2014 Durham/Teesside/Tyne & Wear Cake Fest

[juneybean]

Thought I'd be premature and create this thread now.

Currently have this meet up planned:

13th Jan - Miss Tina's in Washington

So am I! It's the only time I can feed T uninterrupted!

Congrats on house and squishy VL!

Have decided that now A is down to one bedtime feed per 24hours, and getting precious little milk then, I can't be arsed with the dairy-free malarkey anymore (do I get a medal for 3 years without brie, including pregnancy?!), so pondering a return to lattes and gooey cheesy paninis if there's a daytime meet up soon.

Plus I took on some extra work recently and have been rewarded with all my exam marking being taken off me (can't tell anyone at work or I'd be hunted with knives!) so my term is suddenly looking up!

Hello! Getting you all back on my threads!

Whoops! I lost you. Cake soon?

CAKE!

No one has posted for over a fortnight! And I'm only posting to get it back my threads again.

How has everyone survived half term?

So far, so good. I'm working full time for the foreseeable future (boringly) so weekends are only really good at the minute or part of the summer holidays. At a 4yo's birthday party and Batman, Spiderman, Iron Man and Captain America have all kindly turned up but I have to say that they don't look as good in real life...

Just kill me is all I can say.

Any preference regarding mode of death?

quick and alcohol fuelled please.

But I'm turning 30... you can't die before I turn 30!?

Paleontologist. We could spend a whole day in ebony. Wouldn't actually kill you but you might feel like death in the morning....

Do you know those times when fate has a really sick sense of humour? Experiencing that at the moment. looking forward to small heading off to school and having actual money. Got over the whole want another baby thing.

At which point we face having another addition to the family. No, I'm not upduffed, but a complicated situation means we will likely have a small baby staying with us fairly regularly and have been asked if we will foster if the worst happens. Got to be assessed by social services to see if we are suitable for this. Heeeeelp.

I'll have it!

Yikes! But you're a marvellous parent so you know you can do it! would you get respite?

Haven't got a clue what is going to happen. Social worker has been given 8 weeks to assess us. don't know what that involves but have been frantically cleaning the house just in case. never going to stay tidy

That sounds overwhelming!

They aren't looking for show home levels of tidiness, just not an actual hazard. They're looking mainly to make sure you know what's involved and to ensure there is no poo on the walls.

You're kids seem happy and healthy (barring allergies!) so I'm sure it will be ok, if nerve-wracking!

Good luck btw

Eeek Spiffy. That sounds an amazing thing to do. Caring for other people's kids is definitely more worrying than caring for your own! Hope all not too overwhelming.

spiggy you are amazing, social services will love you.

Prospect of being assessed on your parenting skills is a teensy bit daunting.

So much for my plans for looking like one of those responsible grown up types though. Managed to pour a kettle of water over my own hand and a fairly impressive looking blister is now growing. Still at least it one of the kids wasn't involved. It's been at last 3 weeks since our last trip to a&e...

MN needs a "like" option!

Surely taking them to A&E rather than letting them kill themselves has to work in your favour.

It's when the nurses say "hello again, which one this time?" and fill in sibling details by memory that you realise you may be spending a bit too much time there...

to be fair it's mainly because 111 insist on sending us there even when the out of hours would be fine because all that's needed is for someone to confirm it is not a chest infection, tell us to keep up the salbutomol and give us steroids. Sigh.

Well if you will insist on having wonky children. manufacturing error rather than parenting error.

I've looked everywhere but I can't find the warranty to make a claim...

Are any of you still here? 30th birthday get together on 19th July at my house if anyone wants to come?