Slatterns and list makers reunited - FAQ returns!!!

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new thread - a little early but I wanted to mark my return.

Sorry for everything I've missed - but I can promise you I'm BACK now

(any major updates please let me know )

We need a new thread title. I am too tired to be creative, will have a think tomorrow!

Quick list for tomorrow - I find I sleep better if I've written down my tasks!! Room by room tomorrow there is so much.

Normal list
Up and dressed
DS boobed, changed and dressed
DH working at home
Load of washing on
Breakfast x 3
Clear up
Unload dishwasher
Tidy kitchen
Shower and get dressed properly
Lunch x 3
Out for a quick walk - to swings?
Clear up
More baking maybe?
DS dinner
Playtime
DS bath and bed
Me and DH nice dinner and bottle of wine
Relax
Sleep

Our room
Tidy
Empty bin
Hoover
Dust

Bathroom
Empty bin
Sink
Radiator
Windowsill

DS' room
Hoover
Dust

Living room
Tidy
Shake out throws and cushions
Empty bin
Dust
Hoover

Dining room
Put away some toys
Get rid of balloons from last week
Dust
Hoover

Hall/stairs
Hoover
Wipe over paintwork

Good morning ladies

It is bloody raining again today.

Ali that is a long list! Good luck!

I have quite a lot to do today, not housework wise really, just got different places to be at different times.

Check the weather
Do horses - Muck out, hay, water etc. Check Alice in case she is cold and needs a rug on.
Get back home
Get cleaned up and changed
Go to stay and play summer party in the town hall at 11am
Be home for 2 as supposed to have autoglass coming out but they won't come if it is still raining.
Get some washing taken upstairs and put away
Run a duster round downstairs
Sweep hall and kitchen floor.
Wash throws
Hoover
Cook dinner - bolognese?

Ali - good luck!

Plum - but...if i lie out my clean towels on the floor like that to fold them they will get covered in cat hair/walked on by the kids/mop up whatever is spilt on the floor/etc....
Think i will stick to my old way! haven't tried a sheet yet.

RIght best tackle the laundry mountain...

Wed:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DONE, lunch & dinner
• get everyone dressed 3done
• DH to work DONE
• write letter for GP & drop it off for more meds for ds2 DONE
• ds2 meds 2 x 2 2done
• ds2 naps x 2 Doing1
• LOTS of laundry
• PO to send clothes to friend for her DC (they live in Jersey and have no cheapo shops like Primark so I get them some when i see anything suitable and send/take them over)
• walk round block for fresh air (maybe buy some bread rolls for lunch id ds2 wakes in time)
• Not go to friend's for her DD's birthday
• try and do something other than tv watching with ds1....
• dinner & bed

alice its raining here too, was hoping for a trip to the beach today

DS3 was up several times last night so I'm not in the most energetic mood, must have a early night, he seems to be going back to his newborn days, I think it's because he is just start to crawl??

put away clean clothes
Run WM
Run DW
Breakfast done
Lunch
Dinner
Make more biscuits
Sterilise bottles
Keep kitchen clean and tidy after every meal
Tape at least 1 camcorder tape onto DVD
DCs bath and to bed
Read more book
Work on DH books (self employed builder)
Clutter clearing, starting with boxes of stuff from living room sorted the box of CDs (I am going to do 15 mins at a time because this is a boring job!!)
Think about all 3 DS birthdays!!
Clean leather sofa
Dust upstairs
Friend visiting this pm
Brother, SIL and nieces and nephews coming over later

Morning everyone

Sorry not been around its been crazy down here. So I hope everyone is well?

will have a read when I get 5 mins later.

My list:

Get us up DONE
dressed HALF DONE
breakfast DONE
tidy kitchen
tidy living room
put some washing on
make victoria sponge
make fairy cakes - if I can find the receipe so if any of you can help
make lunch
hoover
clean bathroom
tidy our bedroom
tidy DD bedroom
prepare dinner
wash and wipe dinner stuff
bath DD
bedtime for DD
chill out for me

