New SAHP board!

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This will be interesting! and to MNHQ

My dd is complaining that some dc have 2 weeks half term and how it isn't fair.
I wouldn't mind but she hasn't had half to contend with like her schooled friends who have just had SATS.
I've never known anyone so lzy when it comes to the academic work, she's certainly got a shock coming in september

Sorry Teacup

missed your reply. Yes, school is great for most dc and my dd was happy when she was there, it isn't a decision to be taken lightly.
It doesn't work for some neither, we don't have any regrets with the main part. I do wish at times we'd done things a bit differently but I'm not sure she would have reached her goal if we'd have pushed the school work.
Your dd sounds lovely and totally agree about your beach idea.

Sorry I ask questions then disappear!

fatty dds is also a catholic school it must just be us! I thought it was other primaries too.

I've just been going through the mountain of school uniform I have in the loft to see what I can use for dd2 could feel my bottom lip going. It all just feels too soon! She's an October baby too so I've had here at home for longer than most god knows what I would be like if she was an august baby.

Has anyone any experience of selling kids clothes on eBay?
I'm thinking of making up bundles and putting them on. We have so much stuff it ridiculous, and we aren't having anymore even though I'm still broody so time to get rid :)

teacup that makes sense we only had a week and a day at Easter.

My DP's (the DGP's) are coming up on Friday for a little art exhibition at the DC's school. Trouble is I'm feeling knackered with this being the last week of GCSE's for DD (of 4 or 5). So I'm meant to be doing some tidying this week - as DH felt he had to suggest as he left for work this morning.
Honestly it feels enough just getting DD through her exams, but I suppose I could do a little to help things go more smoothly at the weekend. AIBU to think what a crazy day to have an art exhibition? (I think possibly they are combining it with moderation/ external assessment of the work) Still DD is looking forward to it and to seeing her grandparents and they've promised to take us all out for an end of exams celebratory meal so it's not all bad.
Think DD and I would just like to collapse on Friday and sleep though!

Hi Juggling. You sound like me at the moment. Older DDs are both in the school show for 3 nights and then both receiving awards at school at the end of the same week. One is just back covered in Scout trip mud and one is about to go on holiday with the school. All lovely things but they are never in the house except to eat and drop off laundry. I don't know where I would be without my DM to help out with babysitting their wee sister but the shopping and HW definitely needs to happen before she arrives and now the sun has finally come out I am just not in the mood.

Thanks howabout It's lovely - and memorable for us and DC - to do special things isn't it but sometimes it's a bit of an effort? Your DD's school show sounds fun - I hope DS will go for that in a year or two (think they're sometimes a bit short of boys who are up for it?) I don't have any wee ones though (unlike most on the thread) so really I should be able to get some stuff done during the school day. A lot of taxi-ing and support needed ATM though with DD in middle of her exams

Hi everyone, loving the new board -it's about 99% more chilled out than the rest of mumsnet so am glad we've got our own space.

I am in Manchester -waves at morethan-

Eldest dd is doing a childcare apprenticeship and the two little'uns are 4 (at nursery school) and 3 (at home til Sept)

I don't plan on going back to work really, but maybe I'll be tempted after a while. The school runs take 2 hrs out of each day as the kids' school is a couple of towns away (crap schools in this area, unfortunately)

I don't want the kids at after-school clubs and childminders, and we have no family support, so we always planned that I'd be at home. I don't have a lady-who-lunches lifestyle, but I feel incredibly lucky to be able to be at home. Dh had a head and neck cancer last year, which has re-affirmed my personal priorities too. I am a crap housewife though! Hopefully it'll be easier when littlest dd starts school in sept.

Tuckingfablet that sounds really painful. Men can be so blind.

Glad to find this thread. I have been a SAHD for 4 years now with 2 daughters - 6 and 3. Hoping to meet some more SAHPs here :)

Hello chris71

I hope you like the chat on the sahp boards, but most people post on any of the topics, we don't segregate.
Ido think it's a good idea to have separate boards for specific things to woh or sahp, although I appreciate some don't feel this way.
Anyway welcome.

I like mumsnet because they are very moderated forums and there is always something to read :) Nice to hear from you Newlife4me! Hope you had a good day.

Hey! Where is everyone?!?

Only just found this!
I have been a SAHM since May but it's only just become official. I have a disability which deteriorated in May and was signed off sick. Work have now officially retired me due to ill health. So I have found myself a SAHM! I have one DD, age 2.4. She goes to a local nursery one day a week. It was more but now I am not working we have reduced it to one day so she still gets to see her friends, and I have a day free for appointments and whatever else.
So far I have adapted ok as I was part time anyway. My main issue is that due to my disability it is not easy to get out and about so there is a lot of home play. Today she says she wants to go to grandmas but she can't, she has to stay in with me and its cabin fever I think. I do worry that I am doing enough but she seems ok.