Marching into Spring, ready to clean? Slatterns and listmakers, all are welcome!

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Apologies for title.

Write lists, chat about stuff, motivate, celebrate and commiserate.

Any list format is acceptable.

Including 'coffee and MN' on to do list is encouraged.

Freak - that's very good of you!

Ali- thanks

HMHB - my tolerance through my 2 pgs & 2 lots of bf dropped to nothing (in a good way i suppose), have gradually built up to a couple or even 3 glasses of an evening the days of moving onto a second bottle seem a distant memory though....

Leftover:

• finish Sunday crosswords DONE

Wed:

• boys to bed DONE
• early & quiet night Doing
• DH home late

SCORE: Pants Toilet
Thurs:

• me up first
• all usual
• toilet training....
• pre-sch
• new 'heuristic' playgroup for DS2 (10.30)
• afternoon???
• anything else...

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVDs x 2
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put pile of cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1 (Have tip about nearby place with spaces)
• sort out spare room properly as too much junk in there Started
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bits (need a hand i think)
• add boxes of too small clothes to loft pile
• major sort out of DS2's clothes

Heuristic playgroup sounds fun JKS. DS has always loved his treasure basket stuff.

I'm so rock and roll. I've just opened a bottle of Pepsi Max. Hell yeah!

• all up, dressed, teethbrushed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• condensation patrol done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry done load in done, put ds clean washing away done
• continue shredding FINISHED!
• decluttering, sorting and tidying upstairs donequiteabit
• ongoing lists!
• lunch done

+ start new thread done

• walk? Range? done a shoe walk to Range
• feed the birds done
• take rubbish and recycling out done
• tea rubbish
• put breadmaker on? done
• tidy downstairs done
• DS bath and bed done
• is the kitchen cleared? notyet
• ready for the morning? bag packed
• crafting time

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• get frame for fireplace print - what size? bought frame closest in size, I may have to fudge it, or f*ck it. won?t fit.
• put photos in frames 2done didn?t have right size photos printed for other ones
• open painted-shut window in bedroom ? Not sure it can be done - more research forget it
• mirror up in bathroom - going to get a different mirror
• big mirror up in bedroom
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit)
• house number for front door bought

To Do -

• make compost bin - empty old dustbin, find online instructions again done,
• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials
• mould mission - hallway, front room window, back room wall
• sort out random ornament box in bedroom that?s been there since we moved! sorted now put everything where it should be done!

+ hang up decorative fish in bathroom done

• Barclaycard
• Return Jamie Oliver cookbook to SIL
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume
• sort photos and order any I want prints of

LOL at all you hardcore drinkers.

Please can I join, its hard this thing having a tidy house with kids as I didn't really manage it when it was just me. I am not even aspiring to the giddying height of clean as yet. Is it just me or do you think it should be easy but it is so not and it is so boring and I just hate it and I want to have a cleaner but can't afford. Phew, hope this hasn't brought anyone down but god I feel better!
Goodnight
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PS | Promise not to moan again and will do a list tomorrow

Welcome lou Moaning is allowed here, worry not! Totally agree with you - I found it such hard work when I first had DS, but am much more organised now and at least some things get done without me really having to think about it.

Bronze - nightmare day, do you have heating again yet? Hope order is restored soon!

I am up faaar too late again - didn't get DS to sleep until almost 11 though so needed some switch-off time. Our fault it was so late, he slept for too long in the car too late in the day.

TODAY
Me and DH up - done
Shower and dressed - done
Get DS up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Find skiboots etc in garage - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Wipe over bathroom
Shopping for things for holiday - done
Lunch out maybe? - done
DS tea - done
DS bath and bed - done
Load and run dishwasher - done
Post DS-to-bed tidy - no, couldn't be arsed
DH and I supper? - done cheese on toast, yum
Make packing and to-do lists for holiday! - tomorrow
Kitchen clear before bed - ish
Take ADs

LAUNDRY
Fold dry washing - 1loaddone
Wash sofa cushion covers

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mop kitchen and hall
Hoover upstairs
Shower screen
Dust upstairs lightshades

Morning

Lou i am the same, never managed to keep on top of stuff when it was just me and DH, but strangely i am much more organised since having DD. People frown upon children having cake for breakfast and having to wear summer dresses in winter because no clean clothes for some reason so perhaps that is why!

