Slatterns getting Sorted for Summer!

[PlumBumMum]

Here it is a new thread for June, and to motivate us for the Summer

Hi JKS and TA .

Dp is doing lots and even changing Lola at night after I feed her .

But I feellike I worked hard since Xmas to get inti a good routine and now it is all falling apart so need to get it sorted .

People keep telling me to leave the housework but it gets me more down if things are a mess iyswim?

Have a nice day looks like it is going to be sunny here .

Good morning slatterns

JKS my Dh doesn't like cake either, so if i bake something he may try it to be polite but you can tell he would rather not! My baking is not that bad

Muppets i'm sure all will work out, he is probably a bit stressed and the whole thing has got him thinking about the future etc. It just takes a while to get your head round when you are not expecting it, i was inconsolable when i found out i was pg

plum good luck with recipes

HMHB very exciting!

CWWM ouch!

SB Hello

Sorry if i've missed anyone
DD has got my pmsl, she was climbing on the hoover (don't ask) and she switched it on! Came running over like saying bubye, lolo, bubye, lolo so cute!

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Everyone dressed done
Make beds done
Empty dishwasher done
Put washload on
Dry washing
Tidy hall
Hoover hall
Tidy conservatory and kitchen
Hoover kitchen/conservatory
lunch
Mop downstairs floors
Do horses/ride
Cook dinner (reheat bolognese)
DD bed
Mop hall and kitchen

Ongoing:

Sort out clothes (i really am working on it, i just do not have any room!)
Sort bathroom shelves
Get living room finished (half painted)

Took me forever to write that

Aww, your DD sounds very cute Alice

She is! [modest]

Morning slatterns

We go on holiday on Saturday so need to be extra-organised this week to get the packing done!

JKS - baby number 3??

Alice - she sounds adorable!

Hello CWWM Hope DP is making himself useful?

Today
Find ongoing list
Up and dressed
Breakfast x 2
Fold washing
Clear up kitchen
DS nap
Wiifit
Shower and get dressed properly
Meal plan for rest of week
Lunch x 2
Hoover upstairs
Walk
Pop into Mothercare
DS nap
Sit down with MN and cup of tea
Make flapjacks
DS dinner
Story
DS bath and bed
Me and DH dinner, roast chicken?
Relax

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Everyone dressed done
Make beds done
Empty dishwasher done
Put washload on
Dry washing
Tidy hall done
Hoover hall done
Tidy conservatory and kitchen done
Hoover kitchen/conservatory done
lunch
Mop downstairs floors done
Do horses/ride
Cook dinner (reheat bolognese)
DD bed
Mop hall and kitchen

Ongoing:

Sort out clothes (i really am working on it, i just do not have any room!)
Sort bathroom shelves
Get living room finished (half painted)

Morning everyone.

JKS I'll eat any unwanted baked goods for you, am not fussy

CWWM Glad dp is being helpful and I know what you mean about not feeling on top of things -when ds was tiny and used to scream non stop I'd go to bed as soon as dd did to get a few hours sleep while dh dealt with the screaming and the dishes just got left until the next day-meant I had a ton of housework to do before the day even started and used to set me up in a bad mood right from the beginning of the day (not helped by only sleeping for 3 hrs a night!).

DS is screaming at me so will come back to post list in a bit

I sent two single duvets full of clothes to the laundry last week

I have now sorted through them and got rid of half of that to charity

I have another single duvet full coming back soon and will need to get rid of almost all of that

we still have an obscene amount of clothes but I am steadily going through them and getting rid

thankyou for all your support

Well done trinity you can have a

I hope things are a little better for you now.

(it is now the turn of other slatterns to give alicecrail a for mopping the floors )

This is a hypothetical baby number 3 right JKS? Or did we miss an announcement?

Well done Trinity

And well done Alice, mopping floors is a big PITA

MN DONE
run DONE
shower and dress
apply for job 1
apply for job 2
put away dry sheets DONE
hang up towels DONE
washing load 1 wash DONE
washing load 1 dry
washing load 2 wash
washing load 2 dry
lunch
sort kitchen
experiment this afternoon
pay in cheques
buy voucher for friend
buy card for other friend
think of somehting to make for dinner

for Alice.

Well done Trinity, steadily is a good idea.

Morning all! I finished my list last night! So nice to wake up to a clean kitchen as SW says.

• make bed done
• breakfast, clear up done
• dry pots done
• tidying done
• wipe round bathroom
• Me dressed
• DS dressed
• sort house insurance
• snacktime
• nap?
• lunch, clear up
• walk
• snacktime + play
• tidy livingroom
• dinner
• DS bath and bed
• clear kitchen

Wow well done trinity! I thought of you at the weekend as I forced myself to put away 5 baskets of clean washing-couldn't fit all of dd's tops in her drawers . But I'd only gone through then a couple of weeks ago and got rid of a load then she got some new ones for her birthday in age 3-4 that are still too big (she wears 2-3) but that she insists on wearing because they were birthday presents! Hopefully she'll forget about them soon so I can put the too big ones away for a few months...

