Getting nothing done? Procrastinators, pottering here.

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

Welcome to the new thread ladies :)

Morning everyone :)

Slow start this morning, we were all awake at midnight with DS1 feeling poorly and really upset.

TO DO
Clear up breakfast
Shower and get everyone dressed
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Make packed lunch
Take dinner out of the freezer
Take DS1 to preschool
Post box
Drop off dry cleaning
Lunch
Fruit loaf into the breadmaker
15 minutes bathroom cleaning
Dust upstairs
Dust downstairs
Bannisters
Collect DS1
Find a recipe for lamb shanks

JKS, I was putting it down to the fact that DD1 was part of a group of 7 friends that went round together. 5 of them went to an all girl school that is 13 miles away. But you would need to have her name down since conception for a hope of her getting in, she would be gone since 8am on a bus to it and not home til near 5 in the evening!! Plus, we live right next door to the secondary. If they all fell out of bed at 8.30 am, they still would be on time for school at 8.50am!!! They are all home by 3.45pm.
She is gone in today for 9am and is coming home at 12.30pm (i packed her lunch in case she decided to stay but not too hopeful) At least there was no tears.

DS gets his exam results tomorrow at 3pm, so more stress for me!!

Aw CC, what about the other 1 from her group? Hopefully today went well?

Ali - DD is desperate to eat I think, she was after the bag of grated cheese earlier! Am aiming for at least 5 months before we start BLW though that's only next Tues DS2 grabbed food off my plate at 5 months and ate it so i see that as him showing me he was ready :)

Tues:

• school run DONE
• hosp for gynae appt DONE
• BF group (try and pop to clinic for photo for new badgeDONE; need household bill)DONE
• lunch DONE
• bf DD & hopefully she'll nap Doing

• collect DS1 & cousin
• snack & reading time
• DS2 home/check bag
• DS1 first swimming lesson
• tea, bath & DC to bed
• orchestra

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• jetwash the patio & furniture; Done side of house & driveway (may abandon until Spring)
• TQs from DS1 (only 10 to do as some done back in May)
• book handyman in to clean gutters
• order blind for kitchen side door
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• see if any toys can go/be put away
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• bathroom needs a blitz; Shower head descaled; kids step washed & stored; Shower grout scrubbed; Shower door scrubbed
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• Sept bday cards; 2 done
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

Morning!

DS was fine going in to nursery yesterday, but got quite upset at times apparently, not looking forward to it this morning tbh, but must persevere.

Consultant appointment yesterday resulted in me being press-ganged into a VBAC. I'm really ok with it now though. Wish they'd had that conversation with me at 20 week appoinment so I'd had time to prepare!

• Shower and dress done

• Make beds, open curtains done

• Breakfast done

• Oj, and vits done

• Put washing in

• Dress DS

• Check bag, shoes and coats on

• 8.35 ? set off

• Fold dry washing, hang washing

• Wash the pots

• Sweep and mop through

• Researching VBAC!

• 11.35 ? set off

• Empty bag of water bottle and any dirty clothes

• Lunch

• Wash the pots

• Cooking class

• Playing

• Tea

• Pots

• Rubbish and recycling out

• Tidy up ? make sure playroom is tidy

• DS bath and bed

• Doom

• Cleaning cupboard

• Top of fridge

• Pantry

• Bookcases in front room (minor doom)

• Sort and pack up neatly crafting stuff (minor doom)

• Baby preparation

• Collect and pay for bedside cot done, order mattress and sheets

• Sort and wash rest of baby blankets, nappies etc.

• Get info together eg. Breastfeeding councellors number, name of tongue-tie doctor etc.

• Hospital bags ? repack!

• Buy ? sling, buggyboard, pram suit

• VBAC! Eek!

Ooh Wasting! Fingers crossed! I did loads of research on VBAC and I've forgotten all of it, so I've nothing useful to share - sorry!
Glad DS was ok, he will get the hang of it. Is he going every day?

I've got DS1 home with me today, he's had a bit of a cold but been ok, and then last night he woke at midnight and again at 3 with a temperature and a horrid cough, so he's on the sofa under a blanket having eaten a huuuge breakfast
Not sure how much I'm going to get done today as a result.

