Blessed are the ListMakers!!!

[anonymousbird]

Slatterns, you are beckoned!

Come hither from thither but do not dither!!

And exciting about scan

I am starting to get v nervous about scan now, just want to see evidence of an OK baby in there.

Well, i said i was going to have a bath so he could take DS1 to sch, fine.

So at 8.08 DS1 is banging on his drum , no-one is dressed
DH comes up to have his shower, i question the wisdom of drum-playing, he thinks it's fine as the neighbour will be up getting ready for work, oh-kay. (what if she isn't?) What about getting dressed?
anyhoo, they get dressed he takes DS1 and comes back.

then, i'm reading in bed (i admit being lazy!) and DS2 appears upstairs, it's 9.40, he's meant to be at pre-sch at 9.30
i come down in my dressing gown, Nanny is waiting with DS2 not sure what to do, DH is in his office on the phone.

so i go in, he finishes phone call, i ask what's happening with DS2? he has no clue.
Says; i thought Nanny was looking after him, yeee-sss but what about helping her with car seat into her car? checking her car is ok to drive?

dunno how he thought she was going to take him to pre-sch

And he just doesn't get stuff - like that DS2 needs spare clothes in his bag, or drink to take with him. He doesn't know whose stuff is whose.
I got him to take extra bread & butter yesterday (they only give small portions and he's very fussy so won't eat any of the fruit they give), DH has been present when N & I have talked about this, but he totally forgot and was really confused when they gave DS2 some of their bread & butter. so brought his home. Kid was starving!

I think sometimes they think they're too important to commit things like that to memory.
It's bullshit of course, men are as capable of sorting the day-to-day as we are. [feminist]

Well, DS keeps letting me have a lie-in, ut we had to rush breakfast down to get to music class this morning, at 10.
I'm really going to have to rush him in the morning. Maybe if we get him to bed earlier tonight it might be ok.

• up etc. done
• breakfast done
• music class done
• coffee doing
• fold dry washing
• dry pots
• lunch
• kitchen
• Mum and Aunty visiting
• bathroom - very necessary
• empty bins
• feed the birds!
• check garden for inevitable cat poo
• water plants
• CD copying

That'll do.

It's funny isn't it - that seems to be fairly classic man-behaviour yet I do have a couple of friends whose dp's are fully involved in the day to day stuff and are just as capable of doing it. Wonder why the rest think they can't??

Yes I was forgetting that scans are scary when it's you having it, hope it all goes well.

Wasting mornings are always a mad rush here too. If I get up at 7 or 7.15 it's fine but most mornings either both dc don't wake til 7.30 so I don't bother getting up or ds has woken much earlier and got in bed with me so I don't bother getting up Darker mornings aren't helping here either.

Sorry have not been around for a few days. I have been having problems with my hips, back and shoulder. So I have been rather slack. Still got problems but it is easing so I am trying to catch up again. Why is it DH's have problems filling dishwashers or putting the washing machine on?

Today
Children up, breakfast, showers, dressed, school done
DC3 to nursery done
Dishwasher emptied and filled and on
washing machine 3xloads on, 2xloads out
Put rubbish out
Make cake for nursery done
Strip and change our bed

Medium term
Re-do budget sheets
Sort swimming lessons
Opticians appt.
Allotment stuff
Quotes for car insurance
Menu plan

Long term
Find cable for printer
Print out baby photo's
Sort out dentists
Sort out health ins.

That's me for the moment, but I am sure I will think of more.

Oh! and my oven has gone kaput this morning

Spent ages making a lovely banana and chocolate cake for my gluten and dairy free son. Put it in the oven and it is ruined. So I had to quickly whizz up my 5 minute in the microwave chocolate cake. Which thankfully came out fluffy and light and I bunged some icing on top and it looks quite good.

xmas pressies for dc sorted

My cousin is so clever, she has made toy monkeys to sell and they are so cute! Pics on profile

Hello girls, I had a lovely coffee morning with the other mums but I am having really bad period pains/cramps right now at one point I thought I was going to pass out, not sure whats going on although reminds me of my teenage days

so not bothering with a list, although loads to do

anon I may have missed it somewhere where are you building? Whole new house or extension?

Freak I DO NOT HAVE FACEBOOK I want to see, must have missed him somewhere too, where did you meet? etc fill me in with all the biz

Where is CC these days?

Children up, breakfast, showers, dressed, school done
DC3 to nursery done
Dishwasher emptied and filled and onx2
washing machine 4xloads on, 3xloads out
Put rubbish out done
Make cake for nursery done
Strip and change our bed

Medium term
Re-do budget sheets
Sort swimming lessons
Opticians appt.
Allotment stuff
Quotes for car insurance
Menu plan

Long term
Find cable for printer
Print out baby photo's
Sort out dentists
Sort out health ins.

