G and I have been discussing money - I start work on Weds and now the savings to cover me for maternity leave are out, that means us running with bigger outgoings (ie, childcare) and much lower income (me working part time). By my, admittedly shonky, workings, I'm looking at much less income from work - by G's more-likely-to-be-right workings, I ( Read more... )

So, we took a holiday... and it was very nice. Very glad we stayed with G's grandpa - at 91, everyone's always doing things for him and I think it was really positive for him to be able to play host. And to downright have some company - it's a pretty crappy situation for him, though at least he does have one daughter locally and we saw that other ( Read more... )

Wow, we're nearly there. The end of the year my life really did change for good. And I don't regret a thing about that change ( Read more... )

We've emailed the builders... G has at last agreed not to go for the building work, though he's come up with his own reasons not to do it. I won't quite believe it's over until they've come and finished up the kitchen (not likely to be until next year) but now we can get cracking with finishing some other shit up, which means we might actually be ( Read more... )

Had a good birthday on Wednesday - G suggested that we do something at the last minute, and luckily mum was about to take care of baby. We had a lovely meal at Skylon in the Royal Festival Hall and then saw 'Man on Wire' (about the guy who wire-walked between the WTC towers) at the NFT, as it was on there. Good thing,too, as I missed it first time ( Read more... )

I was sat on the loo this morning when I heard G holler 'Whoo hoo!' from the bedroom, where he was listening to Radio 4. It was then I knew that America had done the right thing ( Read more... )

Worrying how the hell I'm going to afford anything has set me considering setting myself up to sing at weddings again. I don't plan on making it a career, but if it brought in a few hundred quid a month for a few hours' work, it wouldn't go amiss. That said, I don't know if there are any inbetweens. I guess you either never take off at all, or you ( Read more... )

So, spent a lot of today upset now I'm starting to work out costs for childcare when I go back to work. Being an unnatural mother :p, I've actually decided to go back slightly earlier than I planned. I think I'd like to go back to work and reality ( Read more... )

New (albeit 2nd hand) car arriving soon - we've put down the deposit, just waiting for the money to transfers to G's account, then it's ours. Citroen C4, automatic only 19k miles on the clock, which isn't bad. And this means... driving lessons :o Oh yes, soon I'll be on the roads, bringing... well, faffing and crawling along to Finchley and its ( Read more... )

Well, Ez has slept until 7am 4 nights out of 5 (went til 5 the other one), so things are beginning to feel more civilised. I have cut out the breastfeeding except for breakie and bedtime, and that seems to be working out well for everyone ( Read more... )