2022 - Moving forward

BalanceBy50

Good luck with the yelling! I think my two are slightly older than yours (almost 10 & 7) and they are now being asked (told!) to help around the house. I find it easier & quicker to do it myself however I do not want them growing into adults who haven’t a clue about housework & we all live here too! My youngest loves to help but the oldest is quite lazy!

Good luck with the discount with your creditor! 

And finally we’ll done on no chocolate bars for 7 days that’s is something to celebrate 😁 xx

Chrystal

BalanceBy50 said:

Good luck with the yelling! I think my two are slightly older than yours (almost 10 & 7) and they are now being asked (told!) to help around the house. I find it easier & quicker to do it myself however I do not want them growing into adults who haven’t a clue about housework & we all live here too! My youngest loves to help but the oldest is quite lazy!

Good luck with the discount with your creditor! 

And finally we’ll done on no chocolate bars for 7 days that’s is something to celebrate 😁 xx

Love it... and it's so true.

Really well done on the chocolate bars... you've inspired me to knock all the cr @p that I've been eating on the head.  I think I've put about 3 stone on in the last few months ( to add to the 2 I was already carrying) and I desperately need to take back some control.  XXX

jwil

BalanceBy50 said:

Good luck with the yelling! I think my two are slightly older than yours (almost 10 & 7) and they are now being asked (told!) to help around the house. I find it easier & quicker to do it myself however I do not want them growing into adults who haven’t a clue about housework & we all live here too! My youngest loves to help but the oldest is quite lazy!

Good luck with the discount with your creditor! 

And finally we’ll done on no chocolate bars for 7 days that’s is something to celebrate 😁 xx

Not far off the same age!  9 1/2 and coming up for 7.  They are meant to tidy their room and make their beds, but aren't great about it, hence the yelling!  Little jwil is pretty good, but little miss is a trail of disaster!  Everything just gets dropped 😖  What are you getting them to do?  They like to help out with the hoovering sometimes.

Thank you, I'm amazed on the chocolate, I've never managed that before! (Apart from when I was pregnant with little jwil - I couldn't keep it down).

Chrystal said:

BalanceBy50 said:

Good luck with the yelling! I think my two are slightly older than yours (almost 10 & 7) and they are now being asked (told!) to help around the house. I find it easier & quicker to do it myself however I do not want them growing into adults who haven’t a clue about housework & we all live here too! My youngest loves to help but the oldest is quite lazy!

Good luck with the discount with your creditor! 

And finally we’ll done on no chocolate bars for 7 days that’s is something to celebrate 😁 xx

Love it... and it's so true.

Really well done on the chocolate bars... you've inspired me to knock all the cr @p that I've been eating on the head.  I think I've put about 3 stone on in the last few months ( to add to the 2 I was already carrying) and I desperately need to take back some control.  XXX

Thank you   And well done on cutting back.  I know it's so darned hard, and I'm worrying that this is a glitch and I'm going to fall back into my old habits.  I must get some positive thinking on!  Good luck with it though.

jwil

Well I've had quite a good day today despite playing hokey cokey with the washing and the rain!

My yelling has partially worked for 5 minutes and the kids have a clear bedroom floor again.  I've tackled some of the piles downstairs so it's looking much tidier.  I managed to hoover as well.  I've filled the recycling with crafts done by little miss - she is VERY prolific as well as messy!  I keep a few of my favourite bits, and she loses interest as soon as she's made it.

I've done a bit of gardening this afternoon, planted out some lavender and done some weeding.  A few weeks ago I threw some wildflower seeds down on a patch of garden that used to be a rockery but is all bare and lots of the soil has washed away.  It has been covered with poppies for a while which have spread from elsewhere, but looking at it today, there's loads of other flowers in there now.  It's great!  Once it's all died down, I've got an old tyre so I can turn that patch into a planter without all the soil washing away.

These little bursts of activity are really making a difference to the look of the house and garden!

savingholmes

The wildflowers sound nice

jwil

savingholmes said:

The wildflowers sound nice

Thank you, they are lovely!  I'm so surprised they grew considering I pretty much just threw the seeds on top of rock solid soil!

jwil

Today's PAD - £2

Jan - £126

Feb - £106

Mar - £136

Apr - £122

May - £113

June - £63

jwil

Little jwil is coughing his head off again.  He seems to be getting a string of colds at the moment!  I think I'm getting it too, happy days

I was looking online to try and see what cough medicine might be suitable for kids, and spotted I could have some delivered same day by the rainforest people.  So I've ordered that, saves me having to travel to find a pharmacy.  We've tried anti histamines, honey, and drinking lots, but he was up most of the night, so just looking for something to try and soothe it again.

He was worried it was covid again, so we tested and it's not thankfully.

So we won't be doing much today!  I'll take little miss with me to see my folks for a bit, but he will stay at home with DH.  I might go to the farm shop and get some of their doughnuts for a treat.  Eton mess doughnut sounds fab! 

Day 8 today without chocolate, still not really missing it which seems weird.

savingholmes

Hope your DS gets better soon - and doesn't spread it!

Enjoy your trip to see your folks

jwil

savingholmes said:

Hope your DS gets better soon - and doesn't spread it!

Enjoy your trip to see your folks

Thank you.  I hope he doesn't spread it too!