Dusting off our lists, scrubbing up our slattern ways, you won't find any April Fools here!

[PlumBumMum]

Everyone is welcome,
we are a friendly bunch,
we post our lists big or small,
tick jobs off as we go along.

We give each other a kick up the bum when needed or shoulder to cry moan on,
and a pat on the back.

Cake & Coffee Alcohol always welcomed

Everybody up BLOOD PRESSURE IS HIGH AFTER SHOUTING AT DS FOR 20 MINS
Make Beds DONE
Make Lunches DONE
Everyone to school/toddler group/work DONE
Mammys tablets
Tidy Sitting Room DONE
Wash Floor
Tidy Hall DONE
Downstairs Loo DONE
Wash Breakfast Dishes DONE
Clean counters DONE
Tidy dining area DONE
Sweep Floors
Washing 1ST LOAD ON
Hang Up washing
Collect DD3 DONE
Make DHs Lunch DONE
Tidy Up after it DONE

AFTER LUNCH
Collect DDs DONE
Make Dinner DONE
Clean up after it DONE
Evening activities
Make Tea
Clean up after it
Find Clothes for the next day

Weekly Jobs
MON
Our Room/Ensuite DONE
Hoover Stairs
TUES
DS Room
WED
DD1s Room
Hoover Stairs
Computers
THURS
DD2s Room
FRI
Main Bathroom
Hoover Stairs

Hello, I typed a post out earlier, but DS pressed the power button.

Plum, DH is still in Holyhead I think. They're taking the slow ferry.

• 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 and vitamins done
• breakfast done
• laundry - fold dry washing done, take clean washing up done, sort loads done, put load in done, sort and put away dry washing
• coffee + check email and online banking doing
• Morrisons + lunch? done

+ clean out fridge done

• library done
• try out the backpack carrier done
• Range for seeds and pots? done
• 15 minutes gardening
• feed the birds
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out
• bring bins back round
• pack bag
• tea cooking
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• wipe round bathroom and clean face and teeth
• kitchen cleared
• write list for tomorrow

DS daily -

• messy activity
• shoe walk done
• garden

Doom -

• Back room - tidied shoes and hats etc. done

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• finish writing cv
• mirrors - put mirror tiles up above bathroom sink, other mirror up above dressing table
• get garden chairs from MILs garage
• Birthdays - GM - chocs, step-MIL - cross-stitch bookmark?, DS! - buggy, books, DVDs, paddling pool
• dye hair
• dig blackout blind out and adjust to window
• work out what?s wrong with breadmaker

Ok, this sounds stupid but you dont know how happy it has made me. Super efficient SIL (has 5 kids, immaculate house, bakes etc.), called unexpectedly to borrow DD2s football boots, My downstairs is very tidy, swept floors etc, but I was able to find the boots without any trouble! It has made my week (I know its only Monday )

I need a frezzer lol

Mon:

• all up DONE & breakfasted DONE & dressed DONE
• finish Sunday crossword
• DH to work DONE
• into office for a bit DONE
• lunch & tidy up DONE
• DS2 nap ShortOneDone (wonder if he might start to cut down now, would love him to actually)
• pop to friends with DS1 for a bit (remember borrowed DVD) DONE
• boys tea DONE (DS2 ate loads, yey has his appetite back, was getting moderately concerned as he's such a scrawny thing)

• boys bath & bed
• sort through post/paperwork piling up
• more work if i cba until DH home
• takeaway with DH

Tues:

• all up & breakfast
• general tidy
• strip beds & find clean bedding
• swap over bathroom mats & towels
• into office for a bit
• lunch & tidy kitchen
• DS2 nap (see what he does...)
• PIL coming for a few days
• boys tea & to bed
• COLLECT EBAY TOY (7.30) - CANNOT FORGET!!!
• dinner

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• return borrowed DVD DONE yey!
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• 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 - Have Name Of School; HavePhoneNumber
• copy Wasting and think about Christmas; PIL definitely away
• sort out date for next pizza night
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• change over to reusables nappies for DS2 in the day Started
• library; soon, nearly finished last book + need to find DS's 2 books
• my underwear massive sort out & throw away old bits Started
• get oven hood lights repaired
• find a good bathroom radio - Researching - so much choice argh!

Shelley - if you want to get rid of a post click on report on the right of the box and send a message to mumsnet. If you want to add a new post by editing a previous list simply copy it and paste into the message box and change what you need and then post. Hope that helps.