Get up
Get dressed
Get DD dressed
Breakfast
Make beds
Empty dishwasher (that i didn't do yesterday morning)
Reload dishy
Empty tumble - going to try new approach of a basket each for DD,DH and myself and fold and put into baskets as it comes out....we will see
Dry washing i did yesterday
Put more washing on x 10000
Go to library and to get friends DD birthday present
Lunch
Ring feed man and hay man
Do horses
Dinner
Baths and bed

morning everyone.

Going to put it in short chunks again today

TO DO

DS1 and 2 up and out to school
Visit FV/ZW neighbours
Finish ironing
Empty dishwasher
Get DS3 dressed

this morning before 9
Laundry in- Done
boys up and out of house - done!
beds made - done
breakfast for me - done
Got an horrendous day at work today where lunch will have to go by wayside so have got poxy apple and banana to keep me going
dishes - done

tonight
online shop for weekend
bake some treat for friday night
try and leave house in respectable condition so Friday (my day off) can be spent doing something nice.

Bloody DH! He was in foul mood yesterday after being at a course all day, then went to see his geeky friends for the evening. Another late night for him then in a strop this morning - not my fault, so do not talk to me like i am your daughter! Grrrrrrr
I asked him to bring the laptop down for me as he was upstairs, he brought it down and put it in the dining room, so i asked him to pass it over to me in the living room "But you are not going to use it yet, you are eating" yes, but i have one spoonful of cereal left and i would like to have it next to me. Him "but it's messy there" Me "Go to work" When he is in 'busy' mode, he seems to forget that i am his wife not his daughter

Get up done
Get dressed done
Get DD dressed
Breakfast done
Make beds
Empty dishwasher (that i didn't do yesterday morning)
Reload dishy
Empty tumble - going to try new approach of a basket each for DD,DH and myself and fold and put into baskets as it comes out....we will see
Dry washing i did yesterday
Put more washing on x 10000
Go to library and to get friends DD birthday present
Lunch
Ring feed man and hay man
Do horses
Dinner
Baths and bed

ok I was in a terrible mood yesterday. Sat whining that things were untidy didnt do anything and shouted at pretty much everyone so am back today to try and get things at least passable by the time i have to get the kids. My middle one is in nursery all day today and so its just me, the one year old and the mess.

I loved doing the 3 things list so I will do that rather than a huge list (huge lists make me want to run and hide!)

ok first three things:

get some washing on including something decent to wear tomorrow (only have one pair of maternity trousers at the moment!)

Empty the upstairs bins

put away the clean dishes in the kitchen

Get up done
Get dressed done
Get DD dressed done
Breakfast done
Make beds done
Empty dishwasher (that i didn't do yesterday morning)done
Reload dishy done
Empty tumble - going to try new approach of a basket each for DD,DH and myself and fold and put into baskets as it comes out....we will see done ok so far
Dry washing i did yesterday doing
Put more washing on x 10000
Go to library and to get friends DD birthday present
Lunch
Ring feed man and hay man
Do horses
Dinner
Baths and bed

Going to put it in short chunks again today

TO DO

Visit FV/ZW neighbours
Finish ironing
Load of washing

DONE

DS1 and 2 up and out to school
Dishwasher Emptied
DS3 dressed

that was quicker than I thought so will try and make the next jobs a little bigger!

tidy up dining room floor
wash dishes
put away clean clothes that belong on the middle floor

Morning!

Alice, Hugh Fearnley-Whotsit recommends cake for breakfast.