Small lists needed!

TO DO
Unload dishwasher
Clear up kitchen
Put a wash on

Oh CC so so hard to see your baby upset like that Hope she settles in soon.

Eating babies Dear god where has the time gone??

Done loads so far but think tea and internet break was a bad idea, especially as I'm now getting kitten cuddles!

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Feed cats- DOnE
Litter tray - DONE
Washing up ? DONE
Clean sink & draining board - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
Make ds? lunch - DONE
DD to school- DONE
DS to preschool ? DONE
Strip my bed ? DONE
Load of washing on ? DONE
Load of washing on line - DONE
Make beds - DONE
Recycling into box ? DONE
Tidy sitting room ? DONE
Hoover downstairs ? DONE
Hoover upstairs -
Clean loo ? DONE
Clean sink- DONE
Tidy dc room? DONE
Find letter re IS- DONE
Find NHS no - DONE
Dust downstairs ?
Dust bedrooms -
Clean screens ? DONE
Clean inside windows and mirrors ? DONE
Clean glass door -
Supermarket -
Lunch with friend?
Pick up dc-
Go to dentist -
Cook dinner ?

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

Freak - god you have done loads!! I can't believe T is eating either - he is 24 weeks though, he'll be 6 months in exactly 2 weeks! My year has just vanished

DONE
Unload dishwasher
Clear up kitchen
Put a wash on
Tidy bedrooms
Get lamb shanks in the oven
Clear up the kitchen again

TO DO
Drink coffee
Fruit loaf into the breadmaker
Washing on the line?
Lunch

Done nothing since I posted though ali!

I was a bit at the 'eating babies' - thinking you lot are turning into cannibals!

Wasting - if you can get hold of a book called Silent Knife it's a fab VBAC read, out of print now though. If you join the Yahoo Vbac group, i passed on a copy i bought and it is being passed around, plus everyone on there has loads of fab advice & tips.
My (unsolicited i know!) advice is: make yourself knowledgable about vbac.
There is nothing wrong with going for an ELCS or with planning for a vbac, but there is a lot wrong with aiming for a vbac with the wrong support/no support. If the hosp start laying down loads of rules for 'vbac ladies' that are basically designed to make you end up with an EMCS then you are fighting a losing battle.
Look up VBAC guidelines on the Midwives site (name temporarily lost in a brain black hole....)

Been swimming with DD today, and DS1 loved his 1st lesson yesterday :)

Tues:

• school run DONE
• swimming with DD DONE
• DD nap/bath for me DONE
• lunch
• afternoon orch with DD
• collect DS1 & cousin
• snack & reading time/pack schoolbag
• DS2 home/check bag
• tea, walk round block & DC to bed
• DH home late

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• jetwash the patio & furniture; Done side of house & driveway (may abandon until Spring)
• TQs from DS1 (only 10 to do as some done back in May)
• book handyman in to clean gutters
• order blind for kitchen side door
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• see if any toys can go/be put away pre-Christmas influx
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• bathroom needs a blitz; Shower head descaled; kids step washed & stored; Shower grout scrubbed; Shower door scrubbed
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• Sept bday cards; 2 done
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

JKS yes I did a double take at it too and I wrote it!

mini update here
All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Feed cats- DOnE
Litter tray - DONE
Washing up ? DONE
Clean sink & draining board - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
Make ds? lunch - DONE
DD to school- DONE
DS to preschool ? DONE
Strip my bed ? DONE
Load of washing on ? DONE
Load of washing on line - DONE
Make beds - DONE
Recycling into box ? DONE
Tidy sitting room ? DONE
Hoover downstairs ? DONE
Hoover upstairs - DONE
Clean loo ? DONE
Clean sink- DONE
Tidy dc room? DONE
Find letter re IS- DONE
Find NHS no - DONE
Dust downstairs ? DONE
Dust bedrooms - DONE
Clean screens ? DONE
Clean inside windows and mirrors ? DONE
Clean glass door - DONE
Supermarket - DONE
Lunch with friend? DONE
Pick up dc-
Go to dentist -
Cook dinner ?
Wash up -
Bath and bed dc-
Tidy kitchen and sitting room ?

Am picking ds up a bit early today so we can get to dentist on time and need to pop to shop first to get change for the bus. Other than that am feeling pretty organised!

Good luck at the dentist Freak :)

Made a start on the playroom today, aims are:
to have space for Christmas influx
get rid of broken stuff/repair
reunite missing/lost toys
put away toys too babyish for DS2 until DD needs them
get rid of some of those toys as we have far too many!

Wed:

• school run DONE
• swimming with DD DONE
• DD nap/bath for me DONE
• lunch DONE
• afternoon orch with DD DONE
• collect DS1 & cousin DONE
• snack & reading time/pack schoolbag DONE
• DS2 home/check bag DONE
• tea DONE, walk round block (walk cancelled, DS1 & cousin baking instead)
• DC to bed
• DH home late

Thurs:

• sch run
• tidy kitchen & dw on
• laundry
• DD jabs (9.30)
• bday cards check
• other jobs? carry on with toys
• lunch & tidy up
• collect DS1 & cousin
• reading/repack bag
• DS2 home/repack bag
• boys tea (what?)
• DH home (not sure what time)
• cousin cooking dinner :)

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• jetwash the patio & furniture; Done side of house & driveway (may abandon until Spring)
• TQs from DS1 (only 10 to do as some done back in May)
• book handyman in to clean gutters
• order blind for kitchen side door
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• see if any toys can go/be put away pre-Christmas influx Started
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• bathroom needs a blitz; Shower head descaled; kids step washed & stored; Shower grout scrubbed; Shower door scrubbed
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• Sept bday cards; 2 done
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

Feeling pretty jammy now as hadn't been to dentist in over 4 years and teeth all fine! Thought they were going to tell me they were riddled with holes but not a one!

Well done Freak. I really need to sort out dentist for us, it is four years since DH and I have been and we have never taken DS!

DONE
Unload dishwasher
Clear up kitchen
Put a wash on
Tidy bedrooms
Get lamb shanks in the oven
Clear up the kitchen again
Drink coffee
Fruit loaf into the breadmaker
Washing onto the airer
Lunch
Mealplan and online shop
Make mash for dinner
Drop off dry cleaning (DH)
Another load of washing
Dinner and clear up
Boys to bed

TO DO
Unload dishwasher
Watch Grand Designs
Sleep

Morning!

DS was fine at school yesterday, but we had a busy day and I had to wake him up this morning.
He goes five mornings a week 9-12.

I'll have to have a look at the yahoo group JKS, how do I find it? I've started reading threads on here for info and I'm ordering a birth ball etc. Not left myself very much time.

Got lots done this morning, though sure it won't look it on my list.

• Shower and dress done
• Make beds, open curtains done
• Breakfast done
• Oj, and vits done
• Put washing in done
• Dress DS done
• Check bag, shoes and coats on done
• 8.35 ? set off done
• Fold dry washing, hang washing done
• put clean clothes away done
• put load of washing in done
• pick up and tidy up all through done
• dry mountain of pots done
• knit!
• 11.35 ? set off
• Empty bag of water bottle and any dirty clothes
• Lunch
• Town
• Playing
• Tea
• Pots
• Rubbish and recycling out
• Tidy up ? make sure playroom is tidy
• DS bath and bed

• Doom
• Cleaning cupboard
• Top of fridge
• Pantry
• Bookcases in front room (minor doom)
• Sort and pack up neatly crafting stuff (minor doom)

• Baby preparation
• Collect and pay for bedside cot done, order mattress and sheets ordered
• Sort and wash rest of baby blankets, nappies etc.
• Get info together eg. Breastfeeding councellors number, name of tongue-tie doctor etc.
• Hospital bags ? repack!
• Buy ? sling, buggyboard, pram suit
• VBAC! Eek! - raspberry leaf tea, perineal massage oil, birth ball

Wasting - i will search out a link for you in a sec.

