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

daily

up shower + dress done
feed children done
school run done
BF group 10 - 12am done
kitchen floor hoover done
DW empty + load done
washing on done
washing out done
washing away
ironing
dog walked done
cats done
look after DD's friend 12-5pm done
guineapigs done
dinner for DD done
dinner for DP and I dp out on razz with work

weekly
wash floors done
change bedding - must today after 2 snotty kids in there!! done
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
order bags for christmas presents half done

Guess who spent 5.5 hours at soft play today

sounds like hell on earth heaven Freakoid

Show & trip lovely :)

Though hip v sore after sitting down for so long, but better now.

Have DB here for weekend, though soft play yesterday seems to worn him out as he's still asleep

Today:

• boys to Dad's Club Doing
• laundry; WM & TD on
• tidy kitchen, wipe table, dw on DONE
• BF homework & tidy file Doing
• catch up on MN & FB Doing :)

• lunch & tidy up
• afternoon? DS1 wants 'cinema time'
• tea/dinner x 5 & tidy up
• boys to bed
• tv & 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
• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on the history of wet nursing/milk donation?)

Cream Cracker mission of mercy?!?

Soft play - I can barely do an hour, let alone five

OK, rant alert.

Some of you may remember that my DH recently had a really bad rugby knee injury and had to have an emergency op to put it right... that was 5 weeks ago. His surgeon told him to reconsider his rugby future (surgeon speak for give it up boy).

So where is DH RIGHT NOW? On his way to play a rugby match. "Oh, I"m only the sub". Ok, so the injury rate in their team is.... errr.... several per match (bunch of unfit old codgers, they fall like flies!). He'll be subbed on in the first half. I mean, what the F**K is he doing? Hasn't even been for his 6 week post op check up and he is on the bloody rugby pitch. Major sodding pissed off I am. I mean, it's stupid, it's selfish. He's not fit anyway as he hasn't been to training/doing his usual exercise. He started a new job this week, he does NOT need to hobble into work again on Monday. Oh, and he is supposed to be travelling next week.

He may come back in once piece, but GOD, if he hurts himself again I will be SO. CROSS. His parting words "I'll call you from the hospital darling".

AAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

JKS - glad you enjoyed the show!

Daily/Today

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

Weekly

• Towels DONE
• Bedding DONE
• Mop Floors
• Meal plan and supermarket order

Anon - honestly, what an idiot! I really hope he doesn't get injured as that would be bad but he does deserve it!!

We got good news in the post yesterday x 2; DS2 qualifies for mobility which means we can now get started on sorting a new car, hopefully by the time baby comes. & he's got his statement for the SN school :)

Today:

• boys to Dad's Club DONE
• laundry; WM & TD on
• tidy kitchen, wipe table, dw on DONE
• BF homework & tidy file Doing
• catch up on MN & FB DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE

• afternoon? DS1 wants 'cinema time'
• tea/dinner x 5 & tidy up
• boys to bed
• tv & 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
• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on the history of wet nursing/milk donation?)

Anon - OMG I would be furious! I hope he makes it home in one piece, at least until you get your hands on him!!

JKS - glad you had a good time, and yay for DS2's statement etc :)

I am 37 weeks today. Full-term - yay! The baby can now come whenever it likes, once my parents get back from their trip abroad on Monday night

We have had a knackering day today - went to John Lewis to get a few final bits before the baby gets here. We were there ALL DAY - primarily because I can only walk and about half a mile an hour and had to keep stopping. However, we are now all sorted, although the bank balance has taken a major hammering Also looked at freezers to replace the dead one, and now we're wondering whether to just get a bigger fridge/freezer for the kitchen and not bother with an extra one in the garage. Such excitement
Tomorrow DH is taking DS to a car show, after bringing me a bacon sarnie in bed - so I'm looking forward to a quiet morning/day :)

Oh, I was furious in a kind of silent boiling from within kind of way.

Anyway, he did play about 30 minutes, he survived, no evidence of recurrence of existing/any new injuries. However, we've just been doing some gardening so suspect that our backs and legs etc will be hurting later instead!!!!

