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[HalfMumHalfBiscuit]

My first thread .

Alice in theory I have the standard list, but don't always do it! (like today when I was rushing around all morning and was up most of the night with dc's coughing)

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up -
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ?
Hoover downstairs -
Load of washing in ? DONE
Take dd to dancing ?DONE
Hang load of washing on line- DONE
2nd load in ? DONE
2nd load on line ? DONE
Bring washing in out of rain and hang up inside ? DONE
Clean loo-
Take dc to preschool to have photos done - DONE
Lunch ? DONE
Go to supermarket - DONE
Yoga ?
Tidy round downstairs -
Cook dinner ?

Alice in theory I have the standard list, but don't always do it! (like today when I was rushing around all morning and was up most of the night with dc's coughing)

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up -
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ?
Hoover downstairs -
Load of washing in ? DONE
Take dd to dancing ?DONE
Hang load of washing on line- DONE
2nd load in ? DONE
2nd load on line ? DONE
Bring washing in out of rain and hang up inside ? DONE
Clean loo-
Take dc to preschool to have photos done - DONE
Lunch ? DONE
Go to supermarket - DONE
Yoga ?
Tidy round downstairs -
Cook dinner ?

Hello all! Sorry to be AWOL, just dropping in to say I've no time to drop in IYSWIM. Things are a bit hectic IRL ATM (all is well though).

The Master Plan coming along nicely

Off to PILs for the weekend so I probably wont be back until Monday.

Am keeping it tidy although should be cleaning more

For some reason i have had a little black cloud hanging around this week and this afternoon it has descended. I really feel like hiding under the duvet for the forseeable future (should be a miserable old bag emoticon)

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Everyone dressed done
Unload dishy done
Reload dishy done (and on again)
Do the few bits of washing up
Put washload on done
Turn out horses and skip out field done
Go to opticians appointment (really worried about needing glasses ) done need glasses, but will have to go back on monday to choose some
Lunch done
Dry washing
Clean bathroom
hoover upstairs
Muck out horses and put to bed done
Run hoover round sitting room
Quick tidy round
Put clothes away (maybe)
Mend Dh trousers

Standard list;

Get up
Get DD up
Get DD breakfast
Put washload on
Empty Dishwasher
Get DD dressed
Shake sofa throws out
Quick tidy up of breakfast things
Turn horses out and skip out field
Dry washing
Lunch
Muck out,exercise and put horses to bed
Cook dinner
DD bed
Load dishwasher
Wipe down kitchen
Take clean washing upstairs and put away
Load up dirty clothes in basket to take downstairs in the morning.

It seems long, but is actually mostly quick jobs.

OH no spookyalice, felt a bit like that week, but it was my time of the month (tmi I know .

Hugs for you (dont get too close in case I give you my cold though)

Hi all

JKS Im giving you a hug,cos I'm soppy as a sack and don't do manly pats

CC I've had dd2 to the cinema 3/4 times, she loves it now, shes the same age as your dd, cloudy with a chance of meatballs is on in our kids club so we will be seeing that over next couple of weeks

I had a lovely day, dh took me to cake shop, and then we went for a coffee, AND SAT IN, normally dh has't to rush back to work, so we drink coffee in the car but NOT TODAY,
God I'm easy pleased

Any how I'm soaked from the school runs need to get changed and dd1 wants on to club bloody penguin so gotta go
be ready for my miss motivated tomorrow!

alice iv felt like that to today (its really weird caling you alice il send you a big little sister cuddle xx

Thanks everyone, not a great day in the scheme of things, but not terrible either, think i'm just over-emotional...

Fri:

• lie in DONE
• breakfast DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch & dh to work DONE
• ds2 nap Doing
• blitz kitchen DONE
• scrub highchair DONE
• laundry Load3In Load2InTD Load1PutAway
• filing DONE
• go through bank statements & tidy file DONE
• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch & tidy kitchen DONE
• friend + 2 coming round for afternoon DONE
• tidy up afterwards, lol
• dh home here
• tea x 4 DONE
• boys to bed
• us to football (sitter confirmed)

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• get on with friend's family tree GotFileOut
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census
• organise (Started), upload & order photos of boys
• fix my bike (flat tyre)
• sort out security light outside trying
• return borrowed highchair
• info stuff for nanny
• new shoes for DS2 at some point
• get rid of bag of stuff to charity shop/freecycle/bin it?

Right, I am throwing in the towel for today! Have rang for a takeaway, just going to finish drying dishes and thats me

Yes it's friday evening ladies, time to chill.

