Mad Fledglings March through the Spring cleaning

[BitchytheGreat]

So here we are, March already.

So for those who don't know the fledglings is a long running thread. Some of us seem clicky but that is because we have been chatting on these threads for nearly half a decade makes everyone feel old we quite like fresh blood though so feel free to jump in and join us.

Three key points to keep in mind:
(1)No perfectionism allowed - this is harder than you would imagine
(2)You are never behind just start where you are and anything you do is progress.
(3) It didn't get into a mess overnight, it won't get tidy over night - accept it will take time to get on top of things and you will be happier.

If you are new then trying to spend 15mins decluttering and the babysteps is the most. Some of us Bitchy can have scary looking lists. One word of advice ignore them. Do what you can, anything is better then nothing, and don't judge yourself against others.

Ta da
Was up early
Shower
Morning routine
school run
Work
School run
Shopping
Dinner
Bath
Food consuming evening in front of the box .....

Off to the NEC Birmingham tomorrow to see The Big Bang. Family time!!!

Sans - I wish my fingers were in any way green to help answer your question! Since we planted the seeds we have had some cold nights and even really bad fog all day yesterday so probably not the best start they could have had! I've never grown anything outside before from seeds in the ground. I have always started them off inside then re-potted into grow bags and have grown mostly tomatoes. My cucumber seeds seem to have sprung to life today (they are inside in one of those plastic propagator things) and they have had a combination of light, warmth and humidity. (The water I added today to the bottom tray generated condensation inside on the lid). We took delivery of some more topsoil today so now I can get my potatoes planted up.

Ta Da

• DD to early morning swim training
• DD's patchwork blanket washed and hung out to dry
• Waited in for delivery of first veg box and topsoil
• Climbed Ironing Mountain whilst watching the Cheltenham Festival
• DD to swim training
• No pots tonight as tea all cooked in oven
• Washing load on and hung to dry

My Little Mermaid!

Love the pictures .

Just finished a late-night stint of cleaning and tidying up as DM is arriving for the weekend tomorrow and the house looked like a pigsty.

ta da

School run
Tea and chat with friend
To work
Lunch and chat with friend
(and Ds1 managed to stay focused on his online lesson without me)
School run - collected PE kit and assessments for taster day on Monday
Nap (two hours - I needed that)
Woke up to find DH had cooked dinner
Bedtime routine
Put washing on
Watched finale of 'Breaking Bad'
Put washing in tumbledrier
Unloaded and reloaded d/w
Walked round house with binbag, picking up rubbish
Tidied DS1's bedroom
Screamed at large spider
Delegated spider catching duties to DH (he's used to it)
Tidied DS2's bedroom whilst he slept
Handed DH a pile of his clean washing to put away
Tidied sitting room (put Lego in boxes)
Tidied dining room
Tidied kitchen
Wiped down surfaces
Cleared dining-room table
Swept and mopped stairs and hallway
Put vase of daffodils on dining-room table

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Merry If you don’t already know (or are happily rich) take your own food. DS was there yesterday, apparently prices made London look cheap!

Blue huge sympathies for you all finding yourselves in a position where you the systems been twisted to achieve this and then the sweeping it under the carpet and ‘it’s a done deal’ process marching on relentlessly. Horrible.

Bitchy hang on in there. It wears, grinds and ages, but as you know in the end the sheer weight and cross correlation of all that paperwork doesn’t half arm you to get your child’s needs met.

Waves to all, but must run.

ta da
Huge amounts of scrubbing, industrial level bleaching, cleaning, stripping, sanding, painting , papering, boxing

to do
More of the above plus transporting.

Morning all. Just had a cuppa in bed.
About to get up and do morning routine, then having a family weekend

Might even try and get into the garden.

to do

Breakfasts
Get dressed to shoes
Buy pot plants from corner shop
Plant the above in our front window box
Polish brass
Finish washing up
Empty kitchen bin
Hoovering if time
Drop DS2 off at MIL's
To work
Shopping for food
Collect DS2 from MIL and DM from station
Home for lunch

Sorry to be rude to the fat fairy but

'Family fun day'?? - stuff that with bobbins on I'm orff out on ones own

On my freking own

I shall 'fly' to the shops. Im already up showered, dressed and makeup!

ta da

Breakfasts done
Get dressed to shoes
Buy pot plants from corner shop
Plant the above in our front window box
Polish brass
Finish washing up done
Empty kitchen bin done
Swept and mopped kitchen floor done
Wiped down kitchen surfaces done
Wiped inside of fridge done
Hoovering if time
Drop DS2 off at MIL's
To work
Shopping for food
Collect DS2 from MIL and DM from station
Home for lunch
Bookmark

Tbh it does fuck all because no one will give us an official diagnosis. Second time around through the system and it is an up to 4yr wait for assessment this time around. I have to chose between that one word on the right bit of paper by the right person and putting ds in a place where he is ok. And not having that word means that I am fighting the red tape in a maner there is NO way I can win. it is incredibly frustrating.

