The Lockdown Saving and Spending Continues! May Frugaleers continued

[LaneBoy]

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Yep!!

I’m sat downstairs trying to have some quiet time. I have wine and a camomile tea. Trying to watch money heist. Ds is smashing things against his cot. And Dd is crying. I’ve been upstairs 11 times now since I first sat down. At 730. Dh is on bed. I’m leaving him to it. If I didn’t think I was technically over the limit it take the car and go for a drive to clear my head. But. I probably am. Two large glasses of wine. So I’m staying put and hoping that things quieten down.

On the plus side, I bought a parasol for the garden today.

It's 8.30 and I'm ready for bed. Totally dead on my feet. Changed bed. Ironed about three weeks worth of stuff. Worked. Did interview prep part 1 for 3/4 of competencies. Vacuumed. Watered garden. Sorted three bags or stuff from attic to take for stbexh.

Ds finally went to sleep at 945. Man he’s noisy.

I have relocated to the garden... the firepit is lit and they are all inside, It is peaceful.

I think that’s good question life Nobody’s perfect and I shudder to think what dh might say about me especially recently as I’ve felt totally knackered and he is doing more in the house than I am. I’m glad your dh is more good than bad em. Having young dc is a big stress on a relationship and your’s are so close in age it’s bound to be tough.

I had a lovely afternoon in my garden with my brother’s family even though he’s a bit more paranoid than I am it was so nice to have some company

RANT ALERT

It is 4am. I am awake. I have been awake since 2.22am. Dd woke up because she’s lost her dummy.

Dh’sback has apparently locked up again. And he’s making a lot of noise. I’ve suggested calling someone (although not sure who - out of hours Gp maybe...) but he won’t.

Hit post too soon.

Again I’m now irrationally/rationally annoyed. Once again I was promised a lie in. I was promised some time out. And once again that’s been snatched away from me.

Dsis and her bf are coming for a bbq today (late afternoon evening). I have to prep for that - do a shop etc. Can’t do that now. Because can’t leave the kids. Cannot risk dh’S back locking up and him not being able to do anything while I queue at the shop indefinetly. Ffs. So I’m going to have to either ask dsis to do a shop for me again. Or wait until she gets here and fanny around instead of relaxing. Or cancel.

Either way. All on me. Again. I know he’s in pain. I know he can’t help it. I know deep down he’s not doing this on purpose. But because of my exhausted ness and the time of morning I’m starting to believe he’s making it up. And that makes me feel awful.

All I want is sleep rest relaxation. But seemingly that’s not possible. I’m so so tired. Exhausted. Sick of it being week four without a proper break. Sick of being promised a break and then having it snatched away from me for whatever reason. Just feeling really angry sad etc. Sleep will make me feel better. But I have an hour probably until the dc wake up and the chaos starts again.

Oh dear em. Hope you managed to turn back over and go back to sleep. And you work out a plan for today that's not in the middle of the night anger.
It's sounds worse for you with the promise of something then taken away. Which is shit. X

£120 Sainsbury's last night and £11 co-op in stuff the allegedly didn't have.

Going for a walk today round a reservoir.

Oh and I had a clickcident with my shopping so now have 3.4kg of leeks. Ffs

Mmm leeks

Em that sounds like a horrendous night. I hope you managed to get another couple of hours sleep and absolutely worse because you are already knackered and have been hanging on to the promise of a break

Morning everyone 😀
Glad MN seems to be working fine now 🤗
Beautiful day again here , off to Mum's LTR just watching the news and seeing the toll this lockdown is having on ppl who are self isolating . I am just glad mum and Bob are safe and have each other. I wish others had done the same if they were able to. They would both be lost without each other. I would have moved in with Mum or she would have moved in with us but we wouldn't have been able to see Bob then 🤗
Went to Iceland yesterday, they were wonderful in there, squashed me in for a home delivery Bless them so l just did the shopping they help to pack and deliver it LTR. Bought a shed load of ice cream and lollies 😄😋
Spent 43 also bought some of their lovely thick fresh bread in a brown wrapper. I have never shipped much in Iceland before but they have been marvelous to us , delivery when we couldn't get anything from anyway else. Better shift hope everyone is ok. I see take that are doing a lockdown gig l love them and especially Robbie 👏🤗😀
Hope everyone has a gorgeous day 🌞

Oh life I love leeks!!!! Yummy. Sautéed in butter with black pepper. Dm makes a delicious leek quiche.

I had about another hours sleep. Dh had a bath and sat downstairs. He’s debating seeing if he can get an apt with dr. But I need to drive him there. So I’ll need to get Dm involved as don’t want to get the kids in the car.

Dsis is coming for a bbq later and I need to do a shop as dh can’t.

I’ve had a meltdown at dh. I know it’s not his fault but have asked him not to promise me a break then effectively strip is away from me. He’s not doing this on purpose I know that. But it’s so hard.

Dh has called out of hours. Someone will call him back within 2 hours and we can go from there.

Dm is coming up so I can have a shower without an audience of the two kids!

So pleased he has called OOH Em he probably needs some decent painkillers to help him get moving. I hope they can help him.

That's a lit of leeks. It's not really soup weather but I think you are supposed to eat vichysoise (sp?) cold!

That's good em.
I've blanched 2/3 of them to freeze later

Glad your DM can help em
Do you think she might take them for a morning this week to give you a break? Nursery start is nearly here for you, you can do this!

Just sorting the DDs summer dresses for school. One set is plus size (ordered in error) so needs to go back, they looked ridiculous on skinny DD2!

M&S have 90 day returns on clothes too, thankfully as bought them in April.

I have just found all of ds's clean sports kit, not worn since March, that he was supposed to have folded and put in the bottom of his wardrobe, shoved in with his dirty laundry in the laundry basket. I am not impressed

Oh em, that sounds so so hard, hope you had a nice peaceful shower!

Oooh leeks, yummy!

Today, me and dd2 will be meeting my friend and her two dcs. We will be going to a local green space, where the kids can get a really good run about. There is also a lake with swans and ducks, if we're very lucky we may see some different wildlife too.

Yesterday was a NSD, don't think today will be, will probably buy dd an ice lolly at some point.

Oh em sorry to hear about your broken nights sleep, the younger years with dc definitely test a marriage.

Life leek overload

Loving the leek overload life. We've just been shopping & forgot to get leeks!
Wolf Clean clothes regularly finds it's way into ds' laundry basket. When he gets the clean stuff in his room, he doesn't keep it folded and then a quick way of tidying is just to put things in the basket!!

Same in this house. It’s infuriating. I don’t know why we have so much dirty washing when no one is going anywhere. My dc wear something for about an hour and then if they need to change it just goes straight in the washing basket 😬

Life I’ve had a few mistakes with the online shopping like the time I ordered six coleslaw instead of just one... I was sure Tesco had made a mistake but no the mistake was mine.

Yesterday was spendy as had takeaway pizza and bought snacks and drinks but hoping for a nsd today.

Ok. So feeling a bit more positive. Dm and Dd came up. I’ve done a food shop (dsis for bbq later) £158 whoops (but two bottles of gin 8 craft beers and a case of Sol). Dm has helped tidy up and has changed our bedding.

Dd has put up paddling pool for ds and Dd.

Dh is currently at OOH. I’m in the car at the carpark overlooking the marina. Radio on. Drinking water.

I’ve also worked out that maybe my sleep pattern isn’t helped by me being dehydrated. So more water less alcoholignore the pink gin I just bought. I’m also going to try and have less caffeine.

I also bought some liquid iron stuff. That’s helped me massively in the past.

Dm says I should get signed off work next week. So I can take proper care of everyone. But - it’s me that needs taking care of. So unless I have time to do that...

Dh and I have talked again. And have decided maybe we’ve committed ourselves to doing too much. So no more commitments until we’ve finished the ones we have.

He’s incredibly worried about me. To the point he feels he needs to do things to help (which ordinarily would be ace but not with his back the way it is!)

His back goes from spasming to being ok. But when it goes it goes.

My best online shopping mishap was when I saw a pot of really posh luxury ice cream for about a quid and ordered it thinking I'd found a real bargain. It was one of those tiny tubs like you get at the cinema when it came .

I might start a new thread about this but can anyone recommend a good salad recipe book. We all like an interesting salad especially in this nice weather but I make the same 3 on rotation. Would like to mix it up a bit!