Well the wife dislocated her shoulder and I was permanently banned from the other place for a reason they saw fit to not bother telling me about.

Nice.

It's those memories that make it all worthwhile when they come home drunk and shout at you becuase you don't understand... that'll happen MUCH sooner than you'll realise 😉

I'm glad to hear the little one is doing well! How old are they and how many have you got? We've got two and they certainly keep us busy!

Thank you for contributing and sharing!

My week was good, kind of hectic with the kids finishing nursery and school though, but now I'm enjoying later starts to the day as there's no mad rush in the morning's to get everyone out!

My week was fine cheers mate. My daughter "graduated" from nursery which was very cute! It felt like there was some kind of activity to go in for the kids for every day of the final week which was kind of frustrating, as I'd wait to go all of them but it's just not logistically possible!

It's bad to be at another kid's recital, so turnabout is fair play IMO

Is it bad to be scrolling on your phone at another kid's recital?

I got to watch my son's first musical recital. He was on keyboard doing a few background chords of Seven Nation Army, so at least the little twerps were butchering something worth listening to! It was great though, honestly I loved it.

I just wish he hadn't made us attend his friends' performance in Wizard of Oz the day prior, it lasted an hour and a half. That was decidedly less worth being late for dinner.

Weekend away: nice, but tiring and away from my home projects (maybe I need to get out more)

Work was brutal, but somehow made it through

Figuring out summer still. Some flowers that were meant to bloom in August already have, and look like they're at the end of their cycle already, and I stare at their shriveled corpses and wonder about what next month will bring

Long and drawn out yet shorter than I wanted.

My week closed in a great way as we visited friends who have four puppies. The cuteness was off the scale!

I’ve also had very quiet week at work as so many of our team are on holiday.

Last week of term, it was more dramatic than I cared for. But now that the teachers are on leave I get to do some housekeeping at work. I'm oddly looking forward to it.

The little one's been doing well recently, we got lots of smiles and cuddles and it melted our hearts and tired little brain. Got a week off coming soon, packed with house chores and test drives!

Thank you for asking and creating the space to share. How was your week?

Weirdly quiet.

I'm covering for people at work whilst they're on holiday and now I'm wondering what they do as I haven't had to do anything for them (que next week being chaos)

Having a nice, relaxed, cooler weekend now...

And you...?

Sort of okay? I found out I didn’t get one job I interviewed for but got invited to a second interview for another one (although the pay isn’t as good).

The first place said that they are about to launch a new role that would suit me though so I must’ve done something okay?

I find interviews so hard… anyone else with ADHD out there that has any tips? 😅😅

It's scripted TV(albeit, not like most), the magician acts have the assistance of the host, judges and often the audience. Some people will believe that's not true and some people will believe that wrestling is real. There's no thing they could tell you that would make you also believe that.

No i think you're right play it safe and don't get them yet another toy

That's a really good idea thanks 😊

Maybe I'm being too much of a downer. My wife loves the mountain of teddies. She's not the one who has to find somewhere to store them all though...

There's definitely going to be some of that, because that's pretty much the received wisdom according to every publisher. I'm just here to say not all of them should be picture-based. If all of them are, that teaches kids that less pictures equals harder and less fun. I'm going to bat for straight up textual matter.

I never said the kid should only have one book, after all!

ah I'm not disputing that! By all means read to them. I'm just saying that when they are babies and toddlers imho it's better something with some pictures. I think it makes more fun to them as they learn to point to things as well.

Ahhhh I was gonna get a personalised teddy bear as part of the present. Good tips there thanks

Diapers. Lots of them.

This is the best answer. Sixty quid in a card is much better than any items to the same value

When my brother had his first child, we spent a Sunday cooking up a load of meals, portioning them up into those foil takeaway containers (cheap on eBay) and freezing them and then gave them those.

They said they were a god send, it meant that they didn't have to think about preparing dinners whilst they were coping with the new born.

That's when they'll get the most out of it, but babies need to be read to. It helps them a lot, can't be overstated. Take it from me, my kid has severe ADHD but he's a stronger reader than most of his classmates.