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Pumpkin spice and ghost abound, fledglings flying through the crazy

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HillsBesideTheSea · 27/09/2021 21:39

Right for this seasonal thread of the Fledgings, I invite you to pull up a comfy chair around the fire pit and pour yourself a mug of something that you fancy.

We loosely follow the flylady system and her babysteps. But we have our own spin, our own abbreviations and have been around for far longer than some of us would like to admit. If you are new to these parts welcome in, we'll get you up to speed in no time. But we have rules, yes rules!

Rule 1: No fledgling left behind.
life happens. If you fall off the thread, jump back when you are ready.

Rule 2: If you wouldn't say it to someone else, don't say it to yourself
Be kind to yourself, the world is still crazy, and life happens. Just do what you can, when you can.

Right that's the rules now for the fun part. Acronyms and autocorrects!
Amongst others (and there are others but we'll have to explain as we go along)
It's all gone a bit ponty pridd - tits up, pete tong, wrong etc etc we get to thank auto correct for this
WOW wash out Wednesday - humps days often don't go to plan and get washed out
LOL round these parts it is load of laundry

Urm... Yeah about that fire pit and comfy chair... Dibs on the big floofy one with fluffy blankies... Last one in brings the marshmallows!

Grin
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Redsquirrel5 · 29/09/2021 14:44

Congratulations Famous. She is gorgeous and I also love the name. Not sure whether to tell you that DD loved the first name and called her cat it.😂 later on she meet Jacquline Wilson- The Mummy Cat and she asked DD if she had a cat and what it was called. It surprised her and she liked it. Later on the name appeared in one of her books😀
Well done to DH for his role. Was he a bit shocked or did he take it all in his stride?

Make the most of the rest today, opportunity to train DH in

Thank for thread leading last month and this.

Stopped coughing after I wrote post ( think I missed inhaler dose)and felt great yesterday have aura and migraine today. I think it is cluster migraine but going to do a LFT.
DH still fine and DS 1 is improving. He loved the soup( enough for four bowls ) and he had a short walk out as he is out of time now. DH is out tomorrow. DS2 brought some bread, milk etc today. I made some bread the other day and it was less than adequate. Going to try kneading it myself. Looked at bread makers at Lakeland again and they have some Christmas stuff in.

Ta Das yesterday

LOL in
Vacuumed sitting room
Kitchen
Dining room
My bedroom
Tidied top of chest of drawers. Put earrings away
Decided to tidy jewellery and sorted three large boxes found some I had forgotten about. Found the missing one to a pair yeah glass teardrops. Most of it is just cheap stuff still haven’t found diamond rings. Not looking at DH Truely not!

Welcome Bella

Oh no name changes I can only work out the ones with part name in.

Redsquirrel5 · 29/09/2021 14:52

Worked out Those and Scream and maybe Honey.🍒👋🍒👋🍒👋👋🍒to everyone.

halfhope · 29/09/2021 15:45

You might get me too Red 👻🎃😁.

Famous what terrific news! Welcome little Phoebe 🌷. Very satisfying to cross 'birthed bouncing baby girl' off your to do list!

halfhope · 29/09/2021 15:46

Ah flip - name change didn't happen on the app. Hang on.

AbandonAllHalfHope · 29/09/2021 15:47

🎃👻🌿🎃🍃👻🔥🎇🍂

Mc3209 · 29/09/2021 16:05

Famous she is so gorgeous! Big congratulations, mama! She is beautiful and what a lovely name. Happy birthday Phoebe! 🥰🥰🥰

Willow McBaby is pretty much back to his old self, thank you 😊 He is boycotting the spoon though. So I'm under a mess of finger food..

I need to do a proper meal plan and do some zone cleaning today. But first, I shall catch up on Bake Off.

TheHoneyBadger · 29/09/2021 17:07

Ooh a beautiful new baby! Well done famous.

Tada:
A day's work - lessons taught, a set of assessments marked, Friday's lessons planned and photocopied for, all remote learning set for the gazillion kids off with covid and emails all dealt with so inbox is empty till tomorrow hopefully.

That's it really and I could happily just curl up and stay in bed now. I will have to sort food at some point and walk the dog again but housework will have to wait till tomorrow when I have a day off.

