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Learning to walk before I run
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In contrast, our boy wolfed down baby rice mixed with formula milk from 7 weeks old as he had gone into a feeding frenzy and the Health Visitor reassured me it was for the best. He went from Damian the Omen devil child who screamed all night, into the most placid sleeps-all-night child you could dram of. Turns out I was starving him. He was like a baby bird with the spoon, wolfing down whatever was close enough to scoff.
I realise now what a terrible mother I was at that point.
Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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I’m sure you were not a terrible mother @Suffolk_lass . Motherhood is such a shock and the whole feeding thing is a total nightmare that no one prepares you for and the NHS tries to guilt trip you into thinking there is only one way otherwise you are a failure.
No baby has read the “rules” and they really are all different. My two definitely have done their own thing, not followed the guidance and wherever possible torn up and burnt the rules (in completely different ways of course) 😂2025 decluttering: 2,387🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅
2025 use up challenge: 214🥉🥈🥇💎
Mini kitchen challenge 43/50
2025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎100 🏆2504 -
DD2 hasn't gone beyond giving any solid food a good sook. Today she deigned to put scrambled eggs in her mouth (horrified) and two tiny flakes of pastry from a sausage roll (tasty but didn't realise she had to chew or swallow, so dribbled back out)We went to an out of town shopping place as a family today, not particularly inspiring but I did manage to pick up some stocking fillers from the eye wateringly expensive shop that is Lu5h for Mrs E.This didn't feel like the most productive weekend ever but that's ok. I need to remember that there's no reason to feel guilty should I get the chance to relax (managed two half games of rugby on the TV yesterday) and that all my chores will be waiting for me
Since Friday I have been a dad, gone to my exercise, class roasted a ham, made 6 portions of beef stew, processed 4-5 loads of laundry, repaired and re-painted the window surround for the blind that didn't fit, put up the roman blind that did fit (it's lovely, a sort of abstract blue tweed), added corner protectors to all of our fire door openers so that we don't ding the walls when opening the doors and started filling the gap around the living room light switch where the electrician changed the old switch for a dimmer. All that on next to no sleep. My not productive is other people's quite productive, I realise this
No finance news, just a wee bit of virement.7 -
Too right that's productive, well done you ⭐⭐⭐2023: the year I get to buy a car5
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That's more than a busy weekend for me!Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
Current mortgage amount: £233.529.75
Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: £11.400.50; OP offset fund: £7505 -
Have fun. Hope the food doesn't end up on the walls as well as floors etc! My kids were little monsters for throwing things at that stageAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £175.8K Equity 32.38%
2) £4.3K Net savings after CCs 13/5/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £20.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.1K) = 26.3/£127.5K target 20.63% updated 16/5
4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
5) SIPP £4.4K updated 16/54 -
Hi Ed, we also had a quiet weekend, and it sounds like you got tons done. Our DD was very hard to wean she didn’t swallow anything until she was 9-months and hated being fed. DS was a total contrast he would eat buckets of anything you put near his mouth. CM5
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DD2 seems to quite enjoy cream cheese and is considering whether or not to accept a bottle (1/2 of 1 bottle accepted so far, 4 bottles offered)I have done nearly 16,000 steps already today and my Friday morning weights class (well 60% of it). I'm absolutely zonked and ready for the weekend. Not too much housework awaiting, but I really should finish off some minor bits of DIY and start my job application.Not too much to report in finance land. I have continued making PAD towards the larger of the 2 CCs and have got the total balance down to c. £5,700. I opened a new BT CC with 0% BT fee, 21 months @ 0% and 1% monthly repayments. I figured this would help our cashflow over the difficult year to come, although I'm still motivated to pay it off sooner. It's nice to have choices, eh? I'm just trying to be patient
New CC credit limit is £5,500, so I'll only be able to transfer £5,225. The plan is to pay off (at least) the £500 this leaves behind before Christmas and to let the new CC tick over with minimum payments for a month or two until I can come up with some money making wheeze. I may be successful with my insurance claim against Evri, which would be £200 or so. I'm also due backdated pay mid-December and am starting a wee bit of overtime soon, which should be very beneficial as it's £30+ an hour.
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Sounds like things are stabilising £ wise.
Well done on the steps.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £175.8K Equity 32.38%
2) £4.3K Net savings after CCs 13/5/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £20.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.1K) = 26.3/£127.5K target 20.63% updated 16/5
4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
5) SIPP £4.4K updated 16/54 -
DD2 just went for an unheard of 2+ hour nap£30.22 paid off CC2 (Only owe V1rg1n 75p this month after the usual overbill/underbill nonsense that happens when you renew your contract, £2 cashback from TCB, 63p cashback from Ch@5e and a few £ from my personal spends account). Feeling skint, glad I get paid on Tuesday.Think Mrs E and the kids are off to a wee fair thing at our local highstreet for the Christmas lights switch on, I am planning on staying behind to fit smoke detectors.7
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