have snow, very pretty and h is off till Weds so am pushing him out for Streupflicht, bartered it for a fry-up with real English bacon, hmmmmmm.
Forecast is for -12C to -14C tonight - and when the children go back to school on Thursday. Yikes.

I don't know if Woolies in Germany have closed, but I would imagine you would get a sleeping bag in Real, Admylin.

Ernest
I was wondering about you this morning. Hope the weather is ok for you tomorrow.

It has been pouring all morning here, just bucketing down. Much too wet to take the dog out, have just let her out in the garden.

I woke up this morning feeling really meh. It is my own fault, only last week I was boasting about our family's superior Abwehrkräfte, that none of us have been ill since we arrived in Geneva. Famous last bloody words. I am snuffling and coughing and generally feeling sorry for myself.

I've just seen quite a few decently priced sleeping bags on Amazon.de, what do you think?

a bargain? or no good?

If she is only going to use it indoors, then I guess one of the cheaper ones would do. For camping I woudl go for a dearer one so that she is ntot cold, but for a sleepover where they will not go to sleep until 3am and then be up at 9am...

Could you not get a cheap one over ebay admylin? Doesn't have to be fantastically warm and everything since it is not really for use outdoors.

I looked on Ebay ut it's too mind boggling! So many on offer and some with bad photos and description. I thought the 14,99 one on Amazon looked OK, also saw this one but not much cheaper.

I don't think you need anything fancy, really I don't. I don't know anything about sleeping bags. When I bougth one (which I have somehow lost) , I went to a camping store. It was not cheap. For sleepovers, you don't need anything but a basic cover.

They will be sleeping on some kind of mattress or soemthing anyway or at least a thickish carpet. It would also be ok to take a quilt and a blanket to sleep on IYAM. Still if you want to get her a cheap one, that sounds ok to me.

I'm hoping she'll enjoy this party. The girl who is celebrating her birthday is abit of a spoilt brat, she's also abit more advanced than dd. Dd isn't into dolls and toys any more but she hasn't started on wanting to dress up 'older' or be interested in boys at all (thank goodness). Dd tells me her friend find sher mother to be peinlich and doof but she's really nice and a doctor (gynaecologist) so not doof!

OMG I hope my dd doesn't enocunter too many of those girls yst. That rolling your eyes and groaning about your mother thing is contagious I think.

I know, she's such a nice woman aswell. They are going to watch Wilde Hühner the lastest film which I also don't think is in dd's taste (girls first kiss, firts true love type film) but she absoloutly wants to be included so she might as well go.

They're 9? Boy sounds early.

Both those look fine to me admylin but I'm not a camping expert at all. We got one last year from Amazon but it was a child's size one and I miscalculated the length so that although it fits dd now, it won't for much longer. She loves it though and was so excited about sleeping in it for the first time.

Sorry to hear you're feeling under the weather ML.

TQO, are you feeling any better today? Sinusitus is rotten, isn't it? Dh has one of these. It takes a while to get used to but he swears by it now.

Well this girl is turning 10 but I also think it's over the top. The mum probably gave in to the film choice as she doesn't seem the type to push that sort of thing either. The girl can nag apparantly until she gets her own way.

What is going to be REALLY hard is when they come home with some greasy, totally unpleasant, unattractive looking slob of a teenage boyfriend (ie. a perfectly normal boy but we are going to hate that and think them escapees from hell, aren't we?).

hi there taipo

How many are going to the party admylin?

My dd is 9 and definitely not interested in boys or make up or anything. She's seen the Wilder Hühner films but is more of a Wilde Kerle fan. She's very much a tomboy atm.

lol at description of perfectly normal boy, ZZZen.

Isn't it going to be terrible though if your dc have a girlfriend or boyfriend you can't stand and that person is not kind to your dc

Eek

Yes my dd like steh Wilde Kerle films too. Especiall yteh last one a sit has a vampire in it and that's her favourite subject at the moment.

She thinks maybe 5 or 6 girls ar egoing. I told her to ask today. I also need to get a present, and another for her other friend who celebrates on Sunday next week. So Friday is sleep over then Sunday from 10am to 5pm at the other girls house. So 2 presents. Teh other girl isn't so advanced, she is more still into fairys and fluffy toys so also not realyl dd's type but she obviously gets on with all the different types. Another friend is a hip-hop dancing girl who is always dressed like some american rapper and trendy from top to toe!

Yep, I think it'll be quite hard to let go and let them make their own mistakes.

I could probably cope with greasy and spotty (that was me after all at 15!) but not with someone I thought had a very controlling personality.

Dread the thought of having to let them go. Have to block that one out of my mind for a few more years!

DH has always said that DD is not getting to go out with boys until she is at least 25yo

DD likes the Wilde Kerle films too, she saw the first one at a friends house last year. I thought that she was still a bit young for them though.

My puppy just barked! She never barks, but she must have seen something in the garden (perhaps next door's cats) and she started barking. Sooo sweet. She is now playing with her blanket. She is lying on her back, half under the blanket and rolling back and forward. Hmm. She seems to be stuck. Should I help her?

I think it's a good sign that she's being invited to all these parties admylin. She hasn't had long after all to make friends at her new school and I think it's really hard to go into a class where most friendships are firmly established.

ZZZen
Just noticed that you asked about DD earlier. She is doing great. Funnily enough, since she started the lunch time club she has really settled well. She was translating for me on Wednesday when I was trying to talk to the cleaner

That's amazing how quickly dc learn languages. What a great gift to give them the chance to be fluent in 3 langauages mmelindt.

I think I'd really struggle to learn a new language now and I was always good at languages at school.

How is your French now ML?