Aim to get mortgage down before increasing again

Well it's the last day of the year and I have just found out what our mortgage balance is - it's £28091.27 + £31314.15 which gives a total of £59405.42 which I'm happy with and will continue in 2017 to do overpayment as much as I can without impacting too much on family life. Upon looking at my statement which gave the balance as at 31dec 2015 it was £68334.03 so in 2017 we have managed to pay off £8928.61 so very happy with this.
I have joined up the mfw17 challenge but only set my target at £2000 due to extension plans if this happens.

I'm going to try to note all my grocery spends and see what we actually spend as I allocate £300 but not sure if this is correct and then we can see if I can better it as money seems to run out of the account fairly quickly.

Off out to friends tonight with our own bottle and the kids will be happy playing with their kids - 3 families together so should be a good night. Tomorrow New Year's Day we are visiting my mums for dinner so will look in the freezer for dinner on Monday. Hubble goes back to work on Tuesday which seems very short but at least he has been off work right through. Kids back to school on 9th Jan and I'm back to work on 11th Jan - got a week to go. Kids are sleeping in to about 8.15am which is good in our household. Hope everyone has a nice Hogmanay and New Year's Day. C u in 2017.

Well I'm on for a rant. Hubble and I had a wee discussion last night when friends over about the extension. After they left it continued and I feel like hitting my head off a brick wall. I only want to get extra borrowing from mortgage lender of £60k and no more as this would take our mortgage up to £120k - never been this high and then if need more money then use our savings, but Hubble wants to get all money from lender. We are doubling our mortgage and do not want to increase any more due to talk of increasing costs and so we can still have a family life, last year I cut back on overpaying to a smaller amount to put more in the savings as this is what I was thinking about - I should not have bothered. Hubble does not see this. He did not know how' much savings we have so I told him this as well as how much hopefully will be there later in the year when we are hoping to do this extension. We have enough to use as well as a emergency money but he only wants to use the isa money for holidays. We have only used isa money for big holiday last year as holidays are paid for elsewhere - what is the point of me continuing to save for nothing as well as overpaying when he not bothered how big the mortgage will be.
Still awaiting from builder so once this comes in then we can have another discussion/argument about this. My thinking is that the building and new kitchen/bathroom and ensuite costs will be about £60k or over so we can use mortgage money as well as £15k from savings for continguies and decorating/furniture etc. Time will tell if this extension still goes ahead as it seems Hubble just wants to disagree with me most of the time about this. I would happily skip over this and the building period as it will be stressful.

Well we have booked our 5day holiday in caravan at sandy bay. Gets reasonable reviews so looking forward to this in July. Friends also going to the same park so it means we have good company for evening entertainment for us and the kids. It's near Whitley bay so it will be good to go back and see this as we went about 4yrs ago.

Made another overpayment of £30 today from Tilly tally. Think this is the final amount for January. Hubble seems to think he will be paid this week so I can plan what to overpay soon.
Due to open the vantage account next Monday and got money waiting to transfer and get more interest. Just need to sort out the 2 Dd in febuary so that I can start to get interest in March. I just hope the terms and conditions don't change in the near future.