List:
All up dressed etc - DONE
Strip dd's bed - DONE
Load of washing in- DONE
Load of washing on line - DONE
Washing up - DONE
Wipe over worktops, dining table and highchair - DONE
Clean loo -
Declutter -
lunch -
Tidy my bedroom -
Repot pumpkin and pepper seeds -
Cook dinner -

Not too bad today, was actually pretty productive yesterday and sorted understairs cupboard, put away all those loads of washing, hoovered whole house...

I am thinking of majorly culling the toys but it's a hard call because I have already got rid of all the crap so it is all nice toys they have left. They just have SO much and I don't think they appreciate it (are they too young???). DH thinks I am just being control freaky because it drives me mad how bits of all different toys get strewn everywhere and things get lost/broken.

Alice your dd sounds very cute .
Hi ali dp been very good he has one more week off work I haven't cooked a meal since dd5 was born he has done all the ordering of takeaways cooking but am going to cook a roast today . Where are you going on holiday ?
Superwasher there is nothing worse than coming down to a messy house and trying to get the dc ready for school on top of it all .
Well done trinity I am a washing slattern too last saw the bottom of my washing basket when I bought it home from the shop.
TA what are you experimenting with later ?
Waves to WME.

DP back from schoolrun and has hung all babyclothes on line they look very cute .

Feed DD5 donetwice
Bath and dress me and DD4/5 done
Make beds dpdone
Put a load of washing on dpdone
Clean round bathroom done

Oh Superwasher I could have wrote the end of your post, I go through the toys and think but that cost so much,

I remember dd cot 2 very plush monsters inc toys, she didn't like monster inc, so I gave them to charity, but then ds went through a stage when he watched it every day and I was raging I had given them away!

We have loads of brilliant CARS stuff when he had his cars stage as that fell on a birthday so he has everything, but now he's into marvel heroes and sometimes to be honest I worry that it dosen't go to the right people when you give stuff to charity!

Anyway I have a mountain of dishes as we got home last night just in time for The Apprentice so I didn't do anything!

So Dejavu list

Sort Kitchen
ring make docs appt for me & dd1 (bloods)

superwasher (can i call you clairybee? Sw just brings images of of this fat woman with an apron, red hands and a basket of washing constantly resting on her hip ) I sorted DD's toybox this week and split it si that half her toys are in her room and the other half are in the living room. A friend of mine has a box for each type of toys, one for lego, one for trains etc so that even if they all out at the same time, they all go back into own boxes and nothing really gets lost.

I do that Alice, its brilliant for tidy up time even dd2 know which box is for each, just need to implement a system that works for dd1 (I dread to think what she will be like as a teenager)
Although she was brilliant last night she put all my Tesco shop away so I could eat my dinner before Apprentice came on

Yeah call me clairey

I have the ikea trofast and I love it (a bit too much ) for being able to sort out all the toys into different boxes but it doesn't help when dh the dc just shove stuff in anywhere or when ds has put stuff in the bin/buried it in the garden. I'm trying to be really strict and make them put one thing away before they start playing with anything else but that seems to involve supervising them a bit too much

I want a trofast are the really really good ?

Hi PBM I gave all dd2's dora stiff away and she had tons then dd4 became obsessed with Dora and I was gutted that I had given them away .

List

Put chicken in and prep veg

Put pics on snapfish

Check ds new school website for uniform prices

Uniforms for tomorrow

Someone kick me, I need to apply for jobs but can't be bothered because I won;t get them anyway and half the time I don't even get a reply to say that they don't want me.

MN DONE
run DONE
shower and dress DNOE
apply for job 1
apply for job 2
put away dry sheets DONE
hang up towels DONE
washing load 1 wash DONE
washing load 1 dry DNOE
washing load 2 wash DOING
washing load 2 dry
lunch
sort kitchen
experiment this afternoon
pay in cheques
buy voucher for friend
buy card for other friend
think of somehting to make for dinner

gives gentle kick and manly pat on shoulder to TA .

I have the steppy one and I love it cos I can have some of the nicer toys out on the top too . The boxes hold quite a bit too but it did give me dilemmas when we were given another trainset and the trains no longer all fitted in the train box..

Trillian I know that feeling, when I was in Botswana I applied for so many jobs (over 75) and didn't get any of them. It got to the point where I couldn't be bothered to even apply

Argh I have done nothing this morning. DS is refusing to nap - at all - but is grumpy as anything, and I've lost the gold sovereign that my parents bought for him for his naming day.

Bugger bugger bugger bugger

Hypothetical, yes, can i just make that clear?!

right have just had horrible sandwich at my desk, now going to clear out the stationery mountain and see what's there before we order anymore.
exciting? i know
must remember to do my own sandwiches at home though.

oh and i need more of the loft boarded so i can keep accumulating crap at the current rate, lol!