Wednesday Fly - anti procrastination day and another babystep or two - come on join in

[TheMadHouse]

Morning

dusting mission

Now on to the baby staps

delete all the e-mails you receive from fly lady if you get any

start doing the missions

So Our day should look something like:

Morning Routine

• Get up and get dressed
• Looking at your posted reminders
• Reading 2 minutes of reminders
• Recognizing the negative voices and changing them
• Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

-Mission

Before Bed Routine

• Keep your sink shining
• delete any flymails
• Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
• Put out your Hot Spot

[gibbberish]

Morning

Thanks for the thread tmh You ok today?

Not much to do today. Going to do the detailed dusting and hoovering in the lounge though. Girls have dancing later and dd2 might have a riding lesson this morning.

Waiting for shopping to be delivered.

Grey and miserable here so will stay in and do work with the girls. dd1 and dd2 have a maths college course to finish off so will work on that.

[TheMadHouse]

I am totally off kilter today, as DH and I fell asleep after putting the boys tobed last night and didnt wake till midnight and just turned everything off and went back to bed

Done List
All up dressed, beds made
DS1 to Preschool
Swimming bag packed
DW run adn emptied
Ironed clothes put away
parcel collected from next door

To Do

Go swimming with DS1 - first time since operation
Wash all swimming stuff
whats for lunch and dinner
zone clean
mission

Phew and loads more but I can not think

[Tortoise]

Morning all.

Beautiful warm sunny morning so far.
Have a load of washing to put out.
Will try and get kitchen floor cleaned to as i forgot last night!

Have ordered DD1's bears for her party. Am hoping the invites arrive quickly because it is only in just over 2 weeks time!

Need to parcel up Ebay items. Made about £26 last night! Not much but better than nothing.

[gibbberish]

lol tmh You must have both needed the extra sleep! Must be all that cuddling you've been getting up to lately

Morning tort

Just off to take dd2 to horse riding. bbl x

[galen]

mad thanks for thread. You must have been tired - hope you feel better for the extra rest!
tort Exciting bout the bears. Dd 2's bday is in a couple of weeks too. Icheated in the end - she has the lil lovables bear stuffing machine, and I found skins for that reduced to £2.00 each so I got 10 of those, and am doing other crafty bits too (beads for jewelery, decorating own party bags, icing buns) as well as party games so that should work I hope! I need to print up some invitations for her today!
gib hope girls enjoy riding and dancing.

Well its actually sunny here - first time in 2 days so have washing out YAYT not sure how long it will last though!

Done:
Mission from yestaerday (hoovering)
wiped down lounge window frames
cleaned lounge windows
cleaned woodwork in lounge
polished lounge furniture

Also :
one load washing done and hung out, next load in
morning routine (just need to S&S upstairs bathroom)

To do:
Baking : have some apples, pears and banans to use up....thinking banana choc chip muffins , and apple and pear crumble)
Sort out understairs kitchen cupboard (in a mess again!!)
rationalise Ds2's toybox in the lounge
Clean washing away
Sort dinner (risotto)

so not too bad....
right need to get on,
BBL ladies

[Tortoise]

Galen That sounds like a good idea. Why didn't i think of that! lol! Would have been cheaper i bet!
Am . Just got an email about the bears. Says items dispached and will arrive no later than thursday! Do they really mean tomorrow or next week?! Will be great if they get here tomorrow. And worth the expensive delivery charge!

I should go and do the kitchen floor shouldn't i?!

Going to need to do lots of clearing up before the party.

[gibbberish]

Aaargh just realised I booked Asda delivery for tomorrow not today!!! Which means I now have to invent something for dinner today Better go raid the freezer.

Done:

Tidied downstairs and up
Filled and put on d/w
Cleaned kitchen
Detail dusted living room
Moved furniture and hoovered living room
Cleaned window and frame
Cleaned skirting boards
Cleaned light switches

Living room looking pristine now

To do:

Pick dd2 up from riding
Take dd1 to college
Take dd3 and dd4 to dancing
Invent something from nothing for dinner
Take pressie to mum and dad

A lot of running around to do this afternoon...

[Tortoise]

Kitchen floor has been scrubbed. I think it needs a second go though. The water was very dirty.

Better do Ebay parcels next before i forget.

[Ludaloo]

Hello

Very of those with nice weather...raining and chilly here

I have just looked out and realised my new plastic tomato greenhouse thing has a big hole ripped in the top of it!
Not sure how that has happened...I bet it was a cat or something though...sigh...
That'll teach me to buy something cheap and cheerful...or not so cheerful in this case!

Good luck with the party Tort how long is it...two weeks?

Greyskull I love your photos, your boys are gorgeous! Your Christmas Tree was fab too...and what a great looking fireplace!....very

I am contemplating getting all my kitchen appliances insured. My neighbour has just done it and already someone has fixed her washing machine and replaced her old dishwasher with a new one!
Its from £14.95 a month...and as ALL my appliances are on their way out I'm seriously tempted!

[gibbberish]

luda what a shame about your tomato greenhouse. Such a nuisance!

What company is the appliance insurance with? Have been thinking about it too as all of ours are now out of guarantee.

Dinner is on - found some veg and chicken in the freezer so a curry it is. Trying the 'no boil' method with the rice and it seems to be working!

dd2 had great riding lesson - did loads of cantering. Will be doing more jumping from next week. Worry about them jumping...

