Not a good start to the day....... cheer me up by telling me it was worse for you!

[bigbluebus]

1st world problems really, but started at 7.45 am with a call from DDs school bus to say that the tail lift had broken, so they couldn't pick her up for school!
Resolved to re-organise my day and take her the 28 mile round trip - which would only happen on a day she is staying for her 1st after school club, which means I have to go and pick her up again tonight as she will miss the bus.

Whilst de-icing the car, my mobile phone rings and it is DS, who is phoning from the bus stop to say that his school bus hasn't turned up. Tell him I will collect him and take him when I have loaded DD into car. Set off, pick up DS and head cautiously - 5 miles in a different direction to DDs school - driving slowly on icy country lanes. DS (ASD) is getting anxious about not getting to school before bell goes as I am driving so slowly. Assure him we will get there on time - even at my careful speed and that if I speed up, the chances are I will have an accident and he will not get there at all! Get to his school and apparently I have dropped him at the 'wrong' gate!!!! - something else for him to stress over! And of course, its bloody parents evening tonight, so goodness knows what sort of a day he will have, just to put the teachers in a good mood for this evening!
Drop DD off at her school and go to town to spend her Christmas gift vouchers - before any more stores go 'tits up'.
Come home looking forward to a quick look at Mumsnet & e-mails only to find the Internet is not working - so spend next half hour fiddling about with that trying to get it working again - which obviously I have managed!

So all in all a crap start to the day, but I know some of you have far worse to contend with on a regular basis. So tell me about your crap morning and then I can put mine into perspective!

just smile lovey, as you say it could be worse. :D

My day started with a lovely cuddle from my Starling in my bed (thats how he woke me up) which was followed by a smack on the arm as I didnt answer him right away, followed by a "shut up" when I told him not to do that. ..what else? oh, I had my mobile phone thrown at me, my clothes pulled, rudeness pretty much all morning, I had to wrestle bananas out of his hand that he decided to squeeze and throw, all my pillows off the sofas were thrown on the floor, I was told that I was hated, a horrible mummy, he didnt like me no more etc etc ...... but hey ho lol

Think there were a couple of bites in there too :D

Hope your day improves bigbluebus ....we all have troubles but its nice to come on here and rant about them dont you think? :D

Star xx

Sorry you had a bad start to the day too Star and I suspect that it probably an average day for you????
I think part of why I was fed up, was I was looking forward to a rant on here with people who understand...... and I couldn't get onto the Internet !!
Hope your day gets better too!

Hi bigbluebus. I've also started a thread about my morning, where we visited a prospective nursery for DS (3), who loved it so much he threw the mother of all tantrums when we had to leave! I was hoping to make a good first impression. Hey ho!

On the plus side, he ate a half cheese scone for lunch (fussy eater) and the builders looking at my bathroom ceiling found it was actually coming away from the joists above and at some point soon would have fallen into the bathroom, which would quite probably have killed anyone in the bath below!

Chin up and more , I say! And for my sins, I think I'll take the DC to the park this afternoon as it's lovely and sunny here (but bloomin freezing).

Well, ds was fine went to school fine. Dd is 22mths and is hitting the terrible 2's - I was meeting a childminder friend of mine for breakfast as my dd is friends with one of her charges - dd was being quite contrary, didnt want to her gloves and threw them on the ground. The child minder friend of mine piped up that I shouldn't be picking up the gloves and that she's just like her dneice who rules her house and parents - if my dd would be the same if I didn't step up and stop it now. I was fucking fuming and she could tell by my face. After all that we went through with ds (ASD) with all sorts of apparent professionals telling me to do this and that - plus a SALT videoing me playing with ds and making me watch it back do she could point out that I was doing it wrong - the result of which made me hate playing with my dc as I'm always thinking am I doing it right? Are they? Oh am I asking too many questions?
This time around I bloody refuse to be lectured at!

Oh and I hope everyone's day improves !

Can I whine about yesterday instead? DD had to go have her preschool booster, we went straight after nursery and they'd forgotten to put her gloves on (my sister picked her up and brought her to the GP's as DS had an appointment before hers) so she was already pretty upset. Then she started screaming as poor DS was having his boy bits checked out, screamed for the entire time we were waiting between appointments, DS tried to sprint out of the waiting room if I took my hand off him for more than a second, she screamed all the way into the nurses office, threw herself on the floor and started kicking and screaming, had to be held down while she had her jabs and the nurse kept giving me that sad face and asking if I knew what the matter was. I didn't especially want to get into DD's uncertain possible problems, so just said that she was upset about not having her gloves. Then the nurse broke one needle off in DD's leg, and had to pull it out and do another jab. By which point DS was trying to play with the sharps bin. ARGH.

Left. Went home. DD calmed down straight away (was calmer post-jabs than before in fact) and sat on my knee for cuddles for the rest of the evening, telling me about her 'hurta da knee'. She's so lovely most of the time, I just about forgive her for the other 2% of the time.

Oh mummy poor you. I remember the pre-school jabs experience like it was yesterday - and DS is 16 now!!!!
I had explained to him what was going to happen. He was fine about it until....... we got into the nurses room. The nurse had one needle to put in one thigh whilst the Health Visitor was going to put one in the other leg at the same time. As they hovered, DS started to cry, which increased to a scream and ended in him being hysterical. Trying to calm him down didn't work, so I just asked them to get on with it. They were insisting on waiting until DS was calm..... like that was going to happen with 2 women bearing needles hanging around! Eventually, after pleading with them to "just do it", they gave the jabs and then proceeded to ask DS if he wanted to put the polio liquid on the spoon!!! After it was all over DS cried inconsolably and they wouldn't let me take him home as they thought his crying was an adverse reaction to the jabs!!!! not sure why it hadn't occurred to them that it was just a reaction to their stupid expectations
They eventually allowed me to walk with him down to the newsagents to see if he would calm down, on the understanding that we came straight back. He refused sweets, comics or any other bribe, and continued to cry.
Back at the surgery, I assured them he was fine and had not had a reaction to the vaccine. I eventually persuaded them to let me take him home, where I put him crying on the floor, ran upstairs, got a 'Roly' from Bob the Builder out of the secret toy supply reserved for emergencies and gave it to him - whereupon the crying ceased!
Not surprisingly DS has remained needle phobic ever since!

Thankfully madam calmed down the minute she realised she was going home! The Nurse did ask if she'd had a bad experience at the surgery before - erm, the place where I only take her to have vaccinations or to get more antibiotics for yet another ear infection? She doesn't have particularly positive experiences of the surgery, no. I don't know if she knew what was coming. She is 3.4 but her language is very limited. Then again, you can never tell with her what she understands...

She didn't go to nursery today because her leg hurt :( poor baby