Frugaleering, cakes and baby talk

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Just starting off a new thread as the other one was getting full.

Cheese rocks. Simple.

I like spiders that one looks similar to the that wanted to share my bath last week

£5 on antacids, heartburn is giving jip.
£4 on coffee & cake

Need in the short time all the dcs were asleep last night dh snored. He is lucky to be alive today!

Em I've been pondering the idea of how it must be to be a very stylish person like you and to be thinking about breastfeeding in public. I found this little thing online and wondered if it might help? It's quotes from female stars about their breastfeeding experience and picture of them being beautiful with their babies. There's lots more like that online if it's useful:

www.motherforlife.com/breastfeeding/current-events/6547-8-celebrities-breastfeeding-in-public.thtml?page=1

I bf'd in public for three years, but the image I'm trying to maintain is of an non-conforming scientist, so the two sat more easily together.

I don't want to put pressure on either way, but just wanted to offer that in case it was useful. I remember what it was like at this stage and it was tricky.

I've solved my first aid course problem. It turns out that I don't need a first aid qualification, but they're going to send me the study materials to work through at home, so that's better.

Went along with the HV for a new birth visit today. Tiny baby so cute! Feeling rather lucky with my job especially as I get paid to drive along roads like this

That looks lovely wrecked.

I don't mind spiders either Adora, I shall join you on the weird step

I've messaged Creme again, just to check she's okay. All fine, just busy.

I've got a lot done today so feeling like it's been a productive one.

LSD.

If you can bottle feed in public once you get the expressing lark established that gives you options too Em.

I'm astonished to say I have got a lovely pair of jeans from M&S, using a voucher. So they cost me £15 total. I've got another voucher to use next month so I might get another pair for DD for Christmas.

Chicken casserole for dinner. The dc will have theirs whizzed into soup

Thanks sunny that’s interesting. I’ve been thinking about it and it’s not that I coukdnt do it, it’s more I’m afraid of it. I’d do it if I had to....but it does help to see other people doing it.

Coincidently I’ve had a letter through the post today re a breastfeeding consultant. They are going to pop in at some point over the next month.

We’ve been out again today. For a walk along the seafront. Ds slept the entire time.

Home Now enjoying tea and cake and dexter.

Also keep thinking how weird it is that I'm only in my mid 40's and my DC are pretty much adults and there's folk on here pretty much the same age with primary school DC. Lovely to see such a variety of ways of doing things.

Or no DC at all indeed (lucky buggers ).

Need I'll be 41 when dd goes off to uni (assuming she does). I could have another baby then

DH always said no more babies after he's 50. He will be 50 in January so the timing worked rather well there 😂

Sorry I didn't post since that awful pic this morning! I'm not afraid of spiders just not keen on them in my personal space. Dh was very angry that I didn't kill that one & thinks because of that I'm responsible for the 5 that we've since found inside the house

Need you we're a young mummy
, I was 27 but young among my piers who 7/8 years later are only starting their families.

Em have you fed in front of your parents or friends? Personally I found that a bigger deal than the general public

I was 27yo when I had dd which at the time I thought was really grown up but can now see that I was a very young 27yo but am also thinking that if dd does go off to uni at 18 I will still be fairly young....

Em I think with bfing in public once you have done it a few times you just don't think about it, I bf dd just about everywhere in the end. It is a lot easier once they can latch themselves on though.

Am making the most of dd being at a residential and going out for dinner with a friend in a mo.

Nsd today.

Em for public feeding find a good cafe that is bf friendly. Staff will not be phased and regular customers won't either. Best to go if it gets other mother's there too for moral support. If you can of course. Also if you have someone with you the first time they can check various angles to make sure you haven't got your baps on show.

BFing pit stops are excellent excuses for cake :)

Yes to feeding in front of my mum (she just burst in...) and in front of dsis. She wasn’t bothered just didn’t want to see “boob” so I made her “eyes down” at the beginning and end! Haha! She did say that a friend of hers had invited her round after her baby and dsis arrived to find friend expressing from both boobs, and also legs akimbo airing her stitches. So after that nothing really phases dsis.

We’ll get there.
Dh is going to the shop tonight. I’ve meal planned from save with jamie and the 5 ingredients book. Le yum.

North Flu jabs not making me feel too bad.

Waitress How long will the logs last? I'd love a woodburner. There's something about a proper fire.

All spends are approximates.

£5 sains, store cupboard stock up
£1.50 lidl same.
£5 Aldi, stock up and cat food.
£1.50 homebargains steel mixing bowl
£10 fuel.
£1.50 morrisons spices, dried marrowfat peas & cheap tinned tomatoes.

I'm going to have a go at home made marrowfat peas. I object to paying 50p a tin on something so cheap to make. I need green food colouring, Dh won't accept natural colour peas.

First night of sober October. No like.

YAY my new nursing tops fit. I absolutely hate buying clothes online but there's fuck all maternity stuff in town so I took a chance and it all fits nicely.

In less good news I succumbed to takeaway again 😳😳😳

Wait Fluffy marrowfat peas are not really green? What are they? I thought they were just tinned peas.

I definitely used breastfeeding as an excuse to eat lots of cake. This time round I'm bottle feeding but using sleep deprivation as an excuse for cake. Sadly bottle feeding doesn't burn thousands of extra calories though like breastfeeding does.

NSD. Arrived home from a lovely walk to discover the world's biggest spider in the lounge. No photo I'm afraid I was too busy trying not to lose it anywhere.

I think marrowfat peas are what we used istead of potatoes years pre Elizabethan.

They're sort of a pale blah green naturally.

Our garden spiders seem to be setting huge traps for humans this year.. I have never seen so many either. . I keep going up to greenhouse and finding spider web filaments stretched between the fence on one side of the path and shed on the other.. its very unnerving breaking them with your face!

Then there was another this morning right between the side of house where front door is and the bay hedge which is at least 8ft apart (how do they do that?) again caught me at just at headheight as I came out of the front door. ..

I dont mind spiders at all , but I do mine a face full of webby stuff every day !

Went back to physio today feeling pleased with myself because sciatica is virtualy gone. . But i think i annoyed her because not only did i confess to a 12 mile walk the other day (thinking she'd be pleased -but no, apparently I shouldnt have done that ) but also that yes, i had done the exercises but not every hour as she suggested (because thats just not doable in the real world) but only twice a day.. , I thought that was good and she'd be pleased , but it seems that it wasnt , (but then who would do them every hour anyway?) .. so I got a right telling off. . but have been discharged anyway because I am pretty much better.,

Sigh.. you cant win.. but I bet no one does them as much as she says but they just lie to her

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I have no idea what marrowfat peas are?!

need I'm impressed when i hit 12k a day.. but very often its something annoying like 9750 .. At weekends id do more on the daily register ( well I do, always ) but I never seem to wear the fit bit then.. only during the week (and i cant sleep in it)..

Staying at work seems like a plan for you then , . but I cant wait to get out!