Complicated life
*** Please enjoy this random photo of some art I bought yesterday. It has nothing to do with my post but I like to add a picture with each blog 🙂** Life is feeling hard right now. I know and...
View ArticleThursday
It's been a bit of a busy day. It started bright and early with our neighbour knocking on the door asking to borrow some milk as they'd run out. I passed them the end of the 6pint bottle we had as...
View ArticleFamily news
It's all been a bit epic here in the Frugal household! Poor DH has just returned home from a 2 week (almost...12 days!) Hospital stay. We've had to cope with brushes with sepsis, the possibility of...
View ArticleIt's Thursday
Good evening 😊 Thank you all the kind messages and good wishes for DH. He says he feels a little better each day but is getting quite frustrated with his lack of movement. He is okay doing things with...
View ArticleThat Friday feeling
It's Friday! Another week survived 😊This morning I popped the children to school and then had a reading cafe session with DD3. It was lovely to have some 1:1 time together. She really does have such a...
View ArticleSchool Christmas Fayre
Today we took a trip to our Primary schools annual school fayre. The PTA alway put on a great range of things to see and do, this year was no exception.We of course had to visit the Santa's grotto ☺️...
View ArticleEaster half term begins
Hello Strangers.It's been such a long time since I last found a moment to blog. It had crossed my mind a few times lately to come back here and try to get back into the habit of Blogging our little...
View ArticleFriday
Friday was spent mostly at home. A neighbour of our has been struggling a little with life lately and I've been trying to help out. So on weekdays once I've gotten up and sorted my own household...
View ArticleSaturday
Today we all took a soggy walk into Eastleigh for our first free event of half term. All 5 of the children happily joined in with the Easter wreath making, I couldn't resist a photo of them taking up...
View ArticleSunday - Wednesday
Sunday's mean church for our family so that's where we spent the morning. We were all invited to take communion which isn't something we regularly do during our services, but we were in preparation...
View ArticleEaster Sunday
This beautiful little lady turned 5 yesterday so it's been a little bit of a topsy turvy Easter. We spent the morning at church for the Easter service where we'd been asked to run the kitchen at short...
View ArticleBaking experiments and mystery boxes
I had a lovely suprise this morning when a parcel arrived out of blue from my friend Angela from Tracing Rainbows.A whole box stuffed with ribbons, thread, stickers, card, and all sorts magical things...
View ArticleCoronation weekend
This weekend has been wonderful. On Saturday I put on a little coronation buffet and invited my parents to watch all the goings on with us. We toasted the King with a glass of champagne as the Red...
View ArticleFlower power
I picked up a tray of 20 mixed marigolds for £2.99 a few days ago. I couldn't resist them at such a good price. Yesterday I gave the front garden a good sweep, refreshed the teapots, jugs and planters...
View ArticleNot our greatest week
This week has felt like a bit of a disaster. Our car needed repairs, two of our children have been having difficulties at school and we needed to use the local food bank.It's all felt a bit...
View ArticleIt's getting warm again
Today has been very warm and a little bit busy. We had fun though. Miss W was very kindly invited to a birthday party by one of her school friends so while she was attending that I took the other 4...
View ArticleBack to school
The three smallest humans all headed back to school today. Mr G is in year 4, Miss W in Year 1 and Miss C has started preschool.Which means once the older two go back to school tomorrow I will be...
View ArticleTuesday
The eldest two went back to school today which meant I spent most of the day thinking it was Monday when it obviously isn't! It was just me and Miss C for the day.I'm not very happy with Miss C at the...
View ArticleSaturday
We have completed our first week of back to school. Everyone seems to have had a nice time and though there's been a few hiccups here and there, it could have been much worse! On Friday I survived...
View ArticleGetting into the swing of it
As much as I still dislike it, I am getting used to having free time during the week while the children are all at school. This morning after I visited the community pantry and had sorted the house I...
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