Thurs:

• sch run DONE
• tidy kitchen & dw on DONE
• laundry; Load 1 hung out & Load2 in wm
• DD jabs (9.30) DONE :(
• DD nap Doing
• & choc brownie, yum Doing :)

• bday cards check
• other jobs? carry on with toys
• lunch & tidy up
• collect DS1 & cousin
• reading/repack bag
• DS2 home/repack bag
• boys tea (what?)
• DH home (not sure what time)
• cousin cooking dinner

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• jetwash the patio & furniture; Done side of house & driveway (may abandon until Spring)
• TQs from DS1 (only 10 to do as some done back in May)
• book handyman in to clean gutters
• order blind for kitchen side door
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• see if any toys can go/be put away pre-Christmas influx Started
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• bathroom needs a blitz; Shower head descaled; kids step washed & stored; Shower grout scrubbed; Shower door scrubbed
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• Sept bday cards; 2 done
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

Hopefully this will work:

yahoo group

I don't like the layout of it but loads of very well informed folk on there :)

JKS and I did have dentist on our lists for a good couple of years before doing anything about it ali!

Can't believe you're so close to having dc2 wasting! Seems to have flown by (but then it generally does when you're not the one who is going through it!)

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Feed cats- DOnE
Litter tray - DONE
Washing up ? DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
Take off sofacovers to wash - DONE
DD to school- DONE
DS to preschool ? DONE
Load of washing on ? DONE
Load of washing on line - DONE
2ndload on- DONE
2nd load out- DONE
3rd load on - DONE
3rd load out -
Take dry washing off airer and put away - DONE
Make beds - DONE
Recycling into box ? DONE
Tidy sitting room ? DONE
Hoover downstairs ?
Clean loo ? DONE
wipe sink- DONE
Mop downstairs -
Job application-
Sausages out of freezer - DONE
Pick up ds -
Lunch-
Pick up dd-
Cook dinner ?
Wash up -
Oven pride oven -

Bath and bed dc-
Tidy kitchen and sitting room ?

I feel so much better for being back in list mode! Don't know why I let it slide!

Morning Ladies! Such a proud Mammy today, DS did really well in his state exams, am so proud!
DD1 is settling a bit better and is now staying half days, dont know when they are going to get her to stay longer though, I suppose slowly but surely!
My house is a kip!! With all the stress lately, I just couldnt be bothered but it is starting to get on my nerves now Washing is now piling up and this morning I had a moment where I thought there was no clean knickers for the girls but I had some! Need to wash more for tomorrow though!

Going to start on Breakfast dishes!

This thread is a real pain to load and use for me, anyone else having problems with it?
I'd just done a whole post and lost it.

Anyway, everything's done but the evening's pots.

CC, well done to your DS,and glad DD1 is settling more.

JKS, thanks for the link, I've joined and it looks really useful.

Going to make myself some raspberry leaf tea now. The way the time keeps flying by I'll be in labour in no time. [shock

Morning!

• Shower and dress done
• Strpi beds, open curtains done
• Breakfast done
• Oj, and vits
• Put washing in done
• Dress DS done
• Check bag, shoes and coats on done
• 8.40 ? set off done
• Fold dry washing done hang washing
• check emails etc. doing
• put load of washing in
• dry mountain of pots
• ring insulation company
• 11.40 ? set off
• Empty bag of water bottle and any dirty clothes
• Lunch
• Pots
• Playing
• Midwife, set off at 3.35
• Tea
• Pots
• Rubbish and recycling out
• Tidy up ? make sure playroom is tidy
• Make beds
• DS bath and bed

• Doom
• Cleaning cupboard
• Top of fridge
• Pantry
• Bookcases in front room (minor doom)
• Sort and pack up neatly crafting stuff (minor doom)

• Baby preparation
• order mattress and sheets ordered
• Sort and wash rest of baby blankets, nappies etc.
• Get info together eg. Breastfeeding councellors number, name of tongue-tie doctor etc.
• Hospital bags ? repack!
• Buy ? sling, buggyboard, pram suit
• VBAC! Eek! - raspberry leaf tea bought perineal massage oil, birth ball

