Procrastinators Ambling through Advent and Composing Christmas Lists

[Alibabaandthe80nappies]

Welcome to our new festive thread ladies! I am sorry we do not have festive smileys to start off with!

That doesn't look a lot. Bloody fed up of cleaning now.

Stop cleaning at once Sweet.It doesn't matter any more. just avert your gaze.
bye everyone, happy christmas. (climbs abord sleigh to head northwards)

Hold tight Mammoth

Sweets - ask yourself, will Baby Jesus mind?

Christmas:

• food shopping; DONE
• if I get time, helium balloons x 3 for DC to go in cardboard box
• wrap last bit for MIL
• get stocking bits down DONE & ready to go in
• get other presents down & sacks packed
• reindeer food (CE)
• santa plate, etc (CE)
• what else?

Ongoing:

• book handyman in to clean gutters (& other jobs)
• order blind for kitchen side door
• pictures to label 'animals' & 'people' & 'cars' boxes
• watch Prison Break DVDs & give back to PIL; Started; Done more
• clean oven; Bought Oven Pride
• get kitchen curtains dry cleaned
• family tree (scanning in old certs & photos & email new contact)
• tackle Areas of Doom;
• buy some frames that will hang on the wall & hang up as many photos as poss; need list sizes
• sort iPhoto on laptop; Book Genius appt for Jan
• bathroom cabinet needs sorting
• fill out Organised Mum calendar; Started

Bye Mulled, Merry Christmas.

Thanks JKS and Mulled, I'm have averted my gaze and no I'm sure baby jesus won't mind.

Merry Christmas everyone!

To do

bath me
bath DDs DH and selves did
get DD3 dressed/supervise others
DH pick up m&s order and prawns/other nibbles
check if we have porridge and glitter for reindeer
wrap up DH's other presents
change girl's beds stripped
de - fuzz myself tommorrow
sort out what to wear for the big day
get girls's xmas clothes out
clean tidy up stairs for an hour started
clean/tidy down stairs 30 mins inc wash/dry *took and hour and roped DD1 in
put massive pile of clothes away started
make breakfast DH did
make lunch DH
defrost soup for dinner
early nights all round
drink wine
make magic reindeer glitter/porridge
find/charge camera
dry clothes
put bedsheets/towels on to wash/dry in wash

Hey everyone, Merry Christmas!

Thought I'd pop in to wish you all a smashing festive time and to ask, actually, where did 2011 go?!

2010 I had Christmas on my list from January, and I'm going to do the same for 2012, much calmer, more done, more fun and more festive.

Looking forward to the morning, excited to see DS face, he's 3 and a half, ergo giddy as a kipper, but also excited to open my pressies - Santa's bringing me a Filofax! Clever Santa.

Just waiting for DH to get back from pub for his annual old schoolmates bevvies and I'm getting impatient as I want to go to bed soon so I can get up sooner!

Merry Christmas! xx

Merry Christmas everyone!

Wasting, yes we feel like that about 2011 here too!! I am also determined to be better this coming year and will be listing with a vengeance once we are home again on Wednesday.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL SLATTERNS

Hope everyone had a great xmas day. We had a fun one at the Biscuit household with lots of presents all round a super dinner (if I do say so myself).

Hopefully the kids will play all day nicely with new toys and DH and I can chill a bit. Friends and kids coming over later to help eat up leftovers.

xxxxxxxxxxx

Merry Christmas from me too

We had a good day, I'm mostly bemused by my mil, she insists on spending x amount on me and dh, the only thing I'd asked for was a clarinet stand - and was really looking forward to getting it- but it was v cheap so she was stuck, she bought what must be a mega-bucks gok wan smelliest set in an eyesore of a huge bag thing. And has already confessed to being envious of it - a classic case of buyin someone else something that you want yourself, and I would happily give it to her but that would be so rude, daft isn't it?!

Right I really must get this house sorted!

Pil have gone home, my parents coming this eve. Lots to do...

Right I have:
-stripped and remade all beds (except DD who is sleeping in hers!)
-swapped bath mats & towels

• done loads of washing an drying and ironing and putting away
• made popcorn for ds1 & friend
• moved me & dh back to our 'right' sides of the bed (I always sleep nearer the door until I stop night feeding)
• lots of general tidying
• spare room ready for parents
• started going through DD's clothes

To do:

• more laundry ...
• maybe some hoovering?
• finish my bowl of popcorn
• change DD's bed maybe

- finish sort of DD's clothes

• resist putting away any decorations

Crikey, JKS, one lot out, the others in... all staying over as well??? You are a saint!

DH was also keen to get rid of the tree and decs pre NYear Holiday... have persuaded him to leave til next week, just!

And re MIL present - does seem a shame! Though my sister excels in the random present department.... I bought her something I thought was utterly minging and she genuinely and completely adored it. Clearly I've been going wrong all these years in trying to buy her something tasteful and or useful. No, just go blingy ultra silly faddy tat! Hurrah! The one consolation, once I get over the embarrassment of buying such items, is that they tend to be cheap or on discount!

