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

Had a lovely nap:)

Left from Tues:

• swap bathmats & towels DONE

Wed:

• get up stupidly early DONE
• breakfast DONE
• all dressed DONE
• sch runs DONE
• bath & back to bed DONE

• lunch & tidy up
• Portage Worker (1.30)
• collect DS1
• friend + DS coming to play
• tea & tidy up
• boys bath & bed
• early night

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 curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

I'm due 3 weeks on Saturday - booked for an ELCS 3 weeks on Monday unless things get going before then!

JKS - ooh lovely :)

Dave - I just love storage, I have a dreadful obsession with it. My drawstring bags for puzzles/dominoes etc arrived this morning and I've just spent a happy half hour sorting out the chaotic puzzle and game box [slightly OCD emoticon]

Dave I like that prescription, will you be my GP please?

Spent yesterday having big clear out and washing down all the baby stuff that was in the shed ready to try and sell it at a nearly new sale on Sun. Accidentally dyed the booster seat thingy pink by sticking the cover in the machine with some bright stuff, whoops. Hopefully someone will like it pink!

Wasting I have finally posted to you as well, sorry it's been so long and hope you like at least some of it! It was all 2nd hand to ds apart from one pair of jeans that have never been worn cos they were the wrong shape for him so don't feel bad about getting rid if it's no good to you!

3 weeks ali Hope you're not in too much pain now.

I love storage too Have a good few cupboards still to sort through when I summon up the energy, nothing like everything having a place.

Oh and yes to oven pride, good shit that I still use soda crystals in between to wipe round the inside but you can't beat oven pride for a thorough clean (just don't forget the gloves because it does melt your hands!)

Ali - i like the sound of those bags, where did you get them from?

JKS - I got them online from a company called 'Clever Baggers'. They are amazingly cheap, and these turned up in only 2/3 days.

Freak - I'm fine if I sit down somewhere comfy. It's walking, going up stairs, crawling about on the floor that is the problem. Still, only a few weeks to go and then I'll feel better

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Make rice crispy cakes with DS - no he wanted to do colouring instead
1 load of washing
Bit of a toy sort out - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
Walk to Sainsbury's for a couple of bits - done
Sit down with a and biscotti - doing
Ring parents before they go away tomorrow
Dinner - sausages and mash
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

They look good ali. I'm after something like this

And I remember well refusing to get down on the floor to play with dd in the last few weeks of pregnancy

`Hello everyone, and welcome to Onlywantsone!

Oh a day of mixed fortunes! Had some great (boring) news on something for the house that the building inspector unexpectedly agreed to - have it in writing as well, so if he later claims he was away/asleep/drunk/not paying attention or whatever, then tough. We were very very surprised, not least my builder!!

And then, on a bit of a downer, just been to see consultant with DS and his eyes. He has very bad eyes, we've been under the care of the consultant on a very regular basis for pushing 4 years now (he is 6). ANYWAY, the latest is a cyst under his eyelid which caused a bloody bubble over his eye ten days ago. It's gone down but not completely, and unlikely ever to go away on its own so still is kind of across his eye and the only way to get rid is to operate.

Anyway, I know he will be fine, it's quick, but means a light general which is the scariest part for me. DD had one a couple of years back and oh my god, that moment will be with me for ever!

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing ONE DONE
• Hoovering DONE
• Kitchen DONE FOR NOW
• Ironing
• On line banking DONE
• Check dehumidifier
• Building project finances
• Building project plans/lists to update
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders DONE
• Chickens DONE
• Dog
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards - sticker charts to set up FOUND, just need to put up/find stickers!
• March budget itemise everything DOING
• DS to consultant DONE
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

Anon - i think seeing them get knocked out is the absolute worst bit of any op, big or small. (i have avoided it whenever possible as DH is better at not dissolving into a mess in the corner!).

Wed:

• get up stupidly early DONE
• breakfast DONE
• all dressed DONE
• sch runs DONE
• bath & back to bed DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• Portage Worker (1.30) DONE
• collect DS1 DONE
• friend + DS coming to play DONE
• tea & tidy up DONE
• boys bath & bed
• my dinner
• quick toy tidy
• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on the history of wet nursing)
• early night

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 curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

Am looking at celebrations for PILs birthday he's 90. Any ideas. Some want a family party, but where, how? we all live a distance. so it would have to be a hotel do. Am not enthused.

That moment, when they go under . We have a very good friend who is a consultant anaesthetist and as luck would have it, we were away with him just the week that DD was having her op so he prepared me and reassured me and talked me through what it would be like. And thank god he did! Because I was still a complete state, but I'd have been much worse if he hadn't talked me through it....

This time, it's in the middle of the Easter Holidays, which is good from the point of view that he doesn't miss school/has time to recover properly BUT DH will be abroad and the PIL's are away on holiday, so it's just little old me to deal with DS getting put to sleep and keeping DD under control. I don't think I have anyone I can leave her with, not at 7 in the morning anyway!

Oh Anon :( Is there no way that you can get them to change the date of the op? Seems hard you having to deal with it all by yourself.

Mini - hmm that's a tough one. Are people prepared to pay out for a hotel etc? What about just a lunchtime thing, would you all be able to go there and back in a day - Sunday lunch out somewhere posh perhaps?

JKS - that sounds really interesting. In my naivety I hadn't realised that wet nurses often left their own children to die in order to nurse a child with rich parents. Pretty awful :(

DS took himself off upstairs earlier to play in his room - was it wrong of me to leave him to it and come downstairs and have a cuppa in peace? I can't really see a problem but for some reason I felt really guilty!

