Hi all.
Well done folks - on folded linen and 39 40 cakes. ron will Moose!
Ok I'm a bit glum.
On the hugely positive my 3rd 2nd frugi order arrived. All huge on dd2, so am returning for 6-12 month size. I rang them and they really are a lovely bunch of really helpfull people. Plus they are all in sctock and they are posting them oyt today so I get them before they sall out. They trust me tpo return my big ones. Isn't that lovely?
On a glum not. Had to wave dd2 [who has been a big giggly eating lovely squasher all day] off. I'll see her tonight for about 10 mins, then tomorrow for about 15 then 15 mins. Then Saturday afternoon when I resume being [an utterly knackered and grumpy] mum.
I also feel a bit and towards our 100% helpful and appreciated, reliable and lovely gp's. I got dd1 a pack of fresh peas.
SHe is really into her 5 a day, she feels it is helping her bowels, and she is idead right. So we are 100% behind her, and we count them up with her, and our own to show solidarity. When a kid eats as little as her, 5 a day might be her full day of food. So she isn't having much fun, but she is fed up of constipationa nd wants to be 'normal like the other school childres'
So I told mil I had bought them, I realised she would have some, but J was very nsistent I get some in case she hadn't any.
MIL seemed to take this as some sort of judgement on her freezer. 'I always have them' 'Of course I would have them' was repeated several times. On the phone and when they picked up dd2.
I am only doing as dd1 asked, and I think what she asked was sensible and mature and not rude or silly. I said in the end 'well, she was getting upset. I am sure you have them, I said to her you would, but she really wanted to bring some so I got them'
I got the silence to that and I moved the convo swiftly on.
The gymanstics. They don't want to take dd1 tonight as it's a rush to get tea into her by 5.40 when dh picks her up. Couldn't she saty there for 10 mins extra whle she eats?
Oh well. It is fine, I don't blame them 1 little bit for any of this. ANy of it. I just hate that I am in a position where I want things a certain important way, and I can't have it because of night shifts. ANd I can't seem to explain or get understanding. Because of course, for your own dc's these things come easily and naturally. The extra effort. For someone elses, well then, things are more relaxed. And I thnk in older age routnes are so set and unchanging, that the idea of peas being allowed to run out is an actual affront.
I really like Steven Gerrard He always seemed a fairly normal fella. Sods.
ANd then I put dd in the car and I don't think the seat is n properly. Again. A battle too many for me I'm afraid. She can face forward now, so I mght get dh to swing it round when he collects them tonght.
They are generally easer to put in and out forward facing aren't they? So they are more likely to do it 100%, as they are always taking the seats in and out.
Sigh. So all little niggles, and liek I say, we are totally reliant and indebited to them. I couldn't work if I ddn't have their flexibility. There is no paid childcare option. So I am not complaining. I am moaning about how glum I feel, and none of it is their fault.
I just hoovered and fell on the stair gate. I have a big cut just under my bum-meets-thigh. Might hurt tonight, uniforms and general bending. Ouch! swore then sobbed.
Hormones for tea anyone???