November Slatterns/Listmakers - one year on and still taking baby steps.........

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Yes - Slatterns (now Slatterns and Listmakers) is now a year old.

Come and join us if you're a slattern, or simply like making lists for jobs you want to get done each day/week/month.

Never thought 12 months ago that a thread I started to help me get the bare minimum done at home when I was feeling shite would still be going strong 12 months later - even with me frequently AWOL in recent months.

Everyone is welcome, we're a friendly bunch.

Rainbow - DD only just settled but will go to bed shortly don't you worry.

JKS - well done for seeing the doc. V brave of you and a v positive step. Hope the meds kick in soon.

CWWM - 6 months old wow.

CC - scout leader! impressive and also brave!

I just had to let DD cry a bit as I have been feeding her loads this eve and couldn't stick it anymore and don't want her to suckle herself to sleep on me all the time. I felt really bad and had a bit of a cry myself but 3 mins (seeming like 10/15 mins though) later she was fast asleep . So maybe it was for the best.

Today's List
DS up and dressed done
Feed DD done
Vitamins
Breakfast done
DS to school done!
DD Nap - done
Get dressed - done
Find baby groups to go to - found a few
Lunch done
Tidy up lounge done
Dishy on done
Washing on
Write thank you cards / get pics of DD printed to send out.
Food shop done
Amuse DS after school done
Dinner - potatoes pie and veg done
Bath DD and DS done
DD/DS to bed eventually done

Ring re bilton cott

• DS bath and bed done
• take rubbish and recycling out done
• put nappies in to wash on new regime (rinse cycle, wash cycle, rinse in the morning) started
• take clean washing up done
• take nappy bucket up done
• dry pots done
• clean sink done
• filled washing up bowl done
• clear chair in living room done

Next - living room floor!

• DS bath and bed done
• take rubbish and recycling out done
• put nappies in to wash on new regime (rinse cycle, wash cycle, rinse in the morning) started
• take clean washing up done
• take nappy bucket up done
• dry pots done
• clean sink done
• filled washing up bowl done
• clear chair in living room done
• living room floor cleared - need toy and colouring storage

HMHB - don't feel bad, sounds like she really was tired

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast x 3 - done
Unload dishwasher and tidy kitchen - done
2 loads of washing - 2nd load in dryer and on airer
Wipe over loo and basin and windowsill in bathroom - done
Clean mirrors and glass doors - done
Hoover downstairs - done
Sweep kitchen and hall - done
Tidy our room and DS' room - done
Lunch x 3 - done
Mop kitchen floor - done
Clean inside patio doors - done
Clean windows in bathroom, our bedroom and DS' room - done
De-cobweb ceilings and behind blind/curtain tops - some done
Dust upstairs - done
DS nap - done
Have lovely bath and pamper while DS is asleep - done
Empty bins - done
Dinner x 3 - done
Clear up - done
DS bath and bed - done
Nappies on to wash - done
Cut DH's hair - done
WATCH SPOOKS - YAY!! - next
Tidy round before bed - done

• DS bath and bed done
• take rubbish and recycling out done
• put nappies in to wash on new regime (rinse cycle, wash cycle, rinse in the morning) started
• take clean washing up done
• take nappy bucket up done
• dry pots done
• clean sink done
• filled washing up bowl done
• clear chair in living room done
• living room floor cleared - need toy and colouring storage

• wash pots done
• wipe sides down done
• sweep kitchen floor done
• DH strip sofa covers done
• Make DH dinner done

Morning! It is a rainy morning here in Budapest. In fact it may well be sleet but I am in denial. Esp as I haven't got my winter tyres on yet! Wonder will DH let me have his car this morning after the wing mirror incident?

He is not going into office today as was in US since Sunday and spent 23 hours travelling back yesterday. And his car has all-weather tyres which will be better if it IS sleet.

Was out for a friend's birthday last night. It was eventful. One girl who I had never met before had to rush home as her DD was ill and struggling to breathe. And then one of my friends had a coughing/choking fit and semi-threw up almost over the table next to us. I felt so sorry for her. She was . Feeling slightly fragile this morning but not too bad as I drank loads of water.

Have a meeting with the Head of Primary at DS's school at 8.30 to discuss why, after 5 years and an EXTORTIONATE amount of money, we are now told that DS is 'under-achieving' in maths and literacy.

JKS - hope you start to feel better. I think ADs can take about 2 weeks to kick in.

