We had a car boot sale on Sunday to make some extra pennies for our fortnight off (2 sleeps people, 2 sleeps). It went pretty well actually, we made about £80 after paying to get in and taking into account the batch of designer clothes I bought for Miss Frugal.The day started off cloudy and overcast so I never took any sun tan lotion with us but by the end of the morning it was red hot so the poor kids had to stay in one spot in the shade for most of the morning. When we got home, we used the last of our water bombs to have a water fight to cool off. What is it about kids and … [Read more...]
Chasing Rainbows….
I kind of cheated a bit with the Gallery this week as the post below was really written last week but I thought it fitted in with this weeks theme really well so I added the snazzy Gallery tag and moved the post to today ;-) I hope that's OK.....We've just spotted the most beautiful rainbow outside our house........ So we did what any normal family would do - We went to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!I'm sure you can guess where this story is going - Yep, no pot of gold, no leprechaun and two disappointed children. … [Read more...]
Our cheeky weekend away….
A couple of weeks ago a small miracle happened - Mr Frugal and I both had a weekend off at the same time! We decided to take advantage and book a cheeky little weekend away with the kids. We had a good look around the Internet and ended up booking a Haven Holiday to Haggerston Castle in Berwick upon Tweed.We didn't have much time to get excited as we only booked on the Wednesday to go on the Friday, but by Thursday night the kids were so hyped up that there was no chance of them going to sleep at any sort of reasonable time, in fact this is what we found in our bed when we went upstairs … [Read more...]
Make your own pop up monster….
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...]
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