I may have lost any hope of winning any Mother of the year awards tonight ;-)I got in from work today and Miss Frugal sat me down, made me a cup of tea and gave me one of the cupcakes she made the night before last. They were both playing on Minecraft so I put my feet up and was catching up on my emails when one of my friends rang to see if we wanted to pop round - she offered to make me a cuppa so off we went - electronics in hand to keep the kids quiet while we were having a chat.Both kids were good as gold and played together quite happily while we had a good chat over a cuppa but … [Read more...]
How to keep children entertained on long car journeys….
A few weeks ago, we went on a car journey - A very long car journey which was made even longer by the fact that the roads were very busy.Despite this, we arrived at our destination a good seven and a half hours after setting off without hearing the words I'm bored more than once or twice and I'm almost positive that you want to know what my secret is, don't you?Well....First of all, each child had their own car bag (we used the Content and Calm tray kits that we were sent a while ago) which I packed for them with the following things:A reading book. A notebook - I printed … [Read more...]
Summer Holiday Guilt….
I have a great job with great hours that allow me to drop the kids off at Breakfast club when they’re at school and be back in time to pick them up after school. I get most weekends off and I genuinely enjoy my job so I know how lucky I am.The problem comes during the school holidays because as flexible as my work are, it’s just not possible for me to be off work with them all of the time unless I took time off unpaid which is not an option!So, since the kids broke up at the end of July, they’ve had a full week where they just chilled out at home and we did practically nothing – a … [Read more...]
Saturday is Caption Day – the one where the dog thinks he’s a human….
I took this photo a few months ago and I love how it shows how much our dog Buddy thinks he's a human - he's sat in Miss Frugal's chair and for some reason, she's sat on his dog bed on the floor!He's such an odd little thing is our Buddy. As soon as someone gets up out of a seat, he likes to jump in their place then he just stares at you when you tell him to move and in the night, he gathers up any socks and underwear that he can find (or reach out of the wash basket) and he makes himself a little nest at the top of the stairs. He's got loads of funny little habits but we wouldn't … [Read more...]
I give up – I NEED to meal plan or I spend a fortune….
I know I said that I don't usually do much of a meal plan over the Summer Holidays but it's driving me mental at the minute.Meal times are usually laid back in the Summer because (a) I never know how many we're having for tea, (b) we don't really stick to a schedule as we like to be out as much as possible and (c) we don't know whether our day might involve an impromptu picnic (which would usually come out of the food budget).But this Summer, I feel like my food budget is just running away from me and not only are we spending way more than we should be spending, we're also at the shop … [Read more...]
The hardest parenting decision yet….
Warning : This post contains a serious amount of question marks!I have a decision to make soon.Although actually I think I've already made the decision, I'm just not sure if it's the right one.Miss Frugal is going up in to Year 6 when she goes back to school in September and yesterday, I got the forms for choosing a secondary school for her to go to. We have two choices really - the Academy less than five minutes walk from our house with the not so great Ofsted report or the Catholic school that's a bit further away with the excellent Ofsted report.On paper the decision should … [Read more...]
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