I know it's only 2pm, so anything can happen, but I cannot believe how nice the hours between 6am and 2pm have been so far.
I think signing Ezra up for Saturday morning tennis was definitely the right call. It feels so anchoring to have something to plan the weekend around. Last week I took Lily with me, this week I took Aubrey. While Ezra was in his lesson Aubrey and I walked to some charity shops on the hunt for Christmas decorations. I had a mega win of a bunch of christmas stuff for only £15! We have at least 4 new light sets and also a giant bag of tinsel.
Lest you think I'm a frugal dream, Ezra and Aubrey and I then went to the grocery store to buy nappies and spent £50 on random stuff (well only £35 on random, £15 was needed nappies)
I've started letting Ezra ride in the front seat sometimes.
It's fun having him next to me in the car and he loves picking the radio. He was astonished to learn that you cannot chose songs when listening to radio, you can just choose stations. Also, you can't pause the stations. The music plays when you are not listening. His little mind was blown.
Part of the reason I've felt so behind and chaotic on my photo albums recently is that I do one album per kid, per year (from their birthday to their birthday) and then one album for the whole family. All the kids had birthdays in September and October. Because I didn't fully finish the kids albums I hadn't started new albums, but also some kids needed new albums sooner and some twins are born right at the end of the month. I didn't want to start their next albums until finishing the last ones, but I wasn't really sure where I was on all of them. Of course, this was easily solved with a google sheet:
Aubrey and Clara both have pretty sad winter colds right now, so they are a bit sad and tired. They went down for a nap and then I got some time to work on photo albums project.
But first I enjoyed my last pumpkin biscotti from Trader Joes
I managed to complete and print all 4 kids albums (some were basically done already) and now I just need to work on setting up all of their new albums and updating for October and November. And finish the family album for October and November.
The place we order books from had a 50% discount on books, so I ordered all 4 plus a copy of last year's family album for a family member that requested it
Hopefully this evening we can finish (and order) our family calendar.
Aubrey and Clara will wake up soon and we'll have to think of afternoon entertainment. We might go look at a bunch of christmas lights. The weather is atrocious but we are unlikely to last in the house until bedtime.
I spend a lot of time complaining about kid stuff here so hopefully this post balances some of that whine-ness from me...
What's your latest charity/thrift shop win? Do you shop at zero waste stores?
Hi, this is Daria
ReplyDeleteWe don’t shop at zero waste anything, sadly. I just get by with our usual stuff from the big bad stores: Walmart, Aldi, Amazon. It’s sad but I simply have no extra energy to research where that store is, if it exists, and then go there. I need to stop adding errands to my list.
Oh, we do other a bag that we fill with kids’ and our clothes and send it for recycling. I forget what that company is called. It’s quite expensive but at least there is a guarantee that clothes will be recycled. We used to drop clothes into the donation bin but those are overflowing and not positive that the clothes does not go into trash.
I’ve never heard of a zero waste shop, but I love the concept. Do you bring your own spice jars to refill? Do they sell bread and milk? Do you bring your own containers? I’m so curious.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the major savings on the albums. Do you give them to the kids, or will they stay with you when the kids grow up and move out?