Children up, breakfast, showers, dressed, school done
DC3 to nursery done
Dishwasher emptied and filled and onx3
washing machine 5xloads on, 4xloads out
Put rubbish out done
Make cake for nursery done
Strip and change our bed done

Medium term
Re-do budget sheets
Sort swimming lessons
Opticians appt.
Allotment stuff
Quotes for car insurance
Menu plan

Long term
Find cable for printer
Print out baby photo's
Sort out dentists
Sort out health ins.

Stripped everything off the bed including the under blanket and the underslips on the pillows. All fresh clean stuff been put on and old stuff now in the washing machine. Oh! and I turned the mattress as well, didn't hoover it as I can't find some bits for my hoover (DC3 strikes again) but it is turned.

Hides under table in case things are thrown.
JKS I have the answer. Its his hormones. Simple, poor dear, he's probably all out of balance being pg an' all.

Hello! Men hey, bit like my broadband connection today . I couldn't view my list so hopefully I have actually done the things I was supposed to. No computer does mean I get more done.... . Couldn't wait to get in the car and to school so I could pick up my messages. Sad, hey?! But hey presto, here it is working again. I must say that the BT people have upped their game on the customer service. In the past always been really difficult and obstructive. Today, two calls, and in both cases could not have been nicer or more helpful. AND the second LUVERLY man got it fixed for me.

Here goes. Been productive today, hopefully:

TODAY

• Up, showered and dressed me and DC?s DONE
• DC?s to school DONE
• general tidy, make beds etc DONE
• Upstairs and sitting room hoover DONE
• Three wash loads DONE
• DW run, unload/load
• Chickens DONE
• Walk dog DONE
• Reading with DS and DD
• Bathrooms DONE
• Post office DONE
• Buy tape measure
• Mop utility and kitchen floor
• Final trip to the dump! DONE
• Dig up next row of spuds DONE SOME
• Second coat the shed
• Appraisal for headmistress
• Ocado order for Friday
• Make thai curry for supper

Next couple of days

• DH's tax return
• Find 10 clever ways with pumpkins
• Check photo printing
• Gap website
• Organise some more tea dates for DC
• Find Maths worksheets for DS

Ongoing

• Clear loft DONE
• Room by room plan to pack and clear
• Names and addresses onto computer
• Talk to BT, Sky, utilities and Council re transferring services/bills to new address.
• Bin/Charity Shop/Keep exercise on the kids toys
• Restart meal planning
• Check pension documents for me and DH
• Learn to use IMac (finally) and Itunes
• Stuff to flog on Ebay
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust
• Put summer clothes away
• Check out this year's panto
• Tesco Day out vouchers to use up - half term

Mini - you are probably right :)

Anyway, scan went well, all fine, just the one baby (lol!) and the exact same dates as me. They didn't seem too happy with me declining the nuchal fold part but i was insistent.
DH is convinced he saw boy bits too - i'm still in the not finding out camp but he thinks he wants to know :)

Thurs :

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DH to work DONE
• DS1 to sch DONE
• DS2 to pre-sch DONE
• long bath for me DONE
• few quiet hours, try and get some stuff done Catching up on Sky+
• DS2 home & lunch & tidy up DONE
• poss DS2 short nap DONE
• scan (2.30) DONE
• Nanny collecting DS1 DONE
• scan in scan pictures DOEN

• find & scan in both boys pictures Found DS2's
• boys tea & tidy up
• boys to bed
• our dinner

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS patients; have looked up some to ring
• upload & order online prints (DH getting rid of that PC so i need to a) research 'time machines', b) get one, c) move all photos from his PC onto it, d) link up my laptop with it so all photos from here go on it
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door; need to email seller about sizes (got measurements)
• clean kitchen cupboard doors
• empty all cupboards out, check contents & restock
• research backing up hardware for computers Done More
• make up basket of toys & pictures for DS2; need basket Got Basket
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• SHOWER; use Lakeland spray
• baby present for friend & arrange visit Poss date suggested
• handwash carefully completed embroidery picture i unearthed last week, then frame
• cheap picture frames; (50 x 70 & 12ish x 13ish) (poss Ikea trip?)
• eBay pile; photos; list
• pile of blankets to homeless centre (some basic shopping first?)

OH JKS Yey, that is great!

Girls how do you keep your lists. I usually copy mine from last entry but find I keep getting lost. Ther must be an easier way, not sure I can be botheres to turn it into a word doc though.
So I am Listless

Sorry meant to say hurrah for baby Swimming

Mini. I used to copy from last post but similarly would lose it/spend ages looking for it.

I now find it easier to have it in a Word doc. It's a bit laborious, copy across and back again, but I just found last week (!) that you can bookmark your last post, so easier to find your last post.

It took someone about three goes on another thread to explain it to me , so I"m clearly not the best one to try and explain it to you!!!! Other than I can tell you, you are looking for an almost invisible blue box that pops up at random on the right hand side of your most recent post, and you can click the blue box (if you can find it!) to "save" your bookmark...

