Spring into action Slatterns, it's Cheap, Easy and Quick here...

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New thread ladies!! Welcome back.

Bring your lists, bring whatever you want, but remember we love it cheap easy and quick .

Who mentioned Shake n Vac??? Cor, that takes me back, those adverts! I used to love the stuff!!!

Oh, and JKS - the ebay stuff keeps getting up on the bed (naughty ebay stuff) and then I have to take it off again each night. How silly is that.

Anyway

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• Major tidy up DONE (except playroom)
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing DONE
• Ironing DONE
• On line banking DONE
• 24th DONE and 25th Jan ? credit card payments
• Check dehumidifier DONE
• Building project finances
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders
• Collect dog food
• Chickens DONE
• Dog DONE
• Find/buy photo frames DONE
• Check photo printing DONE
• Pay Utilities Warehouse Bill
• Sort stuff to list on Ebay
• Refix with EON ? part done, but need to shop around for a possible ?switch?
• Call Builder re costings
• Feb house budget Started - needs more work
• Babysitter for school quiz night
• Gloves and other warm gear for DD
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

Morning.

Freaky, what a horrid man!

JKS, that's good news.

Ali, you still planning an elective section?

I feel grotty this morning. But there is lots to do. So ...

• hang load of washing up
• put load of washing in
• clean sink
• find recipe for tomorrow night

Wasting - i don't envy you those early weeks at all. Though the middle lot of weeks are quite good, for me anyway, now i just feel huge & uncomfortable most of the time and still weeks and weeks to go!

Fri:
(DH not back til 1am! so i got up first)

• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• laundry; Airer full & TD on & some put away
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to sch DONE

• chemist?
• Sensory playgroup
• DS2 SALT review (11.30)
• collect DS1 (half day)
• home for lunch & tidy up
• soft play & stay for tea
• home & boys to bed
• our dinner

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• Freecycle blinds; relist
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat
• chemist for nit comb ; going round DS1's class at the mo

Morning all.

Freaki - the man is a complete twat, I am so sorry that he upset you so much. Find a pillow to thump or something. Clearly others thought so too.

Can't believe we are at half term - need a seriously productive day.

Coffee and toast first of course though!

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW
• Washing
• Meet flooring man 10am
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing
• On line banking
• Ocado order 4.30
• Sweep and tidy up front of house and broken bricks
• Sort out pile of newspapers nearly done
• Holiday dates with MIL
• Costumes for DC at school on Friday
• Check dehumidifier
• Lighting and radiators on the case ?.
• Look through MIL's magazines and online for ideas DOING
• Building project finances on the case
• Building project plans/lists to update
• Collect post from house
• Go see builders
• Chickens
• Dog
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards
• Sort stuff to list on Ebay
• Feb house budget ongoing, itemise everything
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

Freak He sounds lovely, really do people have no clue at all, sounds like you need a good gry anyway so just let it all out

Ali big hugs, I'm getting a back, neck shoulder massage, that was the condition set when dh gave it to me, I was only allowed to go if I got my shoulder massaged

Can't wait apparently worlds 2nd best spa according to OK hot stars magazine and we are booked for afternoon tea yum!!

Hugs JKS (making sure hair is tied in tight bun and cranes neck away)
No I think at the mention of anything like that I feel itchy

Yuck Wasting I hate the constant nausea

Right I need to get my house nice for going away as don't want dh putting me to shame getting it all done and bringing dcs to cinema while I'm away.

so
light fire
shower dcs
wash on
hoover
kitchen floor
declutter kitchen
Iron
put away clean washing
bathrooms
pack overnight bag

right that will do for now

Morning :)

Wasting - take it easy won't you? Overdoing it made me feel more like this -

Plum - x-posts. Wow that place looks amazing! Have a fab time

Ooh Plum, that looks lovely!

Half term?! January and February fly by every year.

• hang load of washing up done
• put load of washing in done
• clean sink done

+ put clean pots away done + change and dress DS done + read a ton of books done + sort washing loads done + hang up washing done + put another load in done

• find recipe for tomorrow night done

Next -

• wash pots

Ali, that sounds a good plan. I'm pretty sure I'll have an elective but I'm going to read up on all the options before I decide.

Wasting-what was your previous birth like?

As I was lucky enough to have DS1 vaginally and with no tears/stitches/etc (didn't know how lucky at the time) and had him at home, i know how well things can go.
I really would prefer if this baby wouldn't mind...lol!...to go into labour in the evening once boys are in bed, have it at home in the pool in not too many hours, then small glass of bubbly & to bed until the morning when the boys can meet their new sibling :)

Plum - very nice

Bought a nitty gritty comb today, will test DS1's hair at the weekend, then worry about the rest of us if he has them.
Also bought a lip balm for my labour bag & a puzzle book - in the hope that i'm not in labour long enough to be bored in hosp!!

