A new start for Mooloo

gizmo111

This is why I am urging her to get a solicitor in Family Law, and gave them a number my solicitor recommended.

Make sure it is one that deals in public law not just family - there is a big difference in expertise.

Savvy_sewing

Well its another wet morning. I am up in my bedroom, leaving twin1 with DGD to have thier breakfast. have my tea, my laptop and GMTV. So I am OK. Just waiting for my tabletes to kick in.
Hope to be meeting up with Molly later. (twice in one week!). Grabbing oportunity while I can.
Starting to use the laptop to put up on my things to do. Not quite mastered the programmes that I have yet, but I hope that I will get into the swing of it sooner rather then later.
My memory is just not so good. All the medication gets me "fluffy" in the memory department, and I have always got so much on, that I will miss things if I am not careful.
The filing is coming on a lot better then it was. I have cleared the window seat beside the front door, and have my files and in/out tray there. Its getting used when the post arrives now. (Well mostly). Still really need to get a decent shredder. (Then I could also use the results into my Paper Brick gadget ready for later in the year. Have been very lapse in making them, and the vines in the bottom of the greenhouse had started to wrap around the gadget!).

daska

Mooloo wrote: »

daska, the anchor site says its exclusively for those over 50, so I will have to hang on for 13months!.
But I will check out again, asking for Adult Services to help me.
Its been falling on deaf ears.
I think the problem I have is coordinating all the different things that I need to do.
I shall have to get a better grip on what is about the things I need to the things i have been fightling for the girls to do.
I now have a large note book, for my todo lists. And write the things I think of down in it as I go through the day, and then at the end of the day, I am starting to prioritise it for "today" "tomorrow" "next week" and "the week after"! so if I dont get it done its moved onto the next day, or where I feel the priority is, but I now need to think of the things that I am dealing with as a small business, and the paperwork times! I cannot think of another way of doing things. Its difficult to work out what the requests are for, or who they are for. I am not very organised.
I think there will be a motto on my grave saying "I must get organised, but I never did"!!

According to their website I'll have to wait another 8 years for them to come back to do the various bits of work they've already done for me (keysafes, hanging mirrors, hanging wardrobe doors, fitting window locks etc). :rotfl:

SS involvement can be enabling (even though your experience so is different). It can open the doors to a lot of helpful things. Whether that's people to help you sort out your benefit entitlement (including the paperwork) or to find you a volunteer to help you with the gardening.

Savvy_sewing

Well I have had a busy day. Started off quietly, and pottered.
Then Molly and I met up for a mooch, a cuppa and cake. We had a good look at antiques, bric a brac and vintage clothes. Plus a lot of odds and sods, espcially things that were Kath Kiddson everywhere. (including a badly upholstered stool). It made me think yet again, what I have missed with my sewing skills etc. If only I had the energy at the end of the day to sew.!
I am currently having my back massaged, with the chair accessory my BF bought me a the christmas before last. Its been a while since I used it, but now that DS and his mate helped to move the furniture about, we were able to set it up on my armchair, so I am using it.
There is a lot of stuff still to do, but at least the big stuff has been moved.
I will potter to get it to how I want it over the next few days.

I am determind to find some time to start making things, as today while out I really thought I was missing a trick or two by not following through with my sewing, creating etc, and I realised that I was missing that side of things much more than I had thought. So I am going to make the effort to at least put some sewing into plan/practice tonight. Even if it is only for 30minutes!.

Savvy_sewing

Well I didnt get to sew last night, sidetracked on the computer again! I will have to limit myself to the times on here.
Mind you after the busy day, I was not really in the fit state to sew.
I did make up an invoice for the patterns that were ordered/arrived yesterday, and printed off the letter for social services.
so a trip to the post office this morning, is needed.
I am running late as although I woke at 6.30 I fell back to sleep and didnt wake up until nearly 8am when I heard DGD waking up. Then she was in my room trying to join me in my bed. (Her mum was on her tail)
I am yet again to play taxi driver to twin2.
We are to still find out how she is expected to get to see the children without my support? There are no direct bus services and her benefits seem to have been stopped, and nothing has replaced them. (Thats typical of the benefit system of course).

