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!!!

hmmthat'sworsethanithoughtnospaces.willtryc&pinginfuture

Clairy

JKS i love Lavender

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Everyone dressed done
Strip beds done
Load dishwasher done
Put washload on done
Take baskets of clean washing upstairs
Turn horse out done
Hang washing out done
Febreeze living room
Hoover living room
Put clean throws on the sofas
Clean upstairs doors
Do horses and ride
Go to Waitrose
Cook dinner
DD bath and bed

Wow! just want to say that sugar soap is amazing!!!! Have just done the back of the bathroom door and some of the skirting in the bathroom and one wall - sparkling! (we live in an old house where everything is rough and bumpy and dirt really sticks)

Have just realised that it is the week before AF so will be on a super manic mission, which is great timing as we are having another BBQ on sunday (if anyone is about, you are welcome to come!)

Norks - due 15th Oct VBAC (still to decide which hospital to go to - I think both are equally understaffed)

Ali - got much better nights sleep thankfully. DS didn't wake up til 9.30am woohoo!

Pig - sounds like you are doing well! Good luck with the painting.

Gorge weather here so getting loads of washing done.

Jobs
Gestate - 31 weeks doing
Take vitamins done
Dishy emptied and refilled done
Breakfast cleared away done
Lunch
Ring Orange and fix broadband again
Chuck dead flowers done
General tidy up
Dishy on
Washing to hang out
Washing load no 2 on
Filing
DS to bed
Pack for mini break with friend
Check out old baby stuff

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 DH doing
Get out all baby stuff and clean / buy new stuff if necessary
Get a Wii fit
Get subscription to Grazia to keep me sane
Get some DVD's to watch whilst breastfeeding

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

Morning all,

Flame glad your back, and remember to put get up get dressed get dcs washed on your list so you'll definitely have some dones, thats about all I've got done this week

dd1 went ok at hosp, drops reduced from 10 to 8 times in left eye, still 4 in right, and her other 2 drops 3 times a day, back next week again so will see if shes going to be okay to go back to school

Right can't believe only 1 week left of holidays!

I have loads to,
I must stay away from Super Mario today!

Done
Everyone up
breakfast

TO *DO
everyone showered
dressed
hoover hall
dust declutter hall table
brush kitchen floor
empty washing machine and dry washing
load dishwasher
mop kit floor
clean & tidy worktops
clean kit table
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
mop bathroom floor
mop ensuite
mop bedroomsif I can find the floors
pack up dd1s DS to send off to get fixed
clean side door windows
declutter livingroom
dust livingroom
hoover living room
tidy away all stray shoes
sort all clean washing
iron washing
put away washing

In the middle of typing that ds asked me to help him with Super mario [grrr] its like a bloody time warp still no-one washed or dressed yet, I need a boot in the behind

Surprised I am not aching more today - I moved furniture round the room last night, and even ended up sewing up the arm chair that has been dead for at least a year!!

It looks slightly like Dr Frankenstein's chair would, but tis still better than the foam spilling out.

Home:

Clear lounge - DONE
Sort toys in lounge
Lounge carpet
Birth Ball - fix and inflate
Clear dining room
Rearrange dining room
Clean kitchen (not as essential tbh)
Find crib
Clear bedroom
Post maternity clothes
Washing x 100000 - Working on it (not helped by DS weeing in OUR bed last night )
Sort clothes for loft (& glare at DH as that was meant to happen in MAY)

BumFluff:

Post orders
Contact suppliers - DONE
Newsletter - DONE
Pack stock into proper boxes

Children:

Do not kill - Doing So Far
Write letter to nursery - DONE (must drop in today)

Food:

Feed us daily - Doing
Batch cook

NA - scrubbing skirting boards? You;ll get kicked off here soon!

Norks - bad luck on the bed+wee incident.

From Fri:

• plant pot plant (lavender) we were given as a gift weeks ago!

Well i went out and got lots of jobs done (plus some Christmas present little bits for ds1 if you can believe it!?!)

