Lilt and Jellytots most excellent adventure...

please-let-me-be-lucky

She must be having a growth spurt bless her. Get ready for clothes that fit today not fitting at all by Wednesday .

Hope your company leave early so you still get an evening to chill Xx

BILLIE

I certainly was Lilty. Hope that Jelly isn't coming down with anything. Could be that the clocks changing have altered her body clock in a strange was but if she is telling you she is tired would seek Docs advise if it continues beyond a week or so. You seem very organised with Christmas, makes me quite jealous. Xxx

liltdiddylilt

Lucky don't joke. I have been thinking it is a growth spurt, and then wondering how much it is going to cost me, since I just kitted her out for Winter!!! She is about a year behind the average height bless her, so 2-3 years clothing is still a bit big. My pixie child. MiL is 4'111 so I was kinda hoping she would be a bit bigger. Not nice to have a stepladder just to get a glass from the cupboard... :rotfl:

BILLIE hope you had a great time! The clocks changing meant that she tried to go to bed at 5pm for a few days!! *blinky face* and kept getting up at 5:45am... but going back to bed on demand and then sleeping in til ridiculous hours when I went and fetched her!

I spoke to her nursery nurse about it this morning and she has a couple of kids like Jelly who are struggling with the switch to Winter and sleeping a lot more. Who knows what it is, but she was a right little so and so this afternoon as she has gotten used to a Monday afternoon nap post nursery and was not happy about being kept awake. I bribed her into staying awake til 6 with a variety of tasks and a pot of soya custard mummy skills at their best :rotfl:

This afternoon once the in laws had gone, I sat and debated the nursery school pics. I don't know what to choose for the best but parents and in laws have offered to put in some money each to cover 'their' photos. Good job. One set is £28 but we need an extra pic which is £14 on its own. Or a pic which is £7 to take the spend to £35 and then get the £14 one 'free'. Madness.

Have made a GIGANTIC scotch broth. It fills my biggest pan to the brim. And I still need to add some bits. I overdid the dried peas/lentils/pearl barley a bit as I cooked them at the side and now the veg is a bit lost! Lol.

I also made some more rosemary and white pepper piadinas from the dough I had left in the fridge. Basically to make way for the shopping :rotfl: Ate them with leftover chilli and savoury rice from yesterday and still have chilli left. Hmmmmm Lol.

Spent £12.95 in Mr S today on soya milk, sugar and bits for Him's new health kick. I think I can afford some nuts and greek yogurt since he paid for two meals out totalling £100 and covering me and my bestie whilst we were in Notts. Also got out £35 to pay for the photos, and then just spent £16.97 on two pairs of revolting golddigga trainers. At £5.99 each instead of £55 each I can't really complain what they look like. My trainers got utterly soaked today and I discovered a hole in the bottom of one. Needs must, and 2 pairs cover me getting soaked if they are as waterproof as they look. I am basing their reliability in water on the fact that they are so blindingly shiny and rubberised... :rotfl: P.S I am aware 2 x £5.99 does not equal £16.97. Blooming delivery was the same price as collect in store so deliver it to my door they shall!

Anyways. I need to tell all to YNAB. I budgeted for smalls shoes and not mine this month. Still there was a fraction left over in the pot. £70ish I think.

Night peepities!!

supersaver1000

I'm feeling a little like Jellytot - do you think I'm having a growth spurt too as trews are getting tight :rotfl: it has been since clocks changed so I think I'm a victim of DST too

It's so dark by going home time now. Don't like it - boo!

I need the piadianas recie - off to search on GPs thread

Nighty nighty beautiful Lilty. Sleep well.

giblet1979

Hey Lilty,

Gosh you've had so much going on! Thanks for your summary on my diary; you're a star. I'm really sorry to hear about all the family stress. Sending lots of love to you and your family. It does sound very difficult, but you are all amazing, and I know you will get through it. Lots of love and hugs here any time you need them!