I'm culling my list..

Today
Gestate 39 weeks doing
Breakfast done
Tidy away breakfast things done
Get dressed done
Dishy on done
Lunch done
Washing put away done
Washing on done
Washing out done
Ironing done
Filing / admin
Dinner - Friday is Pizza and salad night! done
DS bed
Food shop - mum doing!

Ongoing
Get new bathroom rug
Buy more school trousers for DS
Think of baby names!
Get some early nights
Write and send begging letters for local kids charity

Before Baby Arrives
Buy baby sponge thing for bath
Get some DVD's to watch whilst breastfeeding
Put baby car seat in car.

Thanks all have just munched my way through half a big bag of kettle chips and had a large G&T and things are looking decidedly more rosy Dh has also tidied the sitting room and plum thinks she's easily pleased?

i love kettle chips eat some for me please im on a diet

Alice we've got Kettle chips here too - and a bottle of very nice Chardonnay!

Yay for Friday evening! Now relaxing safe in the knowledge that I finished today's list & tomorrow is the weekend

Bit worried about Christening on Sunday though, fear one Godfather may not be there as he has had bad news about his Gran (according to his Facebook status, he has not actually contacted us at all ). Oh well, wait & see what happens, I guess. Also another couple, "good friends" have dropped out after saying since a month ago they were coming . Does this happen to everyone when you plan events/parties or is it just me? Makes me feel quite as I never had many friends at school and this brings back that left out & not liked feeling . Getting tearful now so will sign off & keep telling self WEEKEND YAY!

Everyone up & dressed DONE
Make DH sandwiches DONE
Breakfast for all DONE
Tidy kitchen for SIL's arrival (for christening) - dishwasher, sides, floor DONE
Tidy bathroom for SIL's arrival - clean, sweep & bin DONE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE BUT DH IN MIDDLE OF INSTALLING NEW BATHROOM SO WON'T BE PERFECT FOR THE MOMENT!
Take stuff from stairs upstairs DONE
Tidy nursery DONE
Sweep stairs DONE
Tidy back garden DONE
Display flowers DONE
DS lunch DONE
Me lunch DONE
Tesco for MIL & SIL & BIL birthday present DONE ALSO GOT CHRISTENING CAKE
Wrap presents DONE
SIL & family coming at some point this afternoon THEY CALLED BUT I WAS AT TESCO. NICE REALLY AS HAD TIME TO ENJOY CUPPA
DS tea DONE
Me & DH dinner DONE
Dishwasher again DONE
Whup DH's backside at Facebook Scrabble DOING!

ONGOING
Ebay various things no longer required
Sort office HALFWAY THERE
Sort bedroom HALFWAY THERE
Fetch 12-18mo clothes from loft for DS (he is a big boy!)
Sort loft
Try to get clients for freelance translation

Jen - I think that happens to everyone, it certainly happens to me! You will have a lovely day, just focus on the people who are there rather than the ones who aren't.

I'm actually more organised than I thought I would be at 7pm today, being generally on top of things definitely helps when it comes to packing etc, although I really really need to get on top of the laundry - always playing catch up at the moment, grrr.
We are off to see my DB this weekend, prob. won't have time to post in the morning but you would all be proud of my packing lists

TODAY
Up and dressed - done
DS boobed, changed and dressed - done
Breakfast x 3 - done
Empty kitchen bin - done
Empty wastepaper bins and bathroom bin - done
4 loads of washing inc. nappies - 1 dry, 1 on airer, 1 in dryer, 1 in machine
Quick hoover and dust upstairs - done
Book Ocado slot for Monday - done
Text friend re poss. meet up on Sunday
Packing list for weekend with DB - done
Lunch x 3 - done
Fold clean washing - done
Do any ironing for weekend
Make chilli for dinner - wasn't hungry after kettle chips, just fed DS
Start packing - done
Clear up - done
DS bath and bed - done
Wine - done
Finish packing
General tidy - started

jenduck I think some people think ah Jenduck won't mind, you must be really nice and easy going in RL, so they don't realise they are hurting your feelings

But you just relax and enjoy the christening

Good morning ladies

Jenduck sod them!! People like that are not worth losing sleep over, enjoy the day

Get up done
Get DD up done
Get DD breakfast done
Put washload on done
Empty Dishwasher done
Clean the cat bowls and feed cat
Get DD dressed
Shake sofa throws out
Quick tidy up of breakfast things
Turn horses out and skip out field
Go to the market
Drop some books into the library
Dry washing
Lunch and feed cat
Muck out,exercise and put horses to bed
Cook dinner and feed cat
DD bed
Tidy all toys up from living room
Load dishwasher
Wipe down kitchen
Take clean washing upstairs and put away
Load up dirty clothes in basket to take downstairs in the morning.