• Shower and dress done
• Strpi beds, open curtains done
• Breakfast done
• Oj, and vits
• Put washing in done
• Dress DS done
• Check bag, shoes and coats on done
• 8.40 ? set off done
• Fold dry washing done hang washing
• check emails etc. doing
• put load of washing in
• dry mountain of pots done
• knitting done
• ring insulation company
• 11.40 ? set off done
• Empty bag of water bottle and any dirty clothes done
• Lunch done

+ sweep through done

• Pots
• Playing
• Midwife, set off at 3.35
• Tea
• Pots
• Rubbish and recycling out
• Tidy up ? make sure playroom is tidy
• Make beds
• DS bath and bed

• Doom
• Cleaning cupboard
• Top of fridge
• Pantry
• Bookcases in front room (minor doom)
• Sort and pack up neatly crafting stuff (minor doom)

• Baby preparation
• order mattress and sheets ordered
• Sort and wash rest of baby blankets, nappies etc.
• Get info together eg. Breastfeeding councellors number, name of tongue-tie doctor etc.
• Hospital bags ? repack!
• Buy ? sling, buggyboard, pram suit
• VBAC! Eek! - raspberry leaf tea bought perineal massage oil, birth ball

DD will NOT nap today, i have stropped

Left from Thurs:

• bday cards check 2 DONE

Fri:

• sch run DONE
• cafe with friends DONE
• DD nap no
• bath with DD DONE
• DD nap no
• lunch DONE

• quick kitchen tidy
• move laundry forward
• collect DS1 & cousin
• reading/pack bag
• DS2 home/check bag/swimming stuff in wm
• poss park with friends?
• fish & chips for tea maybe?
• DH home/cousin leaving
• DC to bed
• early night

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• jetwash the patio & furniture; Done side of house & driveway (may abandon until Spring)
• TQs from DS1 (only 10 to do as some done back in May)
• book handyman in to clean gutters
• order blind for kitchen side door
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• see if any toys can go/be put away pre-Christmas influx Started
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• bathroom needs a blitz; Shower head descaled; kids step washed & stored; Shower grout scrubbed; Shower door scrubbed
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• Sept bday cards; 4 done
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

I have stropped some more, gawd she is a feeding monster today and i've had enough! Even ended up feeding her standing up pushing DS2 in the swing at the playground. Got nothing done.
Hopefully it's a temporary thing, maybe a reaction to her jabs though she seems well enough, just hungry. a growth spurt perhaps (Dh's answer to everything!).

Cousin has gone, hopefully a quiet weekend before PIL arrive on Sun. MIL is looking after the boys while Dh, me & DD go away for a couple of days, or that's the plan, i'm tempted by staying here and letting MIL look after DD between feeds whilst the boys are at sch and just going to bed!

Fri:

• sch run DONE
• cafe with friends DONE
• DD nap no
• bath with DD DONE
• DD nap no
• lunch DONE
• quick kitchen tidy no
• move laundry forward no
• collect DS1 & cousin DONE
• reading/pack bag no
• DS2 home yes/check bag DONE/swimming stuff in wm no
• park with friends DONE
• fish & chips for tea DONE
• DH home/cousin leaving DONE
• DC to bed DONE
• early night

Sat:

• breakfast/me stay in bed for a bit
• Dad's Club + 2 x DS
• hopefully DD nap
• hopefully get stuff done
• lunch & tidy up
• DH out to football
• tea x 3 & tidy up
• DC bath & bed
• DH out for evening/my tv time

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• jetwash the patio & furniture; Done side of house & driveway (may abandon until Spring)
• TQs from DS1 (only 10 to do as some done back in May)
• book handyman in to clean gutters
• order blind for kitchen side door
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• see if any toys can go/be put away pre-Christmas influx Started
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• bathroom needs a blitz; Shower head descaled; kids step washed & stored; Shower grout scrubbed; Shower door scrubbed
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• Sept bday cards; 4 done
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

Jks we've had a few days like that recently. Last night T didn't go to sleep until gone 11pm!

I'm being crap at lists but things are ticking over here, DS1 was back at preschool today after his bug which helps.

CC - yay for DS, and good news that DD1 is settling better