Mooloo's struggle with babies and bills

LilySue

Hi Mooloo, I have only recently joined this site and started reading this thread during my coffee break this morning...ended up being a very long coffee break:D . I just wanted to say I think you are doing fantastically well, I hope you are all very happy in your new home.

Savvy_sewing

LilySue wrote: »

Hi Mooloo, I have only recently joined this site and started reading this thread during my coffee break this morning...ended up being a very long coffee break:D . I just wanted to say I think you are doing fantastically well, I hope you are all very happy in your new home.

Hi Lilysue. Thanks. I dont know how you could be bothered to wade through my ramblings.!! :rolleyes:
Life has certainly been eventful for me. But things I hope will be better for the rest of 2008.
I went into work today. Dont feel that I have been away for 5 months anymore. But I do feel that the place is definitely in need of a lot of my attention, and I really need to be there longer than my alotted 4 hours at the moment. But if I do that I will be too worn out to do anything else.! I was supposed to work 9.45 to 1.45. I started 9.15 and I was still there at 3.15!. So I must set my alarm 15 mins before I am due to leave so that I am aware of the time, and finish off what I am doing for that day and get out of there. There is enough work to keep me there all day and all night!!. I definitely need to recruit more volunteers there is just too much to do, and not enough volunteers to do it with me. Thats always a problem in Charity, people are few and far between who will willingly give up thier free time to help a good cause.!
The down side of going to work, means that I have come home to .... absolutely nothing done at all. Not a dish washed, not a floor hoovered, not a wash load moved on.!! So I am currently having a cup of tea and sitting in front of the little tv in my well earned sitting room, and I am not moving until they sort it out.!!
Twin 1 didnt go anywhere today, and is still in her night wear. Twin2 did take DS to dentist, then she had a meeting at Connexions and her baby club, and then she was in town with a new friend she has met at the baby club. So she has just arrived home in the last 5 minutes. Mind you she is bearing baby goodies from her club, so I will let her off!!! Bubble bath, baby shampoo, bath thermometer, socket safety stuff, door locks, etc so not so bad. One or two less things for me to have to purchase. ( not letting her off the housework though!)
DS had 2 fillings done, and then had tootheache for the rest of the day, and he didnt go to school. I have told him I will be ringing the school to find out what he was missing to re study.
Unfortunately it means that I have not been back home intime to start to chase up the numbers for re homing my dog. So thats another thing on the priority list for tomorrow.
Just had to pay the landlord a months rent short fall, the council didnt pay on benefits. So this month I have spent out on the shortfall on two places, and thats £208.22 more than was budgeted for. :mad:
Lean month coming up, as the landlord expects the same amount next week for Marchs payment. Due on the 1st.
That store cupboard challenge I mentioned earlier, either here or on Hypno's thread is going to be a bit of a must.!
Second cup of tea needed, and then arm myself with a note book and stock count the food cupboard before I do the tesco shopping list. What can we feed ourselves on and still have a variety of decent grub. I dont think I could face living off of Pasta every day!!
Catch you all later. xx

Savvy_Sue

Mooloo, this is just a thought, but are either of the girls claiming any benefits? And if they are, would either of them be eligible for a crisis loan, I think from the Social Fund? I know it needs to be paid back, but the repayments are very small, and I am sure you could think of things it was needed for in a new home - although they don't check what you ACTUALLY spend it on so if you said you needed a bed, for example, and then got one from Freecycle, you'd have a bit more to feed the family with.

BTW, you're quite right to sit down with a cuppa when you get home from work, and let them sort the mess out. Even with toothache your son can help out a bit, and even with babies the place can be left tidy!

Savvy_sewing

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Mooloo, this is just a thought, but are either of the girls claiming any benefits? And if they are, would either of them be eligible for a crisis loan, I think from the Social Fund? I know it needs to be paid back, but the repayments are very small, and I am sure you could think of things it was needed for in a new home - although they don't check what you ACTUALLY spend it on so if you said you needed a bed, for example, and then got one from Freecycle, you'd have a bit more to feed the family with.

