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Welcme to the forum.

Spaghetti bolagnese. Katie has just started to try and feed herself this week. She can get the food from the dish into her mouth, but hasn't quite worked out how to pick food up. The consequence? Tonight I decided just to chop her spaghetti up so she could learn to chew her meals rather than having them blended. She did very well at eating her mince etc, but a lot of her meal was flung all over the kitchen, including my coat and her carseat which were behind her on the settee.

Er, not unless you fancied Katie's mash, carrots, cauliflower and gravy mixed together (exactly how she usually likes it anyway:lol:). Tonight we had curry, and I gave Katie the last sausage in the packet with the remains of last nights dinner and some rice.

Sausage, mash, veg and onion gravy. The gravy was ok, but it went wrong because at the precise moment I was doing it, Katie got stuck and I had to rescue her instead of stiring it. Plus, she only ate her sausage and wouldn't have her mash:roll:

My OH likes it when I am reading too. He knows I won't annoy him while he is doing his business and I am absorbed in my book or Christianity magazine, but he still expects me to be listening either to the tv or his phone conversations and looks upset if I don't answer a question. He doesn't really want me to listen anyway!

Welcome Raine. How old is your tot? I have a toddler too (Or she will be in a couple of weeks), so I am going to be getting into bigger books with her myself soon. I would be grateful for any book reading tips you can give me on reading with toddlers. Maybe we could swap?

Welcome Jenni:)

I used to go there a lot in my final year as a student, but I was hge back then!

I made a beef casserole this morning. It was nice to come home to a cooked meal at dinner time.

More corned beef hash. Yummy!

Mia, you are right. Loads of quotes and no info is pointless. You need to know something about the book, but obviously not too much. I wonder if there is something in the idea that everyone's tastes cannot be accounted for. Obviously you would know that from the synopsis, but what I mean is that different people may be hooked in different ways. I am not exactly sure if I always know what I am looking for when I read a blurb. It is however, very annoying when blurbs either mislead or do not give enough info and the book is completely different (either for better or worse) than you imagined.

Motherhood ages you, so if 25 is old then I must be ancient with two children at 23!

Welcome to the forum.

Us too! I was making a casserole but OH distracted me this afternoon and it got too late so I made hash instead.

Hi Clare. Welcome to the forum.

welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum. I too am a stay at home [mummy] and will be 24 this year. in a few weeks time I will have two children at my beck and call. My daughter is 11 mths old, and my partner is also called Andrew. Enjoy the forum.

I got one too. I still have about 30 pgs to read. Obviously you can tell it is an exciting book:lol:, but it is quite interesting, just not written well. I had put it to one side to have a break. OH has not read any of his for a while either so I reminded him too.

I studied Nietzsche in uni. I can't remember much about him now, but he did have some very interesting ideas. You have inspired me to look him up again, along with my two favourite theologians, Von Balthasar and De Chardin.

Does anyone else find that books keep popping up in the least expected places? I find books everywhere, especially reference books that I have got down to look something up in, and then I sometimes find that the appropriate shelf is full and will not squeeze on any more books!

I have read a lot of things that say reading to babies gives them a love of reading even just sitting each day and turning the pages. I think it is important to let the baby guide how fast or slow you go through books though, and how much detail you go into. It is amazing to think that just letting Katie hold and look at books might one day mean she loves reading. She certainly loves looking at them. I am not sure how my Mum got me reading. I will have to ask her, but she has always told me that at age two I could read big print words in newspapers.

I usually wait till OH goes away, but whenthe comp is upstairs I will have the living room. I also have a two-piece suite in my bedroom. Drex does tend to respect my privacy when I really need it, and even keeps the kids away so I can have a quiet moment.

Is there ever anything on? I watch coronation street and the news, but I hardly have the tv on. If I am ironing or something then I will look for something good but am mostly disappointed as there isn't anything. I like an interesting documentary or good film.

Technically Sedge, it is a room where the men go to do their thing. No women or children allowed except by special invitation. They basically drink, play games of some sort and talk about women and silly things, like men do when together. The snooker room got filled with junk so they started using the living room more and brought DVDs and XBOXs, but I have cleared the snooker room now. They also have the gym, and like I said, OH has his own office. The other two spare rooms are filled with junk/furniture so I have no idea where the new baby is going! To keep on topic, I have somehow acquired a small pile of books I want to read soon on a shelf behind the tv. I had better not let OH notice!

My step-gran use to make us loads of cakes for our lunch boxes, inculding a gorgeous chocolate cake (back in the days when I liked chocolate) that I never seen the like of since. My Auntie's mother has a recipe for egg custard that my Gran use to make when we were visiting.