shall we babystep though september,anyone?

[liveinazoo]

adora?
Bessie?
scout?
arti?

anyone else?

sorry for the extended absence-after net was reconnected we went away for a few days with zoolets and then stupid contractors whom council employed to repair paths/roads managed to sever internet/gas and bloody water pipes over a period of 4 dayshopefullt giblets have been roasted and things are back permanently!!!

on the flying front we survived summer hols,just.i managed to maintain some of the dailies and I haven't had to shovel and skip the place as in some previous years!haha

I shall pop in late with some ta dahs and hope some one has found me!

so yesterday the zoolets decided between showers we HAD to go to the park and I never got a nother chance to pop back as sunday evening is always a busy one organising uniforms/packed lunches/polishing shoes/checkning for the dreaded nits after hairwashes

todays ta dahs
-fed cats
-cleaned litter tray
-sorted recycling
-bin out
-bleached worksurface that scoutcat had slept on
-washing on
-made breakfast for zoolets/me
-packed lunches packed
-sorted 3 unruly mops into school friendly hair
-collected neighbours granddaughterand walked with her to school
-cleaned windows in front room.washed floor
-cleaned windows,polished washed floor in all bedrooms
-cleaned bathroom and washed floor
-harpicked toilet
-washing on/first load in dryer

Hello Zoo

Glad you got back on line, you've had a busy morning I see.

My morning routine, now includes preteen strop from DD1, is done and I've had a tea. Need to get showered, eat and ready for Pilates in a Mo.

I'll pop back later when I actually have something to report.

Glad you survived summer, no mean feat with DCs home all the time

Our water was off until 5 today, really messed up my grand laundry plans. Not sure I'll get it done tomorrow either as it looks like raining most of the day and I don't want towels hanging wet inside.

Hello!!!

I just can't seem to get in the groove.

yay.company!!!!!

I was like a headless chickn yesterday-I thought I had coasted vaguely ok through hols.a thorough inspection proved I was delusional!ha ha

yesterday I did the bathroom as deep clean
-scrubbed all tiling in bath/shower
-cleaned showerhead
-washed out bath and scrubbed taps
-cleaned sinkand scrubbed taps
-sorted all the empty bottles and tidied what was left
-cleaned windows and sill
-scrubbed bath toys
-cleaned radiator and baseboards
-washed floor

p.m I had a baking session
I made-
6 large banana and oat muffins
12 mini banana and oat muffins
6 large carrot muffins
12 mini carrot muffins
a low fat carrot traybake with sticky syrup glaze
banana and coconut cookies

im afraid to say the traybake was for a friend.all the big muffins and cookies are gone and half the mini ones-I swear the zoolets are crossbreeds with locusts!

todays ta dahs-
-made chocolate cookies with oats,cococnut and extra choc chunks
-collected next doors little one
-school run
-bit shopping
-my breakfast
-washing into dryer.2nd load on
-todays deep clean-kitchen
clear and clean surfaces
-wipe all splashbacks
-clean toaster/breadbin/kettle
-wipe all cupboard fronts
-wipe washing machine/clean out drawer
-wipe tumble drier
-clean windows/wipe sills
-scrub sink and drainer
-clean hob
-clean oven
-wash floor
-washing into dryer
-3rd load on
-quick tidy hall/put shoes strewn everywhere away
-school run
-snack for little ones
-they now in the bath.last load for todays in the dryer

adora how old is stroppybritches?

dd2 has lots girls in her class this year that think they re grown upwith mobiles/wallk home alone and attitude galore.one lives a few doors up and she positively dirty looks at every grown up-she has a seriously slappable face!she read all the twilight books and seen all the films and reckons she knows everything.dd2 best friend are in the other class and while one is starting to want independence/grow up the other isn't so im desperately trying to encourage her to still be around them as I genuinely don't believe at her age its time to allow what some parents think is .meanwhile dd2 Is starting to copy this other girls diva behaviour and everything is becoming an argument and she has to have the last word all the time.im considering moving into the shed wth the spiders for a bit of peace!

Still stroppy Zoo

My word you've been Busy haven't you?

