Ladylucan Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 As much as i love them, i have put the flags out today..... YEP..... ITS..... BACK TO SCHOOL...... It has been a really hard 6 weeks...... x.x.x.x. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susiepoos Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I think I'll join you on that one!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Son has just caught his bus for his first real day back at school, and I have to admit I miss him already. I love having them at home, and I don't enjoy the tyranny of the school year, battling over homework, early starts every day, endless ironing of school uniforms and the constant problems of packed lunches. Anything I bake or buy as a packed lunch treat (cakes, biscuits, crisps etc) all get grazed within a few hours of me getting them , then for the rest of the week they moan when all they get is sandwiches and an apple Suddenly he looks so grown up too, taller than me and very smart in a brand new blazer, shiny shoes and crisply ironed trousers. Oh, and his prefect's tie (where's a proud Mum emoticon when you need one )That state of smartness won't last long though I can tell you. One lunch time game of football and he'll back to the scruffy tyke I know and love Daughter's still rotting in bed, 1 more day to go, then back to school tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I feel the same Kate. 3 back at school and one off to uni in 2 weeks. I haven't forgotten how hard the summer was when my children were young and the baby's routine was mucked up and there was absolutely no break from it all; but now they are all older, it is great to be able to spend time together, to go out and visit places etc. This summer has been really good because DS (9) is no longer the tricky individual he used to be. He used to spoil everything we did by dragging along 10 metres behind the rest of us, but this year has been really lovely. Like Kate, I really dislike the relentless treadmill we seem to be on with early mornings, after-school activities, homework etc. Even as a work-at-home mother, I find it hard to keep up. 11 months to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 DONT DONT DONT DONT DONT!!! SETH IS 1 IN 7 WEEKS TIME! AND I DONT WANT IT TO HAPPEN, AS SOON AS HE HITS ONE YEAR TIME WILL GO EVEN FASTER, AND THEN IT WILL BE ME WHO IS IN YOUR SHOES! I DONT WANT HIM TO GO TO SCHOOL, I ENJOY HAVING HIM AT HOME SOOOOOOOO MUCH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 You carry on enjoying it! It's the best thing in the world and you can't have that time again. Don't worry about the future, it is a long way off yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I know! I am torn about having baby number 2, i enjoy him soooo much and your right you cant have that time over again! Im so worried about having baby number 2, [if we are blessed with another baby!] * will seth be upset? * Will i have enough time for them both? * Will i have enough love for them all? * Will i regret not being 100% seths mom 24/7 ??? ARGH! BUT----- another tiiiiiny baby would feel 'right' in the house i think in 2 yrs time etc! Im banned from having another baby until Ross finishes Uni doing his Masters [he starts this Sept!] as we will be poor until he finishes! Im training to be a Foster Mom at the moment, a LONG 1 year process! I hope everything goes well. Anyway! Sorry if the person who started this threat feels like ive Hjacked it! Sorry hun! Kids eh? LOL! Love to All. Laura xxxxxx p.s! I hope all the moms are sitting relaxing today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Mums, sitting and relaxing in the same sentence? Unlikely!!! I remember thinking I couldn't possibly have any more love to give another baby, but you don't need to worry. There's always plenty to go round. After your second, you will realise how easy life was with just one! And the second is SO much cheaper . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 THATS MY ARGUEMENT! the second is cheaper! But at the moment we only have 2 bedrooms, although they are HUGE and we could make one into 2, its just the fact ross says, ''what if its a Girl'' She'd have no bedroom! BAH! Im not ready to have another yet. But i want 5 eventually! Am i mad? LOL We need a massive extention if we do! hehehhe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Not mad at all! I wanted 6, but I have stopped at 4. It's great, I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I have 3 there is always enough love to go around but not always enough time. Mine are now 8,11 & very nearly 14 we have just been transfering camcoder footage to dvd and looking back at baby and toddler days and we both agree that we can not remember most of it. Therefore MAKE THE MOST OF NOW. Our son is having his 1st day at secondary school today which seems so strange after watching footage of his 1st steps at the weekend. I love having them around during holidays etc no routine, sitting just chatting in the evenings instead of having to get reading and homework fitted in around eating and bedtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clash City Rocker Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Put a flag out for me also please Got my morning paper delivered before 8.00am, (not the 10.30-midday) that it's been for the last eight weeks. three cheers for term time hip hip hooray..........