Fri:
(DH not back til 1am! so i got up first)

• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• laundry; Airer full & TD on & some put away
• all dressed DONE
• DS1 to sch DONE
• chemist DONE
• Sensory playgroup DONE
• DS2 SALT review (11.30) DONE
• collect DS1 (half day) DONE
• home for lunch & tidy up DONE

• soft play & stay for tea
• home & boys to bed
• our dinner

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• Freecycle blinds; relist
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat
• chemist for nit comb DONE

All this birth talk is making me a bit queasy ladies . I'm much more a batons, ridge beams and plasterboard kinda girl these days!!! Oo-er all those strapping men on my building site.... what can I say.

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing
• Meet flooring man 10am DONE
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing
• On line banking DONE
• Ocado order 4.30
• Sweep and tidy up front of house and broken bricks
• Sort out pile of newspapers nearly done
• Holiday dates with MIL
• Costumes for DC at school on Friday DONE
• Check dehumidifier DONE
• Lighting and radiators on the case ?.
• Look through MIL's magazines and online for ideas DOING
• Building project finances on the case
• Building project plans/lists to update
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders DONE
• Chickens DONE
• Dog *DONEU
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards
• Sort stuff to list on Ebay
• Feb house budget ongoing, itemise everything
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

Wasting did you have a CS with DS?

DS has gone! He was so excited driving off with my parents, little face peering over the lip of the door and waving madly. Bless him. I am so looking forward to this weekend but the house is so quiet! I am glad we are out this evening and then away tomorrow, it would be too weird to be at home and him not be here. I am a little bit :( but I really must get on and pack my hospital bags!!!!!

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher
3 loads of washing - 1 washing/1 drying
Fold all the clean washing from yesterday
Find clean towels etc - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Wipe over bathroom - done
Hoover and sweep downstairs if needed - done
Finish packing for DS - done
Parents arriving at some point - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
DS and parents leaving - done
Afternoon to myself! - doing :)

• pack hospital bags
• read book
• possible nap?

Change our bedding Out for dinner and cinema Home and bed

Anon - PMSL!

Ali - i once had a night & morning here without Dh & the boys, was v weird, but nice too. Where are you off to?

Knackered after soft play - even though i just sat there really (Nanny is an angel sent from heaven :) ).

Fri:

• laundry; Airer full & TD on & some put away
• soft play & stay for tea DONE
• home DONE & boys to bed
• man coming for blinds
• our dinner

Sat/Sun:

• DH up first x 2
• Dad's Club Sat am
• swimming Sun am
• get DH to get baby stuff down from loft
• sort baby stuff from loft
• finish laundry, ironing & putting away
• last bits of shopping for baby bag (nappies etc)
• other jobs?
• other stuff?

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• Freecycle blinds DONE & being collected later
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat

Aw Ali, I bet he has a great time, enjoy the peace.

I had emergency CS with DS, not a long labour, but he was OP and it was agony and we weren't progressing at all once I had the epidural. Blessed relief though it was. He was getting a little distressed, heartbeat dropping at contractions so ended up a CS.
He was 9lb 7 with a massive head (my side of the family ) so I think I might have struggled even if he hadn't been OP.
I wasn't impressed with how I was treated in the delivery ward and I hated the stay afterwards, but think that most of the issues I had would be minimised with a elective I think.
I know more about bf etc. now of course and will have a list of contacts for bf support, tongue tie consultant etc. and a much more bolshy attitude.

Well I flaked out this afternoon, but got the place tidy for when DH got in. Just getting his tea while he's out for a run and then I'm going to do a manicure and watch some telly.

Wasting - 9,7? ouch, and for a first. how many weeks were you at the time?

DS1 was 6,12 @ 38+1
DS2 8,6 @ 40

if there is a patter to be followed that would mean:

DC3 10,0 @ 42wks !!

Leftover from Fri:

• laundry; Wm on dry stuff put away
• man coming for blinds DONE

Sat/Sun:

• DH up first x 2 DONE 1
• Dad's Club Sat am Doing
• lie-in & nap DONE
• make up DS1's bed for 1st night without pull-up! DONE

• DS1 to bed without pull-up for 1st time tonight
• swimming Sun am
• get DH to get baby stuff down from loft
• sort baby stuff from loft
• finish laundry, ironing & putting away
• last bits of shopping for baby bag (nappies etc)
• other jobs?
• other stuff?

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat

41+6 I think. Glad to get him out.

Not listing today, just pottering.