[scattyspice]

Hi all.

Check the small print Luda (I am very of insurance). Shame about the greenhouse, can you patch it?

To do:
shops
collect ds from art club
txt friend
IRONING

BBL

[Ludaloo]

gibb its with British Gas...scatty hmmm...I tend to agree with you, but my neighbour has done really well for some reason.

She joined the scheme last month and within a week of her signing up her door came loose on the washing machine, so someone came out to fix it, then just last week her dishwasher started playing up. Someone came out to look and decided it would be cheaper to replace it. She then received a £205 voucher which she had to spend in Comet to replace the old one. She actually chose one slightly more expensive and made up the difference....is being delivered free of charge next week!

I've been trawling through the small print and it all seems ok....

Still slightly though...I'll see what DH thinks

[Ludaloo]

Oh...and the greenhouse...sadly its beyond patching

[gibbberish]

Not overly impressed with the 'no boil' rice - didn't absorb all the water and was a bit hard. Wonder what I did wrong

Right have 3hrs to spare. What shall I do? Think I might have a mooch around house to find things I can sell on ebay.

[Tortoise]

Luda Shame about the greenhouse. I got ocver for my DW after it had gone wrong! Fixed for free though. Meant to cancel it but maybe worth keeping.
DD1 is 6 on the 17th May. Party will be the day before.

Prof Yes i think it was the same company. All having the same bear so should be ok. She chose the 12 inch one with glow in the dark heart on it. One of the cheapest i think.
I was going to do the plain white t-shirts for them to decorate but it put the ££ up too much.

Ebay stuff parceled up. Still waiting for 4 payment. One of those being sent in post and one an echeque. So really only 2 waiting!

[TheMadHouse]

I am back - very tired from swimming, but DS2 loved it, had lunch adn took himself up to bed.

DS1 was a nightmare for friend that picked him up

We did need the sleep, boys are early wakers and DS2 is a little bit off - teething I think - si has been coming to bed with us.

I have the washer on with the towels in.
Lunch done
Pots washed
Whats for dinner - Jacket Spuds
I have ordered some washing powder on line
Payed a bill

I am going to have a cuppa before I take some photo's for ebay adn draft an inportant e-mail

[Tortoise]

Thanks Prof i hope so.
Maybe i should make a teddy bear cake?

TMH Glad swimming went well.

[gibbberish]

Done:

Tidied downstairs and up
Filled and put on d/w
Cleaned kitchen
Detail dusted living room
Moved furniture and hoovered living room
Cleaned window and frame
Cleaned skirting boards
Cleaned mirror
Washed cushion covers
Cleaned light switches
Hoovered rest of downstairs
dd2 taken and collected from riding
Dinner
dd1 gone to college
Emptied and refilled d/w
2nd load washing on

To do:

Take dd3 and dd4 to dancing

Off to take pressie to mum and dad and pop into Homebase afterwards for new lightshade and lamp for lounge. bbl!

[EHM]

Afternoon ALL

didn't manage to get back yesterday & busy today.

THanks for thread TMH I am not surprised that you are all knackered. Home you get a good nights rest too.
gibb lovely & sunny here no thats it supposed to last long.
luda hope dd is on mend with mumps. I would take out insurance get all items replaced/ sorted & then cancel.
tort sounds like you are getting really organised for dd's birthdayGood idea about TShirts must keep that in mind & possibly buy really cheap Tshirts in sale for next year?
galen apple & pear crumble sounds yummy
greyskull after gibbs post I had a nose your boys are soooooo cute. love the photos of Xmas Tree, wedding & cakes
scatty wise words about insurance. although we have insurance with BG for our CH best policy we have taken out.
prof bear hunt what a nice idea.

3 loads of washing out, dried, folded & ready to iron.
1 further load out.
quick trip to supermarket for milk
scrubbed mattress for travel cot & scrubbed buggy for ebaying-both drying in sun

It looks like our house sale may fall through, buyer avoiding estate agents phone calls/emails.prior to which his mortgage company had delayed his application & reverted back to underwriters.

TMH shall we agree to meet at softplay 10am on sunday? would you & the boys like to join us for lunch at softplay MY treat

[TheMadHouse]

EHM Pants about the house sale - what is happening about the cat?

Yes we will meet you at 10am on Sunday and I am sure the boys would love lunch, but we will see how good they are . I am hoping the weather is good as DH will be building raised beds for my veggies over this weekend.

Tort I think I will steal your T/Shirt idea and look for some reallt cheep white ones in the sale for both boys birthdays next year, as we have some fabric paint.

Gib Nice long done list.

I have teak oiled some furniture in the garden whilst the boys have played in the water table - I put washing up liquid and warm water in it for them. They are now chilling in their dressing gowns and I am going to do a snack of fruit for them.

[EHM]

TMH lady was supposed to come today to see Mia, but had to cancel. she is going to call me next week. We still have to find a place for VIc. Won't matter is sale falls through cats can stay.

[gibbberish]

Sorry to hear about house sale. That's so annoying! You must feel in limbo atm.

Dropped present and parent's house - they were very pleased

Off again to take dd3 and dd4 to dancing. Will hopefully get back on again tonight!