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

Try to do
Clear paperwork off table
Plan food for christening done

also
Plant some more seeds
Arrange holiday
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
Pay meithrin nursery
Test more paint for decorating hall and bathroom done
Ring estate agent again done and write letter. Also speak to builder again
Write letter to work
Buy dress to wear at wedding/christening!
Buy mattress for dd's cot

CC that would make me happy too, people always seem to turn up when my house is at it's worst though!

Shelley copy and paste your list into a new message, I keep mine in a word document to save scrolling through the thread all the time.

Haven't drunk enough today, bit headachey

CC, that's fab! I'd have felt great too.

DH is in dublin. They're working in Belfast tomorrow, then Dublin on Wednesday, so got the return ferry to Dublin.

Right, lovely early bedtime for DS again. So I'm going to see what I can accomplish via short sharp shock lists.

• sort washing and put away (stick DS in his room and put away tomorrow)
• hoover downstairs
• bring bin and recycle box back round
• take rubbish etc. out
• feed birds

Evening

Cikecaka only time anyone turns up unexpected at my house i am morbidly ashamed to even open the front door fully

Freak i had a dehydrated headache yesterday, but have been better today and i have drunk half a pint of water since being home.

Did the horses once DH had finished work, but it did mean we were not home til 7pm. Luckily i had cooked up some pasta and mixed it with sweetcorn, tuna and mayo before we left so it was only a case of chuck some in a bowl and sit down

Went to homebase and got this mop not very exciting but thought you may be interested...

DONE
Get up
Get dressed
Have cup of tea (well, doing)
DD up
Put washload on
Turn horses out
Make beds
Dry washing (hang out?)
Clean hob
Put more washing on
Clean front of kitchen units (bottom ones)
Put washing on airer that didn't dry 100% yesterday
Get DD dressed
Lunch
Get horse feed and cat scratching post from Pets at Home
Get a squeegee mop from homebase?
Muck out horses and put to bed
Cook dinner (DH out) Pasta
DD bathed (did this afternoon)

TO DO
DD bed
Tidy living room
Load dishy
Put throws through wash (again)

NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS WEEK
Mop hard floors
Find some fabric for Roman blinds
Sort out living room shelves
Sort out baby clothes
Get all washing done
Get all washing PUT AWAY!
Clean front of kitchen units (top ones)

tusker small world, take it you have relatives over here then?

Wasting your dh could call and see CC, then me He'll be wrecked thats alot of travelling, we once went to my friends wedding in Eastbourne and drove Dublin -holyhead and then right down to Eastbourne, although roads much better from Dublin to Belfast now than then,
He'll be nowhere near my house then

Anyway have got some ironing done and put away, then my friend came and stayed until 7, so must ring dh and see where he is as I haven't made his dinner yet

cc Bet shes away home to clean to keep up with you

Alice, nice mop. Organised laziness that dinner. Excellent work.

Plum, he's going to be done in when he gets back on Thursday.

• sort washing and put away (stick DS in his room and put away tomorrow) done
• hoover downstairs done
• bring bin and recycle box back round done
• take rubbish etc. out done
• feed birds done

Next -

• coffee and surf
• wash last few pots
• dry pots
• sweep kitchen floor

Wasting, he will probably passing through my town or might go the motorway! Isnt that mad! Prob best to call to Plum as she will probably have a lovely cake ready for hi,

Cheers Wasting

PS; you want your DH to stay away from these women, one makes fab cakes and the other has a tidy, organised hall. Best not to get men's expectations up

I am quite excited about using my new mop. Would be mopping away now if i could actually see my floors......
I have decided that tomorrow morning i shall go to town and get a decent sized laundry hamper with lid for the living room toy box. I have various baskets and boxes for certain toys, but seeing as DD empties everything out on a daily basis i may as well get a huge one and chuck the lot in.

Tomorrow's List

Get up
Get dressed
Have cup of tea
Get mince out of freezer
DD up
Get DD dressed
Breakfast
Put washload on
Turn horses out
Make beds
Dry washing (hang out?)
Go to town ASAP
Tidy everywhere (mini list?)
Friend coming over at 11am
Lunch
Muck out horses and put to bed
Cook dinner
DD bed
Tidy living room
Load dishy

NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS WEEK
Mop hard floors
Find some fabric for Roman blinds
Sort out living room shelves
Sort out baby clothes
Get all washing done
Get all washing PUT AWAY!
Clean front of kitchen units (top ones)

Oh yes, couldn't have him getting accustomed to comfort.

• coffee and surf lots
• wash last few pots done
• dry pots done
• sweep kitchen floor done

+ rinse load in from earlier doing

Next

• pin sleeves on sweater
• take pile of random crap upstairs
• hang up washing
• put another load in

I am useless in the evenings. I think i am going to have to start getting DD to bed for 7pm, so that it is still light and i feel able to do stuff.