My bedroom is really starting to look like a habitable space now. Still some serious doom going on, but my side of the room is sorted, and with all the cupboard doors shut, I can't see the rest for now!

• all up, dressed, teethbrushed up
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• condensation patrol
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing, put load in
• declutter and tidy top of chest of drawers done
• wash pots and tidy kitchen (that I left last night)
• hoovering
• lunch
• walk?

+ crafty activity with DS

• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• tea
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed
• manicure/pedicure

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• get frame for fireplace print - what size? bought frame closest in size Need to get custom-sized to fit the mount. rather pricey - remove mount?
• mirror up in bathroom - going to get a different mirror
• big mirror up in bedroom
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit)
• put up house number

To Do -

• make compost bin - empty old dustbin, read instructions for the drill
• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials
• mould mission - hallway, front room window, back room wall
• Barclaycard
• Return Jamie Oliver cookbook to SIL
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume
• sort photos and order any I want prints of

Had been rushing around trying to get house tidied for friends visiting but they have just rang to say they would be late, so I can relax a little and come on here. Moved my airers upstairs so it is proving to be a lot more effort to go upstairs with clothes but it is so much tidier looking in the kitchen without them

Tidy Dining Area
Sweep Floor
Wash Floor
Wash Dishes
Clean Counters
Sweep Kitchen Floor
Wash Floor
Refrain from shouting at DCs esp DD3 who is in the most contrary humour
Tidy sitting room
Make Dinner for DH

Butterfly that's genius.

I haven't done anything else yet.
I've got a headache.

Grr ds just weed in a cup I said ds use the potty and he said no I want to wee in my cup

Friend rang just now, am having devil child her dd for acouple of hours this pm, will have to take her to toddlers with me not fair on ds not to go. She better bloody behave.

All up, dressed, breakfasted - DONE
Washing up - DONE
Wipe kitchen sides and dining table ? DONE
DD to preschool ? DONE
Remember other child?s trousers -DONE
Try to clean hob more - DONE
Load of washing in ? DONE
Load of washing hung up ? DONE
Hoover downstairs ?
Clean loo ? DONE
Clean sink- DONE
Try to de-limescale taps-DONE
Pick up dd -
Lunch ?
EXERCISE ?
DRINK MORE (not alcohol!) ?
Toddlers -
Cook dinner ?
Wash up -
Bath and bed dc?s-
Tidy kitchen and sitting room ?
Gte paperwork together to take to job centre tomorrow

Tidy Dining Area DONE
Sweep Floor DONE
Wash Floor DONE
Wash Dishes DONE
Clean Counters DONE
Sweep Kitchen Floor
Wash Floor
Refrain from shouting at DCs esp DD3 who is in the most contrary humour
Tidy sitting room DONE
Wash Floor DONE
Sweep Hall Floor DONE
Wash Floor DONE
Clean Downstairs Loo DONE
Wash Floor DONE
Collect DD3
Make Dinner for DH

yay! thats done
next some slightly less boring things:

order food
send bday card
put away top floor washing

Freaky at wee. Hope she behaves.

I've just done the front window and there was hardly any condensation. Could this truly be the beginning of the end of my eternal struggle with the dripping windows?!

• all up, dressed, teethbrushed up
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• condensation patrol done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put load in done
• declutter and tidy top of chest of drawers done
• wash pots and tidy kitchen (that I left last night) most
• sorting DS toys and books in front room started
• hoovering
• lunch
• walk?
• crafty activity with DS
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• tea
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed
• manicure/pedicure

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• get frame for fireplace print - what size? bought frame closest in size Need to get custom-sized to fit the mount. rather pricey - remove mount?
• buy a small mirror for above the bathroom sink
• big mirror up in bedroom
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit)
• put up house number

To Do -

• make compost bin - empty old dustbin, read instructions for the drill
• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials
• mould mission - hallway, front room window, back room wall
• Barclaycard
• Return Jamie Oliver cookbook to SIL
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume
• sort photos and order any I want prints of