Well done JKS - excellent multiple news.

Ali - hope you are getting your quiet day!

Right, house is like a bomb has gone off. MIL bring DDog back from her holidays later today so I think at least a superficial sort is required!!!!

Anon - glad he's ok, though really he was risking it so soon after the op.

The mobility/motability is looking confusing as instead of awarding DS2 the usual 2 years (from 3-5 when it is reassessed) they have said until Oct 2011, not long enough to qualify for the car scheme, DH will ring tomorrow to clarify.
I don't mind if we don't get mobility so much really it's just affecting our choice of car to fit us all in, we could find a 2nd hand 7-seater but being awarded mobility means we can get a new one through the scheme Ideally we wanted to get sorted pre-baby...

Been rubbish with lists this weekend, went for a swim with boys, DH & DB this morning & done some laundry & that's about it for today!

Mon:

• all up & breakfasted
• all dressed
• DH to work
• sch runs
• library for reserved books
• BF course
• home for lunch & tidy up
• other jobs? nap?
• collect DS1
• chill out time
• tea x 3 (what?)
• boys bath & bed
• early quiet 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 blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options; DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2
• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on the history of wet nursing/milk donation?)

May I join, I have recently discovered lists and I am feeling very empowered by it all.

Morning all and hello five - come on in to list heaven!

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW >
• Washing
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing
• Speak to flooring people
• Book haircut
• Sort out swingball
• On line banking
• Check dehumidifier
• Building project finances DONE FOR NOW
• Building project plans/lists to update underway
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders DONE
• Meet kitchen people 2pm
• Chickens
• Dog
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards
• March budget itemise everything DOING
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

One off things this week/soon:

• Free songs off itunes with Amex card
• Sweep and tidy up front of house and broken bricks
• Sort out pile of newspapers
• Holiday dates with MIL mostly done
• Lighting and radiators
• Look through MIL's magazines and online for ideas DOING
• Spend DH's Amex points!
• 121 tutorials
• List more eBay
• Set up weather station
• Travel insurance and car hire for holiday
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust
• Think about Olympics tickets
• English Heritage membership to buy
• DH's birthday

Weekly

• Towels
• Bedding
• Mop Floors
• Meal plan and supermarket order

Todays list

DC's to school done
drop of pram done
phone and confirm DD's hospital appointment
bookwork one hour
tidy kitchen
register books for bookcrossing
washing
haircuts
DD swimming
note for my sister
recipes on computer
exercises on bookkeeping
check emails
take deposits

Morning. Its a spring morning here. Fabulous.
supermarket
post
call at accountant
student notes
accred form
Office of doom
garden
bonfire
conservatory
print notes
check inks
tidy up
dishy
bath
start to plan weekend

Morning everyone :)

Welcome five :)

It is a lovely day here today, and I can see crocuses coming up!

Had a lovely day relaxing yesterday while DH took DS out. Stayed in bed and watched the cricket and then had a looong nap. Back to normality today!!

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Empty all bins - done
Bins and recycling out for binmen - done
Spatone + vitamins - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Run DW on a cleaning cycle - doing
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Sweep kitchen floor
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Big tidy before cleaner tomorrow, house is a pigsty
Pack for tomorrow
Dinner - roast chicken
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

BEFORE BABY
Use up things from the freezer - doing
Order a new fridge freezer - almost decided which
Ring midwife about HIP form
Go into dental practice to fill in forms
Buy and hang a mirror in the spare room
Clean living room and dining room carpets - need to chase quotes
Sort and shred old paperwork
Book my car in for service and first MOT, due 9th April
DH's birthday - MIL coming and has offered to babysit. Present bought.
Bag clean baby clothes by size
Clean bugaboo and find pram fabrics
Mum's birthday present and card
Birthday card for brother
Wrap DS' presents from the baby
Wash baby bedding and towels
Order new changing bag
Load up Kindle

Hello five, welcome to our world of lists. A Mon/Tues list

community centre DONE
hoover
washing
ironing
bathroom
kitchen
clean hard floors
front garden
back garden
finish book
go to library
ring mother
buy cleaning products
work Mon pm
dusting
stuff for loft/charity
help at theatre
collect and take daughter (nursery)

Good morning slatterns, am popping in today. Have lots to do and quite frankly not a lot of motivation!
Hope everyone is well.

to do
wash up breakfast dishes
Put washing away
Put clothes away in spare room-half done.
Hoover
Dust.

