Getting nothing done? Procrastinators, pottering here.

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

Welcome to the new thread ladies :)

Freak that looks amazing

Right need to finish unloading dishy
Hang out some washing (electricity bill was scary but consequence of awful summer)
Collect ds dd doing practice paper

Ooh, nothing like a good rant ali.

• lunch done
• raspberry leaf tea done
• oj and vits done
• put washing in done
• tidy up done
• sweep and mop
• clean bathroom done! apart from the floor, I'm delegating that one to DH for the duration
• fully inflate birth ball done I think anyway, squashed quite a bit when I sat on it.
• try and keep DS from destoying birth ball

That's not bad actually!

DS can zone out now in front of shrek, while I read Active Birth I think.

Wasting - have to laugh at DS going for the birth ball, both my boys loved it when I was pg.

Have actually done some sorting out today, but have hurt my shoulder in the process, ouch.
Got rid of an old bed frame we've had in the spare room for ages, can actually see the bookcase now!

Thurs:

• sch runs DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• laundry 2loads hung out & another load out & wm on again
• visit friends new house (need to confirm) not today
• empty kitchen cleaning cupboard and limit what we have in there DONE
• bday cards check DONE
• tackle email inbox More done
• diary sync with DH/sch diaries DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• freecycle old bed DONE
• collect DS1/reading/pack bag DONE
• DS2 home/check bag DONE

• DC tea, bath & bed
• dinner & 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; Grotbusted shower
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• Sept bday cards; 3 left DONE
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

Wasting - yes quite! DS1 has discovered the joys of Shrek/Toy Story recently. Brilliant if I need a quiet hour!
DS1 loved my birth ball too!

DH has gone out to do a Boot Camp, which as far as I can establish is basically army fitness drill I am really pleased he is doing some exercise, but I fear he may have jumped in the deep end a bit!

In the end I have got loads done today, house looks loads better and I feel like I can think straight. I've been feeling a bit wobbly for a few days in a PNDish kind of way, so I think maybe a book and a bath with some is in order later once DH is home.

DONE
Unload dishwasher
Washing onto the line
Another load on
Finish basic kitchen clean and tidy
Have long winded discussion with DH about winter tyres for my car
Drink coffee
Fold washing
Book restaurant for anniversary
Dining table
Make fruit loaf
Lunch
Clear up
Make shepherd's pie for dinner
Sweep kitchen floor
Hoover downstairs
Bannisters
Stairs
Nappies in to wash + move on/fold other loads
Put away pile of clean things from airing cupboard
Change the boys bedding - DS2's done, DS1's stripped

TO DO
Flop for half an hour
Tea for me and the boys
Baths
DH back from Boot Camp
Boys to bed
Relax

TOMORROW NOW
Clean hob
Mop kitchen floor
Phone Admiral
Online banking
Kitchen worktop Area of Doom
Dust upstairs
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs

• all tomorrow's jobs.

Oh crap, I'm still not back in the habit of listing. Currently it's a scrap of paper stuck to the fridge!!!! Help!!!!

Anyway, Freaki - all the best with the job, and the place looks drop dead fantastic!

I just know I'm about to be ill - have got a hard swollen lump behind my ear.... could just so do without it. Back to school germs now working their way home.

Tomorrow I WILL do a list. I WILL.

Today I have:

• cooked at school
• helped with swimming at school
• cycled with the dog
• oven prided my oven trays
• taken DD to a party (off to collect in a mo....)
• finally cleared the kitchen table as a special surprise for DH (!) Isn't it odd effing weird what little things give us (him) pleasure?!

Anon - small jobs round the house often give DH a boost too, and luckily for me he's a very enthusiastic 'praiser' so i get to feel domestic goddess like, lol.

Ali - hope the pndish feelings stay away. I often find myself over-reacting emotionally to things, even now a few months in, mostly when DD won't settle for a nap or in the evenings when she just feeds for hours. Since DS2's interesting medical times when i went on ADs i have tried to accept that i may be one of those people who is prone to depression and try and keep on top of things/thoughts/talk to DH/etc.

Thurs:

• sch runs DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• laundry 2loads hung out & another load out & wm on again
• visit friends new house (need to confirm) not today
• empty kitchen cleaning cupboard and limit what we have in there DONE
• bday cards check DONE
• tackle email inbox More done
• diary sync with DH/sch diaries DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• freecycle old bed DONE
• collect DS1/reading/pack bag DONE
• DS2 home/check bag DONE
• walk round block & buy rice cakes DONE
• DC tea DONE, bath running & bed
• dinner & 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; Grotbusted shower
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)

JKS - he marvelled at the cleared table. Even celebrated by placing an attractive bowl on it, just to complete the look... didn't get too much enthusiastic praise as such

Right, I have to start somewhere with my list for tomorrow:

