Wednesday Fly - Anti-Procrastination Day

[TheMadHouse]

Morning all

babysteps

mission

Thanks for thread TMH

morning all

Got a lovely surprise this morning, went to bed with a stonker of a headache at 8pm DH was out on the lash with the boys.
I hadn't cleaned the kitchen or tidied up before I went to bed.
DH did it all when he came in from the pub I came down this morning all fired up and ready to clean whilst the porridge was cooking but it was already done

Anyway, Wednesday again so my blood is pumping harder than normal so pleased I have to drive to get there otherwise I would be tempted to have a medicinal bottle glass of wine.

Hope everyone has fantastic days. back later

Greyskull take care, remember the fear is often worse than the reality. I was so lucky in that they came to me

DS2 is being a * this morning

I am going to try and get him doing something rather than just taking yogurts from the fridge and then may be back

TMH I have been wondering about your bedtimes and your little monkeys.
Do you think it is possible they are picking up on vibes that something is going to be happening? (NOT A CRITICISM!)
I have read loads of stuff about kids picking up on underlying tensions in a house and just wondered if this was part of them playing up at the mo? Hope you aren't offended by my comments -

Thanks for your kind words hun friend.
Got to run, stinky bum to change.

Morning all
mad thanks for thread - hope DS now behaving!
greyskull good luck

feeling really rubbish today. Still have stinking cold, and now have a migraine too.Going to do minimum today - even though I have loads I should be getting done...sigh...
have resorted to painkillers for dire headache...may be able to function when they kick in...

Hopefully BBL

morning all

done so far
ds lunch
ds to school
breakfast
wash up
dd haircut
make beds

to do
tidy
hoover
make dd's lunch
take nan shopping
mission
s&S bathroom

must crack on i need to leave in the next half hour

dd2 has tummy bug so no afternoon off for me. Have told childminder and we are watching peppa pig again. house looks like local preschool. sigh.

Hi all
Must be something in the air. Have a killer headache.

House is a state (I thought I had a hangover yesterday and just ate rubbish and watched Jeremy Kyle...

done list

Pta stuff
Ermmm thats it have had a cup of tea..

Thats really crap isn't it.

Will try some tablets (I don't like taking them but I'm getting increasingly frustrated by a second day of sloth)

Will nick someones list and make a start

BBL

Hello again all

I am grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr with my mother who was having DS1 whilst I took DS2 for specs and again for a couple og hours after. Just rang and cancelled

Freind is going to have them instead

I have done sticking with DS2 and a little bit of book sorting

Washer is on
as is dryer

greyskull Ds1 is settling really wwell now, but DS2 is still iffy. I am not sure on the picking up on vibes, more the I can get a rise, so I will get a rise thing. He has always been a model child, so this is the way he plays up - I think

EV pants about the bugs, my house always looks like a preschool, but we are wiggles/backyardigans driven rather than peppa pig

galen Hope you feel better soon

Ruby I hope you are working

Dyls waves to you too

Later Fly friends

I have lost patience with everyone and everything after trying two passport booths with dts, seats wrong height resorting to three anoraks underneath, dts laughing heads off (no smiling aloud in photos of course) personalised polaroid at drycleaners can't make his machine work properly. Now have 2 slightly blurred photos of two kids. and not yet one of me.
And I have to go to work this afternoon. But the dts' sighttest went well, both have perfect and not colourblind. I am extremely shortsighted so a bit surprised by this genetic sidestep. (Did test them last year as well)

No flying at all, and cat has disappeared..hope he's hving fun.

I have lost patience with everyone and everything after trying two passport booths with dts, seats wrong height resorting to three anoraks underneath, dts laughing heads off (no smiling aloud in photos of course) personalised polaroid at drycleaners can't make his machine work properly. Now have 2 slightly blurred photos of two kids. and not yet one of me.
And I have to go to work this afternoon. But the dts' sighttest went well, both have perfect and not colourblind. I am extremely shortsighted so a bit surprised by this genetic sidestep. (Did test them last year as well)

No flying at all, and cat has disappeared..hope he's hving fun.

Hello All

Had a quick catch up

Bianca Hope you're not too stressed out today

Wolf Ow for DP, Sorry the black dog has got you. Mine is stalking about but I'm keeping it away.

Mad what is it with people not stepping up to the plate? Grr for you.

Greyskull I've made good progress but it is very wordy. Got an appointment at the uni tomorrow to try and get it sorted

My DONE list for today

Up and down to make breakfast
Make brekkie and eat
Tidy away
Empty DW
Put away
Take wet washing upstairs and hang to dry
Take damp swashing down
Load TD and run
Wash and dress
Wash Ed
S&S loo
S&S bathroom
Get his uniform together
Take him to school
Do letters and sounds course
Home again. Catch up on mails etc
Tweak Personal Statement

To Do

Lunch
Reading friends at school
Cooking thing at children's centre
Valentine disco
Stuff

Better crack on...byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Hello all Mad when we were trying to sell our house and packing up ready to relocate from Durham to Yorkshire, which dragged on and and on for ages, my DS regressed with his potty training. He had been fully potty trained for about 4 months not a single accident and he fully regressed. It took me ages to work out it was the tension he was picking up on and was doing it to get my attention away from the house, and packing etc. So Greyskull could be right.

