Baking and worries.

I've been baking with my two smallest people. It helps me think, not sure why, but that's what it does.

DH is being moved at work to lower paid job. It's pretty devestating to January's finances and throws our planned budget for the year out of the window. 2020 it seems wasn't finished screwing people over 😔

Being Christmas we made mince pies using things from the cupboards. There wasn't quite enough margerine so I added a smidge of oil to stretch it out a bit.

We don't have a rolling pin so I used a clean jam jar, and I can't find any circle cutters though I swear I've got some somewhere. I raided the playdough equipment for the square cutter but it did the job nicely.

Hopefully my little herd of children will enjoy these in the morning. The Elves are going to "make" them overnight as a suprise.

Because that what we do in Spurrier house, we keep calm and carry on! 

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Teacher gifts on a budget

 

We've spent the afternoon wrapping and decorating gifts the children's various teachers, TAs and support staff. 

Our budget was £10 for everything.

6x Chocolates - £6

4 for £1 votive candles x 3 - £3

We used paper from our scrapstore stash to wrap the chocolates which we then decorated with felt tips.

The candles we wrapped in pink tissue paper which came with one of Baby C's baby gifts back in July.

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Family update

 

Poor Gman has been in the wars. 

He had a fall in the school playground and someone landed on him. The result is a fractured bone in his foot and a cast for 6 weeks minimum. 

My poor baby.

It's certainly made lockdown 2 a bit more interesting than we were expecting!

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Itchen Valley

 

We took full advantage of the break in the horrible weather to visit a local country park.

The original plan was to buy one of the trail packs and complete the Halloween trail, but the queue to purchase one was horrendous. 

Instead we mostly worked out the trail by ourselves by just following the crowds going around it.

Baby C took her usual supervisory role very seriously as you can see. She certainly attracted plenty of nature as I was pulling leaves and things off her all day 🤣

We took our own supply of drinks and snacks from home so today only ended up costing us £4 in parking fees. 

Though my budget for washing powder may  need to be stretched futher 🤣

Everyone came home muddy, tired and happy. It was a wonderful trip out.

Fingers crossed we can get another nice day this week to have adventures on.

Take care.

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Thursday Thrifting

 Pinch Punch it's the 1st of the month. White Rabbits, White Rabbits.

 Today has been a busy yet rewarding day. First we took a car load of donations to our favourite charity shop in West End. Some of it was refused as they are drowning in books currently. 

A quick mooch found a set of stacking mugs, which is something thats been on my wish list for a while, for £1. I noticed when I got home they were from M&S!

The ceramic egg was 5p! I'm planning to turn it into a little spring planter for the dining table. Possibly with some grape hyacinths and narcissus.

Dinner was a new recipe from Pinterest. I found while researching what to make with a tin of butter beans. Thise photo above is of the results a delicious Sausage and Butterbean cassorole. It went down very well with everyone, although we told the children they were just giant baked beans when they started poking at it suspiciously 😂

Definitely a recipe I'll be making again.

My late afternoon was spent setting up our new school stuff system. It replaces our old system of "what do you mean it was thère yesterday?" 

We will test it out tomorrow and try to iron out any kinks over the weekend.

Not a bad start to October!

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Upgrade

 

 Miss C is getting a bit to wriggly for her moses basket these days so thanks to The Treasured Trash Network and DH, she now has a cosy new coat to slumber in 🥰 

 I'm also switching her 0-3 clothes out for 3-6 clothes. Oh why do they have to grow so fast?

 #3monthsold #gettingbiggereveryday #gorgeousbabies

Quietly being poorly

 

I've woken up full of cough and cold today. All of the children were suffering from it over the weekend and now they've kindly passed it onto me! 

After the school run I popped to our local shop for supplies. Tissues, cold and flu tablets, fisherman's friends and throat lozanges went into the basket followed by some chocolate and some ice cream.

If that doesn't make me feel better nothing will.

This morning has been spent doing quiet sitting down jobs.

I've finished making orange crochet covers for the seven oranges.

They will be transforming into pumpkins for Halloween.

I've also cut up an old faded valance for cleaning cloths, though i have already used one as a hankerchief for some olbus oil. 

The flouncy skirty bit made flannel size clothes and the main sheet was turned into tea towel sized clothes for mopping up spills.

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