One morning last week we were due to meet friends of ours at the local park for a catch up and I stupidly left the kids in bed as late as possible so they could catch up on some much needed sleep.I ended up getting them up half an hour before we were due to leave and had a little smug smile to myself when they were up dressed, washed and sat on the settee munching on a chocolate croissant with a glass of milk with five minutes to spare.Unfortunately, the smugness was wiped off my face when I sent Master Frugal to put his socks on!He could find lots of socks - that wasn't the … [Read more...]

Happy Birthday to my gorgeous, clever, kind, cheeky, fun little girl. I love you millions and billions and infinity plus one. Love Mam x x … [Read more...]

How can another month have gone by so quickly?It's just ridiculous and it seems to be going even faster now that they're settling back in at school.We've had a much more relaxing and laid back Summer than usual and after the first couple of weeks of cramming in as much as we could, we spent the next few weeks doing very little which was lovely.  It's not so great for this month's sibling post though I'm afraid as I've got no exciting or particularly interesting photos of them together although I do have some ice cream photos to make up for it! ;-)So we … [Read more...]

<div align="center"><a href="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk" title="The Diary of a Frugal Family"><img src="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/In-the-picture-link-badge.png" alt="The Diary of a Frugal Family" style="border:none;" /></a></div> I've had a couple of conversations with people this week, both online and in real life, about how a lot of adults (me included) hate having their photos taken.  As you'd probably expect, most people I've spoken to have said that it's because they don't like the way they look in a photograph and that a … [Read more...]