Really impressed with your money focus too. Glad YNAB wasn't too cross. It grumbled at me this month, but I was able to pacify it with CPP cheques. Might not be so lucky next time, so need to reign it in.

Hope the health is holding up, you're not in too much pain, and Jelly isn't coming down with anything.

Hugs x

liltdiddylilt

Don't jinx me Gibby but... *touches wood and stubborn head* I am barely taking any painkillers!! :j:j from 100 a month to about 10 a month excellent news eh? Jelly seems fine but again very tired today. I had to go in and wake her at 8:30 this morning and we were late for nursery, then she went to bed at half past 5 :eek: but she was insisting from 5:15 on going so couldn't keep her going any longer.

Yay to pacifying YNAB. Mine is looking much happier this month, even with the shoe spend. I got it wrong. It was £15.97. a whole £1 less. I need to get Jellys feet measured on Saturday but then I will check Clarks online and the outlet if I can get over there to see if I can cut the costs down a bit. Cross your fingers because boots and trainers are needed. Sigh.

SS here is a step by step piadina guide! I did not use the lard, just marg and I think that may have been why it was so much harder to roll out flat. I would buy lard next time. Flavour it with anything you like!! PIADINA

giblet1979

Everything crossed here, and that's great news! Long may it last x

liltdiddylilt

Right:

Here is me for the day.

1: Jellytot and GeeGee
2. No money spent :j so SFD #3 in the Lilt household
3. I have enough scotch broth to make me lunches for the week, plus it was dinner with bread tonight. Lunch was a wrap with chicken portion, salad and a touch of cheese and gone off mayonnaise. It didn't taste bad, but seriously... May 2014 :eek: - I had poached eggs on toast for breakfast. Hungry day here too!
4. My laptop is all but broken. Out of 2 hinges, both are now broken and hanging out of the screen/all the way out. One is putting such pressure on the plastic housing that my laptop keeps making inpromptu cracking sounds. It is currently sitting upright thanks to a pillow behind it. Really going to have to bite the bullet on the macbook soon. Anyone here got a 'UniDays' student account I can borrow to get money off?
5. PWPS inspired me to find yet another new book. I think I may have to start a requests for thrifty, MSE and Money Mustache style books. And then figure out when to read them
6. Mums second big op tomorrow is cancelled as she has shingles and a stinking cold. She is absolutely gutted, as am I. They will call to rearrange in a weeks time. It makes me nervous asking the Big C to wait a few weeks before inflicting further hell on her. Cross your fingers
7. ASDA short changed me with a substitution. I am aware that the staff are often foreign, low paid, cold and tired when they work a nightshift packing my food up after midnight. But charging me the same price for 33% less meat earns you no friends. I had a mini rant and got an apology and a refund of the £4 I was charged. So now I got 66% of the meat I wanted, for free. Hmm

I am today grateful for lovely old challenge buddies popping back up and making me very happy, for awesome, giving people online who inspire me to be better, and for Kat, finally off on her journey after a false start and a trip across London for a new flight.

My good deed of the day was giving my awful neighbour my phone to use three times this evening as he has lost his, and with it all of his contacts. His kind offer of a glass of wine in his filthy flat was swiftly declined. :A

Off to bed now. Seriously, don't laugh. I am... xx

supersaver1000

What a lovely post and beautiful piccy.

Sending big hugs and positive wishes in heaps

ps Lilty I have a .ac.uk email now so should be able to get discount. I'll try to look later today to see what I need to do to be able to send you a link. I'm sure that's how I got mine when my nephew was a student. Saved a couple of hundred and got 3 years free support. Try duck tape in the meantime. X

Purplepenguin88

Hi lilt, long time lurker, short time account holder here. I've been following you for a while and your posts make me smile and spur me on to be more organised!

I love hearing your updates, I'm sorry to hear about your mum, and I can sympathise on the clocks changing thing, my body was thrown right out too!

Hope you don't mind me subscribing

PP x