Mooloo's Joining up the dots in 2017

I have been with Mum all day. Took her food shopping in Aldi, and then we went to B&M, followed by a visit to the charity shop and then we had lunch, and did her banking on the way back.
I managed to get my self a food flask and some lunchbox boxes, all ready for me to start taking lunch with me instead of buying in the baguette shop.
I also got a knitted dress for myself and a wet suit style costume for dgd , both from the charity shop. I am cold and tired and would love a hot bath but we have two little girls here playing with dgd so I will have to wait.
Cooking Korean lamb chops from my simple cooking recipes. I hope I like it!
Cup of tea time and feet up for 30 minutes I hope.

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

For some reason I was thinking about this again earlier today...

And what I thought was that not only is this unlikely to be possible at the moment, but really, it's unlikely to be straightforward until DGD leaves school. And he needs to buy into that, doesn't he?

You don't have to come back to us on this: as I say it was just something which popped into my head. If adults have responsibility for children, we can't just 'park' them somewhere else during term-time just so that we can get a term-time holiday.

I would not park her again any time soon no matter what BF might want. I listened and then I just told him that it's not going to happen. I have also told him that if he doesn't go on holidays occasionally with dgd and myself she will think that he doesn't want her, which is exactly the opposite of the plan to be together. Dgd is non negotiable really. While I was sifting through my hundreds of emails I came accords a few summer holidays suggested with us all and sent him the info, and we also talked about his Daughter and DGD, and the fact that she wants a holiday too and we both know as a single Mum she's not likely to do it on her own, so I suggested that we looked at the possibility of all of us going somewhere and sharing the load, and that I know it would be cheaper in school time and they don't have to worry about that but I do so we will see.
I have found that the best thing to do is tell him something and then leave it for him to think about.
Eventually he tends to come back with what ever it is sometimes with the idea that it was his idea! I just let it go!
It is still a little strange with him coming here on different days now, and thinking about dinner etc as he comes from work. I have also noticed that I really am not very Mrs Domesticated and do tend to flop down in my chair as soon as dinner is done. He hasn't said anything about it it is just me personally feeling rather inadequate. I am not Superwoman and I want to be!!
I know that I keep saying that I am going to declutter and that I want to sort it out but we are at the end of January and I have not even started.
On another note My Mum has paid me for her holiday and given me half of the Wedding Dress costs as her contribution to the Wedding. So I will be able to clear the card the holiday was on, and put the dress money back into my savings account. I am very lucky that she is able to help me, and still have plenty to save etc and spend as she wishes.

Time for work. I have about 12 jobs to do today.

I couldn't get warm yesterday in the shop and it took me most of the evening under a blanket to at home. Although I sewed from 10-4, and only stopped for lunch for 15 minutes I struggled to sew 9 items., and £87 worth. I have put it down to the cold in my bones, slowing me down!, luckily ( or unlucky depending on how I look at it), there were only a few new jobs in, and no real money came in. Staff is not always getting the money upfront as I had hoped, I have noticed that unless the changes come from her they really don't get implemented long! She slips back into the old ways. I am putting it down to her age rather than bl00dy mindedness, but sometimes it does infuriate me. Little things like where she hangs up the finished jobs, and the order of them. She will keep moving them out of number sequence into. Her idea of order, like with like, but then when Saturday staff or I serve customers we are looking by invoice number and then can't find them. Mind you it doesn't help when a customer came to Collect her "burgundy " coat, which was actually deep purple, so deep that we originally thought it was black!. As the same week I had replaced a zip in a burgandy coat and it had been collected, it set in panic! Going by the invoice number, and it being in order would have helped ( at least to find the position of the garment)!
I have again asked for work to be hung in number order!
I ask a few things that I am noticing are not going quite to plan at the moment. I am also aware that now her daughter is setting up a little business she is dealing with orders, phone calls and even visitors about it while at my shop. I am going to have to tread carefully and be tactful but I don't want her to be concentrating on her daughters Business and letting mine slip. I am all for helping etc, infact I went through the lease for them, helped with a template for a business plan and a cash flow forecast, but I did that in my own time in the weekend.
Anyway moaning over. I am going to try to get moving better today, although my priorities are setting up the workshops for tomorrow and preparing my presentation for them. The jobs in are all only Tues or Thursday, and so not priority today.
On the home front I made a thick potato and carrot soup for last night and I am going to take it with me in my new soup mug today.
I changed the bed and washed the bedding so while I am out inwill turn the bathroom back into a Chinese laundry!
Dgd is having another Sleepover tonight, ( sure we never had such things when I was young), and so BF and I may go out for a drink this evening, although I am up at 6 to drive DS and BF is going to run a 5k in some park or other while I teach.
the plan is for dgd and I to follow through to Oxford again in the evening and stay till Monday morning.
That is the plan anyway!