Crikey you lot! Even I can't keep up and I'm on here permanently 
See kittens/cats have been busy too RIP mole and spiders
Hope everyone OK and return to school/work/nursery not too onerous
Hope your ds feels better soon Engels and that you both benefit from a bit of sofa hugging today
Toffee Sorry on-line lessons proving so problematic and stressful. Hope you can get it sorted. I've just sent dh that 'relaxation' tape! and arf at you scampering about in your dressing gown! Although I think you also need to be wearing fluffy slippers, sporting a full head of rollers, whilst doing a bit of knob polishing to really scare the neighbours properly
Bitchy sounds like your ds has the right idea about CAMHS! Sorry they proved to be so unhelpful yet again. Hope your ds gets through this school day ok
You sound organised Blamenargles as do you Vivacia
Alice sideboard in dining room makes good sense to me. I am desperate for one (to hold table cloths, posh glasses we use for guests, spare candles and all the things that we don't have room for anywhere else are currently living in cardboard boxes under an old table)! And fwiw eating in the sitting room (although I confess that we do it at least twice a week and more when my sewing, as it is now, is sprawled all over the dining table) can make a load of extra work. I guess one thing to consider is whether the piano in the sitting room will clash with tv noise-wise (ie do you need/will you need separate quiet room for piano practice etc ) but otherwise think you should go for it; esp if you would be really sad to see sideboard go.
Ellie your poor ds (and poor you)! Hope this morning went a bit more smoothly for him and that he starts to settle in ok.
Blue I hope your ds2 starts to settle in to receptions reasonably quickly too
Pushme and Ellie and Swan hope you can all catch up on sleep tonight!
Nicknacks ditto what Swan said. I am also in awe of your schedule and could never be as organised. You are getting a huge list of things done in very little time! I did once have a rule about "not sitting down until I had finished all the jobs for the day" but that seems to have gone out of the window now dd is older. Although I can see with your heavy schedule that you definitely need to engineer quiet time in order to have sufficient energy for the next day. Agree with Swan that dd definitely wangles more interaction in the evening to eek out bed time. Could you delegate some of the tasks?
Whoknows you also sound incredibly well organised to me too! Still in the middle of slightly tetchy extra-curricular negotiations here regarding how much/how many!
Threeislovely think you are being incredibly hard on yourself too! You have done loads and loads. I would barely be concious after a 13 hr day!
Mamachelle good that your little un is starting to settle a bit
Good luck with your list Standing
Dizzy glad to hear your dd is enjoying her first days back at school! Ditto here re: great teacher and having first home proj!
A warm welcome to Larry
Brilliant video Feetheart I want a Roomba now!
Things a bit tense and tetchy here with dh but he is stressed about his father who has come through op well so far thankfully. Also trying to do office budgets of which I am responsible for cleaning/maintenance part. Always have a battle with allocated resources. Get quite annoyed from (a) feminist perspective (cleaning being underpaid/undervalued) and (b) making do with crappy equipment when office has top latest technology. It probably didn't help when I said that our cleaners worked just as hard as any arseing lawyers ... !
Lost track of my lists (dh and I spent most of day in countryside yesterday because he didn't want to celebrate his birthday because of father's op but was too stressed to work) but suffice to say ground floor and 'public rooms' and kitchen, bathroom now back in fairly clean and spanking order (as clean and spanking as this house ever gets anyway). And hurrah - most of filthy windows have been cleaned - but not by me! All traces of horse-poo infused mud has finally been gone from stairs - it magically reappears out of nowhere!
DD has her first hwk project. Does anyone have any idea how to transform a string-bean-thin 11 year old girl in to Winston Churchill for next Monday please [sigh]??