Monday Fly - Living Room and Babystepping

[TheMadHouse]

Morning All

mission for today

Zone is Living room - will be back with a zone list later

Babystepping

starting a control journal

declutter a few min each day how to declutter

So Our day should look something like:

Morning Routine

• Get up and get dressed
• Looking at your posted reminders
• Reading 2 minutes of reminders
• Recognizing the negative voices and changing them
• Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

Before Bed Routine

• Keep your sink shining
• Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
• Put out your Hot Spot

Morning ALL TMH I am coming to mums o Thursday evening. Do you fancy joining us at Soft Play at 10am Sunday morning? My sister & her ds & ellie's other cousin will be their too

I am decluttering constantly at mo!

jas I think prices do vary. I've learned a lesson will never do car boot again. Although grateful for the money we raised towards disney fund. going 19-21st may.Normally I would Ebay clothes which where in very good condition, had so many & had listed 22 items last week so thought we would try car boot.

Moring all - thanks for the thread MTH.
My first day got waylaid by smelling something dreadful in ds' room that I couldn't track down. Only to find a sippy cup of solidified mil leaking under his matress!!! YUK.
Then found dp had left this morning using the last of the milk so no coffee for me!!! Blurrgggh. The day can only improve. Try to stay focused.

Really glad it's the living room as there is plenty of clutter to get on with in here.

Off to make tea!
Make the rest of the beds
Shower and dress
Swish and swipe the bathrooms
Put washing on
Dress children
Put out a hot spot
Out to buy supplys

Hope you all have good starts to the week. x

Zone Clean list

Zone 5 Living Area

Front Room

Clear cobwebs
Wipe skirting
Polish Furniture
Clean leather suite
Wash Ornements
Clean Windows
Clean picture frames
Clean Blinds
Sort Bookcase
Sort Magazines
Wash throws
Wash pillow cases
Clean TV and Video
hoover
Clean TV unit and DVD player (inside)
Wipe Doors down
Wipe light switches

I have dropped DS1 at preschool
Washing on line
All breakfasted
Played with DS2 a little

Now to crack on

Morning all.
I have a big job to tackle this morning.
My Deep fat fryer has, for some reason, leaked ALL the oil out the back/bottom. This was only discovered this morning when DS2 noticed something in the cupboard on a box.

The oil has come out the fryer, down the back of the work top and into the cupboard.

This is going to be fun to clean up!!

Also need to do the front room. It looks terrible again! bloody kids!

Grr to carboot, no-shows, smelly milk and oily cupboards.

Everyone off to school happily
Violin x 2
reading practice dd
what's for dinner done

Control journal says:
I have food/meals organised for next 4 days - good
except baking ingredients

Need to do

routines (beds and breakfast dishes)
go through papers and find scoutcamp form
hoovering
ironing

buy baking ingreds
washing powder
pm work

after school pickup dd has friend
homework dcs
Cub scouts

oh bum - just lost long post....cant stop now as have timer going and only 2 mins left LOL
Hi to all
BBL

Oil cleaned up. But i have a feeling the oil has also gone down further! There is a gap between the back of the cupboard and the bottom of it. No way of getting to it.

At least the cupboard is clean now lol!

Prof Glad the party was good. I need to decide if DD1 is having the teddy making party or not. Might have to limit it to 6 or something.

Swan I have meals planned for the rest of the week. And most of the ingredients to go in them. Egg and bacon pie tonight.

And did you get away with no party bags TPT?

I think i am going to have to give DD1 the choice between a party or a Present (playmobil item i am watching on Ebay). It is already on £83 and ends tonight. I know she would love it but that is a lot of money.
Do you think that is fair? maybe she is too young to make that choice. I just don't know.

Hi all.

Tort - yuck to the fryer leak! I don't think its unfair to ask your DD to choose between a party or the present, I think she is similar age to my DS. Last yr he had a party and got a present from Oxfam .

Prof - glad dds party went well. I think having an open house for your little celebration is a great idea.

Hi to mad, ehm. laura, swan and galen.

Have been away at Dads and stepmums all weekend. Had a lovely time despite the circumstances, they are holding up very well. Long drive though!

Today:
ds swimming
laundry
floors

Thanks Scatty. She will be 6 in a few weeks.
Knowing her she wil burst into tears and have a major wobbly about it! But i will try and talk to her after school.
Still worried that it is too much to spend just on a playmobil palace!

Tortoise, I think get her a smaller cheaper present and a party, after all, party will yield further presents
imo playmobil at that age is fun for a bit then not played with enough to warrant money, especially if you are the one that puts it together!!!!
Especially the dolls' house type, it was almost too many bits.
Boys loved pirate ship but they played with it in a BIG blustery way, ditto ice dinosaur set.
What my dd and ds have loved for their 4-7th birthday is the Sylvanian family caravan (both types)despite losing most of bits. The tree house (our dts Xmas present)was way too big and complicated and they lost interest.

