Getting nothing done? Procrastinators, pottering here.

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

Welcome to the new thread ladies :)

LOL Wasting - FIl has told DH if we have a boy we have to go with J
And yey for you moving back 'home' - a different house I assume?

Plum - will get photos up today if i can, everything taking longer than it should...!

Ali - not sure how i will manage with 3 tbh, DH still here and we still have the Nanny some days - will have to rearrange her hours at some point as DS2 now at his proper school 4 mornings a week and it's too extravagant having her here with just me & DD.

Right, need to start getting back into the swing of things before house descends into complete chaos, clothes being the main issue, they're everywhere & all different sizes for everyone.

Well good intentions...friend came, MW came, shopping came, DS1 fell over at sch, DH off to A&E with him.
No list!

Ongoing:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• order blind for kitchen side door
• curtains for playroom; gather & tie strings - 2 of 4 done; stitch pairs together; hang
• hookbacks up in playroom & our room (handyman, once curtains arrive)
• mark damp stain on kitchen ceiling to see if it's growing!
• 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
• party invites; deliver non-sch friends over holidays; Track responses; 6 yes/1 no Doing
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• book some online shops for post-baby (can't book far enough in advance yet)
• a bottle of wine & a thank-you card for PW (she stops coming soon)
• try and work out plumbing attachment for water hose for f/f

eek JKS, hope ds1 is alright

Ali its always best just us crying, 10 times worse if he was crying too

Angeldog you must have needed it

I have painted any fencing out the front of the house will leave other bits for another day,
dh is going out to work for an hour and is going to bring back chips, I KNOW I said I need to lose weight but..........

dd1 rang and shes having a ball gggrrrrrrrr, I shall resist the urge to say I told you so when she comes home

so trying to decide weither
to finish my book
or
sort the massive pile of underwear sitting above tumble drier

Plum - book gets my vote, you've done the hard work for today :)

Right some kind of list, for the next few days:

• sort DS1's clothes
• sort DS2's clothes
• sort DD's clothes
• start packing up mat clothes that are too big now (not all sadly)
• deflate birth ball & put away
• pack up other maternity stuff (support belt, etc)
• give out/post last invites for DS1 party
• check birthdays coming up (cards & presents)
• nursery party (Thurs 3.30)
• watch wedding (Fri am)
• street party (Fri 5pm)
• add more tomorrow...

Ongoing:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• order blind for kitchen side door
• curtains for playroom; gather & tie strings - 2 of 4 done; stitch pairs together; hang
• hookbacks up in playroom & our room (handyman, once curtains arrive)
• mark damp stain on kitchen ceiling to see if it's growing!
• 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
• party invites; deliver non-sch friends over holidays; Track responses; 9 yes/3 no Doing
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• book some online shops for when DH goes back to work
• a bottle of wine & a thank-you card for PW (she stops coming soon)
• try and work out plumbing attachment for water hose for f/f; Texted plumber to see if he can do it

Read your book Plum [csmile]

JKS after having DS, i knew that i hadn't got a hope in hell of getting the washing done, dried, folded and put away, so i made sure everyone had a basket, and the washing was folded as it came out of the tumble, then put into the right basket. It meant that i wasn't rummaging around in the middle of the night for a clean shirt for me (having leaked milk or been puked on) or looking in the wrong place for DS's vest iyswim? I did it for the first 6wks or so and it helped.

I have a real feeling of doom

Finished book and I must say I loved it, so if you haven't read The Help, and looking for a good book I recommend it, I actually laughed out loud last night dh was intrigued, I'm actually sorry its finished although it does say "not the end" at the end so I'm hoping for another instalment

right dcs are home just getting them to bed and then I'm going to start on sorting the underwear.

Dave doom???????

Fairly successful day :)

DH is really struggling to transition from work to home atm. He's much, much busier than he was when we had DS1, more senior and generally more stressed out. He is finding it difficult to go into domestic mode, I can see in his face that he just wants to bugger off upstairs and leave me to it. Just to add to the mix he has lined up a job interview for 9am tomorrow in London, so needs to leave at some ungodly hour and has therefore informed me that he'll be in the spare room tonight and leaving me to it. Great.