HauntingHazel · 29/09/2021 17:44

YesTaDas:
👻 6 LOLs
🐈‍⬛ Washed jeep
🕷 vacuumed Jeep
🦇 detailed Jeep
🕸 took MIL out to lunch with SIL for her birthday
👻 took dog for nail trim and anal glands expressed
🐈‍⬛ gave dog a bath
🕷 planted lavender 🤞it doesn't die with this freeze were about to get
🦇 rotated DW
🕸 watched a movie
👻 got my clothes out for today

Hopefully I can stop by later for personals

YupIFreakilyHave · 29/09/2021 17:54

Congratulations famous and welcome to the world Phoebe. She is beautiful 😍

HillsBesideTheSea · 29/09/2021 21:16

Finished last ever shift and issued major project. a few hours later than deadline Exhausted. no idea who any fucker is.

Congratulations on the shiny new adorable little person Famous Agree is previous sentiment - comfy seat, blankies and comfort food in the naughty corner for you whilst you recover!

I am about to face plant. Up with anxiety all last night, but now the stress migraine has gone. So the rest is just sleep.
Forgive the tired grumpy one.

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DoesHePlayTheFiddle · 29/09/2021 21:27

Sleep well, Hills.

I'm cracking on with the boring-but-simultaneously-terrifying admin.

Redsquirrel5 · 29/09/2021 22:02

Yes, I think I have sorted yours halfhope🤣🦇🕷🕸🕷🦇🕸🕷🕸🦇

Headache left for a couple of hours now back. Got up made tea, spaghetti with veggie sauce, went back to bed.

Redsquirrel5 · 29/09/2021 22:04

Welcome to the rest of your life Hills

AbandonAllHalfHope · 29/09/2021 22:41

Glad that phase is over Hills. You and Red need to rest up.

AbandonAllHalfHope · 29/09/2021 22:42

It'll be good when the admin is done Fiddle. 🌷

IWillWoooTheGhoulWillow · 29/09/2021 23:09

I recommend sleep for everyone! 😴🛌

ScreamToTheSky · 29/09/2021 23:40

Evenin’ all.

Wow, end of an era indeed hills hope you can get some rest.

I’ve had a relaxing afternoon - after making my to do list for tutoring (which was scarily long) I then made the decision to ignore it, and spent the rest of the day relaxing with puzzles/maths and then binge watching a series with DD1 and DSD who is staying over specifically to watch said series :o

Back to reality tomorrow, but it’s been the kind of afternoon/evening I needed for sure.

Night all 💐

Famousfrays · 30/09/2021 00:34

Thank you everyone🥰. Her big brothers are besotted, Jared (our eldest) went to nursery today and came home with some apple crumble that they made❤️. Phoebe’s settling into the family really well and every time she cries it sounds like she’s saying “no no no”😂. Thank you for making the naughty corner so comfy for me, I’m going to make the most of it. Tomorrow DM is coming over to take Micah (our 2nd boy) to his toddler group and then on Friday both of the boy’s have Forest school so we get some time with just the baby. I’m loving having DH running around after me I’ll be milking it as much as I can😉.

bella if I let our 3 year old name her she’d be called breadstick😂. Oh and welcome!

red was it a book in the Hetty Feather series by any chance?. I read the first one as a child and the whole series have been my guilty pleasure since😁. DH coped fairly well considering the circumstances, every birth I’ve had was at home so he knows the drill. He was fine when it was happening but when she came out it sort of hit him what happened and he panicked😂. He’s told everyone he knows that he’s a midwife now😆. I hope you feel better soon, glad to hear your DS1 is improving though💐

fiddle well done on the admin that’s a huge achievement!

mc I’m glad your little one is feeling more himself. I feel for you with the finger food mess though😉

hills I hope you get a much better nights sleep again.

yup Forrest nursery is brilliant! Our back seat of the car is covered in a bin bag for when we pick him up because of the mud that comes off him😫

red that’s a shame you weren’t able to continue with forest school. Ours is brilliant, they do play groups that we can take both the boys to and then they formed the kindergarten a few years ago. The kids are constantly outside, even in awful weather they learn to make shelters and campfires. When we go camping DH prefers his help setting things up that mine😂.

willow do you know I haven’t listened to bring me the horizon or anything of similar style since I was about 14 and got into more hippie music. But I listened to some after you mentioned it and it brought back so many memories!. So sorry to hear about the school and DD. I hope she’s feeling better now💐

scream breadbin😂😂. Bless your DS! Enjoy your series!

mrstidy that reading programme sounds awful! You’re 100% right to hate it.

those it’s crazy how big your little ones seem when an even littler one comes along isn’t it. Micah is only 16 months but he seems like a grown man now😂.