I've done morning routine, Pilates, shower, laundry, shopping, dogs, folded clean towels from yesterday and sat down To lunch 15 mins ago. Must get on now, think I may copy your compote idea as I was planning pancakes for later.

zoo, can you give me a swft kick please? You have been busy!

Ouch. Thanks, zoo, I needed that.

To be fair I've been going on my to do list, it just doesn't feel like Flying. Though I have suddenly, in the last hour, done some amazing flinging & decluttering in the kitchen area so don't feel so bad.

SmallBoy has also taken a lot of time today, doing crafts and stickers (like in the Alphablocks magazine). We're just pausing for lunch. Will do my lists later, when I'm not managing SB, eating and doing four other things at once.

I'm tired....

I didn't do the pancakes Zoo but will try that pineaple idea, Thank you.

I'm also tired this evening. We're training the dogs at last and the proccess is tirering, plus it makes dinner late and Today I arrived home with DDs and shopping to find the training waiting.

I've put away all of yesterday's laundry
Sorted dog's food, I have switched them to raw food
Done dinner
Cleaned kitchen
Cancelled pilates Tomorrow as school is doing the annual folklore presntacion
bathrooms were done this morning
Vacuuming also done this morning
Something else which I can't now remember done this morning
DW is on
Everyone else is in Bed and I'm just unwinding before I retire for the evening.

Tomorrow need to have some me time before DD's school holiday and do some e-mails.

little zoo declared morning at 4.30 and despite best efforts to resettle her,ev trying you can sleep in my bedshe was adamant not sleepy anymore as such ta dah is extensive already but I am lready flagging!

ta dahs
harpic loo
cleaned bath and sink
towels onto wash
hot spot front room
polish and wash floor front room
located pink panther dvd and put little zoo to watch that so I culd crack on raaher than go back to sleep then oversleep and end up headless chicken for school run
deep cleaned my room-
cleared under the bed
put away clean clothes
tidy bedside table
sort and tidy books
wipe baseboards/radiator/door/lightswitches
empty bin
made zoolets breakfast
made packet lunches
listened little zoo read while did hair
washing in dryer
collected next door granddaughter
school run
my breakfast
sort and tidy ds wardrobe-outgrown stuff bagged up ready for charity collection tomorrow
laundry folded

I can feel my eyelids drooping and its not helping that scoutcat has taken up residence in my lap-he soo warm and his purrings far too relaxing!i shall have to get up and plod on or risk falling sleep!

adora-how longs the holiday this time?

scout alphablock was a big favourite magazine in the zoo house!-I hark back to it as its moshi monsters/dinomite /horrible histoies and peppa make and bake these days!

Alphablocks is a firm favorite in the Scout Hut. We have all the DVDs and in the last few months it's been a highlight of SB's to go to the store to buy the newest magazine. Between Alphablocks and one of his Leap Pad games he knows all his phonics and thanks to Alphablocks can do a lot of CVC words (some they haven't covered, too, thanks to being able to sound out). It's the only kids magazine we get -- the rest are adult steam train ones which he loves. He gets Lego Club Jr in the post which is also a favorite.

Zoo holiday is just a week this time, celebrating Chilean independance and historia. Sorry you had Such an early start.

Ta dah's so far

Up and threw breakfast together, assembled lunch bags.
Shooed family out To school
Made coffee To go
Dressed and dashed off To school for the folklore presentación
Sat on a concrete step for 2.5 hours
Unlocked spine enough To get To the car, heated seats
Finished coffee then drove into town
Currently having breakfast/me time

Still need To sort dogs
Lunch
Pick up DCs - various-
Drop some DCs home, bring others home with mine
Dinner
Dogs
Survive DDs having a sleepover

good luck with the sleepover adora-dd2 had 2 during the summer hols.the 1st was just one child-12.30 overexcited/overwhelmed and having eaten body weight in crapulence was probably on sugar come down her friend howled her eyes out!1.30 before they were akip!2nd attempt,same child plus another 1.this time was a 1.30 meltdown and 2.30 before asleep-little zoo was up at 5.30 and I could barely put one foot in front of the other and the girls were hysterical when picked up at 9.30-ive seen better looking zombies!ha ha.it didn't hit me til the day after then I was a grump bag but dd2 was horrid for a bout 3days til replenished some sleep!i havemade it very clear it will only happen in 6wk hols as I done have the strength for that kind of caper without plenty quiet time after

I went to bed early but didn't sleep well and ds woke at 2.30,little zoo at 3.3.

