Jan '07 part 12: FORE she's a jolly good fellow!

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In your honour, IYKWIM

Good luck today DH, hope the weather's better than it is here!

You're right 2happy, I am being completely and utterly unreasonable. My DH never puts anything away either. Then after I have put something away he drags everything else out of the cupboard to find it and walks off leaving a pile of clothes on the floor!!!1

Jodie - cute photos am very impressed at your LO!!!

Lal - cute photos too.

AIBU to expect to feel full after eating a toastie, then polishing off some of ds1's unfinished pud, instead of feeling peckish a scant hour later?

AIBU to expect to be losing weight despite finishing off ds1's puds?

Luke would never leave pudding!

Trixy -we are not weaning yet. I am leaving it til after we get back from IL's a week on sunday. She will be 27 weeks then but she is showing no signs so would rather do it at home than under the watchfull eye if MIL!

Luke is def getting cabin fever stuck in cos of the rain. Think I might go mad. Being a bad mother and watching Toy Story 2!

Ahhhhh! Peace.

Trixy - we've only just started weaning with Ethan, he's 25 weeks tomorrow. He was ready though and can actually feed himself as the photos on my profile show hehe.

I think DS would manage to feed himself as well.

He's just started being able to put his dummy back in himself and puts it in and out like he's smoking a cigar, so cute.

Hmm, maybe I should be starting weaning...

Hope your day's improving Trixy! My DP got home late last night. I'd already got freddie off to bed and cooked and eaten my supper and done all the tidying, washing up etc. I left a plate of food for DP which he had when he got in and when he finished he took the plate (and a glass) into the kitchen and just left them on the side by the sink!! Presumably for me to wash up?! I mean, WTF!!!! AIBU to expect him to wash up his 1 plate after i've done everything else myself all evening?!?! I actually didn't wash it up last night, just to see if he would, but he went off to work this morning nd it was still sat there. I shuld have said something i know, but i didn't trust myself last night not to completely blow it up out of proportion and just yell or start crying. It didn't seem like such a big deal this morning.

Love the new pictures Jodie & Lal!

F is 24 weeks, Trixy, and at the moment just sucks the fruit that I'M trying to eat while on my lap, nectarine, melon, apple etc, for the last couple of days anyway. We haven't got a high chair yet. I expect I will let him do that for a couple of weeks then see if he wants something else. I suppose that's BLW but I have bought a spoon and bowl, I might want to mash something and feed him, I'm not going to be rigid about it.

I can't believe anyone spends £150 a MONTH on food shopping, £35 a week? I spend that in the greengrocers before school. What do you eat? I am full of admiration btw, just amazed it can be done. I spend WAY too much but do buy lots of organic and 'free from' foods. A wheat free loaf, rye or something is around £2.50 and generally everything is more expensive but stll, I am sure I could economise somewhere. I don't have much left over after food.

Very strange day again, the weather is so odd

I'm starting to think that MrsC is a lentil-weaver You are very healthy lady...!

Well, today has been a lovely day. BF came round for the day and our two LOs played nicely together. J had a screaming fit at about 4pm though cos he was overtired!!! Nice. BF had to take him off me in the end cos I could quite cheerfully have thrown him on the floor .

RGee - welcome back. The buggy is fab isn't it!!

Vino & RGee - fancy a meet up sometime soonish again?

Trixy - you have my sympathies!!! DH takes his socks off in the lounge, picks the toe jam from between his feet which falls on the floor, then balls his socks up and chucks them towards the end of the stairs ready for me to take up and put in the washing basket MEN! Just think, the innocent little men on this thread will have girlfriends saying the same thing about them in 20 years time. Aw

Not much to report here.

£150 wort of shopping would last just over a week here.....

Serves me right for having so many kids I suppose

Thank God for that, Lth, thought I was the only one, my kids eat like horses, £150 for me is a conservative estimate

Mrs Golfpro- what do you mean you're STARTING to think I'm a lentil weaver?

MrsG - we will train ours better though. if my dh doesn't put stuff in the wash then it doesn't get washed, and if he leaves his shoes in the sitting room they get put on the back doorstep/in the garden!

I do 1 or 2 MASSIVE shops per month, usually £160+ each time and then spend £40-£60 a mweek on fresh stuff.

Heaven know what it'll be like when they are all teenagers!!

(BTW, Aspartamine is also in calpol and other sugar free medicines.)

We are crafty because we hardly ever home on sunday normally at my parents or il's so nab free dinner there, also I dont have to feed kids mon and fridays as they are at mums/mil and they feed them (and my mum normally makes me a spare dinner for the next day for hattie and if they have chicken/beef she'll always give me a container full of cold meat for our dinner next day )

DH best mate is on the management board of imposrt/export comapny that deal with fruit/veg so he'll drop a huge box of fruit/veg off to us every tuesday (they go and play footabll) will be random items as depends whats in season but its all used and always include bananas/apples/potatos/carrots

Bread I buy hovis/kingsmill which ever one is on offer and dh takes rolls to work so buy those huge bags that have 30 rolls in them and freeze them. Household cleaning stuff I make my own (found some good ideas on MN) and that has saved a fortune also only use one washing tablet per load and minimal fabric conditioner. Bulk buy cheese/yoghurts etc and I buy all nappoes/wipes etc at local cash and carry as my dad had membership card.

oh and sofas arrived at 2pm and they are loely and comfortable banned ellie from having her beaker anywhere near them

I also spend loads on shopping, the amount I said before plus meat at butchers and I often have to pop to the shops for fresh stuff mid week too.
I Couldn't be bothered making my own cleaning products but I don't use fabric softener anymore since having kids for a good reason which I can't
remember anymore lol. I'm sure there is a reason why, something to do with not being good for their skin I think but memory fails me.
Must go Ethan crying

Jodie - am I remembering wrong or though you were veggie?

EAH - what kind of cleaning products do you make (intrigued)...

Hi all.
Trixy - hope your day improved! If my dh left his boxers on the bathroom floor, think I would end up binning them on a daily basis. He'd soon get the message! Luckily, my mil trained him well. Now the cats are a different matter...mmmm..comfy nice clean washing to p*ss on. Lovely!

Loved the photos Mrs GP/Jodie/Lal - I must update mine to compete

Jodie - glad the sports day wasn't rained off.

EaH - did you get rid of your old sofas ok or are they in another room?
Would be a great idea if you became a childminder. Am sure you'll find the paperwork and form filling no trouble at all
Was interested that H had chicken today. I asked the HV this afternoon about expanding into proteins. Do you blend it with everythning else or is she eating lumps of it?

Vino - I hadn't given nametags a thought at all, but I guess I will need some for her nursery. Thanks for the top tip! Have you got your work hours sorted yet?

Does anyone else own a yoghurt maker? I got one for Xmas and have made it a few times. Next batch I do am going to give some to lo.
We have a weekly vegibox delivery (Abel & Cole). I really like them as you can get substitutions if you don't like or have too much of something. It encourages us to eat more and try new things (have learned that roasted beetroot is gorgeous), but is more expensive thasn the grocers up the road.
We do about 3 Tesco shops a month on line (using lots of money off codes) for our regular shopping, and buy nappies, wipes, catfood, washing powder from our bulk buy cash & carry once a month.

But there is a very big Marks and Spencer food shop at the end of the road for tempting treats.....

ah yes, and free picnic stuff if you buy certain things Hondurian king prawns anyone? I got a free rug. That is a treat though, like the thai takeaway dh is bringing home, mmm, chilli cod in holy basil sauce, dippy prawny things, pad thai..

MrsgGP - Yes I'm a veggie

Rgee - thanks It was great, first one