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Make rice crispy cakes with DS - no he wanted to do colouring instead
1 load of washing - washing
Bit of a toy sort out - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
Walk to Sainsbury's for a couple of bits - done
Sit down with a and biscotti - done
Ring parents before they go away tomorrow - done
Dinner - sausages and mash - done yum yum
Clear up - done mostly
Run DW - done
DS bath and bed - DH doing now
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed
Finalise Waitrose order for Friday

anon how old is your DS (sorry I dont know much about you lots)

If you're gonna be forcing helping me to get my chores done, would you mind telling me more about yuo all?

daily

up shower + dress DONE
feed children DONE
school run X 2 DONE
kitchen floor hoover DONE
DW empty + load X2 DONE
washing on X2 DONE
washing out DONE
washing away DONE
ironing done
dog walked DONE
cats DONE
guineapigs DONE
dinner for DD DONE
dinner for DP and I DOING

weekly
wash floors
change bedding
bathrooms DONE
dust and hoover office DONE
sort paper work
tidy away randoms and sort clutter DONE
clear out pigs

long term
car boot catch needs fixing
sort shed
order grass seed
make some thing to hang DD's art work on
shed / fence / decking stain
bags + pens for christmas presents Bought the pens
DD new shoes bargain clarks on ebay brand new for 5 yay
get pop corn kernals bought cooked and consumed

Ali - not at all unreasonable, don't feel guilty!! Kids need to learn to play independently and i love it when both the boys are off playing somewhere :)
DS1 particularly now likes to go and play upstairs - partly as he can shut the gate & DS2 can't bother him

DS2 needs his own space too and likes to go off and play without me hovering. Suits me

OnlyWantsOne - i have 2 boys, 4 & 3 and expecting DC3 (surprise) in April :)

I need to knuckle down re the research & thinking how i will present it but not tonight, all light-headed and tired. Tomorrow will do.

Wed:

• boys bath & bed DONE
• my dinner DONE
• quick toy tidy DONE
• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on the history of wet nursing) Tomorrow
• early night

Thurs:

• all up & breakfasted
• all dressed
• sch runs
• cafe to meet other mums
• home for jobs
• lunch & tidy up
• get ready to go to Les Mis :)
• collect DS1 & friend's DD, drop her at hers
• home then to train for show
• see show :)

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 curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2

Onlywantsone - DS is 6, DD is 5, almost exactly a year between them, so I didn't go for number 3! I am currently full time at home, which is full time project manager for my house renovation - see pics on my profile, though, we've progressed since then (a bit!) so I should update... needless to say, we are NOT living in the property!

Ali - I could postpone it, but then it won't be until May/June, and then of course there is still every chance DH might be away and then we get into the time when we want to move back into our house.... May and June are going to be frantic, so I think the April slot, although it will be stressful, is best cos it gets it done and quite soon.... though, not broken the news to DH yet, he knows he needs the op, just not when. Will talk properly later, once we are sat down.

I too had not realised the full connotation of "wet nurses". Grief.

Only - I've just got DS atm, he is 2.7. I'm a SAHM, with no plans to go back to work until DC are settled in school - this is going to be our last baby :)

Anon sorry I didn't read all the thread. It does seem a lot for you to do on your own, I hope someone will step up for you.
Thing is Ali, PILs birthday is within days of DD2s due date, and I do want to be there for the birth. SIL is coming from Canada and will expect arrangements to be made. Senior BIL has already made an excuse ( very selfishly in my opinion) I mean how often is your father 90 FGS (don't get me started). So its going to be one of 'those' occasions. I think a sort of tea party would work, but wonder if any hotels are willing to do that kind of thing.
Onlywantsone, I am a granny, have 3 DCs and 2 DGC wih another soon.

Mini - yes I'm sure a hotel will do that, infact we've had similar at various places in the past. I would think you would do better with an independent rather than a big chain which will probably have a minimum spend/numbers if you want any kind of private room or 'fenced off' bit.
Hope you are still going to ask Senior BIL for a contribution to the cost

Anon - yes I can see why you want it done and dealt with asap.

Rant Alert. senior BIL is saying oh we'll go an see father at a later time, his birthday celebration will last longer that way. Which is nice, but all PIL wants is for his family to be together just for one day. ( I understand this as it something I often wish for)
Ok you can come out now. I will look at the independents. Good idea.

Mini - there is one tit in every family. In 30 years time that will be my eldest 'D'B, the stupid arse.

There is "one" in every family, oh you are so right! My Sis (absolutely not DSis) is ours.

Mini - PIL has every bloody right to get them all together on one day, and without wanting to sound morbid, it might be the last BIG chance to get everyone together to celebrate with him.... (IYSWIM) so too right. Of course he may last another decade (and I hope he does!) but you never know....

Mini - I so agree, it's not that much to ask really.
What has bugged me in our family in the past is that everyone makes an effort to come to the funeral when the deceased couldn't give a monkeys, but made no effort in the year or so preceding when the person was ill, grrrrrr.
My uncle was out 'family tit' - he passed away 2 years ago and there wasn't a mad rush to his funeral....my mum's brother, she was sad but the rest of us being honest weren't - that sounds terrible but after he told me that my mum would have been better off if she'd died instead of surviving her cancer treatment (and he never visited her during the bloody awful treatment so never saw her at her worst), i could never forgive him, w*nker!

sorry, turned into a rant of my own!!

Left from Wed:

• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on the history of wet nursing)

Thurs:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed
• sch runs
• cafe to meet other mums
• home for jobs
• lunch & tidy up
• get ready to go to Les Mis
• collect DS1 & friend's DD, drop her at hers
• home then to train for show Got train times
• see show :)

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 curtain/blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options for if/when we get mobility; Done More/DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away; Sorted through downstairs books
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2