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.

Whoknows I failed miserably not to get wound up when dd was rude this eve, and all over some fennel Apparently she thought it was slabs of onion...or so she says...
What a brilliant idea to tell them the rules when they are in a good mood rather than in the middle of a fight.
Ds2 is also being very polite atm and doing lots of helping when asked when insisted upon Dd was wailing, it's not fair you never make him eat anything he doesnt want...I have to point out I wasn't trying to make her eat the fennel it was just touching the lettuce...

Dh and I have just spent two hours discussing kitchen trollies instead of units [sigh]

Swan wasn't me training today so brain still fired.

I need a list.

laundry - bedding wash - ds'
sort out ds' room
Air upstairs
handwashing
disinfect ds' bin
folding
ironing
visual checklists for ds
hit the boxes of stuff to be put away and hope to find missing prescription
Otherwise phone hospital for replacement
put clothes away
hit my bedroom again with intention of getting tidier
make up swimming kit
ds to swimming
ds' homework
sort out tea. sausage mash and onion gravy Yum.
Make cottage pie for thurs from left over mash (Always make too much for eating with sausages lol) - mash on top via splat method.

will be a happy bunny if i achieve that after flying failure for the last week.

I am determined to follow the Flylady babystep of bed at a decent hour tonight, so that means reading and running, but I did just want to say thank you to Ellie for your kind words re DS1. I'm not sure he feels very lucky to have me when I make him go into school though! Tomorrow he has agreed to go to drama, but wants me to stay in the school with him this time as he felt so panicky during his one lesson today. At least he's going in.

Sorry you are having a difficult time, ChitChat. I'll try to find your thread before bed.

Just off to post on the monster thread (although, actually, it has shrunk to a manageable size now).

Goodnight all.

Thanks for looking and posting on the other thread, Lauren, Toffee, WhoKnows and ellie.

Just felt overwhelmed with it all today.

But I did manage to do a bit of flying while DS2 was at nursery so house looks ok.

My evening routine has gone completely out the window as I was ironing DH's clothes for him to pack, and now DS1 has been throwing up..... . Early night is clearly out the window, and I have started washing all the bedding at 60 degrees. DS1 is sitting on the lounge suite watching Cars2. I had put him back to bed after I had cleaned him and the bed up, but he was sick again so I thought he should rest downstairs until his stomach has settled back down (fortunately had the bucket so bedding ok 2nd time!).

It does mean that we're now having 2 very relaxed days at home, though with no alarm clock in the morning. (2 days away from school after being sick is so annoying!!!) Hopefully DS2 doesn't catch it though, and I can still take him to nursery on Thursday. Settling in sessions all finished so don't need to stay with him. Will just leave DS1 outside and tell him not to go near anyone. Fingers crossed for tomorrow!

Good luck ChitChat

Morning, will be back later on with proper post as am on phone while DS sleeps, but just wanted to give ChitChat a as I can't really give any advice - never having been in the situation. The advice you have been given sounds great though. Hope your DS feels better today and DS2 doesn't catch it.

Right, off to poke my DS awake as he us a right grump if he doesn't get to see DH off to work.

Morning all...just a post and run as I need to go and collect a mindee!

To do:
DD and mindee to playgroup
Take them for a walk to shop for essentials if the weather stays ok
Hoover
Meeting with new mindee and mum
Put away DD clean laundry
Clean bathroom
Today's mission. I did the front as part of home bleugh so will clean the shelves at the side
Clean out fridge
40 minutes of Zumba when DD goes to bed
Paperwork
Evening routine!

Will try BBL! Have a good day everyone!

List dump for motivation and focus hahahaha

laundry - bedding wash - ds'
sort out ds' room
Air upstairs
handwashing - important half done
disinfect ds' bin - doing
folding
ironing - in progress
visual checklists for ds
hit the boxes of stuff to be put away and hope to find missing prescription
Otherwise phone hospital for replacement
put clothes away
hit my bedroom again with intention of getting tidier
make up swimming kit
ds to swimming
ds' homework
sort out tea. sausage mash and onion gravy Yum.
Make cottage pie for thurs from left over mash (Always make too much for eating with sausages lol) - mash on top via splat method.
Put cleaner in toilet and leave to soak
clean bathroom sink
change the plug that is on the sink plug chain. New one has been in the bathroom for months already
Have a new house rules chat with ds - part one done. Part two to do tonight

junk & old mattress picked up YAY
recycling picked up done
found ds1 his lunchcard, took out all xtra bits weighing down his bag
3 dcs to school and two persuaded to wash done but not without lots of wailing over undone homework and scrumpled bits of paper, and ds2 said Today was his Day Off and he didn't want to spoil his "spotless record" of taking a day off every week...not quite sure what that is all about, all most mysterious.

todo
more rubbish still left to sort out
careful small washes to do
pay in cheque
mince to cook
car to pick up
friend for coffee at 2pm (very tidy friend
Then busy afternoon ahead with drop off

I look , I am completely covered in mud from climbing frame bits, 3 layers, and wellies, and my hair is standng on end. Also slept very badly.