Forgot to add wait until 1pm for cooker delivery

I have just had 12 letters through the post and only 2 weren't junk, a national insurance bill and OU application form. So annoying

put away clean clothes
Run WM
Run DW
Breakfast done
Lunch
Dinner
Make more biscuits
Sterilise bottles
Keep kitchen clean and tidy after every meal
Tape at least 1 camcorder tape onto DVD
DCs bath and to bed
Read more book
Work on DH books (self employed builder)
Clutter clearing, starting with boxes of stuff from living room sorted the box of CDs (I am going to do 15 mins at a time because this is a boring job!!)
Think about all 3 DS birthdays!!
Clean leather sofa
Dust upstairs
Friend visiting this pm instead of the planned trip to beach
Brother, SIL and nieces and nephews coming over later
DS1 going to Spashdown with youth club

JKS I do mine on the ironing board

It looked bright here, but starting to get overcast

Everyone up done
everyone washed and dressed
breakfast done
dishwasher loaded done
wipe down kitchen table done
wipe down surfaces done
wash pots from yest done
hoover done
load washing machine done
hangout wash
load washing machine again
put away ironing
sort more clean washing

finish cleaning/decluttering utility room

wipe round bathroom
wipe round ensuite

that will do for the min

PMSL over the towels! Would they not take up more room?

Decided to clean out my top presses this morning, as I want to do a big shop this weekend because our fis (family income supplement) stops this week while they renew it, takes up to 14 weeks. Have decided to use it as a way of saving for christmas! So want to use my childrens allowance to do a big shop and then pay some of my esb, gas and bins! Hope it works!!

Anyhow while cleaning out my presses, I was using my cooker to put stuff on, DD3 was helping me! Got down to put stuff in the bin when I got a strong smell of coffee, DD3 had put on the cooker ring and coffee bag had melted! . Then when I was moving the drinking chocolate, the lid wasnt on properly and spilt all over me . So ended up making more work for myself!!

TO DO
Everyone up DONE
Everybody dressed EXCEPT DD3
Breakfast DONE
Clean out presses DONE
Bath DD3
Clean Bathroom while she is in bath
Make Lunch
Clean up after it
Go to DNs birthday party

All I seem to be doing today is getting dd food (must be a growth spurt) and changing ds' nappy, he's done 5 poos already today

Alice just read what you wrote yesterday about your mum and I think that would be my feeling too. It all sounds very complicated!

Need to hang my washing up but it feels like ttoo much effort at the moment because I have to clear the airer first.

PLum my airing cupboard could never look like that-we only have 2 shelves and they are both really high so I either have to jump or stand on a chair to get stuff (I usually go for the umping option which is why mine is always such a state!)

Will post list later if I can get motivated enough Am too slatternly even for the slatterns at the moment

Cikecaka I now have to turn my cooker off at the wall because we have had several melting things incidences (ds likes to put his toys in the oven then turn it on). Also dd turned one of the hobs on and then put her hand on the top -luckily she put her hand on the opposite side to the one she'd turned on.

Clairey - very scary for you!

CC - very annoying for you!

Plum - lol i suppose i could give it a try on the ironing board then
My towels currently live in drawers in a big chest as we don't have an airing cupboard so not sure if it will make much difference tbh!

Wed:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DONE, lunch & dinner
• get everyone dressed 3done
• DH to work DONE
• write letter for GP & drop it off for more meds DONE
• ds2 meds 2 x 2 2done
• ds2 naps x 2 Doing1
• LOTS of laundry: Load1HungOut Load2In
• online shop DONE
• PO to send clothes to friend for her DC
• walk round block for fresh air (maybe buy some bread rolls for lunch if ds2 wakes in time)
• Not go to friend's for her DD's birthday HaveTexted
• try and do something other than tv watching with ds1....
• dinner & bed

Thurs:

• remember Argos collection!
• remember online shopping delivery 10-12
• buy more cat food as Argos next to PetRUs

Morning!

Oh CC! Disasters always feel worse when you're trying to be 'good'!

Plum - Anthea would kill to be Martha!

I tried that towel thing when Anthea's show was on but I have no surfaces. It does look fab, and the cupboard is tidier though. I may give it another go.

