Big Mo Fo's week 53 (or Year 2 week1)

[suejonez]

a fresh new start

Not sure you even have to post photos - just the thought of it.....

photos is too small really must fiddle with it a bit. Have thought about them a lot recently, not sure why.

Yup - you did it. Maybe because you know how well DS is doing, you know that the same could happen for them, if they could find a family too. What's likely to happen to them as they grow up, if they continue to live there? How long can they stay there?

In the lovely baby-house we were at they stay until aged 4 then they move to a 4-7yr old place which I gather is also not too bad then 7-16yrs which I gather is a nightmare for the littler ones and few of them leave at 16 with anywhere to go except prison or the streets.

I think what bothered me most about the older children is that they have nothing of their own. Nothing, not their clothes, toys, nothing, its all shared. I can't imagine how that feels. Imagine how your DC's feel about their favorite toys, what a fuss they can kick up about what to wear.

I was going to write "I want to wear the crown" But your last post makes me feel all teary Sue/Kewcumber. The thought of those poor kids left with virtually nothing makes me want to so something practical to help. At work they are doing a scheme called £4lb which is basically slimming for charity but I'm not sure who gets to decide where the money goes. I'll look into it on Monday.
I have not been very good today, woke up too late for breakfast and consequently have been hungry and picky all day. Salad for lunch just did not cut it and I have just eaten a slice of the cheesecake I had bought for lunch with my heavily pg bf tomorrow. Oh well, tomorrow is another day and all that, good luck to everyone else for weighing in

Suekewcumber - that picture was so sad made me cry. I want to go bring them all home. Where is this orphanage?
Well done everyone who lost this week! I had a big fat Indian takeaway last night so have to be extra-good this weekend. Hey-ho. Onwards and upwards (although hopefully downwards)

at that picture. It makes you just want to rush over there, scoop them all up and bring them back home.

Sorry didn;t mean to put a downer on everyone. I have just been thinking of them recently and felt I wanted to acknowledge their existance somewhere - even in a small way.

EllieG - the orphanage is in Kazakhstan - if you have a large box of tissues to hand, you could read Sue's blog about her journey there. It's fab - but you do need tissues to read it.

Blimey Jackie you've a memory like an elephant to remember that webaddress!

It's in my favourites, sue. I was visiting pretty much every day when you were there, you know.

Hi, or maybe I should say oink as I have been a complete pig today. We were in town when dh spotted a two for one lunch offer at the chinese buffet place, he had to beg and plead with me but I graciously gave in. I don't know whether it was the hard slog of getting my hair cut or the spending of lots of money but I could have eaten a horse and dd took to chinese food like a duck to water, probably something to do with having experienced it secondhand since conception.
DH is now being evil again and suggesting one of us nips out before Dr Who starts to buy Haagen Dazs. I think he might be trying to sabotage my diet. I will resist this time!

So did he go, justamum? Or did you resist?

OK - a bit late (sorry) - the weights for this week (total losses in brackets):

EllieG: +.5 (-1.5)
MrsJohnCusack: -2 (-2)
Littlemisssensible: -1.5 (-7.5)
Coppertop: -3 (-6)
whoopsfallenoveragain: -2 (-9)
suejonez/Kewcumber: -1 (+2)
JackieNo: +1 (0)
agalch: +.5 (-24.5)
ForcesSweetheart: stayed the same (-12.25)

So well done all those who lost. A well-earned copper crown for coppertop (and an honourable mention for the returning MrsJohnCusack - you get two tiny crowns just for you).

Actually, MrsJC - could you please pass one of those crowns on to whoopsfallenoveragain.

And a new thread .