Flying in rainy November 7/11/10

[wendyhappysmile]

Hi

Oh wendy X posts! was just wondering about you when you posted. hang in there for another few hours! DS2 was like that...slow gradual contractions for a couple of weeks before he appeared LOL!

Done:
internet banking
booked panto tickets but ££££
still awaiting shopping
now off to investigate clubcard vouchers

ooh Wendy Good luck if things kick off tonight!!

Good luck Greyskull with shopping tomorrow
That's certainly not a write-off day to my eyes - sounds like you have achieved plenty My mum (though lovely in many ways I hasten to add)is awful to shop with too, I think most mums are brings back terrible memories of trying to buy clothes with them as a teenager

OFM so much easier to do the homework in a nice tidy house

Afternoon improved slightly, we did ballet dancing, homework, painting. I kept attempting to tidy and felt v. bad tempered and not particularily generous spirited. I think we suffer from not going to the park after school on these winter eves, although it was a relief not to have to organise Ds's Cubs night as he still can't go (too rough

Hi all
managed a whole 5 hour sleep last night. Practice contractions for two or three hours, pretty painful but never got any worse or any closer together so finally got back to sleep at 6 am! GRRRR

DS not too well, sent to school but hoping he's ok. DD seems fine though and playing with her new stuff!

OFM i sorted clubcard vouchers too in the end just got a magazine subscription for DH so he was chuffed!

Right, need potatoes and need sleep!

Morning all have today off as I worked Sunday but seething at DH
OFM We used to have a cleaner, she wasn't very good but the house looked tidy. Previous cleaner great. We decided to give up cleaner to save money for a holiday in 2 years time. I work Mon,Tues,Wed once a month Sundays 9-5pm. Mum picks up DS Mon & Wed. After school club Wed. DH works 8.30am and returns 6.30pm unless he is taking DS to gymnastics or picking him up from after school club. Not too expensive with one. DH brings home a huge pile of dirty PE kit and gym kit. He works on school work sometimes until 9pm. He does school work on a Sunday.
I know he's got a lot on his plate but I'm annoyed that he goes to either football or rugby every Saturday so we never do anything as a family. He also think this is a right!He also gets very cross with our son when he helps him with his homework so I do that too. I know it not a lot to have 5 hours to yourself every week. He think I get that on my days off because of course, housework is fun! rant over. I didn't sleep last night so I maybe a bit manic. Pls ignore and I'll be back with a list after a shower. Next year I'll spend the day with DS and Beavers on field type trips. My big bee in my bonnet is that I don't go hill walking anymore and have no one to go with anyway!

I've scared everyone away
Well! during my sleepless night I put the W/M & Dryer on for about a trillion times & folded clothes done
While angry I have done the following
Changed Ds's linen (he wet the bed twice last night!) & matteress for the spare one. Clean matteress as I didn't think he was going to seep through the nightpants twice!
Made Ds's bed Done
Put gunky on the oven racks and oven done
D/W booted done
Upstairs hovered done
To do
Clean oven
Racks will take hours!
Have shower & dress
School Personal shopper coming over to check my costume. For Thursday.
Dust upstairs
Oh! pull out chicken for stir fry
Get Christmas stuff out of the loft
Maybe write Christmas cards while still in a mood with DH! anyone got happy pills so I can forget the issues!

I don't think anyone was here anyway Nutty either xmas shopping or work...and I hope Wendy got a sleep..

I was on a bus getting very fed up wth my poor children. One with "Sore Throat" shouting at top of her voice, One with "Bad Leg" kicking his sister. Have retreated upstairs, had a choking fit on a handful of peanuts, now sitting in woolly jumper, sneezing coughing and sighing, feeling v sorry for myself!

But as usual Flyladies you are a cheering bunch

Nutty I think it is lovely that he likes sport [Sport good, pub bad], I'm sure in summer he will be up for more outing type outings. I suppose he just needs that time, and there's nothing you can do to change his point of view.
Family life is very exasperating, I've said it before and I'll say it again

I think you need to find a group of fellow mums or even just one mum, whose husbands work on Sat. I have two dear friends who had this problem, to start with it was hell, now they have acclimatized and use it to their advantage. One swops children. The other met all sorts of new people at a Sat music school.

Anyway xxx for horrid feelings of going round in circles arguing I know it well.

Now, I have to get ds to write his David Livingstone Essay. Wish me luck.

I've an idea Nutty
free time whilst ds at school, and a bit of housework when he's at home on Sat? rather than expecting everything to be perfect for w/e, you could make w/e more houseworky/shopping with ds etc?
You could try it, and then get the chance to do nice things 9.00 - 3pm in the week sometimes?
Presumably ds gets his chance to be with Dad when you are working even if you aren't all three together at once?

Thank you swan That's way we do Beavers on Saturday in a while I'll get CRB checked and...doorbell

now have massive headache

aargh they are driving me mad ds is now complaining that dd is watching telly and he's not

lemsip gin anything will do please kids stop bickering! and do something useful or go to bed!

