Frugaleering, cakes and baby talk

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

Need to get up apparently I slept for 8 hours and 3 mins last night, feels more like 3 hours and 8 mins

Hahaha at need sitting on a sofa eating grapes for more than 5 minutes. You are like me, giving up work seems like a good idea but in reality after a few weeks would be boring. All the jobs would be done and time would have to be filled.

Dd will be 10.

Good luck with the negotiations sunny and dh.

I like marrow fat peas.

I seem to be in a permanent state of tiredness at the minute

That's great sunny

Need

Got a boring meeting today 😴 not until this afternoon though. It's quite chilly this morning.

I have to have one of those pens from the inappropriate gift company in Oz. Along the lines of "another meeting that could have been sorted by an email" FML.
I especially like the "in not feeling talky today, off your fuck" mug but I fear disciplinary action. And it's not frugal

Life I love those mugs etc I really want one!

life I have a work mug (well 2 actually) ones a catch kidston one and is more suitable for meetings. The other is hot pink, about the size of a bucket (think sports direct mug size) and that’s it. Apart from on the bottom of the mug it says “fuck you” so can only be seen when I’m drinking out of it. not suitable for meetings

I had a bit of a meltdown yesterday. Possibly I was overtired and hormonal etc. All I wanted last night was a bath. Dh went to the shop (spends £50) and while he was out Ds wouldn’t settle. Just would not settle. Sigh. Dh came back and I cried. So he packed me off to bed. He stayed up with Ds until 4am. Fed him both bottles.

I woke up at 6. Feel like a new woman. Have fed ds and Had a snuggle. They are the best. Small baby on your shoulder/under chin snuggles.

I’ve seen a frugal thing on fb this morning - apparently legoland are letting kids with certain names in for free from 13 -30 October. Names are the characters from the Lego ninja movie. You will have to take proof of child’s id.

From the conversation re age of having first babies im trying to work out whether I’m old or young. I’m 26 actually 33 but I’ll tell people I’m 26 until I can no longer get away with it! so that makes me older I guess.

lifelong I found taking Siberian Ginseng daily phenomenal in the tired all the time scenario.

Em sounds like you've got a great parenting partner there, you needed that sleep and you'll be fantastic again today now.

Spends yesterday - €16.20 in Centra on 4 salmon fillets, pack of diced chicken and a protein bar - needed cashback to pay for gymnastics today €25 and I couldn't decide what to eat for dinner
dd isn't going to gymnastics after all because the astroturf burn is so bad, she could injure it again.

I spent £32 on two virtual medals last night - 12k of Christmas (12k to be walked/run between 1st and 12th December) and 500 miles in 2018. This is on credit card however

We are having a mostly indoors day today. Midwife is coming round at some point then my friends coming over at around 4. Ds and I are still in bed. Dh is getting ready for work.

I’m making gnocchi for dinner (asparagus one from JO 5 ingredients). Will get the actual gnocchi’s done this morning so it’s a quick dinnner.

Ah em it's horrible when it's like that. Ds only did it a couple of time (in the evening anyway, he used to cry all day!) and it was the only time dh and I really argued as it was so stressful! I'm pleased you got some sleep

Lovely lovely dh spent last night in a sleeping bag in the babies' room so I could sleep. I got nearly 9 hours!

I've seen lots of garden spiders to Laska. DD likes seeing their website in the morning with dew drops on. She hunts round the garden while I hang out the washing.

Should be NSD today.

Webs not website! I'd be very impressed if they had websites!

They all have fussy moments em it's what makes us so exhausted sometimes. You have a good set up with your dh, not all blokes are as good trust me! They do need to cluster feed sometimes, maybe its a wee growth spurt or a little development upgrade, but for a day or two they fuss and feed only, and normal life just goes plop out of the window! I found these times very hard to deal with.

Yet more wind and rain today, so it's a box set on prime and working all day for me.

What was dd1 after life ? I'm finding this age very hard to buy for. They don't want toys (even though they play with them), but aren't into grown up girl stuff yet. Grr, the same issues sorting Christmas here.

Em if you haven't already then download the wonder weeks app. It's really good.

wreck just downloaded it - it looks good. Thanks for the tip!

cag interesting “article” on radio 4 at present about Home educating. Current kid speaking is saying that they don’t go to school because their mum didn’t like school. Not sure that’s the best reason for home ed in my view...but each to their own. Very interesting though.

