D'ya ever wonder if you could still do the twist and not actually wet yourself in the process?

[shabbs]

New thread my friends xxx

quite fancy this one!

Trips, 2nd rug is lovely. Wouldn't show the dirt as much either .

Well that's 3 out of 4 off for the day. Back to school (breaks open bubbly). Now to try and put the house to rights with the help of Jen jen.

Evening girls...........life is feeling like a treadmill atm, same old thing day in day out. I am sick to death of cooking, dinner every night for 5, fussy eaters............I never seem to get out of the kitchen until 7.45pm, hours making it, 10 mins at the table. Feel as though I have been cooking and cleaning for years..........well I have almost 37 years..........I tell them I am fed up, I suggest they might like to cook for me one night a week, I long for the day I can buy a microwave meal and have it at 1pm, then just a simple sandwich for tea.................feeling very old, very tired and very grumpy....:(

Oh trips what a pain....read up thread to my message to you and look forward to that!! Xxx

I know what you mean about cooking all the time. Midweek I do separate teas for the kids and us as dh doesn't get in until 830 most nights!! I try though to do v simple stuff midweek that doesn't take much prep...doesn't always work like that though. What kind of fussy eaters are yours? I have one who won't eat cheese which makes life tough!

Morning HM, the fussiest by far is Rebecca, this is what she won`t eat!
Eggs
Cheese
Bacon
sandwiches (unless from Subway!)
Any fruit
Any veg except raw carrots
roast potatoes or chips
fish
any hot drinks

the easiest one to feed is the one who is leaving home!!

The thing is she ate all those things until she started secondary school, in that first year she changed beyond belief!

Morning girls xx

Trips - Tom is the same with the fruit and veg. Kept telling him they are good for his skin and he doesn't want teenage spots! Thing is he has never had problems with his skin and looks younger than he is. Grrrrr..... It is hard work though - and you have it x 3!!!

That does sound a nightmare trips. dd was the same though - I wonder what it is about starting secondary that makes them go all fussy!

She decided after starting secondary she wouldn't eat tomatoes, or cereal and numerous other things she 'wasn't that keen on'. I persisted. She eats tomatoes again now, and we compromised that she will eat porridge for breakfast, though that was a long battle. She does seem to have given up now though

I've done the same with the dts too, just keep offering it. Rav hated mushrooms for years, but now likes them. Shay will now eat some seafood though oddly prefers shellfish rather than anything like cod. He was also convinced he only like Heinz ketchup but has been eating the cheap stuff I buy in bulk out of a heinz bottle for months now I think shay in particular is going to be difficult as he gets older. He is already refusing to wear anything but designer clothes (family bought). He has been giving his teacher merry hell because he doesn't like her. I feel like he is a teenager already.

The only one I do cook differently for now for is ds1 - he has bowel issues so can't eat certain foods or he will have constant diarrhea and be off school :( He can no longer eat anything with wholewheat, most cereals, dried pasta, certain rice.

Morning. Seems like the big ones revert to weaning toddlers .

Joshua hoovered up his dinner yesterday - waffles, dippers and sweet corn. The other 3 pushed the sweet corn round the plate. J

reading back, it is, isn't it!

Weaning was easier. Dd would eat anything savoury - hated anything sweet. Now it's the bloody opposite and I'm trying very hard to watch her weight wihtout actually saying anything to her and upsetting her!

