Summer Slatterns - Martha Stewart we are not!

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

I used your title Alice seeing as the rest of us were to slatternly to even think of anything!!!

Whyyyyy does my landlady do this to me??? First the boiler man was her son in law, now the handyman has just told dh that he is her ex husband and that this used to be his house! And that they are still very good friends.

Thank god for slatterns! Pre slatterns my house was truly awful, now it usually just needs a quick tidy up to look passable (though nowhere near immaculate!)

Thats sneaky! I'm sure she just does it because they are cheaper/knows they will do a proper job etc, but i would feel paranoid.

I just know they will report back, I mean if it was my house I'd ask how the tenants were keeping it.

Happy Birthday WME

SB - sorry to hear about your PND. Have been there and out the other side. Be brave! We think you are cool so who cares about anything else.

Jobs
Food shopping done
Dig up potential prize winning potatoes done some
Write shopping list ongoing
Send cheque to bro
Post stuff to accountant
Dust spare room done
Dust bedroom doing

Washing on done
Washing to bring in done
Dishy on again
MIL making tea
DS gone for nap done

Sort kitchen

Clutter busting
DS's room
Dining room
Lounge - filing and sort cupboard doing
Bedrooms
Stuff to charity shop
Spare room

Before October
Clear out freezer and fill with delicious ready meals
Buy lots of 'healthy' snack type stuff to eat on the run
Cancel childcare vouchers
Get out all baby stuff and clean / buy new stuff if necessary
Get Wii fit
Get subscription to Grazia to keep me sane
Get some DVD's to watch whilst breastfeeding
After school childcare for Sept

Any ideas on how to keep me sane once DC2 arrives most welcome.

NEED TO DO
Put away health grill DONE
Clean Table DONE
Wash Counters/cooker tops
Brush Floor
Tidy Sitting Room DONE
Change DD3s nappy! DONE
Hang out another wash
Bring down a wash from upstairs

Thank you!

Had a nice walk round country house grounds and lovely cake at the tearooms.

• DS boobed, changed and dressed done
• breakfast done
• bring in milk done
• fold dry washing done
• wash some pots done
• sit down loads
• feel old and sorry for self abit

• washing done
• Me showered and dressed done
• lunch done
• wash more pots done
• out been
• cake eaten
• get rosemary done
• get place tidied a bit
• DS tea
• DS bath and bed
• eat dinner cooked by DH
• relax

Happy Birthday WME

SB- hi there

Friends came & went, DH & DS1 off to PIL, DS2 napping, so peace reigns
ABs have kicked in so feeling better thanks - was/is tonsilitis.

Left to do today:

• fix Sky remote, argh not working with tv, have tried loads of codes already but no luck!
• strip beds and start laundry
• tidy toys from all over the house & garden! Started
• ds2 tea & meds
• ds2 bath & bed
• my dinner
• tidy kitchen
• check on FB farm!
• early night

Tomorrow:

• all usual
• library to give back massive book i've finally finished!
• make up beds for BIL, SIL & their 2 DCs staying Sun night
• tackle Ongoing list
• fun stuff with ds2 when he's awake- dh & ds1 back t some point
• poss night at friends - no sitter sorted yet though & Dh might stay at PIL an extra night anyway....

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some cheap photo albums (Factory Shop trip)
• find correct sized refills for filofax pen - maybe buy a new one - can't find one i like
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census (again)
• write in DS2's book for 18mo entry
• buy new (cheap) DVD player
• make more cards so i'm ahead of myself
• plan & use reward chart for ds1 to get him using the toilet
• sort eBay toys
• sort stuff to sell on eBay

Well DS finally fell asleep at 12 and slept until 3:30pm! So he is only just finishing his 'lunch' and my day is completely thrown out.

WME - glad you are having a nice day . What is DH cooking you for tea?

Today
Up, showered and dressed - done
Appearance improving activity - done
DS boobed, changed and dressed - done
Wash nappies - done
Breakfast x 3 - done
Tidy upstairs - done
Clear up kitchen - done
Tidy living room - done
Tidy dining room - done
2 more loads of washing
Fold up clean washing
Bannisters
Lunch x 3 - done
Lanolise wool wraps - done
Hoover dining room and living room - done
Hoover upstairs
Pjs to Mothercare
Pop to Boots - tomorrow now
Take DH's suit to dry cleaners
Meal plan for weekend
Dinner x 3
DS bath and bed
Flop
Sleep

Happy Birthday Wasting, hope your having a nice day, at least you got a sunny one,well its sunny here!

