That both of my rants sorted themselves out too 🙂 Thanks for the support messages on both counts.
I had a long phone chat with Julie about non-related stuff on Thursday night and ‘got over myself’ a bit on the taking all the toys out issue. Also spoke at length to Ady about it and we have decided to set very firm ground rules that any visiting children stay downstairs, in the playroom or the lounge – kids bedrooms are out of bounds. We will mention it next time they come round as the new ‘house rule’ and Davies will be briefed on it already – tbh with 3 2yos in the house going up and down stairs en masse is a bit of a recipe for disaster anyway, so that’s sorted that one out. Ady also reminded me that Chris and Julie have very different priorities in life to us and that it was not really a lack of respect, more a different level of importance placed on possessions and material ‘stuff’. Which made me relax about it all a bit more and take it altogether less personally.
Secondly I had an email asking me to ring one of the other mothers from the HE group. We had a nice chat and talked about where we want to HE group to head (she has a couple of smaller children too, whereas a lot of the others are all of school age and above). I am going to go along to the meeting on Tuesday night and if what the group wants as a majority is not what we as a family need then we will bow out for now – I do appreciate that preschooled HEers have more alternatives for socialising, less need for any sort of structured group thing, and TBH one of the reasons I love the idea of HE so much is that it does not have to involve group politics – we’ll see but I am feeling much better about both issues now anyway (not to mention guilty about ranting in the first place 🙂 )
You need a muddlepuddle group…
You’re right, and I think that J and I (the woman I rang) might end up doing something along those lines)
And blimey woman, you practically read that before I typed it:-)
that’s rss for you!
Jax, tell me again what reader you use? Is it a firefox plugin, did you say?
Nic – I’m having trouble finding your posts – the are appearing in the category, but unless they are general, they aren’t showing on screen when you open your blog. Is that how you want them to be? I almost missed your rants (which is a pity, as I like a good one, makes me feel less of a bad tempered cow). Had you not commented on them in todays post, I wouldn’t have konw to go looking for them – under “rant” of course 🙂
Yes, I use sage, it’s a firefox plugin. Seems to work reasonably well, although occasionally gets confused and tells me everyone has blogged (oh the excitement!)
How strange Joyce… is anyone else having the same problem???
Yes I do think ‘rant’ may be a well used category! I love the categories most of all on WP – especially how you can even give them a description aswell as a title (hover the mouse over the list on the right if you don’t kwim)
Reads OK for me.