Monday FLY. Belurgh this house oh FLY we pray

[ImdreamingofaGROUCHYxmas]

Morning all, BBL with the links

We are in the bathroom today and here is your mission

and generic babysteps

Have fun everyone

Hit the ground running this morning.

Done

Make bed
Wake Ed (who now has 2 pet potatoes called Alan and Steve (?!?!?))
Dress to lace up boots
Meds
Breakfast
Tidy away
Empty DW
Put away
Empty TD
Load and run WM
Take down damp washing
Load TD and run
Load crockery into DW
Wash and teeth clean me and Ed
Get him to school
Home and a well earned cuppa

Going to bleurgh and potter until pick up time. Oh and make something scrummy for the school xmas party

Hi all

Pants weekend, but never mind

I am shattered and have a really painful chest - not sure why.

Anyway to do list

Home bleuring
Buy Eggs
Make cakes for Preschool party and Toddler party
Wrap candles for Toddler tea
Washing
Ironing
Sort Airing Cupboard and wash more marked bedding
Whats for lunch and Dinner
Make more pressies
Make Mince Pies for MadDad's work
Write some cards
Post office

Try not to cry and worry!!

Hi Tea, fancy a chat?

Morning all Thank you for the thread GROUCHY. Hope you get to speak to Tea It's a difficult time for lots of people, just spent 1 hour with school Mum offering my shoulder, she is divorced and going through an tough time with her DS not eating and ex is being very difficult.
OFM Hope you too feel better! Little Star went into a paddy yesterday because he couldn't open friend's Christmas gift there and then!!! If she saw us in the street would she have had a word with us too!
Well coffee has cost me time. Must crack on glad I've got a couple of extra days.

Make beds
Phone new school re uniform
e-mail school re after school club
Pay bills (yukky)
Get lights out for Christmas tree (Ds had a paddy about that too!)
Wrap friends present
W/M on/off who knows!
Same with dryer
Frozen Fish cakes & oven chips for Tea
Ds needs to buy a gift for Teacher
HMV voucher for Godson
Scatty Thank you for salt dough mixture. What do you use to paint them? & How do you need a varnish?

Hi,

Grouchy lol at potatos Alan and Steve DS2s current favourite toys is a Trex head (no body just a head) which he like to take everywhere.
Tea painful chest- I hope it feels better soon otherwise maybe you should see your GP.
stanne good luck with present hunting for teacher.

Today DH as yet again gone away for 3 days.
List
Load of washing
ironing
clean loo
load dishwasher
wipe kitchen counters
lunch
dinner
make plans to go buy some shelves with a friend
sent some emails
make a few phone calls

Morning Leo DH being away must be pants.
Hope you enjoy the freedom to do what you want at home though.

Also going to try and do this Xmas fly

Grouchy as long as they are not couch pots
given up on my plans today as both dss have streaming colds so can't get out, which is almost a blessing.
A neighbour's 10 yr old is here again with a chest cold, so they are all playing Monopoly
Anothher friend has just popped in for impromptu cup of tea (I was doing my routines but had not got as far as the kitchen bin, only when she left realised just how smelly it was.. Now cousin is appearing from somewhere to say hello and drop presents, so need to get dressed in less grmy outfit.

TM - I hope I've had all my bad luck for this year, but as you say things go on testing us to the limit.
Star - trying to do teachers' presents TODAY, wrap and sort I mean, and get cards written for delivery on Friday. Perhaps I'll give lollipop lady her present today so that she doesn't get forgotten.

Leo - I always complain about dh's interferng but it is hard when he's away so I really sympathise.

Leo Alan and Steve slept with him last night and as it was cold they were wearing bathrobes - socks to me and you. How on earth does a 6yr old get emotionally attatched to a root vegetable? what next? Carrots? Parsnips?

GROUCHY OR large beach stones!

Groucy, I will be free for a chat after dropping Mini at preschool at 12.30!!

Right I am having 5 mins, I am actually dripping with sweat!!

We have: Mini follows me

Polished upstairs
cleaned Mirrored wardrobe doors
Made beds
Hoovered upstairs
S&S bathroom and ensuite
Got on hands and knees and scrubbed carpet that got brown water on
Hoovered again
Washed down walls in kitchen that got water on and ceiling too. It looks a lot better.

We do have some really nice things that have happened though. Look what one of MadDad's clients gave the boys for Christmas they are so cool

I am also having mother issues. She is still not speaking to me, tried to explain that we had had a household emergency last night nad she sent MadDad a text "I dont want to talk to * again, tell her she needs to sort herself out and rearrange her priorities, good bye"

All because she is not the centre of attention. Well Bah bloody humbug

Home bleuring - doing
Buy Eggs
Make cakes for Preschool party and Toddler party
Wrap candles for Toddler tea
Washing - on
Ironing
Sort Airing Cupboard and wash more marked bedding
Whats for lunch and Dinner
Make more pressies
Make Mince Pies for MadDad's work
Write some cards
Post office

St Anne or bits of rubble or chunks of tarmac from the roadworks

Must tell you about my nephew pocket when he was eight. I went looking for a tissue and found. Post office rubber bands, an old apple core, of course a matchbox car and a stone! He is now 21

grouchy kids are a mystery they leave perfectly good toys and play with the most bizzare collection of things.
StAnne and Swan I yoyo between doing exactly what i want in the evenings (I have the remote) or getting really down after having the kids for the whole day and not haivng another adult to speak to in the evenings. But to be honest he travels quite a lot and I am quite used to it now.

Hi all.

Grouchy - your Ed is so sweet .

swan - sounds very sociable round yours today .

