Chasing the debt free daydream...

never_too_old

Welcome home Winnie, glad it was nothing sinister.
Was worried about you as hadnt heard anything for a few days, i added up the pads for i think wednesday and thursday and posted them ( hope you didnt mind). Take it easy x

Hovel_lady

Welcome home, hope you got plenty of sleep xx

Hovel_lady

How are things with you? xx

Winnie_in_Pooh

I'm getting better - thank you HovelLady!

Have finally identified what has been causing the problems which is a relief. I have an irritable uterus which explains the pain and the sickness and other horrible things I've been suffering since being in hospital is due to me experiencing all the side effects that codeine has to offer!

Still having to take it very easy, I'm very weak and in a fair amount of pain and my eyes don't really like being subjected to the laptop screen for too long each day, but I'm improving on a daily basis!

I'm now only about 10 pages behind on your diary HL, a lot has happened since I've been fully up to date and I wanted to make sure I was fully up to speed before commenting again. I'm so sorry I missed your letter burning but I'm glad you had so much support and that it helped you so much

On financial matters, well, after 4 days of hospital parking charges and sandwiches from vending machines we are more or less flat broke! Just about managed to put fuel in both cars (£10 each) and buy some food and paid for DS to go swimming with my smallest BIL but thats it! I have a small list of baby bits that I need to buy on Monday when my SSP is paid and the car is also in for its MOT on Monday which we've managed to save nearly £300 for so I'm not quite so worried about that as I have been!

In house news, the ceilings got done, DH worked his socks off to decorate and we have slept for the past two nights in a real bedroom! It's been bliss! We now have to declutter the random carp that is currently boxed up in the living room, remove the fireplace, get the plasterer back in to skim the fireplace hole, decorate, carpet and then we get the living room back too! Hoping the car won't take up the full amount we have saved so we can afford to do this sooner rather than later as I really want it finished before Bob arrives.

I have 12 days until my appointment with my consultant at 36 weeks, which is the same week that my slightly psychic MIL has predicted he will arrive! More than half of me wants her to be right but there is a slice of me that would love my house back before bringing a baby home!

The future is a funny thing, isn't it?

Hovel_lady

Glad you're found out what's the matter. I can't take any strong painkillers because they make me feel so ill. The pain is easier to deal with. One day I'm hoping they will invent super strength ibuproven.

Good news you're finally in your new bedroom. And yes, the future is a VERY funny thing.
xx

mum2one

Glad it wasn't pre-eclimpsa (excuse spelling), hope ur ok and getting some rest, I remember with DD the aches and pains, I was put on crutches when I was 27weeks gone, so funny, in town with a friend, walking up the street, there was a bloke in suit with clipboard.... 1st instint was to avoid and go in opposiate direction, didn't work... his first words " have you had an accident, you know you can claim"... I replied back, unless you class being 6 mths gone an accident... bless him he was so embarrased and didn't know what to do bar grovel, I burst out laughing at that point!! xx

Winnie_in_Pooh

Well, Monday's rolled around and the car has gone to the garage....positive "please pass the MOT without costing the world" vibes for her please!!

DS joked this morning that we'd have to sell the little car to pay for any work it needs....please don't let that be true!!

Also need to nip and get DS booked on to swimming lessons - £56 for the term! We're getting increasingly close to payday, and although I had my SSP paid this morning, we're already down to about £90 in the account - its the same at this point every month, the vodafone bill comes out on the 5th and I always forget about it and it always surprises me :mad:

Anyway, so once swimming lessons are paid for, that leaves us £34 in the current account until Thursday when the tax credits are paid. We should have enough food in the frigde and fuel in the cars to last until then, DS is back at school on Wednesday and I have all his uniform ready (just needs ironing) and hopefully enough lunch stuff for him.

The next challenge is Saturday afternoon. Sunday is DS's birthday but he's with his dad . But I have him on Saturday afternoon and we're going for lunch with the family at my mums and then he would like to go to laser tag. Today's job is finding out about this laser tag, how much it costs, whether they offer any gluten free food, what time its open and if it needs to be booked. We can't afford for him to have a "real" party but hopefully we'll be able to fund at least a couple of friends for him. Push comes to shove I'm sure we could borrow £30 from mum just until payday on the 15th. At least we have his present sorted

AND, I still have the last few things I need to get for the baby!

Seems I'm back to financial juggling again!

Hovel_lady

Lots of positive vibes for your car to pass it's MOT xx

miggy

Good to hear you've tracked down what was causing your problems, though it still sounds very 'unpleasant' (that's what medical people say for 'nasty', isn't it?).

Boo to parking charges and vending machine costs. They mount up so quickly, but it had to be done and you're doing a great job of keeping tabs on finances so it will soon be back on track. The 'new' bedroom sounds lovely, you don't feel like sending him round to sort ours out too do you? (Joking - he deserves a break!)

Hope all goes well with the car.

Winnie_in_Pooh

Thanks Miggy! He's very productive and will happily work for homemade cake...:D

Have been ordered by DH to stop flapping about the car apparently it'll be done by 4pm....hopefully we won't be bankrupt by 5pm!

Anyway, in happier news, laser tag costs either £5, £9 or £12 per person, dependent on the number of games they want to play. But it's much cheaper than I thought it was going to be so I'm thinking he can either invite 3 friends and we feed them or 4 friends and we don't! They're not open yet so I can't check about the gluten free food and they don't have the menu on their website which is a pain.

I've also worked out that I need to spend about £70 on essential baby bits before he arrives, not including any nappies. In an ideal world I'd like at least two weeks worth of nappies stocked up, but Tesco is 24/7 these days so if I don't manage that, well DH will be getting to know the night staff well :rotfl: