Single mum .....i WILL survive!!!!

*Twizzle*

Morning ........Extra hour in bed? NO! Woke up at normal time :mad:

DCs are home today picking them up soon :j:D:j

Moos mum - its stange because the negative people i have in my life inform me that i have to have stopped for 6 months before i am classed as a non-smoker! But then they are the negatives so .....:rotfl:

DCs are home today so we will see how i do ...lots of deep breaths and scurrying to my bedroom :eek: I can do it i can do it :cool: It may be a struggle as last night when i spoke to them they were speaking in some strange language......dropped h's, dropped t's, coyt instead of coat and wa-ter instead of war-ter:eek: strange how 1 week can change them

Ahhhhh....camping We tend to stick to The Dales :cool: But next year i think we may venture to the seaside....Sandsend near Whitby...but inland a bit Can't wait :T

Payday yesterday :T spends so far (although this SHOULD be it for the week )

Groceries - £42.70 (£2.70 over but i did get 2 xmas prezzies, half price in Mr Bugs :T)
Fuel - £21.49 (£1.49 airfresheners cos the car STINKS )
Bertie - £20.00
Lotto+5 -£ 2.00
Total - £86. 19 Change in jar ad £10 in the stash make sit £97 leaves me £7 for the week :eek: and breath ...i can do this .. i can do this and breath :A

Need another coffee before i have a lurk around Diaryland then i will make myself look human, well almost :rotfl: and go and fetch my darlings

ps. dont tell DS i called him that he'll be mortified :rotfl:

Have great day folks

Twiz x

*Twizzle*

Ye gods i talk gobbledegook sometimes Forgt half of he things i want to say!!!

Knitting - dishcloth anyone? :rotfl:I will persevere (online dictionary on other tab )

Took poochy out for loooooong walk yesterday and met lovely fella out walking his dog, we had chat while the dogs were running round like lunatics :T It was nice to see/talk to another adult, even if we were just talking about dogs

MEAL PLAN -

SUN - Roast chicken dinner (frozen chicken fillets half price)
MON - Cheese, sausage and potato pie with beans
TUES - Pork steak in HM sticky sauce with chips and veg
WED - DCs @ childminder, me JS with HM chilli
THURS - DCs @ childminder, me HM soup
FRI - DCs @ xOH, me fish n chips (free)
SAT - ME - don't know

DS doesn't want to go out on Halloween, hes growing up and DD just wants to get dressed up and go out - no make up and its only for the free sweets :cool:

Bertie has asked if we are going out next weekend and i said yes but then i remembered its Bonfire night and poochy HATES fireworks, bless him he is a quivering, jibbering wreck so i will have to stay in, must let Bertie know.....maybe she can come here and we can have a girly night in? :beer: (imagine wine glasses )

Off to lurk now x

Twiz x

ani*fan

I'm joining you in not smoking today Twizzle. :eek: We are running out of tobacco and there is just not enough money in the pot for wasting on stuff like this. So far so good, but I can feel the madness starting to kick in. (That's supposed to be a deranged grin...!) Evidently it's caused by low blood sugar and I need to drink fruit juice. We'll see.

For camping, the Cape Wrath and Durness area on the north coast of scotland is the most beautiful place I've ever been. Loved it loved it loved it. Go any chance you get.

How do you make cheese, sausage and potato pie? Would it work with veggie sausages do you think?

Have a great day. I may be back later complaining about needing to smoke!

AFx
:cool:

*Twizzle*

OOOOOHHHH!!!! Good Luck Ani*fan right back at ya :rotfl:Yup the kids are home :j they are driving me to distraction already :eek::rotfl: This is gunna be tough :eek:

Don't forget there is the extra oxygen too so you may feel dizzy!!! It affects my eyes for some reason!!!!

This sounds really disgusting but i think the phlem is loosening ....loads this morning made me feel sick :eek:
Thats enough of that!!!!!!

Cheese, potato and sausage pie -

fry sausages, chop em up and fry off again
Mash spuds
combine with gated cheese and a beaten egg (i forgot this last time and it does make a difference)
put in ovenproof dish and cook in oven for about 20mins gas 5/180

Please don't ask what the quantities are as i guess :cool: And i dont see why you cant use veggies sausages! are they the same consistancey as meat ones? We also use smoked bacon fried off instead of sausages, do you have an alternative to bacon? Dont forget you can also add onion! And you can make double and freeze Does all that make sense?????


Camping, i would so love to take the DCs to scotland camping Its so beautiful up there Trouble is i can barely drive out of west yorkshire :eek: My confidence has gone out of the window since i've been with xOH Cant believe it as i used to drive up and down the country in my little old mini, never even thought about it The fact that i dont trust the car doesn't help so as sson as i get the new one in May i am going to take the kids somewhere different for the day...possibly seaside I just have to get over the hyper-ventilating and panic attack :rotfl:

Twiz x

*Twizzle*

Afternoon People

Nightmare day yesterday .......DENTIST! 15 injections later and i had the teeth out and am now the proud owner of some lovely new gnashers although they are rubbing on my gum am back on wednesday for them checking so will mention it! So gld Bertie insisted on taking me as i wouldn't have been able to drive home i was a mess :eek:

I am really chuffed with myself ...i have done ALL the ironing and put it away Just poochy to walk and i'm done

Parent/teacher/pupil consultation day was excellent DS is the top in his maths set and they will see about him moving into the top set soon ....i am one proud mum Everything else is ok and he is were he should be DS is the class clown he has been told that sometimes his behaviour is not appropriate and they are going to work on this at the same time tho they don't want him to lose his character
DD is doing fabulously in everything ...she is a starpupil and a pleasure to teach

I am a happy and proud mum and it seems they have settled down well after the split

Rent has gone out of the bank today so i am officially skint :eek: apart from what is in my purse £7 to last until saturday and as i don't smoke anymore that should be plenty

NSD today but also i haven't made a PAD and won't be able to for the rest of the week Never mind ...everything is paid and there is food in the cupboards...just no savings

Oh i do sound ike i am feeling negative..... i am not honest

Twiz x

*Twizzle*

Morning x

Not much happening today we have a poorly child in the house of twiz Projectile vomiting all over my bed ....at least it proves what i thought......i spawned the devil child :rotfl:

Was meant to be visiting dentist...again! Just to check my new teeth but have had to rearrange it for next week...bit of a swine actually as they are rubbing my gum on one side

Was going to be NSD today but i need gt some soup and bread

:mad: Had a bit of a relapse yesterday and had 2 cigarettes :mad: I am really cross with myself i weaken so quickly and for no reason :mad: anyway today is another day a and so far so good

Have a good day people

Twiz x

Moos_mum_2

Morning

Sounds like you've got a "fun " day ahead with poorly child . Hope they feel better soon . I find it really draining when Moo is poorly .luckily I cant remember the last time she was Ill although she is a hypochondriac and has an ailment almost daily maybe twice a day :rotfl:

Your teacher consultations were great big :T to the twiz kids :rotfl:.

I'm dreading mine tomorrow as I am not entirely happy with the teacher I know Moo is doing very well and is bright and well behaved but she seems to be helping the other kids all the time and on some occasions not even finishing her own work but helping so and so to do theirs at the teachers request . I am not the only parent with this concern . Just feel a bit anxious as how to word by concerns ,coming across strong and serious I get a bit self conscious as I am a young mum,single parent blah blah I get the impression that people see me as a stereotype and do not take me seriously .

Never mind about the cigs what's done is done and as you say today is a new day

Have a good day
Moos mum x

*Twizzle*

Morning peeps

Poorly child is better ...thanks moo she was back at school yesterday Eric and Edna had her as childminder couldn't so loads of running about as in bed by 10 both nights...shatttered

I'm lazily lolling in bed :cool: even though i have to go to work shortly

Major bodily/kitcheny disaster last night :eek: microwaved my curry sauce to go on fishcake and chips and what did i do .....drop the bl**dy pot all over my hand/pooch then in my panic to wipe it off the pooch before it burned him i splattered it all over the kitchen :eek: i mean how far can a pot of curry go.....inside cooker/outside cooker/back door/ washer/window/cupboard fronts/walls and floor/pooch and hand :eek: Couldn't clean it properly as my hand was burning and spent the next 4 hours with hand in bowl of cold water or wrapped in cold cloth Its ok folks this morning its just abit sore inbetween my fingers so when i've finished work i the mammooooth task of scrubbing the WHOLE kitchen......need to check ceiling :eek::rotfl:

Clearly i am not fit to be let out in the real world :rotfl:

DCs are at xOH, (good job as after last night they would have learned a whole new vocabulary :rotfl:) so no bonfire night here :T anyway as wimpy pooched hates fireworks i am having to stay in and comfort him :cool: Bertie is coming over and we are having pork pie (award winning from local butcher ), mushy peas, mint sauce and parkin ...... wine and a filum splitting costs so not too expensive

4 Pork pies - £4.40 ...how much???:eek:
mint sauce - £1.45 ....ditto^^^^
Parkin - £1.75 ... ditto^^^^
Mushy peas -free ...donated by Berties mum

All very expensive but divided by 2 not that bad besides which i haven't had to buy fireworks :T

Pay day today and i am doing a L!dl shop to see if i can bring the grocery bill down if it works i plan on doing 3 shops at l!dl and 1 at mr bugs in the month and eventually stop shopping at mr bugs altogether...well thats the plan ...we shall see :cool:

Hope you all have a fabby Bonfire Night

Twiz x

*Twizzle*

Morning

Is dull and cloudy here....that may be why i am feeling miserable :cool:

I had a lovely night on Saturday in between pooch barking and growling at fireworks!!! ets frend, bottle of wine and a good film, we watched 'as good as it gets' soooooo funny...i was crying i laughed so much

Dentist later ...... my gnasheroos are rubbing

Need to phone ebayer about picking DN birthday prezzie up, she lives rond the corner from me (walking distance) so i am saving on postage :j and fuel :j

Friend was supposed to me coming for coffee tomorrow but she has cancelled so my days off are my own......and seriously i have got to clean the bathroom :eek: why oh why can men/boys not direct it :eek:

Cash spends since payday -

£20 - fuel
£20 - Bertie (its going down )
£39 - Food (NOT the £20 i wanted to spend :eek:)
£5 - Bday prezzie for DSs friend
£9 - nikniks for DD and socks for me (both from bugs 25% off)
£2 - lotto
£10 - spend
Grand total = £105 wage gone

Socks - i spent 10mins on saturday morning trying to find a pair that weren't threadbare or holey :eek: so figured i needed some new ones


Smoking :mad: I am ashamed to say its crept back up, not to my previous 20 a day, but still :mad: and as i only have £10 spend for the week i have to 'get a grip' as they say and stop once and for all. I am sat here feeling sorry for myself, no spare money, no savings and yet i will happily poddle round to the shop and spend/waste/burn/ throw away £6 on a packet of cancer sticks :mad: Rant over!!!!!!

No meal plan as such this week, still strugling with the chewing Pie and mash tomorrow and omlette and chips tonight ... i think :cool:

3 loads of washing to try and dry, why have i put 2 of them on the line? :doh:They are not going to dry out there!!!!!

need to get my butt of the sofa now and crack on, although have started reading MG various diaries and am hooked so maybe a quick read first :rotfl:

Twiz x

*Twizzle*

Morning

I haven't been absent honest I have been reading MGs diaries (not in a stalker-esk way!!!) I am nearly at the end of 'make do and mend' boy is she an inspiration!! I recommend reading it if your struggling at the moment And i 'think i am beginning to understand 'asking universe' ...put it this way its been a strange week :cool: will tell all later

Money wise -pay day yesterday, so the car ow has his £20 worth of fuel fot the week and we had some left over from last week :jso maybe just maybe i will eventually get a free fuel week :T
Will be picking DCs up soon and then calling to do shop at lidl i am trying to keep this around £20 this week but with the kids in tow who knows...........

Also need to buy a toilet seat as the hinges have snapped @rgos have nice one for £9.99!

Better get my butt into gear, make myself presentable, and face the world

I hope you all have a fabtastic Sunday Enoy

Twiz x