Our Weekly Meal Plan!! - #mealplanningmonday

Monday again....The start of a new week and the last one at school before half term.....I'm so glad! We need a break from the routine I think...

Last weeks meal plan went fine until we got to the weekend.....Saturday was just a wasted day.....I had Twitter problems which ended up with me making a new account....I ended up not eating all day (I just can't eat when I'm stressed) By about 6pm I felt rotten from not eating and craved takeaway.... So that's what we had....

So this week I have a few parcels coming which I'll have to wait in for.....All Christmas presents I've ordered.....I must take stock of what I have already and work out who else I need to buy for....We have Ellie's parents evening after school today which should be interesting and on Friday I'm helping at the school with the PTA....The kids are having a disco so that should be a lot of fun....

This week on the menu we have:

Monday - Tomato soup with sausage rolls to dip in...
Tuesday - Corned Beef hash & Baked beans....
Wednesday - Chinese pork ribs and rice....I found this gorgeous Chinese Marinade Seasoning in Tesco that is just so tasty.... 
Thursday - Chicken casserole, mash and veg....
Friday - Fish finger sandwiches.... 
Saturday - Hopefully this Saturday will be less stressful so we'll try again to make the Paella and Stu is going to try to make Churros too.... 
Sunday - Roast chicken dinner....

 

 As always I've joined in with the wonderful Mrs M's #mealplanningmonday linky....

Silent Sunday!!

I have a new Twitter account! Here's why! Please follow.

I don't usually ask people to follow me on Twitter but this time I am.....It's not all about numbers I have a genuine reason.....

What a day.....After a rubbish nights sleep I woke up to find my twitter account @kimmer2111 had been hacked somehow in someway....A spammy thing has taken over!!....

I haven't signed up to get fake followers......I had over 1800 of my own who followed me willingly.....

This morning I had gained about 30 followers and somehow when I was asleep followed about 40!! 

My twitter feed was and still is sending out a this tweet pictured above....If you notice my followers they are not going up....I'm not gaining anything from this annoyance! 

I was deleting them but I've given up now.....

 My account had been Frozen.....I changed my password and it took a while to become un-frozen.....Then I couldn't tweet as it was saying.... 

"To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later!"

Every time my account tweets the spam.....I get the message and I can't tweet for anything from 5 to 30 minutes....

I checked the twitter apps.....There was nothing suspicious there.....I removed them all eventually just to be sure.....

I changed my email address associated with the account.....Scanned my computer with 3 different things but the spammy tweets kept coming.....Very randomly....As I write this one came through an hour ago then one 20 minutes ago.....

I changed my password on Stu's computer.....Cleared my history, cookies, cache and everything I could.....I even did a system restore on my laptop.....

Nothing has helped....I've sent messages to Twitter and heard nothing back....

I haven't stopped shaking all day! I've been angry, cried and I give up....

I've made a new Twitter account......

I am now @NorthumMam 

I would majorly appreciate it if you could follow me on my new account.....

What a rubbish day and I just know I'm going to get told off from Twitter for aggressive following by following all the wonderful people I did on my other Twitter account.....

Four years of Twitter gone.....Just because of scammy spammers!! No more tears!! I'm pulling my big girl panties up and getting on with it....

Thank you for ready this x

Lapland Mailroom Personalised Letter - Review!!

I'm probably not the only mother out there who does everything possible to make Christmas time extra special for our children....Last year I wrote how Christmas was losing a bit of it's magic now that Becky doesn't believe in Santa but do you know what?! I don't care that she doesn't 100% believe in Santa she is still going to get a letter from the big fella.....hehehe Both my girls are....

I was recently asked if I wanted to review a personalised letter from Santa Claus.....Yes of course I do! 

 Lapland Mailroom offer personalised letters from Santa to children of all ages all over the world....

Each letter can be personalised to include the child's name, age, address where Santa/Father Christmas will be visiting on Christmas Eve, mentions the child's best friend and even highlights the gift the child would most like to receive on Christmas morning....

 There is a choice of 4 different letters which are all written slightly differently so siblings do not receive exactly the same letter! 

That is a fantastic touch as my girls are not stupid and would realise that something was going on if they did get the same letter....We've been there and done that....lol

The website is very straight forward to use it is just a case of putting in your details and they do the work for you.....

The only fault I found when using the Lapland Mailroom site was when you tried to read the letters the text was so small.....You could however look through a looking glass type thing which made the text larger.....I found it really hard to check my personalisation and make sure all the details were correct....It was do-able though...Just a bit of a hassle!

Prices start from £6.95 and every letter from Santa Claus is individually addressed and comes with these fantastic festive extras:

FREE 'Nice Child' Certificate
Elf Yourself! Activity sheet
Christmas Eve door hanger
Cut out and keep
Christmas decoration
Colouring in Christmas card
Colouring in 'Santa
Stop Here! poster'

I think these are a fantastic addition.....Something to really get you into a Christmassy mood and will no doubt keep the kids amused for a while....

 
Delivery is included in the price too!

Santa will be popping his letters into the Lapland Mailroom from the 5th December 2014. After this the Royal Mail takes over and your friendly postman will make sure your letter from Santa arrives well in time for Christmas.

The last ordering date for all International orders will be Tuesday 10th December 2014
The last ordering date for Europe will be Saturday 14th December 2014
The last ordering date for all UK order will be Friday 20th December 2014

After you have paid (via PayPal) the letters are sent separately to each child individually.....You will then receive an automatic email from their system confirming your order....

So onto the letters themselves......I love them!! They are both individual as promised and are just magic!

They look like they have come from Lapland from Santa himself......

I cannot wait to give my girls these.....Hopefully I will be able to catch the postman (he's a lovely man) one weekend when they girls are sure to be in and he can pop them through the letter box with the rest of the post for me.....

Come back in December....I will be posting about what the girls thought of these too!!

I was sent these letters from Santa free of charge....This is my honest review of the service....All thoughts and opinions are my own...