Managing the mayhem in March - who wants motivation to babystep through the month with us?

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Starting from March 1st lets babystep our way through the month, throwing in the odd mission.

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We have pointy sticks -> to get you off the sofa and chocolate and stickers as rewards.

Let's end our CHAOS and enjoy our sparkly homes.

Babystep 4

Morning Zoo. I am slightly hangovered this morning so brain not completely in gear yet.

bessie
LENTIL AND GINGER STEW

1tbsp oil
1 onion,finely chopped
2 carrots finely chopped
2 cans lentils
500mls veg stock
250mls coconut milk
1tsp grated ginger
large handful baby spinach leaves
1tbsp flaked almonds
2tbsp fresh chop coriander

heat oil.add onion and carrots for 10mins to soften slightly over very low heat

add ginger and lentils and stir for 2 mins.

add stock and milk.boil then cover and simmer for 5 mins

blitz half the mixture.return to the pan and add spinach,stirring to wilt

divide between 4 bowls and sprinkle with almonds and coriander.serve with rice

i will use slightly less liquid next time as was a little soupy for my liking.used frozen chop spinach as dd2 finds cooked spinach chokes her
maggi do a coconut milk powder that works out cheaper than cans.add water to make into coconut milk or cream

bc you have gears?
mine just bumbles along and if i fuck up i put it down to senile moments

today i have to shop -once ive written the list--

am aiming to wallpaper ds room too

oh and make cake

I need to get the laundry sorted today. School uniforms/DH work clothes etc need doing.

i remembered the uniform last night

Right, will report back when I have washing machine on.

Right, I have:
Got one load of washing on
swish and swipe bathroom
DD breakfast
made beds but not DS as he is still asleep.

Next I need another Coffee and some breakfast.

Blimey, you lot have been busy! I've

• drunk tea in bed
• eaten breakfast
• printed out today's reward chart for DD1
• TD on

I will get washed & dressed soon!

Thanks for the recipe zoo - sounds yummy!

I haven't done much. I have however emptied the dishwasher, done a load of washing, fed and watered everyone and washed and dressed. Am now on 3rd cup of tea, pondering what to make for lunch and tea.

Need to get back to meal planning as I used to do it, but have let it slip. Trying to keep food shopping to the bare minimum this month due to finances. We don't eat meat anyway so that keeps costs down, and no wine will be bought for the rest of the month (I have a bottle in the cupboard for emergencies )

Has anyone just recently been through potty training? If so have you got any good hints and tips?
I tried to do it with DD last year on and off but she wasn't ready so we are giving it another go.

Can't believe it's snowing. Yesterday I was in the backgarden and sun digging away like a lunatic getting it ready to start planting this years veggies!!

I was potty training this time last year if that helps BlackCat? DS1 was 2.1 and decided it was time - I put the potty (it is actually one of those little Fisher Price mini toilets - excellent) in the living room. I bought Pirate Pete's Potty book - you can get a girly vesrion too. Just left him naked in the house and then used pants. Changed from nappies to pull ups for night time. My best advice is to buy the bed wetting sheets (in nappies aisle - this sort of thing) and use them in the stroller/car seat/boosterseat at table etc. to protect stuff from inevitable accidents.

Take a week out of the calendar and do as little as possible, just until she gets the hang of it, then start going out more. I always kept a potty in the car too, for emergencies but now he takes great delight in peeing into bushes everywhere I go if he's caught short

I have all this fun to come with ds2 in the summer

It's snowing here too. Madness.

DS1 was 2.1 and he decided it was time I might add, I didn't force him into it.

Anyone around with a pointy stick? I am seriously lacking motivation and the kitchen needs sorting so I can do dinner.

------> < Prods self halfheartedly with pointy stick and drags self off to kitchen >

Yes, we have snow here, too. But it's recent -- it was sleeting when we got in half-an-hour ago.

Have done very little except the necessary this weekend -- have been enjoying my time with my boys. I consider that more necessary than, say, the laundry or ironing.

BC you should ask on the potty training boards. We took DD1 out to buy some pants, thinking that we'd do it soon, but she demanded to wear them when we got home & that was it! She got the hang of the potty straight away (with lots of sticker rewards) but 6m later she is now refusing to use the loo. Also, when she's at pre-school she simply CBA to stop playing & have a wee! (This is why we've just started doing a reward chart)

Sorry, that wasn't very helpful

How on earth are those kids outside on the trampoline in the sleet? [boggled mind]

I haven't done much either, like the pre-school uniform and dh's shirts that need ironing for tomorrow as an example, but my mam did walk in today and remark how clean and tidy my kitchen looked.

YAY

Preschooler's in uniform?

I need to do the ironing of work shirts but will do that after dinner (don't really want to do with Toddler up/running around). Need to do some Seniors emails and ordering but will do that after dinner, too.

i put dd3

im feeling a bit proud of myself
i opted best way to cope kids playing up worthy of supernannywas decorate.....ds now has a wall of dinosaur wallpaper in his room

as had some paste left over and they were still on one i then went into my room and hung my feature wall of wallpaper!id love to be able to do whole room in it but at 25quid a roll and used 2 a wall that aint guna happen

just having tea now

cant wait for tehm all to go to bed.bin one of those days

bcdd3 only mastered toileting in septembershe tantrumed from dawn to dusk at the mere mention pants til realised big girls in nursery wear knickers,then it was sorted pretty much in a week.they all different and its just case guaging when theyre ready.
im assuming we all wear big girl pants so we must have all got there in there in the end

So far we have a score of floor 1, potty 0. Straight after she did wee on the floor DH put a nappy on her . I was up stairs at the time.

Might try again tomorrow afternoon (she is at nursery in the morning).

Zoo I know what you mean about glad when they go to bed! Some days I just can't wait for the peace and quiet!