Old Style Diary Archive - JAN 06

FunkyFairy

Well I have just had to go and pick up DS from Pre-school.

I got there and he was very pale in the face and his lips were blue. I got him home and he would not stop shivering. I have given him calpol, wrapped him up in a blanket with a hot water bottle and made him a warm drink.

He seems to be a bit better now DH told me to ring the DR if he is still pale and shivering by 12pm.

wishingonastar_3

FunkyFairy wrote:

Well I have just had to go and pick up DS from Pre-school.

I got there and he was very pale in the face and his lips were blue. I got him home and he would not stop shivering. I have given him calpol, wrapped him up in a blanket with a hot water bottle and made him a warm drink.

He seems to be a bit better now DH told me to ring the DR if he is still pale and shivering by 12pm.

do ring the doctors even if it just turns out to be a bad cold, you are better off knowing than worrying. best of luck and a big big hug to you both.

wishingonastar_3

Queenie wrote:

wishingonastar - great post! You'll probably inspire others to take a long deep look into their cupboards too ... your finds will save you a small fortune over the next few months :T

they should save me a lot!!!!! plus there is the added bonus to by the time we get through it all i'll have more room.

FunkyFairy

yes i will i think for my own piece of mind as 4 people we know have had colds turn into numonia (sp?) in the last few months.

nicki_2

Morning all :hello:

Had a great weekend I guess. I tried to do a menu plan and resulting shopping list on Friday/Saturday morning but it just wasn't adding up soooo... I took this weeks menu and did a shop for that. I'm still going to stick the the menu for the rest of the month but I'm going to work on the shopping list later so OH can take me on Saturday for it all.

Spent Saturday evening at my nans and got a telling off for not saying thank you last week for my birthday money :mad: I did say thank you at the time and that I was going to go and buy a couple of DVDs with it that I wanted :mad: I'm putting it down to her age but she is starting to get on my nerves now and she's not done that before. :mad:

Yesterday OH decided he was going to watch "The Grudge" and "The Ring" while doing the ironing. Nothing unusual there (he usually does that of a weekend anyway) but this time he kept going until all the ironing was done :eek: even though there was loads of it! Mind you there is another pile of ironing forming ATM as washing I did yesterday dries. Oh well, maybe one day I will have a couple of days ironing free. :rotfl:

Yesterday I spent the day in the kitchen, not baking for a change BUT I've prepared all the cheese, biscuits and cake for the week for packed lunches, sliced up the homemade loaf ready to use (OH said he loves my homemade bread but wished it came presliced as he's hopeless at slicing it :rolleyes: ) made "Coq au Vin" ala Colemans with a hint of turkey casserole (using up the left over sauce from the other night) with mashed potatoes (hm), carrots (fresh) and broccoli (Smartprice frozen, delicious!) followed by stewed fruit (stuff that was on the turn or badly bruised from the fruit bowl ). I also managed to do ALL the washing up (4 loads it took ) and 2 loads of washing. We actually sat down to Sunday dinner at 5pm which is really early for us. DD was even bathed and in bed by 7pm, including spending time laying on my bed looking up words in her new Collins dictionary which she loves!

Kiwichick - sorry to hear about your OH's accident. I hope everything is okay!

Potty trainers - I cracked it with DD easily for some reason. She just started staying dry during the night herself and the weekend we were moving house she just suddenly decided she was a big girl and started using the toilet and not the potty. I kept the potty for 12 month incase she needed it while OH was in the bath or something but she told me just before Christmas that it could go as she was a big girl now and only babies use potties so I sent it into school for their Christmas fair I know moving house is not an option ( :rotfl: ) but I just wanted you to know that one day it will just click and they'll never want to use nappies again

