Benbenandme's Coffee Shop ... All welcome!

benbenandme

Home again, guinea pigs cleaned, car cleaned inside and out, and roast dinner thoroughly eaten I came home with a load of cold chicken too for tomorrows dinner, so that will help a bit more on my food bill saving mission

Baths are done, flat is tidy and now its time to start the nightly battle of getting ds to bed .... oh and today was a nsd (apart from the Ann Summers stuff, but since I checked the finances I haen't spent any money )

hypno06

As long as you recognise the true situation re the finances now rather than when it is too late, you will be fine.

OK, so it will be tough at times, but you and I both know that you can do tough

benbenandme

Woohoo,I paid after school club tonight and I thought I owed for the whole term but actually I only owe for half a term, so thats £112 less that I need to find :j :j Very happy about that one

Today has been a nsd too, so am pleased with how its all going so far, foodwise I've been good and the legs are aching from the dvd yesterday which can only be a good sign Tonight will involve getting ds tea, baths, davina dvd and some comping

tigzem

Hi... I managed to get the laptop to work today...!!

Thanks for Saturday, was great fun and you're looking fab!!! :beer:

benbenandme

Hi Tigz, we loved saturday too, was a really lovely day and the kids were great too

I've got the first section of davina done, will do the rest when ds is in bed as he's trying to fast forward the dvd which is making it a nightmare :mad:

benbenandme

Ds is away this weekend and I am thinking of doing another car boot sale, I need to clear the stuff out of the garage once and for all and the pennies will be very welcome I don't think I'm likely to make much this time but I just want rid of the stuff now and the space reclaimed in the garage I will try and sort out a few more bits on saturday when ds isn't around to take.

The flat is pretty tidy still at the moment so my plan for the weekend will involve a decent walk, some davina, some cycling, packing up the garage and doing a car boot On top of the normal food shopping, ironing etc ...

benbenandme

Ds had a great swimming lesson today, there are normally 5 of them but today there were only 2 and he managed to swim a width (10 metres) without his armbands :j
Todays spends have been £2.86 on bread and milk.
Tomorrow is sports day at our school so a nice easy one, followed by parents evening at ds school. I've also got to collect a parcel from the post office, hoping its the Ann Summers stuff but thats arrived really quickly if it is

LouiseJ

Well done to your little one on the swimming:T

You sound very excited about the Ann Summers stuff;):p

benbenandme

Its been a while since I treated myself to nice undies Louise Always one of those things that there is never enough pennies for, so I thought what the hell, I'm worth it

benbenandme

I've been having one of those ... ooh, its nearly the summer holidays moments tonight, and have been running around writing a very very long list of bits and pieces I want to catch up with around the flat. Most of the items are very minor, but I need to have it all listed so I can cross it off as I go

I did get going on a couple of them and have gutted all my food cupboards, and anything out of date has been binned. My cupboards are looking beautiful if less than half empty now though But at least I know whats in there (even found 2 bars of 90% cocoa solids choccy, have NEVER forgotten about choccy before ). I also gutted the first aid box and again, its looking a lot emptier but everything is in date and all the packets of paracetamol with only one tablet in have gone, the cough mixture thats got half of it on the outside of the bottle and is all sticky has gone etc etc ... I'm going to aim to do a few little bits like this over the next couple of weeks before we break up but the majority of it will be blitzed in the holidays