Sat:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DH DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• morning activity MeShopping
• lunch (bbq) DONE
• afternoon activity (gardening)
• ds2 nap
• ds1 & me to LazyTown show, yey
• home for late bedtime for ds1
• dh out this evening

This week:

• bird seed & Factory Shop trip DONE
• B&Q trip for 'rubbish storage' DONE
• post sold & paid for eBay items Posted1
• package up more paid for items 2Left

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some cheap photo albums DONE
• buy new filofax pen
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census (again)
• toilet train DS1 TryingPants! StillTrying!
• list last item to sell on eBay

plum Glad the hospital trip wnet well. We still have 2 weeks of the holidays left, the time has flown by!!

JKS christmas!! you sre way ahead of me

Nice to meet you Norks

Clairey Is the laptop fixed yet

HMHB It was easy school uniform shop I've had in years!! It's usually a PITA to find school stuff to fit my lot, they are tall and slim round the waist.

Paint the kitchen done some
Put some dates in DS3 baby book
Advertise more stuff in local paper
Wipe round bathroom done
Catch up on some sky+ed TV
Put eye cream on
Moisturise feet
Breakfast done
Lunch
Dinner
Put away the mountain of clean washing done
Everyone up and dressed done
Keep kitchen tidy after every meal Kitchen is a state
Run WM
Run DW done
Sterilise bottles
Bath/wash DC and to bed
Make beds done
Read more book
Anything else that comes my way!!

Ongoing;
Drink more water
Clutter clearing
Sort through stuff to Ebay, carboot or donate.
Sort through the masses of photos stored on PC, print some and put the rest to disk
Work on DH books
Appearance improving!!

From Fri:

• plant pot plant (lavender) we were given as a gift weeks ago! DONE

Sat:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DH DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• morning activity MeShopping
• lunch (bbq) DONE
• afternoon activity (gardening) DONE
• ds2 nap Doing
• ds1 & me to LazyTown show, yey Soon
• home for late bedtime for ds1
• dh out this evening
• Bro & his gf coming for evening & staying

This week:

• post sold & paid for last eBay items
• package up more paid for items 2Left

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy some cheap photo albums DONE
• buy new filofax pen
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census (again)
• toilet train DS1 TryingPants! StillTrying!
• list last item to sell on eBay

Tesco are doing loads of school stuff half price I'm glad dd1 decided on the Hanana lunch box at £8 over camp rock as it was reduced to a £5 last night and that makes my blood boil!!

Think I need to get some music blurring I definitely got more done last sat when I had some music on

DONE
Everyone up
breakfast
everyone showered
dressed
lunch
empty washing machine and dry washing
load dishwasher
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
empty kit recycling bin(dh)

TO DO
hoover hall
dust declutter hall table
brush kitchen floor
mop kit floor
clean & tidy worktops
clean kit table
mop bathroom floor
mop ensuite
mop bedrooms if I can find the floors
pack up dd1s DS to send off to get fixed
clean side door windows
declutter livingroom
dust livingroom
hoover living room
tidy away all stray shoes
sort all clean washing
iron washing
put away washing

I can report that being at home doing jobs and keeping an eye on DS is much harder than being at work. My back is killing me but I have done a few jobs and sorted out some baby stuff.

Thank God am going to hotel with my mate for some pampering tomorrow

plum your DD's drops sound complex. I'd be worried I'd get it wrong.

Jobs
Gestate - 31 weeks doing
Take vitamins done
Dishy emptied and refilled done
Breakfast cleared away done
Lunch done
Ring Orange and fix broadband again
Chuck dead flowers done
General tidy up
Dishy on
Washing to hang out done x2
Filing
Dinner
DS bath doing
DS to bed
Pack for mini break with friend
Check out old baby stuff
cleaned and aired - car seat / pram / carry cot, baby bath and top/tail bowl done
Put above in spare room
To do - bouncer chair, moses basket, toys and play mat.

