Aiming high in April, babystepping our way to a cleaner house

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Hi all, welcome to the new babysteps thread for April.

All newcomers welcome.

We have pointy sticks ----> to help get you moving and plenty of brews and biscuits on our Chat thread for in between jobs.

Please come and join us.

ta dahs

up at 6
litterbox changed
kitchen floor washed
showered and sorted
wiped kitchen cupboard front
cleaned outside WM and de-scanked drawer
made dcs breakfast
dcs dressed
hair done
dash trampoline clubfor 8am
brisk walk back
20mins hotspotting the toys from front room away
coat on take little zoo to nursery
pop into school to drop off ds meds boxes as proof he is genuinely off ill
back homein rain
breakfast
wipe surfaces in kitchen and sink

Are the school satisfied zoo? That is a lot done already.
Enjoy your lunch arti.

ta das
washed and dressed
dd breakfasted ds not eating
ds's snacks & lunch made
dcs to school
dw on
ebay stuff wrapped & posted
friend asked to walk pup as we at hospital
now waiting at hospital. Eeek!

ta dahs
bedroom mirror cleaned
bedroom windows cleaned
skirting boards i can reach wiped
toys removed and placed on dcs beds
clothes put away
polished
cobwebs dealt with
fresh bedding for tonight

emptied kitchen bin and cleaned out

plastics out into recycling box

picked up little zoo
made lunch

to do tonight

• unpack cases (partially done)
• as much laundry as humanely possible (3rd load in WM)
• upload holiday photos
• drink wine (I suspect I'll manage this one!)

oh arse. I need to do meal plans & online shopping order too

Must

Work
Prepare 2 lessons (Done one)
Get all work materials packed and ready for tomorrow morning
Update accounts

Household and personal
Go to 2 medical appointments
Meet gardening friends for lunch ( even if I can't actually garden today)
Organise lunch
Organise tea - a bit failed as I had a forbidden snack at 6.30pm but now cooking it!
Do an Aldi food shop
Sort a random paper pile
Some sort of exercise

Would like to

Work
Sort waiting list and start contacting a few more people on it
Tidy work room

Household
Do a 30 minute house blessing (and exercise at same time?)
Put away suitcase
Put together woodgraining project and post pic on mumsnet
Collapse in an exhausted heap! Slept for 3 hours this afternoon!

at arti's HUGE nap!

ta da tonight

• unpack cases (just need DH to sort his stuff out)
• as much laundry as humanely possible (4rd load in WM)
• meal plan
• wine & chocolate reward
• ordered new slow cooker
• online shop
• upload holiday photos (uploading as I type)
• more wine & chocolate

Final Ta Dahs for today! Bessie - you've done loads!!

Must

Work
Prepare 2 lessons
Get all work materials packed and ready for tomorrow morning
Update accounts

Household and personal
Go to 2 medical appointments
Meet gardening friends for lunch ( even if I can't actually garden today)
Organise lunch
Organise tea: Pasties are yum!
Do an Aldi food shop
Sort a random paper pile
Some sort of exercise (sort of, see below)

Would like to

Work
Sort waiting list and start contacting a few more people on it
Tidy work room

Household
Do a 30 minute house blessing Managed a ten minute dust around and sweep of skanky kitchen floor. Well it was a little bit of exercise!
Put away suitcase
Put together woodgraining project and post pic on mumsnet
Collapse in an exhausted heap! Slept for 3 hours this afternoon!

Ta Da's this morning:

Got up
made bed
drinking coffee

To do's:

breakfast
get dressed
laundry
sort kitchen (wash up etc)
Add more to do's to list if I get the first few done.

Where are justtrying & banana??

Good morning! The bed I put on eBay has been sold! Hurrah. Well on the way to having a new bedroom for DD. All we have to do is... err... paint it and replace the awful mustard carpet.

Had hoped for major decluttering sesh this weekend but DH has yet another crisis at work so is going to be working for most of it - so either I do it without help or put it off. Again. Grr.

josie in my experience doing it alone is easier and less stressful.that said no heavy lifting in your condition

morning cats
bloody wind had me awake half the nightits very cloudy and i suspect rain will lash us shortly.meant be vile this weekend and dd1 doing duke of edinburghi made cakes

ta dahs

dragged self up to referee dd2 trying punch ds

fed cats

emptied litter tray

had breakfast

flybaby time!

p.s bessie is your slow cooker broken?

I'm here - just too embarrassed to post yesterday as did absolutely nothing (spent whole day in pj's).

Hi justtrying, I sometimes get days like that so on those kind of days I just post on the chat thread HERE. You are welcome to do the same, I'm sure the others won't mind.

List update.

Got up Done
made bed done
drink coffee done
breakfast done
get dressed done
laundry Some put away, some in machine
sort kitchen (wash up etc) DH done some
Take clothes that are too small out of DD wardrobe done

To Do:

get DD & ready go out?
hang out wet washing
lunch
get a haircut?
go into town?
take some clothes to charity shop?
go to chemist?
do a bit of food shopping?
buy school shoes
panic about whether we will have enough money to last the month!
Have a to try and calm nerves

I am doing well today! I am normally useless on a Saturday morning!
Got quite a good sleep!

just trying we are not slave driving perfectionists-pop in and chat anytime

well done cats-youre flying high today

ta dah update

flybabies complete-
clothes dont fit bagged up for charity
baseboards wiped
floor washed
windows cleaned
cobwebs dealt with
stray toys put away
underbeds clear
laundry all in baskets
polish furniture
made beds

made my bed

we took pictures of mayo the doggy toy little zoo has to photograph on his weekend with us from nursery helping to polish her bed

s+s bathroom

hunted round net for giraffe masks

little zoo is busy colouring hers.dd2 opted for cat,s a sheep and mayo a cow!
we stuck a pen to his "paw" with tape and photo him colouring it.i will take pic them all when they have finished!

to do
whatever i can still be arsed-its saturday!!!!

Morning everyone (just!)

justtrying we all have days in our pjs. No required here. We are all just when that happens. All the newbies would be very welcome to come and chat on the chat thread.

Ta Das:

• Phonecall while still in bed (woke at 6.20 and then fell asleep again until 8.45!)
• Made dd packed lunch for today (challenge with no bread - sympathies with zoo)
• washed and dressed
• hallway hoovered (you would never know now)
• top up shop
• breakfasted those who hadn't already given up and helped themselves
• helped ds do some flybaby in his room (was only very vaguely messy but figured if we dealt with it at that level it would encourage him to keep it nice)
• took ds's nightlight and cd player from his room as the psychologist says that is the next step and that he has to sleep without them. He is

Newsflash Psychologist encouraged bribery incentives and said she used them on her ds too. Yay! She paid him a small amount to stay in bed until 6am every morning I don't feel such a freak now

justtrying - you just need to write an appropriate list e.g.

• save environment by reducing the amount of clothes I wash
• reduce wear & tear on carpet by not walking on it

ta da

• took DD2 for haircut at 9am
• vacuumed downstairs
• mopped utility re-doing DH's pathetic attempt
• wiped worktops in the kitchen
• cleaned old highchair (DD2 got a smart new one for her birthday)
• gave DD2 some presents that arrived while we were away
• wiped DD2s nose many times
• early lunch (DD2 is in the process of giving up her morning nap so needs early lunch & early afternoon nap)
• worked on getting DD1 to sit on the toilet (we have a new reward chart)
• persueded DD1 to go for a nap without a nappy on
• lots of laundry
• updated online supermarket order
• drank tea while still warm
• put clean laundry away - DH did this!

to do

• finish the laundry (I may have got carried away... I am washing scarves & gloves so I can pack them away!)
• continue to encourage DD1 on the toilet
• play with DDs
• clear the bomb site that is the living room
• make tea
• bath & bed DDs
• drink wine
• read book
• select a nice pic of DD2 to print out & frame
• order nappy bin bags & nappies (amazon via nectar to get points)

Today has been better -

Got up, showered and dressed (a major achievement after yesterday!)
Had breakfast & washed breakfast dishes
Put on WM
Did ironing
1st load of washing in off line & ironed/put away
2nd load of washing out on line
DH cut grass and even strimmed all the straggly edges

well done honey.babystep

can i ta dah exercise?

ive just done gabby logans twin work out ....

not at all aerobic but concentrates on core flexibility and upper and lower body strength

ive learned i have little if any muscles in core

legs took the advanced section

arms arent made for push ups!!!!!ha ha

i think i need to invest in a n aerobic dvd too so i can altrnate and try an preserve some sense fitness as it will probably all start going down hill after birthday!

List update.

Got up Done
made bed done
drink coffee done
breakfast done
get dressed done
laundry Some put away done
1 x washing done
hang washing on line done
sort kitchen (wash up etc) DH done some
Take clothes that are too small out of DD wardrobe done
get DD & ready & go out done
lunch done
get a haircut done
go into town done
take some clothes to charity shop done
go to chemist done
do a bit of food shopping Not yet
buy school shoes done

Now having a and a rest.

how was theshoe shop?

DD set her heart on a pair of hello kitty Size 10 but she is only a size 8 so I had to convince her that a different pair were nice. It actually worked!