Aspiring to Affording April Amusements

[mammymammyIRL]

Any other suggestions?

That's definitely a tempting offer and good you have time to decide and weight up your pros and cons, Tayto.

Hope today's visit is going/went well, Seacow.

It was warm enough up here to go outside without a coat for the first time since about September, at 13°! I spent £5.30 on cappuccino and cake in Costa and then had a good 4 or 5 mile walk to Asda, where I spent £4.74.

BTW, thanks for the prolapse explanations last night! It is amazing how this sort of thing isn't really discussed, when it seems so common.

I agree Creme I think there should be a lot more honest conversation about pregnancy and birth. I think it would impact how women feel afterwards

£30 Tesco's, how that's it food wise this week.

Cute picture.

Difficult choice re redundancy. Is it something you can negotiate on? If you pay off a lump of mortgage can you keep the term but reduce the monthly amount? Make it more affordable on a PT salary

The last stats I looked at were 1 in 3 women have some post birth "issues"

Lonely my dh loves that pasty shop in Keswick. I'm not a pastry fan

I know someone who had to have reconstructive surgery after her first child.

Checking in
£22 Aldi
£12.99 biography of Beatrix Potter for Mum’s birthday
£5 to park at Wakehurst Place, (part of Kew ) free to get in with NT membership
£9 for cup of tea and ice cream each. Going there was spur of the moment after work finished at 3pm, would normally take tea and biscuits. We did enjoy ourselves though, and as I’m working this weekend and DP doing overtime, it was some needed fresh air.

Wakehurst is lovely!

Apart from having the nice walk I have totally squandered the day, done sod all and mooched about online far too much. Bah. Tomorrow must be better

lonely I forgot you used to live in Torpoint. They are Friary Mill pasties, not Dewdneys. Had a lovely afternoon on the Hoe in the sun. £2.50 on car parking, had a lovely ice cream but mil paid for that

interesting re post birth issues. I don’t think I have any. Other than maybe not wanting to get with the sexy time as much as I did pre baby. I’m just more wary I suppose. And tired. Ha!

We’ve just got back from dinner. Sri Lankan food at local restaurant was absolutely ace. Dh and I shared two sharing dishes. A “meat” starter which had fish cakes, veggie samosas, tempura prawns, tuna sashimi and beef lettuce wraps (yum!!!) and a trio of curries (catfish - yum; Dahl - yum and prawn - yum) with rice flatbreads and coconut sambal. Mmmmmmmm.

Ds cane with us (and dsis and her friends family and dparents). He was so unbelievably well behaved. He let the waiter take him to look at the pictures behind the bar. Elephants. He loved elephants! And was just super chill. Best boy.

Dm said she’d pay for us but I’m going to make sure I give her some moneys.

Home and in bed now. Ds crashes out in the car. Felt awful having to wake him up to put his jammies on and change nappy. But he’s now asleep.

Ha yes the tiredness is something of a contraceptive in its own right 😂 I don’t know why I’m more nervous TBH dare I say it’s not like me at all 😳 I don’t have any birth injuries, stitches healed well so no physical reason really. Other stuff 😉😳 is fine 😂 but actual sex is rare now 😰

Fear of pregnancy may be an issue too I suppose, need to sort out the snip 😬😂 I am absolutely not going through that again, either physically or, perhaps more significantly, mentally (the effect on my anxiety has been absolutely massive this time, I am only just getting over a year of constant paranoia 🤔).

She’s worth it though. She is so babbly at the moment and is amusing us by scooting right across the room every time we put her down. On her back like a sort of reverse caterpillar. 🐛😂 I feel like I’m enjoying her even more than the other two as I know she’s the last one IYSWIM. 💖

Book a drs appointment for him. It forces the issue.

Today will be spent eating ready for back to work/school tomorrow 😭 not sure how we will cope as we haven't been waking up until 7:30/8:00 (ds and me, dd often gets up earlier on her own). We need to be out the door at 8:10.

Today will be spent eating ready for back to work/school tomorrow 😭 not sure how we will cope as we haven't been waking up until 7:30/8:00 (ds and me, dd often gets up earlier on her own). We need to be out the door at 8:10.

Today will be spent eating ready for back to work/school tomorrow 😭 not sure how we will cope as we haven't been waking up until 7:30/8:00 (ds and me, dd often gets up earlier on her own). We need to be out the door at 8:10.

Ffs

Same here wreck, tomorrow morning is going to be hell.

Football today, nsd. Didn't sleep will so tired.

We're still getting up at 5.30am, so I think we will be okay. Zzzzzz.

I'm bracing myself to go and ask my GP complicated questions. Is it me, or is it really hard to ask really tricky questions while on a 5 minute clock? It feels like mastermind sometimes. My current question is definitely not a 5 minute one.

Gp appointments round here are ten minutes. Can you email your question to the gp prior to your appointment?

This photo is only outing to my immediate family who I'm 100% confident aren't on here. Frugaleering at its best washing baby clothes from 0-18 months to pass on to my niece, lots of which I already got passed on to us from my cousins child this is about half of it.

I've read up to date but I'm too tired to comment individually, sorry

Spends since I last posted
€7.75 on dinner at lunchtime fri, annoyingly cashier didn't know how to take a gift card & cash as payment so I'd to pay all cash.
€8 on sweets for dc to watch a Netflix movie at my parents & daily meal for me, I love the YOU magazine with it on Saturdays, I've two weeks now to read
€2 tip, my father paid for 3 course meal for us all
€5.40 on iron on interfacing for my cross stitch sampler for dniece and a skein of embroidery thread
€5.83 with 25p topcashback on Eleanor Oliphant from book Depository
My dsis paid for my breakfast out yesterday and parking

Approx €29 added in my head
I've been pricing a lovely cross stitch picture to do for ds's preschool, he finishes in June and both dc attended for about two years each. Will see if H has a better suggestion of a present before I purchase. He won't

Today I do a ten mile road race with my sis, we'll go at our own paces. I'd like to come in under 2 hours. I'm very tired though it's my excuse for totm time.

My dB is home atm where he lives he rarely drinks last night he went out with his friends, I found him asleep in kitchen at 5am

Seeing cottage tomo

Sunny you can ask for a double appointment.

I think ds is mostly ready for back to school although I confess dm did all the work! Getting up time hasn’t really changed for us as I’ve not been on leave so ds has had to be up and out every day

Off to ds’s activity in an hour. Need to do some ironing first

€40 diesel on fuel card yesterday too

Mammy enjoy your run. Hope the cottage is spot on

Mammy that's so funny good luck on the run.

I've been updating the DC's summer wardrobes with eBay purchase. Dd is done now and it cost me £24 for:
A boden dress
Boden leggings
Boden cardigan
2x next t shirts
1x primark t shirt
1x primark swimsuit
1x Abercrombie shorts
1x next shorts
1x H&M shorts
1x H&M dress
1x nutmeg jacket.

Plus she has a few bits that still fit from last year.

Ds so far has boden shorts and t shirt for £10. He doesn't need as much but I'm bidding on some next shorts and a couple of t shirts.

It must be dry there mammy. It's grey and rainy here.

I might need to pop to the shop for bread and milk.