fledglings falling out of the nest thread

[IceColdBitchy]

Ok So a new year a new thread.
You know the ropes flying the fledgling way.
Decluttering 15mins at a time in each zone.
Babysteps and missions.

Sunday is renew your spirit day and seeing as today is new years days I hope there aren't too many evil hangovers in existance.

Babystep 1: shine you shine. yes we know this one but do you shine it the fat fairy way? cant remember? check here

And for a treat as it is sunday no mission.

Oh and can i just may 2012 bring you productive decluttering and flying so your houses step closer to those of your dreams and house work no longer be that evil monster that dominates.

Morning all!

DD is poorly today, suspected croup but no doctors appointment until after 2 :-( been on the phone to nhs direct for most of the night luckily I have no mindees booked in until Thursday as DD also has conjunctivitis

Glad you are feeling better bitchy

To do:
Home bleugh
Wash down doors, door handles and light switches
Doctors
Sweep and wash kitchen floor
Mission
Go do a small food shop- get oven cleaner
Walk dog
Wash down sofas
Laundry

I felt so much better having a clean kitchen to wake up to, it's a lot nicer having an evening routine, definitely worth the 10 minutes it takes to get it sparkling before bed!

Hope everyone is ok! BBL

Right so, today is complicated by having to be somewhere at 10.30 and picking up the car if it's ready...also manic after school so need to think about supper...
also horror of trying to get washing machine repaired, will try my lovely builder who is round corner he might be able to sort the pipes if it is a blocked pipe.

todo
what's for dinner...macaroni cheese with gammon - prepare now
clean dry clothes away (don't iron)
change ds1 bottom sheet/pillow case, abandon other sheets due to no washer
library book back at same time as other appt
change hoover bag, hoover bedrooms
empty bin, bin bags x 5 OUT (put decluttered rubbish in bin bags)

that's enough for now...as I sorted newspapers/recyling out yest

oh Lauren croup, poor you, you must be exhausted. x

Oh dear, get well soon to Lauren's DD. Apparently conjunctivitis goes with respiratory tract bugs in littlies...

Our DS2 has just started the chicken pox today. At least it gets it out of the way!

Thanks swan and blue, I'll be sneaking in a nap when she's napping I think! That's interesting about conjunctivitis blue and would make sense, she only got it on Saturday out of nowhere!

Morning everyone.

Ive actually got my list for today sorted

• wipe down kids table twice done once
• wipe down kitchen sides and sink
• Wipe Bathroom done
• Get a few bits and pieces from the shop
• do load of washing currently in dryer
• 15 min declutter of small cupboards in Living room
• Ironing
• 15 min declutter the corner in kitchen where plates are.

Thanks toffee I like it here :)

lifebegins well done for having a family fun day, all too often I can put things off because I need to do x, y or z. We do need to spend time as a family and go more places.

Bitchy sorry to see you were a bit down last night, but glad to hear you are feeling better. I too find that the more productive I am the better I feel. The more I get done the more I feel like doing.

Lauren Sorry to hear of the illnesses in your house. Hope everyone gets well soon.

Have fun flying everyone BBL

done
pile of laundry for laundrette
washed and dressed properly(finally) for school run I find I'm just cobblng things together
rescued kitchen
cooked macaroni (still need to do cheese sauce)
put laundry away (some of it)
rescued hall, gloves etc
stripped ds bed sheet

panic rising! rescue remedy sought...
off to appt now, a walk should be good, just shouldn't have attempted to combine with laundrette as it has done my head in...where is the loose change?

Lauren DD had croup when she was 1. Have you got a humidifier? I swear by mine. I'd run it during the day as well as at night if she's really bad.

lifebegins I do actually, I'll get DP to get it from garage but I thought they needed it humid? We've been sat in the bathroom with the shower on to try clear her chest! (doctors orders last night)

Lauren - my DS1 had croup regularly when he was little too. It's really scary (rushed to hospital in an ambulance the first time ) and you don't get much sleep. We would run a hot bath and fill the bathroom with steam from a kettle (DH would sit with his finger on the switch, so that steam would keep blowing into the room, whilst I would make sure DS was nowhere near the kettle). We also used a humidifier regularly and I think it helped. He grew out of it after about a year or so.

