Good Morning Mumsnet! What are you all doing today?

[lucysmam]

I'm just finishing my first cuppa of the day, in my kitchen spot. I've been pottering round already & have the washer and dryer going for the big towels. When I've finished my cuppa, I'll make a coffee and do a bit more.

We haven't got much planned for today. Dd2 was meant to be going out with her friend but her friend's not well so is staying here now. She has some homework to do and wants to revise for upcoming GCSE mock exams.

Dd1 will have college work & will probably need a shove to do it!

I want to check which peg dolls we need at work next, go over my lesson for tomorrow (a willing practise victim would be handy!), re-write a couple of lists so they're readable, and list some things on Vinted. I have a parcel to send too.

We're having gammon & roast potatoes for tea, with some sort of veg and gravy. My dad got us the BIGGEST gammon joint for Christmas, so we'll be eating it until it's gone!

Tonight it's my usual Self-Care-Sunday scrubby everything shower, followed by an hour or two with my crochet. I've not touched it all week & have been eyeing up a new, felt based, project 🙈. I really should finish what's on the go first!

It'll be early nights all round tonight, ready for the week ahead 💤

What about all of you? 🙂

Morning all
Just had breakfast and chilling before my PiYo class. Usual Sunday chores, washing, bit of a tidy. Have a couple of things to add to vinted.
Need to pop to my mums while DH and DS are at the FA cup game.
Can't decide on roast beef or fajitas for tea.
Glass of wine and a bit of tv to round off the weekend

Happy birthday, hope you do get away x

Good morning, we’ve had banana pancakes for breakfast today. My husbands got a really sore spot inside his nostril so I’m going to pop it when he gets out the shower, he doesn’t know that so it will be a nice sunday surprise for him.

We’ve got some parcels to collect so we’re popping to the shop to get those in a few minutes, so our nine year old can then moan the entire three minute walk home that the box is heavy, an awkward shape, brown etc.

Zero plans today, just laziness.

Morning all 😊😊
Was up at 6:45 this morning walking to get my car from DPs, had a cup of tea and dropped him at work. Came home- I was all up for having a very productive day but I got in the bath and haven't moved since 🤣

I've got piles of clothes to go through for DSis to put on vinted, she has another baby on the way so I want to try and make her a bit of wonga.
I've got a few more pictures to hang, a tip run to do and then watching more Last Kingdom. Had a lovely cosy day yesterday planning a weekend away, very exciting!

I’m picturing you lying in wait the other side of the bathroom door, @Simonjt . 😁

DP has taken DD to her Sunday club, so I’m enjoying the silence. Will get woollies out of the wash shortly and stick them on the heated airer, and then have a bath.

My only commitment today is a hot date with the dildocam at our local hospital. Am impressed that they are open for business on a Sunday.

Not sure what we’ll have for lunch, but supper will be smoked salmon bagels, as we picked up some fresh bagels from the deli yesterday.

Once everything’s sorted for Monday, DP and I will probably crash with a couple of eps of Virgin River, which never gets any less ridiculous. So many questions!!!

I am braving my first sea dip of the year so need to get up and get my kit together. It's going to be bracing,to put it mildly!
I MUST clean my car out too as it is full of crap and embarrassingly grubby.

Bloody hell, @Hedjwitch - assuming you don’t live in the Bahamas, you’re nails!

My turn to do DD’s class this morning so I’m sitting shivering over a hot choc trying to keep warm. Not much planned for later - watching tennis/footy then doing a roast for dinner and some batch cooking for the week.

Good morning everyone, it’s a quiet morning here with everyone sitting around on various devices as we’re all feeling lazy (and I feel a bit delicate after one too many wines last night).

We’ve not got much on today, dd20 is already at work, dd17 is working this afternoon and I just need to strip the beds, iron school and work clothes and nip out to fill the car up as the fuel light came on yesterday.

We’re having enchiladas for tea (we were meant to have it yesterday but ended up ordering a Chinese instead - oops!) then this evening it’ll be showers and watch something on the tv then early to bed ready for a week of work/college/school for us all.

Morning.

Big clean up today. My shifts have been a bit all over the place this week so it's very much needed. And DH is home wed after 13 weeks away!

We've done DS13's birthday presents this morning as I'm working nights Monday Tues (his birthday Tues) he will be with his dad.

Laundry to catch up on, beds will be stripped and washed

Short walk for the dog but I will mostly be in my pjs today

Well thanks to this thread, I got out of bed and started on tasks. The tumble dryer and the clothes washer are both going. I cleared out the dish rack and cleaned the stovetop. Aerated the living room and washed the non-dishwasher dishes that were on the side of the sink. Phew!

Currently sitting down with a mug of herbal tea while I wait for OH to get up and having some quiet time. I’ll catch up on this thread a bit before making breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon with heavily buttered sourdough rolls. 🤤

Fridge clean out will come after breakfast and I’ll likely make a pot of spicy black beans to simmer while I work on my taxes. My plan is to make breakfast burritos for the freezer. They’ll have black beans, scrambled eggs, a slice of bacon, cilantro, and cheddar cheese. I have 7 tortillas to use up so I’ll make probably 5 burritos. Between those and the frozen oatmeal I’ll have breakfast taken care of for the next week or so.

Good morning lucysmam and all!
I was awoken by a phone call from a desperate neighbour who discovered a rat has got into her kitchen and needed to borrow rat traps from DH.
So I reluctantly slid out of bed and made a pot of tea.

