The Things You Are HAPPY About Thread.

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Good stuff. I hate moving and we have moved 4 times in the last 7 years. This is the 1st house we have owned rather than rented though so when we move next it will probably be a nightmare involving an upward chain.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Just unwittingly sprayed freezing cold water all over the papergirl whilst washing the car, that'll teach her to sneak up so quietly.

 

[t3ch]

We've moved house!!

Never thought we'd have to move in the snow but its been fun!

Seems like a good time to move, really. It's like having padding all around. Drop something, no problem. Snow's safely caught it.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Going up to see my boys for the Easter weekend, even though I am likely to get co-opted in as a labourer on one or other of the house renovation projects they are currently engaged with.

Will also take in a match at Woking (Conference Premier) - it will be a joy to go to a match where I can merely enjoy football & meet some old friends as they are not quite near enough to the playoffs & in absolutely no danger of relegation

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Lots of things making me happy at the moment...
Stroking my new daughter's skin, it's so soft and peachy.
I keep taking photos of her. I've deleted about 95 and now have about 15 good ones.
Picking her up and the smell of her is lovely. (A real you've got to be there thing. Apologies to those who don't have kids)

The Drummer's new shagging pit. It's a really lovely house, perfect for him, and it has more windows than three houses. So cool.
My other son in Norway is about to get a full time position, and he seems very happy.

Just got some lucrative work in April...

 

[Parkins left foot]

Lots of things making me happy at the moment...
Stroking my new daughter's skin, it's so soft and peachy.
I keep taking photos of her. I've deleted about 95 and now have about 15 good ones.
Picking her up and the smell of her is lovely. (A real you've got to be there thing. Apologies to those who don't have kids)

The Drummer's new shagging pit. It's a really lovely house, perfect for him, and it has more windows than three houses. So cool.
My other son in Norway is about to get a full time position, and he seems very happy.

Just got some lucrative work in April...

You seem to be in a good place right now - stay there as long as you can.

Enjoy your new daughter as much as you can - they soon grow up. I now have 2 hairy arsed adults calling me Dad when I still think of them as chuckling infants!

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Yes thanks, I will try.

But I think it was a mate on here who said they're not very interesting for the first year, and I have to agree.
Lovely to look at and watch and sniff, but she can't do anything.

She'll be far more fun when she can do things like.... knock on the door to tell me the snow's drifting into her buggy, or brush the snow off her head herself because I left her at the side of the car when I brought the shopping in. Handy little things like that.

She's not going to be a spoilt only child believe me...

 

[Parkins left foot]

Yes thanks, I will try.

But I think it was a mate on here who said they're not very interesting for the first year, and I have to agree.
Lovely to look at and watch and sniff, but she can't do anything.

She'll be far more fun when she can do things like.... knock on the door to tell me the snow's drifting into her buggy, or brush the snow off her head herself because I left her at the side of the car when I brought the shopping in. Handy little things like that.

She's not going to be a spoilt only child believe me...

Yes - agree with this. They don't do much for the first year (apart from finding you the funniest thing they have seen) - but they are fun up to the age of approx. 11-13 when they turn into aliens for a few years..

It is why I work in a Primary school rather than senior school level. The best one I have had is an 8 yr old coming to the office to tell me he was having a heart attack because he had a slight chest pain. It was difficult to keep a straight face whilst checking to see that he was not telling the truth!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You lot paint a very vibrant picture of parenthood (not the crap Steve Martin film). On balance I think I'm glad I'll never experience it.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I love being a Dad. I think the only time in my life I have felt complete happiness is when my daughter smiles or laughs. Sometimes I think my heart will explode when I am looking at her. Of course there are downsides too, for instance I dont think I will ever stop worrying about her as long as I live!

 

[Johnny75]

You lot paint a very vibrant picture of parenthood (not the crap Steve Martin film). On balance I think I'm glad I'll never experience it.

It's good fun though and a bit like golf. For most of the time you are doing it it's bloody hard work, but for that short time where everything clicks, maybe a smile, a laugh or the loudest fart you've ever heard in public it makes you feel on top of the world. Admittedly I only have a 9 week old and have not experienced the worst bits yet.

 

[North West Wanderer]

Getting some core fitness back. Love it.

 

[ROVERT47]

Eldest Grand Daughter is 6 today, coming up to Wolves tomorrow with Mom, Dad and little Sister, gonna spend Easter with Grandad & Grandma then staying for the first week of the school holiday while Mom & Dad go to work.

 

[ROVERT47]

The Jet Stream's heading north next week, temperatures in double figures, woohoo!!!

 

[Nando]

Finished my dissertation!

:disco:

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

I was in the supermarket the day with my 4 year old lad. I said to him " I have to get some beans", "no beans Daddy" his reply while wagging his finger at me. "Why not?", I said. "because of the trumps" he laughs. He's not the quietist kid around but I couldn't see if anyone had noticed because I was stood staring at the floor with a bright red face.

Bless 'em, kids are so special

 

[ROVERT47]

On the subject of the things kids say, we have our two Grandaugters staying with us at the moment.

On Good Friday Grandma was working and they wanted to come with me to pick her up from Great Bridge, on the journey, the eldest, Abigail who was 6 last Thursday was telling her sister Georgina (3) about whats inside your body.

'There's your skeleton' she said, 'and these lines in your arms carry blood round your body', 'veins', i interrupted', 'yes, that's what i meant Grandad', she said.

Anyway she went on to say, 'your heart pumps the blood around your body and your heart is filled with pictures of the people you love'.

I was nearly in tears and Grandma was when i told her.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Mine hasn't said anything yet.

Though she might be sulking because she got snowed on last week..

 

[Parkins left foot]

Mine hasn't said anything yet.

Once she does you will need to take care as they have a habit of repeating things they have heard at inappropriate moments. My youngest sister at 5 yrs old went round to a neighbours to tell her that my mother thought she was a 'stuck up so and so' having heard my parents discussing her when they did not realise she could overhear them.

We never got invited to play with their children again - I have always wondered why!!

 

[t3ch]

:icon_lol:

Ours doesn't repeat things like that to other people, but i can certainly see him picking up on a number of my bad habits. I call his mother 'woman' all the time and am ridiculously sarcastic... Have heard him say things like "sure thing, woman" a few times. Whoops!! Need to have the talk about manners again. "do as I say, not as I do"