Tea - honestly your mum really takes the biscuit!

Leo - Sorry youre missing dh

StAnne - I think varnish would have looked nicer but don't know how to achieve that look . DC used normal poster paint and liberally sprinkled with glitter for more er colourful look!

Today:
WRITE CHRISTMAS CARDS
DS to write cards for teachers
laundry
wine for friends party
biscuits for work
buy blu tac and batteries and stamps
House bleugh

Tonight is the only night with nothing on this week so I'm going to make the most of it.

Toddlerstyle Mum - very annoying TM. She will get bored of being left out eventually. Nothing is more exasperating when people pretend that they are being rational and you are not.

We are having a lovely morning with three boys in house (card heaven)but not much cleaning done
2 loads of washing
bedrooms sorted a bit
kitchen bin emptied
2 cheques sent off via husband mail
NEED MORE STAMPS
My cousin brought a beautiful gingerbread house with her (from a shop)
my dcs are torn between wantng to MAKE gingerbread men but hating gingerbread taste
ds2 is now researching rocks and minerals and I've promised he can go on DK website later if he stops tormentng big boys.

GOALS
lunch for four pasta and cheese
wrap those teacher presents
put some nice clothes on
do piano practice
more garden rubbish bag up (I bag please..)

Hello to all. Sorry, I've only skipped through the thread.

Grouchy Your Ed sounds very sweet!

I've been out all day and have only just had my elevenses. I know, I should have made myself lunch instead but I'll do that in an hour or so instead.

Good news:- I've bought stuff for dd's stocking. Bad news:- I've only bought a few bits for ds and now I've got to jot down how much I've spent on dd in order to give ds the equivalent. It's not hard, I just have to check the receipts but it feels a bit annoyingly pointless, you know?

I've got to get the spare bedroom ready for a guest tonight. It's mostly done, helped by the fact that I filled up 3 bags for the charity shop!

Right. I'd better get these Christmas stocking items out of sight. Back later!

afternoon all

Woke up feeling very low.
Keep thinking of stupid woman stood in car park telling me I should be ashamed for not giving the children the Christmas they deserve ...I know I should be and I am....but keep ending up in tears...
Why am I letting some stupid old bat get to me so much?????
A hard time of year indeed....need it to be spring and all my bulbs to come up...and light evenings and fun in the garden and....sigh...
DH has just sent me a lovelyemail telling me what a wonderful mum and wife I am...bless him, very unlike him...he must know how upset I am...has set me off crying again though...

need to go drink tea then will catch up on thread properly...

grouchy potatoes LOL

tm hope you're feeling a bit brighter. and hope everything washes OK..hang in there...Spring is just around the corner

swan sounds like you're all having fun...well done!

scatty I hate it when all my nights get taken up with stuff...

stanne good luck with list

leo my dh was away a fair bit this year and I found it hard going...hope you manage ok...

simply well done on spare room...

well I've done all I need to and now I'm bored

Galen she just pressed all the right buttons to release those fears that you've harboured since the arrival of DC1. She is a silly moo, she knows nothing about you or you parenting skills. I am on your behalf

ok....going to cheer myself up with a done list...of general Christmas tasks...

Sorted 3 costumes for nativities...done,performed,finished!

Sorted 4 party outfits for Christmas parties...incl 3 X new dresses,1 X new tights,found 3 more pairs of tights, bought 3 X new pairs of shoes,and 3 X cardigans.

Made 3 dozen Christmas fairy cakes for school parties

Put up indoor decorations

Put up outside lights

Bought Christmas presents for 6 DC

Bought stocking fillers for 6 DC

Wrapped DD1 and 2 presents

Bought 5 X new PJ's for Christmas eve gift bags(1 to get)

Bought 5 pairs slippers for Christmas eve bags(1 to get)

Bought 6 mugs(for hot choc) for Christmas eve bags

Bought 6 Christmas books for Christmas evebags

Bought Turkey

Made Christmas cake

Bought Christmas pud

Made and eaten(not just me!) 4 dozen mince pies so far!

Bought stuffing,cocktail sausages etcfor Christmas dinner

Bought up lots of crisps/chocs when on special offer and stashed for kids for Christmas....LOL

Bought and put up tree...just LOL

Been to school Christmas fayre and seen Santa

Made salt dough decs with DC

Made Christmas biscuits with DC

Christmas colouring and painting with DC

Sewed 5 sock monkeys for Christmas eve bags (2 to do)

Made up Christmas hampers for sister, BIL and neice

Bought ingredients for homemade choccies and biscuits for presents

Bought choccies for 9 teachers....only to find out theyasking for donations to school charity instead of gifts this year...good idea, but wish I hadnt been so organised for once LOL

OK...so not doing bad

Now my Christmas to do list:

Buy squash for DD1 for Christmas party

Buy grapes for DD2 for Christmas party

Buy DS1 Pj's and slippers

Buy 1 gift box and 1 more basket from Wilkos

Sew up last 2 sock monkeys

Knit scarves for sock monkeys

Order a couple of cheap Christmas DVDs

Think of inspirational present for my Mum

Buy Lager for BIL hamper, wine for sis mum and BIL's parents...

Buy glass paint

Buy cheap champagne glasses to decorate for DH pressie...

well thegood news is second list is smaller...

Mind you I have been working on it since Oct..

right off for another cuppa...BBL

afternoon all

just a quick nip in to say hello and I miss you all. Hopefully I will be able to get back later to catch up on what's happening. Did lots of jobs at the weekend but I am being slightly hampered by the sudden demise of my tumble drier.