Done:
Bin out

To do:

DS up and organised for school
Tidy kitchen and put dishwasher on
Take DS to school
School meeting
Washing
Arrange to have DH's car fixed!
Arrange to have my car fixed from when I scratched it last May!
Get winters tyres fitted on my car
Walk dog
Shopping list for Xmas cakes
Supermarket
Frontline dog
Take down Halloween decs
Do list for surveyor
Text vet
Sort WW books and do mealplan for week
Deliver Book Fair books to school
Take DS to buy snowboots.

Tomorrow/Ongoing:
(This list will be added to!)

Sort rest of charity stuff
Sort books for second hand book stall at school
Tidy clothes on landing
Move DS's lego downstairs
Tidy/clear bookshelves in study
Do Xmas list
Buy Xmas presents for orphanage gift collection

Just looked out and it is def sleet! Yuck.

Morning everyone, Hope DD settled for you last night HMHB.
Will definitely be copying the kitchen part of your list Rainbow, as I invited the rest of the scout leaders round in a couple of weeks for a meeting.

TO DO (morning)
Everybody up
Breakfast
Make lunches
DC to school
DD to Toddler Group
Clean Sitting Room
Sort Washing in Kitchen
Wash Breakfast Dishes
Hoover Downstairs
WASH FLOORS
Clean one shelf at side of fridge
Await Tesco delivery
Collect DD3
Make lunch

Buda - blimey that poor woman, at least she's ok! That is really bad about DS, how can they not have communicated that before? Especially when you are paying, it somehow makes it even more unacceptable.

CC - that was brave! I always find having people I don't know that well over is the best way to get the house sorted though!

DH has his interview today - eek! He so wants the job, I've never seen him like this. Am really nervous.

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Take DH to station for 6:45 train - done
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast x 2 - done
Worry about DH at interview - doing
Run dishwasher and tidy kitchen
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Pack bag for swimming later
Meal plan for rest of week and over weekend
Fold laundry
Put aired laundry away
Some more de-cobwebbing and dusting ceilings etc
Get ready for swimming
Swimming lesson with DS
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Something from ongoing list
Make lamb tagine for dinner
Make list for weekend and shopping list for Ikea and JL
Pick DH up from the station
Dinner x 3
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Tidy round before bed

Ongoing/Areas of Doom
Organise paperwork/filing
Buy some new bedding for spare room
Clear out old bedding for charity
Organise books
DH to sort out garage
Junk drawers in living room
Sort out photos for DS' room and put them up - gah printer is broken!
Mend my duvet covers
Sort out kitchen pinboard - nearlyfinished
DH to change all the internal door handles
Find a painter to do the kitchen
Sort out recipes
Make Christmas list for DS
Make list of present ideas for friends and family
Check we have Christmas cards/wrapping paper/gift tags etc

Good morning

Does anyone elses's 'threads i'm on' list loads of posts, but whichever one you click on takes you to page 1 of that thread? Bit annoying really, grrr.

Washed a load of coats last night. Woke up this morning to realise that i forgot to hang them in the airing cupboard, so had to rush downstairs to put DH's coat in the tumble as he needs it for work - oops! But to be fair DH forgot to start the breadmaker last night, not that he knows yet.....

Carrying on with my crisis list:

Crisis list:

Clean hob done
Put more washing on
Wipe kitchen sides down done
Wipe down front of fridge done
Sweep kitchen done
Flash quick mop kitchen done
Tidy hall done
Sweep hall done
Sweep stairs
Hoover upstairs
Clean bathroom
Hoover bathroom floor
Tidy living room
Chuck old papers out
Bicarb living room floor
Spray sofa with febreeze/bicarb done
Hoover living room
Dust

Todays list:
Everyone up just me so far
Everyone dressed
Everyone breakfast (breakfast in car this morning)
Make beds
Empty dishwasher
Put washload on
Dry washing
Turn out and muck out horses
Get changed
Go to TotRock and take back library books
Go for coffee afterwards
Pop to savers for washing powder (did you know a weeks worth of washing powder is only 99p in there? Plain Non-bio that has a nice clean smell)
Lunch
DH afternoon off
Get horse food
Bring horses in
Go to fireworks/bonfire party at DH's uncle's
Do more crisis cleaning!!!!!!!
DD bed

Good luck to your DH ali fingers crossed for him

Good luck to your DH, Ali.
Thought that was just happening to me Sparkly, normally click on the one after I last posted, but its bringing me to the first page

Morning!

