I don't know about you but life can be chaotic around here sometimes!Take this coming week for example, I have to remember some important work meetings, what shifts Mr Frugal is working, the early finish and the non uniform day for Miss Frugal, a family fun day that needs cakes, raffle prizes and money for Master Frugal, numerous after school clubs, a lunch date with a friend and a dentists appointment for the kids. Oh, and an appointment for the dog with the groomers.Granted, next week is slightly busier than normal but even a normal week required more juggling than a clown to make … [Read more...]
My Week {28th June 2015}….
I do love blogging, I really do. But sometimes I get caught up in it all and forget the one reason why I started blogging. You see, I didn't start blogging for all you lovely readers (although you're an amazing added bonus) and I didn't start blogging to make money or to be the best.I started blogging to keep a diary of sorts about the things we get up to as a family because it's more important to me than I can explain in a sentence that we have a record of our happy memories. But lately, we've made memories that I haven't shared on here because I didn't think the things we've done would … [Read more...]
Time Traveller – Disneyland Paris 2009….
This week I'm joining in with Marianne and her fantastic Time Traveller linky and I'm going to share one of our pre-blog holidays with you. We used to travel quite a lot when the kids were younger and even more so before we had them as I was a travel agent when I was younger and we took full advantage of the holiday freebies I was offered.I've got boxes of holiday photos in the garage and Miss Frugal and I often like to sit and look through them and there's so many that I could have chosen to share today but I chose this one because it's my happiest holiday memory. Disneyland Paris … [Read more...]
Can you be a friend to your daughter as well as her parent?
Miss Frugal is almost 13 now and I think we have a great mother and daughter relationship.We're also friends.Now, I know some of you will be shaking your head at me saying that we're friends because I see lots of people saying that they're a parent and not a friend to their children and although I understand why people say that, I don't agree at all.Don't get me wrong though, I am a parent first and I always make decisions with my parent hat on but I do believe that there's a way to be both a parent and a friend to my daughter by sticking to a few simple guidelines. I respect … [Read more...]
School residential trips – certainly not Frugal but are they worth the money?
Master Frugal left last Monday morning for a three night trip to Edinburgh with his classmates.The trip cost around £150 and we were told that £40 would be a good amount of spending money to send them. It seemed like a lot of money when we first signed the permission slip last year but he was so desperate to go with his friends that saying no was never an option!Fast forward to last Monday morning and as I dropped him off at school at the ridiculously early hour of 6am, I knew that I wasn't ready for him to go away for that long without me and to be honest, I didn't think he was ready … [Read more...]
I’m not ready….
This morning I dropped Master Frugal off at school (at the ridiculous time of 6am might I add) for his first school residential.He's going away for three nights which is by far the longest I've been away from him before and if I'm honest, as he rushed on to the coach with all of his friends laughing and chatting at the tops of their voices about how much fun they were going to have, a teeny tiny tear may have escaped.I just don't think I'm ready for him to grow up yet.I'm worrying now about what he'll eat, whether he'll miss me, who'll hug him if he hurts himself and most … [Read more...]
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