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scootermum · 06/02/2008 19:46

Sorry, best I could come up with in between making tea and trying to get Lils off to bed before the football starts...

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largeginandtonic · 26/02/2008 11:09

Wahooo on the dosh front! How nice to actually know what your dh is witttering on about when he comes in from work

Thank you for your AIBU post too Tilly, i am a muppet. I find it so hard to say no sometimes.

TillyScoutsmum · 26/02/2008 11:17

He's driving me mad at the mo - he's a bit of a geek and loves gadgets and is in the process of ordering laptops, iphones and all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff and insists on boring me silly showing me all their different features etc. FFS ! How interested can one girl be in a bloody iphone ?!

You're not a muppet - you're just too nice

TillyScoutsmum · 26/02/2008 11:17

boring me silly

TillyScoutsmum · 26/02/2008 11:18

How stupid am I ? Why won't that work ? Grrrrrrr

largeginandtonic · 26/02/2008 11:20

boring me silly

Put the -- around the word to be struck out. Not around the sentance.

TillyScoutsmum · 26/02/2008 11:31

boring

TillyScoutsmum · 26/02/2008 11:32

Yay ! Sorry - realise I am boring but need to know these things

thanks

twelveyeargap · 26/02/2008 11:49

I just got an iphone. I'm obsessed.

largeginandtonic · 26/02/2008 11:56

PMSL at Tilly

So are you chatting with us on your new gadget then TYG? I hear good things about them, dh would love one. Just need to find a couple of hundred pennies down the back of the couch What does it do then?

TillyScoutsmum · 26/02/2008 13:33

I can get dp to come and show you in great detail if you like LG&T (Please... I'll have all 6 dc's complete with chickenpox to escape his wittering for the night)

TYG - they do look good but I'm just a bit of a luddite when it comes to gadgets. If I can speak to my mates on it, send the odd text and have a cute screensaver photo then I'm a happy bunny

Pebblemum · 26/02/2008 14:01

TYG J tried to insist that he needs an iphone, sure kids think we are stupid sometimes lol

I have just had terrible trouble getting E to pre-school. He was crying and moaning all the way there insisting i bring him back home which of course I didnt. And can you guess what had upset so much?.........I didnt do his hair before we left the house He was acting a right little diva, everyone who heard what it was about was laughing. The only way I got him to stay was to say that I would bring the gel, hairburush etc into the school in a minute, hopefully once I had left and he went out to play he forgot all about it. I thought it was girls who were supposed to be the ones obsessed by their looks lol.

mom2latinoboys · 26/02/2008 14:38

Good morning! Picked mom up from the airport yesterday, we are so happy she's back. It was late so didn't talk too much, but she told me she's thinking of going back to stay .

Boys are good, Cruz got a new tooth last night so now he looks like an old man with his three teeth.

Mrsjaffabiffa · 26/02/2008 14:39

LOL at tilly's so called boring episode, not boring at all, made me chukle.

Sorry, Pebble was going get back on earlier but between french and maddie pick up I had to sort mother's cock up mistake on her PC.
So.... will post here,.... everyone else ignore if you want to.

I used to be a youth worker, many years ago but did it for a good while, we would definately NOT be able to search by touch, the members. The youth group I worked for was in (dare I say it) a rough area! The kids were rough and things going missing were a nightly occurence. We had a full size trampoline stolen one night.
We were able to lock the doors of the club and not let anyone out, whilst on club premisies members HAD to abide by club rules of which stealing was not one. We used to get all members in the gym together and ask each of them to come up to the table one by one and turn out their pockets and bags. If they had nothing to hide they normally were quite co-operative. Those that were co-operative and turned everything out were led out by another leader to go home and those that refused to co-operate would have their parents and if necessasary the police called. Normally after the threaten to call parents or the police the ones trying to be "hard" gave in a turned out. tbh, it never really worked because the theif was normally long gone, they are not likely to stay to the end of club with a pocket of club property.

Your poor lad, he was probably scared and should never have been forced to be "searched". The youth leader there must have had training on this sort of thing, specially if it is a local authority run youth club as our was.

scootermum · 26/02/2008 15:02

Im bored and I want to go home and see my babies..
Its like I was never away at work even though im now over the road so to speak..but because I used to be the deputy here its like huge Dejavu all the time..and not in a good way..
Already I am heartily sick of getting up at 6 am and the hour and a bit commute and its only been 2 days!It is knackering..I was in bed and asleep by 9 last night.Rubbish.And tonight I have to start packing up kithcne and lounge at home as the builders will be in next week to knock our walls down and put our new kitchen in.In retrospect this was very bad planning so soon after going back to work, duh!

DH sent me some lovely flowers yesterday to cheer me up though-he is on form at the mo as last week he surprised me with a day in a spa!

I have a new phone for work TYG..I can get emails on it and what not and it has a little pencil thingy to work it..except that obviously I cant work it as the only phone I can work is an old Nokia one from about 1998

Am going to try to catch up but prob have no hope..

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scootermum · 26/02/2008 15:14

Well done on flat plus house JW!

SOH is back!!

Hi to newbies..

of various peoples cherry trees, rural abodes, expat lifestyles and baby boys..
but not of colds, pox, troublesome dh's..

Could only skim sorry..
nice to be back though all..