I'm getting that too Alice.

Good luck for Ali's DH!

I did so well last night, that I'm going to buy an electronic timer today.

• DS boobed, changed and dressed done
• Me showered and dressed done
• nappies on to rinse done
• breakfast microwaving
• get bags packed
• hang nappies out
• put sofa covers in to wash
• toddler group (?)
• lunch
• Maplins, shoe shop, Morrisons, Range
• hoover downstairs
• clean kitchen floor
• 15 mins
• tea
• tidy
• DS bath and bed
• relax

Alice - I can't get the hang of it, it all seems upsidedown somehow.

TODAY
All up and dressed - done
Take DH to station for 6:45 train - done
Orange juice and Spatone
Breakfast x 2 - done
Worry about DH at interview - doing
Run dishwasher and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Pack bag for swimming later
Meal plan for rest of week and over weekend
Fold laundry
Put aired laundry away
Some more de-cobwebbing and dusting ceilings etc
Get ready for swimming
Swimming lesson with DS
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Something from ongoing list
Make lamb tagine for dinner
Make list for weekend and shopping list for Ikea and JL
Pick DH up from the station
Dinner x 3
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Tidy round before bed

Wasting - x-posts. You are doing some serious shopping there , enjoy!

Morning tidying up last thing worked it is still lovely and tidy too.

I have dd3 off school today she is ok but was up on and off through the night coughing so is having a duvet day.

HMHB don't feel bad about leaving dd to cry.

Fingers crossed for your DH Ali.

Good luck with the crisis list Alice BTW threads I'm on is normal for me.

Enjoy your shopping wasting.

Waves to other slatterns.

SORT OUT CLEAN WASHING AND PUT AWAY.
Breakfast
Clean downstairs loo and wipe round bathroom
Find something for tea
Sort out what dc are getting for Christmas
Hoover and tidy upstairs
Dressed x3
dinner
Load of washing in
school run

morning all - feel like I'd better make a list today - feel like I've got loads to do

DS's out to school DONE
Check all FB games DONE
Empty dishwasher
Shower and get dressed
Dress DS1
Take meat out freezer for dinner DONE
Town (mainly to buy bread and withdraw vast sums of money for school stuff

good morning ladies i havent been on here for a while as i have been to lazy busy so i have a lot to do todaay as i was in town yesterday morning then asleep all afternoon and then to A&E after school till 7
i hope everyone is ok
is any one doing anything tonight for fireworks
done
everyone up
everyone feed
everyone dressed
dd1 school
buy wash powder

todo
washing up
stack load of washing
hover make beds clean bathroom
put clean clothes away
wash floors
fluff sofa
polish
change bins
clear kitchen sides
lunch
school run
make dinner
dds bath
dds bed
watch peter andra
me to bed

HI all

Alibaba - I know! Meeting went ok. Apparently they decided to assess all children at beginning of year in line of SATs which is very flawed etc etc. Anyway. Meeting again next week and DS's work from last year will be looked at and other opinions sought etc. It is all very odd here as it is a small school and very incestuous and everyone knows everyone else. DS's teacher this year is the Head of Primary's partner! I do know the Head of Primary quite well - have gotten drunk together on occasion! It is all very odd as I said before. And it has it's good points and bad points. I did feel he was being totally honest and I know him well enough to be honest in return.

Done:
Bin out
DS up and organised for school
Take DS to school
School meeting
Instructed solicitor re house purchase
Emailed estate agent re solicitor
Had chat with DH as hadn't seen him since Saturday

To do:

Tidy kitchen and put dishwasher on
Washing
Arrange to have DH's car fixed!
Arrange to have my car fixed from when I scratched it last May!
Get winters tyres fitted on my car
Walk dog
Shopping list for Xmas cakes
Supermarket
Frontline dog
Take down Halloween decs
Do list for surveyor
Text vet
Sort WW books and do mealplan for week
Deliver Book Fair books to school
Take DS to buy snowboots.

Tomorrow/Ongoing:
(This list will be added to!)

Sort rest of charity stuff
Sort books for second hand book stall at school
Tidy clothes on landing
Move DS's lego downstairs
Tidy/clear bookshelves in study
Do Xmas list
Buy Xmas presents for orphanage gift collection

Buda - sounds like an eventful night out! The weather report from North Wales is overcast, grey and drizzly. Absolutely chucked it down all night.

