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Tuesday Fly - just tuesday not bluesday

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swanriver · 10/02/2009 09:18

Hello, no link I'm afraid.
Done
Kids to school
new starchart to reactivate morning efficiency chores etc (from children not me)
laundry in
Went to bed at 10.30 after book read.

Scouts?Cubs
Good idea Dylsmum it is a lovely way to socialise outside school and with other age groups (within a few years) and CAMPING, knots etc.

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swanriver · 10/02/2009 09:22

Jas, dd is very tall for her age although only 6, (130 cm) so might just have to buy her uniform from scratch check it in shop etc. Thank you anyway. Anyway she is still only on waiting list as not quite seven years (March)

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TheMadHouse · 10/02/2009 09:27

Thanks for the thread swan, I was running late this morning. We played musical beds again last night and DS2 slept in till 8am and I forgot about him (ended up driving to school with him in Pj's)

mission

babysteps

I was in bed by 9pm last night.

Anyway Done

Beds made
Floor hoovered
Ground floor mopped twice - it was filthy
DS2 eating jelly and bread

To Do

Whats for lunch
Whats for dinner
Buy milk
GP's for urgent script (no HRT left)
Toddlers
Collect DS1 from Preschool
Lunch
DS2 nap
DS1 play with mummy - valentines cards for nanna & grandma
Visit with surestart to firm up arrangements
Clean boys shoes

grouchyoscar · 10/02/2009 09:34

Morning Ladies

Done the morning routines and I'm going to plod on with this application

tum-te-tum

galen · 10/02/2009 09:52

Morning all!

Didn't get round to much posting yesterday sorry!

dylsmum my DS has just moved up to Scouts - he was 10 last April ( they wait till a few of them are ready to move together) he LOVED cubs, and totally LOVES scouts. He absolutely loves the camps. They come back totally filthy (dont even change their clothes all wk/end ewww!) but they seem to have a FAB time!
I think Rainbows starts at 5 from what I remember. DD2 is in rainbows - loves it.DD1 was in Brownies, but then they changed the place they held it and it was in a classroom and all they ever did was sit at desks and write or draw - she hated that so she left...
swan thanks for link
mad sorry bout your bad night. Bless DS2 sleeping in!

Need to catch up a bit today...
Upstairs house bless
Get dinner in slow cooker
Clean washing away
Downstairs floor mop (why can'r my kids wipe their feet or take their wellis off at the door?)
Bake: buns for school bun sale, biscuits for us, bread for us...

Did do a bit of re organising in kitchen yesterday, and started zone clean.
Am going to try to bring some order to my stupid Futility again this week...sigh...
Right need to do some jigsaws with DD and get dinner on...

BBL!

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 10/02/2009 10:09

morning ladies

thanks for thread swan TMH sorry you played musical beds last night. here's hoping it settles down for you all soon.

GO Go and get it done!!! NOW!!

Galen hope you manage to make some progress today - I too have the utility room to do. Have been using it as a dumping ground again

Dyls hope you manage to get DS into the group you want, DS1 is on a waiting list for Beavers - apparently in my area they are very over subscribed - I think he will love it once he gets to go though.

Does anyone have an opinion/experience of young boys learning rugby? We have the opportunity for DS1 to start Mini rugby training in September with a few of his friends, I think it could be good for him but have no experience at all. What do you reckon?

MUST do some housework today.
Back later

Jas · 10/02/2009 10:11

morning

Swan....no problem re uniform. dd1 is very tall, too. brownie uniform doesn't go big enough to fit her height!

Rainbows is approx 5-7yrs, then brownies 7-10.

I will try and FLY today.

Kitchen needs mopping here, too.
DP has taken all the tiles we bought for the bathroom back as he's decided he doesn't like them

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swanriver · 10/02/2009 11:18

Back from sighttest and passport photos (well 1/4 of them - I looked like death so will have to try again after makeup and hairdo) Ds is completely colourblind but eyesight is fine.

What tiles were you/are you having in bathroom Jas? Just been thro all that last Aug. In the end we had white! cheap tiles with a sophisticated greenyblue metro edge and pearlgreen walls. Dh thought it very dull, but now quite likes it. It was a struggle to get him to admit it needed any work until the ceiling was actually cracking open.

Now off to a distant dentist for ds1's special appointment.

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BiancaCastafiore · 10/02/2009 11:46

Morning

My dd loves Brownies - it's just a shame the group runs quite late so we have to suffer the next day!(finishes at 8, not home till 8.30, no chance of being asleep till 9)
There are no Beavers here although I keep wondering if I ought to be the mum who re-starts them.....I was a Brown Owl for years before I had dd. Cubs happens I think but there's not much for boys under 7/8.

I am blitzing the house today after 2 weeks of dd at home poorly, then the snow and just general laziness the place is a state. I've started the living room and am working my way round.
I also need to start gathering clothes for our weekend away

It's still snowy here - nasty thick slushy snow so pretty unpleasant.

Stressed about our wedding anniversary this weekend

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 10/02/2009 12:03

Sorry to be nosey Bianca but why are you stressed about your anniversary - are things not going well at the moment?

ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 10/02/2009 12:10

TMH have you removed the Flygroup from FB?

it says it is no longer available.

TheMadHouse · 10/02/2009 12:16

Afternoon all

I am so accident prone, slipped on the slush pushing up DS1 from preschool - legs went in different directions.

