HI all, sorry i've been absent for a while but life seems too hectic to catch up with all your talking. Joe has been for a try out at nursery and he loved it fortunately. he goes for another hour tomorrow and the same next week before our hols. I hope he likes it and is able to settle for naps and stuff as its quite busy in the baby room.
HMM - don't worry about cooking, baby sized portions take onyl a few mins to cook or do bigger batches and freeze them . I only cook for Joe a few times a week, give him what we have and then add a few plum meals. its easy once you get going - most of the recipes you can eat too
Jenwa - happy birthday for tommorrow and don't beat yourself up about the smacking (no pun intended). You sound so upset about having done it, i doubt you'll ever do it again - one smack does not make you a bad parent.
Had MIL visiting for a few days and she was driving me mad. Bear with me - this is a long one but i need to vent!!
DS1 had been really naughty at nursery (hitting, pushing, snatching) which is not like him but still not on. i told MIL this when we arrived home and she took DS1 upstairs and i could hear her saying 'i have a treat for you if you promise to be a good boy etc etc' She said Promise me? (as if a 3 year old can do that!!! Anyway, he came downstairs all excited with a big bag of chocolate coins . He then demands to eat one (its now only 1/2 hour til tea time) and because i said no, he had an almighty tantrum and she takes him off to read stories saying 'never mind pet maybe mummy eill let you have one later - aaaaaghgghghg - talk about making me into the bad guy. Later DS1 was playing up at bedtime (he was really tired after nursery)and i said he could only have one story before bed because he had been rude to me and he needed to get to bed as he was so tired - MIL heard all this adn took him off to bed. I went to feed Joe and i could hear her reading story after story. I go into his room after 1/2 hour of stories, he'd not drunk his milk and he looked shatttered. He had a massive tantrum because i told him to get into bed and she tells me (in front of him) that i'm mean and making a rod for my own back and children shouldn't go to bed upset, its cruel. DS1 cries and cries saying i've upset him and i'm mean etc whilst kicking and fighting me which really upset me (he only said it because she had i know). he stopped crying as soon as i left him and started singing himself to sleep as usual. I had to spend the whole evening with her as dh was away, she said we should let him off a bit when family visit and get back to normal when family have left that's makes it easier for her and hell for me and Dh and confusing for DS1. They are coming to stay again in a few weeks whilst dh is working and i need to help him out but i am dreading it and feel really peed off with her. I feel she is making me out to be cruel and mean and ds1 is now picking up on this, he's been really off with me today and wanting nana a lot. The whole time she was here, she praised him all the time, gave him loads of attention and i'm sure she was doing this as she thinks i'm horrible to him. I am tough on him and sometimes i shout/nag etc when he drives me mad but i'm not the ogre she makes me out to be. She was a total pushover with her children....she gone now but it will take days to sort out and ds1 is really confused, i'm sure.
right - i'll shut up now, hope the rest of you are fairing well.
CSWS - DO NOT tell me what happens in ER as we don't get More4 and i'm still waiting for it to come onto C4 -