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.

Plum - it is definitely much brighter tonight, yey! And isn't that a 'throwing-off-slatterns' offence?!?!

SCORE: Pants 1 Toilet 5
Leftover:

• Sat crosswords

Sun:

• toilet training Doing
• al up together (as DS1 up late) DONE
• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• put away non-ironing DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ironing & put away clothes DONE
• me & DS1 out to theatre DONE
• lunch DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• DH & DS1 out swimming DONE
• Sun papers & crosswords Doing
• fix bathroom lightpull as DS1 broke it last night Tomorrow
• email re 3 birthdays today DONE
• tea x 4 DONE
• boys to bed
• tv & bed

Mon:

• all usual
• collect DS1 then go home with friends to theirs for lunch & play

(try and take DS1's new 'toilet prize' to play with!)

• home when they go to school run
• 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)
• Get on with sorting out spare room properly as too much junk in there DoneMore
• Freecycle ancient TV MayRelistOtherwiseHaveToThrowOut
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bits

Skirting boards!!! Plum!

I have been soooooo lax. Have not done anything. DS and I made a nest on the floor and I tried to watch Poirot but DS wanted to watch Fire House Dog and he is watching that.

Still cannot be faffed with anything. could be pnd? but poss just tired. i dont want to talk to anyone or go anywhere which is a bad sign.

JKS - DH is going to take SN kids to the lakes Mon - Fri.

All up and dressed done
Clear away breakfast things done
Pilates or walk or gardening done
Vitamins
Rubbish out
Recycling
Lunch - make soup done
Bring logs in
Light woodburner done
put washing on
put washing to dry
Washing folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy filled and on again done
admin/filing/post
dinner dh did
bath DD/DS dh did
DD/DS to bed
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge
feed cat

also
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
Pay cheque in done!
Arrange DD's christening!
Pay cheque for accountant - need to post
Buy lightbulbs
Ring cath kidstone done - they have lost my returns parcel grr. Email copy of PO receipt
buy coathangers
ring sky AGAIN!

Tomorrow
Online food shop

HMHB I felt like that after dd2 was born looking back I think I had PND, I did,

and still have't to get motivated to go out and see friends etc, I've never been to the doctors and I'm not against taking tablets etc (infact I'm abit addicted to paracodol soluble)
Its just I feel its something that I can work on, then I worry am I just kidding myself

HMHB - Firehouse Dog a favourite here
Worth looking into the PND possibility.
When i look back to most of last year pre-ADs i was becoming more and more hermit-like, not going out, not doing things that didn't have to be done, etc.
Also tough when you are on your own with the DC.

Any ideas please with this thanks

SCORE: Pants 1 Toilet 5
Leftover:

• Sat crosswords

Sun:

• toilet training DONE
• al up together (as DS1 up late) DONE
• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• put away non-ironing DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ironing & put away clothes DONE
• me & DS1 out to theatre DONE
• lunch DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• DH & DS1 out swimming DONE
• Sun papers & crosswords Doing
• fix bathroom lightpull as DS1 broke it last night Tomorrow
• email re 3 birthdays today DONE
• tea x 4 DONE
• boys to bed DONE (just)
• tv & bed

Mon:

• all usual
• collect DS1 then go to friends for lunch & play

(try and take DS1's new 'toilet prize' to play with!)

• home when they go to school run
• create new toilet training chart
• decide on new prizes for TT
• 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)
• Get on with sorting out spare room properly as too much junk in there DoneMore
• Freecycle ancient TV MayRelistOtherwiseHaveToThrowOut
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bit

Excellent potty training JKS

HMHB if you think it could be then see hv or gp, am almost certain I had it after ds but never told anyone because I knew H would be angry with me if I did have it. Now feel v v guilty about the 'missed' time with the dc where I didn't enjoy them or do stuff with them.

Thanks all for pnd comments. I had been feeling fine but have noticed I don't want to go to town or speak to people this last week or so. I had really bad pnd with DS and this is not as bad as that but don't want it to get that bad. HV knows about pnd last time and is really nice. There is another issue. I am still not recovered physically from the ventouse delivery and am a bit worried about that. Am waiting for consultants appointment.

I am going to try to go to town tomorrow as a bit of a mission.

Freak
HMHB good luck tomorrow
JKS my dcs took ages going from the potty to big toilet in the house but would go to the toilet in other places, even now dd2 looks too small she teters on the edge

Sometimes I do wish we all lived near one another and we could meet up, although the idea of an mn meet up would scare the b'geesus out of me, the slatterns don't scare me as much

Freak for you

HMHB - good luck with trip out tomorrow.

Plum - i've been to meet some of my AN/PN group but did find it a bit scary until it happened.
We would never be able to meetup at someones house though, just think of it!

