A yummy (and happier and healthier) mummy - for good this time!

Thanks ladies. I think keeping Reece at home yesterday definitely helped as he seems loads better today. Therefore making me feel loads better too :)

Getting worried about the wedding again- we haven't had many RSVPs back yet and we asked for them back by 31st Jan. I dont know when would be polite to chase them up?! Also worried about evening guests as our venue isnt especially local and if people would bother to make the journey... Do you ask people to RSVP to an evening only invite?

Originally i was going to do green today but needed to grab a quick lunch and no veggie options were available :(

Todays food (EE day)-
B: Nothing.
L: Mexican tuna sandwich (WM bread hexB+2syns, tuna in mexican dressing approx 3syns, red pepper, cucumber and onion) Banana. Yogurt.
D: Mugshot. Yogurt. 2 x Satsuma. Banana.

Snacks: Fruit salad (apple, pear, grapes, kiwi and plum) Asda G&C crisps 4.5syns. Weetabix oaty bar 4.5syns.
Drinks: Starbucks medium skinny caramel latte (skimmed milk hexA and SF syrup) Water. 2 x cups of tea (sweetener and dashes of skimmed milk 1syn) Flavoured fizzy water.
Syn Total- 15syns
 
So much confusing wedding etiquette!!

I sent a quick message to a couple of my friends who i haven't heard from- made up a white lie about a few people's invites going AWOL in the post (almost true with h2bs brother!) so wanting to check they'd received them.
Annoyed because my own mother hasn't RSVPed yet! I know shes coming so maybe she doesn't think she needs to... Might give her a quick nudge!!

Thanks for the advice Rosie :) So helpful to have another bride to bounce ideas and wisdom with!
 
freakydarkstuff said:
So much confusing wedding etiquette!!

I sent a quick message to a couple of my friends who i haven't heard from- made up a white lie about a few people's invites going AWOL in the post (almost true with h2bs brother!) so wanting to check they'd received them.
Annoyed because my own mother hasn't RSVPed yet! I know shes coming so maybe she doesn't think she needs to... Might give her a quick nudge!!

Thanks for the advice Rosie :) So helpful to have another bride to bounce ideas and wisdom with!
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I know its difficult working out the rules! I have done a lot of googling and asked one of my bridesmaids a lot of questions (she's been to loads of weddings!)
Hopefully that will give them a nudge- its frustrating when people don't RSVP. Only a couple from OH family have sent theirs and it feels like the others can't be bothered x
 
RosiePops said:
I know its difficult working out the rules! I have done a lot of googling and asked one of my bridesmaids a lot of questions (she's been to loads of weddings!)
Hopefully that will give them a nudge- its frustrating when people don't RSVP. Only a couple from OH family have sent theirs and it feels like the others can't be bothered x
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Almost like they think that you know they are coming so dont bother!!

H2Bs aunt isnt coming (something to do with her dog) and they haven't even bothered to tell us! H2B found out yesterday by a chance phone call with his mum! And she was one of the people that MIL kicked up a fuss about inviting so that annoyed me a little- but at least we can now invite a friend instead!
 
If anyone didn't RSVP to us we assumed they weren't coming and invited someone else in their place and in retrospect we were really lucky that didn't work out badly. It's so rude though. I never go to extended family weddings because I am not close to most of my extended family and if I get an invite I assume it was because their mum will have insisted Im invited but I also RSVP to say I can't go so they can invite someone they would like to be there. My mum gets really annoyed at me for always doing this but really if I haven't seen someone in 10-12 years I am sure there is someone they would like at their wedding more than me!
 
Well people have a few more days to get back to us so i can just cross my fingers and hope for some RSVPs- annoyingly i even set up an email address so if people were too stingy on postage they could email us!
One of my "friends" said she wont come to the day unless her boyfriend is invited too- i wouldn't mind if id met him or they were long term but theyve been dating two months! Ive just told her that they can both come to the evening reception if they want but I'm not inviting a stranger to my wedding! Just kinda rude!

Usual Wednesday playgroup- Reece seems to have some of his energy back so thats nice but is easily frustrated so we had a couple of meltdowns over not wanting to share...

Todays food (green day)-
B: Nothing.
L: Cheesy pasta (pasta, 60g reduced fat cheddar hexA1+part hexA2, 1tbsp light spread 2syns) WW yogurt. Banana.
D: Sainsbury veggie spaghetti bolognese 3.5syns. WW petit pains hexB1.

Snacks: Asda G&C crisps 4.5syns. Special K chewy bar hexB2. Satsuma. Half a banana. 1 x malteaser 0.5syn.
Drinks: Cups of tea (1 with 1tsp sugar 1syn, the rest with sweetener and dashes of skimmed milk part hexA2) Flavoured fizzy water.
Syn Total- 11.5syns
 
snowbryneich said:
If anyone didn't RSVP to us we assumed they weren't coming and invited someone else in their place and in retrospect we were really lucky that didn't work out badly. It's so rude though. I never go to extended family weddings because I am not close to most of my extended family and if I get an invite I assume it was because their mum will have insisted Im invited but I also RSVP to say I can't go so they can invite someone they would like to be there. My mum gets really annoyed at me for always doing this but really if I haven't seen someone in 10-12 years I am sure there is someone they would like at their wedding more than me!
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I wish we could take that attitude but knowing my luck loads of people would just turn up assuming they were still invited!! You were definitely lucky!
I agree with you about the distant relatives- its nice to be invited though!
 
