Friday Fly - Pamper yourself - me time is important and its date night too

[TheMadHouse]

Morning all

mission

babysteps

Morning ALL mad thanks for the thread & Links. Hope all is well with you & yours?

Not being around much this week, bust posting ebay stuff, listing on ebay. I having a massive clear out. Car was in garage all day wed & most of yesterday. thankfully its sorted as I driving to Manchester on Wednesday for my nephews 3rd birthday. Staying at my sister until the SUnday. Ellie is very excited!

only read a few posts from yesterday sorry

jas hello I always appear to miss your posts & also you when you are not here.(hope that makes sense?)
bianca centre parks hope you all have lost of fun.

right off to get dressed at Mini Moovers this morning. It is soooooooo cold & frosty here.

have a great day all.x.x.

oh I forgot to say when did they change the layout of MN? surely I haven't been away that long?

Morning mad .

Bianca - great idea to book CP, would love to go. Definately agree its good to have something to look forward to.

Today
I am liking the mission
Grocery shop
laundry

BBL

EHM It only changed last night Enjoy the little mans 3rd birthday and hope to see you soon.

Morning Scatty I am liking the mission too - just need to get out after school drop off maybe.

DS2 is refusing to eat his breakfast sceamint gor jelly and yogurt and when I say no hitting me. He keeps saying I am saying please mummy

Anyhow off to Preschool

Complete chaos here!!!Very early start somehow didn't solve problem of kids running in all directions doing their own thing rather than getting ready for school. This morning seemed to be a thousand extra things to remember, library books to change, where have bookbags gone (in the right place but hidden by something else dumped on top) swimming kit, recorder money, finishing undone homework, let alone washing dressing toothbrushing and feeding. At least they seem generally cheery and were playing nicely.

All mine have different breakfasts TMH one like lots of porridgey cereal, one likes only hot choc followed by dry toast, the eldest requires a glass of fruit juice and a banana or some yoghurt. No wonder it is chaos here.

TO DO
Routines
buy washing powder
make bread
change sheets 3 beds
10 mins boxroom
garden snoop for flowers

morning all
we got up late again today. just cannot seem to get up to the alarm since christmas and dc dont want to get up either.
dd is very snuffly and chesty today so not sure whether or not to take her to dinky dancers this afternoon.
i have done nothing this morning so i need to do

wednesdays mission
thursdays mission
todays mission
unload washer
reload wahser
put away the dishes sat draining in the kitchen
wash up breakfast things
tidy hoover
make the beds
s&s bathroom

hmm that will do for now, sure i can add more if i get that all done!!

dd's goldfish has died again, any idea why they keep dying? this one has lasted the longest- since last friday.

Morning all!

Popping in briefly as DD seems loads better and is hounding me mercilessly to play the shopping game with her!
Few bits to do here today.... may risk swimming later if DD still seems ok.
Must dash
BBL!

Hello everyone
Re: the Facebook MN group - it has disappeared from my list of groups, Jas

I too watched Jamie Oliver thing - horrible. Obviously as a veggie I would say that but I have always said that if I had my own small holding, reared my own animals I would be more likely to eat them - it's the food industry's way of treating animals I object to the most, I think.

Sorry dyls don't know anything about fish. I had one as a child lasted 11 years!

My children (with their Victorian Mother) have the same breakfast like it or not! If they don't eat it there's always the fruit bowl!

Not sure what I'm up to today, other than Music preschool classes - DD first at 1 pm then quick swap over in the carpark with Grandma and DS at 2 pm - it's a bit mad tbh. Not sure I'll keep up with it, it's only since DD has moved up a class it has been so difficult. Pretty dull too sitting through it twice, it's a bit different but ...yawn!

Need to do some Flying!!

Later

Swan

DS1 has porridge
DS2 has weatabix noramlly

They are both allowed a yogurt after - they often have fruit aswell, but Jelly, I draw the line at Jelly. He has had a slice of toast.

Dyls I have never had any luck with fish - so we are not bothering - not helpful I know

Wolf Your last post really confused me last night - not a hard thing to do, but did I miss something

Bainca It is a secret group, so you can not see if - use Jas' method to look - he he he

We are going to soft play this afternoon, if the boys are good.

