Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 2

DdraigGoch

Hello to everyone - hugs and congrats as appropriate please - I can't catch up AND get anything done!!

aeb, welcome and sympathetic hugs. You're going through an awful time and fingers crossed that it's a protective midwife. You have everyone's best wishes and support.

Brighton_belle

you must watch this - it's so lovely, and on topic too...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8058221.stm

liloandstitch

Brilliant Brighton Belle, such cute ducklings! They were so lucky he was around.

Right, Im going to use up the steak and kidney pie for tea, with lots of veg.- should be nice. And another day of no takeaways - groovy

Lilo

mama67

cw18 wrote: »

Wow! You certainly have your hands full then !! I'm surprised you find any time for yourself.......

They're definitely closer in age to my GDs than my children - it always amazes me that I have friends the same age (or a couple of years younger than me) who have children the same age as my grand-children

This includes my brother - he's 2.5yrs younger than me, but his elder son is 13 months younger than my elder GD, and his younger son is 13 months younger than my elder GD !! When you see the four of them together at family events it's easy to forget there's a generation gap between them :rolleyes2

We have this at our family gatherings also, my 2 boys are 14 & 10 but most of their cousins on DH side have children who are similar age or even older, their eldest second cousin is 23 and has 2 children of her own; so Dh (who is 45) has a nephew who is 44, his daughter (great niece) is 23 then her children (gr great niece & nephew) are 3 & 1.

There is definitely a generation gap. Dh's eldest niece is actually 18 months older than him.

slowlyfading

BB, that video was so cute! thanks for posting the link xx

bails

Aeb, I'm so sorry to hear about the scan and hope you will use the support on here to help however we can. Thank you to everyone for being so lovely and making this thread such a wonderful place to be.
BB, I am in love with Duck Man
Having a lovely time here with my best friend and just about kitted out for my hol. My dress still fits perfectly for the wedding on Saturday so happy about that.

Chat soon, hugs to aeb x

SiannieLaz

Afternoon All,
I can finally post again after months in limbo!!! Have been keeping up with you all as much as possible, but moving house, studying and starting a new job has meant that I haven't been logging on as much as I should! I've also fallen well and truly off the £4k per year wagon, so will be starting again 1st June and updating my sig to reflect this. Things have been difficult, a £14k drop in wages has been hard to deal with, but i adore my new job so it's something I have to get used to.
My allotment is about 1/2 planted now, so shouldn't be too long until we are reaping the benefits (everything crossed!) and i've just got to tighten my belt again.
Anyhoo, nice to see you all again, and thanks for the continued inspiration!
xx

taka

Aeb - ((((hugs)))) I'm sorry to hear about your scan and I hope your mum coming to stay will help to support you. Please take care and please post here if it will help at all. ((((hugs again))))

savingfortravel

aeb-Thinking of you...glad your mum is with you.

Nyk/lilo-Well I gave my class the change to collect cones and 2 bags were under my desk by lunchtime (bless them). Are all cones suitable, these are relatively small?

Will be packing bits tonight. Then tomorrow will be lots of cleaning...17 days to go.

sft

aeb_2

Thank you for all the possitive thoughts and comments. I re-read my post and it is a bit muddled to say the least. I didn't even manage to say what the matter was. The scan showed that I am expecting triplets:D:eek::D:eek: and it's taking a bit of time to get used to the idea along with worrying that all is OK. That is why I was bigger for dates than expected. I don't know much more until I go back. I wont be having any diagnostic tests as what could I do if 2 were ok and 1 is not? Anywy, not sure I would want to do anything anyway. I was a special needs teacher in another life so I know what i'd be in for, well from a teacher point of view, I realise parents are there 24/7. What will be will be

frugal things
my mum has sorted some unpaked boxes, five bags/boxes for her to take to charity shop
rhubarb from garden
lettuce from garden (tub)

house things
nothing

sorry I have not read other posts today (well I did but none sank in) and I am needed in the real world