Have also just made gnocchi for dinner. From Jamie’s 5 ingredients. Easy. Peasy.

Em I feel quite downcast listening to your idyllic description of baby care. Pumping didn't work for me, no one helped at all ever, all the professionals put massive pressure on my to bf only and I didn't sleep for literally years. I definitely did not get sent baskets of baby presents. I think I must have been following the wrong instruction book.

sunny I’m all too aware that things may swing the other way at any point so am embracing this time! We have been unbelievably overwhelmed by the gifts - absolutely not expected (and now I have to write a gazillion thank you cards...)

I’m also going to have to pull the bouquets of flowers apart as they are starting to wilt (#firstworldproblems)

I’m trying to keep myself busy, but rest, and trying to maintain some semblance of “me” - I’m paranoid that I’m just going to be known as “mum” in the future.

Im embracing my at home rest day. Got myself set up on the couch. Blanket, cushions, book (for if I have the time...) tv control, water bottle and bucket of tea.

There was a lot of pressure in hospital to breastfeed. I said to dh that I’d give it a go (given that I knew it’d be frowned upon if I didn’t - and also from a friend’s experience who said no to it - she got less attention in hospital...) but I’m not being pressured into continuing if it doesn’t work for us/me/ds.

He’s currently napping in his basket by the window. Fresh air and sunshine are streaming in (he’s a teeny bit jaundiced).

I’ve just had a look online at various shops in which I can spend my vouchers - dh’s vouchers are for local dept stores so I can spent in them in oasis, warehouse, river island, joules, white co, and dune. Dms vouchers are for topshop, next and my god mother sent vouchers for M&S. Yay! I’ve seen some lovely things so when I venture into town I’m going to treat myself! Yay!

That sounds lovely Em. I'd forgotten the months and years of being parked on the couch moving my book from one side to the other as he switched sides. I think you will definitely always be You, btw. You are very interesting and unique and that will not change. I am definitely still me, and the more so because ds is more appreciative of my particular self than the less interested bystanders I knew before. Good luck there.

I agree em it's not a good reason and it's annoying from a selfish point of view too as that sort of thing often creates a really negative stereotype of home edders. :( When in reality most people are just doing the best they can for their kids who found for whatever reason school just didn't work. Of course it's a valid choice from the start too, but it should be remembered of course that a parent's experiences aren't necessarily what the child's will be. There's loads of stuff I hated as a child but it doesn't mean I make my kids miss out on it - they are their own little people with their own personalities, it's one of the most amazing parts of being a parent, just seeing them develop in their own way. ❤️

We really thought DD would love school as she was (is) so social, loved nursery etc (typically of many girls with autism it really wasn't obvious then) so we just agreed that if it ever stopped working then we would HE, and that's what ended up happening when she was 7. Infant school was pretty fab for her and yet the same school was awful for DS, there's no hard or fast rules for this stuff :)

So pissed off with Boots again - they got my prescription yesterday and still hadn't ordered it at noon so again I am going to run out of test strips. I actually did have a go at them this time (and I'm not assertive AT ALL so that's a big deal for me) but they have no strips for me to have in the meantime. Stupid thing is the doctor prescribes 50 test strips which is only enough for 12.5 days (and that's assuming no errors) and yet they prescribe 204 needles! I'm going to ask the GP if they can change it to prescribe more at once as otherwise I might as well put the request in as soon as I collect the other lot .

Hooray. Midwife has been and we have been discharged from them. My little mate (ds) has put on weight again yay! He’s now 3.4kg. Yay!

Dh has left his wallet at home. So no naice tesco orange juice or pineapple juice for me today 😭 if I could be arsed to go into town I’d get it myself but am not leaving the couch

Em I've gone over almost entirely to online shopping for this stuff. I'm not sure what you have there but I live by Ocado, Waitrose and Tesco delivery, Argos same day delivery, Next, and amazon prime next day delivery. I've given up shopping in person Sorry to hear about the lack of juice. Frustrating.

Oh sunny I dream about online shopping. I remember it from uni.

I could order juice from Amazon. But it’d take 4 days....

We have Waitrose, coop, M&S, Iceland, and tesco (via a local store) they all deliver, but you have to go here and pick it out and pay for it.... we’re not that advanced here re online shops....

Oh, that's a shame. I wonder how you are meant to get stuff when you are lap-napping then. Tricky!