Slattern, list makers and procrastinators, fudging our way into Feb - ..........

[ToccataAndFudge]

everyone welcome (and yes I'm taking a flipping liberty starting the new thread )

Hi ladies, can I come in?

I am having a bit of a tough time and need ot be listing to get on top so I thought this might help? You all seem lovely anyway

Anyway

TO do

Clothes out of dryer upstairs
clothes into drawers
Pack for DD's and me for 3 days
Clean bathroom
change birdfood
Clean out birds
dd1 to and back from school
DD1 to and back from school disco
check freezer for food to take to IL's
Pack food
clean out car
cook sausies for dh
get out mince for FIL's tea
hoover
get wire for mums birthday present (now 3 weeks late)
write dd1's thank you letters
put all rubbish into garden
chuck out food from fridge that might go off
make packed lunch for car in case of jams

pack 'extras'
mini list
coffee maker thing
proper coffee
milk
bibs
placemats
toys for dd's
DD's pillows
DD2's quilt
sewing stuff for DD1's doll
crochet stuff
fake flowers for MIL

thanks for letting me in!

Get up DONE
Shower DONE
Breakfast DONE
Anti-inflammatories DONE
Get girls dressed
Get girls breakfasted
Hang up dark wash
Put on light wash
Put away clean clothes
Hang up nappies
15 minutes in girls rooms
Sew another square of alphabet wall hanging
Find WWII websites for DD1 to look at as requested last night
DD1 recorder
DD1 handwriting
DD3 sticker book
DD2 and DD1 read book about the Blitz

ONGOING

File phone expenses claim (can't flipping do this because the online claim thing isn't working)
File claim for Jan work (as above)
Ebay stuff
Plan friend's birthday present DONE
Choose fabric for friend's present DONE
Cut fabric for friend's present
Sew friend's present
Post off letter to council asking for a bigger wheely bin
Book shifts DONE
Tell mum what clothes I want from La Redoute

DIY (over the next two weeks)

Take down pegs from our bedroom
Choose curtains, curtain pole, lampshade and bedding, and bedside lamps for our bedroom
Paint ceiling - coat one
Paint ceiling - coat two
Paint white splodge on wall for tester pots
Do tester pots
Buy paint when we've chosen it
Take down blind
Paint walls
Plan bookshelves
Buy wood and paint for bookshelves
Build bookshelves
Build bedside shelves
Paint bookshelves, bedside shelves and woodwork
Budget for carpet
Get new carpet laid

morning all
ugh, I cant shake this cold at all
I wake up choked by phlegm and my head filled with snot
then I spend all morning couching and hacking and bloeing my nose, filling tissues with radioactive snot
then by lunchtime I'm wiped out and want to go to bed
ugh

sorry to whine
hope everyone is well
here;s to doing lots on lists

get new healthy start form
fill it in and post
take child tax credit award letter in to school for completion of free school meal form
send a birthday text done
get up before 7.30 done
eat something before 12
large juice before school run
put a wash on
do a load of washing up
try ironing
dont shout in progress
take ad's done
take vit c done
get the kids to eat something for breakfast that isnn't chocolate done
kide brush teeth
kids dressed warmly enough done
ensure any children that dress themselves have knickers on to avoid more phonecalls to ss done
do at least 15 mins of clean clothes folding and PUTTING AWAY
pay car bill

dd1 to school
dd2 to nursery
dd3 to playgroup
walk dog
pick up dd2 and 3
buy more council rubbish bags

Morning!

Ali, I never flush when out and about, just stick in wetbag and wait to get home. It always escaped from paper liners for us anyway.
If you do want more fleece liners, I highly recommend buying some fleece and cutting yourself. I got about 36 from a piece that cost £4.99.

Hope your cold starts clearing Trinity.

Hello Jack! Welcome to the gang.

DH is off work again, and me and DS aren't going to playgroup. Going to go to the doctors re: the oral thrush today and hopefully the doc can suggest something for DH poorly tummy.