Chitchat hope you can snuggle up today, and ds feels a bit better.

Discovered that the best way to manage bed at a reasonable hour is to be freezing cold so a nice hot shower becomes very inviting, and to have my parents cluttering up the living room...

The boys are at school/CM and my parents have gone out shopping.

List of three:
Work-related stuff
Hoover
Mop floor...

WhoKnows - I know there are fewer badge cards around now, but there was at least one with a badge for every other age!! Hey ho, let it go...

Waves to all and departs to stick the kettle on. anyone?

Oooh Blue - I'll have a !!!

Thanks all for being supportive.

The boys are having a dvd/duvet day. How many times can I watch Cars2 and stay sane???

I'm doing some ironing, and making sure DH's things are ready for him to pop in a suitcase and take off.

To do:
Ironing
Washing (LOTS of bedding!!!)
Lots of snuggles on the sofa
Early night

That's about as much as I feel up to coping with today. Maybe instead of the I should have a and slink off to the bar! Hmm, might at least wait till this evening.

Right morning all.

Awaiting colleague finishing with a document that I need to review so doing a list dump and a quick load of personals assuming that DS stays asleep.

Bitchy - at your list as usual - vaaairy impressed!
ChitChat - as above hope your DS's are okay
Toffee - hope you got to bed and didn't get distracted by the monster list
swan - poor you with a picky DD not that I'm much the same, oh no, not me
Nicknacks - hope you got the bathroom done without waking DD - I have the same issue so I gut it at the weekend, and then just S&S during the week, and it seems to be working.
laure - hope the new mindee works out*
ellie - thank you for the nomination and sorry for my over eagerness! Think I'm just too excited when things seem to click!
honu - at the ironing idea. I find audio books send me off to sleep (and what is an iron anyway?! )
WhoKnows - hope your chat with your DC's works out. So not looking forward to DS being older for this reason!
Blue - badges have disappeared. The only place I could see one was in a local independent paper shop, but it looked like it was antique!
Waves to anyone I've not mentioned!

Anyway, today I have:
Morning routine
Got dinner out of the freezer (chilli! NOM!)
S&S all bathrooms
Tidied and dusted the hall
Two loads of washing
Cleaned all windows bar DS's as window cleaner did the outside so I could see the muck - DS's will be done when he's up
WAH job - almost done - just this one document

This afternoon I have no plans. If it stays nice, I may take DS down to the beach for a walk or over to the park for a run about, but it's looking a bit ropey so I have no clue what I can do with him if it does rain - I want something to knacker him, but indoors and there's no soft play etc within easy reach (although local gossip is that a defunct arcarde may become a soft play area so who knows!). Fingers crossed for decent weather as the house is fine for morning play, but he needs more activity and there are no playgroups in the afternoon here.

Ah, well, colleague has emailed me, so can get work done and hopefully sit with my feet up for 5 minutes.

chitchat now is the time for playdough if you can face it...A rainy day, the radio, no need to rush out....making little cars..in bright colours...

I keep seeing it in the shops and LONGING to buy it (that smell) but my children are too old for it [sigh]

I'm on the gardening threads with raised beds if anyone has any tips to give! Cheering myself up with thoughts of spring.

Ooh, Gardening? Raised Beds? To me that's like catnip is to a cat!!!!

Chitchat I absolutely love gardening. I have a million zillion gardening books. I used to read gardening books just for pleasure. Especially erudite books about plants, design etc. But for some reason have not indulged my passion much in last 12 years. The function of the garden (for children to run amok in) seems to have prevented my horticultural fancies from taking root. In fact we had to abolish most of the flower beds in quest for living space.
However now they have just got TOO big for the garden anyway, so I feel like I might be able to start filling it with plants again. I used to have a large garden attached to my flat in my twenties and I was obsessed by it.

However, I have never ever made a raised bed!

We are raised beds all the way here. And pots/bags for growing stuff in. Having small ds hasn't stopped me as I have ds doing the gardening with me.

Weird about the birthday badges as I was in tesco the other and they had loads of them. Of course not the right card with the badge, but going for an over large badge for him anyways.

