Monday 9th Nov - what small DFW things will you do today?

Baileys_Babe

Evening, from a wet and windy West Yorkshire, but it has been a good excuse to light the living room stove

La escocesa, thank you for starting us off this morning.

Ally Congratulations on your 6 month anniversary, time has passed so quickly.

La escocesa Congratulations also on your 7 month anniversary, well done on not adding to your debt.

Legomum Myself, my sister and nephew are all dyslexics. It varies dramatically in its severity and technology can help a lot, like being able to type replies or answers on a devise that has spell check or listening to audio books or speech to text software. My dyslexia means I'm a very slow reader, even though I thoroughly enjoy reading books and have always read daily to my children. I some times find it hard to decode new words and I need to ask ds to help, the irony being I taught him to read , another thing I do is miss words out of sentences (both when writing and occasionally when talking) and syllables out of words and my spelling is abysmal . I find it difficult to scan text and need to read every word thus I find bullet points easy to read than the same information written in paragraph format and I prefer my recipes to have the ingredients listed seperatly not just in with the method. My own coping strategies don't work as well when I am tired. For some people certain fonts work better and/or text colour or background colour. Their are lots of different things that can be done for dyslexic to help them.

Today:
Open curtains fully
Turn off lights and appliances not in use
Close curtains before it gets dark
Reconcile bank accounts
Move money around to make the most of the interest
Go to a free film - penguins of Madagascar
Take own snacks to the cinema
Pop corn for tomorrows cinema visit
Pack bag for tomorrows cinema
Burn free fuel on stove
Fill HWB from water heated on stove
Make cocoa on stove
Write shopping list
Check mysupermarket and work out which store locally is best for each part of my shopping (hoping to limit it to 3 stores)
Adjust meal plan
Go shopping and only buy what is on the list - Aldi today
Educate children for free for free
Entertain us for free
DW on overnight
B/L/D & snacks from stores
Make bread
No heating, we have jumpers and blankets (did use the stove to burn free fuel)

ziggy2407

ziggy2407 wrote: »

Good Morning Everyone

LaE - Thanks for starting us off today

Hi to all of the regulars and a BIG welcome to all the newbies, this is a really FAB thread with so many lovely, caring, considerate and supportive people.

We had a lovely family day out yesterday with DD and DS, the downside is both DD and DS came back feeling really ill (upset tummies and sickness) - was a lovely despite that. Today I will

Packed lunch for DH - Done
Practice with sewing machine (must do it today) - Nope
Bake - Done - sponge buns to tempt son and oat biscuits for DH
Bump all sale listings/freecycle/facebook - Done
Check Banks - Done
Continue purge on Emails - Done
Craft -
Continue decluttering - little bit
Enter a few comps - Done
All meals from cupboards/fridge/freezer - Done- DS's fave tea (again to try and tempt him) Chicken wrapped in bacon
Check https://www.freepostcodelottery.com - Remember there are now 5 chances to win - Done
Check Lucky Phone - Done

Have a good day! Love to you all!

C x

Not a bad day, also managed to:

Help DS revise (he's only in Y8 but they are pushing exams and tests and changing the way they teach)

2 x loads of washing - done and dried

Night all x

lego_mum

Thanks Bob & Baileysbabe.

JHiggins91

Hope everyone had a great day.

Aside from putting diesel in my car it was again a NSD for me
Listed up one item on Gumtree hopefully pick up 10-15 quid for it, will list some more tomorrow
Took the test that was waiting for me for this job and passed so chuffed with that, now facing another but have until 24th to complete it - ill do it tomorrow
Noticed a full box of southern fried chicken in the fridge going out of date tomorrow, currently heating that up so that I can have some tomorrow for my lunch

J

crazy_cat_lady

Very late check in from me tonight, after what I will confess has been a 'challenging' day. But I'm still going and don't feel too broken or anything so that's a bonus. You can always guarantee that a windy day brings out the worst in the kids at school, which it certainly did today... Plus dh is having a bad day (which involves him staying in bed and hiding from the world).

crazy_cat_lady wrote: »

[STRIKE];) check banking - no PAD[/STRIKE]
aim for nsd dh didn't get as far as making dinner so I ended up with takeaway chicken and chips for the kids from Mr M (£4)
[STRIKE];) leave a list of jobs for dh[/STRIKE] he didn't do a single one
[STRIKE];) full day of teaching[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE];) mark a set of books[/STRIKE]
prep for my lesson observation tomorrow My laptop at school broke, and I still haven't done this yet - next on my list :(:(
[STRIKE];) go to my friend's exercise class[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE];) discuss cost of training sessions with my friend[/STRIKE]
make no big decisions as I'm tired failed miserably here - I've called the Crisis team in for dh.
[STRIKE];) all meals from stores[/STRIKE] for me yes...
fix a hoover my mam has given us, which is newer than ours but needs a bit of repair work (and I do love a hoover every day, :rotfl:) needs a new bit ordering

Hopefully I'll be back on properly tomorrow (but don't hold your breath!).

DawnW

Evening all
Thanks for the start Clootiesmum

Late posting today, as I had a bad night's sleep, was rushing about this morning, had a dental appointment at lunchtime, DD2 and non-sleeping baby this afternoon, plus a visitor with another baby :eek:

So apart from all that, I have:
Not a NSD as I had to pay the dental bill :eek: Luckily it was only hygienist stuff, but still! Also bought a nice skirt in the CS (£7 but new with tags), chicken food and a sundried tomato loaf.

HM meals from what I have in (apart from the sundried tomato loaf, which was lovely with HM tomato soup). Used up a free sample of couscous that I was sent a while ago

Cleaned and tidied round before the dental appointment, including washing the kitchen floor which got missed yesterday, plus the bathroom one

Registered with a new dental practice. The dentist we have attended for more than 20 years has recently retired, and I just don't like the new regime, as it is so chaotic We are (no choice here unless on benefits) private patients, so might as well be happy with what is offered! Not cheaper, but at least I won't dread going :eek:

Did an online survey (just one available )

Continued to use moisturiser from cut up tube - I will need to buy a new one by around Thursday though

Today's Mins items:
# 33, baby bottle, returned to DD2
# 34, 35, 2 little plastic pots used for baby food, also returned to DD
Baby GD is nearly 2 now, and we no longer use these items

Walked pup this morning (OH did the afternoon one)

Not a great deal achieved unfortunately, and tomorrow is unlikely to be much better as it is grandma day :rotfl: