Calling all steppers old and new, fancy joining me ready for the September thread

[CatsInChaos]

Come and sign in here ready for September and the return to school.

Where we attempt Flylady babysteps or whatever we can get done!

Where are you all? Zoo, Carrots, bessie, Adora, Scout, Camper and any newcomers who would like to join.

Shares round homemade chocolate fudge

Ooh, fudge- one of my favourites, ta very much.

Carrots, how is twilight doing now?

I've now done the DW and put the WM, not much to wash today.
Beasts are fed and out and I'm trying to decide which chocolate cake to make for DDs, so many recipes

Today I have:

Cleared out my wardrobe
Shone my sink
Done a full load in the dishwasher and put it away...

...as well as taking the kids to the park with a picnic, dropping off my weekly timesheets at my office on the other side of town and collected my new glasses from the Optician.

My DH will still go because I haven't put the laundry away or sorted out the teetering heap of crap that always accumulates on the work top between the kitchen and dining area, the twunt

carrots ooh yes please!
Well, I am proud of my 1st day of official stepping. The house is still tidy! I have delegated grocery shopping to DH, now I am off to update my CV.

Daisy my OH is an expert at the attitude. There have been words and I even went on full strike for a couple of months once. A couple of weeks ago he actualy asked me to write a list of jobs he needs to do on Sat. morning.

And if he pulls the "I go out to work" like my OH did, point outt the fact that you facilitate him doing so by doing everything else and there's more than 1 adult living in the house. Then badger him relentlessly about his pile of toot on the kitchen work top.

Pekka some god steps there, well done.

I'm currently making ganache, it's in need of stirring, so I'm off

good steps, not God

Adora Twilight has improved enormously since her injections last week thanks. There is no denying that she is 15 years old, which for a big dog is a "good age". She loves her new haircut though and was very puppylike today

Hello everyone & welcome to all newbies

DD1 has stopped napping & DD2 has started (wobbly) walking, so haven't has as much time to MN as I would like!

I'm posting as I saw this steam mop on groupon today - it's not the one I have, but it looks like the same kind of thing

Morning all, --keeps fingers crossed that computer will stay working-- (it has a funny five minutes every now and again)

Both DC are still asleep in bed I'm gonna leave them to lay in today as I don't need to go anywhere. --enjoys peace-- They were both awake in the night so probably need the sleep. DS was having some kind of bad dream.

Will return later --unless I have more computer problems--

Good Morning everyone!
Sorry about your bad night Joyful I feel your pain. I had a relatively good one only up at 2.30 but the 4am wake ups are the worst.

It was so lovely to come down to a clean kitchen this morning.

Today I am going to
Go to Asda
Make turkey burgers and banana fritters for my little'un
Wash a load of towels

I might also manage to
Ring the nursery about his place
Order some blinds for the kitchen
Send my friend a birthday present
Email work

But let's not get ahead of ourselves as I'm back in bed bfing and having a cup of tea!

Hi all, Just checking in! ( Blimey you're all very early for September) I joined in very late for the August thread, went away for a week so it all went to pot, o will start again for September. Have child starting school and am also going back to work so all help/advice gratefully accepted!

Hi and welcome Cakebot

I have become very "out of routine" over the summer hols so I though I might need to prepare for "back to school" and getting things done (hence starting this thread early)
Hopefully it will help others too.

Anyone got any hints and tips about trying to feel more awake/motivated?

Struggling this morning. --too much coffee-- now have a headache!

Morning everyone!

I agree with Joyful that the best solution is water - put some lemon or cucumber in it if you have some. Jif lemon works fine.

Fresh air also helps so open a window.

A shower also helps if you haven't already had one - keep it on the cool side.

Not that I know anything about sleep deprivation... coughs I sense that I am not alone here.

I have been overwhelmed by the urge to clearout today. It started with trying to sanitize the washing machine. Ours seems to get smelly very quickly. My dmum got me stuff from Kleeneze which seems to do the trick and I felt it was time to do it. Could I find it? Dd eventually found it in the boot of the car in amongst the mountain of horse riding gear

Anyway I have decluttered the utility room and hoovered and mopped the floor.

That led on to me tackling the study. Those who have suffered me for the last year or so will know this is my area of extreme horror. I couldn't actually get into the room without moving things

When I got going it wasn't as bad as I feared - just all badly stored. I can now walk in freely and the sofa and floor are clear. There is one pile in the corner of things for jumble or ebay. I have no idea where else to store it. Other than that it is not too bad. It needs a day or two of filing and it will be sorted.

I think that is enough for today apart from the basic dw, worktop, hoover, wm routines.

I will also have to do some ironing.

I am relaxing for now though as I have a meeting at the school at lunch time. Eeeeek!

Oooops! Sorry! I wrote a dissertation

Well done carrots! Hope the meeting goes well!

I have done naff all this morning. Still feeling a bit ill but at least my headache has gone now.
--hopes motivation will return soon--

Hows everyone else?

Thanks Cats. The meeting went really well. I am so proud of my boy. He is still having trouble in the playground but he seems really happy in his class.

Hi Joyful, He is 7 and has had a lot of problems at school, stemming from a hideous bullying incident, which has led to anxiety problems. He is now in a separate class from all three bullies (and their families) and seems to be off to a good start. Fingers crossed nothing brews.

He is still having problems in the playground but the school are aware and keeping an eye out.

I have sorted out the recycling, emptied and reloaded the dw, cleaned the worktops and washed out a plastic drawer unit and hoovered through downstairs (apart from the spare bedroom which needs a good declutter and tidy up).
I feel I have made good progress today.

Oh, I did a bit of ironing too!

Carrots

Glad to hear that DS is happy in his new class, that's fantastic news.
Also good that Twilight likes his new hair cut and is feeling better.

Joyful
Well done, you've achieved a lot considering your lack of sleep. Some days having the DDs still breathing at bed time is all I can hope for too. Although I am, alegedly, passed the night wakings stage. They turned 11 yesterday and DD2 set her alarm clock early to have time for pressies before school. She was then roused by a tremor around 3am, got up, woke her sister up, started getting ready and then looked at the clock. 4am. Luckily she didn't run downstairs squealing with birthday excitement and wake me up too. I slept through the tremor.

I got off to a slow start this morning, took DDs out for dinner last night and so it was yet another late night. Of course the pisco sour I had hasn't impacted my ability to leap into action at the crack of dawn, much. Anyway,

Got up, roused DDs
Tea/breakfast for DDs, OH did his own again
Made sarnies and packed packed lunches
Ushered family out/dogs in
WM on
Coffee
Cleared kitchen
Emptied and reloaded DW
Swept around dogs
OH returned from school run, tea and toast for him
My breakfast

Still need to,

Shower
Feed and boot out the beasts
More laundry, having bought larger beds for DDs I am giving their old bedding to my ironing lady to go on the bunk beds she very kindly helped me to declutter
Hang washing out
Re-arrange carpet fitters- they can't come tomorrow as we now have a funeral to attend in the morning.
Remove bleedin' heavy Xmas gift from car and hide it in the house
Plan meals
Get shopping
Lunch
Go to Dr
Collect DDs and drop friend's DCs home
Dinner
Start-again-reading the book I plan to gift to someone who loved it but didn't have time to read when I lent it.

Joyfull

I'm in Chile. We get a lot of siesmic activity, but a lots of tremores go unnoticed.