DH is doing more tree felling with our friend, as it’s a hard frost and they won't be mired in mud.
I have some general housework to do and then I have two woodcock and a snipe, or maybe the other way round, to pluck and draw for tonight's dinner. Someone gave them to us in exchange for DH helping them, nice!

I am going to make Eggs Benedict for brunch, as it is helping use up the Christmas Stilton, when I crumble a lump into the cheddar cheese sauce. We got half a ton of Stilton for Christmas, much of it as presents, and I have developed quite a taste for it.

Just to say, this threat I find so inspiring, I read regularly but never contribute as I’ve been in a pit of PPD for the past 6 months and have done little close to nothing in that time.

Today, husband is at work so me and the two littles to entertain, we’ve watch Bluey, baby has had a nap, caught up on the traitors. Wash load just finished, dishwasher is on, going to strip the beds and give the biggest a shower before she goes to gymnastics in a bit (after I’ve finished my tea).
Not sure what to have for tea tonight so will have a peruse in the fridge to see what we fancy.

Have a lovely Sunday all!

@Zippedydodah it's some of the ornaments from this Etsy shop. But I REALLY need to finish something first!!

@DilemmaDelilah yep, my first cuppa is always a really strong tea. Then coffee until around tea (the evening meal!) cooking time, or dilute juice. Then I switch back to tea. Might have a glass of wine. Then dilute juice in an evening, maybe the odd cup of tea 🤷‍♀️. No idea why though.

Morning @lucysmam and All!
I’m working my way through a pot of tea and have bizzled about gently. Ddog and DCat fed. DP still in bed with the dressing gown of doom next to him! He really isn’t well so I’m being sympathetic (for the moment).
Ive done a meal plan for the week. Going to batch cook a fridge gravel pasta sauce for the freezer, walk the pooch and read my book in peace and quiet.

Lie-in, toast, coffee, a short walk down the fields, laundry. No cooking today as we are going out for lunch.

At some point I need to put the Christmas decorations back in the loft - they are currently languishing in boxes on the spare bed.

Morning all
Dd has gone back to university this morning she’s working this afternoon
I went to get a few bits from Sainsburys then came back and took the dog for a walk
Put a wash on and washed the breakfast pots
Just sitting with Dh having a coffee we are going to watch the Tamworth v Spurs match on tv the dogs snoring at the side of me
Lasagne for tea later
Looking forward to watching Dancing on Ice as we know Chris Taylor who is on it

I’m the same - have to have a big mug of tea first thing - think it’s because I’m
thirsty and I can’t drink coffee quickly as it makes me jittery if I do.
Then I’ll have a cappuccino - takes about 2 hours to drink it - then switch back to tea for rest of day (and water and occasional
Diet Coke can). Last night tonight for a glass of red wine - then on the wagon tomorrow 😢

Well... I've just woken up from my second sleep, so I have been singularly unproductive!

Reading through, I was just thinking what unusual and expressive ways we have of describing things. I'm thinking in particular of @Icantremembermyusername 's 'bizzling' around and 'fridge gravel'. I would bimble, but if you're being busy bimbling then bizzling is much more expressive. And I've not heard 'fridge gravel' before, but I imagine it means all of the little leftover bits where there isn't enough to make a whole meal so they just sit there... unloved and uneaten! It has reminded me that I made a couple of single servings of tomato sauce base for pasta (or whatever) just after Christmas and put them in the freezer - that gives us, or more likely me because DH has an entirely unwarranted dislike of anything resembling leftovers, another meal option. We have a couple of slices of bacon and half an onion in the fridge and there is always cheese.

I have now opened the bedroom blind and see that it is a beautiful sunny (but cold) day. I still don't have any physical energy but at least my mind is now alive! I may do some of my lego flowers later.

Ooohhh! Oh my! I really, really don’t need any more projects….but….. 🫣😁

Morning all. Everytime I read this, I wonder what your kitchen spot looks like.

I have a chest infection so no plans. Did a bit of sorting yesterday so have posted those on Vinted today. Also done the Sainsbury's order as I missed my good spot last week by doing it too late!

Just having some lunch then will go and lie in a hot bath with my book to see if my body can remember how to breathe. Will send the teen out with the dog for a change (I like my dog walks, it's not a chore we argue about but I can't breathe enough 😂)

Have some chicken in the fridge for dinner, can't decide whether that will be a curry or sweet and sour.

@DilemmaDelilah I'm the same - cup of tea or two as soon as I wake up because I'm thirsty. Then a cup of coffee to wake me up. Tea or juice (hot in the winter) for the rest of the day. A nice flavoured coffee when I finish work and always a cup of tea when I go to bed.

*wanders off wondering why I don't sleep well

I wish I was in the Bahamas! East coast of Scotland and that was a cold dip! But 33 mostly menopausal women and 2 brave blokes all had a bracing dip..there was quite a lot of swearing!

Nope, me neither but aren't they lovely!

I've been eyeing up the 12 days of Christmas ones & idly thinking about making a set each for the girls 🤔

@daffodilandtulip it's nothing special really - just my corner of the rather large dining table. I can see out the kitchen windows to part of the big sycamore at the end of the garden if I want to just be, am ideally placed to get comfy with a book if I want, or to use the space to work in if needed. The calendar's in my eyeline in case I need to check anything, and kettle's close too 😊.

Maybe I need to upgrade my comfort pillow to a nicer cushion & make it more my space 🤔