Morning everyone,
Jenduck I agree with everyone else, that you must be too nice IRL, and everyone thinks you wont mind

TO DO
Breakfast DONE
Dress DD3
Tidy over Kitchen
Tidy sitting room
Prepare lunch
Breakfast and Lunch Dishes
Clean Counters
Sweep Floor
Wash Floor
Sweep Dining Area
Washing
Bring DD2 to trumpet lesson
DD3 to musical rascals

AFTER LUNCH (depending on energy levels)
Clean DD2s room
Clean bathroom in anticipation of a long hot soak this evening! (need to check time of scd)
Change my bed sheets

I know that feeling Jenduck and it does happen to most of us/all of us i think.
Try and enjoy the weekend anyway

Sat:

• all usual BreakfastDone DHDoingKitchen
• ds2 nap Doing
• fix curtains in our room (DH too rough with them and keeps breaking the hooks, grr)
• laundry Load3In Load2InTD
• tidy toys & try and have a bit of a sort out with them...
• DH out (over tea & bedtime, grr)
• quiet night with the tv
• anything else useful i can think of?

Ongoing:

• get photos of family & hang them up
• get on with friend's family tree GotFileOut
• transfer all family trees over to Mac software
• then go through 1911 census
• organise (Started), upload & order photos of boys
• fix my bike (flat tyre)
• sort out security light outside trying
• return borrowed highchair
• info stuff for nanny
• new shoes for DS2 at some point
• get rid of bag of stuff to charity shop/freecycle/bin it?

Morning all

Sitting here working out my meal planner for rest of week before I go shopping [eek] haven't done a Saturday morning shop in a long time [scared]

TO DO
Get everyone washed & dressed
load washing machine
hang clean washing on c/horse
strip and change dcs bed (their new covers are too hard)
strip and change my bed
finish loading dishwasher& TURN ON
go collect dd1s new glasses, pick spare pair
go get groceries
clean inside fridge
lunch
dinner
clean work surfaces
tidy kitchen
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
hoover
put away all ironed clothes away
sort the rest of the dry clean clothes
iron
make sure uniforms are washed
Ice cake board

ONGOING
Price fireplace for loungedone
sort out all baking tins etc
sort kitchen cupboards
get in tools needed for SIL's 30th cake done
get all remaining paperwork to accountant
sort and file pigeon holes
work on meal plannerdoing
steal Norks masterplan
decide on colours for bedroom
repaint chimney breast in lounge

That will do for now

Let us know what your meal plan is plum, it might inspire me! Kids are getting fed up with the same thing day in day out

I need ideas

So far I have
Pizza,wedges &garlic bread(tonight)
Roast chicken dinner
Spag bol
Sauasges, red onion gravy & champ
homemade burgars

help not very good at this
love curry we always have curry
so curry on there too

Well Pumpkin you are a much better cook than me, my week tends to go like this:

Mon - left over something from Sun (whatever DH cooked)
Tues - pasta + ready made sauce
Wed - fish fingers & potato waffles
Thurs - desperation sets in & I hope DH will be back in time
Fri, Sat & Sun - DH &

I have done slow cooked casserole-y things from packets before (in the over, don't have a slow cooker yet), or cheese on toast, or another pasta night.
Am hoping ds's will get into pizza soon so that can be one night (they don't seem to like it much yet).

My problem is dh dosen't like similar dinners close together
so if we have potatoes one night its rice/pasta next [ggrrrrr]
last week we had chicken & ham pie so next night we had chilli sausages (found a packet sauce called chilli & corriander sausages)
sausages
onions
kidney beans
tin toms
pepper
rice
water and packet sauce its lovely
like a chilli sausage paella

Our meals this week are:

Sat - sausage casserole with jacket potatoes
Sun - roast chicken dinner
Mon - M&S meal deal
Tues - Tuna pasta bake
Wed - Beef stew
Thurs - Mince (lasagne possibly)
Fri - sausage and mash

If DH is going to be home really late i tend to do DD and i pasta and sauce and DH has a pizza from the feezer when he gets home.

For lunch we tend to have eggy bread/beans/cheese on toast/wraps/soup/jacket potatoes.

I hope this helps inspire anyone