The Mighty Frugaleers Meticulously March into March

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New thread. Sorry for lame title

Wow people are doing great things! What a lot of star Frugaleers we have here :)

I can barely stay awake so I'm off to lie down! The day was good though. Extremely tiring (distance travelled + surprisingly hot day + talking to lots of new people!) but really bloody lovely. :)

That's great Cag. You deserve a good day.

Morning. I need to leave for work in a bit but have left all my clean clothes in the dc's room!

Should be a nsd. Need to post my meal plan later. Cat woke me up at 4:30 clawing our bed to bits

Nsd planned today

I've got a comedy virus that's going round our school. It gives people a real blinder of a headache. I'm glad my school gate friend told me about it or I'd really be wondering what on earth was going on this morning.

Quiet day for me I think.

Post office for me today. Then back on cleaning.

In other news the morning sickness feeling is back. Hoorah. I missed it so much. three days of feeling "normal". Then bam. Sigh.

Dh sent me a photo of hokey pokey ice cream today. It looked amazing. Le yum.

And mil has helpfully put up on fb how happy she is for dh that he's going to be a dad. We're not fb friends but she tagged dh in it. Great. So the secrets out then. And it's not even been 12 weeks. (11 today and according to my app baby is the same size as a Brussel sprout).

Fucking hell Em, that's not on! That's your news, not hers. I would be really angry at that.

£40 yesterday at M&S, some for DM.

Snuggly You look like you are doing brilliantly.

Sorry about the job toast, you will get one, promise.

We have the opposite issue, we need experienced engineers and can't get them for love nor money.

We've just taken on a young lad. We could pay him £4 per hour if required. That is fucking scandalous and wrong. He will get double that at least. We are not employing slaves.

Been invited to join 2 book clubs at the weekend, so I will be doing a fair bit of reading.

Training going well for running 3 peaks. 2 x 50 miles weeks achieved so far, but time short with working and the pony and life.

First day for months we've not been up at 5.30 to go to the pony as he was left out last night. Weird.

need I am raging. She's picked her moment too. It appeared last night (so during their day time) and now she's on holiday and is uncontactable.

Haven't spoken to dh yet today but I imagine he'll be seriously annoyed. He was annoyed at her anyway for the way she's acted while he's been out there (essentially, and this sounds like he was expecting to be waited on and fussed, she's paid him no attention at all. It's all about her new man).

Not much I can do about it though.

It's also been suggested I'm selfishfor not wanting to take baby out there at Christmas. I countered this by inviting her here what was I thinking luckily she will be busy with her "real" grandchild so won't be leaving the country. Phew.

Oooh em I'd be raging! 😡 Can you comment on the post (you may be able to as DH was tagged) and be overly polite and lovely saying that you haven't had the scan yet and therefore don't want to share the news with everyone? Although really DH should be having a go at her right now 😡😡😡

DD is trying a writing club this afternoon and instead of paying for it I'm doing some maths with her kids afterwards (but another friend's son is joining in and she will pay for him). Only a once a month arrangement but nice that DD can get something directly out of me teaching with the lesson swap :) then it's tap class and goodness knows what for dinner.

I've got less piano teaching this week, looks like some might be alternate weeks but if that's the case I'll need to juggle them about so they aren't all on the same week iyswim! But with sports club starting too and DH doing some training with the neighbour it's a relatively lucrative week :)

X post em how annoying of her :(

cag dh has told everyone. Well all family in nz anyway. He needed to tell them why I wasn't there. (If he'd just made something up they would have thought that we'd divorced or I hated them or there was some other issue or something...) also if I comment then surely everyone I know onnfb will see it? Aaah.

Dh has just messaged me and asked whether I'd seen it. I've told him to deal with it.

Was tempted to post a picture of catface on mils post to make a "my cats my baby I'm a crazy cat lady" announcement. But so far haven't.

Anyway. I'll be so happy to have dh back on Saturday. 😀😭🙂

Bloody hell, Em I would be raging too!
DH has just gone to the supermarket and we're going to attempt to go out for lunch so a bit of a spendy day. Really must check bank balance later...

Em I'm fuming for you, that's awful!

Cag That is really cool about the skill-swap type system.

I woke up today with a sore throat, bunged up nose and bit of a fever. -.- which is grim especially as I have a fairly long day ahead of me, tutorial at 11 then work 1-5ish, erghh. Took two paracetamol and will just have to remember to take some with me to uni and top up after 4 hours. This is the third time I've been unwell in the last 2 or 3 months, ridiculous . The previous two times I got them from DH who presumably got them from the hospital but this time it's just me ill.

cag things are going so well! Do you have a huge planner with all your lessons/clubs/activities on? I only have to take mine to school and remember wind band and I stuggle!

em no words. Your mil is clearly a jealous piece of work. Thank goodness she is on the other side of the world. So she was expecting you to travel with a 2 or 3 month old baby? With no immunisations on board yet. Sounds like she tries to set you up to fail. Ahh, I'm angry for you. It's your sprout, she'll only want pretty pictures (in awful clothes she gives you) to make her look good.

