Convenience - This morning, like most mornings, I had to have both the kids and myself ready to leave the house by half past seven in order to get them to breakfast club so I could get to work on time. After school, I picked up one child, came home for half an hour and then went back to pick up the other one. I then picked up Mr Frugal from work and we came home, all hungry and ready for tea. I had tea on the table in about ten minutes because I'd taken two minutes (literally that long) to add a couple of handfuls of frozen onions, a packet of mince, some water and stick cubes to the slow … [Read more...]
Listography – Top five life lessons….
I have good news - Listography is back this week and it has great theme for it's return!What are your top five life lessons? Mine started out different to this but when I read it back to myself it was a bit cheesey and filled with cliches so I thought I'd just share some lessons I've learned in the past few weeks.... 1. Always be specific!Last week when we were shopping, Miss Frugal came across a big box of reduced make up including some bright red lipsticks. I told her she could choose something but not the red lipsticks but then I decided that really, it didn't matter what … [Read more...]
Saturday is Caption Day – The one with the giant heads….
Master Frugal has a giant head - it might not look that huge but seriously, it's massive!He's actually quite proud of his over-sized head though because apparently it means that he has more brains than everyone else in the family. This he likes to remind us of frequently ;-)This week, when we went to our local museum to see an exhibition of props and costumes from Sci Fi films, he was over the moon to find what he said was 'one of his kind'! I'm told that it's one of the aliens from Mars Attacks (never seen it so I have no idea) and I'm pretty sure that Master Frugal is … [Read more...]
A Pan of Potion….
It's completely normal for your 11 year old to send you a text when you're sat at work to ask if her and her 8 year old brother can actually make a potion, isn't it?Naturally I said no but then my working mum guilt kicked in and I ended up letting them under the strict instruction that they didn't make a mess and they only used juice and cake sprinkles!They clearly thought it through because half an hour later I got another text - this time with a photo of a recipe that they'd written for their potion:They'd put so much effort in to the recipe that I didn't have the heart … [Read more...]
Happy Halloween….
I hope you're having as much fun this Halloween as we are ;-)Our pumpkins are lit....The costumes are on:And we're ready for the Trick or Treat-ers to descend thanks to all the lovely goodies that Haribo sent us (because kids and grown ups love them so you know):So all that's left to say before we go and eat way too much sugar is.... … [Read more...]
How I encouraged my children to become happy readers who love books….
I know I've said this before but Master Frugal was once very behind his classmates in his reading and although I tried not to let it bother me, it did. It really did. More so because reading is so essential to everything in life that it was starting to seriously affect his confidence which in turn affected all other areas of his life - the day he said to me that he thought he was stupid my heart broke.But things improved rapidly when he was selected for his schools Reading Recovery program which involves one on one tutoring for an hour a day every day for a full term. Whatever was … [Read more...]
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