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Having dd was one of the main factors I gave up drinking Em babies/kids + hangover = hell.

We have borrowed a friends dog and had a lovely walk round a local nature spot which was lovely, its a beautiful day.

Spent £3 on a sandwich and lolly for dd.

Popped into the vets which was quite emotional, we had made them a card and some fairy cakes to say a big thank you to them for their kindness last week. I had some of Jacks insulin syringes and testing strips which they refunded me for which was good as that took nearly £100 off the final bill, final bill was £160. They will put a claim into the insurance company although i'm not holding my breath I may get something back. I've moved money from my savings to pay for it and will have to be super frugal for the rest of this month.

We are both missing him like mad

LOL! Em, if it's any help my ds has just turned 8 and is now old enough to understand. This morning we had a conversation that could be paraphrased as follows:

ds: Mum, you are a shambles. What is the matter with you?
Me: I've been looking after a lively child for 8 years and have had no time whatsoever for self-care.
ds: I'm old now, sort yourself out.
Me: Okay son.

€9.50 spent at family day out at animal rescue €5 on goodies for dc and remainder was donation.

Picnic & day out were thoroughly enjoyed by all three of us

€7.49 on 30 days ginseng capsules for me
€3.97 on two tubes of toothpaste for dc
Resisted the battery operated toothbrushes for them although I'm starting to wonder if they might be a good idea
Refund €15 shoes for dd

FML, food scales are broken. I've had them 2 months. Luckily the set before these I bought online in Feb 2017 so a new set are on the way courtesy of Lakeland. No weighing for a week.
£3.70 photos for cub badges

😂 at that conversation sunny

Hangovers don’t happen here as my DC are so loud it would finish me off. Hope you recover soon em

Carpet has been taken up and disposed at at the dump. Skirting boards and window ledges painted. Just the door and door frame to be done.

I’m sat at home in my painting clothes. My brother has just posted about being in his posh clothes for the Baftas tonight as he produced a tv programme that got nominated #Proud-sister

DP has done his back in and he is moaning lots. I’ve tried to ignore him and finish our Sunday night cleaning.

NSD

Dm made lasagna. I’ve had crisps and a beer. A coke. And lasagna garlic bread and salad.

Yum. And apple crumble.

I think I’d have been ok today if only one of us went out. Or if only one of us drank. It’s because we both went out and got druuunnnkkkk. I think I had 7 glasses of wine and a whisky. (Why. Why the whisky. That always finishes me off). And a pizza before we went out, some cake and a bacon roll.

Then came home and had a multi vitamin and no water. (Usually I have multi vitamin tea toast and loads of water then bed). This morning I had to have a rehydration drink

I felt awful this morning. But had such a good time I don’t care.

Sometimes the night is worth the hangover

I’d be throwing up after 3 glasses.

I’ve found a new hairdresser, 5 miles away and £20 for a wet cut. Opposed to 25 miles away and £45. I used to work in the area and time it with that.

Ordered powder and lash primer but vouchers paid. Enough left over for a cheap lippy.

I need to make more laundry gloop. I always run out when Dh is on AL and he doesn’t know I use gloop. It’s been 8 years and I don’t know how to break it to him.

I'm planning a car boot bank holiday Sunday. Any top tips from anyone? I feel like I'm drowning in stuff and it's just not shifting on Facebook. I think I have enough stuff for one huge one or a couple of little ones. See how much I get sorted. Leftovers to chazza

Have you got a helper?

life take a helper, take a stash of carrier bags (people always assume you’re a shop so will have them), price things up before hand if you can (even if it’s boxes of stuf and signs on the box saying how much). And if you can do the charity shop trip on the way home!

Not as yet. I will see if I can recruit one

Boo. My brother’s programme didn’t win the Bafta. At least now I don’t have to watch the BBC highlights tonight.

Ah boo. Bet he's having a fab time.
Wolf what did you do about the letter? How's things after contact

I can’t do children with a mega-hangover. Fact. At the moment we don’t have much babysitter potential so DH and I are not having to negotiate. Silver linings

It’s been a very quiet weekend. I’ve stashed the huge dinner service from MIL in the loft and brought down lots of boxes to sort. I found a giant bag of 12-18m boys’ clothes which is now too late for SIL and DNephew; I’ve siphoned off the useful stuff for dd and will give the rest to a school mum friend with a boy DD’s age. Also found some of the ‘big toys’ that DD is growing into - a wooden activity cube, a wooden rocking horse and an activity table thing. She’ll have loads to play with but I can’t quite work out how we’ll have any floor space left! It’s her birthday next month, I can’t really believe it’s coming round already. I expect we’ll have a small family lunch and cake in the garden but it will be the first such event without dad. That’s going to hurt .

Thanks for the suggestions about dad’s lack-of-eulogy. It’s going to be a very small funeral as we are a tiny family and dad only wanted very close friends invited. So I probably won’t compile anything from the guests but I might write what I want to say and then at some stage, maybe when we scatter the ashes, I’ll share it with my mum and sisters. I think I’ll feel better just writing it anyway.

I don’t need a black dress for granny’s funeral as she’s also stipulated bright colours, apparently. I think I have something suitably gaudy but just need red shoes. I might even brave a RL shop .

Any suggestions of what to do with my maternity clothes? There’s some good brands (Isabella Oliver /Jojo /Boden) but I just don’t think I can face eBay. I sold a few bits on fb but not much. I am thinking I might just donate them but not sure charity shops take maternity stuff - does anyone know? I just want rid of the clutter now.

Steak and chips for tea - I am excited

Love it’s still pretty exciting. Am dead curious about the programme now!

Nct sale?.

Life that's a sickener about scales.

Yup, least damage this week, max steps. Can Someone do a new thread?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/credit_crunch/3248436-May-Making-Money-Go-Frugally-Further?watched=1 New thread

Au revoir April

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