Just starting my MFW journey

cha97michelle

It's all heading the right way. Glad the kids enjoyed the holidays.

Aren't proms so expensive nowadays, particularly the girls. All the kids at our school went to town with gorgeous dresses, fake tans, fake nails, posh hair dos, limos. I'm glad my two are boys.

I suppose it is a once in a lifetime thing though and the memories will last forever.

chunky79

cha97michelle wrote: »

It's all heading the right way. Glad the kids enjoyed the holidays.

Aren't proms so expensive nowadays, particularly the girls. All the kids at our school went to town with gorgeous dresses, fake tans, fake nails, posh hair dos, limos. I'm glad my two are boys.

I suppose it is a once in a lifetime thing though and the memories will last forever.

It is supposed to be a once in a lifetime but she is only 11 and will be doing it again in 5 years!:eek: Thank god i had no more girls!! With the dress shoes, hair and Limo i have spent £150! She will look gorgeous though so worth every penny!

How are you and your lot doing? Have you managed any more overpayments since May?

As for the holiday we will definately go there again the kids never got bored always plenty to do and we had perfect weather but thats why i booked it, I saw the forecast and said lets go :rotfl:

Just been looking at school uniforms, its gonna cost a bomb as i have 4 to buy for now. Sean starts nursery in January so i need to get his now or it will be like rocking horse sh** in the months after September. The colour as also been changed from angry red (thats what the school said) to calm bottle green (where is the Puke smiley!)

StuartGMC

chunky79 wrote: »

It is supposed to be a once in a lifetime but she is only 11 and will be doing it again in 5 years!:eek: Thank god i had no more girls!! With the dress shoes, hair and Limo i have spent £150! She will look gorgeous though so worth every penny!

Our DD is also 11 and having her prom - damn glad she hasn't seen your post :eek::eek::eek:

She's got a new dress, shoes, ear-rings etc and had her hair cut (starting to look just like a teenager!) which is enough for me. Limousines never even occurred to me, but, she still says she feels like a princess in the Jaguar S-type so that's nice - probably the Connolly cream leather that does it!

cha97michelle

chunky79 wrote: »

It is supposed to be a once in a lifetime but she is only 11 and will be doing it again in 5 years!:eek: Thank god i had no more girls!! With the dress shoes, hair and Limo i have spent £150! She will look gorgeous though so worth every penny!

How are you and your lot doing? Have you managed any more overpayments since May?

As for the holiday we will definately go there again the kids never got bored always plenty to do and we had perfect weather but thats why i booked it, I saw the forecast and said lets go :rotfl:

Just been looking at school uniforms, its gonna cost a bomb as i have 4 to buy for now. Sean starts nursery in January so i need to get his now or it will be like rocking horse sh** in the months after September. The colour as also been changed from angry red (thats what the school said) to calm bottle green (where is the Puke smiley!)

Ahh bless. I bet she'll look gorgeous and you will think it worth it.

My lot are doing ok. Charlie is potty training, and i've been signed off work since the beginning of june as i really wasn't coping well. I managed to overpay £326 in June, and about £187 so far this month. Don't know if i will keep it up though as it is looking likely i won't be staying in work. We've worked out it only makes us about £300 a month better off, which in reality is probably less than that when you take into account daft stuff like the kids having a few extra sets of clothes to save doing as much washing through the week and posher glasses to wear at work. Doesn't seem worth me getting so stressed out i can't even talk about being at work for the sake of what amounts to £75 a week or £25 a day. :eek:

We're looking at paying DH's poor paying ISA into the mortgage which will drastically reduce it and mean that if the worst were to happen mortgage payments could be about £200 a month. We'll look into me doing other stuff in the meantime and then see how we go i think.

Can't believe you will have 4 at school. I honestly don't know how my parents did it with 4 of us. I started uni as my brother went to school for the first time, and it almost sent them broke. Makes me even more motivated to pay stuff off now while i can.

chunky79

StuartGMC wrote: »

Our DD is also 11 and having her prom - damn glad she hasn't seen your post :eek::eek::eek:

She's got a new dress, shoes, ear-rings etc and had her hair cut (starting to look just like a teenager!) which is enough for me. Limousines never even occurred to me, but, she still says she feels like a princess in the Jaguar S-type so that's nice - probably the Connolly cream leather that does it!

Stuart..The limo was far from my idea i can assure you...they are sharing.Ii am shcoked apparently there have been 5 limos booked.

Michelle If its better for you to stay at home for now then thats a good idea. I am fortunate to have a very good family who had my children for me whilst i worked. Your skills will be with you forever so you will be able to go back into teaching once the little ones are older. Just enjoy being at home with you babies i spent the ealry years of my 2 olders ones lives working fulltime i can't turn the clock back but if i could i most certainly would. Its only being at home in the day with the 2 younger ones that i realised exactly what i did miss!
I become a cleaner after spending years at college and becoming a PA.
Life was just too stressful coming home with files of work and planning my next day ahead it meant i had no family life. Although i did have a boss that would phone me at home and aske me where his glasses were??? Now i go to work just before OH gets in (well thats when he is working:rotfl:) Its not perfect but it means i can be at home with the small gremlin, once he starts nursery i am going to re train as something although i am not sure just what yet as my brain as gone to mush:rolleyes:. I am seriously thinking of being a teaching assistant just because of the hours and i have dabbled at it before and enjoyed it. If not that then it will be Accountancy! Not sure if i can do that job with 4 kids though!

As for the ISA idea i would do it too that will take alot of the pressure off if you are not working .

I can also honestly say 4 is no harder than 2 apart from the washing and space in the house. I used to think it was hard but realised for me i was making my life harder by trying to be perfect, now i go with the flow and what doesn't get done well it was still there the day after and the world did not end. I spent years only having 5 hours sleep to fit everything in and having no fun. I used to get up at 5 am to do the ironing :eek: now its gets done when i have the time it did really bother me having to change as i am a perfectionist at heart but i would make everyone elses life a misery trying to keep up!

Take care x

cha97michelle

Good advice. I am just taking a day at a time, and enjoying what i can. I'd love to be a perfectionist but unfortunately my darling boys stop that. Ironed clothes get pulled out and screwed up, windows i cleaned i catch DS1 spitting on his hand then rubbing the window and telling me that he is cleaning for me today. Oh to be 2. And apparently, when he came out of nursery, i said to him "You're full of beans aren't you," and he replied "yes mummy, and mash and fishfingers." :rotfl:All of these things you do end up missing if life is as hectic as it has been recently.

I'm back at occupational health next month anyway, so that is thankfully another 2 pay days before i have to worry, and a bit of time to sort the finances out a bit.