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

[wastingaway]

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.

Hoping the bubble machine will come apart easily & be fixed easily, otherwise may have to ring portage to come and take it away

Tues:

• boys bath & to bed DONE
• orchestra (check cash for sitter) DONE

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted
• boys dressed early
• shower as soon as nanny gets here
• ds1 to pre-sch
• physio with ds2 (sensory room, should be good)
• home & jobs (bubble machine!)
• collect ds1
• lunch & tidy up
• window cleaner coming
• DS2 nap
• try and find someone to go with us to soft play (everyone seems busy atm, boo)
• tea x 3 (fish fingers)
• boys to bed (maybe a bath if ds1 wants one)
• dh home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• get carpets cleaned
• get oven cleaned; started looking online for companies
• sort out date for next pizza night
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• plant some bulbs (preferably NOT with ds1, lol!)

Morning

Went to see family yesterday, when i got home DH had completely tidied the sitting room/dining room and washed the floor, and given the kitchen a good clean and tidy!!! lovely, lovely man!!!!

I now feel more able to tackle the rest of the house

May have a friend over for coffee after playgroup today, was wanting to ask her but house was such a tip!

DONE
Get up
Have breakfast

TO DO
Get dressed
Get DD dressed
Turn horses out
Get changed
Put washload on
Empty dishy
Go to library
Go to playgroup
Coffee afterwards?
Lunch
Tidy landing
Hoover stairs
Do horses
Cook dinner
Tidy round
DD bath and bed
Organise sitting room shelves?

Bit of a change of plan, DH turned the horses out on his way to work this morning, so that has given me loads of extra time.

Can i have a bit of a rant? (will anyway, feel free to ignore)

There was a thread a couple of days ago, someone moving to suffolk, wants a semi rural location, needs to be within half an hour of a certain town. I suggested our town. It is a small town, ruralish, but very good access to decent roads/trains etc, 15mins from the town they want to be near, 15mins from another, big, historical town.

Posters then come on, slagging off my town and suggesting beautiful villages nearby. Fine, but without boasting, DH earns a fair bit over the average wage (enough that we can afford 2 cars and horses) and there is no way we could afford to move to these villages without having at least £400k to spend on a house. The op wants to rent a 4bedroom house. It is highly unlikely that there will be affordable 4 bedroom houses in these villages to rent iyswim?

Why does this happen so much on MN? People come on wanting actual advice, and end up getting posters telling them they need this house, dress, shoes, coffee machine etc totally over budget but trying to talk them into it. Grrrrrrr, makes me a bit cross

DONE
Get up
Have breakfast
Get dressed
Get DD dressed
Turn horses out
Clear side table (has been on my to do list for weeks!)

TO DO
Put washload on
Empty dishy
Hoover upstairs
Wipe sink and loo
Go to library
Go to playgroup
Coffee afterwards?
Lunch
Tidy landing
Hoover stairs
Do horses
Cook dinner
Tidy round
DD bath and bed
Organise sitting room shelves?

Alice..............because this is MN

Happy st Patricks Day, everybody off here today! Still need to sew DD2s uniform

Happy St Patrick's Day to all

(I'm Irish too, left a long time ago)

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• boys dressed early DONE
• shower as soon as nanny gets here DoneBeforeSheGotHere!
• ds1 to pre-sch Doing

• physio with ds2 (sensory room, should be good)
• home & jobs (bubble machine!)
• collect ds1
• lunch & tidy up
• window cleaner coming
• DS2 nap
• try and find someone to go with us to soft play (everyone seems busy atm, boo)
• tea x 3 (fish fingers)
• boys to bed (maybe a bath if ds1 wants one)
• dh home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• get carpets cleaned
• get oven cleaned; started looking online for companies
• sort out date for next pizza night
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• plant some bulbs (preferably NOT with ds1, lol!)

I'm here, just been very naughty (fgs don't tell the rest of MN )

Fell asleep on the sofa last night at 10pm (was feeling urggh......had eaten egg earlier which I think I've developed an intolerance to), woke up at 1.30am, couldn't get back to sleep until 5.

