This morning I made helped Master Frugal make a pop up monster card for his Grandad, who's volunteered to look after him for the day while we do a car boot sale. I don't think Grandad Frugal knows what's about to hit him lol. I'm pretty sure that he hasn't been informed of Master Frugal's plan to go to the beach with the metal detector and then go for ice creams.I won't show you how to make the pop up monster card as the instructions on the link above are much, much better than any I could give you but I would definitely recommend that you try making one with your littlies as we had … [Read more...]
Summer Holiday Letters….
Dear School I would like to register my dissatisfaction at the fact that you have taken the decision to close for six weeks. How on earth do you expect parents to keep children entertained for six whole weeks!Also, to the teacher who painted my sons face yesterday with some sort of indelible face paint - Thanks!Yours AngrilyA frustrated parent ***************************** Dear Mr Frugal I'm very pleased that you managed to con talk the children into swapping the Wii for an X Box, however, I happened to like the High School Musical dance game for the Wii and I'm a little bit … [Read more...]
Poledancing and other extra curricular activities….
I'm not usually the sort of parent that ferries her children round from one activity to the next trying to ensure that they have a well rounded childhood - working full time means that I selfishly like the kids to be at home when I am so I can relax we can spend time together. However, last week Miss Frugal announced that she would like to learn 'something'. She's not sure what but she just knows she would like to do something.Being the wonderful mother that I am, I popped down to our Leisure Centre and picked up the program of activities so we could choose one. Our conversation went a … [Read more...]
Family Funday for under £10.00….
30/07 EDITED TO ADD - THIS POST WAS CHOSEN AS THE WINNER OF THE SUN £9.50 CHALLENGE ;-) YEAY :-)When I was contacted by The Sun to take part in their latest challenge I said yes straight away - All I had to do was to find something to spend £9.50 on that was more exciting than a holiday. How easy is that you might say.... But after a week of deliberating, I can now confirm that it is in fact not very easy at all. A holiday is the most exciting thing for us as a family, we love spending time together as a family without any distractions like mobiles and laptops. So when I tried … [Read more...]
My (almost) Perfect Man….
No, it's not my husband (although if you're reading this, you're a close second ;-)).... Don't laugh at me ( not to my face anyway) - Its Handy Manny!What more could you want from a cartoon character man, he's kind and generous, children love him, he's clever, he can fix anything and he's very good with his hands ;-) And, not that I'm not shallow but he's not bad looking either is he?The only downside to Handy Manny that I can see from a potential wife point of view (yes, I know I'm a freak lol) is that he works so hard and people never seem to pay him - he saves the day at least … [Read more...]
Miss Frugal Cooks Tea….
Miss Frugal came home yesterday dying to try out the recipe she had learned that day in her 'fun with food' class at school. She's really enjoying the classes and after her Cartwheel Sandwiches turned out to be such a success last week, I decided to let her show us how to make pasta salad by cooking it for us all for tea. First of all you cook and cool some pasta and put it into a big bowl. Chop up some cucumber,tomato and red onion and add them to the bowl. Add some tinned sweetcorn and some cooked ham.Mix it all together.Serve and eat.It was actually really nice and it's so … [Read more...]
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