I was thinking about becoming a childminder and looked into it last night and it seems a lot of 'paperwork' was only going to do it to help brother and gf out as she needs to go back to work and not sure about her ds going to nursery full time especially as he goes to his dads every other weekend.
She is going to look at nurserys this morning and has interview for job this afternoon, I have suggested asking at the interview if she could do full time hours over a 4 day week (I know this is possible as friend works at same place) have mondays off, ds comes to me on a tuesday (they'd pay me minimal amount) and he'd go to nursery wed,thurs and fri it'll be fantastic if it works as she'll be so much happier so fingers crossed.
DH Keeping everything crossed for your dh (was it you asking about my hours if so I work monday and friday and very occasionally odd sat morning)
Mrsgp glad u like your buggy (slippery slope you'll get addicted to new pushchairs )
lth - all going well with no aspartine diet although we had a 10min tantrum because i put a denim dress on her and she wanted a pink tshirt on this morning
Shimmer - I am addited to doing shopping on a budget I do a huge food shop once a month and then get fresh things weekly but I buy quite alot of frozen veg and stock up chicken/mince when its one bogof, never buy whole chicken as we waste it, I can make 5 chicken breasts do 2 days meals for all of us (roast one night uses 2.5 breasts 1 for me and dh and half for ellie and take a smll piece of each to mix for hattie then chop up/shred other 2.5 breasts dh will use some for sandwiches then mx rest with curry/pasta ssauce and bulk it up with rice/pasta/veg