Bainca Dont be stressed or anxious - remember what is the worst that can happen. Why not start up beavers again - nice afterschool activity and interest. That is if you get help.

Greyskull Groucy's Ed does Ruby and he is 5 - I am sure she will be back to tell. We would rather DS1 did rugby TBH, but not much on here until they are bigger

Swan I am pale and interesting all the time, even with make up. Sorry about the colour blindness

galen baking yummy

Jas about the tiles, I hope you get some you BOTH like

GO Hope statement is comming on.

Done

GP - need to collect some after 5pm and also in 2 days time (Thursday after 4pm)
Lunch done and washed
Mission

To Do

Collect Precription
Whats for dinner - spag bol
Make bread
Make Buscuits
Valentines cards with DS1

Back later

TheMadHouse · 10/02/2009 12:19

Mmmmmmm - no - I will look at it and see what is happening

BiancaCastafiore · 10/02/2009 12:19

That's OK Greyskull No, things are not good I'm finding it difficult to spend time with dh in our normal routine. A holiday is what we need as a family so a weekend away is A Good Thing but the thought of being together full time for 4 days over our 10th anniversary with dh still ignoring the fact that we actually don't have much of a marriage to celebrate is making me uptight. I have no idea what dh thinks or feels about anything anymore; he'll ignore the situation forever if need be.

TheMadHouse · 10/02/2009 12:21

I think there must be doing some work - I can see it, but not access it at the moment

BiancaCastafiore · 10/02/2009 12:21

I have the usual journey anxieties too but am doing my hypnotherapy techniques from last summer and hope to be OK on that front...

TMH I have never re-found the fb FLY group

TheMadHouse · 10/02/2009 12:22

Bainca I think you and DH meed to take stock and discuss the situation. Men just dont discuss things unless pushed. Tell him how you feel concisly, maybe leave him a note exactly like below and let him know your feelings. A relationship needs constant work IMHO.

BiancaCastafiore · 10/02/2009 12:32

Trouble is TMH I have told him, in every way - calmly, angrily, quietly, loudly sooo many times over the past few years - I can't keep telling him I just can't do it again It's getting to be humilliating and makes me feel awful.

He's a nice guy, he really is. It's just that he's happy to co-exist where-as I married him for a husband not just a housemate

scattyspice · 10/02/2009 12:33

Hi all

Bianca sorry you are having a hard time. I think it is almost unavoidable at some point when you have children

I found all the chat about scouts etc very interesting. I am going to look at the website and see whether DS would agree to giving it a go.

Today
wash our bedding
mission
kitchen window
reply to party invite
ironing
ds - gym

Wolfcub · 10/02/2009 14:15

afternoon all

I was feeling a bit black dog yesterday aft and this morning but I think I am starting to get passed it now.

DP has torn a muscle over his skull and has to stay very still and not do anything!

He woke me up at 5 and have been up since, ds is no longer the cause of my sleeplessness

done

tidied living room and kitchen
made bed
s*s bathroom
took ds to granny's

will probably be home late tonight as am in other city. have a lovely day everyone. bbl

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swanriver · 10/02/2009 14:30

Bianca if he wants to be with you for your anniversary, maybe that's proof enough. Maybe words are never going to be the answer. Perhaps he doesn't know how to be any different.
Sometimes I think housemates WERE a lot more fun.
The relief of having dcs is that there is ALWAYS something to talk about. I talk a lot to dh about his childhood which never fails to annoy and enthral him in equal quantities. Quite often he goes off in huff after this, but sometimes he finds himself drawn into long conversations about his parents' relationship, his own character etc what he values, without quite meaning to.

Ds1's 4 fillings done with laughing gas, thank goodness, although I did think he was going to do a runner when drill approached. He left very pleased with himself for being brave. I have now taught him the mantra, which is not applicable in every situation but can be useful, "there is nothing to fear but fear itself".

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swanriver · 10/02/2009 14:38

Bianca, do you think sometimes you just have to say [with gritted teeth] thank you so much for talking so nicely to x, doing z and just ask nothing, and wait for good vibes to return 20fold? and never actually discuss anything for a while.
Dh gets sick to death of discussions, as you can imagine.

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BiancaCastafiore · 10/02/2009 15:37

Thanks Swan.

Back to FLY, I have tidied the house, hoovered and dusted everywhere and done a couple of loads of washing which I have hanging from every available surface in the house!
I am going to give the bathroom and cloakroom and quick wipe round now before I slop through the slush to collect the kids at 4.

Hope dh recovers soon wolf, a torn muscle across the skull sounds painful!

scattyspice · 10/02/2009 15:38

my dh hates discussions too!

Feeling bleugh! going to have a cup of tea and choc hobnob and wait for normal service to resume .

TheMadHouse · 10/02/2009 16:28

I am feeling bleur too Scatty Just made tea and am scoffing the buscuits the boys made

I will know my allocations from surestart on Thursday. It is all a bit strange really as they have nothing happening at the surestart centres over the holidays grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Jas · 10/02/2009 17:01

TMH - Everything always stops for the school hols. I hated it when the dds were little, but now they are schol age, I understand it, as everything changes for me when they are off!

swan I like your approach to marital relations. It works here when I can bring myslef to stick with it

Wolf - How does one tear a muscle there???

Bianca - I hope you are ok

Wwe have new tiles

All I need now is for dp to stick them to the walls.....