Maybe the palace is something that could be a joint present for BOTH dds when they are a bit older.

Afternoon all!
Back again for my 20 min break (20 not 15 cause I always get interupted be some DC or other so I gave myslef 5 interuption time LOL)
mad thanks for thread and great lists - always so useful for keeping me on track!BTW did you find out about school yet?
prof glad party went well. But at rude people not showing
tort I think 6 sounds like a fine number for a party. Personally I would also probably opt fpor a slightly cheaper pressie, but then I have 6 to buy for and couldnt spend that on each of them LOL. I have found though that at that age they often appreciate something cheaper just as much as an expensive gift.
swan sounding very organised today!
scaty glad weekend went well and Dad and stepmum are coping well despite it all.

Well feeling more positive today. Spent some time reviewing my control journal/babystaeps/routines at the weekend which really helped!Am using my timer today too LOL
Doing well so far
Done:
morning routine - all done!
Stripped DD's beds (X4)
Bedding washed, nearly dry
mopped 2/3 floors
home blessing:dusting, hoovered upstairs, upstairs windows
laundry reboot
played with DD4 lots
DD4 to nursery
Lunch dine and cleared
Dinner - saus and lentil hot pot in slow cooker
Made Dr's app

Now:
20 mins cuppa break!

next:
load and run DW
remake DD's beds
clean clothes away
tidy fuzzy felt away
review control journal
review bids on ebay
work out some sort of shopping/budgeting spreadsheet in my never ending quest to cut our grocery bill!

tonight:
mop dining room floor
order DD2's bday present
plan what else I need to sort for DD bday

right 5 mins to go.... need to go check my emails....

BBL ladies have great afternoons!

oh forgot - going to do mission NOW!

Hi again to all!
8Tort8 you trumped my milk episode with that oil disaster - eek! Glad you managed to tackle that.

galen and swanriver those are inspiring lists. I seem to have got waylaid and have yet to swish the bathrooms!

hmmm, I wonder if I'll ever get so organised that I have dinners planned in advance !) You can see the low level I'm starting at here.

Swan Joint present is good idea. Depends if it comes up again on Ebay. This is more than one set together worth £100s apparently. I do think they would play with it but maybe not much yet, i don't know. I think it got it all wrong at xmas!!!
I have already bought some playmobil bits which i was going to put away for xmas if the palace didn't go to high in price. Realistically i think it has gone too high.

Galen She had a big whole class party last year. So this year would only be a small one at home.

I have made a start on tea. Going to peel spuds next while watching neighbours!

Laura It didn't turn out to be as bad as expected. I think the roll of grease proof paper in the cupboard had soaked most of it up! fryer is now in the bin though!

hello Galen, I'm not at all organised today, and have achieved nothing really
except to spend too much at Tesco's in a panic. As always have to keep buying "tasty" things to keep dh from buying takeaways .
It is easier when one has time to think through the week isn't it, and then things seems less overwhelming, even simple as long as lists are not TOO long.

Btw, Tort, I haven't got any playmobil dolls houses/palaces, though dd does play with someone who does. I think she mentioned it once as a source of but there is ALWAYS something to fit that bill (computers in such and such bedroom, blonde hair, baby sisters, yesterday she was even complaining she didn't have special eczema cream like her bf - (dd has No eczema)

Off to school now to help.

Afternoon all

Just a quick check in and Welcome Laura

Done

Home blur - upstairs only (inc clean glass wardrobe doors, hoover, polish, general tidy in all 3 bedrooms)
Washing reboot
Lunches and washed and away
decluttered spare room
produced a pile of things to photo and list on e-bay
S&S 3 loo's
Wiped down all kitchen tops
Emptied DW
Spag bol on for dinner
prevented meltdown in DS2 (only just)

I NEED advice on 4 year old boys - do they all of a sudden become fighting terrors. DS1 seems to be filled with anger and testosterone. He gets in a temper and tells me he doesnt know how to stop it and is lashing out at his little brother for the slighest thing . He said he feels as though he is filled with hot chocololate that is too hot and fizzy - his words.

I do not know how to help him

I will be back - I am off to a friends for a cup of tea for an hour to calm down

Tort I woiuld do a small pressie and a party if that was what she wanted. You could always look for something other than the playmobil one and see if you can get it for less cash.

I am off now - I didnt want you to think I was ignore you.

Scatty I bet it was a long drive, but glad that everyone is soldiering on

Hello All

I'll just bob in and say howdy. I'm shattered and I haven't caught up yet.

Might BBL. Love to all