Yes Dave - doom? About what??

JKS - I've got the clothing sorted now but we were in a similar mess for a few days. Didn't help that I had to dig out all the 0-3 stuff to replace the newborn things that DS2 wouldn't fit in after day 5, suspect you are having the same problem as they were about the same size at birth?

Dave - fab idea, will start today :)

Plum - remind me in a few weeks about that book, when hopefully life will settle down enough to read....

Ali - good luck to DH, but sounding tough on you right now.

DS1 has broken his leg :(
Spent last night in hosp with DH - so first night with DD on my own, with DS2, was fine though. Have done 2 before, it's doing 3 on my own that freaks me out!
So his first day back at sch, now looks like 6 weeks in plaster. His classroom is upstairs, so unless someone is prepared to carry him up and down? it looks like 6 weeks off school. This for a boy who doesn't flow over with love for the place is distinctly unhelpful i think.

I swing between shrugging & 'kids, eh?' to crying, hormones not helping.

Have loads to do today and not sure what to do first, headless chicken springs to mind. They might have to stay in another night, if so i want to see them, but not sure DD will be allowed in, can't leave her for long...

Right some kind of list, for the next few days:

• need more asthma meds for DS2 urgent
• cancel registrar appt urgent
• sort DS1's clothes
• sort DS2's clothes
• sort DD's clothes
• start packing up mat clothes that are too big now (not all sadly)
• deflate birth ball & put away
• pack up other maternity stuff (support belt, etc)
• give out/post last invites for DS1 party;; reassess party plans
• check birthdays coming up (cards & presents)
• nursery party (Thurs 3.30) cancel
• watch wedding (Fri am)
• street party (Fri 5pm)
• add more tomorrow...

Ongoing:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• order blind for kitchen side door
• curtains for playroom; gather & tie strings - 2 of 4 done; stitch pairs together; hang
• hookbacks up in playroom & our room (handyman, once curtains arrive)
• mark damp stain on kitchen ceiling to see if it's growing!
• 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
• party invites; deliver non-sch friends over holidays; Track responses; 9 yes/3 no Doing
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• book some online shops for when DH goes back to work
• a bottle of wine & a thank-you card for PW (she stops coming soon)
• try and work out plumbing attachment for water hose for f/f; Texted plumber to see if he can do it

Morning!

JKS, poor DS1! Don't sack the nanny just yet then either. Hope he can come home today.
Actually, it is the same house we're moving to. She's gone though, so it's fine.

Ali, glad he was happy at pre-school. I'm terrified and DS isn't going til September (if we get a place now!) He's asking to go all the time though, but I'm not sure what it is he thinks will happen there.

Plum, what did you think of 24 season 8? Bit bonkers?

Everything alright Dave?

Angeldog, just write 'nap' on the list and then everything's fine.

So, landlord rang yesterday late afternoon and he's already got someone interested in this house, and they want to see it today. [cconfused]

It's not awful in the house atm, but it's not amazing, but I've got most of the day.

• fold dry washing done
• breakfast doing
• kitchen 15 mins
• take all jumble upstairs
• bag up loose jumble and get it in cupboard
• sort and put away clean washing pile
• tidy bedrooms
• de-playdough downstairs carpet
• tidy downstairs
• duster and cloth at the ready - go!
• bathroom
• shower and dress
• what's the damage?

...

