Whenever I get an idea for a post or I think of something I want to write about, I start a draft post with a title that, in theory, will remind me what it was that I was going to write when I look back at it at!Looking back at the many, many drafts that I've started, I found one called 'My little sensitive soul' from 2011!I remember exactly what I wanted to write about when I started that post which was prompted by a parents evening with Master Frugal's teacher. At the time, he was having difficulty keeping up with his classmates.  He was way behind with his reading which in turn was … [Read more...]

I think we've found the trigger (or one of them) for Miss Frugal's abdominal migraines!You might remember in January I wrote about the increasing pains that poor Miss Frugal got and I said we were trying to figure out what the trigger was (if there even was one).  Someone, and I can't for the life of me remember who, said that one trigger may well be processed meat as something used in the process is a known trigger for some people.We cut it out of her diet completely just under three weeks ago and things have improved dramatically for her.  We've only had one attack (I'll get to that … [Read more...]

Other than one abdominal migraine attack and a little bit of man flu, the house has been relatively germ free this week for the first time since Christmas!  We're slowly catching up on all the sleep we've missed and I'm starting to catching up on everything that I've been putting off in favour of Nana naps and sofa snuggles - I may even tackle my in-box at some point over the weekend ;-)I'm afraid my photos from this week are still not very exciting though.  We still haven't had the energy to actually get out and do much other than school and work - next week will be more interesting, I … [Read more...]

My babies are growing up....Master Frugal asked me the other day if he could buy a girl at school a little gift for Valentines Day!  I tried not to let the fact that the girl he wanted to buy the gift for is in fact not his girlfriend, but is his ex-girlfriend who dumped him for his best friend.  His current girlfriend doesn't appear to feature in his present giving plans this year!So, he counted out his pennies and off we popped to buy a little teddy and a chocolate rose that he'd seen for £1 each.  He proudly carried them home, made a little card to go with them and they're now … [Read more...]

Well, I'm still hanging in there with taking a photo a day.... Just!I know I keep whinging that we're not very well but every time one of shakes this cold, another one gets it back!  We're all shattered and poor Master Frugal has bags under his eyes the size of suitcases from lack of sleep from coughing, sniffing and general bleugh-ness.  Miss Frugal's managed to pick up an ear infection as well which resulted in a trip to the out of hours doctors and anothe enforced weekend of staying in.Can you tell I'm really fed up with it all now?Even so, we've still had a nice … [Read more...]

I know I've said this before but Master Frugal really is the fussiest eater you can imagine.  Thankfully, he's starting to get a little bit more daring now and tonight we had a major bacon breakthrough ;-)I was cooking bacon and scrambled egg on toast for the rest of us and he came into the kitchen with his nose in the air like one of those old fashioned Bisto kids.  He decided he liked the smell of bacon and asked if he could try some!As you can see, he wasn't impressed and ended up only having one mouthful before deciding he liked it 'a teeny bit but not enough to eat more than … [Read more...]