Whoknows enjoy the ice hockey game. The local team have a chance to win the league this weekend but they have to win both their games this weekend. It is going to be a very tense weekend as it will affect a major rivarly next weekend. Who you watching play? I am actually glad that it is almost the end of the season!!!!

thinking!!! Pst you also get renew your spirit day tomo which is when she thinks you should do something on your own for yourself!

12 hrs sleep last night has helped although feeling yukcy and dehydrated due to the weather not being able to make up its mind and the sugar overloading i have been doing recently. Need to get back onto the paelo way as do so much better on that.

Lots that should be done but first job of the day is an important one. But even that can wait until I have had a coffee and some water (like half a gallon to shift this dehydration headache)... There may well be a long list today, equally there might not be. Will have to see.

Blimey, you're having a very productive Saturday Toffee! [impressed emoticon]

Feel absolutely cream crackered here this morning. Hosted a very un-Lenten spontaneous steak/chip/salad supper for friends last night and far too much was drunk.

The lovely sunshine and relative warmth of the past few days has suddenly disappeared, leaving grey overcast skies and cold winds in its place.

So far today:
went to bakery and back to buy croissants and bread rolls
ate them
scrambled eggs
drank coffee
emptied dishwasher
filled dishwasher
urged seeds to grow
stroked a rabbit

Usually feel fairly sprightly the morning after the night before but I feel wretched. Must be old age. Just tried to galvanise some action in to the troops but dh and dd are ensconced in front of telly in their pjs, both with laptops, supposedly watching Dr Who so I am going to make myself scare.

Trouble is; can't decide whether to march on, or go back to bed ....normally hate sleeping during the day but the call of the duvet is somehow very strong atm ....

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Strong for anyone in need ...

Kitchen cleared, school shoes polished. kids playing in the garden and we off out for lunch later

It's Basingstoke Bison vs Sheffield Steeldogs Bitchy - they have a school scheme so the tickets are heavily discounted and lots from our school are going. We may not stay for the whole thing though, it's a late night and we've got a lot of other stuff on bloody F1 at 6am tomorrow.

I'm glad it's nearly the end of the normal hockey season too, I took DS to training this morning and he was crying with tiredness when we got there so I let him come home, of course after half an hour he was full of energy but crying again saying he wished he had stayed, I think he's a bit done in know how he feels. Anyway we went outside and did some hockey practice by ourselves to make up for lost time and have talked it through, lesson learned hopefully.

Just off out to the post office to post my woolly hug squares. It's such a lovely day here.

OK, two phone calls later (someone has just invited themselves to stay at Easter and as we stupidly haven't made any solid plans as yet I feel kiboshed (sp?)), I am soldiering on ...

Bitchy sympathies over red tape sounds absolutely horrible

Good luck with the move Just

Enjoy your Saturdays Eustacia, Merry and Thinking!

Have just noticed the pictures - they are fab!!!

Big waves to eveyrone else!

Should be a good one. sheffield are a fiesty team, bison are second in the league and need a win to stay in with a chance of winning. Statistically I hope Bison lose as it makes local team more able to win. Although Sheffield are a major local rival and it would be good if they lost. No love lost for that team after what has happened in some of the local derbys. Will be good.

Ds has a summer camp for training. It looks bloody brilliant but will kill him. He is due at his dad's the week following and i have just remembered that i need to warn his dad NOT to make any plans other then an easy week. I expect ds will be knackered and tearful by the end of it. Will be good to see what sort of player comes out of it. He is a thinking player and developing fast at his new club. Very interesting.

Also (I have just checked) SHeffield need a win to make their playoff place more secure. It'll be a hard fought game. Should be really good to watch!

Right need a list to focus and let me feel like i have actually achieved something. Don't feel like i have done anything.

