NST March: Marching to a different beat

thriftylass

laurenh1 let your boys wear a dress. DD is a right tomboy and often wears her brother's clothes. Funny how that is OK for some but not the other way round. She's only 4 anyway. Boy in her group has an older sister and his parents let him wear hair clips etc. He's just copying an older sibling he adores like my DD. For Burns night he was clearly wearing his sisters old tartan skirt and tights not a kilt. Totally fine by me, doesn't make him less of a boy/man later.

Busy day in the kitchen today. Prepped 10 healthy lunches (3 varieties) , dinners for at least a week (not cooked the latter yet apart from a giant bolog/chili base but made the meatball mix etc for instance). Oh, and baked a bread as I forgot to get one yesterday. Love my cheap and simple spiraliser. Made some courgetti for my lunches and it is HM curly fries and HM chicken nuggets as a treat dinner for me and the kids.

The hair clippers arrived today and DS has now a proper short sides and back and less of a mummy cut .

Some other items on my to do list will wait till kids are in bed

Toni'sfriend

Goodness, Nicky Noo Na. What a few days!

Heavy rain here today so didn't venture out. NSD No 9.

Off to Edinburgh for a few days tomorrow. Hotel paid for already and no transport costs so not too expensive, hopefully.

indigowarrior

It end up being a spend day. Total £119.10
£100 for a new phone and £10 for top up. I did have a free bluetooth speaker thrown in.
£2.10 on groceries.
£7 to have my phone unlocked.

laurenh1

thriftythank you , I conpletely agree.I guess fundamentally I just think live & let live & let them be who they are .

x_raphael_xx

Mum went home today, short but sweet visit. Then we took our cats & dog donation to the photography studio for Duncans photoshoot. I always wondered how they get the dogs to sit still and look at the camera so nicely. Turns out its treats and meowing.
We go back next week to pick up the photo, hopefully I can be strong enough to resist buying a bigger package, but we shall see.

• · For the striders: [STRIKE]18[/STRIKE] 25 NSDs 9/25 No spend today.
  
• · Set your budgets before the challenge starts. All good.
  
• · Be generous. There are many who are far worse off. Do not forget to give to your choice of charity. Donation donated.
  
• · As ever, always take your lunch to work, and drink and snacks when out and about BF did the weekly shop today, so cupboards fully of tastys.
  
• · [FONT=&quot]Pay towards your debt first! Done.
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• · Plan. Look ahead to the month and what your commitments are. *Free theatre trip *Coffee date with a couple of friends *10k race *Maybe a trip to Bristol Zoo.

x_raphael_xx

laurenh1 wrote: »

thriftythank you , I conpletely agree.I guess fundamentally I just think live & let live & let them be who they are .

Let him enjoy himself and dress without caring about 'social norms', soon enough self consiousness and the pressures of fitting in with his mates will hit.
But for now, let him run free

Calling14

Indigo - hope your okay hugs on their way.

Today feel shattered.

Washed and changed bedding. Put out on line now very windy, if it says on long enough may dry a bit.
Cleaned offices.
Zoo with grandkids this afternoon. Took ham butties, flask and cake. Sheltered in hut with a downpour came.

Claiming a NSD and boy do I need them.

Since I took the plunge and ordered French doors one disaster after another. Ever regret ordering something?

Plumber looked at my oven yesterday part is £140 so think it would be better to get a new oven. Gutted as it's not that old about 6years old. I have submerged the flame with lasagne once and never been right since then. Priced a new oven up £300 mark for a gas one I like. May have to order next week and put on to cc. Plus fitting ??

New shower and sink taps needed £100 total cost- plus fitting ? Try and make do with baths for now .

Hoping TV keeps going bit longer as seems to have settled down a bit now staying on one channel and stopped switching itself.

Trying to find something for tea scrambled egg no oven needed !

Meal out tomorrow for dd2 bday and combined with Mother's Day. May have to pay something there.

Kerry_Woman

Was a spend day. Had to do a small food top up. Also went to a health store to use a money off coupon - got dead sea salts, which had money off it already, so all together it just cost me £1.45. Got tv mag and weekly bus pass.
Grateful for:
Picking up the lovely plant arrangement for my Mum's grave for Mother's Day.
Achieving quite a few things this morning.
Went round friend's place for a couple of hours.
Going to have a chilled out evening.
Getting things ready for tomorrow as I am walking 5K for a charity event in Stratford.

Hugs for those who need them.

x_raphael_xx

Calling14 wrote: »

Trying to find something for tea scrambled egg no oven needed !

This is one of my fave recipes Griddle chicken & quinoa salad

mothernerd

A NSD. Some washing up and clearing done. can nearly see the kitchen table. Sleeping is a bit better, some multi hour chunks and some of it in the night time. Cooked baked potatoes to try to warm the kitchen enough to do more work. Baked potato for tea (wanted curry but resisted). Must plod on.

Today I am grateful for the rain (had said I would go to the cemetery if we had nice weather), for fun food from the freezer (substituting for missing items - people who said we did not need anything seem to have eaten the things I bought) and for books -apple I have the first and third book. It was the old woman behaving badly that caught my eye. I want to practice. Second one was not on the shelf but they look like a good read, need something fairly light atm.