Lunar has a house and lots of shiny new debt to get rid of!

penguin83

Hi Lunar, glad DS enjoyed his christmas and that sig is looking fab.

Hope 2010 brings you everything you wish for xx

lunar

Thank you all for the continued support, things feel like they are returning to normal at home now. DS is keeping me busy, I can't believe how fast he is growing up.

we have managed 15 no spend days so far this month, mostly because of the snow to be honest.

I decided I need a hobby and while I was in tesco the other day I picked up grow your own magazine. At first I thoughtit would be a very MSE hobby but after a trip to wilkinson it looks like it could cost a fair bit in the first year! I did grow lots of christmas cropping potatoes last year with great results, they taste loads better than shop bought ones and I still have lots left.

savingholmes

hi lunar - good luck with your new hobby - grow your own is the latest thing! Glad DS is keeping you busy. My DD has just started doing gymnastics after school - just a short course - apparently she is good at cartwheels already - I am not sure I ever mastered them - so am so proud of her LOL!

lunar

I remember cartwheels, and standing on my head. Those days are definatly behind me now. I take DS to a tumble tots type thing which he loves, it moves onto gymnastics when they are a bit older i think. She will be doing handstands next, i never did manage them!

savingholmes

lunar wrote: »

I remember cartwheels, and standing on my head. Those days are definatly behind me now. I take DS to a tumble tots type thing which he loves, it moves onto gymnastics when they are a bit older i think. She will be doing handstands next, i never did manage them!

She was the first out of her and DS to ever manage to win anything at sports day - me and her nan nearly fell off our chairs. I was always one of the last so had no expectations of her and barely watched the race! It makes me doublely pleased she is interested.

I think that schools are much better with pe than they were in our day. My DS fell and hurt himself at the weekend and I thought he would try and get out of PE but no - he was doing trampoling on a professional sized trampoline so was perfectly happy to go for it.

I tell myself regularly that my kids are not the same as me - they are their own people - but they still manage to surprise me sometimes - particularly when they are good at or interested in something I am not.

Enjoy watching your DS at tumbletots - great exercise and fun I would have thought!

penguin83

Hi Lunar, glad to hear you are doing well and well done on all those no spend days!

Let me know how the growing goes, I am desperate to have a go at it but last years efforts at growing seeds saw me lovingly tend to a flower that later turned out to be a dandelion! I clearly dont have naturally green fingers! xx

lunar

Debt payments have gone out today so £1025 to take off the total. Hopefuly we will be able to make another OP in the middle of feb. The minimum payments only total £75 per month as all the debt is still in the introductory offer period. Off to update the sig.....

savingholmes

that is one big payment - well done you!

penguin83

Brilliant overpayment Lunar, sig is looking good! xx

lunar

We have been throwing everything at the debts recently, I have been cooking everything in batches from scratch, walking instead of the bus and not spending anything we dont have to. OH's parents will be coming over for 2 months at the end of march. It will mean OH wont be doing overtime and we will be taking lots of expensive trips, meals out etc.

We have £3000 in savings to cover their time here but £1000 of that will be for the flights. We will be going to london for 4 nights, we need to decide what else to do while they are here.