Ev's new MFW challenge!

evab_2

OK here we are then baby due in approx 4 weeks and hubbie now likely to be made redundant in 2 weeks, no chance of moving to another quarry as they are closing too.

Hubbie is obviously going to look for work straight away but who knows how long that will take.

We are going to have to sit down this evening to work out our finances and I'll have to suggested selling whatever little things we have lying about that we haven't bothered to ebay yet.

Our overdraft took a bit of a battering recently so have £15 until Tuesday when dh gets paid and need to buy food out of that - have just made rolls with dd but cupboard looking bare.

On a brighter note it's my graduation ceremony tomorrow and parents and dh coming along, will be taking a flask of coffee though as their refreshments are expensive!

So hard times ahead but we'll just work our way through it, will have to get extra teaching hours pretty quick in January and I'll get the qualified rate which is £20+ per hour so worth doing a few a week.

Ev x

Courgette

Really sorry to hear that, evab. Have been reading your thread for a while. Hope everything gets sorted really quickly.

Enjoy graduation tomorrow; I decided not to bother with mine. Good plan taking a flask! I hadn't really realised that you did the PGCE while pregnant - that is absolutely amazing. What an achievement. With that under your belt you'll be able to cope with any challenge.

Good luck with everything

Courgette

setmefree2

Awww Eva that's carp. Will he get any redundancy money? Does he fancy being a Stay at home Dad? That's really tough...:o

...however, I hope you enjoy your graduation....

Fingers crossed for you and wishing you some good luck...:A

SMF2

evab_2

He'll only get a few weeks money we think as he's only been there 2 years since we moved up here. Unfortunately we definitely need two wages coming in, so no option to stay at home and my maternity pay is quite good.

Nervous about graduation, hate things like this! But very proud to be the first in my family to have this :-)

Ev x

setmefree2

Have a lovely day:D:T

poppyoscar_3

ev - have just caught up on your thread, and so sorry to hear things are going a little pear shaped for you.....i hope your dh manages to find something really soon. at least you are used to working on a budget!

congrats on your graduation - hope you have a lovely day........ and only 4 weeks until the baby!! there are good things going on for you too.

looking forward to hearing things are improving for you, but you're in my thoughts until they do.

PO xx

Welshlassie

Just caught up, sorry to hear of the redundancy. Its happening to lots of people at the moment, me included, it doesn't make it any easier hearing that but I know what your going through.

Congrats on the graduation you should be really proud of yourself, its a huge achievement.

Enjoy your last few weeks before baby arrives, especially spoiling DD.

evab_2

Hi everyone,

Thanks for you kind words, it's wierd how tired I've been worrying about everything just taking everything a day at a time. Hubbie should find out some more info on Monday and Tuesday but hopefully as we had the sense to taken out redundancy protection then that will cover most of the mortgage and will just have to watch every penny.

Graduation went really well, enjoyed it in the end I've added a link that will hopefully take you to the one and only photo you're likely to see of me as I hate my photo being taken! Photo is me (Eva - pronounced 'ever') and dh Phil. Note huge bump!!!!!

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q406/brewer1e/DSC01165.jpg

My parents took us out for dinner that evening which was lovely.

So things still in limbo but we'll take it as it comes.

Ev x

poppyoscar_3

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww - great pic ev - glad you enjoyed your day!

Here's hoping for good times ahead.

PO xx

setmefree2

Glad you had a lovely graduation day - you look ever inch a teacher! Congratulations and Well Done:T:j:T:j:T

Just think you'll be able to have a couple of these quite soon:beer::beer: