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Beautiful pics of th family Sara, just gorgeous children and you too.

Lovely pics!

kateb yes he is 9 foot tall. Trav. he is so tall he can touch god... thats why he godfarther..

SHABHNA AND I..

Cakes and loads of them.

yes.i do type and write how i talk. It's all good..

No only joking before Trav isnt 9 ft tall, he was on a step, and stood next to my nana who is about 3ft short. he is tall just not 9ft.


yes i bought the cakes iced and did all art work myself.

Al Murray!

Opp you know me, Spelling and me dont get on.

I made footprints out of ready made iceing,with this other thing, So they go hard and you can keep them for ever,. or eat them as Arthur keeps doing.

Igave them out though out the day, And little cards with Athur n Dennis on one side,thank you on the other side with the date of the christening,and laminated them.
Just a little something.

Well im all packed going away for the weekend, Going to see my sister, Who ive not seen for over 15years.
She got put into a children's home. Iwasnt alound contact with her, I found her on facebook about 3 months ago.

She is due to have a baby, It's her 3rd. Like me. AND GUESS WHEN SHE IS DUE....

19TH OR 25TH JUNE,. The same two date's i had. Go look on the start of this topic, i couldnt believe it when she told me.
She already has a boy and girl. Like i had..
So im so hoping baby is a boy so we have the same,
Im taking all my new born white baby clothes, plus all blankets and other things Dennis dont use anymore. Going to be a fab weekend,

Oh Sara that's marvellous! I'm so pleased you found your sister. My brother and I lost touch when he got divorced. We didn't see each other for about 17 years - it was so wonderful to find him again. I hope you have a lovely time.

I posted a message on a site I found that was similar to Friends Reunited. I got a message back from someone who thought he knew my nephew. He then passed my address to my nephew, who gave it to his step-mum, who mailed me with their phone number.

The funny thing is after we met and got chatting we found out that he had worked on some flats that I walked past every day, and he had considered phoning the hospital where he knew I'd been working. If he had the switchboard would've put him straight through!

Yes were back, Has a good time, Stayed in the north for the week instead of the weekend,
Stayed at my dad's which was nice,(would of been better if step mum not there).
Then stayed at my Real sister's Debbies, Debbie is due to have baby soon,
Then we stayed in a hotel, Now thats fun to do when you have children, You can run really hot baths and keep topping them up, Chill out on large beds and eat muches and watch tv and dvds all night, It was great fun, Then we stayed at my half sisters house, Well thats like qa min hotel to, the amout of rooms it has, mega big, Really nice 4poster bed i slept in, she has 3 chinchillers which are so cute, Bitter they dont like being held, they just need to be huged.
She also has a chihuahua dog, Bloody thing bite me, hhmm had to keep my eye on that, as i didnt want my children to be eaten by the monstar, The only bad thing that went wrong was that the baby Caught conductivities, I went to tescos chemist, I asked for eye drops had a mega row with the man who so wanted to be a doctor, About how there are 3kinds of conductivities,I tryed to explain to him that he had a cold and this is where its come from,. well i thought i was given eye drops, I was that mad by the time i left, that i just looked at the box which said eye drops that i thought i would of been given the right stuff.
Well i was give drops for dry eyes. so they didnt help, the man at tesco's ant got a clue what he doing, i went to a diffent place and explained and showed them Dennis's eye, was given the right drops, So all's well.We drove home yesterday, thank god as its SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!

All i need to do know is find my oth sister, Claire, been 18yrs since ive seen her,

Nice to have you back Sara - glad you had a nice time, especially in the hotel!

My sister, nana and Charlotte

Ok me and my sisters are missing ive added them to my facebook page, as when i try and add them on here, it says there to big, Ive changed my name on face book, so im easy to find, my new name is SARA FOR REAL MARKS.

I can see the family resemblance between you and your sister Sara.

Got to go back to work next week. Been interveiwing childminders all day. Seen 4today, Well they charge £3.50 per child £6 for two children. wow..
And in the school holidays when Charlotte gets paid to have the boys, They all said i still have to pay them, 1 said full pay, the rest said half pay, so i have to pay some 1 £170 for nothing. Well that's how it feels.
I can understand they have bills to paym but it's money for nothing when they dont have my children, even if im ill and dont work, i have to pay full pay, if children are ill i have to pay.

One woman kept the children in one side of the house and said the children must not go into her side, as she didnt want it messed up...
One woman moved my Dennis with her FOOT!!! And never once picked baby up or touched him, I put him on the floor to see if she would, no,
One woman had set tiime for everything, even p times. And wasnt intersted in the clubs i have been going with the children, She does her own things.. hhhmm Anyone want a job.

That's normal for a good childminder, after all they are your most precious belongings! They insist on payment even when they don't have the kids because its not like they can 'fill in' with another child to make their money up. Nurseries do the same. Their view is that YOU are still earning the same - its not their fault that your circumstances may vary from time to time. It is their job - it'd be like your boss deciding not to pay you because their relative can come in and do your shifts next week.

Would it be a possibility for you to become a childminder? It doesn't sound like the ones you interviewed were very good. Do you know any parents at Arhur's school who used a childminder that they could recommend? Do you work for 40 hrs a week? Would you be able to change your hours? My thinking is that if you could do less hours but later in the day so that hubby could have the boys maybe the overall costs would balance? Plus if you're doing less hours maybe you could also claim some working tax credits or something? (Not sure on how benefits work - sorry).

Just thought I'd suggest a few alternatives - hope you're not offended! x

Yes, I couldn't look after other people's kids. I looked after my friend's little girl when my kids were little but I didn't like it. She was sweet, but it just wasn't for me. I kept having her until my friend could get something else sorted - her mom had been ill but was well enough to have her in the end so it worked out well.

Is it worth going back for 15 hours? Surely all your earnings are going to go on child care? I'm glad you get your birthday off though, and I hope you can get something sorted to your satisfaction. Find yourself a new job - sometimes a change is a good thing!

I was telling a colleague about your problems, and about the paying back maternity pay etc, and she said there's a loophole to it - if you go back for one day and then go off sick then you are 'officially' back at work. If you can stay off for 3 months (I think it was) you can then leave and not have to pay anything back. I wouldn't normally suggest that sort of thing, but it could be that you have to do something like that. The other option is to work the twilight shift so that hubby can take care of the boys while you work.

Dennis is crawling, fast very fast, out one room into another, Wasnt to happy about the tiled flooring, but away he goes, so its stair gates up, fire gate up,so cute, When he's on your knee all he wants to do kniw is get down on the floor,

Ha ha you will have to be on your toes now Sara and will need eyes in your elbows

GOT LOADS CARDS, had greatday.

That's marvellous Sara! I hope you have a really fantastic time.

Lazytown is a childrens show. googel it, had brill weekend

Love the hair!!! Bless him.

My children at great yarmouth beach. my birthday treat.,

I know.its nearly my hencam 1st birthday.since i found u all... Yes mr Dennis was found on the bottom step today.trying to get up stairs.so im goin to have to get the stairgates out.

Above Arthur n Dennis, so cute.