So I let DS2 walk to school with DS1 and his friend. I did stand at the door and see them across the road in front of my house though - so there was only 1 other small road to cross. And I know he'll go into school, and I do actually trust him to be sensible with roads even without 2 older children with him.........and I promise I won't make it a regular occurance. I was just so bloody tired and did't manage to drag myself out of bed until 8.30

ok - must make a list.

I now have some lovely files and plastic sleeves for my paperwork

1 folder for bills/houshold stuff
1 folder for school and church stuff
1 folder for OU stuff
1 folder for "anything else"

Once upon a time I (well it was "we" then) did have a filing cabinet.....but that didn't work, then I had one of those filing boxes.......and that wasn't really working (and it's broken anyhow)

So decided folders with my papers in those plastic sleeves is the next option to try.....only cost me £4 for all the bits so not a huge loss if I decide I hate it and want to try a different system

But first things first

TO DO (before 10am)

Coffee (in progress)
Dress DS3
Put load of washing in
Put dishes away that I did last night
Check FB games

Morning!

I know the roads are busier than when I was little, but me and sis used to walk to school when I was 10/11 and she was 6/7. I guess it was when we moved down the village and the walk was simpler, ie. straight up the main road. I guess she was walking by herself from 8, when I moved to comprehensive school.

Right, list.

• Me up, showered and dressed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• DS up, nappy changed and dressed, then downstairs for boob done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• condensation patrol
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put load in
• coffee + check email and online banking doing
• try babywipes on sink again
• change beds
• flea market and farmers market
• lunch
• ?
• 15 mins gardening (with my new garden go-kit in a flexitub)
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• tea - roast beef
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• wipe round bathroom and OCM + clean the floor
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed?
• write list for tomorrow
• knitting

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials, have a session looking through craft books and mags, and websites for inspiration
• Let?s go swimming! - schedule a date to go and double-check times
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• Write CV started research CV writing online
• find easy slow cooker recipes started
• mirrors - buy a small mirror for above the bathroom sink, big mirror up in bedroom, other mirror up - quite heavy, will picture hook do? No, need to drill and screw
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit, 25th)
• adjust Tripp Trapp

actually wasting - if it wasn't for the fact that everyone else I know would be totally an utterly disapproving - even my close friends I would actually let DS2 walk to school with DS1 and his friends every day. He's actually more sensible than DS1 is in many respects, and a lot more aware of his surroundings (but DS1 has been walking up to school and back since he was 7 - YR3).

Wouldn't let him go on his own yet, but I don't actually have any concerns about him going with his brothers there are 2 small roads to cross.......on which the only traffic in the mornings is school parents dropping off......and the traffic moves so slowly up and down because of cars parked on both sides (there's no where else for residents to park so it's only ever single file on both streets) that I would let him.

Actually when he was in reception I did let DS1 pick him up from his dance club that he did at school a few times, as the end clashed with the end of our after school service (which I play for).

Infant school didn't actuall have any issues about letting DS1 (then YR3) pick DS2 up and bring him across one of those roads to the church.

Although I must say - until I moved here the other week the parents of the 2 friends that call for him in the morings never let their DS's walk any part of the way to school on their own, so no road crossing from them at all on their own.

1st day we did the school run from here - we met them at the infant school gates (have to walk past it to go up to the juniors). 2nd day we were running late and one of the mum's walked the other 2 boys through the church and saw them across the street to knock for DS1.

3rd day...........they came and knocked on their own. And both parents have said that it seemed like a good opportunity to give their oldest DC a little bit more independence.

anyhow - before I wrote that tome I was about to post (before 10am to say)

DONE (before 10am)

Coffee
Dress DS3
Put load of washing in
Put dishes away that I did last night
Check FB games

So now

TO DO (before 11.30am - you'll see I'm giving myself nice long time frames

Wash rest of the dishes from last night + breakfast ones
Start some ironing
Find odd socks to use for Leapfrog this afternoon

ok..........2nd list not going so well - I think I'd better get going if I want any chance of getting some of it done before the time I set myself

