D'ya ever wonder who put the bop in the bop shh bop, or the ram in the ramma lamma ding dong?

[shabbapinkfrog]

Come on you multiple mums - there is a 'threatened roll call'

Morning girls. xx

I've been lying in bed wide awake since 5 Trips. xxx

Hi Shabs, is it our age? Makes such a long day doesn`t it?

Not sure if its age love....with me its just a head full of 'pinkfrogs' - have got Lew from 7 till 5.30 today. His Mummy has got overtime to do. Not quite sure how I will get through today, I love my lot with all my heart but.....oh well, Im sure you know what I mean xx

Evening all............felt stressy all day.......not doing very well am I? Day 7 of the hols and I am at my wits end, 5x`s13yr olds here again, why do they all come here? Oh well, tomorrow is another day............maybe it will bring some excitement night night xx

Morning girls xx

Goodmorning Shabs...............have you got Lew again today? School hols and no lie in for you........does Tom play with him or is he out with his friends? Mine all want to hang about here, take last night, their friend Harry turns up at 8.30pm and they ask if they can put up a tent in the car park and sleep out! Neighbours would love that! I dont know, kids today have so much that we never had, all material stuff, and yet somehow I feel their childhood memories wont be as lovely as ours............is this our fault? All I can remember even as a teen was being out all day with a gang of friends, to the park, beach, a few sandwiches a bottle of bing, didnt need much. Now Becca and her friend wont go into town unless they have money to go to Costa Coffee for lunch!!! Anyway we are off fishing again today to get them out, but even that costs, £23 for day ticket! Back later. xx

Oh yes Trips got Lew right through the Summer holidays - he starts nursery in October but something tells me that will involve me dropping him off and picking him up nursery is also a 45 minute walk for me - cant afford busfare. Feel really peed off with 'my lot' at the moment - can you tell??

Tom doesn't do 'playing out' it drives me round the bloody bend. He spends the morning, when he gets up, arguing and fighting with Lew and then huffs and puffs around the house for the rest of the day. His friend lives quite a distance from us and they are both a bit geeky and obsessed with computers. I managed to get him and Lew out yesterday onto the park at the bottom of our road - they ran around for a couple of hours and had fun.

I reckon kids today have no idea at all how to have cheap (or free) fun. Think its just a sign of the times to be honest.

Remember the money I was supposed to inherit from my Great Aunt? Well, 3 months have passed and no sign of a cheque or anything....my God that sounded very heartless didn't it? Was really hoping that we could get away for a week with it. Oh my word I am very peed off. Sick of having nowt, struggling, and spending my entire life helping other people and pining my stupid smile on!!!

OK rant over...as you were LOL!!

Have fun Ruby - I miss Norfolk, wish I was coming!

We're working on free entertainment. The sun is starting to come out so hopefully my lot will be in the pool and I can sit and read my kindle. We got a 10ft pool with filter for free from freegle and the kids love it. I also managed to get some bargain sports stuff from argos - 6 different sets for a fiver! We'll be down the park a lot, and though it is too far to the beach from here there is a lake with a beach not too far off. I've also used three different email addresses to book three free football training sessions with tescos!

dd does the coffee thing too now - costs a fortune! When I was a kid, it was 35p for chips off the market and a bottle of panda pops! Though she will play down the park with her friends too. Might send them off with sarnies for a few hours today.

sorry for ranting and moaning before. Im a very lucky woman having a great family - 'stuff' just gets me down now and then x

oh shabs - don't apologise for having a moan, everyone needs a rant now and then!

you rant away shabs, don't think you should be doing the pre school run not your responsibility, sorry if that upsets anyone

I will either have to help with the morning or afternoon school run. When my lads were little my Mum took early retirement and she helped me all through the school holidays - she looked after them, fed them, etc etc. I was just trying to repeat the kindness to my own son and his family. Thing is that my Mum just had me and my brother.....no children much younger. Think that is what makes it so hard. A teenager and a little 'un is very hard work xx

It is hard Shabs, I find I`m ready for my bed by 9pm, my three are still wide-eyed and legless......................................oooooo I lurveddddd that song:)

See Im still on here - FGS - cant sleep....Tom in bed because he is going out for the day with my Mum and Dad tomorrow. Not sure if I have already said on here but my Mum has been diagnosed with Alzhaimers..... has been given tablets that have, so far, stopped the progression of the illness. Tom says he wants to spend as much time as possible with her because he is frightened that she is going to die.

If anybody should be spared an illness like this it should be my Mam....the kindest, calmest most loving woman that ever walked the earth....Aint life fecking bloody grand?

In the words of Robbie Williams....'I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans...my head speaks a language I don't understand.' xx

Morning girls xx

Goodmorning Shabs......................

Thanks Trips.

All my Mams life she has been a large lady - used to lose tons of weight and then put it back on - sounds very like me.

She is now in a size 10 - and in her words....'Have wanted to be skinny all my life, seems mad really to have worried about how I look forever and a day.'

She is just a bit forgetful at the moment and the tablets seem to be working very well. We have had more laughs in the last few months than ever before...I intend to make the best of every day with her xxx

My Nan (Mums mum) was one of 5 girls. Non identical twin girls.....a few years later non identical twin girls (one of which was Nan) and then a single little girl. Both the oldest twins died from the complications of Alzhaimers and my Nans twin was the same. It is a big problem in my mums family. Must admit though with these tablets (which cost the NHS an absolute fortune) she has improved a great deal. Not sure how long they will be effective but, touch wood, let it be many years.

My Nan was the smallest of all the girls - weighed about 3lbs when she was born and had a crappy life - full of struggles and heartache. Yet she died just before her 90th birthday and was on the ball with no alzhaimer problems at all. She used to say she was too nowty (angry) to get it

Mum says that when she dies she will get to be with my lads again and all her loved ones that have died BUT she will miss all of us.....can see her logic but it makes me want to sob!! She reckons bereavement is only revolting when its a young life that is over. She calls me brave and says she is proud of me for coping and I look at her in awe because she was the one who taught me how to be a Mum.

Hi Shabs, forgot to say thank you for my song last night, always loved it, makes me remember dreamy heady days, working in Deals first boutique selling Mary Quant, Twiggy stuff ,skirt 14" long, over the knee boots, long hair down my back, bloody good days................wouldn`t it be nice if we could dip back into that time, even for a minute.................feel very sentimental tonight. Also very tired..............kale nits my bosom buddy, kale nits xx

Kale Nits Trips - cant get to sleep so still sat here!!

Your words conjure up great pictures. I had waist length dark auburn hair, the tiniest of waists, massive boobs, and a JLo type bum Always out in high heels and full make up. Good job, pocket full of money!!!

Morning Shabs, I bet you did, great days, the kids these days will never have that time, it was new, heady, exciting, fantastic music, loved every minute of it...................ahhhh

Morning girls xx