Have laid the block pavers into the corner of the patio this morning, will go to work now!

Thanks guys and sorry about my rant.

I hadn't even considered baby not being vaccinated. Had considered first passport taking ages and the cost of flights (£3k the last time we flew for Christmas) though. Both were big fat "it's not going to happen!"

I feel more for dh on this one. He was upset that she didn't have the time for him. Is clearly upset about this. And I'm trying really I am to be the bigger person. Inviting her here for Christmas was a big step. I'm glad it was thrown back in my face though - what was I thinking?!

Not much I can do though. Other than take care of me and dh and catface Make sure we're happy. We're the most important. Until baby arrives anyway.

Raging on your behalf em. Can't DH untag himself from the FB post? Guess the damage is done now though

Parents can be really disappointing. I guess now your DH will be more prepared for next time and lower his expectations. Sad to have to do that though

The good thing now, Em is that you invited her and she declined so she can't complain, you are the bigger person and you can enjoy Christmas without having to worry about her.

Exactly snuggly I've tried. Dh knows I've tried. She rejected. She can't now get arsey about it bet she will though

There are times when I hate the fact that there is so much distance. (Mostly for dhs sake). This is NOT one of them.

Anyway. Productive morning here.

Empties bins hoovered washed up washing on. Have packed up my eBay sales. Just have to take to post office this afternoon.

Currently enjoying a picky lunch of cucumber salami cheese tomato and crackers.

And my orchids are starting to come out again!! Yay!!

Knitting I quite fancy a big planner, maybe a weekly one. But as it is, we use a nice diary. I discovered a few years back that for us, a cheap diary is a false economy - if they get tatty easily/fall apart, I won't keep using them. We got a really lovely RHS flowers one as a free gift a few years ago (The Book People seem to offer it most years) and that was the first year I EVER used a diary past January! So now we get a nice one each year, this year it's Escher. :)

Mind you our busy time is haunting me now as I've been curled up in bed in epic pain. I hurt all over :( I really hate not being able to do anything without suffering for it afterwards. I now need to make a quick decision (been agonising over it all morning) as to whether I push myself further or not.

I'm booking a Tesco delivery for late this evening - love the fact you can do that till 1pm - with lots of easy to heat cook stuff. Needs must. Although that doesn't solve the problem of today when I can't really stand up

No response from the boyfriend yet. Still feeling quite low, not working or going to college isn't helping me either.

My electric is off all day for them to work on, thank god my iPad has data as my phone is close to running out.

Today I've spent £10 electric key, £1.85 bread, £2.50 on a coffee because of no kettle (& pre approved by parents). It was really nice to have a coffee out, it felt like a right treat instead of a daily thing.

I can see money saving up already which is so nice. It makes me want to spend it less.

I use an organised mum diary and calendar, works for us a treat 🙂

I'm so glad I don't have a MIL. 😡 for you!

Em The whole MIL think ramps up nicely when there is a baby in the family, but as Mum, your power increases immeasurably. You might like to start exercising your insisting muscles now, as you're going to be using them a lot. My MIL told me when my ds was born "you'll find your own parents are easier to handle at this time of life, because you can shout at them".

Cag You're not alone in the pacing thing, by any means. Since getting back in touch with some school friends through facebook a few years ago I've found that we're all doing it, no matter how polished we may look on the outside. It's astonishing the range of serious illnesses that people have so quietly hidden.

My dm is home from hospital now, which is an epic relief.

I'm back to enjoying watching the spring develop outside of our french windows. It's a fantastically cheap hobby.

Here's a funky thing. It's a tool to let us work out the monetary value of the unpaid work that we do at home.

www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc376/index.html

Nice!

Mmm em love hokey pokey. Sorry the sickness feeling is back. I do not miss that! OMG at your mother in law. I would be fuming especially given her history.

Need can I come and work for you

Nsd today. I spoke to new job we've decided I will start after NZ and my job have agreed to let me stay at extra week (they would let me stay forever if I changed my mind). I'm going to lose two weeks wages whilst we're away but never mind.

You can Wrecked, I will sack myself and live a life of leisure.

I'm an Organised Mum too Polka

Lovely day here. Been on a long dog walk with my hounds. I'll post a photo of them from my phone. I was listening on the radio yesterday about the therapy dogs section of Crufts. The was a Lab called Caddy who is a therapy dog for a little boy who suffers with severe autism, anxiety, sensory issues and speech delay, so a ton of real and difficult stuff for the whole family to deal with. Caddy has revolutionised his life. Said without exaggeration.

Also a therapy dog whose owner suffers with such severe anxiety that she was house bound, now she's at Uni (with the dog!).

Ones for epilepsy, all sorts!

Thinking about it, DH was always allergic to dogs, until we got one. No longer allergic.

Got to love the big smelly, hairy, muddy annoying beasts.

Spends.
£15 - 3 classes.
£60 Sainsbury's on presents in the main.