TAF when we had the snow I had to go and pick some stuff up from H's house and let the alarm man in to reset the code(h was away)and dd was a bit poorly and didn't want to go out so I sat her on the sofa, put dora on tv and told her she was NOT to move from the sofa and went with just ds. I would never normally do it and wouldn't have left ds but dd is quite sensible and well behaved, H lives the next street along and I had to walk along a footpath not by the road so no chance of getting hit by cars etc. I can also see my house all the way along the path just not when I go round the corner and into H's house. I know pretty much everyone on MN would flame me for that though (dd is 3.10)

Alice I agree a lot of the time people suggest ideals rather than reality on here! Also because it's "words on a screen" (to quote SM) people don't always think that they might upset people by rubbishing their suggestion/home town/choice etc.

Have a friend that I haven't seen for ages coming after lunch, she is ex forces and scarily tidy [eek]. Have tried to remove most of the clutter and once I've hoovered, wiped the sides etc it should look ok but nowhere near her standards!

My bathroom is really pissing me off too, no matter how clean it is it never looks it

DONE
All up etc
dd to preschool
clothes off radiators and put away
sofa covers back on
declutter mantlepiece
declutter kitchen sides
recycling into box
clean loo
wipe sink
tidy bathroom
change handtowel
tidy my room
tidy dc room
sort bookcase

TO DO
lunch
washing up
wipe sides
hoover downstairs
hoover upstairs
mop kitchen

Friend here
Pick up dd
watch lost online
dinner (freezer surprise so no cooking)
wash up
tidy

TAF - that sounds fine to me, so no flaming here

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• boys dressed early DONE
• shower as soon as nanny gets here DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• physio with ds2 DONE (he hated it)
• home & jobs (bubble machine!)

1) Add PIL to restaurant booking for Fri DONE

• collect ds1
• lunch & tidy up
• window cleaner coming
• DS2 nap
• try and find someone to go with us to soft play (everyone seems busy atm, boo)
• tea x 3 (fish fingers)
• boys to bed (maybe a bath if ds1 wants one)
• dh home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• get carpets cleaned
• get oven cleaned; started looking online for companies
• sort out date for next pizza night
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• plant some bulbs (preferably NOT with ds1, lol!)

right was slow getting going on my 2nd "to do" list so I'll shunt the time along a bit

DONE

Coffee
Dress DS3
Put load of washing in
Put dishes away that I did last night
Check FB games
Ironing - done (all of it - well bar a few bits that are still hanging around, dried, but not put in the basket
Lunch (for both of us)

So now

TO DO (before 1.30 - you'll see I'm giving myself nice long time frames

Wash rest of the dishes
Find odd socks to use for Leapfrog this afternoon
and ermm errrr - something else - not sure what yet lol

I've not gone out yet, as I've been waiting for trousers to dry.

• Me up, showered and dressed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• DS up, nappy changed and dressed, then downstairs for boob done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• condensation patrol done
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put load in done
• coffee + check email and online banking doing
• try babywipes on sink again done!
• change beds stripped
• flea market and farmers market
• lunch done
• ?
• 15 mins gardening (with my new garden go-kit in a flexitub)
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• tea - roast beef
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• wipe round bathroom and OCM + clean the floor
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed?
• write list for tomorrow
• knitting

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials, have a session looking through craft books and mags, and websites for inspiration
• Let?s go swimming! - schedule a date to go and double-check times
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• Write CV started research CV writing online
• find easy slow cooker recipes started
• mirrors - buy a small mirror for above the bathroom sink, big mirror up in bedroom, other mirror up - quite heavy, will picture hook do? No, need to drill and screw
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit, 25th)
• adjust Tripp Trapp

Bubble machine is fine

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• boys dressed early DONE
• shower as soon as nanny gets here DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• physio with ds2 DONE (he hated it)
• home & jobs

1) Add PIL to restaurant booking for Fri DONE 2) fix bubble tube DONE 3) let friends know about Fri night DONE 4) let PIL know about Fri night DONE 5) confirm sitter for Fri

• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• window cleaner DONE
• DS2 nap DONE

• gardening with ds1, maybe shopping?
• tea x 3 (fish fingers)
• boys to bed (maybe a bath if ds1 wants one)
• dh home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• get carpets cleaned
• get oven cleaned; started looking online for companies
• sort out date for next pizza night
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• plant some bulbs
• runner bean in a glass jar

Afternoon

I am calmer now about the whole thing it just irks me that you post on a thread i have a budget of (say) £20 for a dress/shoes whatever and out of 20 posts at least 18 of them would say, "ooh, this is lovely (£35)" or "why not get both of these" I am sure it is just people trying to live through other people iyswim?

