Does anyone else ever feel like they could do with an extra couple of hours in the day just to stand a chance of doing everything you need to do? Because that's definitely how I'm feeling lately!Don't get me wrong though, it's been mostly busy in a good way - we're settled on a school for Miss Frugal, the kids are loving the out of school activities they've chosen this year and we've managed to do LOTS of fun things together.I've even had time to start working on some new projects of my own, two of which are up and running properly so I thought I'd declare them officially open and … [Read more...]
Getting ready for Winter….
It's getting colder by the day and although we tried to last as long as we could, our heating is now back on for the first time since Spring and this, added to the fact that the nights are drawing in and X factor is back on TV can only mean one thing - Winter's coming.Now I know it might still seem early but it's October next week and I did read somewhere that we''re going to have a really cold Winter with snow forecast as early as October. So I'm going to start getting ready for Winter over the next couple of weeks.Here's our to-do list:Check the Emergency car bag and make sure … [Read more...]
Cleaning like my mam used to clean….
I remember when I was growing up, my mam used to have a cleaning schedule - not because she was a neat freak but because she wanted to make sure that over the course of a month, everything got done.I used to do something similar but gradually, over the last year or so, I've stopped following my schedule which means that rather than doing little and often, I regularly end up having a big blitz which obviously takes up a chunk of time that I'd rather be using to do something other than cleaning.I've decided I'm starting it again though so I've written out my two week cleaning plan (yes … [Read more...]
How to be the most organised parent in school….
On school days, we need to be out of the house every morning by 7.25 to get the children to breakfast club by 7.30 and then me to work by 8.00. If we're late leaving then I'm late for work and I can't afford to be late because I need to leave dead on 2.30 in time to get back to the school by 3.00 to pick them back up again.This means that we can't afford any delays or last minute traumas so our mornings have to go perfectly like a military style operation and the preparation for that starts straight after school the day before....Straight after school uniforms are taken off and … [Read more...]
Get Organised – Organise your Chargers….
Today I'm a woman on a mission.Not a particularly important mission, it's not like I'm going to save the world or anything but I am going to tackle a problem that's been annoying me for months - I'm going to find a way to organise the million charges that we have.We have chargers for phones (four of them), an ipod touch, our Kindles, two tablets and two cameras and we're struggling to keep them neat and tidy at the moment so I've been trying to think of a way to organise them.My first idea worked really well for us for ages. I keep two of the USB plugs plugged in … [Read more...]
Getting Organised – and staying that way….
It's no secret that I'm not the most organised person in the world ;-)But I am trying and I've been experimenting with different ways to be more organised because I know that I really do need to be better, not only with time management but with remembering dates and places that we need to be. I took the above photo on the beach last week while I was sitting in the sand feeling more relaxed than I have done in a long time and I'd like to have more moments like that and less of the kind where I'm running around trying to organise something at the last minute.I've tried using the … [Read more...]
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