Feb 06: We are all too poor, busy, overweight, worried, or pregnant to care

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Thought we don't give a shit could cause issues for thems that don't like swearing.

Spring clean day today. Urgh. Freecycle and ebay galore.

I need iron am all wibbly.

Um, forgotten most of what I meant to say.

Frizbe - gonna send you a cheque. I typed in your bank details wrong and it bounced back

Strawberry not a well bunny. Hoping it is just a bug, but she has a suspiciously poxy looking spot too...

Hello. I lost the thread too.

All ok here except for my recurrent ear infection. Have appt at ENT clinic tomorrow to see what's going on.

I survived 3 days one week and 4 the next on my own with all 3, but wouldn't want to do it all the time. Will prob have to though (well, except weekends). No routines yet. Not stressing about that though - just happy to get through each day!
Ds2 sleeps for 2 hours at a time at night, and sometimes I manage to put him down for this (actually most of the time over the last few nights), so although still fairly rubbish, a big improvement on the last 2. He's the only one to take an occasional dummy too, so def different to the others.

Dd finished nursery too, but one of her teachers is coming to work for us for the next 2 weeks, and another one for the 2 weeks after that, so that helped with dd not getting too upset.

Hope all is well with everyone.

So did I. Maybe thetyve just changed the length of time you can hold onto it for

Didaster today; phone down toilet. Dead. £29 excess on insurance, and I cant work the new one. Grr. Hate new phones! And then found out I'm due for upgrade in about 3 wks so couldsve avided the payout if I dropped it a little later!

All okish here. Been to mums and then mil here (very bearable this time actually, it was ghood). Lost all my phones from the phone tho

Hello! just checking in before we head of to Wales camping for a week

CSWS, what happened at ENT then? and yay for nursery staff coming to work for you for a few weeks, makes things so much easier and little one sleeps a bit too, yay!

Jas, good news about your mum

MRM for your poor phone.....sometimes the timing on these things sucks!

{{{Hugs}}} Phoenix, hope your having nice hols, with your grown up little boy

How was camping friz?

ear still infected (had follow up appt today) though not as bad as it was.

Helper not here today (unexpectedly) and dh away, so surviving with all 3 unaided! Had to take them all with me to hospital appt earlier.

Helper is brill when she's here though.

How's everyone else surviving the hols?

Well it rained for 5 days out of 7 CSWS but it's Wales, so what did I expect! only one day was a full day of heavy rain, and when it was clear it more than made up for it! the girls had a wonderful time and made new friends/ran riot in the woodlands for hours at a time (see facebook for embarrasing photos of us all) Shame Flame didn't make it, but MRM got her instead

how's the ear now?

Have started a thread in money matters, about my horrible discovery tonight that our tax credit renewal appears to have been ignored....

I'm really enjoying the hols actually. I think its the last min feeling, of knowing they'll both be grown up from September. And the summer is going so fast

Aww MRM they'll not be THAT grown up, plus you have boys and they ALWAYS love their mothers forever

We've had a total mare with tax credits, apparently although their system had a full record of our renewal, it still chose to boot us out and not process it when I eventually got thru on day two of trying all day the nice man said it'd happened to loads of people (cynic in me says to make the gov's cash flow look better) so now I have an unauthorised overdraft and a pile of bouncing dd's and we won't get the money back for another month (although it will be back dated) oh joy

Cant you get money back from overdraft charges? I know, not v likely

MRM I'll be giving it a bloomin good go, along with all my phone bill charges! lots of listening to their automated system before being told too busy n cut off

We were supposed to be going to the ford summer cinema thing tonight (did I mention I won tickets ) but it peed it down, no idea if they cancelled the screening, but we sat in pub over road for hour n had a coffee, but it never really cleared, so we took the kids back home Have said we'll have the hamper we got with a dvd tomorrow evening instead.

I'd have stuck it out in the rain if it was still on

Good luck with getting you expenses back Frizbe. It is so frustrating when you do it all right and still end up paying.

I'm feeling the same about the hols, mrm. I've enjoyed it (mostly), but I have now run out of ideas and money, and we still have a week to fill.
DD1 is suddenly very grown up. Wanting to hang around with her mates instead of coming out with us.

Awww Jas {{{Hugs}}} how old is she now? looks like you might need indoor things for rest of hols too, damn autumns arrived early again (looks for wellies)

MRM, had it been just me I would have...or even me and older kids...but I had very tired dd2 in tow, who wasn't ok in rain....and dh doing the 'it's your decision' thing, whilst blatently wanting to go home

Lots of work going on for me here, we put our house on the market today!! see if anyone wants to buy it then......

Oh bouncy bounce,hurrah, tax credits have gotten their act together and paid into our account of huge relief!

Yay!!

She is 11 going on 14.

DD2 will be 10next month
Not sure how that happened.

Ooo, lets have a link to your house Frizbe!
Well done for money back. What a relief eh. I've just sent snotty email to nstionzl express 'all our coaches are equiped with toilet and washroom facilities'... er, yes, except the one mrm etc were booked on for a 3hr journey that ran late and when we got off at an earlier stop explaining we couldnt wait any longer, he said fine, then jumped back on the coach and treid to drive off, instead of explaining we couldnt get our luggage out at any other stop than the one on the ticket

And get this, Hme Delivery Network treid to deliver my parcel from amazon, and left it in my bin so it wasnt there when we got back home

Left your parcel in your BIN are they bonkers!!!!! guess it's covered by insurance?

will email you a link on facebook when I get a sec, anyone else wana looksie?

yes please!

Me too :)

Well, a replacement parcel came yesterady, after 3 calls to 3 diff amazon people who tod me 3 diff things. But hey, I 've got my stuff!

At friends for weekend with ds1, but we've just come back early as ds1 very very sick.. constantly since 2am Lovely friend drove us home (2hrs each way) so he didnt have to go on hte train. She's an angel

I wanna see too friz!

Hello all. All set for the new school starters?

no

Labelling all the uniform today. Tryin to explain to ds2 why he has to wait longer than ds1

Supposed to be labelling all three sets today, but distracted by the fact that my fridge has totally packed up
Got blazer for dd1 to collect tomorrow.

I saw that on facebook Jas, what you going to do? Ours is on last legs and we were relying on getting the one from friends flat once flat is sold, but its going to be on the market forever

I labelled Lew's uniform weeks ago and have washed and ironed his White polo shirts and P.E. Shorts and t shirts today. Will do his trousers and jumpers some time this week. He doesn't start til next Tuesday though :o

:( for fridge Jas.