• all up, dressed, teethbrushed
• beds made, windows and curtains open
• condensation patrol
• spatone + OJ done
• breakfast done
• check email and online banking doing
• dry pots
• laundry - woollens
• doctors
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• clean out the fridge
• lunch
• tidy upstairs
• walk/play?
• baking
• Tesco delivery - 4-6
• tea
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• OCM
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed?
• put cover back on sofa
• knitting
• handcream and cotton gloves before bed

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• pictures and clocks up DSroomdone
• open painted-shut window in bedroom ? Not sure it can be done
• mirror up in bathroom - going to get a different mirror
• big mirror up in bedroom
• fix wardrobe door need correct screw ikea can provide spares (I think) need to find instructions to get part number
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard

To Do -

• make compost bin - empty old dustbin, find online instructions again,
• get a 2nd green box rangcouncil
• filing - new folder/dividers etc.? progressing
• need new bedding/ duvet?
• card 1 - buy aida done, buy aperture card - Range? done, choose design, stitch and put together
• Birthday - card, wrap presents
• plan Christmas 2010 started! haha!
• mould mission - bedroom window, hallway, front room window, back room wall
• sort out random ornament box in bedroom that?s been there since we moved!
• British Gas
• Barclaycard
• Gas safety man - find letter with phone number on

ok new list - still feeling shattered though so I just hope I can at least get some of it and some studying done today

DS1 and 2 up and out to school DONE
Shower for me
Get dressed and dry hair
DS3 dressed
Empty dishwasher
Go meet CPW
Lunch
Toddlers
Ironing
Load of washing
Drying (continued from yesterday)
Dinner
Hoover
Sort papers in kitchen
Bath boys
Study
Load dishwasher

ermm think that's it for now

Right, here goes - added all my big jobs to the bottom in the hope that it'll encourage me to actually do them...

EVERYDAY JOBS
Get up and make beds
Open curtains and wipe condensation from windows
Brush teeth
Get breakfast done
Get dressed
Empty Dishwasher
Refill Dishwasher
Wipe kitchen sides
Get dinner out of freezer if necessary not necessary today
Clean room of the day (I find it easier if I choose one a day to concentrate on) ? todays it?s?the children's rooms
Clean loo
Play with children - turn the bloody TV off!!
Tidy lounge
Feed rabbits

OTHER JOBS
Fill out and post Anthony Nolan Form
Pick up ?New Family? pack from Lloyds or Argos
Chose and order picks from Snapfsh
Get new mirror for the bathroom cabinet
Send Christmas thank you cards
Sort out jabs for rabbits
Return book to Amazon
Return rug to Habitat
Get photos for passports
Find all bits for IKEA bed guard and sell

Not doing well so far!

Ooh, forgot

Endless breastfeeding! started
Make lunch
Make dinner
Bath and bed

Morning - it has not been a good start to the day- I will not go into too much detail, suffice to say it went like:

Ds watching TV in lounge, did a poo, it rolled out of his pj's, dog entered the room........ you get the picture

Anyway here is my list:

Get up washed and dressed done
DS bathed and dressed done
Kitchen cleaned up after brekkie done
Laundry folded and put away.
Drop DS to Pre-school.
Walk the dogs.
Hoover.
Mop floors.
More laundry in washer.
Defrost salmon pieces for dinner.
Collect DS early from pre-school and go to YD's Parent consultation meeting.
Lunch.
Arts and crafts with DS.
Hoover out inside of my car.
Prep dinner.
Make birthday cake and scones for my mum's birthday tea tomorrow.

Think that will do!!

Welcome EssenceofJack, we are lovely!

Trinity - some horrid colds going round. I can feel that my sinuses have got gunk in them but not as bad as you. DD snuffling/snotting all over my boobs.

Tis Freezing here. Might put heating on and not go to the disaster that was Baby Massage last week (freezing hall, too many people, some loud mums who have been there done that and the girl I sat next to probably gave DD her cold).

Toccata - hope you can get some studying done today. When is your exam? What are you studying? You've probably already said but I forget.

Golden Snitch - the xmas thank you cards have come off my list as never got round to them .

Wednesday - pie and chips doing burning
Thursday - pasta bake/bolognaise
Friday - er? pizza?

