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Working our way through the babysteps - the new installment of the back to school flylady thread

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Carrotsandcelery · 08/09/2011 15:23

Hello again everyone! This is the new thread for us as the old one was getting a bit unmanageable.

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Carrotsandcelery · 12/09/2011 11:36

I am running out of steam today. I don't know if I am feeling excessively sorry for myself and would feel better if I just got going.

What do you do with the stuff you have decluttered? Is anyone else trying to sell it on?

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LittleMissProcrastinator · 12/09/2011 11:58

Hi all, Dh has now gone to work (cycling on his bike) so hope he doesn't get blown off. The wind is quite gusty but it's certainly not a hurricane! yet!
I have done:
breakfast
get dressed
ds to school
feed cat
do cat litter tray
been shopping
swept kitchen floor

Yesterday I had a cleaning the carpet session. I used Hot water and washing up liquid mixed together and it's worked a treat although there is a slight stain. (from dd sick)
I am attempting potty training again today as I am starting to feel better.Grin

Angel I used to find it hard to know what to do with dd when she was younger. It's difficult if they are at the exploring stage isn't it. One day she opened all the drawers on a cupboard and the whole thing nearly tipped over on her Shock but thank God dh was in the room with her and he stopped it from falling. Now she is 2 yrs 10 months so a bit less curious. she is now happy to sit and play or watch tele as long as I am fairly nearby doing something.
I think whatever you are doing, your first priority is to try and make sure they are fairly safeGrin
Right I need to go and set my timer soon and try to rescue the kitchen again (seem to spend half my life out there)Hmm

obrigada · 12/09/2011 12:07

Afternoon all, totally fell by the wayside this weekend, as had stomach bug, but just marking my spot, will hopefully get my butt into gear this evening Hmm

GossipWitch · 12/09/2011 12:07

the dinner is already decided ds1 wants korma, so that's that done, never made a stock before and tbh I wouldn't know what to do with it either...

GossipWitch · 12/09/2011 12:09

Still haven't done much house is in CHAOS and guess what my brother and his girfriend + two kids have just decided to pop round aaarrrggghhhhh

Carrotsandcelery · 12/09/2011 12:52

Why, why, why does no one come when the place is sparkling? My friends generally seem to time it until I am folding my underwear or have unpacked a cupboard all over the hall carpet or similar.

It's family though Gossip - get them to help you tidy up Grin

I have been hot spotting around the tv (not where I originally planned but a hot spot is a hot spot) and have found some wii games that I think I could sell so have "decluttered" them.

I have also folded up a mountain of socks and underwear, pyjamas, towels etc. bessie I thought of you as I paired socks Grin

I have room rescued the hallway too.

The place still looks a tip though but I am tidying it from the bottom up.

The storm is brewing here now although it is not too bad yet.

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LittleMissProcrastinator · 12/09/2011 13:05

The power of the timer is amazing isn't it ?
My kitchen has gone from looking like chaos to an organised mess now.Wink
I have stopped for lunch so I might manage to have another go at it before I have to get ds from school.

AngelDog · 12/09/2011 13:14

Hello everyone, I'm having a break for lunch to try to regroup some sanity.

All I've done is take DS swimming. I misjudged what time we needed to leave so ended up racing around the house like a lunatic on a 'dump & run' spree.

Coming back was the same as I had to bath him, put eczema creams on and get him to bed asap.

Unfortunately my swimming kit was at the back of a carefully reorganised cupboard, so the contents of that are all over the floor now.

DS is 20 months. He is pretty happy playing on his own most of the time, but his efforts to 'help' are usually more of a hinderance! While he naps is my best time to get things done - if I can prise myself off MN, that is. Blush

Carrots, in theory I'm trying to sell on good quality stuff. I have a huuuuge box of stuff which has been hanging around for at least a year waiting to be sold. I'd take things to the NCT sale but you have to volunteer for a whole day before you can sell stuff, and DH doesn't have a whole day free to look after DS while I do that. Netmums local boards are a good place to sell things though - there's no fee, and people come to collect so you don't have to worry about postage.

Right, enough of the whingeing. Grin Off to do some tidying.

Carrotsandcelery · 12/09/2011 13:19

We have an NCT style sale here at the weekend so I will take most of our stuff along to that - that should motivate me to get going.

I just want things out of the house once I have decided they are going but I am not feeling wealthy enough to just give it all away.

I am keeping the best to sell, donating the ok stuff and recycling the stuff that is past its best.

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AngelDog · 12/09/2011 13:22

Yes, I'd love to just charity shop the lot, but we need the money!

Carrotsandcelery · 12/09/2011 14:17

I have just done the grottiest job but I am really chuffed with the outcome.

Dd has tidied her room and rearranged the furniture. She has a little dressing table/desk but the chair for it has been in the garage for about 10 years.

I have dug it out and scrubbed it so now she can have it in her room. It is in remarkably good condition for a chair I have had since I was 16 Shock

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LittleMissProcrastinator · 12/09/2011 14:28

Well done Carrots she will like that (hopefully).
I have just done another 15 minute washing up session in my kitchen so it's looking better now. I will have more room now for cooking the dinner.Smile

AngelDog · 12/09/2011 14:34

Brill, Carrots & LittleMiss.

