Monday Fly

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Morning all. Will go and get mission etc.

Only half ?
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I am considering eating the last slice of birthday cake ... the same piece I promised to ds when he gets back from school

I am BAD.

I've managed to do my morning routine

Now I need to try and properly 'clean' the house a bit as upstairs hasnt been done since before my op

Trinity - a bit of chocolate dnever hurt anyone

Well it is chasos in the madhouse. The little girl from next door has come over and they are into everthing.

So I plan to go to the beach this afternoon when DS2 finnishes his nao - weather permitting

Dress boys - DOne
feed boys - Done
Washing out - Done
2 hots spots - Done
Go to the beach - lovley day and it is still half term
Lunch
DS2 nap
Ironing
Sort out whats for dinner
Cuddle my boys lots
Make plans for the rest of the week - half term still

ooooh lots of posts!

Morning all

Busy day today (and I don't even mind )
Already been to do my food shopping whilst DD2 was at nursery.
We are back for lunch now and then I have Welsh Lessons at 1pm.
Back hjust in time to get the other two from school...home for supper, then I have keep fit.

Feeling much brighter today...sorry for my recent threads.

My only downer for today is that I have just heard a dear friend of mine has cancer of the thyroid
She says that it is one of the more curable cancers so I am not to worry....still worried though She has been put on a special diet, and will receive treatment soon....fingers crossed all goes well for her.

Right have to get on, DD2 need her nappy changing before we go

Ruby what do you do?

DS1 is nect door playing with our neighbours little girl - first time I have left him go to someones house withour me IFYKWIM. I know it is only next door, but......

DS2 is napping

I have made brochli and cauli mac cheese for supper (with leftovers from Sunday dinner) preen

HOuse is reasonably OK. I should be getting on with the ironing, but an on here instead

OK - Re the cards no - I have only kept ones to reuse the fronts for making others. I have kept the congrats and cristening cards and the 1at birthday cards for the boys.

Photos - Large box to sort later - when you can deal with all the sobbing it will cause.

We now save all of them digitally - I got this great Polaroid Easy Photo Back-up that you just plug in to your PC and it finds all your photo files and copies them to its disk - it was £40 from QVC but is currently out of stock

I have a box for each of the boys for things to keep - eg christening outfit, coming home outfit, nighty, wristbands, cards and some pictures. I believe that if I keep the best then I can go back and look at it. My mum has done the same and has a suitcase of my and my brother and also a tin box from my grandpa which has things like his rations book, our birth annoucements from the newspaper, the same for my dad etc.

Men do not feel the same way as us and DH has not kept anything I have given him - he he he

Just an idea

OH and meant to say I have done the ironing - yipee

Ruby I wish I could come and help you. It must be really hard doing it for other generations too.

I have a box under each of the boys beds, so it is accessable.

I think you need to be ruthless, if you cant filter it, junk all you can now and pop the boxes in the garage. Go back to them in three months time and reduce them again, so on and so forth I guarentee you will reduce them then.

Regarding photos I did the boxes and them put my favs in frames and hung them up the stairs, we have one on DH in his pram and one of my mum holding me, in a dual frame with me holding DS1. I also have a triple appatture one with dad and his bro in as babys and dad as a teenager. I sometimes think it is pointless having them if you are not going to look at them.

I also have one of my dad in the lounge and yesterday morning DS2 was talking to grandpa bob as he calls him although he died over 7 years ago.

I have also only kept new baby and first birthday cards for the children. DP never gives cards, so I do't have a choice!. I did find a lovely picture I have had framed for years yesterday (dd2 wanted it) but the glass was broken. When I took it out, i was a birthday card from an ex boyfriend!

I have a small box of baby bits for each child, and a folder of special artwork, cards and certificates per child.

I would find it alot harder to get rid of old stuff like ration books...they are part of history and should be preserved imo.

I tred to rehang all my pictures yesterday, but our walls crumble when you try and hammer a nail into them.DP will have to do i for me with his masonry stuff.
I have made a bit of progress, but the shopping turned into a two hour expadition with dp to buy pipes for the new toilet.
Morning
4 Wash up/shine sink done
5 Wipe table/high chairdone
6 Clear surfaces done
8 What's for tea? cauliflower cheese in the oven
9 Sweep the kitchen floor
10 Swish and swipe
Afternoon
11 15 min declutter done
12 mission
13 Where's the washing? All dry
Evening
15 Tea
16 Wash up/shine sink
17 Wipe table/highchair
18 DD1 homework/tables
19 DD2 homework/reading/spelling done
20 Baths
21 Tidy toys
22 Hoover done
23 School bags done
Monday
Mop kitchen
Weekly shop done

TMH, like the boxes.What a lovely idea.
Windows are all in now and look lovely, so pleased with them
Just a quiet day here. Still not got round to the dusting but have done the mission, made something for dinner and been to baby and toddler group so it's not been a total failure!
DD is so nearly crawling! It's almost painful to watch - she's soooo close and can't quite get it so is getting very annoyed with herself.

Any more thoughts about the bereavement counselling Ruby? (Sorry if you've mentioned this on anothe thread and I didn't read properly)

Perky and melancholy all in one afternoon sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
I imagine anyone who can clear a whole house in a weekend either has no emotional connection to the owners, or is able to pack everything up and put it in storage to sort at a later date.

My current method with pics is to rotate the family ones. I intend to get a digial frame so I can have 100 going on a loop at some point in the future, too.
My brother scanned all my grandmas old family pics and put them on a dics, so I can put some of them on, as well as more recent stuff.

Ruby I do that all the time! Fine one minute depressed the next but I am normal really (well ish)

I have a big box of photo's...I panick when it comes to keeping things like photo's and things for the kids. I have absolutely nothing from my childhood....it was all lost in a house fire when I was small

I keep all birthday cards up until 3 years...and all their congratulation/birth cards.Each of my DC has their own box of things like hospital notes/tags/photo's/measurements etc.
They have a baby record book each which is full by the time they are 3....then they have scrap books. I keep a lock of their hair...favorite toy/babygrows etc. Might be a bit OTT but I just don't want them to have nothing to see when they are older.

Good morning at work, then awful afternoon with a very grumpy dd
Have had to call off nice outing with big group of friends tomorrow

Most of our photo's are on the computer too....and we only have a few in frames hung in the hall.
Really need to get some more developed. We were given some lovely picture frames for xmas.

Haven't read the thread, sorry

DP has nothing from his childhood. I have seen one photo of him under the age of 20. His mother didn't keep a thing

His grandmother did have a few photos, and then fil binned it all when she died