• DS boobed, changed and dressed done
• breakfast done
• bring in milk done
• dry pots done
• wash nappies done
• DS nap doing
• MNing doing
• look at new books - yay Amazon!
• ring ctc
• Me showered and dressed
• declutter knitting bag
• lunch
• walk (?)
• post letter
• Tesco delivery 4-6
• dinner
• put bread on
• DS bath and bed
• clear kitchen

CC grrrr I'm really trying to budget at the min,
and my mum wants me to go out to M&S tomorrow night to get uniforms I told her I would rather not as we have christening this week and was waiting until next when I will have more money,

but I think she thought I was just putting her off and is annoyed that I won't let her buy some of the uniforms(MIL bought some last year) so I backed down, and will let her get some, she still gets staff discount even though she took early retirement,

anyway it will help as I can put the money I save towards a daytrip out for dcs (or maybe even a night away in our towbehind)[eek]

Everyone up done
everyone washed and dressed done
breakfast done
dishwasher loaded done
wipe down kitchen table done
wipe down surfaces done
wash pots from yest done
hoover done
load washing machine done
hangout wash done
load washing machine again done
put away ironing done
sort more clean washing
and do more ironing
sort through uniforms done
lunch

finish cleaning/decluttering utility room

wipe round bathroom
wipe round ensuite

that will do for the min

I am so mortified! DD1 and DD2 (11and 10) decided to have a punch up during tennis lessons. DSil took it upon herself to come in to tell me and that DD2 had run off. Found DD2 and have her siting at the kitchen table, have grounded both of them because of it, supposed to be going to a party at DSILs house aftr dinner .

trying to decide whether to take DD2 back to the doctor (she has an underactie thyroid), because she has got very aggressive lately and is constantly fighting with everyone

Apologies, know this has nothing to do with the slatterns thread but I just wanted to vent

This rain is really miserable

Sorry to be a bit slow but who is Martha???

Ds1 was hoping for a lazer shoot out party for his birthday, but I have looked into it and it's 11 pounds per head and you have to pay for a min of 10 people. So I will have to talk to DH out it. It is his 13th so I would like to make it special.
I had to type out pounds because my keyboard is behaving oddly, when I shift and 3 I get a quotation mark and not a pound sign, also I have to press shift and 2 to get an @

put away clean clothes done
Run WM
Run DW
Breakfast done
Lunch done
Dinner
Make more biscuits cooking
Sterilise bottles
Keep kitchen clean and tidy after every meal need to finish
Tape at least 1 camcorder tape onto DVD
DCs bath and to bed
Read more book
Work on DH books (self employed builder)
Clutter clearing, starting with boxes of stuff from living room sorted the box of CDs (I am going to do 15 mins at a time because this is a boring job!!) done some
Think about all 3 DS birthdays!!
Clean leather sofa
Dust upstairs done
Friend visiting this pm instead of the planned trip to beach
Brother, SIL and nieces and nephews coming over later
DS1 going to Spashdown with youth club just left
email wooden blind company to find out why my order is late

Need to finish kitchen before friend comes and finish my cream cake

Think its Martha Stewart, who is an american domestic goddess!! (though was it her that was jailed)

CC - what have your DC said about fighting?

Yes Martha Stewart is a domestic goddess I have watched her life story (her ego ruined her marriage though) and yeap she went to jail for fraud I think

Can underactive thyroid make you abit narky, I can get abit like that sometimes and don't know whats wrong with me, never put it down to my thyroid???

Oh yes I remember her now!!

PBM I'm always trying to budget but I am abit of a spendaholic. I need to start sorting school uniforms soon, I need to get DD on this year even though shes only starting preschool they like to have them in uniform.

put away clean clothes done
Run WM
Run DW
Breakfast done
Lunch done
Dinner
Make more biscuits done and delicious especially when still warm!!
Sterilise bottles
Keep kitchen clean and tidy after every meal done breakfast and lunch
Tape at least 1 camcorder tape onto DVD
DCs bath and to bed
Read more book
Work on DH books (self employed builder)
Clutter clearing, sorted through a load of old receipts (I am going to do 15 mins at a time because this is a boring job!!) done some
Think about all 3 DS birthdays!!
Clean leather sofa
Dust upstairs done
Friend visiting this pm instead of the planned trip to beach
Brother, SIL and nieces and nephews coming over later
DS1 going to Spashdown with youth club just left
email wooden blind company to find out why my order is late

Peppa - i used to get that with my previous laptop. you have to hunt around trying everything to find where the things that you want to use are, sure the £ sign is hiding somewhere!