Anyhow, i am feeling quite proud of myself today. I have cleared my side table, been to the library, taken DD to playgroup and booked a taster for dance lessons for DD for next week.

DONE
Get up
Have breakfast
Get dressed
Get DD dressed
Turn horses out
Clear side table (has been on my to do list for weeks!)
Wipe sink and loo
Go to library
Go to playgroup
Lunch

TO DO
Put washload on
Empty dishy
Hoover upstairs
Tidy landing
Hoover stairs
Do horses
Cook dinner
Tidy round
DD bath and bed
Organise sitting room shelves?

I missed my MW appointment this morning, was convinced it was tomorrow morning

Sounds like a very productive day Alice.

Good news on the bubble machine JKS.

DS is standing on the patio area with no shoes on. He's been watching me pottering outside and he's just standing there. Fresh air I spose!

I can't bring myself to go to Range after Monday's incident.

• Me up, showered and dressed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• DS up, nappy changed and dressed, then downstairs for boob done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• condensation patrol done
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put 2nd load in done
• coffee + check email and online banking doing
• try babywipes on sink again done!
• change beds stripped
• flea market and farmers market
• lunch done
• hang washing out done
• 15 mins gardening (with my new garden go-kit in a flexitub) done
• feed the birds done
• take rubbish and recycling out done
• tea - roast beef
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• wipe round bathroom and OCM + clean the floor
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed?
• write list for tomorrow
• knitting

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials, have a session looking through craft books and mags, and websites for inspiration
• Let?s go swimming! - schedule a date to go and double-check times
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• Write CV started research CV writing online
• find easy slow cooker recipes started
• mirrors - buy a small mirror for above the bathroom sink, big mirror up in bedroom, other mirror up - quite heavy, will picture hook do? No, need to drill and screw
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit, 25th)
• adjust Tripp Trapp

Wasting - sure they've forgotten exactly what the mad lady from the other day looks like
So the babywipes worked then?

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• boys dressed early DONE
• shower as soon as nanny gets here DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• physio with ds2 DONE (he hated it)
• home & jobs

1) Add PIL to restaurant booking for Fri DONE 2) fix bubble tube DONE 3) let friends know about Fri night DONE 4) let PIL know about Fri night DONE 5) confirm sitter for Fri Texted

• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• window cleaner DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• shopping with DS1 DONE

(textured cushion for DS2, more pants for DS1, Mothercare Smart nappy outers for DS2 & jewellers to fix DH's cufflinks)

• tea x 3 (fish fingers)
• boys to bed (maybe a bath if ds1 wants one)
• dh home late

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• get carpets cleaned
• get oven cleaned; started looking online for companies
• sort out date for next pizza night
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• plant some bulbs
• runner bean in a glass jar

is trying to decide whether is slattern or listmaker.....

Will pop back soon marking my place.

Hi Nettie.

Yes JKS, the babywipes worked. Plenty of elbow-grease and thumb-nail application still needed like, but it's gone.

That's the thing about Range, I really am in there all the time, and I'm huge and a bit weird anyway. Easy to spot.

I might be brave enough in a few days.

We went to Morrisons though as I needed coffee anyway.

