Stepping into 2014- walking in My Shoes with Mooloo

Savvy_sewing

yeah, next week I start teaching sewing to a local lady. Really looking forward to it!
Taking it easy for a little bit now to rest my knee!

Savvy_sewing

have been doing as little as possible this weekend. Spent yesterday on the sofa reading my kindle. Then in the early evening I started on my patchwork that I have had lurking for a while now. It is about the size of a single bed now, but I am planning to make it King size. So still an awful lot of hexagons to go.
I see the sun is out this morning. Depending on my knee we may go out for a walk before I go back to collect DGD from her Mum. I am lucky that she has actually had her two weekends in a row.

minimoneysaver

How does DGD feel about spending time with her mum? I wonder what their relationship and bond is like now? x

Savvy_sewing

minimoneysaver wrote: »

How does DGD feel about spending time with her mum? I wonder what their relationship and bond is like now? x

she always wants to spend time with her mum. Alas Mum is not always choosing her. They get on well as I have always instilled she is still her Mummy. But she also wants to come home to her granny and says she missed me.
I would never force her to go to her Mum if she didn't want to go.

minimoneysaver

I think it is lovely that she is able to have Granny to depend upon and still have access to her Mum, so she can maintain some sort of a relationship. Hopefully in years to come and as DGD gets older and matures, she may be able to form a more adult relationship with her birth mother.

Savvy_sewing

Struggling with my own head at the moment. Although the sun has started to shine for a few hours more each day, I am struggling with the depression. At that time in the cycle where I am stressed at my surroundings and my jobs are mounting up, but lack the umph to sort out my plan of attack and get moving. Hate the yoyo effect it has on my world.
Thankfully this weekend I am staying put at home, and can try to cope at my own pace. No dashing to pack bags before work and getting to Oxford to stand on ceremony.
Hopefully just take one thing at a time and deal with it. Although I do still have babysitting duties for a little while today. Every other Friday I now have to collect DGD2 from her nursery on a Fri lunchtime while her Mum is at work.
School run and then more work on the wedding dress. If the bride looses any more weight I think I will cry!
Once the dress is done then the aprons need some more work. But I cannot think past that or I panic.
DGD is currently attacking my feet under the duvet. She needs my attention then!

Savvy_sewing

well I didn't get around to doing the wedding dress. I got way laid changing the beds, hoovering and dealing with the washing. Guess it's Wedding Dress today then!
Did manage to donate a table to work as they needed one for the lads to use for lunch etc after Ex Boss, took his back. So I have some space again now.
also got rid of a pile of poles from broken wardrobes at the same time.
So at least I am making some progress with the clutter.
Had to take my broken glasses into town, style discontinued, and eye test due, so had one there and then, chose new glasses as sight improved? And said goodbye to £85.25 not in the budget.
Also spent £2 on a pair of brown curtains. Thought they would make a great skirt and trousers for Monkey and me.
So more stuff in the house after all.
The council are still working on my roof, there is someone clod hopping about above me as I drink my morning tea and write this. They have hardly been around all week and now they turn up on a Saturday morning when I would have loved a lay in!

Savvy_sewing

gardening was top of the agenda.. Bf helped cut the lawn and started to dispose and sort out some of the mess DS had left when he moved out.
Still a lot to do though. Biggest and DGD2 came over yesterday and I have some embroidery to do for a hen Party. So now BF has gone home it's time for me to get my head down and the sewing machines out!

minimoneysaver

Glad to hear you have had some help to sort out your garden. If I remember rightly, it is a huge garden!

Savvy_sewing

minimoneysaver wrote: »

Glad to hear you have had some help to sort out your garden. If I remember rightly, it is a huge garden!

yes it's 160ft long! When I first moved here it was terrible. Broken glass and twisted metal everywhere. Now it's just his mess at the top 30 or so feet! The rest is very uneven lawns. Not a plant about. They all died when I spent last Summer in Oxford.
The front has some bulbs creeping through the weeds. But it needs more time then I have energy at the moment.
I spent 3 1/2 hours wrestling with the embroidery machine to get it working and sewing correctly, and produced one T Shirt for the Hen Do, only 9 more to go! And two days to do, around all my other jobs!
After the school run I have a client to go to for her 2nd sewing lesson, so it's going to be lunchtime before I can start on the next TShirt. But they are worth £70 to me. :T