The One-Child Tea Room, version 21... the Hawaiian Islands. Cocktails, anyone?

[Jacksmama]

Welcome everyone to the 21st (!!!) One-Child Tea Room. Not to be misleading, we do have inhabitants who have or are planning more than one! Everyone is welcome.

The usual rules apply: no fisticuffs, or you will be escorted out by Mellors the Hunky Gardener. Depending on your preference, he looks variously like Daniel Craig, George Clooney, David Boreanaz, Gerard Depardieu... I have a feeling we all see something different but whatever we see makes us drool! And considering that this Tea Room is in the Hawaiian Islands, whoever we see is definitely shirtless! :o

Cocktails, non-alcoholic beverages, yummy food that is entirely without fattening effects, and lewd rolls abound in the Tea Room. There is also a full cappucino bar.

This is essentially A Tea Room of Requirement, and we're currently on the lovely sandy beaches of Maui, with beach huts, lounge chairs, cabanas, mango and papaya trees, and of course, lots of coffee directly from Kona.

Pop on in and stay a while. We may all seem a bit mad eccentric but we're very friendly!

It's fine for me Amber.

Morning, BTW. yawn

FB OK for me...

Seems to have solved itself. Told me a group was empty, which it isn't. Very odd.

Morning all!

(please rearrange these sentences to make more social sense... )

Oh Scout, I had that before xmas, it is horrible. Hope is passes quickly x

Think it's the one my SiL and her brood had before Christmas and still insisted on coming round day after day after day. Other SiL has had stomach pains/cramps and headache and I finally gave up and admitted yesterday that I have the same. Blurgh.

Oh, and JM, LOVELY new tea room. Well done!

Poor Scout. There is a reason why children aren't allowed back at school less than 24 hours after being ill. (Parents still try and sneak them in, though, and I suppose that coming round to visit reletives is the same. Getting On Regardless.)

Good morning all, and (((HUGS))) to Scout for being ill - bleurgh. Actually, (((HUGS))) to anyone who wants them, in whatever form - they're good for the soul. :)

Welcome all newcomers - I'll catch names eventually. Feeling a little scatterbrained these days :o

We took down all the Christmas decorations yesterday - goodness, I didn't think we'd put up that much crap stuff, but it's amazing how big the place seems without a sea of poinsettias, stockings, ornaments etc :o

Were going to go to DH's cousin's today for a family lunch but they all have some kind of a lurgy, and DH thinks he has a sinus infection (his cold has been lingering and he's had a headache for three days - not the man flu, for certain - so we're not going. Which is fine with me. I don't mind a low-key day. I'll be working four days in a row this week (aaaack!!!), then I'll be off Friday to pack and then we're leaving for Maui on Saturday.

Mmmm...

< JM plops down on a sun lounger directly on the beach>

Pull up a chair everyone!

Would anyone like some bolly to celebrate the last free night before real life kicks in again?

Oh... I've been meaning to ask, JM, how's your chocolates stash?

evening all.
Unis plonks self onto a sun longer. and relaxes . visably, thi sis forst time she has relaxed since going to in-law-town 3 days ago. phew, its good to be back.

Thank you tea room for being my beacon of hope in in-law-town. Each time I felt Like screaming and running from teh house I reminded my self that , THIS too would seem funny once written down in teh tea room. AND my fellow tea room denizens would wince with me over the horrors. Then offer me copious chocolate and NICE wine.

Was it terrible, UniS?

Sounds horrid UniS. I have wine, I can share.

Thank you, Unis takes large swig of wine, then pours some into a clean glass that is not dishwasher smudged with broccoli.

Unis also gratefully accepts offer of chocolate and munches into a snack that has not been sitting around outside its packaging for 3-6 days and gone stale. only choc cake I was fed in last 3 days was grim, tasted of veg fat and clagged roof of mouth. was sold as "luxury yule log " but I do not know where from. Suspect MiL spend whole pence on it...

I had my suspicions about cleanness of bedding, confirmed when I stripped beds today and found a snottty bloody piece of kitchen square under DHs pillow. Hes not had a cold and doesn't use kitchen square as tissue... Arrrrrgh.

In-law-town is also filthy with dog shit, I think I may wash DS trainers. I was informed by MiL ( when I commented)that their town was not one of the worst I has seen for dog shit.. odd that she knew that for me...

And.., for lunch today we were presented with " turkey chilli. I swear that woman buys a giant turkey just to create left overs to force on the family for weeks. They weren't even at home for Christmas, so she cooked it before christmas.

I had enough sympathy with boy not to force him to eat it, just insisted he ate the baked spud.

Sympathies to UniS, do spill details, we have an apparently unlimited stash of wine and chocolate :o

Speaking of my stash of chocolate, I have, I think, 3 bars left. Hoarding very carefully :o

I may have to get a divorce.

DH just said, after I explained that I prefer chocolate over anything else sweet, 'but doesn't that get boring?'

MEN!

Hawaii HAD to let me in.... Advantages of a blue passport. (Resolution for the New Year -- sort out maroon passport, especially if travelling solo with BabyScout again in the spring.)

I have done nothing for two weeks, why am I shattered?

Oooooh it is veeeery nice here!

Hi Tee nice to meet you!!! Thanks for asking re the NMBs I had never got that either. I think I will be late to bed now thanks to discovering cake wrecks!!!

Scout I have a blue one as well, but not eligible for a maroon one! Where are you from?

I really should be sleeping. Small boy keeps waking up at 'OMG'! O'clock and it's my turn to get up with him!

Hello tee- sorry I wasn;t exactly ignoring you, just happy to accept wine/ choc from any one passing earlier. #
FiL has no taste for wine at all, he will hand one a glass of rough ole plonk and say - nice this isn't it. I suspect he means , cheap this one, so I bought a case of them.... he also happiliy mixes wine in the glass with top ups from a different bottle- Arrrrgh. How did DH turn out so well.

Now I sound like a ghastly snob don;t I, sorry. ILs are a tad aspirational, but skint. Dh and I are leaning more towards the scruffy comfortable on our income, but a bit foodie. Ist bound to clash isn;t it.

We do take somethings over, but that tends to ruffle MiL s feathers as she already HAS crisps/ beer/ nuts/ fruit/ ham etc and thinks we are snubbing her choices. And boy can that woman sulk.

Ho Hum
Home again now. A quiet day tomorrow, then boy starts School.

as I guess does Oxboy. Oi Oxeye, where are you lass. wanna hold hands in the playground on tuesday? Just in case the big mums duff us newbies up and try to flush our heads down the loo.

I'm from Philly originally, but have lived in England since 2005, when MrScout and I got married. I paid for went through the process for my maroon passport as soon as I was eligible, thinking it would make my life easier. Did my ceremony in 2009. BabyScout was present, but we didn't realize it. He has both passports as well. MrScout is the lone one-passport holder in our family. Found out I was pregnant and my extra passport went by the wayside and we focused on getting BabyScout's two sorted ASAP since we took him home at two months old (he is now 14 months old and has made the trip three times in 2010).

Oh, UniS and Oxeye, big school!

Donki, how are the Hawaiian carrots?

Has anyone else been to Hawaii? May I recommend flying over Pearl Harbor? Tis a sight to behold.

arrrr, bribery- that might work. thanks for teh tip.