Hush Christmas - its a slipper-y slope and a ding dong meryl-y on high :)!

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Hello everyone :) Not been on for a few days. Have been really busy at school and at home. I usually put up my tree on the first weekend of December but its still lying there in the box. So glad its my days off now. @Laska, hope everything has been ok for you. When is the funeral? Sorry, I haven't really read back. I would love to see your coat on. Have you worn it yet? As for me, haven't really been buying anything atm. I keep thinking about the sales which will undoubtedly be in a few weeks time.@Ella, love the jacket. Looks great on you. Love the vest too :)

D7I4 (or possibly D714) may give 30% off Boden too.

@cherries - see you haven't been on for a while. Hope you are just busy.

I have been feeling a bit anxious about things of late. My ds is coming over to stay with their baby and I haven't even started to think about what things they may need for their stay. Between that and thinking about xmas, its not been very relaxing, I can say.

It all keeps whirring round my mind :(

Oh never its seems we have all been having stressful times. How old is your grandchild? I also hope things are ok with cherries

@neveradullmoment99 me too, two of my two boys have birthdays this week, this weekend just gone we had a huge party that I organised for family and friends and with Christmas coming I feel I've been living off adrenaline for the last few weeks.
I'm full of cold now which I think is because I've allowed myself to relax a bit after the party. At least it's before Christmas I suppose.
I'm not really complaining, I love this time of year but we always have such a busy December I barely have time to stop.
Where is your ds travelling from?

Funeral is Monday never

They live in Norway. They have come to stay before prior to the baby. He is 8 months old. They don't want to be carrying lots of things so want to get a few things off gumtree as I don't really have any baby things but I really don't want to be spending £££ either.

Two of my three boys that should say!

Ah yes Never - maybe a charity shop? It's a shame I don't have any baby stuff left myself - I just gave a load of stuff away to a charity shop just a couple of weeks ago, I could have sent it up to you!
Maybe just a travel cot and actually IKEA do the best high chair which is cheap as chips and so easy to put up and down and clean, I'll see if I can find a link for you.

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Brilliant high chair, so cheap and is actually suitable from about 5 months, I had one of these for my youngest two and it was brilliant.

My MIL was saying about the highchair. Thanks for that @ella :)

Ah..@Laska. How are you bearing up? How is your family? You seem remarkably strong tbh.

I went by to visit my mum today. I feel so sad. She is becoming increasingly forgetful.. I hate this about life. Death is so cruel. I find it hard to accept but I guess we all do.

never , Im ok sometimes and struggling others Tbh (but its a process I know)..

I have lots of useful baby things for DGCs , but sadly I am about as far away from you as can be..otherwise would happily lend them . I bought a travel cot and a car seat from other grans whose DGCs had outgrown them , mainly through our work webpage.. Maybe try your local classifieds?

Never sorry to hear you are feeling anxious, it’s a horrible feeling if you get a few things sorted for when Ds/dgs comes maybe make you feel a bit better, if only you were a bit nearer to London I have loads of equipment here that dgd has grown out off, yy the Ikea highchair also have a look at Aldi online I got a travel got from them it’s brilliant.
Ella sounds very stressful & busy, hope the cold goes quickly.

Never so sorry your Mum is struggling, it’s so hard yy very difficult to accept 💐

Thanks everyone. I will look at aldi online. Didn't even know they did online.

@Laska, I remember when my gran died I kind of threw myself into organising things. It kept me sane and busy. It is a process and I suppose its all about coping day to day x

Never sorry wittering on now, but I think the main things would be a highchair, travel cot & bouncy chair type of thing I git one from John Lewis which they fit in for ages, my dgd is just over 2.5 & still fits it was JL own brand one so not silly price, I can take a pic if that helps.

Thanks @melen. I will have a little look on the JL website too :) Glad I said!!

thats good, what is the saying “A trouble shared is a trouble halved” something like that I think.

Never DGS mum had a sort of sling which fitted over an ordinary chair which she used as a travel high chair like this one

and we had a bouncy chair like this one

[[https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5588699 This looks like a good travel cot as it has a bassinet]] [[https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7065165 but we had one like this and it was fine]]

That's great. I remember having a plastic one that did a similar thing. Tbh, that would probably be better than a highchair as it would take up less room.

Dd had similar for when she was visiting various friends etc, very handy & as you say Never don’t take up lots of room.