I work part time between 8 and 2.30, Monday to Friday which is brilliant as it means that during term time, I get to drop the kids off at breakfast club before I go to work and I'm finished in time to pick them up again at the end of the school day. Unfortunately, the fact that I have to drop them off at breakfast club by 7.30 in order to get to work by 8, means that getting ready has to be organised like a military operation!The organisation starts the day before, as soon as the kids get in from school! Shoes and coats are put where they're supposed to go and school uniforms are laid … [Read more...]
My new favourite shop – the 99p Store….
Where I live we used to have a pound shop that sold things like out of date diaries, dodgy looking garden gnomes, old CD's that no one would ever buy and rather ugly ornaments - my Mam used to call it the 'tat shop'.I think that put me off those types of shops a little bit as I very rarely go in my local 99p store and when I do, it's usually for something specific that I want, like Christmas bags. Even then I generally go straight to what I want and am in and out in no time at all, without really looking round.Then I was asked by the lovely people at 99p stores if they could try and … [Read more...]
Why I hate swimming parties….
When I was young, I had a fear of water that I've never quite got over. In fact, if I had my way, I'd never see the inside of the swimming baths again but as a parent, I'm determined that my two will be a lot more confident in the water and will enjoy swimming a lot more than I ever did. Which is why, once a fortnight we go to the local swimming baths together.Miss Frugal has had lessons with the school and is really confident in the water, she has her 50 metre award and could probably swim more but I don't think she really sees the point - 'Why do I have to just swim up and down when … [Read more...]
Saturday is Caption Day – the blurry version….
Master Frugal has discovered a love of all things scooter-y this Summer. His new favourite place in the world is the local indoor skate park where we've been going once a week for the last month or so.He loves it that much that we bought him a new scooter and helmet, because only certain ones are cool you know (really it's because we thought he needed new ones to cope with the ramps and jumps at the skate park bit he thinks it's to do with being cool).I can't believe how expensive scooters are these days, especially the so called stunt scooters that are all the rage! You buy a … [Read more...]
The Gallery – Fear and Elation….
When I saw that the theme for this week's Gallery was emotion, I decided to go through my photos and make a little collage showing my favourite emotion - Happy ;-)I'm generally a very happy, positive type of person and I really believe that life is too short to be sad for long or to worry about things you have no control over. I spend a lot of time making sure that my children have a happy childhood and we have a lot of happy smiley photos showing fun times that we've had. I found so many photos and even got as far as putting them together in a pretty collage in Picmonkey and then I came … [Read more...]
Saturday is Caption Day – The one with the awkward holiday dance….
I love Saturday mornings as I usually get up early while the kids are still in bed and spend a lovely half an hour or so looking through photos to find a suitable one to use for Saturday is Caption Day. You can never have too many photos but seriously, I must have tens of thousands and I always find one that I'd forgotten about that makes me smile.I love this one and I can't wait to read your captions to go with it....Sa … [Read more...]
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