(x3) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Put a flag out for me also please Got my morning paper delivered before 8.00am, (not the 10.30-midday) that it's been for the last eight weeks. three cheers for term time hip hip hooray..........(x3) CCR, I'm sure that this is a well meaning and jokey comment, but please spare a thought for the paper girls/ boys. It's a pig of a job, I wouldn't do for anything, and the youngsters who do it are invariably under 16 (once they reach the age of 16 they are able to go out and get themselves a decent job, often at weekends, not early morning). They're usually good, well motivated youngsters, who might enjoy a bit of a lie in on their holiday (don't we all ), but with a work ethic and willing to put in a decent amount of work for pretty horrendous pay, and you can't say that about all young people today. OK, you've probably realised my 15 year old does a paper round, same round for over a year now, and he's looking hard for an alternative job. But he's up every morning, 7 days a week at 6am. He leaves the house at 6:45 to get to the paper shop, spends 10 minutes unpacking the paper bundles, printing off his delivery list and counting the papers into his bag. He leaves the shop at 7am, delivers well nigh 40 papers and magazines to 28 different addresses, gets home by 7:40 and has to be on the 7:45 bus for school. He gets no paid leave and the only day that there are no papers is Christmas Day. For that he gets £2 a day and £2.50 on a Sunday. Oh, and please don't get me started on the weight of the weekend papers, Sunday's always been bad but Saturday's getting almost as bad. To the extent that these days I fear for his back (he's a growing lad, supplied with one of those horrendously damaging to the back messenger bags) and often on Sunday either I or his Dad help him to share the weight. Oh, and letterboxes When I've been helping him I've been appalled by what some customers expect, tiny letterboxes and they expect the entire Sunday Times squeezed through it without damage........... or separation (Honestly somebody complained that I seperated the sections and posted them in individually ), and boxes that are too high, too low or protected by loud, barking dogs- son got bitten as a toddler and is terrified of dogs. He can cope if they're on the other side of the door, but if they're roaming free he flings the paper and runs (in fairness that address has been warned). School hols he had a lay in until 8 and the whole round got delayed by 2 hours. Personally I think he needed it, he works darned hard at school, and needed to recharge the batteries. Often he did 2 rounds covering for boys on holiday, that made the 2nd round even later. Newspaper delivery is something we take for granted, like postmen and milkmen, it's a valuable service, but please think about the poor youngsters doing the job. Would you do that for £2 an hour . I wouldn't and am torn between pride that son does it, and embarrassed that he feels he needs to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 I think a paper round is an excellent first job and hard work too! I remember doing mine and experiencing the same problems with ridiculous sized letter boxes, gates that got stuck or tried to bite my fingers off, scary lanes leading to even scarier farms surrounded by mega scary old outbuildings At 16 I got a job in a restaurant/kitchen/motel (I was a skivvy basically) and it seemed like a doddle in comparison! Apparently around here the under-16s have a fight on their hands to get a paper round as a lot of the Eastern Europeans are getting them first! It is a bit strange seeing adult paper"boys" and paper"girls"!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Put a flag out for me also please Got my morning paper delivered before 8.00am, (not the 10.30-midday) that it's been for the last eight weeks. three cheers for term time hip hip hooray..........