It was the second Chesterfield nappuccino today. That’s a meeting where ppl who use cloth nappies get together and chat about nappies and drink coffee, for those not in the know. There weren’t many new faces today – although the meeting has been fairly well publicised, there were no signs upstairs in the library, and the lift was out of order. As I only had Small with me, and no buggy, we just used the stairs. 😉
Nice to catch up with a few friends though, and had a bit of a wander around the flea market with a couple of them, Rachel from Peeweez and Kate from Pumpkinwraps (As a quick aside, I’ll do a quick plug for a friend and client, Kate is just setting up selling the most gorgeous hand knitted wool wraps for cloth nappies. Really beautiful they are). We’d also had a bit of an Ergo convention as another lady turned up with hers, but she had the rucksack as well. Very neat! Think I *need* one of those…
I’d left Big at home with Tim – finally had enough of taking two children shopping. And I’ve got to say it was the first time I enjoyed doing the shopping for a long time. I shopped at Lidl, which was enlightening. Got a weeks shopping plus gloves for me and Big, and trousers and hiking boots for her, all for the amount that would usually get us a weeks shopping at Tesco. Think I’ve just dumped Tesco 😉
Didn’t realise what a problem those trousers were going to cause though. It would appear that my daughter is not the only fashion victim in the family. Small *really* wanted those trousers. They are red velour and he thinks they are great. They’re a bit big for him though…I ended up going and finding some trousers that he hadn’t seen to let him pick some new trousers as well (thought he might get rather funny looks going out in Big’s skirt, which appeared to be the alternative!).
Ballet this evening, and Big really blew it big time on the way back. She is usually very sensible on road sides, but tonight she was just running madly down the road, and of course Small wants to follow her. He’s getting big enough that this is a problem, so I wasn’t very impressed with her behaviour at all. Dunno what I’m supposed to do to change the pattern we’re in at the moment though.
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Bugger, I was going to go and look at those trousers! Might have to drag the kids round there in the morning …. that’ll please them ….
Elijah had a bit of a mad day roadwise the other day – shocked me really, the boy is usually pathologically scared of getting run over. I guess sometimes their concentration just goes. They’re quite little still, and it’s hard for them to remember that with great power comes great responsibility 😉 Poppy & Tilda are usually brilliant with Lulah, and then every now and again they’ll do something so daft and dangerous, it makes me wonder what’s in their heads.
Sorry about the lift and signs are on the schedule for the next one – as is MORE advertising. Hope to see yoou soon?
Your (and Alison’s) Lidl must just be better than mine – I tried the same thing a few weeks back as an experiment, and while my week’s shopping was cheaper, the main reason was because half the stuff I wanted wasn’t there. Trousers sound nice though!
The things I missed where tagliatelli and pasta sauces. But I’m thinking of doing a bulk order of stuff like pasta and I can make pasta sauces, so didn’t feel I’d missed much really. And the fruit and veg was really cheap, so we got bananas *and* grapes – the children are very impressed with me!
I’ve really got beyond walking anywhere. Moo is loads better than she was a year ago, where walking along a road nearly gave me a nervous breakdown but she can still do completely random lurches for no apparent reason at times. Its fine if i have a pushchair or trolley so she can hang on ito it, but on the odd occasion i don’t and Ammi needs the most full on attention, she can be a nightmare.
Of course the whole thing is made worse by NOT walking places because she doesn’t get the practise.
Davies is really very sensible about traffic and roads and stuff. I’m never sure whether that was because he came out of a pushchair so early (just over 2 cos I refused to get a double buggy when Scarlett was born and he didn’t like the buggy board cos it was ‘too wobbly’!) or whether he is just generally a more life preserving aware child. Scarlett will probably need to be in a pushchair or other restraining device until she reaches her early teens as she has no sense of danger about anything, specifically roads! Wonder if the Tufty club is still going, or the Green Cross Code man does personal appearances!