D'y ever wonder when it is going to stop snowing??

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Morning girls xx

School is on thank goodness, but not til 10, and dh is wfh

We have appointments, 5 mins with each teacher, who are spread across two different buildings and two floors on each. (dd's school is like a huge campus!)

We then get there, scrap the appointments and just go grab and talk to anyone who is free! I did have to interrupt one teacher mid flow to ask which subject he actually taught!

Still not able to find this thread through normal channels [have asked Msnet but I haven't managed to succeed in following their thread hiding deactivation instructions...so forgive intermittent posts

I have had a homework revelation this evening with the bolshy12 year old (sounds v unlike your lovelyTom Shabba He flatly refused to admit he had any "work" to do. Dh has taken the other two to see "Matilda" (ds1 had seen it on a drama trip with school)

I wrote out a schedule in 15 minute chunks interspersing computer with serious reading with violin with science revision and ending with fanfare of Dr Who DVD episode. All timed to minute and he absolutely loved it, and for first time ever sat with me answering questions about science . My son has some Gina Ford missing link, despite being demand fed, he wants to be told when to eat his toast, and when to read improving books. He kept saying, what fun this is, can we do this tomorrow? It has taken me 12 years to think of this

Bubbles good luck with puppy, they are hard work, by all accounts (not having had one sadly, this is reports only. Friend says she is getting up at 4.30 to put hers out first thing to train!
Sokmonsta oh they are v sweet when they head off in different directions, you wait!
Chops sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,[ Goldilocks Goldilocks etc...thou shalt not wash dishes nor yet feed the kine] it sounds good anyway, but strange to cancel cheerleading for cushions
whoever is attending parents' eves yes they are a nightmare, and I hate the way you have to say everything in front of child, v humiliating and constraining. I think the child means they remember who they are talking about sheer nos must be nightmare for teachers.

Been in bed all day, not well, slightly more with it now! Have put dw on, and slowly clearing up the rubble of the day now. Dh has been saintly helping when I am underweather.

Inthewilderness the link is here

Scroll right down to the bottom and you should see your list of hidden threads. If that doesn't work, maybe we can start a new thread for you?

Glad it's just not me that thinks cheerleading is more important than a cushion!

The timetable with your ds sounds lovely.

Reminded me of something else with parents evening - when we left, dd said to me, 'why are you concentrating on all the negative things?' I felt awful!! I had to sit down and explain to her, that I'm really really proud of her (she had done so much better this time) but we have 5 minutes which each teacher and I want to identify where she needs the most support and where we can help her. Poor girl! She did seem satisfied with that.

Morning girls xx

Tom insisted on coming with me on the very last minute. He got glowing reports from everybody!! We got to Maths and I let her talk to him and then said my bit!! She was a bit like this and then like this and said that she agreed with me but the 'powers that be' had made the decision. Then on to English. What a nasty piece of work she is....she turned her chair and talked to Tom telling him how he worked too slowly and methodically - how he had to speed up blah blah blah.....she would not make eye contact with me. Then she started to try and get rid of us.

I told her what I thought of the decision about Maths and how he has 2 Mock GCSE's today and I was far beyond unhappy. She was unhelpful so I found the head teacher. He got told as well!!!!

So!!! Now Tom is swopping PE for 4 lessons of Maths....they are revision lessons and there are just two pupils in them.....none of the other kids want to do them, they are happy to be out of Maths.

Oh yes......and there is a small item of interest In walks this tiny, slim little year 11......she looks very shy and Tom went straight to talk to her. She is so like my DIL Emma that it made me grin.......and she has long red hair!!!! Seems like my boy is growing up!!

that was a good outcome! Well done, shabs x

Morning! Operation tidy-up continues. Putting quite a bit on freegle. Stuff that I've either tried and failed to sell or cba.

Taking the bigs to school, sticker assembly for my biggest. A nap hopefully for the littlies and once more unto the breach (sp?)!

Glad parents evening went well. I am glad you got the English/maths thing sorted. Tom sounds so sweet with the girl

why don't children listen?

Shay stop back pedalling and changing gears, you will jam the chain, Shay stop back pedalling and changing gears, you will jam the chain, Shay stop back pedalling and changing gears, you will jam the chain, Shay stop back pedalling and changing gears, you will jam the chain,

CRUNCH! And I didn't have any tools with me. now have hands covered in bike oil that won't wash off!

