Anything goes for Uni

[gertbysea]

The schools aound here are giving out iPads like candy. Anything up there.

I was a bad mother. I always managed to work or be on call for the kids birthdays but DH was good at taking a bunch of kids OUT somewhere. I never even made a cake.

The thought of 78 kids would send me down to uni's place . I would sit in her kitchen and drink International Roast and smoke before I would comtemplate a kids party.


Bad Bad Gert

[obbie]

so do my kids...

[knittercook]

Lego sounds good, maybe  lap tops too.

Have you seen the Lego Kombi van?  I wish mine were young enough to still play with it because I would buy it so I could make it 

[stacelee]

Tomato sauce and teenagers are one of those mysteries of life....my son couldn't stand it until a couple of years ago and now it gets put on the wierdest things.  I don't even argue any more....its like leftovers for breakfast....the wierder the better.  At least they get eaten.  I'm missing him with my cooking at the moment....I had to dump a heap of stuff this morning and I have three litres of milk to use by tomorrow because I forgot the baby cow was away and bought too much milk last week.

Brat boy is nearly 17 and he still plays with lego only it is now not called playing but designing.  He has all of my lego and the stuff that we bought for him....and he keeps eyeing off the star wars lego that is out now but purchasing more guitars is winning.  We have contributed towards a semi hollow guitar for his birthday that arrived a couple of months ago from the States...I think he has bought another two (ah make that now three) guitars since then.  My daughter got a Kindle touch for her birthday so that she can take it to school (she has an ipad but the teachers don't really like her reading on it at school).  She was using my kindle 2 but the touch is smaller and easier for me to remotely load stuff on for her.

[obbie]

Our school has a ban on anything electronic at all, including a basic mobile phone.

I should check out the lego kombi van.
They got new lego last week, My DH went shopping.


I want to get them another lap top, to stay off my shop computer.

[stacelee]

Good luck with keeping them off your laptop, my kids each have a laptop and a macbook (courtesy of a generous supplier incentive scheme...don't ask) and they have ipads that they bought themselves and they STILL use my laptop.  It sits in my office area next to my kitchen and it seems to be convenient for everyone including my husband to use it.  I've actually had to buy a new laptop because my old one has ended up with personality issues because of its shared status.  I'm gradually setting up my new one but it is a slow process....and it has a new password...which bratboy has already figured out.

[obbie]

They play on the lap top at work, but i want them of the shop POS computer...
They like it as it has a touch screen.

[gertbysea]

stacelee I think every child should have a Kindle. they may not like to be seen reading a BOOK but a Kindle had some street cred. 

Brat boy should make a guitar out of all his kindle and mount it on the wall. Sounds like he has great hand eye co ordination and is talented as well. If he reads music then he can read. He must sing as well as play instruments. He is able to travel and figure out stuff for himself. He has no time for molly coddling and seem perfectly normal. Trust me he will come good. Mine did at age 35. OK  I lied it was more like 30.

Double Brat girl was totally independant at age 4 and had no need of a mother. At about 33 she remembered she had a mother and she wasn't so bad. Now she is 44 and I think she likes me.

We will survive.

PS when Brat Boy comes home make his empty the suitcase next to the washing machine and put all his stuff into it. If he can manage to put some detergent in without prompting and turn the dial you are on to a winner. Believe me you do not want to see or smell that stuff. It is not pretty and the smell will be something out of this world.

Gert

[stacelee]

Brat boy actually doesn't want a kindle!!!...I offered him my Kindle fire to take away with him but he reads on his iphone.  He is a voracious reader...in grade 2 he wanted the first Harry Potter book and I refused unless he read me a page out of it.  The little snot (actually big snot) did....we have photos somewhere of this little boy with these enormous books.  He sings really well and plays trumpet at an almost professional standard but has no intention of continuing with it as a career .  His teachers want him to audition for the conservitorium (sp?) but he has no interest...he is talking about maybe doing it/music teaching or a combined degree of it/multimedia (sound production).  That may change when he gets back from England....apparently he was told that he performed brilliantly at York Minster last night and he has been invited to participate in the next holidays at some exclusive workshop program at the Con.  I'm very proud of him but he drives me balmy.

My beautiful mummy will probably do the brat's washing when he gets back...they get on like a house on fire and nothing is ever too much trouble for her when it comes to him.  Gotta love doting grandmothers.  She and my kids get on really well.  She is also brilliant with washing...she actually enjoys it....very wierd....personally I think ironing was the invention of the person who lives in that fiery place.

[astarra]

LOL stacelee - I don't iron ... but I have a lovely friend who comes in every week and takes my ironing home with her, does it and returns it once done. Kind ah, I don't have to iron! 

[fundj&e]

wow astarra, thats what u call a very good friend 

[gertbysea]

Stacelee sounds like you have done everything right. he can probably read on his iphone faster that he can text and they are pretty quick at that.

My DH went to the Con in Sydney but left to persue a career in journalism but switched to aviation so you never know what they will do. Now at 83 he wishes he had stuck with music. Still I would have missed all the travelling and so would he truth be told. Not a lot of money in music in Australia especially classical music.

Your mother is a gem. Will you be a grandmother like that?

I was ironing all the clothes for my mother when I was about 10. She wore button down  cotton  dresses size 26 which I had to spray with water from an old coke bottle then wrap in a tablecloth put into the fridge and iron without making a crease or  she would wrinkle it up and I would have to start again. She was hell on wheels. Still is.

Gert

[CreamPuff63]

funny as I was reading that gretch, I remembered mum had this light blue tupperware shaker thing that she used when ironing....wonder what that was, whether it was for ironing or cooking???

[gertbysea]

This  was way before tupperware. It was a top with holes in it you shoved down the neck of the coke bottle. Andie will know what I am talking about.

Gert

[judydawn]

Ah memories aye girls - not all good either