SCORE: Pants 1 Toilet 5
Leftover:

• Sat crosswords Started

Sun:

• toilet training DONE
• al up together (as DS1 up late) DONE
• breakfast & tidy up DONE
• put away non-ironing DONE
• all dressed DONE
• ironing & put away clothes DONE
• me & DS1 out to theatre DONE
• lunch DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• DH & DS1 out swimming DONE
• Sun papers DONE & crosswords Doing
• fix bathroom lightpull as DS1 broke it last night Tomorrow
• email re 3 birthdays today DONE
• tea x 4 DONE
• boys to bed DONE (just)
• tv Doing & bed

Mon:

• all usual
• collect DS1 then go to friends for lunch & play

(try and take DS1's new 'toilet prize' to play with!)

• home when they go to school run
• create new toilet training chart
• decide on new prizes for TT
• 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)
• Get on with sorting out spare room properly as too much junk in there DoneMore
• Freecycle ancient TV MayRelistOtherwiseHaveToThrowOut
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bit

Evening! Had a good day, though not a good football result for DH. DH and DS looked very cute in their matching Villa shirts.

It would be really good to all hang out.

Sounds like toilet training is going really well JKS.

I've put DS back in cloth tonight.

• 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 washing done
• kitchen - dry pots done, wash pots, tidy and sort food cupboard and shelves
• plan theatre trip started got times, need to find out who can babysit
• online shop?
• feed the birds
• out for lunch done
• take rubbish and recycling out for the bin men done
• tea done
• put breadmaker on? no
• tidy downstairs done
• DS bath and bed done
• OCM
• put the sofa cover back on
• is the kitchen cleared? some
• ready for the morning? bag packed most
• write list for tomorrow
• watch some recorded 24?

Waste Reduction Plan - Stage 1

• make compost bin - empty old bin, read drill instructions done find safety goggles and gloves done
• Back to cloth! - handwash wool covers , get changebag ready for cloth started, buy larger trousers (for DS)

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• buy a small mirror for above the bathroom sink
• big mirror up in bedroom
• other mirror up - quite heavy, will picture hook do?
• 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 -

• 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
• Return Jamie Oliver cookbook to SIL done
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• sort photos - what to scan? sorted scan? scanned
• find/write CV
• buy epo

It would be so lovely to meet wouldn't it? Don't think we could be further apart though!

JKS - Obviously can't help on your other thread, but how fab that you are moving to the 'next level' of toilet training already!

Freak What a twunt he is.

HMHB - Agree that the not wanting to go anywhere or see anyone is a bit of a red flag. I still struggle a bit with that and have to remind myself to get in touch with people etc. Glad you have a good HV, ours are useless. Can you have a chat with her?

Plum - at skirting, must confess I do mine quite regularly these days!

Have had a nice day today, had a nap this afternoon and there has been more progress with jobs. I am putting my usual ongoing list to one side until we are back from holiday now, only going to list things that need to be done/organised before we go.

TODAY
Me and DH up - done
Get DS up and dressed - done
Run dishwasher - done
Spatone + vitamins - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen - done
Me and DS nap - done
Dinner x 3 - done went to chippy!
Clear up - done
DS bath and bed - done
Post DS-to-bed tidy - done
Hoover living room - done
Sweep kitchen floor - done
Kitchen clear before bed - done
Take ADs

JOBS
Cut DH's hair - done
Clean living room carpet
Replace wiper blades - done
Clean insides of car windows - done
Put up DS' pictures - done
Check toilet bags and suncream situation and list anything I need to buy - started
Measure height of the car with roofbox on to make sure we will fit through the Tunnel!
Take some things back to Halfords - done

LAUNDRY
Fold dry washing
Wash sofa cushion covers - done on airer
Strip wash nappies - done
2 other loads

Morning

I often think its a shame we don't all live nearer, a slatterns meet would be lovely.

Got lots to do and keep putting it off, my house is getting worse, it is bringing me down and stressing DH out, so going to try to tackle one room a day, and hopefully within a week or so (have a couple of mad days this week, so may not have time every day) the house will look ok.

Today i am going to do the bathroom (its the smallest )

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Get dressed
Get DD dressed
Empty dishy
Reload dishy
Put washload on
Make beds
Put some washing away (going to try to put 5 things away everytime i go upstairs)
Lunch
Go to horses
Sort out tack room (horses moving on Friday!)
Phone feed/bedding company
Dinner (macaroni cheese)
DD bed

BATHROOM
Put dirty towels in the wash
Empty unit
Clean unit
Put stuff back on unit/in the right place
Clean sink
Clean loo
Clean bath
Clean mirror
Hoover
Flash mop floor
Put clean towels in

Morning It is a lovely sunny day here, which is great except all the smears on my windows are showing up!

