Mel - I was wondering how you got on with the tradies today...can't believe they're done and you're not going to get stuffed around by them! WTG! I can just see Chelsea's face all lit up
CC - my post earlier about the blazer was not meant to be a lecture at you...I was just reminiscing about my blazer days It occurred to me later tonight that you could have taken it that way, and then I remembered, from knowing people going to school further up the East Coast, that blazers probably become less and less part of school uniforms (remembering photos of school dresses with cap sleeves!). In Melbourne, blazers have to be good quality or you FREEZE in winter! There are cheaper alternatives (well, there was for my school, non-wool with same school crest etc), but the wearer would have to really layer with thermals to beat the cold at lunchtime LOL!
Ok, boy is asleep and I think I want to be, too.
BTW, on the topic (earlier) of fights with DP's and DH's...DP and I just had a 'discussion' about leaving Oscar, feeding him solids, and CFA training. He seems to think that I haven't tried 'hard enough' to introduce solids and that I'm happy to just put him on the boob instead of expressing to put into a sippy cup for him. Firstly, he gets solids when he's interested, and I have some prepared in the freezer, so he can stop pontificating about that. Second, why not have him at the breast when I'm there? It's not me he'll be drinking out of a sippy cup for! The sippy cup is for when I'm NOT there, and I would have thought that my going back to riding provides a nice easement into getting food into him without me being there. It will take TIME, and I've only been leaving him for 2-2 and a half hours at a time since last week, so it's only early days. Geez, CFA doesn't mean so much to me that I'm going to force the solids issue so that I can get to training. Why am I being a 'baby-led' parent if I'm going to try to squish him into activities that, quite frankly, can wait? It's not life or death, it's not even feast or famine - it's volunteer duties and as much as brigade involvement means to me, if I have to take a back seat because Oscar's not a demon on solids (enough to be left with someone for a few hours so we can both go), then so be it. He is more important. GRRR!
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