(x3) CCR, I'm sure that this is a well meaning and jokey comment, but please spare a thought for the paper girls/ boys. It's a pig of a job, I wouldn't do for anything, and the youngsters who do it are invariably under 16 (once they reach the age of 16 they are able to go out and get themselves a decent job, often at weekends, not early morning). They're usually good, well motivated youngsters, who might enjoy a bit of a lie in on their holiday (don't we all ), but with a work ethic and willing to put in a decent amount of work for pretty horrendous pay, and you can't say that about all young people today. OK, you've probably realised my 15 year old does a paper round, same round for over a year now, and he's looking hard for an alternative job. But he's up every morning, 7 days a week at 6am. He leaves the house at 6:45 to get to the paper shop, spends 10 minutes unpacking the paper bundles, printing off his delivery list and counting the papers into his bag. He leaves the shop at 7am, delivers well nigh 40 papers and magazines to 28 different addresses, gets home by 7:40 and has to be on the 7:45 bus for school. He gets no paid leave and the only day that there are no papers is Christmas Day. For that he gets £2 a day and £2.50 on a Sunday. Oh, and please don't get me started on the weight of the weekend papers, Sunday's always been bad but Saturday's getting almost as bad. To the extent that these days I fear for his back (he's a growing lad, supplied with one of those horrendously damaging to the back messenger bags) and often on Sunday either I or his Dad help him to share the weight. Oh, and letterboxes When I've been helping him I've been appalled by what some customers expect, tiny letterboxes and they expect the entire Sunday Times squeezed through it without damage........... or separation (Honestly somebody complained that I seperated the sections and posted them in individually ), and boxes that are too high, too low or protected by loud, barking dogs- son got bitten as a toddler and is terrified of dogs. He can cope if they're on the other side of the door, but if they're roaming free he flings the paper and runs (in fairness that address has been warned). School hols he had a lay in until 8 and the whole round got delayed by 2 hours. Personally I think he needed it, he works darned hard at school, and needed to recharge the batteries. Often he did 2 rounds covering for boys on holiday, that made the 2nd round even later. Newspaper delivery is something we take for granted, like postmen and milkmen, it's a valuable service, but please think about the poor youngsters doing the job. Would you do that for £2 an hour . I wouldn't and am torn between pride that son does it, and embarrassed that he feels he needs to. sorry but i felt the need to quote all of that! I also felt that the original poster may have been joking like A Family but i feel VVVV sorry for Paper-People. My paper girl for my street is a lovely girl who is 14 and is aalso a carer for her mom, she earns even less i think that £2.00, shes a nice girl and i always speak to her and tip her, sometimes i help her with the papers. Ross my man, was a paper person, and he now has such a bad back from carrying 60 papers a day. he didnt have any choice, he had to do it. I think paper people whould get the same rate as milk people aswell, and post people! If i was a paper person i would lie in and deliver them around tea time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 My parents always cancelled their papers on the first day of the school holidays, no point in having them delivered that late. My Dad thought it was absolutely appalling that the kids were allowed a lay in, when he was a paper boy it would never have happened. My Dad was born in 1929 - his paper round used to make him a mint becaue he delivered to a rich area and on Saturdays he would return to a number of houses after his paper round and light all their fires (remember there was no central heating back then!). Then on Sunday he would again return after his paper round to collect his fire lighting payments! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clash City Rocker Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Apologies to "Paper People" everywhere , was going to do the joke about them being "blown away" but probably not appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueSteve Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 My 3 are now back to school, I did miss them today, but kept busy making Beetroot Chutney! My eldest is 14, he has 2 years left, where have all the years gone? My next one is 12, she is now year 8, she says its nice not to be the youngest anymore! And the little one is 6, he is now in the last year of the Infants! The older 2 were away for the first 2 weeks in Austria on Scout Camp, so I had some quality time with ds6. The next 2 weeks were fine, they had fun playing with friends and keeping themselves occupied, the next week they were excited, we were going away, and then went camping for 3 nights. The last week was really strange, dd and ds6 helped me in the kitchen making cakes, biscuits, Jam, Bread etc. and ds14 & ds6 got really intested in the allotment and helped me most days. This is the first year that they did not get bored, but the younger 2 were really looking forward to going back to school, the eldest wasnt - too much hard work he says!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
