April Amigos Accounting Achievements and Adaptability

[Wolfcub]

New Fred for old friends and new

Just been reading back, I got a Nutri ninja probably about 4 years ago & it was well worth it & still going strong.
Did shopping for mum and our NDN this morning, early, so all sorted now.
Sewing & baking this afternoon, quiz with friends tonight

Life it's easy food it's an Irish mag I'll take a pic of recipe and send it on to you

Good progress on the build Camden, so pleased it's finally coming together for you.

Also pleased your takeaway eventually arrived Sea.

Dh and the dcs are making a banana loaf so that's another one on the lockdown bingo card for us!

Wolf has he got much stuff left at yours now? I think your cleaning standards are higher than mine too although I'm so much better than I was.

I think starting from scratch at rental helped because it was clean & we've only to keep it that way! Plus we don't have much stuff out so it's not cluttered.

Just spent €127.15 in Dunnes on shopping that came to €171.15 used two €10 off €50 vouchers & €24 vouchers from my points. €45.10 was on clothes for dc including some for dd's birthday €8 on a new duvet cover for her birthday €15.99 on veet wax strips for my bikini line & underarms(lasered but a few stragglers) I balked at the price but my regular waxing costs much more!
Lots of stuff for dds birthday doughnuts as she doesn't want a cake, Betty Crocker brownie mix, I've already got plenty of stuff for cupcakes so I think I'll bake myself & then they can decorate them tonight

Next vouchers are valid until May 9th

Camden that looks great
Girlie I agree with getting out every day for mental health
Seacow hope getting out helps your ds, must be so hard when he doesn't understand what's happening.
Precast garden furniture is fab too if you can get it. Definitely an investment though.

I've made a plan for dds advance birthday celebrations, pancakes for breakfast with Nutella, lunch of her choice(I think she'll choose picnic) takeaway for dinner. Got party plates! I don't know if I've balloons anywhere maybe I could get them in time for when she's home on Mon eve, actual birthday

Thanks happier

Bird might be a kite, Camden. We are in West Sussex so a bit further south? Will have another look at the book and see. We only saw three suicidal squirrels and a bunny rabbit on the way home this morning.

Afternoon everyone
Got up early at 7, been to Asda Brynmawr for Mum's C&C order , not as bad as last Friday thankfully only about 50 waiting. Managed to get everything on there except biscuits, they even had eggs and dishwasher tablets ! Spent £51.44 so a spenny day for me today
Did you see the final of Masterchef, l am so glad Thomas won he really was such a great cook . His food looked delicious

Happier he still has the full attic (I moved all his stuff up there) and the third bedroom. I'm very close to having got most of his stuff out of the bedroom, it will be great to at least partially have that space back. Then he will get all the furniture in the house apart from the kitchen table, my bed, a buffet and the furniture in ds's room once the financial order is cleared through court.

Carrot cake is lovely, I was unsure when I got it out of the oven but it's super-soft.

Making a curry shortly. I've washed every cushion cover in the house this afternoon. I'm running out of things to clean and sort

I love the idea of a sweet pea basket - pinch out the ends of the stems to encourage bushiness. Paired with a helichrysum and something to give a bit of height & bulk would look really smart.

Hi everyone :)

I spent loads today. This is what happens when I go to town for the first time in ages. Oops.

I think I did ok for the money though, considering rising prices.

£27 Boots - various toiletries, replacement razor heads, vitamins for DS

£18 Holland and Barratt - 8 bags of various seeds/nuts/dried fruit. Will make a mixed tub mainly for me and DD1

£44 B&M on lots of random food - tins, bready things, easy baking stuff, cereals (in seriously short supply at Tesco) and a set of three softer balls for Cagletini. Far too many treats as well 😳 will ration out over the next few movie nights, honest 😳

Glad I went though as I was really anxious about it but it was pretty much fine

Wolf absolutely for Bridgewater. It looks like an amazing project.