Today
Breakfast done
Clear away breakfast things
Pilates or walk or gardening
DS to school done ON TIME !!!
Vitamins done
Rubbish out
Recycling
Make beds
Lunch
Bring logs in
Light woodburner
put washing on
put washing to dry
Washing folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy on
admin/filing/post
dinner doing
bath DD/DS
DD to bed
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge

also
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Speak to builders re ridiculous quote for wall
Get photos printed
Buy new address book and fill in

get new healthy start form
fill it in and post
take child tax credit award letter in to school for completion of free school meal form
enrol dd3 in nursery done
send a birthday text done
get up before 7.30 done
eat something before 12 done
large juice before school run
put a wash on done
do a load of washing up done
try ironing
dont shout in progress
take ad's done
take vit c done
get the kids to eat something for breakfast that isnn't chocolate done
kide brush teeth
kids dressed warmly enough done
ensure any children that dress themselves have knickers on to avoid more phonecalls to ss done
do at least 15 mins of clean clothes folding and PUTTING AWAY
pay car bill

dd1 to school done
dd2 to nursery done
dd3 to playgroup done
walk dog
pick up dd2 and 3
buy more council rubbish bags

I've only just started this course -doing K204 working with families and children (with the OU) - exam won't be until October - but I'm trying not to fall behind at the very start..........and not doing very well so far lol

Trinity - I can't help but @ your knickerless (or have knickers on) thing

Morning

Hopefully have a good nights sleep and a bit of a lie in done!!!!
Breakfast done
Get dressed
Clear breakfast stuff
Go to library
Meet friend for coffee/early lunch
Clear dining room (not too much in there)
Move DD's toys from the sitting room to the dining room (they are joined)
Organise the toys so they are easy to get out and put away
Empty dishwasher
Do horses
Cook dinner (DH has still been doing it)

Morning everyone

Avril - glad you are happy with how DD's appointment went, sounds positive

Kansasmum - at poo, what a nightmare!

HMHB - that is a shame about baby massage, I did it with DS and it was lovely - only 6 in the group though which I think was the key.

Back with a list in a while, need to take DH to the station.

knickers

I know
because the kids have a child protection worker all the school etc that the kids go to know this and have certain things that they are told to report to my child protection worker

so if gecko gets dressed herself and forgets knickers they phone and tell my protection officer and then she has to come and see me

pointless extra work for her when she is doing so much for us already

so I'm making sure now

oh bless - if it's anything ilke the "I've got myself dressed" brigade in this house must be a nightmare when they've forgotten their knickers and you have to make them undress again to put them on

Morning, sorry about all the poorly people, wishing you all a speedy recovery.

Had words with H again this morning . He turned up to take dd to preschool without us having arranged it. Not really a biggie but 1) I don't like him turning up unannounced and 2) the morning school run is usually a good chatting opportunity with other mums and I have no other life

(and at what point can I start callng him exh? Do we have to be divorced or is being separated enough? Am not au fait with the terminology!)

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
DD to preschool - DONE
Strip my bed - DONE
Load of washing in ? DONE
Load of washing hung up ?
Pick up stuff from under sofas -
Hoover downstairs ?
Mop downstairs ?
Recycling pile into box ?
Look for boots ?
Clean loo ?
Clean sink-
Try to de-limescale taps-
DD from preschool -
Lunch ?
Toddlers ?
Shop for crème fraiche -
EXERCISE ?
DRINK MORE (not alcohol!) ?
Ironing -
Clean clothes away ?
Remake my bed -
Cook dinner ?
Wash up -
Bath and bed dc?s-
Tidy kitchen and sitting room ?

But first

Change nickname

oh god yes!!
it is a nightmare so now I try and keep close to her so if she starts getting dressed I can throw knickers at her and not have to do the underssing thing

some morning she wants me to dress her anyway but more often than not she wants to fly solo

sometimes she remembers on her own

its a good job that back to front or inside out doesn't need a phonecall

Ali - I did it with DS and it was a lovely little group but this time they are all bugging me going on about buying Annabel Karmel blenders etc. Why? It's a poor area and most people can't afford such stuff. Have an amusing story about it if people interested.

Thursday - pasta bake/bolognaise
Friday - er? pizza?

Today
Breakfast done
Clear away breakfast things done
Pilates or walk or gardening
DS to school done ON TIME !!!
Vitamins done
Rubbish out
Recycling done
Make beds
Lunch
Bring logs in done
Light woodburner Done
put washing on
put washing to dry
Washing folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy on
admin/filing/post
dinner doing
bath DD/DS
DD to bed
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge

also
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Speak to builders re ridiculous quote for wall
Get photos printed
Buy new address book and fill in
Pay cheque in

Trinity I used to have swimming lessons first thing so would wear cozzie under uniform, 9 times out of 10 I would forget to take knickers for after

Plum I have just seen on another thread that you iron sheets Explain yorself please (What else do you iron? Towels? pyjamas? vests?)

And yes to amusing story please HMHB