Frugaleers - joyfully jumping into June

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New thread. Xx

Need was it the giant couscous and lemon chicken?

I GOT A FIRST!!!!

Oh my goodness, Meadow you clever thing! Congratulations! I'm so happy for you I know you worked extremely hard.

Oh wow Meadow, that's great news! Well done, you. All your hard work has paid off!

Wow meadow!!! That's bloody amazing! Well done!!

Meadow YAY!!! Huge congratulations, you are awesome! 🌟🎉

On way home from an emotional morning at the hospital. Both the Caglets are now officially diagnosed with autism!

Holy moly meadow bloody well done!!!! 🍾🍾🥂🥂💐😀😀😀🎉🎉🎊

Brill stuff Meadow

Yes please Wreck. That's the one.

Sorry, at work!

Well done Meadow. Great news. :-) The day I got mine, my lecturers said "Now you can be happy forever". I hope that some of that happiness comes your way too.

Cag Well done on having done all that work for your kids. Will they get help now, or does it just give them self-knowledge to help them take on the future from a known base?

meadow super well done, you very clever thing!

cag well done for getting through that appointment. They are your amazing caglets. Special treats all round today?

Dp put diesel in my petrol C1 this morning. For fucks sake. We got the garage (we know them really well) to pick it up, and he can bloody well pay for it. Not that he's got any money. I'm reasonably pissed off.

Just walked the dogs 3.5 miles up to the old stone quarry, there are breeding peregrine falcons up there. They are very noisy, and were a bit pissed that we pitched up!

Not entirely sure what the next step is, but there will be more appointments as they are talking about comorbidities (particularly looking at dyspraxia for DS) and they'll see the specialist health visitors who will help us find available community/charity projects etc. DS will be referred back to speech therapy, and also the Caglets are having genetic testing for research!

But there isn't much help directly from the NHS as they are so woefully underfunded. In a way though the main thing for us is the relief of knowing they are understood (that's what made me cry TBH). DD is happy because to her it explains why she struggles so much (DS, as in most of life, is utterly oblivious to the whole thing).

That's good to know what's going on then. I have quite a number of friends now in ds's school with positive diagnosis of autism and I'm starting to understand what the characteristics are the trigger diagnosis. Ds's favourite friend for playdates just now is diagnosed as having autism. He's really into astronomy and we're learning all about planets from him.

I hope you get lots of positive help from having the diagnosis. It's sounds helpful.

I've got to buy bits to go on our first Beaver camp, and it looks like a bunch of money. Tent first I reckon.

Sunny join Go Outdoors. It's £5 for the year and you get massive discounts. You can buy online if there isn't a branch near you but we treat it as a day out to go to Go and nose in all the tents wow we really are a bit sad if that counts as a day out aren't we??

The cat is doing his best to wake up the babies the little sod he is meowing at top volume.

Is there any possibility that the Scout Group as a whole have their own tents? I just wondered, that's all. When my DC camped with Beavers/cubs/scouts, the tents were provided but you did have to buy the rest of the stuff which was a decent enough outlay in of itself. I understand if that's different in different areas, it just seems quite a large outlay at a young age for parents if there's no guarantee the kids will go through the scouting process.

Sorry if that's misunderstanding etc

Tesco can also have some very cost effective camping equipment.

Need Did you see my pm?

Meadow Well there was never any doubt was there? Congratulations you little star.

Cag, it's better to know, you need time to come to terms with it but they're still the same kids they were last week.

£7 co-op
£8 flea and worm. He shook it like a Polaroid picture so me and the bed are all deflead

I'll fire up the lap top now Fluffy, since moving to IOS only I've lost the message facility. I could be ignoring 100's of folk (unlikely).

Woop! meadow! Well done!

And love to you and your beautiful caglets cag, I hope this is the end of worrying and the start of more hopeful times I know that for me, every time I've had a diagnosis it has been a huge relief so can relate to how your DD is processing it.

creme congrats on the house, sounds perfect!

I'm sure I've forgotten other people, apologies, struggling to keep up as my health has gone down the drain again. I'm trying to keep up 'normal' life (whatever that is!) as even at this young age I don't want my problems to impact DD. So my only spends on the last few days has been £2.10 return bus ticket to take DD to see her nanna who is housebound. Was very frugal as I took homemade lunch and quite proud of myself as it was the first time I've taken DD on her pram on the bus!

Hope you start to feel a touch better soon 100.

Lonely Just read about the fuel mix up. AAAARGGHH. I would be pissed off too.

Cag Agree with Fluffy, they are the same DC they have always been. I know a guy that is very involved with additional needs and associated diagnosis. He thinks that every single person has some trait you could place somewhere on some spectrum. We are all so very different, but all sometimes surprisingly similar too.

Cor blimey, a NSD.

Off to a evening about FE now. Another night out the house it feels like at present.

Thanks so much everyone

In some ways it's not a big deal at all, as I have known it in my heart for a while now. To them it's pretty cool - after all they know their mummy is autistic :o and lots of their friends are (huge proportion of the local HE community, because like the Caglets they weren't managing in school). So it's all very positive. ASD is just a different type of brain, and they will grow up proud of it I hope. :)

Mostly it's the relief that has overwhelmed me! Relief that the concerns we have are being listened to. I am not sad for them, because the label doesn't change them. :) I love how different they are, they are my kind, quirky, funny, geeky kids - but now the things they do struggle with have a name and a reason, so that's just overwhelmingly brilliant.

I am waffling now sorry, I think I will need to write a blog post about it instead! :o I haven't for months since feeling so sick.

Speaking of which, any final bets on baby? Scan tomorrow :o :o :o

Girl (although I forgot what my first bet was... so maybe I'll bet "baby" lovely squishy healthy cute baby!)

I've just read something on Facebook about plastic free July. So I'm going to try and get dh on board with this. Idea being during July you refuse anything in plastic unless it's reusable. Plastic bottles are ok if you reuse them (I buy a litre bottle of water once a month and refill and keep it on my desk for example), plastic sandwich wrappers not ok. No cling film - use paper or a Tupperware instead. Am going to give it a go.

Spends today .59p on cheese n onion hula hoops. Mmm.

Am probably about to spend £200 plus at Ikea for baby furniture. But this is a frugal win. It's exactly the same as the stuff we can buy locally in fancy baby shop. A cotbed there would set us back £500. And we'd still have to put it together ourselves. For around £200 we can get a cotbed, mattress and changing table/chest of drawers deeley and have it delivered to our door. The fancy shop do collection only. And it's not accessible by car...

Need it's just a bbc good food recipee*

Pleased you got the diagnosis for them Cag

Nsd.

No courtesy car.

A bottle of wine on its way to me for the shit service

I still think girl, Cag.

I like the idea of plastic free July, Em. It would probably mean going to local shops eg green grocer as things like strawberries are only available in the supermarket in plastic trays. So good for local businesses too. Packaging is one of my pet hates but I find it hard to avoid.

That's my thinking snuggly we try sometimes to buy loose veggies when we can buy supermarkets are so convenient...

I'm going to give it a whirl. Obviously things we've already got are ok.