D'y ever wonder why its ALWAYS this time of night when we start a new thread!!

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Still searching the shag pile for my Faliraki flip flops!!!

Morning girls......................ah woken up to another lovely day, grey sky and a chilly wind..................oh to be in England :o

Morning girls - freezing here Trips! xx

Trips- sounds a little more hopeful about you DH. Shabs, yes- have you tried the dress on?
Got back at 8.30 last night to find M in full meltdown mode again! This time DH was the target. He can just hold him in a bearhug until he gives in, Im not strong enough do that! J was also raiding fridge/freezer last night, told him to get himself cereal, found he had rated packet Doritos, whole packet of salami slices, choc mousse and a fab lolly, mostly bought for our picnic lunch Sunday. Now got to buy more, no, I'll never be rich either Trips Oh, and laptop got to go for repair again, so just got iPod to browse at the moment

Girls where can I get cheap waterproofs for the boys, need coat and trousers by next Frid.............and I am broke!

Hello all! Trips - Ebay!

Shabs - did you receive the card?

I did HM and have forwarded it xx

fed up...........big time.............bored out of my mind................

and now very ....ended up with 7 xs 14yr olds here. Dwindled it down to 4 by 9pm. Then madam and her friend disappear. Phone rings at 9.30pm, they are in the park do they have to come back.................yes, NOW! 10pm no sign of them, phone............no reply. H now very very angry and bawling at me. 10.15pm they come back, then as if Alice can stay over. No its not fair to as at that time of night and Dad is very tired . Then told she has to as she told her Mum she was and Mum is out and wont be back until very late. So z bed dragged out, then they ask whats for supper Its now midnight and they are carrying on in the room next door...........tiny house disturbs everyone. How do you cope with this age group, someone tell me please.......

Oh Trips I am so for you. I dont think our children will understand all this until they are parents themselves. Its hard being an older Mum....dont get me wrong Tom is, on the whole, quite well behaved...but he dosent have friends outside of school. That worries me a lot. At his age I had loads of friends. He seems happy in his own company. I hope your night has settled down a little - I cant sleep - again!!! xxx

Morning girls xx

Have had horrendous nightmares all night - the same one - I know I cant have had them all night BUT it feels like it. Woke up because of them about an hour after I went to bed. Finally have given up on the sleep idea!!!

Evening ladies!

Just checking in really, been so busy. Dd and ds1 are now BOTH in double figures! When a busy weekend though and rather odd, as they both had their own things on and their birthday whizzed by. They are def growing up!

Trips, you are being too nice! We don't do sleepovers, kids do not help themselves to food without asking, and do Not put me on the spot with uninvited guests. No doubt tho in two years time I will be screaming in the same situation!

I have a rather odd situation actually. Dd best friend seems to have a crush on dd, which is slightly getting out of hand. She seems to want rather more from the relationship than dd does! It's funny actually, cos I did say to dd, jokingly before that the girl seems a bit too keen, and then shortly after dd got some rather suggestive SMS. Dd doesn't know I read them, and I think is too embarrassed to tell me, and I really feel for her!

Bubby, hope comp is fixed soon, and the car! Hope the boys are still behaving.

Shabs, how is the planing going? Sorted shoes or bag yet?

Hello HM, long time no see, you must drop in more often!

Hi chops, I am ok, soooo busy but nice to be on here wih you ladies again!!! How is everyone tonight?

HM!

Sniffs flowers and sighs at kindness.....................
3am they shut up, 3am!
We were up and out by 10am this morn, Fathers Day and not one child up. So we went to Sandwich, lovely hidden gardens with very nice tea room by the river and acted like adults.......................lovely:)
Now totally knackered and dreading tomorrow, collect my mum from the home at 11am...............its going to be so hard.
Night night all............night night xx

Morning girls xx

Hi Chops - they are not supposed to raid for food, but J took permission to have one thing (cereal) as permission to have everything he wanted!
Hi HM - saw you had a win in competitions the other week- well done!
Trips- glad you had a bit of a break yesterday, your DD is taking the pee me thinks! Good luck with your mum today.
Shabs- sorry about nightmares- they can be horrid.
Ruby - nice to see you too- know what you mean about extra work tho.
Nice day out yesterday, went to an open day at local american airbase. amazingly, not too busy, and not at all expensive (£5 per adult, under 16s free). M & J behaved themselves and R forgot about the damm car for a few hours. At work today- supposed to be filing, but, as I am covering the whole week for colleagues holiday, I am sitting here on MN instead .
Oh, forgot to say, got flat tire Saturday, very nice young man stopped, who turned out to be the grandson of an old gent from the village I have helped out a couple of times. He changed tyre, looked at the bracket holding tire cage up, and saw it was broken, he took that and the tire away with him, fixed both, and bought them both back last night and re-fitted them to my car, wouldn't take anything for his good deeds! There are some very nice people out there

aww, that's lovely bubby!

What did HM win?

I've not had much lately. Some tickets, hoping to go to the Good food show on friday, have VIP tickets which include champagne and food tokens! Had £100 cheque last month, which was handy to pay off some bills. Most of the other stuff has been rather less exciting - a bag of crisps! a towel, a book, leggings.

Oh, and I won a breast pump! It jsut turned up! I nopt quite sure what I was thinking when I entered that one

£100 waitrose vouchers, posting about dinner parties I belive, since we have not had a dinner party since the boys were small, there would be notheing I could contribute to that subject!!

Very nice! I must have missed that one. Not that I really do dinner parties neither!

Evening girls..............one day Ill come on here with good news, even to win a pkt of jelly babies would be nice:) So sad and fed up, collected Mum from the home at 12pm, she was sooo pleased to be back home. Tucked her up in her fav chair and she watched the birds in her garden, made her some decent food, veg from the allotment, byshe loved it.At 2pm the district nurse came out, I had phoned them early this morning asking for a visit as I was sooo worried about the smell from her leg. The home told me last week the second lot of swabs had come back all clear, they lost the first lot! I could smell infection, the most awful smell. Anyway it didnt take the dn long to ask us to take her straight back into hospital which we did. So poor Mum, back in hospital by 5pm, the vascular team came and did some tests and by 6pm we were told that her condition had rapidly deteriorated. So they have kept her in, on a/b`s, and will review the infection. A by-pass is out of the question, the only real answer is amputation, but how far would they have to go? Its so terrible for her........

Oh Trips - I personally think that she cant be at home. Can you imagine how guilty you would feel trying to nurse her while, at the same time, not knowing what to do??? I know that I could not nurse my Mum through such a complicated medical problem. Its not fair on either you or your Mum to expect you to just manage. Totally not fair. I hope you dont take offence at what I have said - it was not meant that way. They need to use their extensive medical knowledge and help her properly. Oh my god I dread getting to a stage like this with my parents. growing old is crap!!! xxxx