No does anyone know wtf i have done with the party invites i bought and need to send out to confirm details?

Love gardening here too, looking forward to starting up the school gardening club again after half term, that was such good fun last year (although a lot of effort). Raised beds and pots all the way there as well, at home it's a mixture of raised beds, pots and borders, but all the edible stuff is in raised beds and pots.

List dump for motivation and focus hahahaha

laundry - 2nd load on - not doing bedding until fri. realised it was pointless with our routine. iyswim.
sort out ds' room
Air upstairs
handwashing
disinfect ds' bin
folding
ironing
visual checklists for ds in progress
hit the boxes of stuff to be put away and hope to find missing prescription
Otherwise phone hospital for replacement
put clothes away
hit my bedroom again with intention of getting tidier 15mins done
make up swimming kit
ds to swimming
ds' homework
sort out tea. sausage mash and onion gravy Yum. Onion is currently cooking, potatoes peeled sliced and ready to go
Make cottage pie for thurs from left over mash (Always make too much for eating with sausages lol) - mash on top via splat method. meat base bit made and cooling in dish
Put cleaner in toilet and leave to soak
clean bathroom sink
change the plug that is on the sink plug chain. New one has been in the bathroom for months already blush
Have a new house rules chat with ds - part one done. Part two to do tonight
sort out ds' kit ready for tomo
check emails and sort out responses to those that need it
update calendar in lounge

Oooo gardening! I put a little question in the gardening thread not long ago as I am converting part of the garden into an allotment I'm also doing raised beds!

Ta da:
Took DD and mindee to playgroup
Had meeting with new mindee and mum, went well but need to make sure he's not allergic first
Hoovered
Cleaned bathroom

Just going to eat chocolate do some work while DD is napping then walk dog and cook and have tea (cottage pie )

BBL

Is gardening 'porn' for those who really don't like housework !!!

Lust over the catalogues, drool at the idea of doing some digging, stashing seed packets around the place..... and resent doing any housework!

Possibly chitchat. But then again I know where i would rather be then in the garden.

Homework hell.
Visual timetabled out
I hate wednesdays.

I used to be able to escape afterwards but lost my babysitter. I really hate wednesdays.

I have a thread in primary education. Bet you can guess what it is about.

Tonight requires a lot of except not allowed any. Am popping out for chocolate.

Hi everyone - thanks for all the wise words yesterday! I do appreciate my time with dd, really I do. It is a lovely age and getting lovelier. So didn't mean to sound unappreciative. Just bloody worn down by it! Being on mumsnet as made me appreciate my small children even more, so often people say how they look back on those years and how fast they went, and reading threads with stresses about school, homework, sec schools etc.

ChitChat couldn't find your thread, but supportive thoughts your way whatever the matter!

Gardening - Swan would you be interested in a horticultural course? Are you the one who lives in West London? I'm doing a horticultural evening class once a week and am loving it. (not sure where it's taking me but who cares!)

You lot have all been so busy, all round I think!
I'm sitting in a s* hole. Time of the month and varicose veins are throbbing and hurting like hell. Been up since 5.30 with toddler with no nap (courtesy of drilling neighbours).

So Officially slobbing in the naughty corner and mumsnetting until legs stop hurting, and then probably a typical me late night clean up.

Toffee You are def doing the right thing, but you must be so weary.

And get well soon to all the sick DC's!

Just you are so right, I now long for the days when my children had no homework, but then I just longed for their naps Poor you, and grr to neighbours drilling. Yep, I've done a horticultural course already although it was more garden design/landscaping/brickwork than plant nurturing. You are Not at Capel Manor round the corner from me? not the real Capel Manor, just the course....Terrified of bumping into my old teacher so I don't dare go back.

done
supervised two lots of homework quite succinctly
took dd to pantomime (Brownies) distant
went home, dh home early, cooked homemade burgers with him
picked up dd from pantomime
was nice to children generally but house not good, but as dh keeps reminding there is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

Thanks, Justonemore, I hope I am.

Managed to get DS1 in to school for one lesson again today. He chose drama and, luckily, had a really good and interesting lesson and is looking forward to the next one. He wanted me to stay in the school and wait for him, in case he had to leave early, so I had a long chat with his learning area manager, who is just lovely and so understanding. We are all going to have a meeting shortly, including DS1, to discuss what we can do to make school life easier for him (she suggested he leave lessons early, for instance, so that he can avoid the crowds).

However, taking DS1 to school, waiting for him and then walking back again took two hours out of my day, so not a lot got done today apart from the basics.

Must go to bed, but just wanted to pop in and check on how you all were. Hope to get a bit more time tomorrow.

Night all.