I've cleared the bathroom & landing, cleaned the bath, washed the nappy bucket, tidied the spare room, vacuum packed clothes etc, hung out the washing, put more washing on and got DS back to sleep twice. The house feels much nicer now!

HattiFattner · 12/09/2011 14:51

Phew angeldog, im impressed.

I have done:

Kitchen
Made soup
Been to WWs
done DS1s room within an inch of its life - cupboards all sorted, bed changed, hoovered, dusted. You would have to have seen the state of it to appreciate how much blasted work this took!
5 mins and Im on the school run.

Carrotsandcelery · 12/09/2011 14:55

Good list Angel - time for a Brew

Hatti - love your name - not seen you for a while - glad to see you are still with us Grin

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bessie26 · 12/09/2011 15:59

hatti apologies, I am rubbish at working out who people are when they name change!

Meal planning & making the shopping list is my most hated job, so I've really been trying to make things easier for myself this year. Inspired by carrots meal plan where she didn't repeat a meal for weeks, I dis a 4 week plan for the summer (just started working on a more autumnal one) - I don't expect it us to stick to it, but it does mean I don't have to start from scratch every week.

One of the cats got shut in DD2s bedroom this morning so I have been glad of the wind to dry the extra laundry & get rid of the smell from her mishap

LittleMissProcrastinator · 12/09/2011 17:22

Can anyone help me with this:
I am cooking a Quiche for me and dh but he is at work till 11.00pm so where should I keep his bit of it till he comes home?
Dc had something else.

AngelDog · 12/09/2011 17:30

LittleMiss, I'd leave it out to cool, then put it in the fridge when it's cooled to room temperature.

LittleMissProcrastinator · 12/09/2011 17:32

O.K. Thanks for that.

AngelDog · 12/09/2011 17:32

Time for a Brew - DS and I have been making apple & blueberry pancakes. I'm exhausted!

Hatti, sounds good.

bessie, meal planning is also my most hated job ever.

shouldbeelswhere · 12/09/2011 20:44

Oh they sound nice :)

missmakesstuff · 12/09/2011 21:46

Hi everyone, just sitting down after a busy day - I am shattered, didn't have a great day, got moaned at this morning by the bigwigs so decided to bugger off early at the end of the day and do some shopping (only Primarni but got some nice socks and tights for DD and work stuff) as had had enough frankly!
Manic since we got home, but have managed to:

Sorted lunch bags
did the mission
laundry on and some put away
dinner done
Dd's room tidied (twice, as DH let her get a load of toys out at bedtime,grr)
Put her to bed again after Dh did..
Sorted bags for tomorrow
Lunches done (DH's job)
swished and swiped bathroom
Washing up
Swept floor (we are doing throwing food on floor this week apparently)
tidied bedroom for 5 mins

and done!
Just doing a bit of sorting out files on 'puter and then early bed.
angeldog as to what I do with Dd when getting on with stuff, I find those dog cages great...no really, I am lucky that she is mostly happy to play as long as I am in the room, and she seems to like 'helping', like when I have done the cupboards she likes carrying round a babywipe and doing the same(and emptying the cupboards out for me)! She is very clingy since I have been back at work, so I haven't done as much, I am a night owl so it all gets done when she is in bed. Luckily she sleeps an hour during the day, so I do most stuff then, and when she is eating dinner I do kitchen stuff, put on washing etc as I am in hearing distance. We have toy boxes in each room, so she likes that I think. I clean the bathroom when she is in the bath!

I want to know, what is stash and dash? (or 'run and dump'? sounds slightly like a bowel condition...). must have missed something I think!

Carrotsandcelery · 12/09/2011 22:02

I am sniggering at your "bowel condition" definition missmakes Grin

I don't think we have officially been told but I think a run and dump is when someone says they are coming around so you grab everything out of place and shove it somewhere you think is hidden (in my case the study)...or is it just me who does this?

missmakes I take my hat off to you - you are a one woman whirlwind by the sounds of it.

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missmakesstuff · 12/09/2011 22:17

Yes I know, toilet humour, comes from being around teenaged boys all day..in that case my run and dump (fnar fnar...) is definitely my studio, where I should be trying to make my own work but in fact just dump stuff I don't want to deal with, maybe I will try and make that the other room for this week as my 'Master Bath' (yeah right, only bath) isn't too bad.

As for being a whirlwind, I don't bloody stop, I know! I get in and it's all go, however I do try to do absolutely blooming nothing apart from drink wine from around 8ish on a friday and saturday night,plus I'm trying to make myself have wednesday off too. I do have a day off work, so I m in a much better position than some, doing 5 das would kill me, jus couldn't do it. And although art is practically difficult, very time consuming to mark come exams etc, plus resources are more difficult to make, I dont have that much reading to do - no long essays, at least not until A level really. Anyone who teaches proper like has my respect. Not PE teachers though, running round a field, call that work? seriously!

I am still up working and uploading resources, as DD is groaning and moaning in her sleep not sure if we might not have another sicky incident, not chancing going to bed just yet as I hate getting up again.

It's when I lose my evenings if she won't settle that I realise how much I get done once she is in bed.

Carrotsandcelery · 12/09/2011 22:21

Ah, that will be why it appealed to me too

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