Washer is on
TD is on

Time to play with DS2

galen are you on FB if so let me have your details and I will invite you to our secret soc

Ruby I am avoiding the PTA I think it is really a Pain in The Arse. They asked me to do story sacs, tolf them I can not , as I have a toddler too

quite agree about jelly.
I got out of story sacks but only after assembling 26 bags of small objects to represent the phonic sounds
Apparently the new thinking is that kids find it difficult to listen without holding something, fiddling with something. When parents read to dcs at home we have them close, on lap etc, but in a group of 10 or even 30 they haven't got that ability to interact with physical things (ie: book or human) so that's why they can't sit still.

Hello, just a quick post cos I still have dd at home and she's really under the weather today

TMH I've tried Jas's idea - no FLY group

NIce to see you EHM

I have lots of catching up to do today is I can - the house is a state and we have a friend coming for tea with ds.

Dd and I had one of the nicest afternoons I can remember having with her in ages yesterday pottering and tidying her bedroom together - it was really lovely

Have also discovered a miraculous truth this very minute!! When you find the strength to say NO to things (like Pta bullying children pestering etc) you also find the resources to say YES to things you usually couldn't face.

My house is a state too and sitting on here isn't helping
Byeeee

Wow Swan that is very profound. Perhaps I need to try it out by saying yes to my dirty kitchen floor

mad sorry to confuse I was watching Jamie Oliver's pig thing not very nice at all.
bbl to post the jobs I did this morning

Ah I get it now - I havent watched it, but we do try and buy local meat when and if we do. I am up on all things animal welfare being the DIL or a dairy farmer.

Actually FIL is coming round this evening for us to do his VAT. I must bake later, as he has a really sweet tooth (although is skinny as a lat)

i missed most of the jamie thing as i was on phone to my sis. does anyone know if and when its being repeated?

not sure what to do about fish, someone has mentioned it is cos they from pets at home but we usually buy our pets there and have no probs. maybe its cos they fancy fish not normal gold fish iyswim.

quick up date on my list

wednesdays mission done
thursdays mission done
todays mission done
unload washer done
reload wahser done
put away the dishes sat draining in the kitchen done
wash up breakfast things done
tidy done
hoover done
make the beds done
s&s bathroom done

i have also played my little pony game with dd countless times. so much so when i try to move to do something else i get a rather bossy "mummy play with me"

i clearly didnt do the dusting very well as dd is now redoing it

off now to wash my manky kitchen floor wendy comment on her floor made me look at mine- i havent done it for about 3 days and it is yuck........

three days Dyslmum? 2 weeks here between floor mops.

Done
Most of kitchen
Washed cabinet doors now they are white again
skirtings (pre-Xmas)
hung up picture finally
hall sort

Off to strip beds and remake beds now

listening to all my old tapes Genesis etc while Dh is away as they predate him.

I've just mopped my floors for the first time in at least two weeks The water was ugh - we live on a bridleway so ervything gets v muddy at this time of year! Still, the floors look lovely now

I've blitzed teh whole of downstairs and have to admit it's looking v nice

Upstairs after lunch - washing to put away and toys/books to clear up.

Dd is coping well, she has a horrrible cough but is bearing up

Oh, and the cat left us a half-eaten toad on the doorstep this morning so we've dealt with that too

Hi again

I'm still waiting for my kitchen floor (since last Easter . Currently have floorboards (not sanded or anything) with mats ontop.

Myy dd won't eat breakfast at all (just has milk). DS has coco pops .

Swan - hope you are managing without dh.

OK we are back from preschool collection

Lunch has been eaten
DS2 is napping
I have cleaned the bathroom and ensuite floors
Changed the door mats
Washed the door mats
Cleaned the TD condensor - urg
Cuddled DS1

DS2 is currently sobbing upstairs so must dash

afternoon all

got up full of sparkle and vim this morning

done
bed made
dw unloadded, reloaded and on
kitchen and living room quick tidy
kitchen surfaces and hob wiped
sink wiped out
bathroom s&s
ds taken to nursery

Patina - Scatty.
Cocopops full of iron
Dh back tomorrow pm.

One doormat washed
Beds changed.

Off out after kneading.