Lol Anomn bonus that they are cheap! I googled the vanity case and it was half price at boots so hopefully she got it for that, just not sure what to do with it & contents now - could invent skin reaction & give it all back to her? Prob will just store it in wardrobe for years/until we move into a retirement home then bin

The saintly part is having my mad & depressed uncle for 'christmas' lunch on fri ...

Did:

• more laundry, nearly finished

Did not:

• Hoover

& other bits, on phone & haven't really sorted cut and paste!

JKS - can you hang onto it and re-gift it to someone else?

DH and I did well this year, no vile presents. And my Mum said that she didn't spend very much on me, so she wants to get me something else so I have a present 'owing' which is rather nice!

We are home, we've had a lovely time but it is nice to be back. Our best friends are coming to spend the NY weekend with us which we are really looking forward to so we are just planning what yummy grub to cook

I have got a bit of a twitch on about getting more organised this year though. I am mentally constructing lists

Ali lol at twitching re lists I really want to sort out the amount of crap we have, we really have too much.

Thing is with Mil, she'll refer to the 'thing' often, probably ask how I'm getting on wih it, have I tried the extra body butter yet, am I finding it incredibly usefull for all my 'bits', etc.
She's known me for 16 years, I've never owned 'bits' I might keep in a vanity case! I don't wear or even own makeup, just missed that part of teenage hood or something, think she's (not so) secretly hoping I'll turn into a 'proper woman' at some point

New thought- i'll test each thing, then find a friend who would like it and doesn't mind that I've opened it, then when she asks I can answer honestly, but I think I hve to keep the case for a while.
Mind you I could now get rid of the plain black (ie not ugly) one that her sister gave me years ago

Do you think it's a question of not having daughters to buy this stuff for? I can see myself doing this in future

Open some of it and leave it in the bathroom for guests - and MIL! - to use when they come?

DH has taken the boys downstairs so I'm going to have another hour in bed and then get up.

It definitely is that Ali, she has said before she wishes they'd tried for one more baby hopefully to have a girl - esp now that's what I've got.
And her Dils are slightly disappointing one doesn't talk to her (weirdo) and one is not girly at all, sigh for her
My mum I think struggles what to get for me, a scarf & scarf ring ? This year. They re better at buying for dh. I didn't think I was that hard to buy for but even my sister seems to struggle - a mug...

morning! oo its nearly lunch time. Ah well. HMHB and family have just left, fab to have them here (DGCs very cute, I love hearing their little conversations with each other). So feet up time now, until new year.
JKS I bet your MIL secretly wants to give you a make over

Hello ladies,

This is sweetsantababy with a new name.

I am finally recovered for chest infection!

To do

shopping in sales
take pjs back for bigger size
get dd a new coat
take cat to vets DH
take meds started
dry washing/put wash on x2 and dry
clean round for an hour
do activity with dds
check what we have for tea - shop?
fill in and send off councelling forms
wrap and post present

Hey mini- just a tad at your peace and quiet!

Goldbow hi

Mil would love me to wake up one day a shopping mad, makeup wearing, fashion page reading etc type person - not gonna happen

Done:
Even more washing, can now see bottoms of laundry baskets!
Lots of ironing
Some putting away

To do:
Eat dinner
Kids bath & bed
Out for drinks with parents (briefly as knackered)

shopping in sales
take pjs back for bigger size
get dd a new coat
take cat to vets DH
take meds started
dry washing/put wash on x2 and dry started
clean round for an hour
do activity with dds
check what we have for tea - Tesco
pick cat up
fill in and send off councelling forms poo later
wrap and post present tomm

Hello, can I join you nice people please? Really struggling with housework since starting PT work, DH is a SAHD and does more than his fair share but it's a struggle as he has a prolapsed disc. We've done quite well with decluttering over the last year but we still have a long way to go.

Today's list:
Go to work done - I'm in the staff room! until 5pm... That'll be fun with 3hrs sleep, my 2yo DS was up with a wheezy cough
Sort out P46 at work
Sort our bedding out as said DS managed to undo his nappy while in our bed - DH put the wash on so hopefully it'll dry on time!
Phone OU to sort out funding/registration issues for my next course.
Drink Pepsi max to wake the feck up doing now!

:)

Welcome Ponty, hope you don't struggle too much today.

To do

breakfast
take meds
shower
tesco
take dcs out on new bikes
dry wash and put 2 more on/dry
hour clean up
dress dd3
supervise dds dressed/teeth etc
lunch
dinner
put mountain of clothes away

Right list needed today. We have friends coming tomorrow for the weekend and then DH is back at work on Tuesday so we need to be organised.

DONE
Lie in until almost 9am!
All up dressed and fed
Unload dishwasher and clear up kitchen
Hoover round downstairs
Play trains with DS1

TO DO
Make pastry
Put a fruit loaf in the breadmaker
Finish the last bits of unpacking
Mealplan up to Tuesday night
Recycling out and bins

More later but that will do for now

Dh has gone on a shoot . Which means they'll be in the pub by now.
Have been to sales and got warm practical boots, also been to Lakeland so now have to
tidy'office' drawer as I have bought drawer tidy little box things.
Have to unpick dgd's hat as mis read the pattern and it would not fit a Budgie ne'er mind a baby.
Make left over curry
Try to work out how to link up new printer
Try to avoid filing/accounts