Hospital went fine, all set for surgery next week, shes acting all braxe at the minute, which sometimes is a bad sign means she''l scream the place down next week, ah well I should be used to it now!

And my mum just called to say my dad wants to go visit dd1 in hospital, so i had to say no, it wasn't appropriate,

FFS she is an 8 year old girl who hasn't seen him in 2.6 years and will have just hade major eye surgery,
the last time she had to be filled with morphine she was screaming that she was in so much pain, do my mother and father not have a clue?!!! AIBU

brave not braxe

that should have went in chat but its dropped of my threads

Oh hugs PBM, brain not functioning today so have no words of comfort or encouraging thing to say! Sorry!

Thanks, we're having cod wrapped bacon.

Sunny here too PBM, hugs for you from me too.

Oh Plum you don't need all that cr*p right now!

Left to do today:

• fix Sky remote DONE!
• strip beds and start laundry
• tidy toys from all over the house & garden! MostlyDone
• ds2 tea & meds
• ds2 bath & bed
• my dinner
• tidy kitchen
• check on FB farm!
• early night

Hello All,

WME Happy Birthday

Ali Sorry you are still having trouble with your brother. As you may remeber my family is a PITA.

Plum Oh I do love you - hugs and kisses back.
Hope DDs eye op goes smoothly. YANBU about you Dad, sometimes I think families do stuff like this because it is about them not the child/you etc IYSWIM.

I'm really sorry if I don't reply to everything, my memory was not great before but PND is making it really bad

Get up early doneish
Shower done
Get dressed done
Pack lunches for day out done
Get DDs to get ready done
Wash and dress baby done actually bathed, joys of BF poo!
Have breakfast done
Girls breakfast DH done
Brush girls hair and teeth done
Go to doctors done, now on ADs
Collect girls - day out done although abondoned original plan for park and ice cream
Book DD2's party

SB i am glad you are back, i'm sorry i haven't had chance to catch up what i missed in the last 24hrs Big hugs to you anyway

Plum i am for you. SB is right, people like this are all about themselves. I hope your DD is ok this week and doesn't get too stressed.

I am feeling a bit cross at the moment, no idea why, just feeling cross!

Left to do today:

• strip beds and start laundry
• tidy toys from all over the house & garden! DONE
• ds2 tea & meds DONE
• ds2 bath & bed
• my dinner
• tidy kitchen started
• check on FB farm!
• early night

SB - hope the ADs work/kick in soon.

Alice - lol a little as being cross for no reason. i get like that sometimes too!

Have great plans for tomorrow, want an immaculate house for DH to come back to - need to make up a bit after being a grumpy cow yesterday

Left to do today:

• strip beds and start laundry DONE
• ds2 bath & bed DONE
• my dinner Doing
• tidy kitchen Doing
• check on FB farm! Doing
• tv
• early night

Tomorrow:

• all usual
• library to give back massive book i've finally finished!
• make up beds for BIL, SIL & their 2 DCs staying Sun night
• ironing & put away any clean clothes
• do any tidying that's needed
• tackle Ongoing list
• fun stuff with ds2 when he's awake- dh & ds1 back at some point
• poss night at friends Need to rearrange another date & book sitter (DH and DS1 home late-ish tomorrow night)

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some cheap photo albums (Factory Shop trip)
• find correct sized refills for filofax pen - maybe buy a new one - can't find one i like
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census (again)
• write in DS2's book for 18mo entry
• buy new (cheap) DVD player
• make more cards so i'm ahead of myself
• plan & use reward chart for ds1 to get him using the toilet
• sort eBay toys
• sort stuff to sell on eBay

NEED TO DO
Put away health grill DONE
Clean Table DONE
Wash Counters/cooker tops DONE
Brush Floor DONE
Tidy Sitting Room DONE
Change DD3s nappy! DONE
Hang out another wash DONE
Bring down a wash from upstairs DONE
Make Tea DONE
Wash Up after it DONE
Bath DD3
Clean Bathroom while DD3 is in bath
Quick sweep of the floor
Wash Kitchen Floor (DD3 spilt orange juic)
Going to try and get DD3 into a better bedtime routine. Wish me luck

Happier now, have got G&T and crisps
Have a good evening all

If my plan works, I hope to be sitting with a glass of wine to watch Big Brother this evening! Fingers Crossed. Off to run the bath

went into sitting room and she is fast asleep!