• Me up, showered and dressed done
• beds made, windows and curtains open done
• DS up, nappy changed and dressed, then downstairs for boob done
• spatone + OJ + vitamins done
• breakfast done
• condensation patrol done
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put 2nd load in done
• coffee + check email and online banking doing
• try babywipes on sink again done!
• change beds stripped
• flea market and farmers market
• lunch done
• hang washing out done
• 15 mins gardening (with my new garden go-kit in a flexitub) done
• feed the birds done
• take rubbish and recycling out done
• walk to Morrisons done
• tea - roast beef started
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• wipe round bathroom and OCM + clean the floor
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed?
• write list for tomorrow
• knitting

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on one or two gifts I?d like to make, find patterns, instructions etc. and buy materials, have a session looking through craft books and mags, and websites for inspiration
• Let?s go swimming! - schedule a date to go and double-check times
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• Write CV started research CV writing online
• find easy slow cooker recipes started
• mirrors - buy a small mirror for above the bathroom sink, big mirror up in bedroom, other mirror up - quite heavy, will picture hook do? No, need to drill and screw
• get new curtains for front room
• shelves in cupboard + clean and anti-mildew paint (project for next Dad visit, 25th)
• adjust Tripp Trapp
• get garden chairs from MILs garage

Amazing how everything happens at once.
Thankfully DS went to school today but otherwise lots of manic phonecalls to work, health visitor, docs etc. etc. . We will survive

Meal Plan
Wed - sweet potato risotto
Thurs - lasagne
Fri - baked potato and salad

All up and dressed done
Clear away breakfast things done
Pilates or walk or gardening
Vitamins done
Rubbish out
Recycling out/plastic to school
Food shop done
Lunch done done
Light woodburner done
Open windows done
put washing on done
put washing to dry done done
Washing in, folded and put away done done
tidy kitchen done
empty dishy done
dishy filled and on
admin/filing/post
dinner done
bath DD/DS done
DD/DS to bed done
tidy bedroom done
put toys away in lounge done
feed cat

also
Arrange holiday at Easter and Summer
Ring hospital to see if have appointment yet done - not for 18 weeks! WTF
Make beds
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
Arrange DD's christening! - send off form
Pay cheque for accountant - need to post
DH's doc appointment (wed)
Pay meithrin nursery
Test more paint for decorating hall and bathroom.
Put charity stuff in bags for Wed. done
Ring estate agent
Post parcel for DH

Welcome Nettie

HMHB - what's been going on?

Wasting - a disguise?!

DS2 seems to be coming down with (another) chest infection from this cold, not happy, grr.

Wed:

• all up & breakfasted DONE
• boys dressed early DONE
• shower as soon as nanny gets here DONE
• ds1 to pre-sch DONE
• physio with ds2 DONE (he hated it)
• home & jobs

1) Add PIL to restaurant booking for Fri DONE 2) fix bubble tube DONE 3) let friends know about Fri night DONE 4) let PIL know about Fri night DONE 5) confirm sitter for Fri Texted

• collect ds1 DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• window cleaner DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• shopping with DS1 DONE

(textured cushion for DS2, more pants for DS1, Mothercare Smart nappy outers for DS2 & jewellers to fix DH's cufflinks)

• tea x 3 (fish fingers) DONE
• boys to bed DONE (DS2 early, DS1 late after a bath)
• tidy up DONE
• dh home late

Thurs:

• decide if DS2 needs a doc appt for ABs
• DH up first (i think)
• breakfast
• all dressed
• DS1 tp pre-sch
• heuristic play if DS2 is ok
• PIL arriving approx lunchtime
• collect ds1
• lunch & tidy up
• DS2 nap
• DS1 pre-sch boosters (12.40)
• afternoon? garden maybe?
• boys tea, bath & bed
• dinner with PIL & DH

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD
• upload & order online prints
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors (Started)
• put cds onto DH's pc, then they can go into loft with others
• find out about swimming lessons for DS1
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• get carpets cleaned
• get oven cleaned; started looking online for companies
• sort out date for next pizza night
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• plant some bulbs
• runner bean in a glass jar

Afew things going on JKS.

Been trying to get gynae consultants appt. Had letter saying the next appointment is in 18 weeks so been on phone loads today to try and get one sooner. long story blah blah.

Also had a fret about DD's feeding and wondering whether to give her 1 bottle a day to help me cut down for when I go back to work. link here

Work rang again to find out when I am going back so had to tell them about issue with childminder/nursery and possibly not going back til July when I had told them May.

Hmm, seems like a lot now I have written it down!