Wasting - good luck today.
Nanny has already proved her worth in gold with DD's-arrival/hosp stay & now with this. Really takes the pressure off - though all the extra hours will bite us in the bum at the end of the month I'm sure

Right some kind of list, for the next few days:

• DS2 breakfast, dressed & sch run DONE/Doing
• feed DD lots DONE some
• update grandparents re DS1 DONE

• shower & get dressed
• wait for update from hosp....
• need more asthma meds for DS2 urgent
• cancel registrar appt urgent (after 8.45)
• sort DS1's clothes
• sort DS2's clothes
• sort DD's clothes
• start packing up mat clothes that are too big now (not all sadly)
• deflate birth ball & put away
• pack up other maternity stuff (support belt, etc)
• give out/post last invites for DS1 party; reassess party plans
• check birthdays coming up (cards & presents)
• nursery party (Thurs 3.30) cancel DONE
• watch wedding (Fri am)
• street party (Fri 5pm)

Ongoing:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• order blind for kitchen side door
• curtains for playroom; gather & tie strings - 2 of 4 done; stitch pairs together; hang
• hookbacks up in playroom & our room (handyman, once curtains arrive)
• mark damp stain on kitchen ceiling to see if it's growing!
• 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
• party invites; deliver non-sch friends over holidays; Track responses; 9 yes/3 no Doing
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• book some online shops for when DH goes back to work
• a bottle of wine & a thank-you card for PW (she stops coming soon)
• try and work out plumbing attachment for water hose for f/f; Texted plumber to see if he can do it

Ahh JKS poor you & ds1, if its any comfort when ds was 5 days old I spent the whole day in A&E with dd1 (and ds), and was then told to keep her off her feet for a few weeks (this was when she was diagnosed with arthritis) it wasn't too bad (hopes memory serves me right)

Wasting have you finished it? Season 8 I think I watched out of loyality and hope it would get better

I'm going out tonight with friends I have no idea what I will wear, and not going to think about it just yet

breakfast
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
dcs washed & dressed
sort out lift arrangements for tonight
hoover
sort underwear (yes I'm still avoiding it & my neat piles of ironing still need put away)

Hello ladies.

JKS - sorry to hear about DS1, poor darling. Hope he is not too uncomfortable.

Ok, it's a quick check in. We are supposed to be going on holiday today (!) to make up for not being able to go away at Easter.... so here goes:

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• DC to school DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing ONE LOAD DONE
• Hoovering
• Kitchen
• Ironing DONE last night
• Playroom
• Empty paddling pool
• On line banking
• Maths/phonics workbooks and cards
• Clean Oven
• Collect post from house
• Chickens
• Dog
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards
• May budget itemise everything DOING
• Pack car, collect from school, head straight off.....
• Get fire going
• Make dinner
• Extra big hugs for DC before bed

House

• Go see builders
• Count up wall lights and order next week
• Building project finances - need to update spreadsheet
• Building project plans/lists/schedule to update
• Choose bathroom mirrors
• Carpets
• Post sample back to flooring people DONE
• Pick paint and order from building merchants DONE

One off things this week/soon:

• Work out parental controls on Mac
• Life insurance to finalise
• Holiday dates with MIL mostly done
• Spend DH's Amex points!
• List more eBay
• Set up weather station
• Travel insurance and car hire and kennel booking for holiday
• Register with Anthony Nolan Trust

Weekly

• Towels DONE
• Bedding
• Mop Floors
• Meal plan
• Bathroom DONE

Plum, finished it last night. It seemed a bit plot driven in that some of the characters were too inconsistent. Thank God for the (cheesy) ending though, thought it was going to do a Twin Peaks and let the dark side prevail.

• fold dry washing done
• breakfast doing
• kitchen 15 mins done
• take all jumble upstairs done
• bag up loose jumble and get it in cupboard done
• sort and put away clean washing pile done
• tidy bedrooms done

+ coffee and biscuit momentarily

• de-playdough downstairs carpet
• tidy downstairs
• duster and cloth at the ready - go!
• bathroom
• shower and dress
• what's the damage?

...

Oh JKS what a nightmare! Poor DS1 - and don't get rid of the Nanny just yet!

Anon - have a lovely time :)

My list doesn't look that bad today, but it feels like I have lots to do. Must get this online order finished before the midwife turns up.