Alice - I have beer and crisps, yum!

Plum for you. Your parents really are being crap.

SB - well done for going to the docs. I hope the ADs get working for you soon - I think I started to notice an improvement after about 10 days-2 weeks.

CC - Good luck!!

WME - mmm that sounds lovely, enjoy!

Today
Up, showered and dressed - done
Appearance improving activity - done
DS boobed, changed and dressed - done
Wash nappies - done
Breakfast x 3 - done
Tidy upstairs - done
Clear up kitchen - done
Tidy living room - done
Tidy dining room - done
2 more loads of washing - one done
Fold up clean washing - done
Bannisters
Lunch x 3 - done
Lanolise wool wraps - done
Hoover dining room and living room - done
Hoover upstairs
Pjs to Mothercare - done
Pop to Boots - tomorrow now
Take DH's suit to dry cleaners - done
Meal plan for weekend - sort of
Dinner x 3 - DS done
DS bath and bed
Flop
Sleep

We had a great time at the beach and by the look of the bath we brought most of the beach back with us

Ali I really want a nice cold beer now, I can't have any crisps though, I ate nearly a whole pack of Pringles at the beach.

Alice I get all cross for no reason just before AF visits, DH and my older DSs do everything they can to avoid me avoid winding me up!!

PBM YANBU, you're right your parents timing is awful.

DH has a day of DIY planned for tomorrow, we are both fed up with the kitchen being half finished, so I plan to get on with clutter clearing in my older DSs room, they seem to be warming to the idea of selling some stuff at the car boot sale.

I am going for a nice soak in the bath, then I will apply eye cream and moisturise my feet, they are looking abit

Enjoy your evening everyone. I will be back tomorrow bright and early with a list.

Peppa - sounds like a fun day

CC - what did you do with her?

Ali - white wine & crisps here

Left to do today:

• strip beds and start laundry DONE
• ds2 bath & bed DONE
• my dinner DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• check on FB farm! DONE
• tv Doing
• early night BedSoon

Tomorrow:

• all usual
• library to give back massive book i've finally finished!
• make up beds for BIL, SIL & their 2 DCs staying Sun night
• ironing & put away any clean clothes
• do any tidying that's needed
• tackle Ongoing list
• fun stuff with ds2 when he's awake- dh & ds1 back at some point
• poss night at friends Need to rearrange another date & book sitter (DH and DS1 home late-ish tomorrow night)

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some cheap photo albums (Factory Shop trip)
• find correct sized refills for filofax pen - maybe buy a new one - can't find one i like
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census (again)
• write in DS2's book for 18mo entry
• buy new (cheap) DVD player
• make more cards so i'm ahead of myself
• plan & use reward chart for ds1 to get him using the toilet
• sort eBay toys
• sort stuff to sell on eBa

Evening all, I think I might join those of you with drinks in a drink,
bacardi & coke is my drink of choice, yum

I think tomorrow I will get stuck into that long list I gave myself the other day and didn't get around to much of it

The house isn't too bad so if I get stuck in tomorrow it should be gleaming!

Thank you all, dh rang my mum and had a few words with her, but he said she just kept saying "I know, I know",
Although (watch for the swell of PBM's head) it was lovely when he said I was the nicest/best person ever and never let anyone say anything bad about anybody,
and I'm getting treated so badly for sticking up for myself, but he was fustrated with the I know response's from her!

SB How are you tonight? was thinking of you tonight, I'm sure your situation with your family dosen't help, just for you!

Clairey mean't to say JKS was right too, I was one of those all singing dancing, playdoh, painting, baking mums with dd1 and used to be jealous of all the mums whose children would run off and entertain themselve at babygroup, dd1 is still very clingy whereas the other 2 are definitely far more independant and it is much better for them!