Today I've got one clothes maiden of washing infront of the fire in the livingroom (decided it was pointless having the heaters on upstairs when I'm down stairs all day), a load in the washing machine has just finished and I have at least one lot of dishes to wash (famous last words from OH last night was "I'll wash up in a minute when there's some more hot water", that was at 7pm :mad::rolleyes: ). I've just transfered £107 to my savings account and it felt so good to know that I'm putting money away for a big bill come November (Car insurance, maximum £800), the car tax (going to do 6 month when due for renewal and then 12 months after that until repairs start to be required then we'll knock it back down to 6 again), plus money away for the electric bill (everytime I try to log into house.co.uk to switch to DD the website goes funny :mad: ) and according to Money I'll be £230 in credit when I next get paid I know I have over budgeted but it surely can't be by that much! Mind you I do have £247.10 in benefits each month (until April) which is going on debt repayment but £150 of it is already set to go out! Oh well, maybe DD will be getting her bed sooner than she thought

I really need to set to with a shopping list for the rest of the month today so I can adjust it as necessary. Thank goodness for online shopping at Asda (I just use it to price the stuff and then go to the actual shop myself). Just remembered that I have to take DD her pocket money tonight when I pick her up from school. There is a book fair and she wants to go :rolleyes:

Right, off to sort out the washing and do some dishes. :wave:

tootles_2

Feeling virtuous this morning, have made a double lot of liver sausage and onion casserole, one for supper, one for the freezer and Sapg bol for tomorrow night is in the slow cooker, I like to leave the sauce overnight in the fridge, also have a double portion of that to freeze.......washing done but it will have to be dried inside, its a horrible murky damp day outside, thin stuff I will put on the airer, the thicker stuff will have to go in the TD tonight......

Have a visit to the Family Records Office planned for this afternoon.........to verify some details and try and sort our some death records.......all in the name of building my family tree.

Big shop day this week, meal plans done and shopping list on the frdige door, should come in under £50..............January was a good month food wise did not slip off the wagon at all............

moggins

nicki I know just how you feel, Before I went to bed last night I asked DH if he would pull DS's school tie out of the wash I had just put on and lie it on the radiator. He had to stay up till 3am because he's working tonight.

I came down this morning and DS's school tie was still in the machine

Bargain_Rzl

Potty trainers: obviously no experience of this yet myself, but I do remember my mum's disastrous attempt to get my little sis (who's now 24!) dry at night as soon as she hit her third birthday. After a week she gave up. Then three months later we went on holiday, and mum put her in disposables for practicality. Sis, who was normally in terries, liked her disposable nappies so much that she decided she wanted to keep them nice and dry! She was dry at night from then on, and never wet the bed much. Funny how I remember that, as I must only have been 6 myself.

Looks like I've exhausted the nice chunk of leftover cash I had because of underspending last year. I've spent £65 this weekend AS WELL AS my haircut :eek: :eek: (Debenhams bargains £20, meal out £27, M&S sarnie £2, bottle of champagne as housewarming gift for BF £16 (decent stuff on special offer at Oddbins, and yeh I did get to drink half of it )). There is still £60 left but I'll set £20 aside for BF's birthday pressie (in a little over a month), £10 for each of two cinema trips plus snacks (want to see Brokeback Mountain and A C0ck and Bull Story - also still haven't seen Narnia but that's already in the budget) and £20 cos I'm out a lot this week and will need to subsidise myself for a few non-HM snacks. So I'm left with £0 :rolleyes: I am supposedly getting a bonus at the end of this month but am not expecting much - it's a new scheme and nobody knows how it works! I hope it will be a couple of hundred anyway, which I'll split it down the middle (after tax) and have half for treats and half for savings. Since joining MSE I am really obsessed with building up my savings :rolleyes:

However I now don't need a new jar/tube of facial exfoliant - I usually use the Cyclax one, 99p from Savers, but yesterday I finally found a Boots store that still has some sub-£5 Time Delay products, and I had a £5 voucher so got it for nothing

Pooky

I've just had the longest - hottest - bubbliest bath going - and took a new book in too!!! Just forgot to do all the other things on the list first....ooops

Never mind - they'll still be there tomorrow - going to make myself a huge fat sarnie, a big mug of tea and sit down with a dvd until school run time.....simple things please me.

wishingonastar_3

FunkyFairy wrote:

yes i will i think for my own piece of mind as 4 people we know have had colds turn into numonia (sp?) in the last few months.

let us know how you get on, keeping fingers crossed for you its just a cold.