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 DH doing
Get out all baby stuff and clean / buy new stuff if necessary
Get a Wii fit
Get subscription to Grazia to keep me sane
Get some DVD's to watch whilst breastfeeding

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

HMHB I have a timetable drawn up and alarms on my phone

Going to make dinner if we didn't have to eat I would gets loads done today as after dinner I won't be bothered

But I am determined to clear all dinner dishes away today

DONE
Everyone up
breakfast
everyone showered
dressed
lunch
empty washing machine and dry washing
load dishwasher
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
empty kit recycling bin(dh)
hoover hall
mop bathroom floor
mop ensuite
mop bedrooms if I can find the floors
declutter livingroom (dcs done)

TO DO
dust declutter hall table
brush kitchen floor
mop kit floor
clean & tidy worktops
clean kit table
pack up dd1s DS to send off to get fixed
clean side door windows
dust livingroom
hoover living room
tidy away all stray shoes
sort all clean washing
iron washing
put away washing

HMHB

SIL gave me Time Travellers Wife and I forgot to bring it home from MIL although I wouldn't have got my cleaning done because I would have started reading it

Oooh pampering sounds gooooooooooooood

Gotten very little done today (no, I lie - I did all that emailing suppliers etc this morning didn't I! yay for lists )

Fell out with the short one a lot. Have remembered that posting a thread to let off steam needs to be clearly marked as such otherwise advice and judging starts.

I've been weirdy and light headed all day, had a nosebleed earlier too so guessing my iron is a bit of a mess. Will send DH to the shop in a bit of orange juice to take some spa tone.

Plus side of the wee bed child means that I have nice fresh bedding for tonight which was desperately needed. I do feel mean though - when he first got in our bed he said his legs were aching (tis a family thing, not growing pains, comes normally after hot day turns to damp night - I still get it). I thought he was just playing up for calpol (worked out a few weeks ago that aching legs = calpol) so just left him to settle as my legs were fine... he only wets the bed when he is poorly or hurting . I did give him the calpol before I discovered the wet bed

Oh name changed too

You probably didn't need any of that essay.

I can't remember much about TTW - want to re-read but have a whole stack of books to work through.

Found a hotel where for £99 you get dinner, bed breakfast, lunch, access to spa, robe, slippers and 2 treatments!!!!!!!!!

Obv having pedicure as cannot reach feet.

Jobs
Gestate - 31 weeks doing
Take vitamins done
Dishy emptied and refilled done
Breakfast cleared away done
Lunch done
Ring Orange and fix broadband again
Chuck dead flowers done
General tidy up
Dishy on
Washing to hang out done x2
Filing
DS tea done
Dinner
DS bath done
DS to bed
Pack for mini break with friend
Check out old baby stuff
Cleaned and aired - car seat / pram / carry cot, baby bath and top/tail bowl done
Put above in spare room done
To do - bouncer chair, moses basket, toys and play mat.

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 DH doing
Get out all baby stuff and clean / buy new stuff if necessary doing
Get a Wii fit
Get subscription to Grazia to keep me sane
Get some DVD's to watch whilst breastfeeding

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

plum My mums reading TTW and then I will, at the moment I am reading New Moon by Stphenie Meyer

HMHB The pampering sounds lovely, are you treating yourself or is it a pre-birth present?

hisIsWhyYouWereToldNotTo I have a load of books I want to read, my problem is not knowing which to read first!!

Right I need to get the DC to bed and then get on with the painting, I am on a roll with it, TBH I just want it bloody finished. DH has got to finish the skirting and lay the floor and then it will be complete

Paint the kitchen done some
Put some dates in DS3 baby book
Advertise more stuff in local paper
Wipe round bathroom done
Catch up on some sky+ed TV
Put eye cream on
Moisturise feet
Breakfast done
Lunch done
Dinner done
Put away the mountain of clean washing done
Everyone up and dressed done
Keep kitchen tidy after every meal Kitchen is a state
Run WM done
Run DW done
Sterilise bottles done
Bath/wash DC and to bed
Make beds done
Read more book
Anything else that comes my way!!

Ongoing;
Drink more water
Clutter clearing
Sort through stuff to Ebay, carboot or donate.
Sort through the masses of photos stored on PC, print some and put the rest to disk
Work on DH books
Appearance improving!!

Dh has been shaving my legs for me this past couple of weeks.... tis oddly relaxing. I am planning to harass Psychomum when I next see her into painting my very chipped toenails.

