Do you ever pick up a copy of the free magazines that your local supermarkets usually have on display at the checkouts?I never did until recently, mainly because I thought they would just one giant advert full of buy this from here or do this using something you've bought from here or articles about people associated with the shops in question. But a recipe on the cover of one a little while ago caught my eye so I took it home and sat down to read it after the kids had gone to bed.I was pleasantly surprised that the whole magazine wasn't trying to sell me something and I discovered … [Read more...]
Siblings – November….
The last month has seen a huge change in Miss Frugal, as she finds her feet in Secondary school she is making lots of new friends and wants to spend lots of time on a night face-timing and texting them all. As she went to a new school in September knowing no-one, I'm embracing this as meaning that she is settling in well rather than being sad that she spends less time with me on a night.This does mean that she hasn't had as much time as usual to spend with Master Frugal and he's found that difficult to cope with and seems to be missing not only her company at school but also her … [Read more...]
Helping children to see the Happy in every day….
A while ago, I told you all about Embrace Happy which is the brainchild of the lovely Karin from Cafe Bebe. I loved the idea of finding things that make you happy and doing them and even more so the idea that even the darkest days have some happiness in then, even if it takes you a while to find it.I have tried to make sure that I personally find happiness from every day and even more importantly, I've made my own happiness by trying to focus on things that I enjoy and things that I enjoy doing. Trying to make my own happiness more is the reason why I wrote my Autumn Bucket list (that … [Read more...]
Thrifty Thursday – Don’t throw your odd socks away….
Last month I shared my top tips on how to avoid odd socks.Not the most exciting of topics to blog about admittedly but fairly necessary after the mysterious sock fairy visited us again and left yet more odd socks to add to our ever-growing collection!My best tip was definitely to buy multi-packs of identical socks because if you buy a multi-pack of seven pairs of exactly the same sock, each sock has 13 potential buddies not just the one! This means that if we do happen to lose one (or three) then it's no biggie as there's plenty of others to take its place.But odd socks or even … [Read more...]
You don’t always have to be Nigella in the kitchen….
As much as I love reading foodie blogs, they do sometimes make me feel a little bit inadequate with their delicious sounding recipes accompanied by photos that look like a professional photographer took them.My recipes are more practical than creative and if I want a nice stylish foodie shot of what we're having for tea it usually takes me so long to get a shot that I like that the meal everyone else is half way through theirs before I sit down.As much as I enjoy cooking, I don't always have too much time so I do use the odd packet mix and the occasional jar of sauce. I also believe … [Read more...]
Children can change the world #1….
I don't want to start quoting songs at you but our children really are the future and we really do need to teach them well from as early an age as possible. We need to teach them that they have a voice and that they really can change the world - one small step at a time which is why I've decided to share the small things that my children are doing to change things that are in their power to change.We started to think about the ways we could change the world after a week where it felt like our letterbox was bombarded with junk mail. I don't mean the junk mail you receive through the post … [Read more...]
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