Hello again. Just a quick stop...

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing
• Speak to flooring people DONE - follow up with email later
• Book haircut
• Sort out swingball DONE
• On line banking DONE
• Check dehumidifier
• Building project finances DONE FOR NOW
• Building project plans/lists to update underway
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders DONE
• Meet kitchen people 2pm
• Chickens
• Dog
• Confirm radiators with DH tonight
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards
• March budget itemise everything DOING
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

Hello all

Very successful weekend here! Managed to unsettle exH by turning up in the pub on Saturday night , did baby sale on Sunday morning and managed to clear most of the big stuff and make £73. Could have made more really but priced it all really low just to get shot of it. And then sorted understairs cupboard, put xmas stuff in the loft , cleared the ironing mountain of doom and cleaned the bathroom.

Ali my garden has some weird microclimate thing going on so my crocuses have finished, daffodils are out and the tulips look like they are about to flower

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
Strip my bed ? DONE
Make dc beds - DONE
Load of washing on ? DONE
DD to school ? DONE
DS to preschool - DONE
Recycling into box ? DONE
Tidy sitting room ? DONE
Put ironed clothes away - DONE
Hoover downstairs ? DONE
Load of washing on line ? DONE
2nd load on ? DONE
2nd load out ? DONE
3rd load on- DONE
3rd load out - DONE
Clean loo ? DONE
Tidy dc room? DONE
Dust downstairs ?
Dst bedrooms -
Clean tv ? DONE
Clean inside windows and mirrors ? DONE
Pick up ds - DONE
Lunch ? DONE
Hoover upstairs ?
Mop downstairs ?
Washing in off line ?
Ironing ?
Washing put away-
Remake bed -
Pick up dd ?
Cook dinner ?

Wash up -
Bath and bed dc-
Tidy kitchen and sitting room ?

We had one brave foolish crocus try and grow right where we pull the car into the drive. didn't make it sadly!

Welcome five

Mon:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DH to work DONE
• sch runs DONE
• library for reserved books DONE
• BF course DONE
• home for lunch & tidy up DONE (well i had breakfast as i missed that this morning)
• toy tidy DONE

• eat jacket potato/late lunch
• email aunt for birthday
• paperwork...
• other jobs? nap?
• collect DS1
• chill out time
• tea x 3 (what?)
• boys bath & bed
• early quiet 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 blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options; DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2
• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on milk donation)

Freaki - can I have some of what you're on please?! Your list and your weekend are amazing!!!!!

Gorgeous day here, lovely lovely.

Builders reckon they will finish at the site in eight weeks . Ie. actually on time.... which clearly will be absolutely fantastic, but now means I need to organise the last month after they have gone for finishing - floors, decoration, kitchen...... etc etc....

So, lists, lists and yet more lists for me!

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• DC to school DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing
• Speak to flooring people DONE - follow up with email later
• Book haircut
• Sort out swingball DONE
• On line banking DONE
• Check dehumidifier DONE
• Building project finances DONE FOR NOW
• Building project plans/lists to update underway
• Collect post from house DONE
• Go see builders DONE
• Meet kitchen people 2pm DONE
• Chickens DONE
• Dog DONE
• Confirm radiators with DH tonight
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards
• March budget itemise everything DOING
• Get fire going
• Make dinner

DC's to school done
drop of pram done
phone and confirm DD's hospital appointment done
bookwork one hour done
tidy kitchen done
register books for bookcrossing done
washing done
haircuts cancelled
DD swimming done
note for my sister
recipes on computer done
exercises on bookkeeping
check emails
take deposits

Feel I have done quite well today tomorrows list is easy

Take DS to nursery
Work
Hour in Costa's
Bookkeeping course
Home, bath, bed

Anon - wow to maybe finishing on time!!