Leftover from Fri:

• laundry; Wm on

Sat/Sun:

• DH up first x 2 DONE 1
• Dad's Club Sat am DONE
• lie-in & nap DONE
• make up DS1's bed for 1st night without pull-up! DONE
• feeding chair & stool downstairs DONE
• rearrange living room so i can be more comfy on feeding chair DONE (mostly, kind of chaotic & odd layout but better for me)

• DS1 to bed without pull-up for 1st time tonight
• swimming Sun am
• get DH to get baby stuff down from loft
• sort baby stuff from loft
• finish laundry, ironing & putting away
• last bits of shopping for baby bag (nappies etc)
• other jobs?
• other stuff?

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat

Fingers crossed for a dry bed.....

Leftover from Fri:

• laundry; Wm on& again More put away

Sat/Sun:

• DH up first x 2 DONE 1
• Dad's Club Sat am DONE
• lie-in & nap DONE
• make up DS1's bed for 1st night without pull-up! DONE
• feeding chair & stool downstairs DONE
• rearrange living room so i can be more comfy on feeding chair DONE (mostly, kind of chaotic & odd layout but better for me)
• use nit comb on DS1 & see if anything crawling in there DONE & none found yey
• DS1 to bed without pull-up for 1st time tonight DONE

• swimming Sun am
• get DH to get baby stuff down from loft
• sort baby stuff from loft
• finish laundry Nearly Done, ironing & putting away
• last bits of shopping for baby bag (nappies etc)
• other jobs?
• other stuff?

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat

Morning.

JKS, hope you've woken to dry sheets?

DH birthday today. Then he's away for work for a fortnight, but he'll be able to pop home a lot this time, which is always nice.
He's sorted himself out a proper webcam too so we'll be able to Skype a lot.

Happy Birthday to your DH Wasting, Skype is great :)

Yes...dry bed!! & I'm so impressed & hopefully this is it though i'm still prepared for some wet beds & disturbed nights because of them but at least I'm not way off the mark.

Sun:

• DH up first x 2 DONE
• swimming Sun am
• get DH to get baby stuff down from loft
• sort baby stuff from loft
• finish laundry; Nearly Done, ironing & putting away
• last bits of shopping for baby bag (nappies etc)
• sort into 2 bags; emergency 'grab' bag & baby bag for DH to bring in later if I need to stay in (other MNer on AN thread in hosp with high BP at the mo, could be in for a while, got me thinking)
• other jobs?
• other stuff?

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat

Don't think I'm going to get Dh to do my loft jobs today, he's knackered after swimming!

Sun:

• swimming Sun am DONE
• get DH to get baby stuff down from loft
• sort baby stuff from loft
• finish laundry; Nearly Done, ironing & putting away
• last bits of shopping for baby bag (nappies etc)
• sort into 2 bags; emergency 'grab' bag & baby bag for DH to bring in later if I need to stay in (other MNer on AN thread in hosp with high BP at the mo, could be in for a while, got me thinking)
• other jobs?
• other stuff?

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat

Happy Sunday Morning everyone. Hope all are well, have caught up a bit on thread. Have the nits gone? brought back memories for me of when mine had them, I was doing a counselling course at the time and we had to do a practical in front of everyone, I played the 'client' role and talked about having head lice,( I did actually have them). The whole room was scratching after ten minutes.
Had a good break, will start list tomorrow.

Hello everyone.

I had 41wks 8lb 6oz
39 + 4 8lb.

My nephew was 42 weeks and 10lb (grief!) - I really felt for SIL!!

Anyway, we've been at rugby all morning and I came home with the two dirtiest children ever, more of them covered in mud than not.. good fun though, they do love it, and such a nice group of kids and coaches so it's worth the early starts and all the mud.......!

It feels like the kind of afternoon to sit the DC down in front of a film and then have a roast dinner. and for us!

Oh Mini, how was the trip?
Was DH ok??!

Mini - no nits after close examination with comb last night, and bizarrely my head is less itchy too - all in the mind!!!

Hi Anon - those are good weights for yours, think DS1 at 6,12 wasn't really ready to come out but some matrimonial activity the night before encouraged him out, lol. Then he piled on the pounds, sometimes a pound a week, for a while until he found his (heavier) level.

Sun:

• get DH to get baby stuff down from loft given him list
• sort baby stuff from loft
• finish laundry; Nearly Done, ironing & putting away
• last bits of shopping for baby bag (nappies etc)
• sort into 2 bags DONE
• other jobs?
• other stuff?

Longer term:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• make boys dentist appts
• Photos: upload select photos of DC to Snapfish & order
• order door curtain for front door, curtain for kitchen door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• pile of blankets & bedding to homeless centre (some basic shopping first & go through towels too)
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away?? Done More
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• ebay/freecycle Dance Mat

He managed to get to the osteopaths and had a good treatment which settled his back so all went well. We had a lovely time, lovely hotel too. Vienna was not at all as I had imagined, but it was great, am now 'museumed' and 'arted' out, not to mention cake.