'September Slatterns/List makers - How clean is your skirting??'

[PlumBumMum]

Stealing Ali's title as just realised we're out of room, and hopefully all lost slatterns will find us!!!

clairey Hope you feel better soon, Is there any bugs going round??

Right, so i have emptied the dishwasher, done a bit of washing up, cleared up from lunch, wiped sides down and cleaned the hob.

I need to dry the washload that has just finished and try to write out a new routine because i now have to go to the horses twice a day rather than just the once. Might sit down with a cup of tea and a magazine first though

Argh. I have eaten, slept and still the world spins!

Clairey that sounds awful, look after yourself and don't worry about your dcs, I have just weaned dd2 off butter sandwiches, it was all she would eat for about a month and I have started sneaking things back into her sandwiches

Rainbow Always is the leader/creator of the slatterns thread, thats all I'm telling you

Alice How long does it take you to go and do the horses, it must eat alot into your day

DONE
dcs off to school
hang out washing
put a wash on
hang out 2nd wash
bring in 1st wash
empty kitchen bin
over to school give dd1 drops and drop off forgotten Judo suit!11ish
lunch

TO DO
schoolrun
homeworks
dinner maybe roast chicken
make pack lunches
hoover
sort clean washing
iron
put away washing
wipe round bathroom
wipe round ensuite
brush kitchen floor (possibly mop)
decide how much wieght I want to lose and do something about it!!!!!

ok I've slowed down a bit now - but still making progress and at least when DH gets back later it will be obvious I've actually done something today

Help DS3 finish his breakfast DONE
Get DS3 dressed DONE
Have a shower DONE
Get dressed and dry hair DONE
Empty dishwasher DONE
Load or two of washing (now it's brightened up a bit) 4 loads done
Hang washing on line all out (and one load back in already)
Prepare dinner (so I can just throw it in the oven later) started
Start writing my last OU assignment (due in by midnight tomorrow night blush)
Empty toy box and double check Virgin box card isn't in there
Ring virgin to order new Virgin box card
Hoover
Lunch DONE

just debating whether to strip the boys beds and get them washed as it's really warm out there so it'd dry fast. DS1's really needs doing, but the other 2 are actually ok.....

Plum I am there for about 15mins in the morning, but it is a 45min round trip so that is what takes the time. The afternoons i tend to be there for about 1 and 1/2 hrs. So yes, does take up a lot of the day

Help DS3 finish his breakfast DONE
Get DS3 dressed DONE
Have a shower DONE
Get dressed and dry hair DONE
Empty dishwasher DONE
Load or two of washing (now it's brightened up a bit) 4 loads done
Hang washing on line all out (and one load back in already)
dinner started
Start writing my last OU assignment (due in by midnight tomorrow night blush)
Empty toy box and double check Virgin box card isn't in there DONE
Ring virgin to order new Virgin box card DONE (with a lot of hassle)
Hoover
Lunch DONE
Pick DS1 up from school DONE
Take washing off line
Bath boys??? (depends on when DH gets home)

I need a good shake I have let the day drift away keep getting drawn back to computer

Alice thats quite alot of time well done you for getting everything else done too

DONE
dcs off to school
hang out washing
put a wash on
hang out 2nd wash
bring in 1st wash
empty kitchen bin
over to school give dd1 drops and drop off forgotten Judo suit!11ish
lunch
schoolrun

TO DO
homeworks (doing now
dinner maybe pasta
make pack lunches
hoover
sort clean washing
iron
put away washing
wipe round bathroom
wipe round ensuite
brush kitchen floor (possibly mop)
decide how much wieght I want to lose and do something about it!!!!!

THIS WEEK
Make first birthday cake
do VAT return
do invoicing

Thanks Plum i do have to remind myself that other people generally have more time at home than i do, but at the same time when i am at home i feel like just flopping rather than doing stuff. I am gradually getting the house more organised and less cluttered which will help a lot.

Now get off your arse and do whatever it is you are supposed to be doing!!!!!

TODAY

Dress children - done
Dress me - done
Wash clothes - some in
Dry Clothes
Put away clothes
Buy food for big soup done
Cook big soup done
Label uniforms (currently scribbled on today's items in pen)
Work on craft swap - need to stop spinning! sob didn't get to do any of it due to the spinning
See HV done
HOOVER
School run done
school collect done
feed dd before rainbows done
collect dh
drop rainbows
collect rainbows
collect DS
collapse in small heap

Pre Baby

House:

Sort dining room
Sort bedroom - Started on the clothes
Clothes in loft
Clothes out of loft
Keep on top of general house-straightness - Urgh

Bumfluff:

Pay in money!

Children:

Don't kill them - Hmmm
Label uniforms

General:

Feed us daily - doing
Batch cook
Craft swap

plum I'm still none the wiser I am a newbie, If its not wasting, I am miffed!!

alice My house looks much tidier, just because I have chucked loads of unused stuff.

What to you mean by spinning?? Are you suffering from dizziness or are you having a manic day??

