I love my job, but sometimes, I really wish that I didn't have to work and today is definitely one of those days.I left for work this morning at twenty past seven leaving Mr Frugal to handle the morning school routine alone.  I checked my phone just before I went in to work and noticed that I'd missed a message from Miss Frugal telling me that her nose hurt.  I knew she was at home with her Dad so I quickly sent her a text asking if she was better and then forgot all about it.At half past two, I came out of work and checked my phone - not only was there a couple of missed calls from … [Read more...]

Last Tuesday night we went to see Olly Murs at the Metro Arena in Newcastle for the opening night of his UK tour.It was originally just supposed to be just me and Miss Frugal going but at the last minute we bought two extra tickets from one of our friends who wasn't able to go so we all went (although we weren't all sat together thankfully).  I was sat right near the front with Miss Frugal and Master Frugal was sat with his Dad a bit further back.We had a great view where we were sat and Miss Frugal alternated between singing, dancing and screaming madly and standing quiet staring as … [Read more...]

This is Miss Frugal's school reading journal - have a look at the comment next to the Journey to Antarctica!  … [Read more...]

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...]