I have mixed feelings today about it being Friday today, yey to no school runs, but instead we have Jack's sports trip and Ravi's concert tomo and then parade on sunday for the big two. I wish it was NEXT Friday! Can't wait to get away from it all for a few days

Its moi.............I am here, just been abit stressy and am very tired. Dk had appt y/day with the bowel surgeon, going to whip him into hosp asap to repair the hernia...............yehhhhhhhhhhh 2/3 days peace. I am not being mean but he is doing my head in about this holiday. Not booked anything, cannot bring myself to spend £8-9000 on a 2 week holiday. Trying to entice him to Spain, Port Aventura, no its not Disney, but its hot and it £6000 cheaper! House smells of gloss paint, hall being decorated, havent go a clue yet what colour, needs new carpets but I think its a waste of time with these 4, note I say 4, came home to find mud all through and only dk been here. If we dont do big big summer hol, we could do half term, I need a break! Rubes I love holiday planning :)

er why am I not on my way to MN meet up

yay! finally...it was right at the bottom of the second linked page, that's why I couldn't find the hidden threads thingy...

It is showing snowing again.

And it is pickup time!

reTom oh I can't wait for that to happen to my lovely ds1 (12/13). He is so shy with girls, but so handsome already... Unfortunately he goes to all boys' school. Still, girls in sixth form, so some hope he might meet a few in four years

remud Dh is the only person in this house who doesn't remove his shoes I blame every muddy mark on him with good reason. He blames cats! There was a mouse under kitchen table this morning, well, the remains of a mouse. We cannot use garden atm, it is just a mudbath.

I was told today my 10 month old is a flirt

I left the babies in the school hall with the other parents while I ran James over to preschool. When I got back for sticker assembly, a lovely new mum told me the twins were great and that Joshua had been flirting.

Well the boys do definitely take after their father with their cheeky grins and fluttering eyelids (they have gorgeous long eyelashes).

Operation organising Sokmonsta continues. Big plans to organise the children which dh will probably hate. Involves me being crafty and making a mess.

This is I know pathetic..............but I am sulking! Frid night, I cook cook cook all week, so tonight I have cooked for the boys before ATC, dh has to take them tonight so on the way back he got 2 pices of fish from the chippy, I prefer my own chips. I was looking forward to it, a treat. I open the paper to find two scrappy tiny pieces of fish, £3.60p each. By the tme I scraped the batter off I ended up with three fork fulls of fish! I would like to phone up and bloody well tell them off, it was my treat.

we had a very rich chinese takeaway this evening. And I feel sick now. I think I prefer my own cooking after all, although it is a very good takeaway.
Maybe we are grease resistant in our old age

I have just seen Michael Fassbender on Graham Norton. He is so handsome. I kept thinking of Mr Rochester and wondering if this was really the same person I had seen in the film. Actors are strange creatures. I feel as I have haven't watched telly for ages, Graham Norton feels like a treat! We had a completely telly free eve with kids as further behaviour improvement experiment; what it has made me realise is that they entirely hog it; DH and I never get to watch our programmes and by the time we have finally turned the lights out, it is TOO late to bother.

Eve (apart from the chinese effect) was good. We managed to pack in a book on the Blitz, sumo wrestling, hexbug (not looked at since receivingat Xmas), siblings chatting, winding down, cd listening and all because we switched the wretched box off!

And for the first time ever I dared put a Youtube video on Facebook; I felt very brave..No-one "liked" it however. Maybe my choice of artiste was too avant garde.. possibly a bit rowdy for Friday night...!

Sokmonsta sticker assembly sounds delightful! Good luck with the organising, you sound pretty organised already..

Goodmorning ladies, wonder what the w/wend has in store?

Morning! Operation tidy-up continues. Bringing the children in on tasks today with a trip to the library later for a story & craft session.

Morning girls xx

Glad to see you Trips xx

Hiya Shabs, so do the yr 11 all do their gcse exams in Feb? That will be us next year, they are so behind in their maths and english, no hope for them!! Bloody school is useless, their science teacher walked out twice last week because she can`t cope, she has "problems" unrelated to her job!!!! I cannot bring myself to book this holiday, something is stopping me. You know what though Shabs I think its because I would like some company, someone to have a laugh with, otherwise I can see it being the same as at home, just 4 diff walls. Anyone been to see Quartet? I went on Tues, its sooooo funny, Shabs you would like it, Pauline Collins is brill in it and as for Billy Connolly!! Been baking this morning, made cheese scones, fruit scones and flap jacks, that was lunch.............er I am supposed to be trying to lose weight:o

They will all do their GCSE's after the Easter break. The official leaving date for everybody is June 30th but most of them will have finished their exams before then. At the moment it is mock exams and fast track GCSE's for a few of them. Its all complicated and weird Trips!!