BlueEyes - oh no, chickenpox! All these childhood illnesses are so exhausting. It's best to get it out of the way though. I saw this cream in Boots recently and wished it had been around when my DC were going through chickenpox, as I'm never sure how much calomine helped them. And beg or borrow lots of DVDs to get you both through the next few days!

Why am I on here again ? Am meant to Flying.

Morning everyone. Posting and running as its too cold to sit at computer for too long - no gas at moment as they are relaying the mains. Very nice gas men at the door at 8am and DS fascinated at men down holes with breathing apparatus before school!

Busy w/e and managed to sort out quite a bit in the loft - inspired by trip to drop stuff off at Women's Aid on Friday. Now have 1 HUGE and 3 small boxes of DC's clothes, old sheets, blankets and 5 year old breast pads in the car for them. Have pushchair and buggy to try and fit in too though may have to do 2 trips at this rate! Feels good. There is still a MASSIVE amount to clear but my 1-box-a-week target is well ahead of schedule :)

Today:

• Finish Morning routine - just cat litter to do and sweep kitchen floor
• Crisis cleaning in DC's rooms - it will take some time!
• Hoover hall and stairs
• Research event insurance
• Lasagne for dinner

Need to move.........................back later to catch up.

Toffee hope you are not on Mumsnet at this moment!!

I'm back from new volunteer slot...luckily it's on a rota, so only starts next month, nice chat with old acquaintance

done
laundry taken to laundrette, now need to hang it out
lunch (using up old leftovers)
opened and sorted post
recycling in right boxes

todo
remake ds1 bed
hang out washing
find builder for washer
ironing pile YES I CAN DO IT

that's enough
oh and the cheese sauce,and bake the gammon

I'm not going to get distracted...

and I'm definitely not doing the home bless this week because I need to sweep the front path and the back patio and that will never get done otherwise!!!!!

Sigh..... I've run out of boxes. Buying more seems pointless when half of the items in boxes will go into cupboards as soon as some decorating is done. Will probably just get more into my current boxes even if it plays havoc with my themes and is irritating. Perfectionist? Moi????

Lost my motivation for cleaning and decluttering today.

To do list:
Lunch for DS2 and myself
Drive to Staples to get some shredder oil.
Do some shredding (quite therapeutic, actually!)
15 mins in kitchen
15 mins in lounge/diner
1 load of washing
15 mins loading more into boxes and indexing

Oh and I need to find my phone. Put it on silent this morning so I can't ring it to find it!!!!

Toffee - DS2 is still relatively cheerful and in denial at this stage, as was DS1. We have plenty of DVDs and CBeebies programmes on the humax though... I got some calamine cream for DS1 which seemed pretty effective, at least in the day time. We went with the old-fashioned lotion at night.

DS2 is now asleep so I need to tackle some hotspots and put the recycling out. Back later.

Hope gas comes back soon, feet ! Well done on the boxes too.

Hope you find your phone, ChitChat.

Lauren sorry to hear about the croup. My DD2 had croup a lot, it was quite scary for her and us, until we got used to it.
I second getting a humidifier, (not a de-humidifier though! As those exist too!), which basically just produces steam throughout the night. She had to take steroids once or twice, in syrup form, which worked miracles.
She's now 4 and it's the first year that we seem to be croup free (fingers crossed).

Manged to do house blessing while also looking after someone else's baby as well as mine, and cooking lunch for the children....??!

Actually I find the busier I am the more I do, I need to have lots going on in order to get motivated.

Or it might just be that mercifully my children have been letting me sleep this week, I really do feel like a different person.

ChitChat I think you need more plastic crates, then you'll be motivated (slightly obsessed with storing in plastic crates due to nomadic lifestyle)

Feet running and posting? Did you change in to your superwoman suit in a phone box too?

Linzer Are you in Switzerland? My DH has asked me how I'd feel about a posting in Geneva, I've heard it's not the liveliest of cities...