Confused ? You should be!

PS. Does anyone else simply forget to drink?

I often get to the latter part of the day and realise that I haven't actually drunk anything other than my early morning coffee!!!!

JKS - yay for scan! I guess with the nuchal fold, if there is anything to find then you will discover it at your 20 week scan and then you know well before the baby is born if they will need any treatment at birth or anything like that.

I'm sorry I've been so lame with lists recently ladies, life has been ticking over here and the house is reasonably clean and tidy. The laundry situation is completely out of control though so I will be here with a list tomorrow trying to get on top of that

anon - I used to, but BFing DS really put a stop to that and I got much better at remembering to drink. I have a pint glass next to the sink all day and whenever I go into the kitchen I have a drink, and I always make myself a whole pot of tea at lunchtime and drink at least 2 cups.

Plum he is dd's best friend's uncle. I am having doubts though because in his pics he looks really old (and skinny). Don't remember him looking that old irl though. And maybe he's just not photogenic, I know I'm not! It's only a night out anyway, not like I have to marry him.

Anon yep I forget to drink too, included it on my list for a bit to remind me! I fill up a glass of water when I make breakfast now and then seeing it there will make me drink it through the morning, and once I've drunk that I refill it so I always have a glass on the go. Also take a glass to bed and drink that through the night/first thing. it's a case of making it a habit I think, I used to drink loads.

Good news about scan jks

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
Load of washing on ? DONE
Load of washing out ? DONE
Wool wash on ? DONE
Wool wash out -DONE
DD to school - DONE
Speak to teacher about wee issue - DONE
Tidy sitting room - DONE
Hoover downstairs ? DONE
Hoover upstairs ?
Mop downstairs ?
Dust sitting room ? DONE
Dust bedrooms ? DONE
Remove ceiling cobwebs ?DONE (hardly any, maybe plug in thingys are working)
Kill flies ? DONE (lots of lfies, maybe another good sign re lack of spiders)
Empty water out of plastics recycling box - DONE
Clean loo ? DONE
Clean sink- DONE
Tidy dc room & make beds ? DONE
Lunch ?DONE
Toddler group -DONE
Pick up dd ? DONE
Bring in washing ? DONE
Sort washing -DONE
Put washing away ?
Cook dinner ?DONE
Wash up -DONE
Bath and bed dc?s-DONE
Tidy kitchen and sitting room ?DONE
REMEMBER TO WRITE IN DD?S READING LOG -DONE

Mini I have a word doc with my basic list and just add other stuff as and when

I cannot see a blue square anywhere near my posts to bookmark, would be handy though.

I normally go to Threads I'm Watching and go to my last post from there.
Then click on 'bump & reset' once i've posted.

Thurs :

• find & scan in both boys pictures Found DS2's
• boys tea & tidy up DONE
• boys to bed DONE :)
• our dinner DONE

Fri:

• all up & breakfasted (hopefully not at 5.30 like today!)
• all dressed
• DS1 to sch
• DH to work
• Too Small clothes to loft, other buggy down from loft, other boxes of boys clothes up
• new playgroup (designed for SN & NT kids) taster session
• collect DS1 (early on Fri)
• lunch & tidy up
• chill out for a bit
• soft play to meet DS1's friends & stay for tea
• home, boys bath & bed
• us out for quiz night

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS patients; have looked up some to ring
• upload & order online prints (DH getting rid of that PC so i need to a) research 'time machines', b) get one, c) move all photos from his PC onto it, d) link up my laptop with it so all photos from here go on it
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door; need to email seller about sizes (got measurements)
• clean kitchen cupboard doors
• empty all cupboards out, check contents & restock
• research backing up hardware for computers Done More
• make up basket of toys & pictures for DS2; need basket Got Basket
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• SHOWER; use Lakeland spray
• baby present for friend & arrange visit Poss date suggested
• handwash carefully completed embroidery picture i unearthed last week, then frame
• cheap picture frames; (50 x 70 & 12ish x 13ish) (poss Ikea trip?)
• eBay pile; photos; list
• pile of blankets to homeless centre (some basic shopping first?)

Crikey, what or where is bump and reset?? Never seen that one!

If you hover your mouse somewhere in your last post, in the bottom right hand corner a blue square with "bookmark" in it should appear. You just need your pointer somewhere in the post you want to bookmark.... hope that helps!

Ah, just remembered, I think you need to do something in Customise (up the top) to say "yes" to bookmarks.. or something like that.
Sorry, I told you I wasn't the best person to explain!

JKS no bookmarking in classic, don't know wiether I'm brave enough to change, great news about scan

Freak You were lovely in your pic, don't think about photo and go by your gut reaction next time you meet him

Tummy cramps away here and dd has eye appointment tomorrow so have to be up early