Galen, Poor you and DD2! That sounds really stressful and upsetting! It doesn't make that dentist sound very good, or do you think it would have been the same whoever the dentist was? You deserve to have an easy day after that!
Simply, re healthy eating, since the kids have been back at school I can't stop eating crisps and chocolate! We have fruit in the cupboard I just don't feel motivated to eat it! I stopped exercising before breakfast over the summer holidays so I didn't get too tired with the kids home every day and I haven't started back doing that either, I just think I would be so tired! So if I get fatter I'm just going to be happy that it shows I am contented!
Starbear your list looks massive and scary! I think I prefer listing what I have done after rather than what I've got left to do, which seems daunting sometimes.
This morning I went to drink tea with my friend and none of our children were there! We love them but a rest is nice! It makes such a difference to how easy it is to talk! It wasn't long before I had to come back to collect DS from his half day at school.
I've done some things I don't know whether count as listworthy but they seem important to me:
-Made an effort to turn up a bit early to collect DS so I could make more effort to meet Mums of kids in his class. Found out which one is the mother of a girl who has just invited DS to her party this weekend and talked to her a bit. Talked to 2 others who I knew a bit already.
-DS was misbehaving on the way home but I persevered with the threat consequence of "If you behave properly you can have a snack when you get home, if you don't you won't", until he walked properly. I feel he is slowly learning but he finds it hard to understand WHY he should do anything I say!
-Persevered with getting DS to do the bits he can in getting changed out of school uniform into play clothes (in practice for when they do PE at school). I use the same 'reward' - "When you have got changed you can have a snack and I'll put the tv on". He was slightly faster than yesterday and a bit less resistant. He thinks he can't do things and doesn't want to try. He has just brought a reading book and reading diary home from school today and the teacher has written that he was reluctant to share a book but could answer some questions about it when they did. So it seems like he is resistant to what teachers want him to do as well.
I will concentrate on my 'essential' things again - dishwasher, one load of washing, iron DH shirt and then make sure I do the children's reading books with them after DD finishes school. While talking to my friend about what she does with her kids I realised I only do my DD's reading book twice a week! This is because we are out after school on the other days. I think I need to do it at weekends too! DD can cope without the extra 'pushing' at home because she is more 'academic' than DS will be I think. If I do as little with him as I've been doing with her though I think he will struggle. Eg when she was his age she was always drawing recognisable things and writing her name on it. DS can just pick his name out from a bunch of names and when you give him a piece of paper and a pencil he just makes a hole in the paper with the pencil and chucks it on the floor!
I've also designated tonight as a bath night. I was only bathing them once a week but they seem 'smellier' now they are older so I'm doing it 3 times a week now.
Its hard to know if I'm normal in my 'slovenly' ways compared to what other people do and that is one of the reasons I find this thread useful so I can see what other people do!