Go to Little Lambs done
Write shop list done
Go to shop done
Go to Jens in the afternoon done
Visit bus company's website done will be much cheaper to buy it monthly
Hoover
Wash floors
Wipe round bathroom done
Homework time done
Fold clean clothes and put away folded
Catch up on some sky+ed TV
Exercise
Put eye cream on
Moisturise feet
Breakfast done
Lunch done
Dinner next
Everyone up and dressed done
Keep kitchen tidy after every meal will do after dinner
Run DW done
Run WM timer set
Sterilise bottles
Bath/wash DC and to bed
Make beds done
Read more book
Anything else that comes my way!!

To Do This Week;
Hang photos in living room
Book eye test
Organise DS1 school bus ticket
Sort through the ton of Playmobil

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!!

TODAY

Dress children - done
Dress me - done
Wash clothes - some in
Dry Clothes
Put away clothes
Buy food for big soup done
Cook big soup done
Label uniforms (currently scribbled on today's items in pen)
Work on craft swap - need to stop spinning! sob didn't get to do any of it due to the spinning
See HV done
HOOVER
School run done
school collect done
feed dd before rainbows done
collect dh - done
drop rainbows - done
collect rainbows - done
collect DS - done
collapse in small heap - soooooooooooooooooon

Pre Baby

House:

Sort dining room
Sort bedroom - Started on the clothes
Clothes in loft
Clothes out of loft
Keep on top of general house-straightness - Urgh

Bumfluff:

Pay in money!

Children:

Don't kill them - Hmmm
Label uniforms

General:

Feed us daily - doing
Batch cook
Craft swap

Hi all - had a glass of wine with one of the mums whose DD stayed for tea, lovely but now not v inspired to anything other than have a few more glasses

Laundry: (Hope some of this dries soon!)

• Load1 Sorted IroningLeftToDo
• Load2 HungOut
• Load3 HungOut
• Load4 HungOut
• Load5 In
• other loads waiting...(maybe 2 more?)

Wed:

• me up first DONE
• breakfast DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• eat bacon sandwich DONE
• put photos into new albums DONE
• jobs & rest DONE
• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch DONE
• friends coming round for afternoon DONE
• boys tea + 1 DONE
• boys to bed soon
• vaguely tidy toys...
• dh out again
• my dinner & early night

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
• refill bathroom cabinet DONE
• clean blinds in study
• upload, organise & order photos of boys since May

Oops forgot:

Laundry: (Hope some of this dries soon!)

• Loads 1-4 Dry NeedSorting&Ironing
• Load5 In
• other loads waiting...(maybe 2 more?)

Wed:

• me up first DONE
• breakfast DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• eat bacon sandwich DONE
• put photos into new albums DONE
• jobs & rest DONE
• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch DONE
• friends coming round for afternoon DONE
• boys tea + 1 DONE
• boys to bed soon
• vaguely tidy toys...
• dh out again
• my dinner & early night

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
• refill bathroom cabinet DONE
• clean blinds in study
• upload, organise & order photos of boys since May

Flame - are you ok? whats all this spinning? Are you dizzy?

Jobs
Go to work done
Pick up DS from school done
Ring MW done
Write birthday list done
Filing!
Don't forget DS dinner money for Wed done
MW appointment on Friday
Tidy lounge
Make dinner done
Finally make banana cake done!
Buy more trousers for DS

Buy expensive wedding present for friend who's wedding I am going to miss done
Send card for friends birthday
Email other friends to say I am not going to make it. done
Post wedding card
Pack hospital bag!
Think of baby names! - eek
Get some early nights

Before October

Clear out freezer / defrost and fill with delicious ready meals
Buy lots of 'healthy' snack type stuff to eat on the run
Get out all baby clothes from under the bed and check
Make space in DS's bedroom for baby clothes and stuff
Put up crib.
Get some DVD's to watch whilst breastfeeding
Sort kitchen food cupboards

I have been really light headed all day. I am slightly better now than I have been. Prob just overtired or something.

Hello! Had a manic day today, managed to leave the house on time and then went to birthday party. 6 one year olds are hard work even when the ratio is 1 adult to 1 child!!
My friend whose DD's birthday it was is 16 weeks pregnant and she was knackered. Four of the other Mums just sat on their backsides and did nothing to help for the whole three hours! So I have been very un-slatternly, but in someone else's house

Dinner tonight is being delivered by the man from Dominos

Lots to do tomorrow, will post a list later.

Flame - hope the spinning stops soon, have you had your BP checked?

JKS - tentative for DS2!

Alice - Lord of the Rings online. Fab game but such a time sink!!

Always - that is a productive first day back

Rainbow - Always started the slatterns thread, about a year ago I think? She used to post under another name but I think doesn't want to be outed so I shan't say what. It's not wasting

Ali - enjoy the Pizza, sounds like you have had a full on day.

Flame - ditto Ali, have you mentioned the spinning to your Midwife. Don't want you conking out!

Jobs this eve
DS to Bed done
Dishy on done
Washing out
Get changed
Eat Banana cake
Sofatime

Flame - hope you're feeling better? and Clairey, you too?

