tea room 36 - Teh Alpine Chalet

[UniS]

Welcome to the Tea rooms newest incarnation. A cozy log cabin with a roaring log fire, comfy chintz sofas and a dedicated man about the house, our Butler, Mellors. Out of the windows you can see sparkling white snow gently drifted up under the green Christmas trees and bright blue skies. Children can all be packed off to play healthy outdoor stuff while we stay snug n warm in here with our mulled wine, tea,artisan hot chocolate and other beverages served in mugs, glasses or buckets.

The usual rules apply - no fisticuffs. And no messing with the aspidistra.

It's not a frequent occurrence - but when it has happened waiting for the mini zip wire at the adventure playground when the YD was younger, a parent often takes on martialing the queue...

Sometimes me , but also others.

We tried but often to no effect. If it was at the playground or somewhere play-like locally I get much more bulshy American on them (despite stereotypes most Americans I know are polite/well mannered/quiet/respectful/have a strong sense of right & wrong and teaching our children these things. Just felt strange at such a large, high-profile event held at Ye Ol' University, organized by YOU and run by students and academics of YOU, to have so much of it.

Ah well, I guess we'll have to get more vocal next time.

Second night in a row SB stayed in bed until 6-ish. Wahoo! I did get asked to stay for a few minutes when he thought there was a monster by the door but he went back to sleep after a couple of kisses and snuggles and reassurances. He says he doesn't want his behavior modification reward bribe today.

I must admit, on zip wires I have been known to marshal and make sure that the queue is worked properly - and that children don't simply have a couple of goes without going back. MC knows all about queuing and would not think of pushing in.

?Puts out the breakfast buffet with fresh orange juice, cereals and fruit?

?Watches Mellors doing his morning exercise routine and practising frying pan manouvres?

?Dodges the ensuing melee as the NMBs follow suit?

Does anyone else think that the NMBs may be related to Feegles?

Don't know who/what Freegles are so cannot comment.

When does a series become a pattern? And when does a pattern become a habit?

I don't know, Scout - but I hope it neans that SB slept later again... :)

Still up in the six o'clock hour, which is normal, but another night in his bed. He did wake up around 3:30 with a concerned "Mommy?" -- his calendar by his bed had fallen off into his bed in the night and he was worried it wasn't hanging up. It's an American reuseable school calendar so a bit too big to faff with while half asleep so we're going to sort it out today.

nmbs defiantly have a touch of feegle about them. the kilts and ginger hair are the give away.

crivens

Aaaargh!
That explains a lot. And the feathers tied into their hair...

And the war cries!

Anyone fancy some late afternoon ? The temperature changed while we had our lunch and we went to the park one layer fewer than when we went to Tesco and boy am I regretting it!

That would be lovely, Scout. I can offer some of requirement, which is any flavour you want it to be.

and GF carrot

What more coukd a Donki ask for?

?sighs contentedly?

Mmm, . I can offer some fruit and s as well. SB won't notice his bedtime snack is missing.... Oddly he gets fruit and one biscuit for dessert/bedtime snack and he thinks it's the best.

How are things today, Donki?

::tops up galvanised bucket of tea::

DH arrived home about 6.00 pm - the YD very glad to see him, and is trying to get DH to play minecraft with him.

I am going out to see Mistle!

Good for you!

Sounds like a good evening to me!

Since everyone here has children older than SB I have to ask how did you, or your children, get rid of their monsters? It seems like everything I try ends up with a variation of "that didn't work, Mommy." I'm at a loss. How do I permanently get rid of these bastards-- monsters?

Oh no, is SmallBoy plagued by monsters? We never had them here, so I haven't got any useful suggestions. Maybe you should post in Behaviour?

He has been for a little while but sometimes it seems like he only is when it's convenient, if that makes sense. Tonight I tried to do a "tell the monsters to go away" thing and he said they weren't there yet. So I said I'd go outside to tell them to go away from the house and leave us alone and he thought that was silly. But somehow I've now been roped in and promised to do it to go into his room before I go to bed and chase all of the monsters away (keeping in mind SB will be asleep) so he can stay asleep all night.

While SB has stayed in his own bed for the last three nights (wahoo! a major feat!!!) he has still woken up once every night, twice in a panic about monsters (the third was last night and the damn calendar falling on him).

what does SB think will keep them away?

boy briefly ( and it was only once or twice) felt the need to shout " go away monsters" at bedtime. Hes more often felt the need to frisbee a kiss to daddy when daddy is working away, but it Has to be frisbeed in eth right direction, so I end up working out where Denver is in relation to our house etc.

I'm not sure he knows, to be honest. A lot of times it seems to be about me being there and that's it. This evening he thought there might be a monster in the toilet (goodness knows where that came from because it's not happened before) so I went in and said "Good bye, Monster!" and flushed the toilet (which it needed to be flushed anyway because SB forgets to half the time).

He went through a week or two of "needing" me to go to the toilet with him because of monsters but one night I was cooking and couldn't go with him and when I told him that he went up with no problem and he hasn't tried to insist I go with him since.

I like the idea of Frisbee-ing a kiss. Very cute.

Oh, and monsters seem to be at twilight when he needs the toilet but doesn't want to go by himself or the middle of the night if he wakes up. Actual bedtime/going to sleep doesn't seem to be plagued by them.

MC had some 'friendly monsters' that frightened away the nasty ones. He must have been around two when we 'got' them - we started out with Freddie (normally some variation on green /and ) then immediately Jessie came to stay too (normally pink/and). They would normally stay in the wardrobe and jump out and frighten away any nasty monsters. But they were normally invisible (particularly to school teachers a bit later on). There was one memorable walk when he'd got frightened of foxes (a friend's dog was attacked) and we walked around the park, me holding his hand and pushing the buggy. In the buggy was sat 'baby Jack' who was holding Jessie's hand - and DS was holding Freddie's hand (very obviously!!!)

Everynow and then I did have to ask them to look after DS at night time (out loud in DS's room) but they were fairly helpful and used to do as I asked.