That's why we are going to do Beavers on Saturday and we could do field trips (I think!)
Clean oven done
Have shower & dress done
School mum over done
pull out chicken for stir fry done
Shower curtain in W/M done
cup of tea and then bathroom
Christmas stuff before picking up ds

Hello

I am feeling very mellow. I had a terrible night with dd who was demanding that I get in her bed, we spent 3 hrs arguing, then i got in her bed! consequently woke up exhausted and took a day off work (time owing from half term). Had a snooze and decided that arguing with dd in the middle of the night is not sensible and I will just have to go back to sleeping in her bed again.

wendy hope you can get this baby out soon
nutty swans suggestion (do some nice things on your day off and houswork at weekend) sounds good. Dh insists on frequent family days out, but they usually end in tears (often mine), I find children easier to manage when there are fewer adults somehow (probably because I cheat and feed them junk and use the car instead of walking etc ).
swan hope headaches subside

Hi everyone else.

To do:
change sheets
dust
mop floors

scatty very sensible! As long as you have enough room in it! (dd's bed is our old bed

have successfully turned telly off at 4.15,
made pancakes with dcs
eaten them
now making assorted food for different dcs old pasta for ds, new salmon for ds2, ham sandwiches for dd to get the tea out of way!
David Livingstone is just about finished.Although I now find they have done Brunel at school, and ds's teacher thought I was referring to Red Ken

house still v messy though, working around it...

evening all

wendy how are you doing?

swan yay for finished essay...had the gin out yet? I do find it helps to ease the pain of permenantly arguing DC

scatty yay for mellow day. I loved my unexpected day off yesterday Not so good for lackof sleep though...

nutty I have to say I do think it is always different for Dhs. Mine isn't too bad really...BUT he will only do specific things at my request with specific instructions. All the thinking and planning and organising is always down to me...and I do find that so draining...
I have recently though made getting just a bit of time for myself a priority...usually 40 mins or so for a run a couple of times a week...not much but it really helps.

Usualy busy day today
mad dash from work to collect dc...
all dc seemingly especially grumpy and miserable after school
DS2 still not enjoying nursery he sobbed "Mommy no go work" as I dropped him off today
Have manage dto go for a run tonight though, havent been in over a week and do feel a bit better for it...

need to do:
reboot laundry
little ones lunches
don't know what else..brain has stopped working!

right, best go sort the laundry...BBL

Hey ladies

Am rushing round feeling panicked, making lists of routines for parents e.g. school routines, what needs taking; breakfast ready on the table etc - don't know why I think it's going to be tonight!

Did get a sleep thanks, and have had a chilled out sort of day.

Right, going to pack choc in hosp bag (for DH) and tidy the living room (full of birthday toys!)

BB tomorrow hopefully

ooooooo ~~~~~labour vibes~~~~~ ooooooo

How exciting!!!! Lots and lots of happy speedy labour vibes here....will check in first thing for news! Good luck wendy

Thanks for the chat ladies. I've got on with the day and gave DH his dinner like noraml and I'm just going to get over myself! DS wrote on his class snoman thing for school his Xmas wish 'I want to have a very good Christmas' Well that stopped me huffing.
scatty you are right days out with DH's & Ds don't turn out well.

Nutty just read yourother poston chat, and see a bit more why you found his attitude so hurtful. Big hug, and dh has said that sort of thing to me in passing too...but always forgets he has and then says he thinks I'm wonderful, so I suspect your dh thinks the same about you. I think when cornered they are vicious creatures

Wendy xxx

have worked without ceasing today (housework kids I mean) but I seem to have gone backwards organisationally scrounging around for ds's uniform, lost my mobile again, paperwork worse than ever....bedtime more chaotic than ever..hmm hmm hmm

swan I feel better when I then go on as if nothing happened, it may not be right but it stops me seething. We have made up until next time. maybe we can have a fly mmet-up in the new year Maybe we could get sponsored by a cleaning products company te! he!
Wendy Whats's happening? Going to see our new baby nephew on Sunday. Just for a cuppa and we will get out of their hair.
Good luck

Exciting stuff wendy!

Was mine the last Flylady baby born? surelynot (a few posts missing as I gave a lot of personal info)

Satin can't believe you've just had a baby in those posts - all that flying!!!
All very eerie to read from four years ago...
very cosy though [sad nostalgic emoticon]
although T seemed to be having hard time, hope things are better for her now.

Sorted paperwork and found phone and feel a bit more organised now Think ds can go back to school now I've found the hospital letter to give to school at last...
School office rang me up today to ask what "approved educational activity" he was doing, nearly spat my tea out.

Lovely reading back....I was Cranberry Jelley

Tort is still posting. I rarely cross paths with her these days though,.

Good luck Wendy

Hello ladies
lovely to see some of you were here 4 years ago! My DD was only 2 weeks old then - wish I'd found you all then!

Up half the night again - 1 til 3 strong contractions, then disappeared! Then 6 til 7 - disappeared!! Very frustrating, just want to get on with it now!

Feel nauseous and don't want to eat much - may just get in the car and go out instead of napping this morning despite tiredness - just fed up of four walls!

BBL