BTW, you're quite right to sit down with a cuppa when you get home from work, and let them sort the mess out. Even with toothache your son can help out a bit, and even with babies the place can be left tidy!

Hi Savvy_Sue,
Yes the girls are on Income Support, but I think we can manage without a crisis loan. Twin2 is still paying back loans she had with the boyfriend and they are taking £12.+ a week so her income is pretty low. I would rather we dont borrow anything anymore. Having been bankrupt I am wary of having to borrow, but I do appreciate your advice. It is something to bare in mind if things get too hard. I should be paid at the end of the week, so I will just be careful and we will be fine. (I hope).

I never did do the stock count, or order from Tesco, I am slipping, I didnt feel very well and I did the evening meal, using up odds and sodds and then I went to bed. Think I was in bed at about 8 last night.

I was at Physio this morning, she is concerned about me doing too much at work, so I will set that alarm and get out of there on time tomorrow.

I was going to go back to bed as I felt lousy, but I want to go and see my DBF tonight, so I am working my way through it!. Went for a walk to the local shopping centre with twin1 and BabyP. It was quite sunny and nice. We decided to just get the basics that we needed and not do a tesco shop yet. Never know we may manage until the 1st with it now. Only a few days to go. Our Wilkinsons shop has started to sell food stuffs. I am not sure if the prices were as good as the major supermarkets or not, but the milk was £1.12 in Wilkinsons and the Kingsmill 50/50 was 99p. In the co-op the milk was £1.38 and the bread £1.23. So I saved on that. I should have used the bread maker, but I couldnt wait that long for a loaf of bread. Slipped organisation has done that.

Well its time yet again to do the dinner for tonight. Easy tonight, cold sliced gammon ham I cooked last night, and potatoes and peas. Couldnt be easier.

Savvy_Sue

Generally you'll find Wilkinsons prices are good. The problem is all the other tat you might be tempted to pick up! It's not all tat, of course, but some of it is!

Savvy_sewing

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Generally you'll find Wilkinsons prices are good. The problem is all the other tat you might be tempted to pick up! It's not all tat, of course, but some of it is!

Oh yes I realise that one, my girls are even better than me at buying "tat".
But we did resist yesterday. Just.

Savvy_sewing

Oh what a day!.
Was at the BF's and walked the dog this morning, but he decided to run off and chase two other big dogs, so there I was in my wellies and a Liz Claybourne suit, running across the fields yelling "stay" and off he was cavorting with the other dogs!. I did feel a numpty.!!! :eek: Eventually when I got him back it was take him back, check the email and off to work.
So much for my 4 hours a day. I did get to work at the time I was supposed to. No early work as I had promised myself. But there was so much to do, I had planned to stay for an extra hour as I am off tomorrow, but I was still grappling with some paperwork when my assistant manager rang up and just told me, not only wasnt she going to be in tomorrow but that she was taking the next two weeks off to look for a house!. :mad: (thanks for the warning, and at a time when I am supposed to not do much, and my part time assistant doesnt know it all yet.!! Great.) Part of me wants to moan like the clappers then of course the other part reminds me that she has covered the shop for nearly 5 months without me there.:T So I have to understand. Its just that it has come at a time when there are things in my diary that I just have got to attend, and I cannot change. So it looks like my 16 hour week is short lived.!! The shop is open 7 1/2 hours, but with jobs to do before we open and also ones after that means I may be doing at least 9 hours aday. Oh and possibly 6 days. Next week anyway. Sharpe learning curve for new assistant needed. ( and if anyone reading this works in a charity shop they will know that is a conservative estimate of the time they are actually there) . Thats what made me off sick in the first place. Too much to do, and too may heavy things to deal with!.
If I thought that was a bad enough blow I got a text message to say that the dog had done a "business" in the front room of DBF house!. Apparantly he has done it the last few days. (Probably since I had stayed and then gone again?) Any way that was embarassing, as he didnt ever soil the flat, not even when he had an upset stomach. He always attracted attention to go out. BF's eldest son was in the house at the time so why didnt he let him out? Anyway I went from work to there to sort it out. Re tried the Dogs Trust and the RSPCA, but both closed. So I will have to try again on Friday, because I am in London tomorrow for a makeover. One of those things you end up with from ticking boxes on Pigs back or something. Anyway my eldest daughter and I are going to make a day of it. I am determind that I will get through my phobia about travelling on the tube, and that I will cope with crowds and that we will have a good time.
Now its time for me to go and look through my wardrobe for something suitable for being captured on camera, and of course will fit!!:rolleyes:

