Some of the world’s greatest feats
were accomplished by people not smart
enought to know they were impossible.
-Doug Larson
Busy week that was. So what have I done.
We popped to the reclaims wood yard and got some more wood to build up the veggie patch, (only £15 for three 8ft by 4in by 6in pieces), and built up the veggie patch. Just need to build up the soil now.
Cleaned windows, made lemon and grapefruit marmalade, and general messed about.
A headline in the Sainsbury’s magazine caught my eye, ‘I made a £100 selling my old clothes on eBay, I don’t know about you but I wear my clothes until they fall apart, haha. I read it anyway, and yes she did, but all the clothes were designer labels, not a Matalan label in sight.
On the news
Divorced couples will now have to pay to use the C.S.A, that’s had the single parents groups up in arms. Well someone has to pay for it, and in these days of cutting back it only seems fair that people using the service should pay something towards it, and it’s only fair that both parties involved pay. It really makes me mad that the parent who keeps the children get’s all the help, people seem to forget that very often the person who does not have the children in their care still have to live and very often have to set up a new home from scratch.
Then childcare is becoming to expensive for parents, so some are deciding to stay at home , I can’t help but think this can only be a good thing. I am a strong believer in a child being brought up by a parent not a nursery/playgroup/nanny/minder, and yes I know it’s hard. I have been there, done that and got the tee-shirt, but it’s not forever.
We watched what we think is the last of number 1’s free trail DVDs last weekend
Coraline, very dark and I think a little on the scary side for little ones, children having their eye’s replaced by buttons then having the life sucked out of them. The stuff of nightmares.
The last one was Waltz with Bashir, a very powerful and moving animated/documentary about Ari who was a young soldier in the Israeli Army during the Lebanon War, (early 80s). It’s one of those stay with you for ever movies.
Things I am enjoying on TV at the moment…
Beauty and the Beast the ugly face of prejudice
More Red Nose
🙂 🙂 🙂
Although I know what you mean about thinking that child care becoming too expensive meaning more parents are staying home being a good thing (phew, that was a long line)… I know there were certainly many times when I thought that for some people, being a stay-at-home parent may not be the best thing either.
I loved my time at home during my first year, but I questioned whether I had the patience, and the ability to be a “good” stay at home mom.
I think recognizing what your individual strengths are, including whether there is a time-frame, or time-limit to those abilities.. and in my case, I do truly believe daycare was a great place for my son. If money weren’t an object, I’d likely would have been “stay at home” part time, and daycare part t ime as well taking advantage the best of both worlds.
Hi Daisy,
Yes I suppose each to their own.
I loved being a stay at home mom, and I love being a stay at home wife. I never get board, and can’t understand how people can. What with housework, cooking, gardening, repairing etc, there’s very little time left to get board in. But saying that I am on the look out for partime work, more for the money than being board at home.
I think when I get on my high horse about this childcare one, (which is one that does get me on my high horse), is when I think about a couple of people I know who have children. Both of them have more than one child and both of them had the babies within six weeks they were back at work and the children left with minders, the children were then picked up by there fathers and were in bed by the time mom got home, at weekends they were shiped off to granny’s. So mom could have some adult time. They never saw those kids, I could never work out why they bothered to have them. Still like I said each to there own.
Oh I know why google would love this post. You have so much in this post. Its a great read and you make a lot of sense. Oh I would never want to battle the childcare issue these days. Must be horrific for people really. As for the CSA well I agree that the person who doesn’t get main custody of the kids does often have it worse off – its just plain sad. And I really like that Doug Larson quote – most of the billionaire entrepreneurs in the world had very little education – clearly their thinking was not limited. I have put a link to this post on my blog
Thank you Lilly.