Oh what a stressful 24 hours, if anyone else says to me it must be getting easier now that they are older I truly will scream!! Thomas went off to his mates last night in the next town came home at 4pm today filthy and exhausted as they were airsofting till midnight! So he didnt do his paper round! Comes home dumps stuff everywhere climbs into his bed and falls asleep! So woke him, told him he has ATC and he refuses to go, in fact he got really shirty with me. They have been going over 4 years and Thomas has outgrown it, I can see that. But like I said its been a good 4 years, he has done so much with them, things he would never have experienced otherwise, done his DOE bronze and silver etc and it certainly fuelled him to where he is today, about to go off into the Army. He just wants to give up, he only has two more weeks and I say he sticks it out until 5 days before he leaves for Harrogate, then leaves properly. I am sure as well they will want to give him a leaving party. Then madam goes off to London today with the college, I get told this y/day. So she needs big packed lunch, couple of drinks........money. I get up at 6.30am, sort her out and ask her to txt me and let me know what time she will be back to Canterbury. By 5pm I hear nothing so I txt her. She replies saying they are still in London, the traffic is awful. So knowing that, she wont get back to Canterbury in time to get the last bus home to Deal. She then txt me again saying her friends mum is picking them up and bringing her home. At 5.45pm she telephones saying can Dad pick them up as Kelly now cant and they probably wont be back until at least 7.30pm! So dk explodes, as this meant G&T time will be delayed! At 6pm she phones again saying where the hell is Dad they are at the college waiting!!! How a coach does a 2 hour trip in one I dont know. So she then moans and groans because it takes 25 mins from here to the college! So in the meantime I am feeding one son who is off to ATC, the other one has crawled back into his bed in all his muddy clothes hes had on for 24 hours, so he gets a bollocking, then asks whats for dinner! Then dk and dd come home and its now gone 7pm, so I put supper out for us three and dk says he doesnt want his until hes had a drink..............his plate nearly hit the wall!!! Feel upset that I feel cross with Thomas, only just over two weeks and I hand him over to the Army. Is it all the tension, angst on both our parts that time is ticking by very quickly..........don`t know. All I do know is having teens at my time of life is bloody hard work. Oh to put back the clock...........

Oh trips what a nightmare. You need to come up here for a week, get away from everyone and see how they cope without you and I'll drive you over to be reunited with Shabs!!

No problem Trips - ready for you to visit

So where`s my welcome party then? >

[hangs out the banners for trips]

Apologies for skipping thread lately. I've been floating round don't worry.

James is getting harder and harder work. Screaming in his sleep last night again. Lots. Jen and Josh are being funny and sweet though so making up for the tough bits.

Morning Soks, poor James and poor you, does it wake the twins up? How old is James now? You must feel constantly exhausted. xx

Hailstone, snow, thunder and lightning here....oh what joy!!

Morning girls xx

Oh Shabs! We're supposed to have snow this morning. Not seen it yet. Lovely sunny day here (bit nippy but lovely in the sun).

Trips: sometimes he wakes the others up, sometimes not. I guess it depends on how deep a sleep they are in. Emily tends to sleep right through anything. Jen and Josh did both wake up last night at one point, and then of course they are wailing because they didn't want to wake up and are probably scared.

Have got Joshua home today. I've a meeting this evening and it would be a lot of dashing around fetching him from inlaws early and sorting their tea. So he didn't go. He ran all the way home from preschool! Poor lad was pooped. Then off he goes and plays trains happily.

All ready for you trips!! Xx

So where is everyone these days? FB I suppose
Fed up, my tooth has broken at the back, more expense I could do without, grrrrr!

I'm here Trips.....benefit review interview all done.... and yes our claim is right - joy of joys - just under £130 a week for the THREE of us!!!! When Tom leaves college in May/June we will lose the extra money we get in CBenefit and CTaxcredit!!!! So, in advisors words, try to stop 'being used to the £80 that you are currently getting....because it will stop.

I fookin' hate this life - hate living in this bloody country and am sick to the back teeth of watching programmes about benefit cheats....sick to the fookin' back teeth. WE ARE NOT ALL CHEATS!!

This is not how I thought life would be.....whilst my DK of a brother and his girlfriend (yes she is lovely but Im jealous of them both) go to Cape Verdi for 2 weeks in a few weeks.......and then, Vietnam????????????????????????? (yep what the fook for - thats what I thought) for 3 weeks about June.

Ever felt like you could wee on the floor and stamp in it?

Oh I am one jealous bugger.

Shabs that's awful, how can you manage on that? So after Tom leaves its another £80 less?? I have already told child benefit Thomas is leaving school so that's £60 a month less, they said the child tax credit people wont stop benefits until hes actually gone, then I have to phone them, that's a loss of just over £115 a month on top! Has Tom got a little job at all? My boys have their paper round which earns them £20 a week and we give them £5, its not a lot but all we can afford. I just seem to be forever buying clothes and shoes, they are all growing like weed at the moment!