Ali - good luck for DH

Wasting - buying a timer , one step away from skirting boards my dear .

Welcome back mumof2 - A&E? Everyone ok? May have little bonfire if weather ok. DS only 3 so not too bothered. No big bonfires locally.

DD was good last night in the end and had 3 short feeds in the night (11, 2am, 4am and 6.30am) so I got some sleep in between (hurrah). DH still in same room which is a lot better too.

I'm feeling less paranoid today and have managed to get DS to school on time!

DD had a crowd of little girls round her pram in the playground bless em.

Today's List
DS up and dressed done
Feed DD done
Feed DD again
Vitamins done
Breakfast done
DS to school done!
DD Nap
Get dressed - done
Find baby groups to go to
Lunch
Tidy up lounge
Dishy on
Washing on done
Write thank you cards / get pics of DD printed to send out.
Food shop done
Amuse DS after school
Dinner - fish and home made chips
DD bath
DD/DS to bed

Ring re bilton cott

You sound a lot brighter today HMHB, Wasting I just used the timer on my ohone, it beeps when the 15mins are up.
Glad meeting went ok Buda
Welcome back Mumof2rugrats
CWWM of your tidy house
Always, hope you get your coat, you are going to need it

TO DO (morning)
Everybody up DONE
Breakfast DONE
Make lunchesDONE
DC to schoolDONE
DD to Toddler Group DONE
Clean Sitting Room DONE
Lift couch cushions and tidy under them and hoover 1 DONE
Sort Washing in Kitchen
Wash Breakfast Dishes
Hoover Downstairs
WASH FLOORS SITTING ROOM DONE
Clean one shelf at side of fridge
Await Tesco delivery
Collect DD3
Make lunch

HMHB Glad you had a better night.

CC Are you crazy?? Feel free to copy any part of my list!!

I have read though, but now I am typing I can't remember what I wanted to say!!

I won't be listing today, I have just had some bad news from my mum, that my Grandad is very poorly and the hospital have asked relatives to come in, he has been in hospital since the middle of the summer and has deteriorated gradually. I'm am just waiting for my DH to bring my car back (as his is off the road) and then I will be going to the hospital.

My friends are taking care of my DC, my 3 year old DD keeps asking about Grandad and saying 'when is he coming home'. How do explain to her that he isn't??

I don't know what will be happening tonight now.

Oh, Rainbow poor you, it is going to be a hard day on you and then trying to be strong for your dcs.

HMHB my dd2 wasnt a good sleeper i BF her till she was 12.6 mo and she was getting up every 2 hrs till then to be feed and now she 2.5 yrs and she just comes and gets into bed with me in the night its not to bad as she gives lovely cuddles
i 2was at A&E because i was a bit of a twat and banged my head on a clothes rail while shopping i then got on the bus to go home aand had to get of at the next stop to be sick while draging my buggy full of shopping and my dd2 off the bus then had to walk home my 1st thought when i was sick was i better not be pg was sick again before i got home and then slept till school run and then i was ill again so i had to take both dds to hospital with me not fun i got there at 4 30 and wasnt seen till 7 by then i was fine just stressed with the girls
done
everyone up
everyone feed
everyone dressed
dd1 school
buy wash powder
1 wash load
made beds
change bins
todo
change a stinky dd
washing up
stack load of washing
hover
clean bathroom
put clean clothes away
wash floors
fluff sofa
polish
clear kitchen sides
lunch
school run
make dinner
dds bath
dds bed
watch peter andra
me to bed

hi alice how are all your end

testing...

MN wasn't letting me post before, grr.

Nightmare trip to dentist, i waited for 40 mins, getting more and more stressed hearing the noises, etc.
then they told me they'd c*cked up somehow and couldn't see me.
Not what i needed right now and i legged it in tears.
Can't be *rsed to go back anytime soon, was only for a slightly chipped filling that they pointed out at my checkup and it's not bothering me.

Thurs:

• Dentist 9.40 DONE grrrrr
• calm down Doing
• ring hairdressers re poss appt tomorrow
• sort what to wear to dh's black tie work do tomorrow
• collect ds1 (nanny)
• lunch
• dh afternoon off, maybe go out with him & ds1?
• ds2 nap
• tea
• boys to bed
• quiet night with DH

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
• filing
• tidy mine & DH's wardrobe
• sort lots of cheapo old tshirts to recycle
• check birthdays coming up & make cards