• Up, showered and dressed
• DC to school
• General tidy, make beds etc
• Fill/Run/Empty DW
• Washing
• Hoovering
• Ironing
• Bathrooms
• On line banking/budget
• Shopping list/ Order Wine/ Meal Plan next week
• Chickens
• Dog
• Reading with DC
• DS and friends to and from a party after school
• Make dinner

One off things this week/soon:

• Call about tennis lesson
• Tea dates for DC
• Addresses onto computer
• Piano music to find
• Back up photos
• Choose photos for the wall
• Work out parental controls on Mac and Sky
• Life insurance to finalise
• List eBay
• Set up weather station
• Tesco vouchers ? half term ideas/plans?
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust

Anon you are of course right about the PND stuff. It set in around this time with DS1 so I am a bit twitched. I should try and get more sleep, it would help

Anon bird - if you are writing "to do" lists you should always include NICE things on it - something for you. I"ve started doing this and it makes me much happier when tackling a big list!

WisteriaWoman - what a great idea. I have one for this morning which is FOR ME:

• Hot bath with my book. In complete peace and quiet. Sadly too early for . instead.

Thanks for the tip!

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• DC to school DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc
• Hot bath with my book
• Fill/Run/Empty DW running
• Washing one load in
• Hoovering
• Ironing
• Bathrooms
• On line banking/budget
• Shopping list/ Order Wine/ Meal Plan next week
• Chickens
• Dog
• Reading with DC DONE DD
• Last two T-Yous from DS?s birthday
• DS and friends to and from a party after school
• Out with DD for picnic and play whilst DS at party
• Make dinner

One off things this week/soon:

• Call about tennis lesson
• Tea dates for DC
• Addresses onto computer
• Piano music to find
• Back up photos
• Choose photos for the wall
• Work out parental controls on Mac and Sky
• Life insurance to finalise
• List eBay
• Set up weather station
• Tesco vouchers ? half term ideas/plans?
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust
• NYE plans to finalise
• Choose two outdoor lights
• Book up to see Cars 2
• Go electronic with my calendar??

Slow start this morning, have been building Lego with DS1 :)

DONE
All up, dressed, breakfasted
Shopping delivered
Clean hob
Play lego with DS1
Put away some washing and tidy the airing cupboard

NEXT
Finish putting away the shopping
Make packed lunch for DS1 and take him to playgroup
Towels on to wash and find clean ones
Lunch

TO DO
Mop kitchen floor
Phone Admiral
Online banking
Kitchen worktop Area of Doom
Dust upstairs
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs

DS2 will not nap today, which is slowing me down considerably!

DONE
All up, dressed, breakfasted
Shopping delivered
Clean hob
Play lego with DS1
Put away some washing and tidy the airing cupboard
Finish putting away the shopping
Make packed lunch for DS1 and take him to playgroup
Towels on to wash and find clean ones
Lunch and clear up
Nappies and towels onto the line
Another wash on

TO DO
Mop kitchen floor
Phone Admiral
Online banking
Kitchen worktop Area of Doom
Dust upstairs
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs
Pick DS1 up at 3

Afternoon! I think I definitely had some sort of PND going on with DS, but I was so sleep-deprived it was hard to tell.
I think I get anxiety more than straight depression too which is less recognised, but as it's a regular part of my personality I don't think anyone would have particularly noticed!

• take rubbish and recycling
• hang washing out
• wash pots
• sweep and mop!
• book taxis
• post letter
• look at hospital bags and repack

Have had a busy, in a good way day, but not been at home much so not much done.

Coffee morning at DS2's SN sch this morning, they were all lovely and chatty and I'll definitely go again. Makes me a bit :( as still struggling with the parents at DS1's school (trying not to harp on about it but still makes me upset about the lack of present for DD) but at least I have a PTA that I can get involved with :)

Anyone with older DC, DS1 has had 2 spelling tests so far (Y1), got 1/6 both times :( I know he's slower to read & write than lots of them and don't get on well enough with anyone to ask how their kids are doing, but really is this doing him any good at all? Esp when sometimes he's spelt the word right but written the letters wrong (eg 'do' he wrote 'bo' but i know he meant 'do'). What do you think? Not that i'm going to say anything to school, yet.

DONE:

• sch runs
• PTA morning
• home for lunch
• friends to see new house
• library
• collect DS1
• reading & check bag
• DS2 home & check bag

TO DO:

• DC tea
• walk round block
• DC to bed (bath?)
• dinner & tv & bed

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• 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; Grotbusted shower
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)
• get cat flap repaired pre-winter

JKS - that doesn't seem terribly helpful - can they not give him some which are a bit easier to encourage him? Have you got an alphabet chart up anywhere at home so that he gets really familiar with all the letters?
How horrid that the Mums aren't nice :(

Quite a good day here in the end. I feel that things are more under control.

DONE
All up, dressed, breakfasted
Shopping delivered
Clean hob
Play lego with DS1
Put away some washing and tidy the airing cupboard
Finish putting away the shopping
Make packed lunch for DS1 and take him to playgroup
Towels on to wash and find clean ones
Lunch and clear up
Nappies and towels onto the line
Another wash on
Online banking
Kitchen worktop Area of Doom
Dust upstairs
Dust downstairs
Pick DS1 up at 3
Wash some paintwork
Mirrors
Dinner
Baths
Boys to bed (DS2 still awake!)
Wine and relax

TOMORROW
Mop kitchen floor
Phone Admiral
Hoover upstairs

Ali - I like that 'under control' feeling :)

Tbh the whole mums at sch thing is one of the things i think i'm emotionally over-reacting to. I can't get my head around them excluding me/DD in such an obvious way (given that it's normal to do a collection for new babies/weddings/etc) and I can't get past it when i'm talking to them. So i tend not to and just keep to myself. Which of course is helping me get to know them better...

DONE:

• sch runs
• PTA morning
• home for lunch
• friends to see new house
• library
• collect DS1
• reading & check bag
• DS2 home & check bag
• DC tea
• walk round block Abandoned due to parental laziness
• DC to bed
• dinner & tv & bed bed soon

Sat:

• DH & DS1 to a football match
• find all library books in the house!
• poss PO with niece's card
• laundry & ironing
• other stuff?

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• 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; Grotbusted shower
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)
• get cat flap repaired pre-winter

JKS - very honest of you about the walk, that is often the reason things don't happen in our house!!
The school mums thing is just so playground. I cannot get over grown women being so deliberately hurtful.
We have got a coffee morning coming up at DS1's preschool which I must make myself go to. I don't know any of the Mums there, none of them are people I've come across at any toddler groups/classes or anything. I've also expressed an interest in joining the PTA - largely because I'm nosy and like to know what's going on

The in-controlness had extended to this morning! Some jobs done already, DS2 is having a nap, DS1 is playing with his lego zoo, DH is outside cleaning the cars and I'm having a cuppa and slouching on here. Lovely.

JKS dd is also in year one and hasnt had any spelling tests yet. Many of the children in her class can't even read properly yet so not sure how they'd do spellings! FWIW dd is a very advanced reader but her letter formation is shit and her spelling is interesting to say the least.

That's crap about the other mums not acknowledging dd's birth

Going to ikea on weds Although as I am going with my mother I'm still not convinced it is going to happen...

Ali - good going this morning :)

Freak - can you not just go on your own if she pulls out? Though I quite like having some company to wander about with.

Boys out at Dad's Club, DD napping, wm on, dw on, & catching up on MN & Top Model programme :)

Spoke to the one mum who independently gave DD a present about the spelling tests, she's more relaxed (it's her 2nd child going through the school) and her DS is only getting the first letter in each word so i must try to chill about it, esp as DS1 is not seeming to get upset about it (yet).

Sat:

• DH & DS1 to a football match
• find all library books in the house! Started
• poss PO with niece's card
• laundry wm on & ironing
• crosswords Started
• other stuff?

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• 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; Grotbusted shower
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!)
• new wellies needed for DS1
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc)
• get cat flap repaired pre-winter

JKS I need her car to get the stuff home! So can't really complain, it's just that her letting me down when we have plans is a recurrent theme.

We have got loads done today, and all is still calm and in control. DH spent 4 hours cleaning the cars, which to me seems excessive but he pointed out that if any area of the house was as mucky as my car then I would be freaking out. He is right

Parents coming tomorrow but not until about 5pm and then staying over, so we get our day chilling out before they come which is quite nice.

Freak - do you go to the Bristol one? That used to be our nearest (we are in Hampshire!!) before they opened Southampton.
I love Ikea - am slightly embarrassed to say that it is one of the 15 or so words that DS1 recognises. He calls it 'the fish and chip shop', because we often eat there when we go and he has the fish and chips!

Ali - love it!

Freak- hope she doesn't pull out this time then!

I go to the Lakeside one, not that I go very often. Always intend to go into Lakeside afterwards but tend to run out of energy before that happens.

Today has been good, rearranged boys bedroom, think it's better but not ideal, may see how it works for a few days.

Mon:

• PO
• Library
• Ocado (11-12)
• school runs
• email shower dispenser people as bits missing from new dispenser
• DC tea, bath & bed
• walk round block?
• anything else?

TO DO:

• finish pruning hedges by back fence
• 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
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned before winter
• tidy & sort my wardrobe (Area of Doom!); Started
• new wellies needed for DS1
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom (mantlepiece, kitchen corners x 2, coffee table, etc); Landing DONE
• get cat flap repaired pre-winter

Ali - you changed from Ocado to Waitrose didn't you?
Our reduced delivery pass runs out in Oct so was wondering if we'd change.

JKS we did change, it got really annoying because they kept swapping waitrose things I had ordered, with ocado own brand things which were not as nice, and sometimes more expensive.
I love waitrose