I am totally frazzled, DS2 coming down with cough/cold/asthma, again. Took him to docs for nebuliser, he freaked and wouldn't take it, hitting, screaming, kicking, etc. Doc listened to his chest, says he needs ABs & an 'urgent' x-ray for an infection, right lung sounds very bad....get card with x-ray number & urgent written on it.

When do you think they can see him...??????? oh urgent means Mon-Fri 9-4, come in tomorrow and wait til you're seen i do not get it. apparently the urgent only applies to getting the results, not getting the x-ray done in the first place. WTF?

So he's had some ABs, wouldn't eat tea, and has gone to bed early. DH says he'll come back later tonight in case things go downhill and we need to go to hosp. i am just a teary mess, need to pull myself together as he's ok really, i'm just over-reacting.

Mon:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DH to work DONE
• sch runs DONE
• library for reserved books DONE
• BF course DONE
• home for lunch & tidy up DONE
• toy tidy DONE
• eat jacket potato/late lunch DONE
• email aunt for birthday DONE
• paperwork...
• other jobs; Sky+ catchup DONE
• collect DS1 DONE
• chill out time DONE

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• tea x 2 DONE
• boys bath Abandoned & bed DS2 done
• my dinner
• early quiet night

Tues:

• go to hosp for 9 and wait to be seen by x-ray dept....

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 blind for kitchen side door & curtains for playroom
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• research motability options; DH doing
• see if any toys can go/be put away
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started
• sort baby stuff from loft; Started
• practice stuff from Portage Worker with DS2
• some research for my BF presentation (thinking of doing a short presentation on milk donation)

JKS - you are NOT overreacting.

We had very similar with DS when he was about 1.5... But we were advised simply to get straight to A&E rather than be referred, which we did. He had already been on AB's for a few days at that point, when they found pneumonia on his xray, the hospital gave us stronger AB's and within 2 days he was almost as good as new.

Glad DH coming home later, and frankly, if you think you should just go to A&E, then just go, they have to see you and the existence of your xray card will demonstrate you need to be taken seriously.

Poor you. I absolutely feel for you.

JKS - you poor thing, not overreacting at ALL. I would be all to pieces in that situation. Glad that your DH is going to come home, at least then you have some moral support and someone to make you a ! Have a (((hug)))

Anon - that would be amazing! My parents are rebuilding renovating their house in France atm, and that is all on time too - we had thought they would be months behind and subject to lots of gallic shrugging!! As it is, it looks like we might be able to head down there for a holiday by the end of the summer!

five - always nice to get a good Monday in I think, my week often goes downhill from there! :)

Freak - you are uberwoman. Please can I have some of whatever you're on?

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Empty all bins - done
Bins and recycling out for binmen - done
Spatone + vitamins - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Run DW on a cleaning cycle - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Sweep kitchen floor - done
Clean kitchen bin - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
Big tidy before cleaner tomorrow, house is a pigsty - mostly done
Pack for tomorrow
Dinner - roast chicken - done
Clear up
DS bath and bed - in progress
Find my chequebook for hairdressers tomorrow
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

BEFORE BABY
Use up things from the freezer - doing
Order a new fridge freezer - almost decided which
Ring midwife about HIP form
Go into dental practice to fill in forms
Buy and hang a mirror in the spare room
Clean living room and dining room carpets - need to chase quotes
Sort and shred old paperwork
Book my car in for service and first MOT, due 9th April
DH's birthday - MIL coming and has offered to babysit. Present bought.
Bag clean baby clothes by size
Clean bugaboo and find pram fabrics
Mum's birthday present and card
Birthday card for brother
Wrap DS' presents from the baby
Wash baby bedding and towels
Order new changing bag
Load up Kindle