Good morning all! What's everyone up to today?

[lucysmam]

I've had a lie in & am drinking my first coffee of the day. After that I'll shift & make a start.

I'm back to work tomorrow & have spent lots of the holidays mooching about not doing much so I need to finish some bits I've repaired and re-painted for work, and some little bendy dolls I've re- dressed. Need to iron school shirts so I don't need to do them later in the week & look at an online training course too.

If I get all that done, I'll have an hour sorting my things for back to Rainbows and Guides on Tuesday evening.

The girls have one more episode of Gilmore Girls s4 to watch so will probably set up camp in dd1's room again to watch that. I know dd1 wants to get back into routine (GCSE's this year 😱) so they said yesterday they'd agree days & times to continue watching before they start back.

I've got a large pork joint in the slow cooker to make pork & stuffing sarnys with tornado potatoes for tea. The remains will become something else & be used for lunch for a few days. Cheesecake and, probably, ice cream for afters 😋

What about you lot? 🙂

Sitting on the sofa listening to 6 music. Dogs already having a nap.
Debating doing a covid test as I have an awful cold but truthfully I just don't want to know 😂

CV tailoring and cover letter for a job application.

I had a mini lie in first thing with a cup of tea in bed, looking at the sea and doing my online grocery shop.

Then I had a burst of energy so came downstairs to do a HIIT workout.

Nice hot shower and blow dried my hair and now I'm having a small breakfast of toasted tiger bread with real butter (and salt ground on the top) and another cuppa before I hang out some washing and head over to my parents for lunch with DS.

Probably do something little like a walk, or the beach or play park after lunch before heading home for bath and early night as DS starts school next week so need to be preparing for earlier starts again.

I've put a load of washing on the line.

About to head out to get school shirts for the ASD child who refused to try uniform till yesterday 🙃

May get a sneaky md breakfast if I'm there in time.

Then need to get a birthday present for a friend.

Had a cosy lie in with coffee and cuddles in bed and then came down and made an air fryer fry up.

Just DP, me and dog here today we’re currently settled on the sofa with radio on but I know he’s going to make me move in a minute to do more gardening :-(

I’ll not mind once I get going…

My brother’s bought me a second hand mountain bike for my birthday so I asked if we got enough gardening done if DP would take me out for a bit of a ride - it’s been a very long time since I’ve ridden a bike so I’m nervous to go on my own.

So I imagine that will take care of late afternoon and then pick up something for dinner on the way home. Don’t know what I fancy yet - maybe a spicy stir fry with noodles?

We've taken the dog out for an hour, I've vacuumed, done two loads of laundry, tidied up, changed the beds and now I'm watching cbeebies with DD3 and we're having a hot chocolate.
Got to go to the allotment later to pick beans and do some weeding.
Vegetable and miso stew type thing for dinner and I might get the sewing machine out this evening.

Prepping DS1 room for decorating. Making a roast too.

In bed, trying not to be sick again. I had a few drinks last night but nowhere near enough to warrant how awful I'm feeling so something must have disagreed with me.

DH has taken the DC to their football tournaments and I'm feeling terribly guilty that I'm not there supporting them, but I'm grateful for the peace and quiet.

School starts tomorrow so I sorted all my sons new uniform, I can’t believe he is going into juniors. I haven’t missed ironing uniform and I’m sure I haven’t missed him getting ready for school in slow motion.

Grandma is taking both the smalls out later, its her first time with both of them on her own, so hopefully they’ll both be good.

My husbands out on his bike today, so while I’m home alone I’m just going to enjoy actual silence.

We’re all going out for dinner tonight, but apart from that its a fairly lazy sunday for me.

Getting ready for school day today for
2DC. Bit of ironing.
Have a sulky OH who slept on the downstairs couch today so maybe a walk and talk to see if we can get past this.
Prep for a presentation I’m doing tomorrow.
So dull.

Currently at the barbers for DC's last minute new term hair cuts. Tomorrow is a big day for all of us, school starts and I have a big interview, eek! I'll be prepping for that when we get home, and maybe take a break this afternoon to paint a bit more of our fence, before autumn sets in. It's a big, messy, time consuming job so I'm doing it one or two panels at a time.

Just taken dd2 to work and will take dd2 to her work at midday. Then I think I’ll take ds swimming. Dh was out yesterday and came home rather worse for wear, think he could do with a bit of peace and quiet 😂 he’s making roast beef tonight so made the batter for the yorkshires a while ago and then muttered that he might go and watch some telly, he’s now asleep!
Bought all the uniform for ds weeks ago and it’s just been sitting on the games table ever since, all still in bags so at some point today we’ll get that all transferred to the right place. And he will need to make his packed lunch for school tomorrow!
All in all, a bit of a slow day which I love. Usually like to get a Sunday family walk in but possibly won’t happen today.

Got up with DS this morning rather than have my usual weekend lie in as OH wanted to play guitar in peace in the basement. Done a load of laundry and played a board game. Did duolingo for a while, my new Finnish class starts tomorrow so thought it best to get a little practice in first. DD slept most of the morning, got up for lunch and has gone to jujitsu now.
After DS's nap time we're going to visit BIL and SIL and their baby, to finally give the baby her present from our holiday this summer.

Thinking about digging out some old curtains from the basement to put up in the lounge in preparation for winter (we have blinds so I never bothered to put up curtains but curtains would trap in a bit more warmth) but not sure I can be arsed today.

Lazy morning and then drove for an hour across town to take DD to see Singing Hands, her heroines. Except she couldn’t cope with the noise and excitement, so we exited hastily and came home again.

Had a late lunch of sandwiches. DD’s just come down after some quiet time in her room and is now in the garden with DP, scavenging for apples.

Need to get all her back to school stuff sorted and make sure everything is ready for as frictionless a morning as possible tomorrow, when she’ll be going on school transport for the first time.

We’ll probably have a takeaway and watch something undemanding once DD’s in bed.

Making jam.