That's quite unreasonable of your friend- I don't think she should expect her bf of 5 mins to be invited. I had a mini strop about OH's uncle inviting his gf along & they've been together 6 months. I only let it slide because someone else from that table wasn't able to make it!
Sainsburys veggie spag bol- was it nice? Is it in a tin? Always on the lookout for stuff like this- the tesco cheese ravioli is a lifesaver sometimes x
 
Yeah we were really lucky - I suspect this is because we also got married on a friday and probably anyone who couldn't be bother to rsvp probably couldn't be bothered going to take a day off work us. The boyfriend of two months thing reminds me of when my mum had a strop I wouldn't make some of my godparent's kids (same age as me) plus one invites because they never stayed with any of their partners more than 5 minutes at the time and I didn't want complete strangers there.
 
Its amazing how people just assume they get plus-one invites. At a friends wedding their brother said he wanted to bring a date- he was never with someone for more than a month so couldn't even say the name of the lucky girl! He got so annoyed when they said no that he even offered to pay for her meal- which of course wasn't even the point! It's meant to be a meaningful day surrounded by people you love and care about- not strangers who your brother wants to bang! *facepalm* Sorry for being crude!

Rosie, the Sainsbury veggie bolognese was really nice! Worth the syns. It is the tinned one. I worry about soya or tofu based things as i dont like the texture but i couldn't tell. And i was full from that and the petit pain (was tempted to make a cheats garlic butter for it- yum!)
 
The petit pain are great aren't they. they were on offer for 50p in tesco so all sold out but asda round here has started stocking them too which is good.

It's really hard with weddings isn't it - there is no way to tell guests that it's not about what they want without getting labelled a bridezilla but at the same time it is your day and it isn't about what they want! ;)
 
Oh I'll definitely look out for the spag bol then thank you :) yes sometimes soya stuff can be weirdly chewy!
Lol I agree with snow re avoiding the bridezilla lable- one of my bridesmaids is trying to think practically about some things but she's p*ssing on some of my bonfires, and I can't find a gentle way to say "it's my wedding & I'll do it my way"! Lol x
 
Happy Friday lovely!!! How are you? Do you have much planned for the weekend?
Hope Reece is feeling better and wedding things arent causing you too much bother! xxx
 
Yesterdays food (EE Day)-
B: Nothing.
L: Sainsbury veggie bolognese 3.5syns and WW petit pain hexB. Space raiders 3syns. Banana.
D: Salmon. Tesco med veggie couscous 1.5syns mixed with roasted tomatoes, peppers and onions.

Snacks: A bite of a sausage approx 2syns? Reeces leftovers :( Half a satsuma. Banana.
Drinks: Generic coffee shop skinny mocha (skimmed milk hexA and cocoa 3syns) 4 x cups of tea (sweetner and dashes of skimmed milk 2syns) Pepsi max cherry. Water.
Syn Total - 15syns
 
jadeelizabeth said:
Happy Friday lovely!!! How are you? Do you have much planned for the weekend?
Hope Reece is feeling better and wedding things arent causing you too much bother! xxx
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I am shattered! Woke up at 4am this morning because Reece has a terrible cough, I went into his bedroom to give him some water and he was covered in blood :( Scariest moment of my life!! It was a nosebleed but I was ready to rush him to A&E. Thankfully H2B remained calm, rang the NHS helpline who told us to wait for 15 minutes to find out if the bleeding stopped and if it didnt to then go to A&E. It stopped after about 10 minutes but I was terrified. Didnt sleep a wink after that but Reece did.

Im out tonight with friends- Reece seems back to his normal self so I feel okay to go. He still has a cold but is happy to play and eat (as long as its what he fancies!)

On that note Im having a cheat day. I was planning on a syn free/ low syn day to compensate for my drinkies and food out but Im so tired I just couldnt be bothered to make something from scratch and had crumpets with butter and marmite, crisps and a small bar of galaxy for lunch... And Im currently munching on a half bag of Haribo Tangfastics...

Expecting a gain this weekend...
 
Hes never had them before and it was terrifying. Ive never been so scared. Ive never had one either so didn't realise how much they bled.

On that note- he had another one tonight and got a little distressed so i didn't feel right going out. Means I'm saving syns in wine but i think the damage has been done today!!

Definitely need the SW gods to bless me with a STS this weekend!
 
Oh that must have been terrible! Its amazing how much they bleed- I used to go through wads of tissue when I had them I think there's a 15min rule- if it doesn't stop it's a hospital job, though that could have changed since I used to have them or for littlies!
Aw shame you had to miss your night out :-( silver lining on syn saving I suppose x
 
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