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[Wolfcub]

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NSD & also extremely lazy day. Tidied away my floor-robe, and dumped some clutter, put on a wash & cooked dinner. Cross stitched & watched tv for rest of day

So tired but lovely day in the sun digging tired not miserable tired.
Made great strides into tackling veg patch and it looks much better.
Chickens cleaned out and fresh food and water .
DC has returned from a forrin land and paid for an Indian takeaway for us all.
Mmm .
DH did all the cleaning and all stuff/lunches ready for tomorrow.
Love that done feelingvwhen you sit down on a Sunday evening.
Had a piping hot bath with bathsalts and it was aaaaaah both painful and blissful when I got in.

Em Are you putting him to sleep on his front? I think they're meant to sleep on their backs for the SIDS thing. He looks very cute.

I just went to the concert that I'd booked tickets for. It was super-exciting. I really enjoyed it. I saw some friends that I knew well before, but haven't really seen for 15 years too, which was very nice.

Word of caution on matched betting meadow - it made me very twitchy. Once you've bet thats it, and you have to trust your back bet is right. It made me very anxious. Yes, I was £480 up at one point, but then the offers (once you have done all the easy introductory offers it isn't straightforward) get more complex. And then I started playing the slots (you get offers for these too, and you have to play the "free" money through a lot before you can withdraw, thus getting you a bit hooked); and when I cashed out, and deliberately "lost" the notebook with all the logins in, I was only £300 up. So stupid.

Worked tonight, well tried. Got disturbed a lot. I'm hoping to be brave enough to ask about a job at my work this week. I'm monumentally bad about plucking up courage. Another frog to down in one. 🐸

Ds will probably be off tomorrow, his temp spiked three times today. Both big dd's had headaches too. Think we might all have a bit of a virus.

meadow have you checked what benefits you should get once the baby is born? I'm thinking you must be entitled to some tax credits and maybe housing benefit as well? There are online calculators where you can check.

Spent around £12 at the beach today on parking, icecream and teas, we took food and water. Was going green to get fish n chips but decided to make our own from the freezer instead, v frugal!

Not sure where 'green' came from, hope we weren't going green 😂

That sounds like a brilliant day Mammy

Good for you Sunny - now you can go out more often!

Go for that frog Lonely, we are cheering you on.

I am so full of chorizo hash. I drizzled chilli oil over it - my, it was gooood.

sunny no we put him to sleep on his back. He’s just wriggly. He can roll himself back now though. We were told by midwife /health visitor that babies should sleep on their backs for as long as possible but once they can hold their heads up/roll over there’s less risk of sids. We don’t roll him back though as it’d wake him up.

Half day for me today. When I do half days I usually work mornings and have the afternoons off...so. This is strange.

I think the Saturday racing offers are where the money is made meadow, I would try profit accumulator as they have the best reviews and stick to the instructions.

That sounds fine then Em.

I'm still all buzzing from my concert. I asked ds if I could sign up for the philharmonic chorus so I could be in the next one and he says "no". I also asked if we could at least go to the next one and he says "no" to that too. May have to dig a tunnel out.

Rejoining. Was under threat of redundancy. You would think I would spend less. Oh no. threat now lifted. So back to it. Just need yoghurt today. Challenge is to go into shop and only buy that.

I missed the bit about the concert sunny glad you enjoyed.

The first time ds slept like that we were (I was) super panicky. But he’s in his own room so we can’t see if he flips himself. He wasn’t too hot on flipping back when he first did it so would wake himself up and cry so we had to rescue him. But he rolls about all over the place now. I found him across the cot the other morning. He’d spun himself round....

Have a few chores to catch up on this morning - laundry to be put away and in the machine. And recycling to be taken out. Then Dentist. Then work. Then the vicar s coming. Eeeeeek! Best behaviours all round!