Evening all!
Wet day today, we went out for a walk this morning and the kids found lots of puddles to jump in. Caught up with some friends on Zoom which was nice. Bit bored now. I just started looking through the photos on my phone. Photos of the dcs with their grandparents or their friends, playing at the places we usually go to, opening Christmas presents or blowing out birthday candles. All these things happened in the last 4 months and yet seem like another lifetime. It made me feel quite sad. There are some nice aspects to having this time all together but I am starting to want our life back now. I'm sure everyone feels the same so forgive me being a bit self-indulgent. I think we are making the best of the situation here and I was ok with it until I started reminiscing. It's crazy how life can just be paused like this isn't it?!

Snuggly it’s not self-indulgent at all. It’s ok to to be sad and frustrated about this, just as it’s ok to enjoy parts of it too even though it’s a pandemic! There’s no right or wrong way to feel about this

Thanks Lane

Snuggly I don't think you are being self indulgent. It is OK to miss what is not possible at the moment. Everyone must have something, unless they are totally reinventing their life - and frankly if that was the case I would worry. Hold onto those happy times because we will get there again. We are planning a big run up / walk to Kinder trig when we can and a party - having that to look forward to is so important to get us all through this.

Today is my last day of holiday - so I have a day of washing, planting and tidying up the kitchen so my video meetings don't look like I am in a squalid tip. I can't be the only one who strategically tidies each morning.

I blur the background on teams calls so no one can see. But yes strategy tidying.

Snug not self indulgent and needed. It's ups and downs.

£86 on a hard drive yesterday as ours is failing £60 were gift cards though. It's got all of our photos on.

We don't have teams so no background blurring possible. Luckily because I have my laptop on a riser it means the washing on the radiator is missed out of the background.

Well said Lane

Ds was prowling round the house again last night so I didn't get to sleep until gone two (post row at midnight and sending him back to bed) even though I was knackered. It's going to be a long day again

We have a team garden share each day for those people who don't have space. With having cute lambs in the field behind our garden is one of the more requested one... so I have to clear a path from my kitchen table to the window. I am hoping that hay meadow growing is not going to be so exciting.

Or just refuse video as my immediate team have all done.

The garden share is a lovely idea although I'm quite pleased none of my colleagues will see my untidy garden full of kids' toys
I think I'm feeling a bit down now Easter is over. That was still something to look forward to with a roast and egg hunt etc even if it was just us lot at home. I'm finding it hard to look forward to anything now because we don't know what or when that might be. I need to try and plan some nice little treats I think. Possibly I just have an enhanced end of school hols vibe!
Off to figure out how to blur the background on Teams...

When you log onto a call snug press the elypsie (three dots) and a menu pops up. Should be a blur background option. It allegedly remembers your settings.

Wolf can you leave him to his night time house prowling. My family are a lot more nocturnal than me - I just leave them to it. Even if it just gives you some sleep, so you are better placed to deal with the daytime grumpiness. My health visitor gave me some really good advice when I had DD1 - she allowed me to walk away from her when I was struggling. I have carried that with me for the last 18 years. If my head is getting too crowded then I can walk away and do something else - it allows everyone to calm down and look at things more objectively.

Thanks life 👍

My children have turned night into day and it’s very annoying. This is the last day of the Easter Holidays here so tomorrow ds2 will need to start some form of schooling again. We have no sign in thing for his school so he won’t be up and at it early but I’m thinking even if he’s ready to start by about 1030 that’s doable. Ds1 is leaving this year so he is even less interested 🙈

Snuggly I think it’s only natural to feel like that, especially with young children. I went back to work last week after being unwell for weeks and, although it was really tiring, it was amazing to have some proper interaction with people again. I felt almost normal, although things in hospitals are far from normal right now, just to have a routine was enough. I felt low yesterday though (I think it was a rebound from being almost euphoric at work) everything seemed pointless and so uncertain. It was a lovely sunny day and we walked to the park which helped a bit as parts of it are beautiful (less empty cans of lager/cider now) and there are the cutest ducklings with their mother constantly having to try and keep them together, all six of them, and it cheered me up.

Lots of NSDs but I bought a new washing machine last week as our old one was on its last legs and I can’t risk not having my uniforms cleaned properly. It’s so quiet compared to our old one that sounded as though it was about to take off when it went into a spin cycle. Also bought ds2 a new iPad as an early birthday present as his broke just before lockdown and this is not the best time to be without one.

Unescorted I could watch lambs for hours jumping about it's just the cutest thing.