Ellidee

Hope you enjoy your day tomorrow Mooloo you deserve a real pamper.

troglodyte

Hi Mooloo, I have been reading your thread on and off and following your ups and downs. I think you cope really well with everything!
I just read that you work in the BHF shop in Oxford - is that the one in Headington? I often come in there so I'm wondering if I'll meet you!
As Savvy Sue mentioned, do you know about Freecycle? The Oxford group is really popular and there are always lots of things being passed around on that, especially children's things. You might be able to pick up some nice stuff for the babies.
All the best - hope you had a lovely day today!

Savvy_sewing

Ellidee wrote: »

Hope you enjoy your day tomorrow Mooloo you deserve a real pamper.

Hello, I am back from my travels. Travel weary but happy. We had a good day, the connections with all the buses and tubes etc couldnt have worked out better if we had tried. :j But we were surprised at how long the "makeover" and photo shoot was. We didnt get a chance to pop up at any other place in London to see the sights. We missed lunch and it was around 5.30 when we managed to grab a bite to eat in a pizza express in Farringdon.
I have to say a big thankyou to my No.1 Daughter for making my day. :T :T :T It was a good day, quality time spent with her, and a few decent photos of us to boot!!. (Expensive though!) Glad I wasnt paying for it all.!:D
I must admit I feel very strange with so much makeup on. As i dont normally do much more than look at a blush brush, and a lippy occasionally. But I do feel like a glamourous granny after all. Twins were both able to cope while I was out, even though they didnt cook the meal I suggested and had a cheese sandwich for thier evening meal. (On top of snacks by the looks of things). Oh well it wont kill them to not have a cooked meal for once.
Now I must get back from my day of pampering and start to get the chores here and at work back on track.

No I am not working in the Headington Shop, I work in Town Centre. Occasionally have helped out in Cowley. But I am usually found dashing about the one in St Ebbes.

I will log on to freecycle and see what I need to do to find the things I want for the babies. We do get a few things in the shop, and I get 25% discount so I can usually buy a few bargains but its a case of waiting to see what surprises come in the door.

Tomorrow will be back to earth with a bump I think what with such a magical day today. We laughed all through the photo shoot, there were some good pictures of my daughter, it was a pity we couldnt afford to buy the lot, but we will have our memories to remind us of a girly day out. We havent spent a day together in a very long time. I just hope the twins dont feel put out. I think that on Monday night after work I will have to see if I can do a makeover and take some photos of them if DBF lets me still borrow his camera. We could have a good laugh I think.
:rotfl: :rotfl:
Starting to feel tired now. But at least I am not cold now. I was freezing most of the day. I didnt take a warm enough coat. Twins are just retreating upstairs with a couple of yelling babies. So its peaceful down here in my little sitting room. No tv on. Just me and the laptop and a herbal heat pad on my neck. I think I turned my head a little bit too far on one of the shots. I did say to the photographer I cant turn my head anymore, my physio would be having kittens!.

Now wonder if I have anything that will take this make up off? I dont have anything to hand. Wonder if the twins have anything. Or will it be a bit of Babyoil on the tissues? probably.!!