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Confessions of a Single Mum

The ups, the downs and sideways views of life as a single parent

New Years Resolutions and A Bit More

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A couple of years ago I made New Years resolutions for the first time in a long time. But I was stuck as there was several things I wanted to do so I made a resolution a month. It was various things like giving up meat ( I’m still mainly vegetarian) being green ( I’m greener than I was but not a total green person) and wear make up every day ( again better than I was). This year I am going to make some more. More Organised - First Up I want to be more organised. Or rather I have got to get ... VIEW POST

What I Am Doing

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In the back of Confessions of a Single Mum I am rather busy updating the benefit section. It’s well over due and New Year, new start and all that. There have been a few benefit changes and I learnt of two other benefits that parents with children might not be aware of, Care to Learn and Parents Learning Allowance. The new benefit section will be up shortly. But in the meantime here are the two benefits that I have learnt about. ... VIEW POST

Last Year I Wish I Had

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The last few days I have been far too busy scribbling notes and making lists for the new year to stop and think about last year. So now I am finally taking some time to think over 2012. As I said before  last year was fairly quiet for us, but was there anything I would have done differently? First off the weather was usual wet. Summer was one week of sun early in the year. So in hindsight I would have lived out for the whole of the week. I would have even considered not sleeping as every ... VIEW POST

Happy New Year

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I hope you all had a good Christmas. However odd, different or normal it was. Christmas was less than a week ago but seems so far away now. In my house all the decorations have been taken down, all packed away for next year. I like to have all the decorations down for New Year as to me it’s the start of …well.. a New Year. Plus we put the tree up so stupidly early in December that by Boxing Day I am starting to get a bit fed up with it. ... VIEW POST

A Christmas Confession

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I’m not a snob by any stretch of the imagination, not that I am a cheapskate either. I hope I hit a happy balance in-between. But something has dawned on me this year. There is a part of me that is a snob. I confess I am a Christmas tree snob. I learnt this devastating news as I walked back from the supermarket the other day after dark. You know how as you walk past people homes you sort have a sneaky nose if they haven’t closed their curtains? Come on, I know I am not the only one. Of course ... VIEW POST

Christmas May Now Begin

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I’ve come to the conclusion that the older I get the more stupidly excited I get about Christmas. In theory I should be knee deep in bar-humbug-ness seeing as my children are way passed the magic of Christmas stage at 13 and 16. This year I not only have started my Christmas shopping in November but I actually completed it all by the last day on November. Never ever have I been this organised. Never also have I been panicking so much that I haven’t got everything. Despite an app on the phone ... VIEW POST