TODAY
Me and DH up - done
Shower and dressed - done
Get DS up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - doing
DH leaving for interview
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Wipe over bathroom
Ocado 10-11am
Put away shopping
Lunch and tidy kitchen
DH home at 3ish?
Dinner - risotto
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed
Take ADs

Jobs before holiday

• Clean living room carpet
• Check toilet bags and suncream situation and list anything I need to buy - started
• Measure height of the car with roofbox on to make sure we will fit through the Tunnel!
• Ring grandma about visiting her before we go on holiday
• New baby card and present
• Send new baby parcel to other friend
• Congratulations card to friend who has passed her PhD!

LAUNDRY
Fold dry washing - 1loaddone
2 loads - 1washing
Put away clean stuff from airing cupboard
Put sofa covers back on

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Hoover downstairs
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs
Mirrors and glass doors
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Insides of downstairs windows
Cobweb check
Bath taps

I am going to have to tidy DD1 and DD2s rooms today as they have their cousins visiting after school.

TO DO
Tidy Bedrooms
Clean Main Bathrooms
Wash Breakfast Dishes
Clean Counters
Clean Dining Area
Brush Floor
Tidy sitting room
Brush Floor
Tidy downstairs loo
Washing

Everyone up done
Everyone breakfast done
Get dressed done
Get DD dressed
Empty dishy done
Reload dishy
Put washload on
Make beds done
Put some washing away (going to try to put 5 things away everytime i go upstairs) done one basket
Lunch
Go to horses
Sort out tack room (horses moving on Friday!)
Phone feed/bedding company
Dinner (macaroni cheese)
DD bed

BATHROOM
Put dirty towels in the wash done
Empty unit done
Clean unit done
Put stuff back on unit/in the right place done
Clean sink done
Clean loo done
Clean bath done
Clean mirror done
Clean window
Hoover
Flash mop floor
Put clean towels in

Just enjoying a well deserved cup of tea

Morning! We've had a routine change this morning. Going well so far.

Definitely well deserved Alice.

• 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 + transfer money done
• amazon order done
• water plants done
• tidy and sort food cupboard and shelves
• meal plan
• fill in Childrens centre registration form
• lunch
• Reading Club at library
• Morrisons
• bring bin and green boxes back round
• feed the birds
• take rubbish and recycling out
• tea
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed + wipe round bathroom and OCM
• is the kitchen cleared?
• ready for the morning? bag packed?
• write list for tomorrow
• ironing
• cross-stitch

Waste Reduction Plan - Stage 1

• make compost bin - empty old bin, drill holes in old bin
• Back to cloth! - handwash wool covers , get changebag ready for cloth started, buy larger trousers (for DS)

DIY jobs -

• paint front door - 1 coat inside, 1 coat outside
• 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)
• put up house number

To Do -

• 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
• stitch card for Mother?s Day started
• buy swimming costume
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of, upload to facebook
• find/write CV
• buy epo
• plan theatre trip started got times, need to find out who can babysit

Lol ali that's what inspired me to call the window cleaner that time

Have noticed a few areas of doom creeping up on me so think I will concentrate on those and just add everyday stuff as I do it.

Doom List

DS' nappy- DONE (seriously it does belong on this list!)
My handbag - DONE
Plastics drawer (is there any point ds messes it daily...?)
Kitchen windowsill
Mantlepiece and top of shelves in sitting room
Under sofa and armchair
DC's small toy shelves
Clean washing
Top of chest of drawers in dc room

plus DONE
all up etc
dd to preschool
washing on
charity bag filled (mostly toys- evil mother)
recycling into box

hmm would we tidy the house if we were to have a slatterns meet up

st davids day and ds has gone to school in a welsh rugby shirt bless. there were little girls in national costume there too. aw.

DS has managed to fill a pasta jar with pasta for doing good deeds and his present will hopefully arrive today (from postman pat) - a playmobil castle so looks like i'll be having to build that sometime today.

All up and dressed done
Clear away breakfast things done
DS to school on time done
Go to town
Pilates or walk or gardening
Vitamins
Rubbish out
Recycling
Lunch - make soup
Bring logs in
Light woodburner
put washing on done
put washing to dry
Washing folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy filled and on again
admin/filing/post
dinner dh did
bath DD/DS dh did
DD/DS to bed
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge
feed cat

also
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
Arrange DD's christening!
Pay cheque for accountant - need to post
Buy lightbulbs
Ring cath kidstone done - they have lost my returns parcel grr. Email copy of PO receipt
buy coathangers
ring sky AGAIN!
ring parcel delivery people
Online food shop
mop floor in lounge due to orange juice

Later
DH's doc appointment
Buy grass seed

Freaky - if only my window cleaner was young and hunky as opposed to a miserable old bugger! The outsides are fine, they were done 2/3 weeks ago - it is the insides where little fingers point at things through them that are the problem!