As I said last night, DD finger seems to be healing, we are back at hosp this afternoon, ds been picked up from nursery by grandma, it was nanna on monday whilst we were at hospital, I am missing him ! I think there's going to be lots more appts at hospital before the finger is better.

Got to go see if she will have small nap before we go. BBL

Grouchy I would be hiding at this point, your energy amazes me. In fact I am going to hide with my bkclub book now, it's a lovely frosty day, and thankfully the dcs are back at school finally at 11.30 . However the upside of this morning's shennanigans is that both dts have done their wk's homework first thing, so looking forward were they to a morning of running around spectacle parlours [cafe]and photobooths so I am ahead really.

Hung out some laundry.
Put out some kerbside recycling.

Swan I too am shortsited, but mine didnt develop till I was 20. Average age for SS to arrive is 11

Wendy good to know about DS. I hope DD's appointment goes well this afternoon

Pah I have forgot rest.

I need to do all the tesco orders for the next 6 weeks!!!!
Ironing

Definitely something in the air - I had a migraine yesterday and was all codeined out and just resorted to it again for very bad headache. Not done yoga for 2 weeks, shoulders and neck very very tense and painful. I should do my yoga DVD really.
Swan lol at your photo antics! Enjoy your book. I recorded Madmen and went to bed at 10.35! Was it as good as ever?
Grouchy hope personal statement going ok and keep that black dog away
Greyskull hope Weds appt is ok
EV think house like a preschool is good parenting ! Hope dd better
sage galen hope headaches better
Ruby hope you got everything done!
waves to dyls

Fill you in tonight about hospital hope they're competent today and actually someone can tell me if she has had stitches or not

Hi all

Hope all the colds and headaches wear off soon.

Swan - you managed to pack alot in before 11.30!

Mad - I'm sure the bedtime thing is his age, I have spent the best part of every evening sitting on one bed or another for the last 5 yrs lol.

Actually I have had some success this week with audio books. I have left them in bed listening to an audio book on the ipod for 1/2 hr while I have a bath. DD fell asleep listening to it (at 8.15) and DS went off to sleep quickly when I turned it off at 8.30. Normally they are still awake at 9pm! Hopefully the novelty won't wear off too soon .

To do
laundry
IRONING
download more audiobooks lol.

afternoon all

done
made bed
threw out all rubbish dp had left on kitchen worktops
wiped kitchen worktops
folded washing
took some washing upstairs
put some of it away
took ds to nursery

I am so goddam tired today that I have fallen over, dropped pretty much everything I've picked up and walked in front of a car it is not going well so far!

Wolf I think we are each other this week. Just think only two weeks till we see each other

Is he still laid out Wolfcub?

Our bedtimes are very tiring although entertaining Scatty. I wish we could just be more ruthless and pop them into bed at 7.30 and depart. My cousin with five dcs used to just put on their pyjamas,wash face hands etc, read a story for three mins to all at once (!)no baths, no individual attn and goodnight sleeptight. However it completely backfired because now five years later they all stay up till all hours, constantly come downstairs for snacks, attn, conversation having never thought bedtime was much fun
So in the end WE will have these lovely children who go to sleep feeling cherished and adored thinking imaginative thoughts hmm hmm hmm reading stories to each other etc etc.

Wendy, Madmen very good, but a trifle leisurely iykwim... What has happened to Peggy's baby? It is really stretching itself out in lots of directions. Love all the insights into creative mind - the way Draper puts a campaign together, brainstorming etc. Costumes beginning to pall with excess - did people really look so smart all the time? And wisecrack quite so well? Lots about marriage which is interesting, of course.

Swan I think we have a nice routine. Bath, PJ,s a wee bit of TV, then storys downstairs, then all upstairs to read wind in the willows in mums bed, then off to indivdual rooms. DS1 goes down really wel;l and DS2 did till a fortnight ago.

I may try the audiobook for him and see if that works. We have offered him books in bed, which was what we did with DS1 at this age and worked, but he just gets up and wakes his older brother up

DS1 is asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow, so it makes for a very grumpy 3 year old and a 2 year old that thinks everything is funny.

Anyway ironing done
1 weeks tesco order done

I am off to get specs

Mad when mine were the age of your littlies, things were as you describe And as babies, toddlers they NEVER stayed up with us. The rot set in with dd wanting me all to herself at 4, and then with ds1 wanting dad conversation when dts were asleep...I think it is always changing but I quite agree in trying to establish a nice pattern, because they will always try and move goalposts...

Back from work, need to clean house superficially in 5 mins flat for visiting children.

TMH Ds2 used to have a train in his bed which he used to roll up and down mumbling to himself until he fell asleep on top of it!
whereas ds1 used to read himself to sleep (dim light)

We have always had nightmare bedtimes as both dc had terrible sleep problems! They have always shared a room. I think to be honest they are just very lively children! I don't think it helps that we live in a small bungalow either. Luckily they seem to survive on little sleep (unlike their Mam lol). I am just grateful that DD seems to be sleeping through the night now (most nights).

Need to crack on...