Burnt, so very burnt :o(

Typical, I load the kids up with sunscreen and make them wear hats and t-shirts (which is not as easy as it sounds with the gremlins!) then forget to sunscreen myself and now I am burnt to buggery.

Ouchy!

Isn't that the way it goes all the time.

I am the same always smothering James in the stuff and always forget about I think I've gotten myself burnt quite a few times already this summer.

Willie is calling me Melanoma Girl coz one of the guys at his work has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer that has spread from melanoma. I keep trying to remind him that just coz he's black as the ace of spades doesn't mean he's immune to the sun!

Sounds like soemthing I'd do!!!

I hope it gets better soon!

yep i,m the same all crispy annd sore james on the outher hand is still going brown even though he has heaps of sunscreen on

OMG Emma, we went out to the beach yesterday, I plastered the kids in sunscreen and they had hats sunnies, sunsuits on, of course Paris was the only one that cam eout unscathed as she didn't really go int he water (flash backs from bad experience last beach visit when a wave knocked her feet out from under her), I had heaps of sunsceen on me, except didn't think to put it where my top and shorts met, so i have a 3 inch thick red raw line across the back of where my shorts moved down while i was making sandcastles. Ayja spent heaps of time int he water so obviously her sunscreen got washed off and we weren't as quick as we could have been to put more on (i was so sickened when the burn came on on her arms and legs last night.... so angry at ourselves even though we had smothered it on her there had obviously been a small time where she'd run out of it) and mike, I managed to pin him and get som sunscreen on his newly shaved head and his ears which always get burnt bad. But he wouldn't sit for the rest cos he hates the stuff.

Of course, we get home last night, and he'd been up int he sand-dunes and burnt the crap out of his feet and legs, i have had to put antiseptic anaesthetic burn cream on his legs from the knees down all day today, he cannot actually walk without a heap of pain. the tops of his feet are realllly bad, I reckon they're probably close to 2nd degree burns from the looks of them.

All I said to him was "I told you so". Doubt he'll be that stupid again.

Oh poor you guys! Its so easy to do when you're taking care of everyone else first though eh?
I'm much better about sunscreening and hatting myself this year, than I have been in the past. I did a survey for a uni student on melanoma last year and it really opened my eyes about it!

We use that sunscreen on Elle and she hasn't been even slightly burnt yet. I got mega burnt years ago using the cancer society stuff though.

yeah now see we have used that brand and that brand only for years, and the girls have never gotten burnt ever, this year mike read some review and conned me into not buying it, so we bought nivea stuff, and well, I don't like it, it obviously washes off far easier than the baby faces stuff (which is quite oily but serves it purpose), and all of us got burnt to some degree despite having had sunscreen on. We could have put it on again a little earlier than we did obviously, but this never happened with the baby faces stuff.