I must admit I was trying to work out how to get a logo/tag constructed for any crafts I do get, and had plenty of ideas running around in my head of things that I want to make. So its up to me to make that happen now. Alas it will not be today, unless I have a miracle.

Managed to transfer £100 into an ISA, at last I have a savings account. Yippee!.

marybelle

Well done, Mooloo - what a nice feeling to have a wee bit of savings. Try and have a nice day.

Savvy_sewing

marybelle wrote: »

Well done, Mooloo - what a nice feeling to have a wee bit of savings. Try and have a nice day.

Ha, if I wasnt called upon to bail the family out, I might manage to have had more! But only because I have got used to living on a low income when earlier in the year I had practically nothing!.

Onwards and upwards we must go.Talking of must go, I am off to do the round trip for twin2 to see the boys again.

Savvy_sewing

Well I am back. i found today even more traumatic. The father of DGS1 came to see him today, but arrived early, and ended up homing in on me at the car. So I ended up talking to him for nearly 40 minutes!. Then the socialworker for the boys turned up, and I told her to her face that I was unhappy, and that the times etc was not enough. She said she didnt know I was going to be there, and I said how else was twin2 to get there when her money had been stopped? They do not consider paying her busfares upfront to help her/ she said they have to go and sign on. Well yes they do, but how do they get the 8 miles to town when they dont have the money.... Its me again. If they want a crisis loan they have to also get there? Its a vicious circle.
I have given her letter to her, and while I was waiting, before Father of DGS1 interupted me, I had drafted up a letter to her boss also complaining about my access to the boys being reduced etc. I did feel that i was being side lined completely. However I suppose the fact that the other grandparents are only going to be allowed the access to DGS1 once a month for an hour and not the weekend that they had requested. They will not be happy about that as they both work, so it will be impossible for them to see the boy without taking time off of work.

On another note, I have rounded up DS of mine, and informed him that he now has got to live at home. He has "bumbed" around for a year nearly now and that if he cannot get the work he wanted he will just hve to think of another job.

I took twin2 to the post office to pay her rent, and we noticed a job for Housekeeping in a local hotel/pub so we went straight in and she picked up an application form. Lets hope she finishes off and returns it.
I left twin1 at twin2's and have come home with DGD and DS.
Tomorrow is the Stay and Play so twin1 will be seeing DGD again then, and I will be taking Twin2 into the big town to sign on,etc.

No peace for the wicked.

Now its time for a little rest as DGD has gone for a late sleep. Then see what else i can do. Hopefully I will get some space cleared in the bedroom for the sewing to do. I doubt I will manage to sew, as my arm and neck are not very good today, and I have struggled. But at least I can try and get some organisation on the table set up to sew from.

oystercatcher

Am I imagining it, or are you starting to do too much for everyone again?

Hugs anyway

Savvy_sewing

oystercatcher wrote: »

Am I imagining it, or are you starting to do too much for everyone again?

Hugs anyway

Yep! you got me! I have done nothing but answer to the others all week.
But I hope that I will be tailoring it back again next week. (We can hope anyway.).

I am finding it very hard to leave them too it, dispite one half of me wanting to. But I find it so very hard to say NO! (Unless I am really angry, problem is I dont stay angry very long.).

It has resulted in me being tired again tonight.
I have just put DGD up to bed, but she has not settled yet.
She did have a later sleep today, so its not surprising, but she didnt protest as its part of the usual Tea, bath, hair, bed routine really. Although she was still asking for bottle today. (She came back last weekend without the last bottle, and I had said that I wasnt going to replace it as she was a big girl.) and I wont. But she cannot fall asleep drinking from a cup.