“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

Toni'sfriend

Wish everyone would do some it would be much easier.

I have the same problem, W. My neighbours are lovely but I think they have gotten fed up clearing up the mess made by children who come here to play. Some of them are really quite small (preschool) and nobody ever comes to check on them. When my son was that age I never let him out of my sight. Also people use our communal area as a short cut so they are not bothered about throwing their litter around. I always say it's the last time I'm going to clean it up but, of course, I always do because I hate the mess.

Hope you manage to get the money sorted this week.

I'm off on my travels again tomorrow so won't be able to post. I'll be reading though. See you in three weeks, xxx

teafor2

Morning WB Weather was lovely yesterday wasn't it. That's really good of you to tidy up the square although you'd think if somebody saw you they'd pop out and give you a hand even for half an hour.

I can see you're paying more on the rent at the moment and you've got the £20 debt repayment and I'm sure you're on top of everything you can claim, but is that £50 the difference between having money left over and not? For a family of 4 even that isn't loads when it's got to cover food, clothes, haircuts etc. and you've got 3 growing children. xx

ETA: I know you've written situation with DC's Dad isn't brilliant but could he not even give you a tenner a week to help out? It seems wrong the stress of normal family life and also finances is completely on your shoulders. x

HairyHandofDartmoor

Well done for doing all that gardening and then doing the square as well. It makes it a nicer place for everyone to live. Some help would have been appreciated I'm sure but I guess it's a cheap way to keep fit (no gym membership needed for you ) and keeping busy is a good way to avoid stress and anxiety, it certainly works for me. I hope you have a good day today .

Someone put loads of graffitti in our neighbourhood overnight in the week and it looks horrible, brightly coloured tags everywhere, it's not even artistic . It's mean when it's done on private houses, I hope people can afford and will make the effort to paint over it quickly because graffitti attracts more graffitti. The tagger clearly has nothing better to do :mad:.

I hope you haven't had any more strange men hanging around your neighbourhood.

Toni'sfriend

Someone put loads of graffitti in our neighbour overnight in the week

That is really awful. What makes these people think it's ok to destroy other people's property.

WannabeFree

Evening.

Another day of lovely weather

So I've bleached out the front today :rotfl: Now my windows need cleaning again but I packed the cleaning things away and took the kids for a walk to the park. I will do the windows later/tomorrow.

Smalls have had a good weekend. We made the Easter bonnet (recycling a bonnet from DS it's done 5 years now I just take the decorations off when it comes back home and pack it away until it's needed again) I just need to add a ribbon so she can fasten it on.

Need to do the school lunches and my floors and things. Smalls have just had a bath and are in bed

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend.

x

Sun_Addict

Glad the smalls are happy and contented Now we need to read that YOU are happy and contented xx

WannabeFree

Thank you SA.

I'm getting there. A few more weeks and I think I should be able to breathe again. Still tight but not up all night worrying about the basics.

Have ordered youngests nappies and med things. Should last until things are slightly less tight. That's one less thing to worry about at least she will be fed/meds and has nappies.

Im just having 5 minutes before doing the floors and things. Everyone's finally asleep (after being in bed nearly 2 hours :cool:)

WannabeFree

And just to add even though I do still struggle with the mental health side of things generally life is much happier and easier. The house debt etc being sorted is a huge weight lifted. The smalls are the happiest I've ever seen them. I know I'm struggling right now still and I feel guilty for that but hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel and I'll be just as happy as the smalls are.

Thank you again it wouldn't have been possible without the help from here on my diary and behind it

Thank you

x

beanielou

WannabeFree wrote: »

And just to add even though I do still struggle with the mental health side of things generally life is much happier and easier. The house debt etc being sorted is a huge weight lifted. The smalls are the happiest I've ever seen them. I know I'm struggling right now still and I feel guilty for that but hopefully there's light at the end of the tunnel and I'll be just as happy as the smalls are.

Thank you again it wouldn't have been possible without the help from here on my diary and behind it

Thank you

x

That is lovely to read
So once the CT is sorted out is that you back on an even keel? x

WannabeFree

The CT is sorted Beanie. Just the other loose ends now and by the beginning of May I'll just have the debt from switching the court fees around which definitely has to be paid back before the beginning of October and then I'll be debt free. I can't wait for the weight of it all to be lifted. I think that will be the best night's sleep since I was a baby :rotfl: