October 08 - Ooh fancy that!

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We filled up a thread without even noticing!

Primary school outcome for dd today . They say that the emails will be sent out by 6pm (though may take longer to get through to us).

Hello ladies.

I realised that I was getting all abit political so had to get off mn for a few days!
It got bad when I was watching the news and thinking to myself I must see what they are saying on MN!

Pistachio, I would turn up to the court in full chav outfit, both children in dirty clothes etc That would get you thrown out in no time.. There are ways to make yourself unsuitable for service. Ask 50ft she is the expert, having worked in that dept for a while.
I would also suggest that you are perhaps allergic to something in your area. You sound like me. Perhaps ask your Gp for a Ventolin inhaler if you are wheezy. You only take it as and when you need it. Gets me through the day at the moment.

Star good luck with your house. Lets hope it sells quick for you.

CF, dont worry about crying. We all do it and you are only human. At least the boy was given the best care. At DD's school they have to have 2 of everything. One in class and one kept in the office. Just in case.

Myjob can you stagger bedtimes at all? Maybe put N up 30 m ins before B? Would she be asleep that fast? Thats what I do with the girls. Bigger age gap I know but normally works. If H goes asleep quickly, if not 9 oclock & I am in there with the threats of doom

I find Q needs a full 2 hours. Otherwise he doesn't go to bed properly at night. Sometimes I give him 2.5 if he's under the weather or 3/3.5 if it's the weekend and I want to nap with him and don't mind if he sleeps in the next day (like fri and sat nights). he had just 1.5 hours a couple of days a while back and it really affected bedtime. Strangely

I think that W may have stolen some of your sleep too. He will nap for around 2 hours and then he (finally only took 15 months) will sleep for around 11 1/2 hours at night. Feast from fammine in my house!

What do you think is more needed. Health Visitors or School Nurses? I am trying to narrow it down but cant make up my mind.
HV I would probably get annoyed with PFB & their mummies.
SN I would probably get annoyed with the nits.

Maybe I should get a job in a clothes shop, like Monsoon. Great discount

I dont know.

Pistachio, I can't believe they've asked you for jury service again. Its ridiculous....

Star - I'm very of the sleep too. Ours have been having disturbed nights recently. Mind you, tonight, dh has decided to do some drilling in the walls so if they are disturbed I will be very

Ds will have bad phases, but actually isn't too bad a sleeper these days .

Ronshar that's a tricky one, as both are needed. I suspect that you might enjoy being a school nurse more, but am not sure. Which do you think you would enjoy?

star - you lost me on the cf thing . Are you making the distinction between upper and lower case, because mathematically I have always used lower case?

I've never double dosed antibiotics either, although I would ensure that if obtained part way through a day then the max poss no of doses without being silly are taken that day.

Not sure. I have a contact number for the manager of local School nurse center place. I should ring her and get more details.
Jabbing babies would break my heart. Adults I have no problem with

On the other hand not sure I could stand in front of a class room full of 15 year olds and instruct how to put on a condom. What happens if they ask me to show them how to do it with out hands

See I warned you I was getting bored at home.

I didn't touch wood quick enough - ds on about his 5th wake of the night .

What a monkey. Close the door
Next time just shove Dh with your foot. Hard. That should do it.

Oh don't be of Q's sleep... I only get to reap the benefits of the naps on holidays and weekends. His night sleep is awful. He's better when he sleeps in with me - he usually gets in with us anytime between 11pm-2.30am. But still wakes up a few times with that and it's not always comfortable as sometimes he wants to sleep on me or in a specific way that is very uncomfortable...etc. However he goes to bed at his bedtime (7pm or soemtimes we do 7.30pm) every night and settles himself to sleep and stays there until he gets in with us. He usually wakes once before 11 or 12, but settles himself back to sleep after a few minutes of a fuss.

csws 5 wakes before 11 is horrid. I agree with Ronshar's advice.

We got some good news from another estate agent last night about a possible buyer... but who knows it will probably fall through, we'll see.

Ronshar - school nurse. hands down. No one likes HVs. All the kids love the school nurse And it's much better hours, holidays...etc.

No internet, tv or phone at home still... this is day 3. I keep calling talk talk but getting nowhere. So annoyed!

I am SO ANNOYED. Just rang talktalk in the midst of my class getting ready for swimming and they said they were planning to call me tomorrow with an update about our service. btopenreach has apparently said to them that the line is fine. Well, we have no dial tone, no tv, no internet. Nothing. I am so pissed off.

Arg on my way home as Em has suspected chickenpox. got audits at work next week and dh is off on sunday for 5 days... guess these things never happen at a good time...
star i would go mental without internet OR tv at home. nightmare.

Arg on my way home as Em has suspected chickenpox. got audits at work next week and dh is off on sunday for 5 days... guess these things never happen at a good time...
star i would go mental without internet OR tv at home. nightmare.

Arg on my way home as Em has suspected chickenpox. got audits at work next week and dh is off on sunday for 5 days... guess these things never happen at a good time...
star i would go mental without internet OR tv at home. nightmare.

Oops

Q got chickenpox when I had a very busy week, too. it's horrible. Could you get a nanny or babysitter to come to you for a few days after she's feeling better and spots are starting to scab over? I felt we needed to be with him when he was actually not feeling well for first few days, but then after that it was just that he had spots and he was fine but "technically" still contagious... luckily cm had no other kids those days and took him as he was well and happy.

I have my blackberry but it's soooooo slow.

oh, it's 5 days from first sign of spots they usually ahve to be off, ksal... so she should be ok for tues. As I said, Q had 2 days of bad pox, 1 day of starting to scab, but only a few of them scabbing, then the next day most of them had scabbed over. By the 5th day he was all scabbed over and officially "not contagious". So you may be ok for next week except for Monday. It seemed like it lasted ages but in actuality it was quite quick!

well at this point i am between being relieved and really pissed off... I picked Emma up at 12.30 and all i could see was one small spot on her forehead. and now there is still just one small spot on her forehead! how can the nursery justify getting me to leave work on the basis of one spot?

I was in the middle of delivering a training session!

I dunno... maybe she will suddenly break out all over and i'll be eating my words.

Hmmm, didn't someone (GP?) refuse to believe that Q had CP at the beginning because he only had one/very few spots? But the 'mother spot' tends to arrive a day before the others iirc. Although I don't think it's common for the mother spot to be on the forehead . Anyway, as they are most contagious for the day or two before the spots start arriving, I guess the nursery can't afford to take a chance if they think that it might be that.
But annoying for you, undoubtedly.

Star - this is why we have our broadband with BT, because although they have a separate bit of the business that deals with it from the other bit, it's still all BT, so we can rant at them to sort it out whatever! We had intermittent problems a few years ago and they were on the verge of sending someone here to stay overnight to monitor and fix it all!

I didn't go in to ds last night btw. He resettled himself most of the times, and dh went in once because he couldn't be sure when asked whether he'd remembered to put the night light on or not.

CSWS you're right that they have to be cautious... i just don't really understand how they have arrived at chickenpox from one (not particularly remarkable) spot and no other discernible symptoms.

i am just frustrated and very stressed out about work in general.

Just had a lovely bedtime though with lots of kisses and cuddles with emma, so that has chilled me out an awful lot!

Are you feeling better now then pistachio?