45 mins till home time for me..

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largeginandtonic · 26/02/2008 16:45

Oh Scoot >

largeginandtonic · 26/02/2008 16:45

mega hug

liahgen · 26/02/2008 17:18

Blimey, I don't use the htread for couple of days and it dissapears.

Busy couple days here, various kids in varying degrees of illness, 13th surprise birthday to organise, Doula interview, and have now decide to organise a Baby show for the summer. Am I mad or just not got enough kids?

Just made pizzas, well they did, I watched and ate the leftover bits of squashed pepperoni and cheese. Excellent,

Anyway, I have a dilemma...

Have organised limo for dd and 4 of her friends as a surprise for Sunday night. They have a party whilst driving the streets with flashing lights , kareoke, drinks nibbles etc, inside the limo. Sounds cool. Sworn her friends to secrecy, thing is, there is this one girl,
Spoilt only child, (apologies to those of you with only one, not generalising)far too old for her years, and tbh, a bit of a cow. Picks on Amy, (my dd) whenever anything happens, their mutual friend is now, "going out" with her ex, (ex at bloody 13. )My dd took brunt of her anger. I have had her in tears cos noone sticks up for her, last episode the girl hacked into my dd's bebo account and wrote, I am a lesbian bitch all over it, And I hate, X, (another mutual friend).
This is not the first time, but they always make up.
Now the dilemma, (at last I hear you say)Dh says girl in question can't come to birthday bash, I kind f agree but she is one of the close "gang" if you like and
a - I don't want her to feel bad, she is only a child, although an unpleasant one
b - I don't want her to hold it against dd and make her life worse.

What to do? Was gonna call her and say, Look, have organised this, I was really angry what you did to bebo, but i am giving you one more chance

What do you think?

Right, off to catch up on the thread, this moves so quickly.

largeginandtonic · 26/02/2008 17:24

Oh good grief Liaghen, what does your dd say? If she really wants her to go then do the ringing her up thing but if your dd is non pluss about her attending then dont do it!

What a nightmare for you, you sound crazy busy.

liahgen · 26/02/2008 17:46

thanks for reply, that's the prob really, dd doesn't know cos have arranged it as a surprise. We were supposed to be going london to see Chicago but couldn't get tickets so have had to come up with something fab at very short notice.

When thy fall out, dd gets very upset cos girl turns all friends against her, (girls are a bloody nightmare) wheb they friends, its all. I love you bessy mate etc. UGH!!

Where in the country do you live lg&t? You must have a big garden have you?
My neighbour told me she would complain if I get my bantams cos they make alot of noise. I reminded her I was getting small chickens not a fully grown cockrel. When dh mentioned it to her, she said ooh yeah what a good idea!!!

People never fail to amaze me.

Have got an advanced birth course on Thursday so dh is in charge from 7am to 7pm He's got a works do on Weds night aswell so that'll be fun at school run in morn.. still, fresh air on walk to school will lighten his head i guess.

juliewoolie · 26/02/2008 20:11

liahgen, dont invite her she sounds like a truly awful girl. Why is it that girls are such cows to each other?

Scoot just thnk of the extra pennies at the end of the month and the lovely new kitchen you are going to have. If that doesnt do it just spend all day mumsnetting.

Realised at the wkend the vicarage at the end of my new garden has a hen house and from the sounds of it a cockeral will it cock a doodle doo all day and night?

Tilly what sort of surveyor my Dads a quantity one I spent most of my childhood following him round building sites. Ohh the smell of tarmac brings back loads of memories.

Who was mentioning iphones, I want one my ipod died at the wkend and I am meant to be getting a new phone this month do you reckon I could swing it and that DP would let me have one.

Pebblemum · 26/02/2008 20:18

What a nightmare Liahgen. I had a friend just like her, funnily enough she was an only child lol (although she would have been a cow even if she had 12 siblings so that wasnt the reason she was like it) Part of me would want to leave her out in case she spoils it for dd but then again as you say that could also cause more problems. Wish I had some advice but Ive got a similar problem with J's party (does he invite boy who has made his life hell at school or not which would mean he would be the only one not invited)

Is the girl likely to know about this suprise, if so you then have the dilemma that if shes not invited she may let it slip just to be a cow but then again she could do that even if you do invite her Whatever you decide Im sure your dd will have a great time

elkiedee · 26/02/2008 20:37

Deep breath here, is anyone still planning to come to meet up at 1.30 in Finsbury Park tomorrow? I've not seen cinnamontam or juicylucytoo post for a few days. Is anyone else able to make it?

juliewoolie · 26/02/2008 20:51

sorry elkie didnt realise there was a meet up tom. cant make it. Hope you have a lovely time.

AbbyLou · 26/02/2008 20:57

Evening all, I'm just popping so LG&T knows I am still remembering what she said about working too hard and not posting enough!! I am just taking a break from.....my work!! Making new spelling lists for Year 1 - how exciting is my life?
Scoot sorry to hear work is getting you down. I don't know how you manage to do that commute every day, it would kill me. I only have to drive a short distance to work and the cm now, it was one of the reasons we moved here really.
Liah, that girl sounds like a total cow. I don't know what to advise for the best really. I hope your dd has a great time, the party sounds amazing. What a lovely idea.

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