Ta da
wash one of ds' bed blankets (blanket gate 1 insidentally)
Wash one of the sofa blankets
put on a load of towels to wash
book car into garage
sort out insurance so can borrow a car that is not needed by owner this week
folding
Discover according to Mr Sneeze forehead thermometer that I am currently dead guess that needs replacing then expiry date was 2012

I NEED to tackle my room today. But i have a severe case of CBAitis

ta da

Breakfasts done
Get dressed to shoes done
Buy pot plants from corner shop no
Plant the above in our front window box no, but disposed of dead plants and raked over soil ready for new plants
Polish brass done
Finish washing up done
Empty kitchen bin done
Swept and mopped kitchen floor done
Wiped down kitchen surfaces done
Wiped inside of fridge done
Hoovering if time no
Drop DS2 off at MIL's done
To work done
Shopping for food done
Collect DS2 from MIL and DM from station done
Home for lunch done

Also:

Played family game with DS2
Washed up
Stripped guest bed and made up with clean sheets
Put washing on

DM is having a lie down, so am catching up on OU work (am a week behind) before it's time to prepare dinner.

sorry - lurking. I was doing so well with flying & posting in feb (jan?)

Gulp. Overwhelmed.

sans you've made my mouth water and now am planning steak & chip supper tonight - with

Will now attempt to post more

completely side tracked and my room has not been tackled at all

Ta da
wash one of ds' bed blankets (blanket gate 1 insidentally)
Wash one of the sofa blankets
put on a load of towels to wash
book car into garage
sort out insurance so can borrow a car that is not needed by owner this week
folding
Discover according to Mr Sneeze forehead thermometer that I am currently dead guess that needs replacing then expiry date was 2012
wash blanketgate 2
put a load of clothes through the machine
wash the cleaning bits from washing car upolstery
turf out ds' wardrobe
move ds' wardrobe
clean behind wardrobe killing major dust bunnies in the process
sort out timed limited power lead for ds' tv
turf out understair cupboard
clean out
return stuff in a neater reorganised manner
deal with flowers that have been left for the mother figure
load the dw
soak the recycling
load one of pots washed up
print paperwork for sorting out stuff next week (various in nature)
ironing
more folding
boil up hand warmers
lose coffee cup this is a catastrophe
hand wash tights
empty ds' bin and soak in disinfectant

So i currently have my bed under stuff and ds' bed under stuff and have done nothing that i planned to do today erm yeah. Fail?

No fail! Bitchy your list is huge, pat yourself on your back for what you have done. ignore what you haven't, who cares!!!-

Just Wish I had seen your post before we left. 4 hotdogs and 4 Capri Suns =£24 . Both Dh and I, survived on Starbuck's drinks we purchased on the way in!!! (Have walked away with enough pencil cases, pens, pencils and rubbers for the year.)

Though the event itself was amazing! Would recommend it to everyone!!!

Just got back, baked beans on toast, now bed with a good book!!! As exhausted!!

No flying for me tomorrow whatsoever Im off out with my family tomorrow for my Mothers Day treat. We are going to London for vair posh afternoon tea.

So yes I will be whining like a whiney thing on Monday when I have crisis clean.

Ta da
wash one of ds' bed blankets (blanket gate 1 insidentally)
Wash one of the sofa blankets
put on a load of towels to wash
book car into garage
sort out insurance so can borrow a car that is not needed by owner this week
folding
Discover according to Mr Sneeze forehead thermometer that I am currently dead guess that needs replacing then expiry date was 2012
wash blanketgate 2
put a load of clothes through the machine
wash the cleaning bits from washing car upolstery
turf out ds' wardrobe
move ds' wardrobe
clean behind wardrobe killing major dust bunnies in the process
sort out timed limited power lead for ds' tv
turf out understair cupboard
clean out
return stuff in a neater reorganised manner
deal with flowers that have been left for the mother figure
load the dw
soak the recycling
load one of pots washed up
print paperwork for sorting out stuff next week (various in nature)
ironing
more folding
boil up hand warmers
lose coffee cup this is a catastrophe
hand wash tights
empty ds' bin and soak in disinfectant
An 1hrs worth of decluttering my room!
more laundry
put clothes away
watch a dvd (multi-tasking) stupid fucking thing
sort out to do list for monday.

I am in two minds. 3rd copy of monsters university that won't fucking play the last two scenes of the damn film. Do i complain again? I am getting really pissed off! But not sure if I can be arsed pissing about with this anymore

at Bitchy!

Have a lovely day out, thinking - sounds fab!

Not such a long ta da! list, but did manage a good couple of hours digging and weeding in the garden so felt I'd earned my beer and pizza this evening!

tbh it would be nice to see the end of the film. i have seen the rest of it 3 times now!