Alice - you have done loads! I hate it when the whole house gets in a state, it is so depressing. I bet you do more than one room today now that you're going

DH has left for his interview, he so wants this job, he has been twitching around the house all weekend. I'm desperate for him to get it, mainly because if he doesn't he'll be really grumpy for days

How often do you all hoover and sweep your main living areas? I seem to be doing the living room, hall and kitchen every day at the moment, it's so annoying!

TODAY
Me and DH up - done
Shower and dressed - done
Get DS up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Rubbish out for the binmen - done
DH leaving for interview - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - started
Wipe over bathroom
Ocado 10-11am - here
Put away shopping
Lunch and tidy kitchen
DH home at 3ish?
Dinner - risotto
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed
Take ADs

Jobs before holiday

• Clean living room carpet
• Check toilet bags and suncream situation and list anything I need to buy - started
• Measure height of the car with roofbox on to make sure we will fit through the Tunnel!
• Ring grandma about visiting her before we go on holiday
• New baby card and present
• Send new baby parcel to other friend
• Congratulations card to friend who has passed her PhD!

LAUNDRY
Fold dry washing - 1loaddone
2 loads - 1washing
Put away clean stuff from airing cupboard
Put sofa covers back on

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Sweep kitchen and hall - done
Empty bins
Hoover downstairs
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs
Mirrors and glass doors
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Insides of downstairs windows
Cobweb check
Bath taps

I should sweep the living areas everyday, but have kind of lost my way with things recently (combination of ms and tiredness) just desperate to get it back to how it was last summer. I was doing really well and the house never looked too bad, so if someone was coming round, all i would need to do was put toys away and hoover. Now i can't face anyone coming over because it is so bad!

Good Luck to your DH Ali

HMHB we could do butterfly's suggestion of all cleaning each others houses

Ali downstairs gets a quick hoover everyday (sometimes twice depending on ds) but proper hoovering under/behind things is far less frequent. I had a brief spell of mopping the kitchen every day as well but now I tend to just wipe obvious spills and mop when I can be bothered

Alice you are doing well

Doom List

DS' nappy- DONE (seriously it does belong on this list!)
My handbag - DONE
Plastics drawer (is there any point ds messes it daily...?)
Kitchen windowsill- DONE
Mantlepiece and top of shelves in sitting room- DONE
Under sofa and armchair- DONE
DC's small toy shelves
Clean washing
Top of chest of drawers in dc room

plus DONE
all up etc
dd to preschool
washing on
charity bag filled (mostly toys- evil mother)
recycling into box
washng up
washing out on line
sides wiped
microwave wiped
loo cleaned
bag of stuff collected from downstairs to go up

the kitchen near the table gets dustbusted all the time (thanks to ds2!) but tbh the rest mostly gets hoovered/mopped once a week

Best check my farm then get ready to go out.

SCORE: Pants Toilet
Leftover:

• Sat & Sun crosswords Started
• fix bathroom lightpull as DS1 broke it DONE

Mon:

• all usual Doing
• collect DS1 then go to friends for lunch & play

(try and take DS1's new 'toilet prize' to play with!)

• home when they go to school run
• create new toilet training chart DONE
• next box of clothes down for DS2 DONE
• decide on new prizes for TT
• anything else?

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD (One not wanted back)
• 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)
• Get on with sorting out spare room properly as too much junk in there DONE (For now anyway!)
• Freecycle ancient TV MayRelistOtherwiseHaveToThrowOut
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas! (maybe)
• put shelf bits in loft + some other bit DONE

Ye could all come to my house and do a room each, Was going to provide buns but Plum could bring one of her cakes instead . Have to go out but will update my list when I get back.

probably should hoover every day but usually hoover once and sweep bits as they get messy

DS will be disappointed as his castle isn't arriving til tomorrow.

All up and dressed done
Clear away breakfast things done
DS to school on time done
Go to town
Pilates or walk or gardening
Vitamins
Rubbish out
Recycling
Lunch - make soup
Bring logs in
Light woodburner
put washing on done
put washing to dry
Washing folded and put away
tidy kitchen
empty dishy
dishy filled and on again
admin/filing/post
dinner dh did
bath DD/DS dh did
DD/DS to bed
tidy bedroom
put toys away in lounge
feed cat

also
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
Arrange DD's christening!
Pay cheque for accountant - need to post
Buy lightbulbs
Ring cath kidstone done - they have lost my returns parcel grr. Email copy of PO receipt
buy coathangers
ring sky AGAIN! done
ring parcel delivery people done - arriving tomorrow probably
Online food shop
mop floor in lounge due to orange juice done

Later
DH's doc appointment
Buy grass seed

quick meal plan

Mon - shepherds pie?
Tues - pasta
Wed - rice
Thurs -
Fri - ???