ScreamToTheSky · 30/09/2021 07:25

Your kids have the most gorgeous names famous 😍 hope you’re feeling ok

Just woke up, DH reminded me last night that I have to take Cagletini to nursery today which is good as I thought it was next Thursday (his therapy session is at 9 today rather than 9.30). Feeling pretty rubbish. Then meeting a friend with our boys at the local park so that’ll be nice, just hoping the weather holds!

po3.1
❗️Meds and breakfast
❗️Get myself and Cagletini dressed
❗️LOL on

THOSEcobwebsareDECOR · 30/09/2021 07:49

My dp could not have handled that! His head would have actually fallen off.

Mother nature appears to hate me, i am now having my fourth period since baby ds was born. I do hope that my cycles are not actually going to be so short. I need to get a depo shot or something to sort it out.

AbandonAllHalfHope · 30/09/2021 07:58

Glad she's settling right in famous. Ah lovely newborn snuggles ❤️. Right - I've a meeting on home working at 10 (I'm still on annual leave so will offset it) and flu jab at 3pm.

Dinner organised - tacos and a mound of ironing 😳.

Hope the weather holds Scream.

AbandonAllHalfHope · 30/09/2021 07:59

Oh no those short cycles are a real pain. Hopefully things will settle down.

IWillWoooTheGhoulWillow · 30/09/2021 08:59

Oh no Those hope it can be sorted out. What is it with our bodies not playing ball?

Famous lovely names for your DC! Hope you get lots of newborn snuggles today and are resting up. There's extra space in the naughty corner if you're feeling touched out. Well done to DH for his midwifery, you know he'll still be dining out on this when your DD is thirty-something, right? 😂

AbandonHope you do realise you can't eat ironing?

Scream hope the weather holds, it's tipping down here all over yesterday's washing that I forgot to bring in 🤦

Honey well done on containing a day's work in a day!

Hills you have achieved escape velocity. Congratulations. Hope you had a long, restorative sleep.

Fiddle good luck with admin.

HauntingHazel 6 LOLs? What is going on in your house?

Red back to bed with you, to shift that headache.

Today is a Full Service Disaster Day.

To do:
☔ More research for Uncle and fire off to him
🤿 Run DW
☔ Consider whether to get soggy washing off line and onto airer, or just give it up as a bad job and at least keep me dry
🤿 Chilli for dinner
☔ Start meal plan for going back to Actual Cooking
🤿 Go to Town I Don't Usually Visit for Sainsbury's, WH Smith and a patch test in advance of Extremely Exciting Hairdresser's Appointment on Monday
☔ Walk dog in pissing rain (DH has just bounced this into my day 😭)
🤿 Sedate Dog and take for nail trimming at 2.30
☔ Take dog to vet for 4 (limping on rear passenger leg 😂. You know what I mean!)
🤿 Post birthday cards and book tokens to friend's twins.
☔ Swim home
🤿 Try to realign world view to take account of the last few day's news 😢

Must get on. 🍒👋

ScreamToTheSky · 30/09/2021 09:40

Loving everyone’s name changes 🤣🎃 the image of wooing a willow is particularly evocative 😂

Back from nursery, only a tiny bit of rain. Cagletini was really dawdling. She said yesterday she was sad and lonely because people didn’t want to play with her 🥺 I’m not sure if that’s a common thing or a one off, but it’s impossible to speak to the staff at nursery due to the queuing system. Maybe I’ll suggest DH waits to be last today so they aren’t rushing to get all the kids out.

I’m shattered and not quite sure if friends are coming here - it’s a mess.

By the way if anyone likes drawing Inktober is upon us again from tomorrow. This is really testing my “all or nothing” thinking as I didn’t complete last year’s, but I want to try again this year - I’ve not drawn for months. I might suggest DD1 does it too in the evenings. I’ve attached the prompt list.

po3.2
❗️Get DS to do more work (chemistry corrections first then probably maths)
❗️Vague room rescue of living room and bathroom just in case they do come round here - DS can check his room too
❗️Email therapist to arrange first zoom session in months - thinking November as that’s usually a tough month for me with the dark/cold etc

Pumpkin spice and ghost abound, fledglings flying through the crazy
languagelover96 · 30/09/2021 10:57

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