Life is what happens when you're busy making plans

determined_new_ms

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

Hi DNMS - I can do stalking too... :eek:
What a situation you have found yourself in, and what an admirable thing you have done... My DH suffers terribly with anxiety and depression and some days are great but others are awful. I often wonder how this affects our children, but I've always made sure I'm honest with them and that they know that when dad is poorly it's nothing they have done.
It is amazing how life just goes on, and you just keep coping with whatever it decides to throw your way.
I'll just help myself to cider and settle in.

Feel free to have some cider, always an open door at the dnms household. But early for me am still on coffee! :rotfl:

The best advice I have been given is to keep an open dialogue with little ones about their situation in an age appropriate way. I will start doing a life book with dgd probably in about a year when she starts to realise that her life is different from most and I have a friend who is an illustrator who is going to help me make her very own book about her family life. The only thing we can do as carers is be loving, stable and consistent for them. She'll have her issues to come to terms with as she gets older but we hope through love she'll get through it. God help me if I have to go through another teenager from hell! :eek:

Opps better get on, so much more to life than the internet I'm lead to believe...

Bobarella

Hi Determined

Only just found your new diary. Great idea for logging all the fantastic extra money making stuff you are doing!

How exciting about Ibiza!

You are doing a fantastic thing for DGD. I often read Mooloo as well in her diary on the relationships board and she did the same thing for one of her grandchildren.

Will be subscribing now!

Bob

determined_new_ms

Hey Bob thanks for popping in! Thankfully it's not just the mad ramblings of dnms anymore

I have read Mooloo's thread, but I find really long threads a bit overwhelming! Feel like I have t read the whole thing and who has time for that???

Very excited bumbled into a massive bootie of blackberries on my way to the post office, took a tupperware with me just in case and managed to get 3lbs :j just washing and then will freeze ready for the big event. Enough to put in my compote as well :T

Just having a coffee - I'll join you in a cider later CCL - before going off to the MS assignment.

Only thing I haven't managed to do is the job application there's something really putting me off working at the moment and I suspect it is the "work" aspect :rotfl:

Bobarella

I actually did read all of her diaries right back to 2008 recently. It got very addictive as I'd read the more recent posts so was really interested to learn more about 'the plot' now I am up to date

crazy_cat_lady

I feel like I need a cider now! One of those days where I've just never stopped, and the dreaded return to work is looming :beer:

determined_new_ms

Afternoon world Awwww last day of no little person running around. I think as well as loving spending time with dgd next week I'm going to miss these days!

Have had a lovely day so far, and have been very productive! Spent a good amount of time researching up coming holiday :j things I'd like to do and enjoying Ibiza on a budget :T Very excited

As I've got to go into town for the MS assignment I am going to combine nipping into town and doing some GC shopping rather than do it at the weekend. That means an inventory of freezer/cupboards/what needs using up/ what needs to be got to keep the cost as low as possible.

In news of sustenance I have put a ys joint of pork in the slow cooker. Used up last couple of potatoes, an apple and some okra that has been sat in the freezer for *a while*. Not sure what the okra will be like but shucks the meal needed some veg and I need to try to make some space in the freezer - no doubt there will be more blackberries to add!

Lunch was Yeo greek yogurt acquired free with a moc (jeez this is the best yogurt EVER! It's like eating cream mmmmmm) with a spoonful of the free berry compote I made yesterday :T

Have to do a ms later at a restaurant so that will be my dinner free (I literally haven't had fast food forever and this week am having it 3 times was delicious yesterday!)

I've been out in the garden and picked yet more berries and am waiting for the last on the bush to ripen. Determined not to waste any, what's the point in cutting back here and there if we're just going to let what nature has given me for free go to waste???? Have also been doing some weeding in the garden, catching some vit d while I'm at it

While I was out picking blackberries yesterday I came across LOADS AND LOADS of elderberry bushes so in the next week I will be out there again foraging for the next batch of wine :j

So nothing earth shattering but enjoyable non the less, and hasn't cost a penny

Can't wait until oh & dgd get home for the weekend and we can make the most out of the 3 days together :beer:

crazy_cat_lady

I never do anything like blackberrying or fruit picking. I wouldn't really know where to look to be honest. I used to take the kids to a fruit farm in the summer but it closed a few years ago and now the nearest place is over an hour away. We used to have a pear tree in our garden but it got a disease and we had to get rid of it. I'm not gardening savvy at all.

Bobarella

Determined- the mystery shopping in fast food outlets sounds like heaven. Are you allowed to hint which ones they were?

The frozen okra should be fine by the way as it's so juicy a veg.

Crazy Cat Lady - you can target any park with hedge rows at the moment and you should get lucky with blackberries. Sadly there are areas around me that are already done on the blackberry front, but we have ripe elderflowers & pears/apples on several trees over hanging the streets around here. Oh and cobnuts.

Love free food

Bob

crazy_cat_lady

Bobarella wrote: »

. Oh and cobnuts.
Bob

I read that as coconuts :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Maybe I've had one too many vodka melon smoothies.:beer::beer::beer:

Bobarella

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

I read that as coconuts :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Maybe I've had one too many vodka melon smoothies.:beer::beer::beer:

Awesome!! I love it. Yep down here in Sarf London we like to sing 'I've got a lurverly bunch of coconuts ' & then pop out & pick a few:rotfl: