Three choices in life; Give up, Give in or Give all you've got!!

I asked the boys what they wanted to do this weekend. DS2 wanted soft play and DS1 wanted swimming. We did soft play today and we will be going swimming in the morning! Swimming only costs £2 so I was pleased to be able to say yes to both :T.

Will have to keep an eye on funds overall though. I've bought a lot for Christmas already and haven't even touched my savings yet, but I've left us quite tight. Ideally I'll be able to avoid using the Christmas savings full stop and then it can be DS2's birthday party fund instead, but that might be a little ambitious! I'm only managing small debt overpayments at the moment too but I can't do everything!

DH has been VERY short tempered today, both with the family and with random strangers. He was glaring at a little old lady in the queue in front of us as he thought she was looking at him funny and then he was off with the cashier as she was talking to a colleague instead of concentrating on us. He may have had a point each time, but in my opinion his reactions were totally OTT. He jabbed DS1 in the ribs for not listening to him and then got a real shock at how roughly he'd done it when DS1 burst into tears . Not good at all.

£25 for an advent calendar :eek:. Was it Lego or yankee candle or something? My 2 have got chocolates ones at the ready, £1 each and I was only so organised in getting those the other week because I had a £5 off £40 spend voucher for Mr T's, and adding up my shopping on the way round told me I'd reached £38.24 and I needed to spend the extra £2 :rotfl:.

We went swimming this morning which was good fun, and then went to see MiL as she wanted help with 'something'. Turns out the something was booking a cottage for us in Yorkshire during the boys' Easter Holidays :j. I'm so chuffed! She was rather horrified to hear that I had been referred for Counselling and that I was giving up Beavers because I was struggling with everything, and she wanted to treat me :T. The cottage has enough room for MiL to come too but she said she might stay one night during the week and otherwise it's our holiday just the four of us.


And then to pull me back down to Earth, DH has been having waves of fear this afternoon/evening . Fingers crossed we avoid a full seizure Xx

Thank you MiT, Beanie, SA and Sparky.

Lol Lilt, cage fighting sounds fun :rotfl:. I think everyone just assumes I'm coping because I always do. MiL is great, truly, but DH is always her number one concern and I don't know if she even thought about the impact on me. She said thank you yesterday though, and that she didn't know what she'd do without me.

DS1's calendar is The Simpsons and DS2 has Spiderman. The chocolate is probably naff but they are thrilled with the picture anyway! They have also been bought Dairy Milk ones by Gran so at least they get good chocolate too! Your sonic jumper sounds awesome .

Well we avoided full seizure last night but I still had a rotten night. DH was snoring like a warthog, I've never heard anything like it! He was also quite jerky so I was on constant alert. On top of that DS1 was sick through the night and is off school today. Thankfully he managed to be ill in the toilet this time so less cleaning up in the early hours. Last time he was sick all over the floor, in the bath and in the sink! Not nice!