Most of us are a couple of weeks into the School Holidays now and if you're kids are anything like mine, the novelty of lazing round the house and playing out has started to wear off.I spend the first two weeks of the holidays at work so it was up to my dad to entertain them most days and to be fair, he did a great job with trips to the beach, the park and even a day trip to Edinburgh but now I have a couple of weeks off, they have high expectations that we're going to be doing something different every day. Being the fantastic mother that I am (or is it more just because I'll take any … [Read more...]
Silent Sunday – 07 August 2011….
Then and Now…
It's Miss Frugal's ninth birthday next month and she's started making plans for her party already. In fact, she has a birthday party notebook (any excuse for stationery in this house) detailing her plans for the event of the year and I was just reading out her demands requests to my dad over the phone when he reminded me of one of my birthday parties when I was around the same age. I remember the party he means because he hired a camcorder (yes, hired it) for the day and spent the whole day filming everything, including my Nana arriving with my weekly copy of Twinkle aswell as my mam and … [Read more...]
Silent Sunday – 31 July 2011….
The Princess and the Kind Good Witch….
This is a true story that may or may not have happened to me at work today ;-)The Princess and the Kind Good Witch Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess. One day the a kind good witch came across the princess as she was getting out of a lift at work and noticed that she'd been crying. 'It's OK' said the kind good witch 'we all have days like that'. She gave the princesses arm a squeeze and carried on about her duties.Later on in the day, the princess had forgotton all about the incident when the kind good witch visited her with a lovely cup of tea. 'I thought you could do … [Read more...]
Magpie Monday – The School Holiday Edition….
For the last few months I've been keeping an eye out for things to help me keep the kids occupied during the Summer holidays and I've managed to build up a nice little collection of things that I'm hoping will keep them quiet.... For a while anyway ;-) A Go-Kart for £2.50Rollerblades for Miss Frugal for £1.50. I also bought a training pair for Master Frugal for £1.00A big basket of Bratz dolls clothes for £1.00 - It's a bigger basket than it looks in the photo and has about 100 items in it. I asked the price and when the lady said it was just a pound, I hesitated as I thought … [Read more...]
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