Waves to everyone else!

morning all.

sc - condolences on the loss of your mother. so hard, and especially so at this time of year. sending you strength for the arrangements, and some breathing space for your memories x

still have a couple of things from the last list to do but did lol at the 'mysterious' comment. i was just trying not to bore you all to sleep, rather than hiding something exciting!

first day back at school today, and first brownies, and dd2 has her first x-country ski lesson as well. dd1 has an orthodontic appt, and pathfinders.

if i can make it through today, surely the rest of the week has to be a breeze?

bitchy - am going through similar re employment. am desperately trying not to be pissed off about it and keep going, but it's a pita. because we moved o'seas and it took 9 months to get authority for dd2 to travel, i lost the plot a bit and my msc took the hit. i'm still arguing discussing with college whether they will let me write up and finish. the current discussion has now been ongoing for 5 months. and i still have no answer. despite lots of 'the board meeting meeting is on x date, we will let you know within a week.' and then 'oohhhh, what was it you wanted again? oh. well, you'll have to wait until the next meeting now.' endlessly. if they had told me in august i could complete, i could have finished by now.

and no-one here will give me a job. well, i did get offered one in september, but turned it down because there was no opportunity to go anywhere really, and it was an entry level position with no qualifications required. now i just think i should have taken it - at least i'd be doing something. so now i've got this gap on my cv which is getting longer and longer, and no new qualification in sight that i can claim i was working on. and i'm apparently over-qualified to do anything here. that's what they say if they can be bothered to actually reply to my applications anyway. on paper i wouldn't employ me, either.

humidifiers are brill.

yay to no more car seats (this too shall pass etc)

oh, and i am flying at the weekends (i cleaned my fridge out yesterday to get rid of the last of the christmas detritus and scrub it) but not mning much, so will be periodically quiet. it does mean that i forget to check the babysteps for the weekend though!

Good Afternoon Everyone.

DD has been much better today and only a few minor meltdowns, i think following the first one through with 3 minutes time out helped for the rest of the day. DH has taken her to her swim lesson. She has chosen a chocolate bar for a treat afterwards if she does good listening.

Tada List

floors wept and mopped
hovered downstairs
cleaned and hide clutter from tops
Stay and Play with dd
picked ds up from school, homework done.
Dinner cooking, chicken surprise and rice.
Front door cleaned and front steps swept.
Glass windows in 2 no internal doors cleaned
bathroom cleaned

Still to remake dd bed after an accident she had yesterday.
Attend meeting here (hence mad shoving clutter away and tidying)
Get changed for meeting into clothes that hopefully dont make me look 6 months pregnant.

lifebegins hope dd was less tantrummy today. Hope you visit to the childminder went well and your questions got you the info you need.
flying i like your new pseudoname auntieflying
justonemore dont give in dont give in. Leave the tree right where it is. you stick to it girlie
chitchat loving the themed boxes
swan Hope you managed your sweeping extravaganza. Hope your washing machine gets fixed real soon too. I am not liking your story of your 9 year old dd and her stropping. I definately think girls are much harder!
feetheart well done on decluttering one box a week. That sounds like a fab amount of stuff. I always feel spurred on when i know someone is going to benefit rather than just going to a charity shop for sale.
blue hope ds doesnt suffer too bad with chickenpox. still waiting for dd to get it but no avail. Will probably be just as we are about to go on holiday.
lauren aw poor you and dd. I hope the symptoms ease soon.
linzer wow 6 visitors you are vey brave. Visitors who stay are the only thing that push us into decorating here.
bitchy well done on your mass past declutter. Glad you feeling a bit better.

Right better get on with the bedmaking.

Have a good evening back tomorrow. for all

Hiya all

DD definitely has croup so she's feeling the most sorry for her self that she can muster! I put her on the floor earlier to get a drink and when I came back in the room she was where I left her cuddling the floor definitely ill!

Thankyou for hints on humidifiers, unfortunately the one we have is a dehumidifier but there's condensation on the windows so it can't be that dry in here! Will look into getting one if it's reoccurring (fingers crossed it isn't!)

