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Hoping all your new year wishes come true.

Sorry cag and meadow that you're having tough times.
Everyone was back to work today except me who was home studying. Essay now almost done. Essay to finish tomorrow & exam prep to do for Wednesday.

Frugal things I'm doing at the moment:
Not much spending or socialising because of studying
Getting into a regular skincare routine using various products I've accumulated over the last couple of years (Liz Earle, Temple Spa & a bit of bare minerals). No cost.
Trying extra hard not to waste any food so extreme meal planning!
Dd did the second half of her room declutter at the weekend, so I've inherited a box full of notebooks and pens. Nothing wrong with any of them she just had too many. I think when she was having a hard time at school she over indulged herself in stationery buying.
Trying to read more, I have around 10 books on the shelf that I'd like to read so I'm making a start with Michelle Obama, fascinating so far

Watched Only Connect followed by UC tonight & did the best I've done in a while. Dd got one of the connections too so was very proud of herself!

No nocuts I live nearish, it's my nearest city and I work there a lot.

Ds woke up because his duvet had fallen off and now I can't sleep

Morning all. Happy frugal Tuesday

Morning all, first day back wasn't so bad.
Also nsd
Not caught up properly just skim read.
Hope appointment goes well cag
sneaky are you OK
nocuts happy anniversary

Urgh. Back to it properly today. Don't like 6am

Happy belated anniversary nocuts.
Well done on the gym happier and em.

From Monday 18th feb happier. She did fall asleep within about 5 minutes- she was properly overtired. Both DDs are fast asleep this morning!

Best get a move on.

Have a frugal Tuesday everyone

Ds is awake and chatting to catface. Can hear him saying “kitty” and laughing.

No gym today. Next time is Thursday. Then training on Sunday. I’m just getting a feel for things and taking it super easy until I see the trainer who will let me know what I can and can’t do at present.

Work today. A few things to sort out but should hopefully be a fairly quiet one.

Eugh I'm exhausted. I did get back to sleep at about 3:30 😴 office day today so plenty of coffee.

Aiming for nsd will resist M&S food

Meadow We found paracetamol suppositories a bit of a lifesaver on those situations. We went 5 hours of screaming once, and then a paracetamol suppository from the OOH doctor stopped it in ten minutes. It's partly a really great way to find out if pain is the problem.

With us that time it was vitamin supplements that had been causing the misery for ten weeks, and after I cut them out he was fine within 24 hours.

I'm sorry to hear that you are having such a hard time.

I made myself bubble and squeak for breakfast and it is very nice.

Meadow that sounds tough. It will get better.

They use paracetamol suppositories in other countries they seem a good idea to me.

I had a weird positive thinking idea in the night and I wondered if I could tell you?

I was thinking how people are often say "I am sad at this time of year because this is when x died"

but nobody ever says

"I am happy at this time of year because this is when x happened"

I thought I might think back to the times when very nice things happened in my life and build a list of positive associations and see if that is a helpful thing.

That is one of my missions for today.

Girlie am posting you some coins today

love I don't have long to wait either, ours is Wed 20th Feb.

autumn why not think that's where facebook memories concept comes from.

Autumn I read a nice thing on FB once. It says to set up a jar at the start of the year and every time something good happens, write it down on a piece of paper and put it in the jar. At the end of the year, you can read back over all the nice/happy things that happened during the year.

That sounds so tough @meadow, I really hope things improve for you and DD soon.

Updated spends from yesterday:
£9 supermarket

That's a lovely idea Tayto. It's an incentive to watch out for nice things too.

Yes to whoever said DH is a gem. He is. A big shiny priceless diamond. And DM too. I would not have coped without them at all! She screamed for about an hour and a half last night, eventually we put In the Night Garden on and she stopped! WTF. Why didn't we just try that right at the beginning? She watched two entire episodes of it with her dummy in and then cried again for about 15 minutes or so as she was so tired but DH got her off to sleep eventually and she drank about 3oz of milk. So she was in bed by about 10.15pm but still woke at 5.45am, the same time as the day before, except the night before that she was mostly asleep from 7.30am so that's almost 3 hours less sleep, and a sa result she has been sleeping on and off all morning. Mostly on. At least I am haivng some peace and I went back to bed with her for an hour or so earlier although I couldn't really sleep cos I had such bad anxiety/palpitations, can't even remember what about .

Good luck to frugaleers with exams/assignments. DH has a load over the next month so I will be doing the vast majority of DD's care even on weekends now until they are over as well, sigh.

North I'd like to read Michelle Obama's book. I've just read Dummy by Matt Coyne which I got out of the library, I was literally crying with laughter at some of it.

AH, DD is awake.

Meadow I want to watch In the Night Garden too now.

Meadow that sounds really hard.

I like the idea with the jar of nice things. I might start doing that. I worry about forgettig all the cute and funny brings the dcs do.

Another NSD. Hooray!

Afternoon

I know what you mean snuggly. I have forgotten really a lot of ds's early years. I have photos, because I bought a tiny camera and kept it in my pocket but without that it would be a blank I think.

With hindsight, I also wish that I had videoed some of the harder things, like what ds looked like as a crying baby as well. I do have some videos like that and I'm always surprised at how lovely he is in them even when giving it ten bells.

Ah yes. In the night garden. Ds likes to torture me with that. His thing at the moment is teletubbies. #killmenow

I’m in work. And this morning I kicked my bag. And a phone rang. Wierd. Then I moved it and heard singing. Much to everyone else’s delight. Turns out ds has popped his toot toot fire engine in there today. #annoying #thankfulitsgotanoffswitch

On lunch at present. £4.35 toasted wrap from cafe. As couldn’t be arsed to make lunch. Also making shopping list for food shop tonight.

"Couldn't be arsed" sounds like a good phrase in your present circumstances. I need to use it more myself Em.

I've done my hour of gardening this morning to get me my sunshine and exercise. Not very thrilling as I was just getting rid of rubbish and cutting down weeds, but there I was, outside.

Now lunch.