I gave up and got up ay 5and used the time to crck on so if im tired later I can just vegetate in a heap in the corner

ta dahs
-fed cats
-made fruit and nut breakfast bars
-harpic loo
-spent 1 hour tidying understairs copboard-i have a floor and can shut the door and open in again with out a cascade debris descending on me but theres still some work to do
-cleaned bath and sink
-put out some rubbish

Recipe looks good, Thanks Zoo and of course Nigella i currently have no weighing scales but shall guestimate.

Don't know what time DCs went To sleep but I gave up after empteying DW at 12.15 and gave them instructions To stay upstairs and keep the noise down a bit. OH had sent them To bed at 10.30, this is why I usualy don't do this unless he is away on business.

Not much done today - breakfast, 2 loads in WM, 2 hours training dogs, went out To eat and get errands, heading back home now. Going To check cupboards for breakfast bar ingredientes

ican confirm that they were utterly delicious!

a quiet day at chez zoo today-the first reallyautumnal day has set in,its cold,windy and pouring down!

ta dahs-
ivedone some shopping and 2 loads washing

Still haven't made the breakfast bars, but I did do pancakes Today

Had a relaxing day at home and managed to Get the laundry cleared and the dogs walked. Other than meals not much else to report. DDs are off this week and Wed, Thurs & Frí are bank holiday, so only 1 Pilates class.

SmallBoy has his first full-blown head cold of the autumn/winter season. He's full of snot and we're currently cuddled in my bed, watching Octonauts, Thomas, Charlie & Lola and The Alphablocks on my laptop (I'm on the tablet). He's munching dry Cheerios and drinking lots of very dilute apple juice as clear liquids is what he's craving.

We're not in our day clothes and I don't care, Miss Flylady person who says you should spring out of bed in your clothes at stupid o'clock.

I have, this morning:
washed up last night's dishes (d'oh! but I went to bed early thinking I'd be up overnight with poorly SB)
mixed up the dry ingredients for mincemeat (will do the wet ingredients later -- I'm timing it for tomorrow's cooking)
updated the daily diary for the weekend's adventures
wrote my to do list for today

Today I hope to:
keep on top of the washing up
wash down the stove
check and shake the alcohol I have on the go
make sloe gin (sterilize jar, pierce frozen sloes & add to jar, measure & add sugar, add gin, shake)
write sympathy card (neighbor from home died someone I've known since I was eight so am sending card to his wife who still lives next to my parents)
write thank you card -- MrScout's aunt sent SB a shirt last week
write thank you card -- MrScout's superior (not boss but high up in the food chain) gave SB a special train ride last month
take trash to outside bin
take recycling to outside bin
take MrScout's recycling to outside bin (MrScout had a little clear out last night)
mix Christmas pudding (dry ingredients tonight then wet tomorrow morning)
add wet ingredients to mincemeat mix
download pictures from vacation
chicken -- separate, wrap and freeze (bought lots of meat over the weekend and have wrapped & froze all the extras except the chicken)
emails -- Mom, MiL, BFF, HE Friend re zoo, HE friend re activity, HE friend re activity & poorly boy
make Christmas mouse pattern/tracers (trace sample, cut out, etc.)

And, if SB is up to it later:
go for a walk/explore/fruit pick in the nature area across the street
paint
stickers book
start coloring/painting Nativity bunting for Christmas

Is it bedtime yet?

Hello.

Can I return? I may have a better chance of getting things done now DD has started school.

I have spent the morning clearing paperwork from my art desk in the hope one day I might feel like painting again.

I intend to take things slowly but by doing a little each day I will hopefully get back to having a more organized home.

I have also signed up for a couple of courses so won't be here everyday of the week.

I am on "dinner break" at the mo.