I've consciously tried to slow life down for us all this week after the slightly frantic pace of the last few weeks because it's become more and more obvious just how tired the kids are right now - one night they both came in from school and one went for a lie down while the other fell asleep on the settee!It's only to be expected I guess as we've been doing so much with all of the end of term things going on and thinking about it, it seems worse than the last few years as they're in different schools now so we have two lots of everything to go to.I almost booked a cheeky week away to … [Read more...]
How to Survive Year 7! By someone who just did….
Earlier this week I challenged Miss Frugal to come up with a list of things that she thought would help someone who would be starting Year 7 in September and this is what she's come up with.Before you read them though, I'd just like to point out that this is based on her experience and I haven't changed any of them. The may be a few sneaky tips in there that break a few teeny tiny rules though. Obviously I don't condone the breaking of any school rules but I don't think the world will end if she checks her phone every now and again.She's clearly good at breaking the rules she does … [Read more...]
Dear so and so – the end of term edition….
To my amazing daughter,We both kind of expected your first year of senior school to get off to a shaky start didn't we? After all you didn't know anyone at your new school and being as shy as you were we thought you would struggle a little until you found your feet.I've never been so pleased to be wrong in my life!You met a great group of girls on your first day and you've become firm friends with them all but even better than that, you've continued to make friends and you now have a huge amount of friends as your phone will testify to with it's non stop beeping after … [Read more...]
My Week {12th July 2015}….
This last week has been the busiest week I can remember in a long time!Here's the highlights.... Tuesday Master Frugal's school had an open afternoon on Tuesday where parents were invited to go in and spend some time with the children at school. We sat together and looked through his workbooks and he proudly told me his levels which are amazing but I hate that children are told their levels in front of their classmates. They shouldn't feel like they're doing worse/better than others at such a young age in my opinion.I went straight from the open afternoon to Miss Frugal's end of … [Read more...]
Stay organised and save money this Summer….
As always, we're counting down the days to the Summer Holidays this year (19 sleeps for us) and we can't wait for the freedom that the holidays always bring - no early mornings for the kids, no school, no homework, no early nights and even better than all of that is the three weeks holiday I have coming up!I don't know about you but in the past we've tried to fit so much in to our time off that we've been exhausted rather than refreshed by the time September comes around! Last year was a bit different for us though as we tried to have a bit of a lazy Summer which meant that, although we … [Read more...]
My Week {5th July 2015}….
This picture pretty much sums up this last week for me - lots of time in the garden, lots of work to get through and lots of time spent with the kids! It's been such a gorgeous week this week hasn't it? So nice in fact that I've spent most of my week (when I haven't been asleep or at work) sat outside in the garden.My garden isn't the biggest and it certainly isn't the prettiest right now but I have a nice little spot in the shade where my table and chairs are set up and I've really enjoyed sitting out there watching the kids play on the trampoline and putting down all of the ideas that … [Read more...]
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