Today was a proud day in our house.It was the day that Miss Frugal was finally awarded 'Official Helper' status. She gets a shiny green badge of her own to wear on her school jumper and she is so proud of the fact that she's been given this badge that I'm sure she'll be wearing it with pride every day.She's been after one of these coveted badges for ages but all the important jobs were taken so she had to wait for an opening and today, one of the other girls was controversially sacked from her job so a vacancy became unexpectedly available.There was much arguing at school over who … [Read more...]
A new skill for life….
I've just discovered a disturbing fact about Miss Frugal!She can make herself cry convincingly - in any situation - in less than 20 seconds!This newly discovered talent does worry me a little as I'm never going to know if she's genuinely upset about something or if she's just faking it. But at the same time, I'm secretly a little proud having just watched her in action.She's just done it when her Dad said we might be too busy to take her ice skating at the weekend. Her eyes welled up and her bottom lip shook as she explained that it was OK if we didn't take her, she understood … [Read more...]
Three things I’ve learned today….
1. I am not, and never will be one of those sophisticated types who eats Sushi for lunch. Yuck, Yuck, Yuck!2. It's probably best not to get your car serviced by a garage next to a river during the rainy season just in case the river floods and the garage has to be evacuated leaving you stranded without your car until the garage reopens. This was my car when I finally got to pick it up after three days without it!3. If you do happen to be without your car during the above mentioned rainy season and have to get the train to work, it's highly likely that your feet will get so wet … [Read more...]
The Gallery – the cutest eyes in the world….
My little Buddy is two this week so when I saw that the theme of this week's gallery was 'eyes', I decided it was the perfect opportunity to share lots of pictures of him with you all seeing as he's got the most expressive eyes I've ever known a dog to have (obviously this could be a little biased as he's mine)....You can tell when what mood he's in just by looking into his little puppy dog eyes! We bought Buddy for Miss Frugal really as she's being asking for a dog for as long as I can remember. When we made the decision to get a dog, we did a lot of research into what sort of dog we … [Read more...]
Holidays are coming….
Christmas has officially started in our house.It actually started a week last Saturday when the Coca Cola advert was on during one of the ad breaks in X Factor - my Twitter and Facebook streams went mad for a little while after the advert had been on because everyone knows that the Coca Cola advert heralds the start of the festive season*.If I get this excited about an advert of a truck, can you imagine how excited I was to find out that that the real truck was going to be quite close to where we live on it's tour of the UK?Our adventure started like this:What my friend … [Read more...]
The most awesome day ever in the history of the world….
Today was supposed to have been a bit of a quiet day at home.It's seven years today since my Mam died and I've been feeling a bit down all week just knowing that the day was coming up. But instead of staying at home and dwelling on it, we went ice skating with some good friends and we had an amazing time.Master Frugal took two steps on the ice and decided that it wasn't for him but after watching everyone else, he decided that he was missing out and got himself back on the ice. Over the two and a half hours we were there, the improvement in his confidence was amazing and he can now … [Read more...]
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