Just done the sums after a somewhat ynfrugal few days. I was getting fed up of everything being tighter than an gnats squeak and as I often seem to do at this point in the month, let go of the reigns a bit. We will make it to the end of the month but only if I don’t spend a single I in budgeted penny Cross with myself. Does anyone know what day child benefit is likely to be paid this month.

Em ds look so cute in his sleeping bag

I used to put ds to sleep on his front (bad mum) as it's the only way he would sleep because that's how they put them in scbu.

Should be a nsd today. Pay day Thursday thank god!

I don't know if it's the same for you, Wolfcub, but I'll be getting my child benefit and tax credits this Friday, as it's Bank Holiday Monday next Monday.

wolf mine always goes in every fourth whatever, it's done by weeks, so mine is every fourth thursday. So I look at last months and count on 4 on the calendar. Tax credits is the same.

sunny I had to explain this to dp, you know, you can just tell them you are doing something. Instead of asking. He asks ds everything "do you want this or that?" Cue a ten minute negotiation making us late, me: "here's your cheerios, please eat them up for me". (Which he does without complaint).

If you want to join the chorus, do it! What a fab thing to have access to. Your ds will adjust.

Ds' temperature went at 0330, so he is off school. And I need more nurofen, as it's taking both to bring it down. Luckily I got back to sleep for a bit, but ds decided dp was keeping him company.

I forgot about the bank holidays! I think they do pay them early if your day is monday.

Yes I know what you mean Lonely. I'm a bit fuddled about what to do. I'm really stuck at home and lonely and it's a bit crap to be honest. ds's language is not great, and in order to keep myself afloat to help him, I really need to find some proper company, to have an actual reciprocal conversation once in a while. The school gate doesn't seem to do it, and beavers is nice, but seeing the orchestra was properly magical and I like the magic.

I feel as though I'm at a bit of a cross-roads at the moment. I don't know whether to try and push on with practicing my violin and try to join a scots fiddle band, which a friend has invited me to do (I'm crap at the fiddle and it hurts my ears), or to go back to singing, which wouldn't require any practise and would come easily to me and is just round the corner, and then I'd get to perform with the magic orchestra.

The tricky thing is that the singing is on tuesday nights which would mean dropping out of scouts from next september.

Feck. If only I had any brain left.

Thank you all. I hadn’t realised people had different days

Can you find a different scouts group Sunny, that meets on a different night? I think the singing would do you a world of good, as a social outlet but also singing is good for the soul and mental health, it’s a great reliever of tension.

I have found the last 2 years with DS a bit isolating because he has very limited language and literally no conversation. I’d go bonkers if I didn’t have friends. And DD has got me out to meet a different group of people. You simply have to loook after your own mental health. But you and DS do get something out of scouts so it would maybe be worth seeing whether you can shuffle it?

Nanny and Cleaner both start in the next hour, eek. I have a ‘crowded’ Feeling with having strangers in the house ALL DAY so it’s going to be a little testing. But at least at the end of the day the house will be clean!

£100 nanny, £50 Cleaner. Ffs. Savings are taking a right beating.

meadow I couldn’t get my head around matched betting.

For money making - do you have anything you could list on eBay/gumtree/Facebook etc? I’ve kept the nicest of ds’ old clothes but evertrying else has been sold. And the money made used for buying his new stuff.

Christmas Yes I'm in the same boat. Ds does talk, but he has an entirely separate conversation to mine, disregarding what I've said and persisting with his topic, almost to super-human extremes of not apparently having heard me at all.

I have no idea of what to do. Except, obviously, to book tickets for the next concert. Because screw convention, and I will be going to it.

I work on the basis with most people that I tell them what I’m doing. When ds is old enough to understand it’ll be the same with him.

I have a friend who asks her dd’s Permission to do things. And then gets upset when dd (aged 11 now) says no. I always a bit “she’s eleven. You’re the parent. You say what goes”

Em I am in complete agreement with you on that. I facilitate a lot of what ds gets to do I am a grown up and he doesn’t get to control what I choose to do