Always - do you not want to be outed? has stuff happened to namechange? (don't say what, just say yes or no. just don't want to out you by mistake!)

Laundry: (Hope some of this dries soon!)

• Loads 1-4 Dry NeedSorting&Ironing (Load1Sorted)
• Load5 InTumbleDryer
• Load6 In
• other loads waiting...(maybe 2 more?)

Wed:

• me up first DONE
• breakfast DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• ds2 nap DONE
• eat bacon sandwich DONE
• put photos into new albums DONE
• jobs & rest DONE
• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch DONE
• friends coming round for afternoon DONE
• boys tea + 1 DONE
• boys to bed DONE
• vaguely tidy toys...DONE
• dh out again gone
• my dinner DONE & early night

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• buy new filofax pen
• get on with friend's family tree GotFileOut
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census
• clean blinds in study
• upload, organise & order photos of boys since May

Thanks Ali!! Pizza tastes so much better when it has been delivered!!

And nice to meet you always, thanks to the thread you started I am no longer constantly living in chaos, just sometimes!!

Enjoy the wine JKS

Can't be bothered to even copy and paste my list, the exercise has come a close second to a delicious slice of strawberry cheesecake and a few pages of my book , DD had a catnap earlier, little lambs wore her out and now she keeps getting out of bed full of beans, Grrr....

I will be back tomorrow with list full of the stuff I should've done today.

Night all!!

Goodmorning all

Ali tut tut naughty girl having pizza

Me being the silly bugger that i am loaded the dishwasher last night and forgot to switch it on! So Grrr

Supposed to be meeting a friend this morning for coffee, but sent her a text to see if she wants to come over instead. This has the added benefits of costing less and giving me a kick up the bum to get my housework done!

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Everyone dressed
Make beds
Put washload on
Turn horses out
Empty dishy
Hoover living room
Quick tidy round house
Dry washing
Clean kitchen
Tidy hall
Sweep hall and kitchen
Mop
Lunch
Take dry washing upstairs
Sort dry washing
Put away dry washing
Muck out and exercise horses
Cook dinner
DD bed
Ironing

Argh @ the dishwasher - I do stuff like that.

Feeling much more normal today. Will get checked out if it comes back.

I am now sporting the highly attractive look of bump hanging out of the bottom of any top I own I've grown out of all my high waisted trousers and now have that horrible gap thing going on, even in my longest tops.

Dress children - done one
Dress me -
Wash clothes -
Dry Clothes
Put away clothes
Sort dinner
Label uniforms (currently scribbled on today's items in pen)
HOOVER
School run
school collect
collect DS

Morning All

Alice - I know, but it was soo yummy and I just could not summon the energy to cook!!

Flame/Clairey - how are you both this morning?

Well DS is still asleep, having gone to sleep at 9pm last night and not woken in the night at all! This is officially the longest sleep he has ever done. Pity that between DH snoring and my cough we couldn't take advantage and get a solid 8 hours ourselves!!
I'm feeling yucky today, got a cold and a cough. DH has brought me tea and my laptop in bed so I shall stay here until DS wakes up.

Today
Dishwasher on - DH done
Nappies on to wash - DH done
DS boobed, changed and dressed
Me up and dressed
Breakfast x 3
Strip my bed
Sheets on to wash
Nappies on line
Unload dishwasher
Tidy and dust downstairs
Tidy and dust upstairs
Book Ocado delivery for tomorrow - done
Pay Green Thumb invoice
Check car insurance
Order new driving licence
Lunch x 3
Sheets onto line
Another load of washing
Peel potatoes ready for mash
Hoover upstairs
Meal plan and finalise Ocado delivery
Dinner x 3
DS bath and bed
Clear up
Relax

Flame - x-posts! Glad you're feeling better .
How annoying about the clothes! Can you get a cheapy pair of trousers or a stretchy skirt to see you through the next few weeks?

Morning

ali hoooray for the sleep, even if you could of had more at least you know your DS can sleep for a good few solid hours, sleeping through every night maybe just around the corner!!

alice I've done the dishwasher thing before, so annoying. I've got quite a good system with the DW now, I put it on after lunch and DS1 and DS2 empty it after tea, and we I fill it between tea and lunch

flame glad you are feeling better today. I remember the can't find anything that fits properly stage, at the end I had to wear DH trackies and a oversized mans T-shirt

Write out a cheque for DS1 next Germany trip instalment
Pay a couple of bills online
Sort through paper pile that has gathered by computer
Prepare my youngest brothers birthday card etc, he's 18 tommorow
Mum coming round
Hoover
Wash floors
Wipe round bathroom
Homework time
Catch up on some sky+ed TV
Exercise
Put eye cream on
Moisturise feet
Breakfast done
Lunch
Dinner
Everyone up and dressed done
Keep kitchen tidy after every meal
Run DW
Run WM
Sterilise bottles
Bath/wash DC and to bed
Make beds
Read more book
Anything else that comes my way!!

To Do This Week;
Hang photos in living room
Book eye test
Organise DS1 school bus ticket researched just need to go to bus company with passport photos and money!!
Sort through the ton of Playmobil

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!!