SLLM (Single Lady Large Mortgage)

Sistergold

Happy Monday ladies! 

I am happy to announce that I finally finished making my son’s bed! He is now officially a big boy as he now sleeps on his new bed! His old single bed(part of childhood bunk bed) is out and new bed is in! He has now slept on it a few nights with no incident! No incident you might ask? Well in my enthusiasm I did not realise the bed will become a very high bed! I wanted ample storage under the bed which made it high right from the start! THEN without thinking much I bought a very thick mattress 33cm infact increasing the height further. Then I purchased 12cm castor wheels for the bed as I want it movable so as to be able to easily clean under the bed! The end was a “very high bed”. I have since replaced the 12cm castor wheels with 10cm ones(very little helps and all). He has slept on it past few days and has gotten to like the bed even with the hight! I asked him if he wanted a stool to easily get on and he said no. He is a tall boy so? For now the agreement is that he uses as is and see how he feels after a few months. If he needs it lowered the first option is to buy a thinner mattress if still too high then next is to remove the wheels. 

For now it’s onwards to other projects. Study desk for his bedroom. He has a small folding desk which he has been using but a bigger desk will be better I 🤔 . 

LadyWithAPlan

Ha love the height issue and I bet he loves being so high 
Loving your 17 possible future solutions lying in wait 

if I do welding I will look like the Michelin man I will want full protection .. and do a course first 

Sistergold

@LadyWithAPlan, I was surprised that he ended up loving the hight, for me I felt it was a disaster. I was worried he will fall off during the night and break his neck or something! 

LadyWithAPlan

He is a kid so fearless no doubt. I love sleeping high.

Sistergold

Oh how where has the time gone? Went to check on my mortgage balance to do an update only to realise that I did not update last month. So money went out February and also in March. 

January balance 

Two months later 

Looks like 5 more months and will be in the £25#k? I can not wait! 

On the house front well things can be somewhat overwhelming, being a single mom, holding a job and the long list of things to do around the house. Yes the long list, I guess that’s the hardest to get done. Snatching little time here and there to fix this and that? Well the trick is doing one item at a time I guess! 

Enjoy your week ladies

LadyWithAPlan

Well done on getting your mortgage down - £250k will be a great new target 

I am not as busy as you - no kids for a start !- no idea how single working mums do it but I have a whiteboard with all the to dos to the left column  on my yellow stickies and then focus on  a few of the tasks (urgent or picked as my next project ) and move those across to the middle to focus on (and off the board when done) 
it means I don’t miss things and I can add to the left without feeling overwhelm

Sistergold

Thank you @LadyWithAPlan, stickies do sound like a good idea. I have a wall in the kitchen I have been thinking of installing a whiteboard or cork board.   Will add that to my todo list, install a whiteboard! I will straight away start on the sticky note idea on the bare wall for now! 🥰

Sistergold

Oh hello all you lovely ladies! Hope you have enjoyed the long weekend? Enjoyed your homes? The last few days was lovely with bits of sunshine giving the promise of a summer to come. Oh how I miss and am looking forward to summer! 

Today though was a bit overcast and now it’s “raining” 😕. On Thursday I did a bit of cutting to start making some brackets for two wall mounted desks. Today I welded the cut metal but in the end I was dogging the rain. Only just managed to finish by welding then grinding down and cleaning in between showers. I also just managed to cut the wood for the desks. One desk will be for my daughter to place her makeup mirror and beauty stuff and the other desk is for my son’s bedroom to keep his keyboard. This will free their current study desks just for study. They are both going into the years when they need to be serious about their studying and I need the study desks not to compete with other items as this leads to studying on the bed or in the lounge. Using the lounge can be inconvenient as others then can not watch television. With so many people someone is always in someone else’s way! 

So the wood and brackets are all ready and in the garage. Have had to switch on the heater in the garage to dry the wood as it got a bit wet. I hope to start painting it all and install sometime this week. Everyone is at home as the schools are closed for now. 

It’s so wet outside and after all that rain now the sun is out again. Should I go and set up to paint? Will see just want it all done now.