Worley, Jenn, Puss.....

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Hello

Thought I'd better do a new one cos 'chat' threads go after 90 days

i was asking some one about this today, is it 3 when they got to playschool or preschool?
i know ds2 is at nursery but i wanted to know when the schools preschool started. ds1 didnt go to playschool or the schools preschool so i dont know, he was at a nursery while i trained, which i still feel kind of bad about as when he did start reception he knew only 2 people, luckily they had also gone to the same nursery. otherwise i felt like i was just dumping him with 20 other kids and a teacher he hadnever seen before... at least the other kids had known each other through preschool

Have you thought about mirena coil Worley? Thinking about it myself. The hormones are not systemic and so shouldn't bugger up your emotions, and it's actually more effective than female sterilisation. Lasts for a few years (sorry don't know off the top of my head how many)

Think it's 3 when you get free nursery hours (so if ds is full time it will get cheaper) but no idea when pre school starts

it could be the coil and he said no,i hadnt thought about it, im a bit wary as one of my friends had acoil and she used to get really bad cramps sometimes she couldnt stand, she asked the dr if it could be the coil and he said no, on the endshe got took to a&e whenre they took it out and sent it for ananlysis (??spell??) and it came back that it was infected, she never had more pains once she had been on antib's and it was gone. but i guess for every bad story there are hundreds good!!!

its like i have a phobia of tampax, after reading years ago about toxic shock syndrome in a girl in mizz or just 17 or something, and that was it, i've never been able to stand them now, i get too scared!!!

god im a wimp!!

it could be the coil and he said no,i hadnt thought about it, im a bit wary as one of my friends had acoil and she used to get really bad cramps sometimes she couldnt stand, she asked the dr if it could be the coil and he said no, on the endshe got took to a&e whenre they took it out and sent it for ananlysis (??spell??) and it came back that it was infected, she never had more pains once she had been on antib's and it was gone. but i guess for every bad story there are hundreds good!!!

its like i have a phobia of tampax, after reading years ago about toxic shock syndrome in a girl in mizz or just 17 or something, and that was it, i've never been able to stand them now, i get too scared!!!

god im a wimp!!

I read that one too Worley.

I have got one grouchy little boy on my hands (or breast right now) . He slept half an hour while I was at the peer supporter course 10.30-11, then an hour at 4.30.

All the cooking I was going to get done today hasn't. At least I got dd's birthday cake cooked yesterday, so I only need to ice it tonight. Most of the veg are chopped for the minestrone soup I'm doing tomorrow lunch, tonight's dinner is in the oven, and an extra for the freezer. it's vegetarian shepherd's pie (but with pancetta) and a cheesey mash on top. it's used up loads of veg that were starting to go a bit manky We are trying to eatless meat but can't go cold turkey. Well dh couldn't anyway.

thats funny, not ha ha funny, but ds1 yesterday was asking why we dont ever have meals without meat, and i told him that if actually ate more veg than we would/could. as a baby he would eat lots of veg but now he manages carrots and broc if its still hot - nothing else. it really winds me up as its so frustrating. i tell him that he will get sick if he doesnt get all his vitamins properly. then theres ds2 who sits there and can use his own fork (amazingly well!!) stabbing his carrots and swedes first of all before eating his pork and tomato sausages, then he picks his peas up as he gave up using a fork. he finishes his dinner before ds1 does. (we had sausage caserole for tea)

Well that was gorgeous! It's Delias Vegetarian bean shepherd's pie, but I didn't use the same beans and lentils as her and used feta (MUCH CHEAPER) in the mash. She doesn't half fart around making life difficult for you..

The carrot cakes are all 'iced' with the cinnamony topping. I can't wait to try them now....

Off to blow up some balloons. We've just cleaned up her little £5 bike from the charity shop and I need to wrap some books for her.

OMG lovely food day today.

Minestrone soup for lunch was fab, and the carrot cake MMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Dinner was roast chicken. I don't know, you BLW your daughter who eats brilliantly with a fork and spoon, and so you start your son too, and your daughter regresses to eat with her fingers and your son purees all his food with his fists. Why do I bother?

i was having a really good day till i checked my email and my sil is moaning at me as dp scattered his mums ashes and didnt tell his brother he was doing it. Even though when he was here a few weeks ago they discussed it and agreed that dp would scatter them where they scattered their dads ashes back in brum. so dps brother is apparently upset about it and wont talk to dp now she says.. it bothers me that he suddenly wants things to all be done his way when he hadnt even bothered to see his mum in the past 5 years and was about 6 months scince he last spoke to her.

when she was here she wanted to take the urn back with her as it cost a lot of money (£35!!)and as they paid for the urn she wanted to take it with them!!

lordy lord things are just never ending.

AND (i was just rereading the email to check i wasn't misunderstandning it) she says that dp should stop feeling sorry for himself now and get on with it!!!! given that she hasn't lost any grandparents or parents and dp and his brother have lost all but 1 grandparents and now both parents, i cant see how she can say its time he should stop feeling sorry for himself...

sorry for ranting....

Flipping heck Worley. Some people don't think before they type (and I have to count myself amongst them sometimes) but then some people are just unreasonable.

I have a friend who's brother is severely depressed and manic. Long story but she trying to sort him out, without letting it get her down too. I don't know how she does it. She is on maternity leave with a little one and an older one at nursery. I haven't seen her since early december, just keep her informed and let know we are thinking of her. What I'm trying to say Worley (very badly) is people don't often think about the friends and relatives of the person having a bad time. I wish there was something I could do to help, but I'm not very good at it. Selfishly I would like to have a nice cup of tea with her and a slice of cake.

Anyway, cheers chuck and I'm sending you some of my carrot cake. Hope you like it. I'm making custard cake tonight.

i hadnt thought of it like that, i guess thinking of it she does type first then think later. she could have wrote it in a better way maybe...

but good news is that we have been givena grant of £1226 towards the funeral payment today which is a big load of the bill, only £1000+/- left which is a bit of peace of mind

I didn't mean that as a defence for her. Even if some people did sit down and think about what they wrote, they are completely unreasonable and unflinching in their criticism of others, and are completely blind to their own faults. I'm afraid sometimes I'm like this. Every now and then I have a revelation and am thouroughly ashamed of myself

Hey folks.
Happy Birthday to Jennbub!
Happy Bumpday to you JW

Sounds nasty W. Don't really know what to add, other than if they wanted a say in the funeral they should have been there to have a say in life too.

Not been MNing much recently. Things getting on top of me at moment. Had notice from Council that hall rent for M&T is going up. Currently we pay £96 every 4 weeks, they want to put it up to....Guess???

£456 every 4 weeks!!!

Currently we charge £1.50 per child per session, that would have to go up to £7 per child per session. Complete lunacy!!
Am emailing MPs, MSPs, Councillors and anyone else I can think of.
Just didn't need this at moment.

Packed dd off to PIL for weekend to give dh and I break. He's working again on Sunday.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm quite upset over everything.

'Normal' (??) service should resume shortly (probably after copious amounts of Cava)

This cheered me up a bit, though!

Love to all

ooh i didnt twig it jenbubs birthday!! happy birthday
ds1 has his dieticin appt this morning and we are going to try giving him some milk to drink, i said he had already helped himself to some choc biscuits and had some of his brothers yogs and seemed ok with bits of them, so were going to give it to him to drink tomorrow morning.... time will tell. im really hoping he will grown out of it soon.

he was 21lb 5 ox when he was weighed, he hadnt been weighed scince july when he 19lbs 6oz. so at least he has put somw weight on.

ok so dp emailed his sil and asked her not to say things anymore and not to mention his mum etc and she sent him an email back which was really weird going on about me bragging about stuff (ok so we had 10 yrs left on the mortgage which i didnt think was bragging as we have just incresed the term to 15yrs to help us out financially for a while) and she said that she didnt mention funeral money to me (she doesnt want to share the funeral payment as they have just brought a house where as dp's brother wants to pay for his share)and didnt talk about their mum(when she did in the email she sent me ) and she doesnt know what shes done to upset my dp and then it turned out she had sent it to dp instead of dp's brother by accident. so she was blatantly lying to dp's brother about what she had emailed me and telling him one thing and saying other stuff to us. so the poos hit the fan now.

why are families so hard work, i guess its true about you cant choose our families.....

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OMG W, things are just getting worse for you.
How are you and your dp bearing up under it all? Can't be easy for any of you

I'm revelling in the luxury of an empty house. dh at work, dd at PIL.

Bought new fishtank yesterday. Local pet shop closing down, so it's one of their tanks they kept fish in. 2foot tank with heater, filter, gravel and ornament for £3!!
Needs a good gutting out, though. Should probably be doing that rather than MNing.....????

Bathroom walls finally painted !!!!

Hello folks

We've been at Pizza Express today with all the neighbours and their children for DD's birthday. Was lovely. Cake went down VERY well. Can recommend the custard cake in Nigella's Feast book. It turns out brilliantly, looks brilliant and tastes fab. Will try and get pictures on facebook.

Morroccan lamb meatballs were lovely last night, and tonight we are having a chicken broth with PakChoi coconut and noodles....Sounds and smells nice, but we'll see.

i luuurve the custard cake, dps fave is the malteser cake, i made it for him last week to cheer him up a little. it seems to be better the day after i think, dont know why.

can you pass the meatballs recipe on??
we are big meatball fans (except dor ds1, who just eats the spagetti) i normally cook them and then put them in some passatta and garlic for a while then serve up, i love them. am i weird!!!

i have a ds free house too at the moment, i was really looking forward to getting in the garden after work for 2 hours with no children but its pouring down with rain so i ended up sorting the washing out, and hanging up a massive pile of dp's clothes (that he can iron if he wants to wear 2 changes of clothers a day, cause im not)and nip on here for 10 mins before i go get ds1. then have an hour together before i get ds2.

my friends sil who had liver cancer died at the weekend, she would have been 34 next week. her ds is still in scbu but her other 2 boys are with my friend for the moment.
they told her on friday she had maybe a week left and she died on sat. its soo heartbreaking. her poor dh and children must be devastated. they were hoping she would make it to her birthday as they said the baby would be able to come home for her birthday and they were going to have a big family day.

Oh my god that chicken pak choi thing was lovely.

So sad and sorry to hear off your friend's loss.

Will get back to you later with the recipes when the children are washed and in bed.

What a sad loss for all concerned

so how can i stop ds2 getting out of his highchair????? i have noe had to cross the straps over and twist them a bit to try to tie him down more but he can still get out, i turned round with his breakfast this morning to see him standing in his chair, leaning on the table trying to reach ds1's pens...
other than superglue what else can i do??
at least he hasnt figured out the carseat belts......yet..