I want to live vicariously through you tell me about the great stuff in your life

[Bigiciuincailin]

My life is complicated but I have 3 amazing children and most of the time an amazing husband. However our families are incredibly dysfunctional and cause a lot of headaches as they currently are doing.

Let me cheer myself up by living vicariously through you. Tell me the great stuff in your life.

Oh how nice is that!!! I hope you now have lots of spare cash and can treat yourself to something nice next month instead!

My husband brings me a cup of tea every morning. I'm definitely not a morning person but this makes me happy and I start the day feeling loved.

At the moment I'm just planning on spending the spare cash on tissues - I can't stop crying about my baby being about to start school 😂 But that's not in keeping with this thread, so let's pretend I didn't say that ;)

4 years ago I fell pregnant accidentally after having never wanted kids and I literally cannot believe how much I love being a mother. I am skint but happy. This sweet girl of mine brings me so much joy,laughter and love I sometimes feel I could burst.

Lol

I rescued a lost bee from the stairs earlier, having got it onto a piece of kitchen roll, I took it out to the garden and held next to a cotoneaster flower, which it immediately crawled onto and started to feed from.

I've made veggie stew in the slow cooker, which we're currently enjoying with crusty bread and wine, while listening to soul music on the radio.

I've handed in my notice on a high earning but quite stressful job, have a clear idea of what I want to do next and a financial buffer for a few months if it doesn't happen quickly. Feel very free and calm, considering I'm doing what many people would think is madness. Also have just mixed chai latte powder with cocoa and hot oat milk and it is LUSH.

It was my birthday yesterday and my present from my lovely DH is that he has planned a child-free long weekend away for us in August. We'll be staying in a gorgeous hotel, he's booked a very nice restaurant for the first night and he has bought tickets to see one of my favourite bands (who I've never seen live before) and has arranged for my parents to have the kids so I don't need to worry as they'll have a great time being spoilt rotten. I'm SO excited!

I got an unexpectedly generous payrise so I'm browsing for holiday clothes even though I have plenty 👒 👡 🩴 👗 👙 😊

I quit a job that was making me miserable and I was over qualified for and finished yesterday. I found a new much better job that is hybrid and gave me a 7k payrise and I start on Monday. It is going back to what I used to do before I had to find something more local and part time for personal reasons (poorly child). The new role is a career and not just a job.

Have a few days off before I start so went for lunch with a friend today and have just been pottering and sorting things in the house.

Oh and going to the gym is a big part of my life and I now don’t have to rush my early morning workout as I have to get to work for 8am.

Chocolate chai is an amazing combo!

Ahh, I'm sure you'll have a great time. I had been looking at a hotel by a loch for our silver anniversary, until I saw that my favourite band were playing in Scarborough that weekend in August, so I booked a four star hotel there. The sun shone all weekend, our hotel was lovely, with a sea view, and it had a little pool, sauna and jacuzzi on the lower floor, plus I had a fab time at the gig. A perfect weekend, as I hope yours will be. 🥰

My youngest son is home safely from Ibiza. Off to buy party food tomoz ready for the England game. Washing got dry in the sun today. My cat is happy because the back doors are open

I work full time and have a hub and DD 18m. DH cooks almost every night which is really wonderful and take so much pressure off me.
I'm really looking forward to cycling tomorrow, i cycle 3 miles to train station to get to work along an off road route with birds and rabbits and it's wonderful.
Our house may be small but its a glorious hobbit hole full of books of all kinds, a cosy sofà and open beams. I feel very safe here. When I clean, i often pretend I'm Lloyd Grossman 'who lives in a house like this'. Someone id like, i think.

My sickly little rescue cat is gaining in strength and attitude and is finally enjoying a British Summer after enduring months of rain and cold ( he's from Dubai so the weather here has come as a bit of a shock!)

After a difficult and challenging week looking after (whilst also working) my elderly DF who just about still manages to live at his home, , I got back late last night, worked today and my DP cooked a lovely 'welcome back' dinner of BBQ'd sticky prawns and pineapple on sticks and steam veg. I made a satay sauce and rice. And sticky toffee for pud. No ice cream mind.

Tomorrow I am not working so am going for a long walk with my dog in the sunshine to a place with lots of spots to jump in the water. I am taking a camping chair and a book with me.

I love the description of the bees as fat and buzzy 😊

After suffering severe depression for the last 4 years and being so anxious I couldn't leave the house if a neighbour was outside I'm finally feeling more like myself again. I went for a hike today and had a moment standing absolutely alone in the sunshine with the red kites circling overhead and the crop fields blowing in the warm breeze and thought life was glorious.

I, like you have a dysfunctional family, thrown in with my partner’s dysfunctional family and I also became disabled last year.

However I thought I would never be able to carry a child to term, but I did and my funny, gorgeous and charming baby girl is sleeping in her cot (hand painted by me with flowers) and I’m about to climb into a bath and read a nostalgic young adults book a friend gave me while my partner relaxes on the couch watching the Simpsons. Cosy and humble, but all I could want.

😍 Bless him, the wee cutie. 🥰

I got the all clear from a cancer scan ( I have other issues but this was the drs biggest concern) and completed my exams this week. Dc also finished exams.

Sat in the garden and slept for the first time in months to the sound of the birds, in the warm sunshine and sounds of the bees. The aroma of lavender and roses fills my house, my dogs chase the butterflies but would never harm them. My teen dd gave me the deepest hug that will stay with me for all of my life, precious because they are now more rare than before. I held her bird like frame and tears gathered in my eyes, I might see her grow into a woman now.

I now have 2 shifts left at work, then am off to Lanzarote for 10 days with three of my kids. Holiday was postponed from last year.
And finally after 17 months of being homeless, 3 months in a holiday park, 7 months in a homeless hostel and 7 months in a temporary house, we will be moving to a permanent home next month.
I have an extensive yarn collection and more books than I will ever read.
Life is good

I feel very lucky having previously worked a 40hr week to keep a roof & pay bills over my kids heads to now being able to work 28hrs a week.

It's the small wins in life that count to me.

🌻 🪻💐🌷to you and your daughter

That sounds wonderful, I hope you keep enjoying life. 🙏