Flame I love all your name changes if posting an essay makes you feel better don't worry

Has your ds got any swollen joints or anything its just my dd1 has had arthritis from she was 2.6

ThisIs you have successfully confused me. Are you Norks / Flame? If so I have had nose bleeds lots too. Am on Spatone.

Pig tis an early birthday present for me and mate who have bday on similar date. Also using my maternity grant to help fund. Its for my health you know.

Jobs
Gestate - 31 weeks doing
Take vitamins done
Dishy emptied and refilled done
Breakfast cleared away done
Lunch done
Ring Orange and fix broadband again
Chuck dead flowers done
General tidy up done
Dishy on done
Washing to hang out done x2
Filing
DS tea done
Dinner - DH making fry up
DS bath done
DS to bed done
Pack for mini break with friend done
Check out old baby stuff
Cleaned and aired - car seat / pram / carry cot, baby bath and top/tail bowl done
Put above in spare room done
Eat kettle chips and mumsnet doing
To do - bouncer chair, moses basket, toys and play mat.

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 DH doing
Get out all baby stuff and clean / buy new stuff if necessary doing
Get a Wii fit
Get subscription to Grazia to keep me sane
Get some DVD's to watch whilst breastfeeding

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

Yup tis Me, Flame/Norks etc

Have just had the spatone. It normally kicks in by the next day.

Nope, no swollen joints or anything. We've never quite worked out what it is - my mum has it too (oddly my sister doesn't). It isn't growing pains because I still get it now, it doesn't appear to be any food deficiency or anything. Kicked in for both of mine at about this age. Heat (baths, hot water bottles etc) and paracetamol are about the only help. Thankfully though where I get it too I know the first niggles and tend to dose them up before bed on the nights I feel it coming.

HMHB - does the hotel still have the offer? would you mind linking to it? really would like to get our group of mums away for a night like that but everywhere i've looked is way too £££.

Flame - what thread? yes i've vented re DH on here before and got my fingers burned....!

too much wine last night, plus early start

Lazy Town was fun though

Sun:

• me up first DONE
• breakfast
• tidy kitchen
• ds2 nap
• morning with bro & his gf
• lunch
• bro & gf going home
• we have to pop into a post-wedding party somehow (if ds2 can stay awake)
• ds2 nap
• tea (fancy a roast, will have to see if i can persuade dh!)
• boys bath & bed
• pack nursery bags for tomorrow
• early night

This week/Next week now!:

• post sold & paid for last eBay items
• package up more paid for items

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy new filofax pen
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census (again)
• toilet train DS1 TryingPants! StillTrying!
• list last item to sell on eBay

Morning all

DH is on call today, so means today will be much like a weekday here.

I really must hoover today, please shout at me if i don't

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast doing
Everyone dressed
Make beds
Load dishwasher
Put washload on
Take baskets of clean washing upstairs
Turn horse out
Maybe pop into town
Hang washing out
Febreeze living room
Hoover living room
Put clean throws on the sofas
Clean upstairs doors/skirting *started
Do horses and ride
Cook dinner Roast pork mmmmmm
DD bath and bed

NA - done the hoovering yet?!

Sun:

• me up first DONE
• breakfast DONE
• tidy kitchen Started
• ds2 nap Doing
• read papers/do crosswords Started
• morning with bro & his gf (what's left of it by the time they get up! still asleep, )
• lunch
• bro & gf going home
• we have to pop into a post-wedding party somehow (if ds2 can stay awake)
• ds2 nap
• tea (fancy a roast, will have to see if i can persuade dh!)
• boys bath & bed
• pack nursery bags for tomorrow
• early night

This week/Next week now!:

• post sold & paid for last eBay items
• package up more paid for items

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy new filofax pen
• get on with friend's family tree
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census (again)
• toilet train DS1 TryingPants! StillTrying!
• list last item to sell on eBay

I was ranting about DS and his little git-ness. I started with support, ended being told that yes, yes indeed I am a bad mother

Tried to get up at half 9 (sick of wasting days when DH is off), but didn't quite manage it.