DS2 only managed an hour awake this lunchtime

Wed:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DONE, lunchDONE & dinner
• get everyone dressed DONE
• DH to work DONE
• write letter for GP & drop it off for more meds DONE
• ds2 meds 2 x 2 2done
• ds2 naps x 2 Doing2
• LOTS of laundry: Load1HungOut Load2HungOut Load3In
• online shop DONE
• PO to send clothes to friend for her DC (Forgot it shuts early on a Wed, may go to a different one later if DH gets home early enough)
• walk round block for fresh air DONE
• Not go to friend's for her DD's birthday HaveTexted
• try and do something other than tv watching with ds1....SomeBaking-burnt!BoughtFlourForBiscuits
• dinner & bed

Oh and i have a good fairy cake recipe will dig it out for whoever it was asking (forgotten sorry!)
Thurs:

• remember Argos collection!
• remember online shopping delivery 10-12
• buy more cat food as Argos next to PetRUs

Peppa go to control panel, then regional and language options, then click on the keyboard and languages tab and you should get the option to change the keyboard to English uk

(It has driven me mad each time I've lived abroad because the keyboard has been set to different languages and I haven't been able to type properly!) there is a shorter way of doing it on the keyboard itself but I can't remember how!

Am tired now, having a cuppa then heading out for next lot of jobs.

Wed:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DONE, lunchDONE & dinner
• get everyone dressed DONE
• DH to work DONE
• write letter for GP & drop it off for more meds DONE
• ds2 meds 2 x 2 2done
• ds2 naps x 2 Doing2
• LOTS of laundry: SomeInDryer MoreInWM
• online shop DONE
• PO to send clothes to friend for her DC (Forgot it shuts early on a Wed, may go to a different one later if DH gets home early enough)
• walk round block for fresh air DONE
• Not go to friend's for her DD's birthday HaveTexted
• try and do something other than tv watching with ds1....SomeBaking-burnt!
• bake biscuits DONE! bit too much mixture for what we need so would halve it next time, can i freeze the dough?
• dinner & bed
• dig out fairy cake recipe

Thurs:

• remember Argos collection!
• remember online shopping delivery 10-12
• buy more cat food as Argos next to PetRUs

New title : Calling all slatterns. Martha Stewart we certainly are not! (or something along those sort of lines)

Anyway, the party was hell on earth, but we are home now, dd is having a nap and my windscreen has been replaced. Will do my jobs when DH gets home and dinner is cooking,

Back later (if we have a thread) I really don't want to do new thread, as you can tell i am shocking at titles and any thread i start ends after about 5 posts, all of which ii wrote!

Well I've been rubbish today. Managed quite a lot of sleep last night but felt exhausted still so I went for a 'nap' at 10 when DS went down for his. I woke up when he did at 1.15pm! That is a long time for him to sleep, must be from his jab yesterday. Not doing very well with my list!!!!

Peppa - DS was like that for a couple of weeks when he started to crawl, things have improved, he only woke once last night!

CC - What a nightmare for you

JKS -

Today
Up and dressed - done
DS boobed, changed and dressed - done
DH working at home
Load of washing on - done
Breakfast x 3 - done
Clear up - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Tidy kitchen - done
Shower and get dressed properly
Lunch x 3 - done
Out for a quick walk - to swings? - raining too much
Clear up - done
More baking maybe?
DS dinner
Playtime
DS bath and bed
Me and DH nice dinner and bottle of wine
Relax
Sleep

Our room
Tidy
Empty bin
Hoover
Dust

Bathroom
Empty bin
Sink
Radiator
Windowsill

DS' room
Sort out his chest to make room for clothes influx from his grandmothers -started Hoover DustLiving room
Tidy - done
Shake out throws and cushions - done
Empty bin - done
Dust
Hoover - doneDining room
Put away some toys - done
Get rid of balloons from last week - done
Dust
Hoover - done Hall/stairs
Hoover
Wipe over paintwork

Me too Alice! Someone do it, quick!

• DS boobed, changed and dressed done
• breakfast done
• bring in milk done
• dry pots done
• wash nappies done
• DS nap done
• MNing done
• look at new books - yay Amazon! done
• ring ctc don'tneedto
• Me showered and dressed done
• declutter knitting bag done
• lunch done
• walk (?) topostbox
• post letter done
• Tesco delivery 4-6 waiting
• tidy round
• dinner
• put bread on
• DS bath and bed
• clear kitchen