Cheese scones??? xx

Morning girls xx

Afternoon

Day out yesterday, went to Asda and did shopping!
DH definitely becoming DK, he is moaning like stink about "doing everything" then he moans at me for trying to help! Also, relationship between DK and J breaking down rapidly, not helped this morning by J leaping to my defence when DK accused me of always shouting and nagging him, and J said "You shout at Mum all the time, when all she tries to do is make sure everybody has everything they need, and she has to shout, as we keep going into the other room!"
I must be shouting a lot, but trying to organise this lot from my chair or bed is like trying to herd flies!!
Then DK got pissed off again because he was moaning about having to cook dinner, and I said "you help me prep, and I will sit on the perching stool in kitchen and cook (it was a roast) he then moaned that I thought he couldn't cook it, and I said, no, I think you would have managed (with a lot of advice and prompting from me, which he would have called nagging!), but I wanted to help out and give him a break! he then went into a sulk and said "don't bother cooking for me, I'm not hungry!!" Needless to say, I cooked for us all, and have even made apple crumble, DKs favorite, for a pud, and he has eaten it, but he had a look that could sour milk on his face while he did so!
trips I know what you mean about the holiday, I would love a break with a couple of girlfriends instead of family, even just a weekend! and, as for mud, our garden is a sea of it at the moment, the only thing saving my carpets is the fact the dogs and kids have to come through the conservatory first, and I have one of those 'mud catcher' rugs there, and everyone takes their shoes off when they come in, the trick is to get the boys to put them away, and not just leave them sitting in ghe hallway along eith their coat and school bags, which are just left where they drop them!

Evening girls...............I am in bed, because I am p- - - -d off with dk who tonight is the biggest dk on MN!!.Bubbs are me and thee co joined? I as usual cooked roast tonight, in the kitchen for 2 hours. Had 4 14yr olds here today and one of mine wasnt even here. Sat down finally at 6.45pm for supper, James announces he is going to his mates round the corner for a Domino pizza, I said no, dk said let him go. Dd comes down and says she isnt hungry, I know she hates roast but its once a week. Eventually 4 of us sit to eat, she pushes it around her plate and asks to go, he says yes. Ds 2 eats up and leaves. I rarely make a pudding, dk was delighted to spy earlier apple crumble (see Bubbs we are co joined), said, "cant remember the last time your Mother made pudding". We sit on our own and he starts talkingabout holidays and then says we need to think about a new carpet in the hall when he has finished painting it. I said its a waste of time as no one will take their shoes off inc him, I came home Frid to find mud everywhere and he was the last one here. He then said bugger doing anymore, I can do it myself. I said thats ok I can get someone to do it for me. He then throws a name at me, a guy who he knows has always had a soft spot for me. We explode, he storms off. I clear up, then get the apple crumble etc out, go into the sitting room and ask if he would like some, the answer was no. That is the last bloody pudding I am going to make. I so want to go on holiday.................just not with him..........................am I being bloody mean? He is driving me nuts!!

trips yes, we were seperated at birth, or, at least our other halves were!
We all enjoyed the crumble, eventually, I hadn't served it up, as everyone said tbry were full, then my DK came in and said, "are we having the pudding then ?" I said, yes, do you want to serve it then? so he went of in a strop and said "If I must!", and almost threw the bowls at us!
This evening, however, I have had a long (and tearful) conversation about J and him, and said to DK "can't you see how much J is hurting, he really wants to connect with you, he feels you and M are great friends and he is left out in the cold, he is behaving badly to get your attention, as even negative attention is better than none".
Dk has now been up and had a cuddle and chat with J, so , hopefully, it will get better. They have decided to go to the new karate club that had stated up in the village together, as M doesn't want to go, hopefully this father/son time will do them good., maybe he returning back from knobdom! (By the way, for the newbies, DK means Darling Knob! )

you make me laugh Bubs