Ta da list:
Swept and mopped kitchen and hall floor
Mission
Washed down kitchen cupboard doors
Started home bleugh- will have to finish when DD loses her Velcro or falls asleep!
S&s bathroom
Washed up/ dried and shined sink
Doctors
Most of DD laundry (last lot washing now)

Still to do:
Finish DD laundry and put away
Put away bedding
Hoover
Pick up DD books
FinisH home bleugh
Wash down doors, frames and light switches

Sorry no personals as on phone!

BBL or tomorrow dependent on DD

justonemore I'm just outside Vienna and don't know much about Geneva, I'm afraid. There are a few MNers in Switzerland, though; MmeLindor is in Geneva, although I think she's leaving in a week or so - maybe you could ask her?

Must go and put the DC to bed as they're in danger of getting a second wind...

Good evening ladies. Have some Herman before DH eats him all!
Think some translations are needed:
Herman is friendship cake. My DNeice gave us some at Christmas. I added blueberries, currants and choc chips YUM
ANTM - America's Next Top Model (guilty pleasure)
Going to paralympics as technical official for track cycling

Hope that has demysified my life a bit. Now for a list:
Tidy living room floor
DW
WM
lunches
Take clothes off airer
Ironing
BED BEFORE 11! (Shouting at self - was 12.30 last night oops)

Hope you are feeling a bit better today bitchy

See you tomorrow

Just briefly popping in as DS decided not to nap properly this morning so I ended up not getting all my work done, so am now having to work this evening and look after a sickly DH and a grumpy DS. Oh the joys!

Anyways, today was relatively positive from a flying point of view. I decluttered a couple of kitchen cupboards - or at least moved the stuff elsewhere. My "good" plates and casserole dishes that are rarely used are now in a box under the stairs (so accessible, but not taking up space in a kitchen cupboard that I need to get into every day) and the new things that I do use, like my slow cooker, are now in a cupboard and not lying out on the side. Makes cleaning up much easier. I also did a... wait for it....

27-Fling Boogie!

or truth be told, a 34-Fling boogie I chucked out (to the garden skip at the tip) plants that I hated that were cluttering up my kitchen window sill and making me grumpy. I still have plants there, but they are (by and large) alive and green. I have also moved them all to one end of the sill rather than them being artfully spaced out and I can now reach the window handle and have space for my shiny radio so I can boogie while cooking. And a few other bits of crap that weren't useful or loved were also dumped.

Anyway, best get on with the work m'larky.

Yes feeling better now. even had a productive day today.

Ta Da:
ring doc
ring dentist
sleep
speak to ds' teacher about some concerns- She is fabulous and really has a grasp of the class and each individual.
Hear ds read
sort out ds' homework
fold clean washing
tidy lounge ie hide folded washing
shove hoover about
speak to ex re school and tomo's pead appointment

As for the rest of it i am going to shove linkies and head to bed with the strong pain killers.

linkies

Tuesday is planning day: what are you eating/doing this week?

Babystep 10: the power of 15mins! Find that timer!

Mission and deep clean that Kitchen.

Although i have just realised I have already done tomo's focus today , meals planned for both this and next week done, Also calendar is up to date for this and most of next month, and I know what i am focusing on task wise this week - decluttering and sorting out.

Have fabulous days.

Oh and tomorrows list goes like this:
school run
move furniture
lift, turn and relay rug
return furniture
laundry
dentist
Docs
Pead
Sort out ds' training kit
ds to training
ds' kit in wash
ds to bed at reasonable time
check length of trousers again, alter if necessary
sort out wardrobe where i accidentally chucked the water today - will use as an excuse for considering decluttering.
write and send 2 birthday cards
write last thank you note
Find ds' tooth brush or replace

erm this list is in danger of getting stupid long again time to stop!

justonemore DH and I were discussing moving to Geneva a year and a half ago. If they had let him then we would have gone, but by the time they said ok six months ago we had decided against it. Would have been interesting for a couple of years, but not to commit to the whole schooling thing. We heard the same, that it's not particularly lively, but beautiful countryside and lots of outdoors stuff. Very very expensive though. Now we might be moving to Frankfurt. Linzer I used to live near Vienna. There are some really nice towns around there.