Feb 06 - Free (or discounted for the posh private ones) pre-school here we come!

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ta-da!

Crocs on their way Flame

I remembered tummy comparing, but knew you weren't interested in mine!

DD2 now has an ear infection, and was up crying in pain from 1-4am She has a ticket to go and see Joseph with school tomorrow but will have to miss it.

DS has drawn on the wall in the new bathroom

Fingers crossed for w/m fixing.

Ooh can I have her ticket? Tis fab .
Hope she's better soon poor thing.

Fingers crossed for washer mrm.
Will keep cardi for you for next time I see you.

No way she will be ok to go? Antibiotics kick in quicker than you expect half the time, with some calpol maybe?

(still remember missing a school theatre trip due to slapped cheek )

Oh csws see this...

Jas- for dd2... so she probably had a good excuse for needing to ring you on saturday poor girl. Such a shame about her outing though.

She's quite upset, but is not going to be well enough to go I've told the school, so if anyone wants t go I may get some money back on the ticket.

I'll try and take just her to a show for her birthday this year I think...

EPPM - I was complimented n my skirt today on the school run

I'm very pleased! Better than it sitting in the wardrobe.

You wore that just for the sch=ool run? You are like dd2

I wore it all day. Why? Was I supposed to keep it for best?

Now I'm picturing Jas in Sunday Best, back in the day when you used to reserve a room for just such a thing

{{{Hugs}}} for dd2, take it, your heading Dr's today? hope its not tonsils....there seems to be both going around up here, the thing that causes something similar to labyrinthitis which lots of the kids at school have had (but not actually that as its more severe) and the tonsil thing

MRM hope the machine is sorted soon, although I can see Dude looking at it quite happily for hours

So dh happily driving me nuts here he's scoffed two boxes of choc orange rolls and rocky road, which I got from svcs M&S on Sunday night for the girls as a treat, to eat this week and through the weekend whilst he's away He started doing the washing up from the whole of Mon and Tue at 10pm last night when I got in from book club with Meridian in tow (trying to look good with an audience) Its still not all done and some more needs re doing.....gah 'shakes head' Finally yesterday afternoon in the half hour gap between school and swim I had to move the stuff in ss's room and the bed by myself, as I've given up on repeated asking, nuts I tell ya nuts.'cuckoo'

I want to see the skirt now!

How is DD2?

So, lessons we have learnt this week. Putting marmite on a child's tongue for biting is a Very Bad Thing, akin to beating and/or force feeding them poison. I have been well and truly pitchforked It may not be the nicest of punishments, but atm I am all out of nice things that work.

I read your thread last night, but had to go deal with poorly people and didn't post. Personally I would stick with the marmite and just not mention it here (I used mustard fr swearing when d1 was about this age and it wrked with one use!)

DS pushes, hits and throws, but if I marmited him every time he would be overdosed on salt!

DD2 is better(ish). We saw dr yesterday Frizbe and got abs, but she is still in pain and wuldn't last all afternoon and evening out (They leave at 1 and aren't back til 6.30)

We've made a cake, done gluing and are going t go out and try and get her a fringe cut this afternoon in an attempt t make today a bit more interesting while dd1 is out.

Skirt is longish black velvet, and I am secretly pleased you weren't there or we would've had to fight for it

Well- the skirt is smaller than I remember... and I'm guessing Jas is the thinnest of us all...

Flame- dd loves marmite- would go down v well here , but I saw the roasting you were getting how else can you stop him? I know there are children for whom sanctions work (dd mostly works) but there are others who just don't care what you withhold from them, so you have to do something.

Frizbe- aaarrrghhhhh for dh- I also have one who would use every single last piece of crockery before washing up (we have 20 place settings btw) and hoovers up all food in cupboards...

csws- ds is wearing one of his new sl;eepsuits today dd is very taken by them- she chose it.

mrm,- hope washer is fixed

Personally I think marmite is a great idea, liking Jas's one of Mustard too, when necessary, its hardly abuse is it, would you rather have a child that behaves or not eh? I know which one I'd like.

washer not fixed; the guy said leave it a week and see if was cured, we called today doc it wasnt, he called back and said cant fix it cos it s too new

Spent all evening on summer fayre stuff; booked a dj finally, got someone to do the beer tent altho they prob wont sort the licence themselves, and pamper room getting pieced together slowly. We now have 2 bouncy castles and an assault course sorted, and 2 horses of diff sizes.

Marmite is disgusting. I'd behave if it was even waved in my vicinity.

Jas, just thought it was a bit nice looking for school run, but then again I'm always in my pe kit!

Oh, and today ds2 ran away 3 times, ran out of the shop still holding the unpaidfor milk, hit me twice, and spat in my face in sainsburys. I need real poison, not marmite.

Doesn't sound like a god day mrm.

I've got very short hair and dd2 has a fringe She looks like ds!

DP just piles the washing up neatly in the bowl Blames the eczema for not actually doing it. I wish I could use that excuse.

DD2 is getting better. We may manage school tomorrow. DS seems ok, but fell asleep at three again, so obviously isn't completely better.

We need a photo Jas!

Which one did she choose EPPM? I liked the blue one with the little stars on .

Have read first few posts of marmite thread, where everyone seemed to think it was a great idea. Am assuming the tone of the thread changed later.

for washing machine MRM, that's not good news. Summer Fayre sounds like its going great guns though

I wondered why all the mums in the playground were whispering to each other this afternoon, the gossip has finally reached me via text one of the mums (and her partner) in dd1's year was on Jeremy Kyle the other day I feel so sorry for her little boy....friend who texted it to me said 'our school isn't the Jeremy Kyle school of this town now is it' OMG feel like a right snob.

• csws it was indeed the stars one!

Don't know what happened last night... ds slept 8:30 till 7 DD is still asleep! [double] I am in agony though...woke at 5, breasts full and sore... then slept awkwardly due to that, so neck is killing me now too.

mrm- don't know how I'd cope with a runner.

@ Jeremy Kyle

Yay for sleeping through child, but argh for huge norks - I remember that feeling of "please wake up"

for washer and demonic child.

Yay for very short hair.

Yes CSWS the tone changed somewhat. A small bit of marmite in a child's mouth is akin to abuse, beating and poisoning. I will have destroyed his trust in me and food for life (where DD gets her trust from with me letting him get away with biting her I don't know - she doesn't see sympathy directed at her as him being told off oddly enough what with her being a child who sanctions DO work for, and therefore getting them). The latest message appears to be saying that they can't tell just how poorly I treat him.

Plus side though - he has been on crap free diet since Monday (his diet had got baaaaaaaaaaad so cut out the processed sh*t, additives etc), and yesterday I didn't have one issue with him. Oh and he's not bitten since The Incident.

Oh btw, I expect half the parents at our place have been on JK

I am going in to speak to the families woman today - B is having problems with her "friends" and she is getting more miserable. Her class teacher gets really worked up and upset easily, and seeing as I cry easily it seems best to see someone neutral

What famillies woman?