TODAY
DH out early - done
All up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Washing on the line from last night - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Wipe over bathroom
1 load of washing
Water plants
Make last minute changes to shopping for tomorrow
Midwife 11am
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Best friend coming for the afternoon -
Put away some clean clothes
Dinner - freezer tea (chips etc)
Clear up
DS1 bath and bed
Tidy downstairs
Kitchen clear before bed
Speak to DH about pension paperwork from his old job

Wasting It was all abit stupid how blondie was getting away with so much considering how how level their security should have been

breakfast done
clean bathroom done included deep clean of shower
clean ensuitedone
stripped bed & wash & out on linedone
dcs washed & dressed
sort out lift arrangements for tonight
hoover
sort underwear (yes I'm still avoiding it & my neat piles of ironing still need put away)

Plum, yeah she was getting away with stuff that Nina wouldn't have.
It was funny when Jack and Renee got it on, I felt really embarrassed, like I was accidentally watching a friends sextape.

• fold dry washing done
• breakfast doing
• kitchen 15 mins done
• take all jumble upstairs done
• bag up loose jumble and get it in cupboard done
• sort and put away clean washing pile done
• tidy bedrooms done

+ coffee and biscuit done

• de-playdough downstairs carpet done
• tidy downstairs
• duster and cloth at the ready - go!
• bathroom bit
• shower and dress done
• what's the damage? err...

I'm not doing too bad, but it's still a bit yuck.
So...

• take rubbish and recycling out
• take nappies and clean clothes up - oh, and there's more jumble! argh!
• take most of toys up
• 15 min front room tidying
• 15 min kitchen
• survey the battlefield

Midwife has just been. T has gained 20oz in a fortnight!!

TODAY
DH out early - done
All up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Washing on the line from last night - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Wipe over bathroom
1 load of washing
Water plants
Make last minute changes to shopping for tomorrow - done
Midwife 11am - done
Make soup (didn't have time yesterday) - done
DH home in time for lunch
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Best friend coming for the afternoon -
Put away some clean clothes
Dinner - freezer tea (chips etc)
Clear up
DS1 bath and bed
Tidy downstairs
Kitchen clear before bed
Speak to DH about pension paperwork from his old job

That's fantastic Ali!

• take rubbish and recycling out done
• take nappies and clean clothes up - oh, and there's more jumble! argh! done need to stash it all away though
• take most of toys up done

+ lunch done

• 15 min front room tidying - actually set timer
• 15 min kitchen
• survey the battlefield

OI NO TALKING 24 PLOTS I HAVE ONLY SEEN UP TO SEASON 6!!!

Ahem

Have tackled the ironing pile this morning, only 1/3 left to do...

Yikes for ds' leg JKS. Hope it's not too painful

OH 24, I have watched the lot. Utterly crazy, but completely addictive.

Love it!

Quick check in. Less than 2 hours to ETD so hopefully I've nearly done enough! Hate coming home to a messy house after a holiday, so want to leave the place in reasonable order and NOT with a full laundry bin/mouldy food in the fridge! Also a quick hoover round required methinks, spot of lunch and DH to reappear SOON I hope from his turf laying......

Only going for four days - the pile of stuff we are taking is RIDICULOUS. And I don't even have babies that require endless bits and bobs. When, oh when, will we ever travel light?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Daily/Today

• Up, showered and dressed DONE
• DC to school DONE
• General tidy, make beds etc DONE
• Fill/Run/Empty DW DONE
• Washing ONE LOAD DONE
• Hoovering
• Kitchen DONE
• Ironing DONE last night
• Playroom DONE
• Empty paddling pool DONE
• On line banking DONE
• Maths/phonics workbooks and cards
• Clean Oven
• Collect post from house DONE
• Chickens DH DOING
• Dog DONE
• Reading/Spellings/Word cards
• May budget itemise everything DOING
• Pack car, collect from school, head straight off.....
• Get fire going
• Make dinner
• Extra big hugs for DC before bed

House

• Go see builders DONE
• Count up wall lights and order next week
• Building project finances - need to update spreadsheet
• Building project plans/lists/schedule to update
• Choose bathroom mirrors
• Carpets
• Post sample back to flooring people DONE
• Pick paint and order from building merchants DONE

Sorry Freaky! Thought I was the last one lagging behind.

