The mindful MFW: A healthy, happy journey to a mortgage free life!

It is looking yoghurty! Thin, but definitely yoghurt rather than milk! :j

Had a really nice evening - a delicious dinner, with great company. Stuck to pre-paid voucher so only £2.50 spent on service from personal account, and £19 refund from buying friend's voucher. Will definitely keep an eye out for more deals there.

Before dinner I collected Sylvanians that we ordered for DD2's Christmas present and also found some of the more elusive Shopm!um freebies. £2.98 worth of refunds submitted and receipts snapped. ETA: An extra £1.19 refunded, probably due to referral bonus :j!

£3.63 to add to the grocery bill for two packs of sandwich fillings and bread.

£3.85 claimed via tcb and sent to mortgage account ready for OP.

Wedding invite declined and now to hang out one load before bed. Night all!

MW x

Thanks Better, its a bit grainy so kids might be funny about it but I'll have some for breakfast tomorrow .

Thanks too PP, will keep you updated.

Terrible night yesterday, ended up until 2am. DD1 had a bad day at school and got her cleaning cloth wedged in her flute so a lot of drama, angry tears and a list of all the things I have neglected to do for her in the last few weeks.

Good news is OH got cloth out today (after I spent time ringing round flute fixers but at least we didn't have that unexpected expense!); I have 2 school skirts to collect for her from M&S on Monday (free with some more of voucher got for complaining) :money:; and her new grade 5 flute book has just arrived from Am@zon prime (paid with voucher credit already on account). DD1 is much happier, especially as I gave her a congrats card for her merit on her last flute exam and put £10 in her account (not budgeted for).

One of the things that is getting me down is my weight gain due to medication, I wore something to work yesterday that made me feel fat and scruffy. Saw a few things online I like that should work now and due to style also when lose weight, but haven't budgeted for so need to think a bit longer about it.

Ch!ld benefit appears to have hit account, is more than usual and also earlier so am hoping its the back payment :j! It's also £60ish more than I guestimated which is great news.

Boots collected from cobblers, three pairs now ready for winter and £11.85 outstanding cost settled (from budget).

I also collected some kiddie snacks to test for panel, which tried after dinner, and a free reusable coffee cup that got from buying two packs of biscuits from Waitr0se last month. It's so much nicer than I imagined, costs £15 to buy :eek: and its bright yellow lid and grip has made me very happy .

Met friend for lunch, £10 from personal account for yummy vegan tapas, and an £8 Mr T shop for basics on the way back. Shocked by how much bread and milk we're getting through right now!

Had some 1:1 time with DS this afternoon playing in his room too. Just relaxing together now before bedtime/ meeting a friend for a drink.

Did some of the mail training whilst couldn't sleep last night so just need to prepare my first test parcels for sending this week.

Considering how awful I felt last night today has been a good day. I've also hit 10k steps thanks to all the errands, which is great for me for a weekend.