Oct/Nov 2008 mommies!

Yoza my thoughts are with you and your family. I hope your Dad is okay.

ladies this is crap. They placed ads for my job. Didn't even ask what is needed or anything. Now they are discussing the candidates infront of me without including me. They are clueless.

Morning ladies

just a quick one

My dad op was done yesterday but the doctors realised things are quite bad so they took a bit of his liver for a biospy test, waiting for results to see way forward.

Buhle and Siba are doing fine. Buhle is still coughing. piwe tells me she does not want formula or expressed milk from the bottle. she drinks from the boob when im back. the pead said to monitor cause its day 2 she's been doing it. she only takes 100ml. unlike her i suppose the brincholitis makes her drinks less. she prefers the actual boobie.

re gorceries: this is how much i spend. No luxuries for us when it comes to food. only because im watching my weight and pricey.
no choccies, chips, soft drinks, biscuits.

No more soft drinks pricey except when we have visitors. no more eating out.

groceries R2000 (including cleaning stuff now that ive found my bulk buying shop. Kiddies stuff R2000, electricity R3000 only because its winter. all rooms have panel heaters. the sitting room has a mini fireplace.
As for meat R1000. mostly ground beef, fish and chicken. weekends red meat hubby loves it.
But with food there is always something. i stick to my list though.

I want a veggie garden to plant potatoes, spinach, onions, butternut, carrots. My dad always had it at home and we saved so much. will ask hubby to do one for me.

Clothes buy on sale only. but with buhle growing fast im constanlty on the look out for cheap stuff. so im off to the keedo factory shop for her this weekend cause all her 3-6mts clothes are tight. so madam needs new clothes.

I still feel i need to cut down. As for luxury cooking. I told DH once a month cause its expensive we cannot afford.

Angie next time you go to the cheese factory tell me so that you buy we love cheese so much. my favourite is tussers.

Lisha I picked up the colgate and put it back. we always used it growing up so my pantene is finished so will try it.

Morning mommies,

Even I had lots to catch up on because BB wouldn't load last night.

Leigh- I scrimp and save wherever possible, I could easily spend R5000 but we just don't have it, that's nearly half of DH's salary and I don't work as such. I do buy dove soap, if I don't my skin goes to pieces but only for bathing, hand washing is strictly liquid soap I buy from factory store. I have managed to give up my pantene for Organics shampoo, it does the job especially at R32 for 1l when on special and I have used that for C since he was about 5m when my baby shower gifts ran out. Nappies I have always used pampers but I am so irritated with this last batch of active fit, they leak worse than sleep and play, so next I'm onto huggies dry comfort for daytime and Huggies Gold for night time. Luxuaries for me are a lot of things that I used to and my people class as essentials like face creams, make up (I haven't bought new make up since I was in the UK last about 3 year ago and even then it's boots foundation) nail varnish, mouthwash, chocolate, cakes, desserts, cool drinks, convenience foods. If I won't suffer in pain or die without it then I can probabbly cross it off my list. I must say, I do really miss my good shampoo, my hair is very dry but it's just not that important that I need to spend money on pantene. If you guys can afford to spend the R5000 then why change it? I certainly wouldn't if I didn't have to.

Like Julz there are some things I won't use no name brands for like sunlight, OMO, Dove because those per use actually work out the same as cheap makes.

Like Nelria, I will stand and work out per 100g which is the best buy on almost everything, I can usually just do it in my head but if it's getting tricky then out comes the calculator.

I actually don't go to too many different shops for my things, I read the specials in the paper and work out which store will be better value that week/month.

O.k I'm going to stop talking about grocery savings now bevcause even I'm starting to get depressed and I usually don't allow that because depression won't fix my money problems.

Jess- I think my attendance to any birthday parties will be last minuite answers because I have no idea how enormous I will be at 28w, I'm pretty big already for 14w, it's terrible, at 16w wirth C I went to the baby expo and I had to tell people I was already pregnant please can I have samples, now I'm going to get "so how long til you pop" and when I say Dec I'm going to get raised eyebrows! But thankfully it's all in the belly.

Still no Lelani, think I must ring her in a bit.

Nelria- I haven't organised the PT card yet, I explained everything to Elwyn and was all ready to get it sorted and he has since done nothing about it, need to kick his butt actually.

You're so gonna have a 3rd child, I can hear it already! LOL you crack me up! To think you'll do this all over again!

Helen- put some Bicarb soda in Olivers bath water (aswell as using bum creams etc, it's just an extra thing) it takes out the burn and itch of any rash. Also, the maizena trick worked really well when I was stuck at home over Christmas with no meds or creams to help.

Lisha- I think the Milo might just be that little extra bit of nice to persuade him onto the bottle rather than yucky noo nie, maybe just have DH sit with a bottle of Milo for when C gets to taste the Aloe, ag man we're so cruel to these kids hey? My son was licking the spice bottles yesterday, you know how there is always a powdery residue left on the opening, he was enjoying the aromat one, then he picked up the cayene pepper. I tried to take it off him but he went mental so instead of fighting I let him taste it LOL oh man he was walking around with his tongue out for hours!

Mandy- do you want me to bring a whole box of the tea or do you just want to let your friend try a bag before she buys?

Simone- with all the panic yesterday I forgot to say wooo hoo on getting another interview, you obviously impressed them! Fx for that job!!!!!!

Lwasi- was your ex drunk when he called? Don't let him weedle his way back into your life unless he's going to step up and act like a proper man to you and Dad to Amu! I'm sure it'll not be nicew to be away from Amu on his birthday but he'll not know or remember it in the future and if you do your training now you will have a good career and be in a better position in the future so it'll be worth while! I know that everything you're doing is all for the bennefit of Amu! He's so lucky bto have a mommy like you!

O.k seriously have forgotton if there was anyone else,

Elwyn declared on the phone to 2 people last night that (and I quote exact words) "Vickie is HUGE now! Growing by the hour" LOL goods job I'm not a self concious person hey? LOL

My boy is going to be refused his bottle very soon! He's poking the teat into trhe bottle and breaking too many so he'll have to learn by going over to a cup!!! I'm not buying any more teats for him!

O.k I have loads of work to do.

Nicole glad you had a good night. K sounds so adorable and df sounds very sweet too

we also buy the large slabs of chocolates? about 6 slabs which usually last us through the month, 2x tubs of ice-cream, cheescurls,juice and chomps for K. Then when all the sweeties run out we have fruit salad (in the tin with syrp) with custard as a back up.

Ladies my cousin goes to the rolf salon and the hairdresser there told her the best shampoo to use is the Colgate in the yellow bottle. She claims that it hardly has any additives & chemicals etc ... I'm just waiting for my stuff to finish before I try that out and Colgate shampoos are flippen cheap. So not sure if any of you are willing to try that too ...
I can't use most shampoos cos it gives me ugly dandruff ... tried pantene, tressame etc but no luck ... for now the schwarskoff seems to be perfect. Pre-baby I used to splurge on the salon shampoos and they were wonderful but sadly I cannot afford that anymore sob sob