Five OS Pleasures in your day today

BlimusOreilly

lillibet dripping - good luck with the viewings! I remember last year when we finally got an offer on our house the feeling of exhilaration that we could move on and away (from a situation that was becoming unbearable). That was one of our biggest blessings ever. Let us know how they went.

I'm suffering from a nasty cold at the moment so my OS pleasures are getting me through!

1) Making fairy cakes with DS2 as he is learning 'oo' words at the moment (cook) - learning is tasty!
2) Attempting my first ever quiche and actually ending up with two. And both DH and myself agreed it was the nicst quiche ever tasted
3) Getting season 2 of The Wire out from the library and gearing up for a watch-athon.
4) After DH's vinatge watch going through the washing machine (:eek:) he bought another from ebay and it turned out to be even nicer than described.
5) Making a point of asking DH and DSs what their favourite thing has been each day too? With some surprising and also heart-warming answers.

Have a great evening everyone

Teresita_2

Hi there

Hoping that it's ok to join in. Here are my new lifes five:

1. Having a walk in town to get a leaving pressie for someone. Shopping with someone elses money.
2. Picking up the boys early from nursery as having a week of half days to get me back in to working after my op.
3. Looking after my seedlings and veggies in the garden with ds1 & ds2 who are desperate for the strawberries.
4. OS Mac cheese for dinner and it was devoured!!!
5. Having this board and all the advice for free.

jollymummy

Hi all hope you've had a nice day, I do love this thread.
here's mine for today.
1. spending a lovely day over at my Mums - she took ds off to do some gardening in the greenhouse and left me with a pile of mags and a coffee- aren't Mums brilliant?
2.bought 2 x L'oreal shampoo for £3 instead of usual 2.13 each!!!
3.Managed to resist temptation of buying something from a charity shop that I WANTED but didn't NEED
4. Did buy instead a pack of lovely marigolds to plant with my tomato plants to keep the bugs away.
5.checked the plants we planted on Sunday and they are looking very perky due to all the rain.
oooo an extra one 6. made a new design brooch last night and really happy with it.
and another 7. Received a fab bag of tapestry wool from a lovely freecycler
Enjoy the rest of your day
JM

scrummy-mummy

Hi all,

Sorry i've been absent, DS is going through a growth spurt and feeding all the time, to add to it DD hasn't been sleeping well and poor old mummy is looking less than scrummy right now!!!

My pleasures today are

1. Playgroup for £1.20 (pretty cheap therapy and with free tea and biccies to boot)
2. Gingerbread Latte made with Starbucks syrup that was given to me as a congratulatory present when DS was born by the manager of my local Starbucks (it was my pregnancy weakness).
3. Knowing i have fresh clean bedding to climb into tonight
4. Knowing that i have nothing i HAVE to do tomorrow unless i WANT to
5. DH seeing the look on my face when he got home after a very long day and without needing to be asked whisking the kids upstairs for bath and bed so that i could half an hours quiet time.

Night all
xxx

shopndrop

lillibet - hope the viewings went well.
bellaquidsin - hope you get the supermarket offers today if you are going to try again!
sunnygirl - your marshmallow bars sound yummy.
teresite - welcome, it is lovely to have more people on board.
jollymummy - sounds like you had some lovely "me" time whilst at your mums and I'm sure she enjoyed her time with her grandchild (one of her pleasures).
hope those with colds soon feel better.

Mine for yesterday.
1. Came home from work feeling a bit stressed but went in the garden and cut back lots of things that needed cutting back so getting rid of my stress.
2. Planting some of the pots up and hoping we don't get any frost. Just need to remember to put them in if frost is forecast.
3. Realising that DS pays a separate insurance for his camera and it is already included on his house insurance so he has made a saving.
4. Friend ringing me just after 9 last night, saying she was expecting me to call earlier and had the wine and glasses ready - even though I was tired, decided to pop in to see her (she only lives down the road) and ended up having a really good laugh.
5. Fell into bed and asleep almost immediately as so tired.
6. Waking up this morning to more sunshine, so hoping to get some more gardening done when I get back in from work.

bellaquidsin

Hi:hello:

Blimus hope your cold soon goes and you feel better
Terestria Welcome to this very uplifting thread.

Here are my five for yesterday:-

1. Taking a 30 min bus ride to Mr. A to search for yellow stickers, only got some salmon which we have not had for ages so it was a real treat.

2. Bus ride taking me through green fields, such a thrill for this city girl.

3. Lots of lambs in the fields, I love to see them.

4. Buying a skirt in a charity shop which will add a zing to my wardrobe, and I had enough money in my clothing budget to buy it.

5. DH loving the salmon dinner. We all thrive on praise.

Inspired by all you walkers I'm off this morning to walk up the hill for the bus and going to see if I can get the half price offers I missed on Monday.

Bella.

newlywed

Hi all, trying to stay positive mot tomorrow

1. Sunshine
2. Batteries ordered from ebay arriving in the post and so now my decent pedometer works been using a freebie one in the meantime but it's really noisy!
3. Smoked salmon and egg mayo rolls for work (and another in the fridge for tomorrow).
4. Getting 3 cook books for £1 at the charity shop (sainsburys cakes and bakes with recipes that we used when we were at school for home ec - mum had similar sainsbugs books, Magurite Patten Dinners and supper parties book and a ready steady cook book).
5. Finding a link on here to mapmyrun.com and signing up to add in my walks - you make a map of your run (or walk in my case) and save it and it works out distance etc for you and speed based on what time you did it in.
6. Doing 8,700 steps yesterday and sleeping well and still feeling ok today


Edit:
7. Trying out the oil cleansing method and realising just how far the £6 castor oil will go - will last for ages. And my sensitive skin seems to quite like the result.... waiting for the possible spots to come out now

Teresita_2

Well here are my 5 for today but struggling as work is really geting me down.

1. Gradual return to work so only working half days lol
2. The sun shining first thing this morning. The nursery run was more pleasurable.
3. MSE board helping me realise I can afford to drop to working 24hrs a week.
4. Its wed so nearly the weekend and quality time with the boys as its a long weekend.
5. Pay day

SunnyGirl

Good evening all,

Teresita Hope you get down to 24 hours soon. It must be a shock to the system this week. Take care of yourself as well as everyone else.

Newlywed Not much wrong vibes on their way for the car

Shopndrop I always feel better after some time in the garden

Scrummymummy/Jollymummy Where would we be without DH's and Mum's to help with the children? My DH still comes in sometimes, takes one look at my face & starts to tell the children what to be doing & where to be doing it :rotfl:

((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))) as needed to anyone else that wants/needs them.

My five for today are:

1. A lovely lunch of leftover twice baked potatoes & salad :money:

2.Seeing DD get her latest college assignment finished :T

3. DH bought the infamous 'chippy tea' as I was at a college interview with DS1 until 6pm.

4. Laughing with my Mum on the phone at my Dad tutting as he couldn't hear the news when she was talking to me last night. He used to moan when I lived at home 21 years ago that he could never hear the news properly

5. Anticipated pleasure of finishing my library book tonight. It's the last one in a series of three that have all kept me gripped.

I hope that everyone enjoys their evenings xx

jollymummy

Hi everyone
Here's my 5 for today.
1. Lovely sunshine
2. Just collected some fab needlepoint books from a very generous freecycler who gave me 22 books!!!
3. Saw lots of lovely little lambs and fab countryside on our journey to the freecycler lady.
4.got two loads of washing dry outside.
5. watched Babe with DS after he came home from nursery.
Have a nice evening.
JM x