Have a good time Anon.

Flagging a bit now. It's still really not that clean. I'm enjoying the tidying/decluttering too much I think.

• take rubbish and recycling out done
• take nappies and clean clothes up - oh, and there's more jumble! argh! done need to stash it all away though
• take most of toys up done

+ lunch done

• 15 min front room tidying - actually set timer done X 2
• 15 min kitchen
• locate charger for new-to-me phone and plug it in
• put stuff away in bedroom
• stash airers in pantry
• dust!
• hoover

DS1 has a new plaster on, had another xray & now waiting for lessons re crutches. Realistically how much will a 4yr old manage on crutches?

Right some kind of list, for the next few days:

• DS2 breakfast, dressed & sch run DONE
• feed DD lots DONE more
• update grandparents re DS1 DONE
• shower & get dressed DONE
• wait for update from hosp Doing
• need more asthma meds for DS2 Collect prescription after 3
• cancel registrar appt DONE
• order some bigger bf bras DONE

• get more calpol & neurofen for DS1
• PO with God-DDs present & post other card
• small giftbag needed for Sat party
• present for friend's DS (to take on Sat)
• sort DS1's clothes
• sort DS2's clothes
• sort DD's clothes
• start packing up mat clothes that are too big now (not all sadly)
• deflate birth ball & put away
• pack up other maternity stuff (support belt, etc)
• give out/post last invites for DS1 party; reassess party plans
• check birthdays coming up (cards & presents); Started
• watch wedding (Fri am)
• street party (Fri 5pm)

Ongoing:

• Find new dentist that is taking on NHS nervous patients for me/investigate private; DH thinks his will take me on too
• order blind for kitchen side door
• curtains for playroom; gather & tie strings - 2 of 4 done; stitch pairs together; hang
• hookbacks up in playroom & our room (handyman, once curtains arrive)
• mark damp stain on kitchen ceiling to see if it's growing!
• 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
• party invites; deliver non-sch friends over holidays; Track responses; 9 yes/3 no Doing
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• book some online shops for when DH goes back to work
• a bottle of wine & a thank-you card for PW (she stops coming soon)
• try and work out plumbing attachment for water hose for f/f; Plumber coming on Tues to do it :)

Oh bless him.

• take rubbish and recycling out done
• take nappies and clean clothes up - oh, and there's more jumble! argh! done need to stash it all away though
• take most of toys up done

+ lunch done

• 15 min front room tidying - actually set timer done X 2
• 15 min kitchen done
• locate charger for new-to-me phone and plug it in done
• put stuff away in bedroom
• stash airers in pantry no won't fit
• dust! upstairs

+ bathroom done apart from - -- sweep and wipe floor -- clean mirrors

• hoover

• take rubbish and recycling out done
• take nappies and clean clothes up - oh, and there's more jumble! argh! done need to stash it all away though
• take most of toys up done

+ lunch done

• 15 min front room tidying - actually set timer done X 2
• 15 min kitchen done
• locate charger for new-to-me phone and plug it in done
• put stuff away in bedroom done
• stash airers in pantry no won't fit
• dust! *done

+ bathroom done apart from - -- sweep and wipe floor done -- clean mirrors done

• hoover downstairs
• kitchen -

-- finish pots -- dry pots -- clean painting stuff -- clean surfaces and door fronts etc. -- floor

Well done Ali

oops freak I thought you were all caught up, I'll not mention that I'm away ahead with desp housewives either love that RTE get it sooooo early and did I tell you all I have SKY+ now, I loves it!!!!

right dcs are out playing I'm going to make bed and then maybe do my hair as this is one of those days I think I have loads a time and then I'll be late

Enjoy Anon!