Alice, it's really helped me. He has woken up once tonight, which isn't usual, but he did walk a lot today, same as the other night he woke up lots, so hopefully it's just achey legs, bless him.

I've actually finished the sweater!!!
It's a good trick that, 'I'll just do this little bit', then once it was pinned it was no problem to just crack on and sew it all up.

I've got to ang the washing up still though.

See you slatterns in the morning.

Everybody up
Make Beds
Make Lunches
Everyone to school/toddler group/work
Mammys tablets
Tidy Sitting Room
Wash Floor
Tidy Hall
Downstairs Loo
Wash Breakfast Dishes
Clean counters
Tidy dining area
Sweep Floors
Washing
Hang Up washing
Collect DD3
Make DHs Lunch
Tidy Up after it

AFTER LUNCH
Collect DDs
Make Dinner
Clean up after it
Evening activities
Make Tea
Clean up after it
Find Clothes for the next day

Weekly Jobs
MON
Our Room/Ensuite
Hoover Stairs
TUES
DS Room
WED
DD1s Room
Hoover Stairs
Computers
THURS
DD2s Room
FRI
Main Bathroom
Hoover Stairs

Morning

Wasting We have just got into a slack routine. Need to be more organised. When it gets ddark i think, oh bedtime then I need my own daylight!

DONE
Get up
Get dressed
Put washload on
Turn horses out
Have cup of tea (doing)
Get mince out of freezer
DD up
Breakfast
Load dishy and put on

TO DO
Get DD dressed
Make beds
Dry washing (hang out?)
Go to town ASAP
Tidy everywhere (mini list?)
Friend coming over at 11am
Lunch
Muck out horses and put to bed
Cook dinner
DD bed
Tidy living room
Load dishy

NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS WEEK
Mop hard floors
Find some fabric for Roman blinds
Sort out living room shelves
Sort out baby clothes
Get all washing done
Get all washing PUT AWAY!
Clean front of kitchen units (top ones)

Mini list (or crisis clean!)

Put all toys away
Clean all tables
Pick up all rubbish/washing
Tidy hall
Put more washing on
Sweep/hoover hard floors
Mop (with new mop
Empty dishy)
Reload dishy
Wipe kitchen sides down
Take some stuff upstairs

Morning!

I'm always doing that, thinking right better put tea on and it's already 6! Been getting better though.

DS won't let me go on the laptop! It's doing my head in. He stands there whining, going 'out, chair' and grabbing my arm.

• 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 and vitamins done
• breakfast done
• laundry - put load in done
• coffee + check email and online banking doing
• meal plan and shopping list done
• town - market
• lunch
• baby clinic to get DS weighed - don?t forget red book
• try out the backpack carrier again
• 15 minutes gardening
• feed the birds
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out
• pack change bag
• tea
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• wipe round bathroom and clean face and teeth
• kitchen cleared
• write list for tomorrow
• pedicure/manicure

DS daily -

• messy activity
• shoe walk
• garden

Doom -

• Back room

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• finish writing cv
• mirrors - put mirror tiles up above bathroom sink, other mirror up above dressing table
• get garden chairs from MILs garage
• Birthdays - GM - chocs, step-MIL - cross-stitch bookmark?, DS! - buggy, books, DVDs, paddling pool
• dye hair
• dig blackout blind out and adjust to window
• work out what?s wrong with breadmaker

Morning ladies

I actually went to bed early last hight(11.30) and was really tired this morning

Need to get cracking on the rest of the
Ironing
finish loading dishwasher and on
put dd1s dance show fees in env

Think it must be the weather but I have been feeling 'better' these days, or maybe its the fact I have just been ignoring my mum and letting her get on with it iyswim,

although she really is doting, I asked her to sponsor me as the dcs and I are walking a mile in memory of dhs baby cousin (remember who died last year) for FSID, after along winded conversation she said,
oh when is it again
and I said next Sunday,
oh I'm going away that day, you said Saturday, I'll not be able to do it, but sure I will just sponsor you instead,
me - ahh yeap just sponsor me,

I suppose you really would need to have heard the conversation but its things like that that drive me mad as she was insistent that I said the walk was on the Saturday and that I had invited her to do it

Thanks for the help with how to edit,im so tired today i think i will just start a new list as didn't get much done yesterday after making 4 lots of bread dough by hand and doing various things with it.

Today-Eldest sons 15th birthday
make birthday cake
tidy living room
hoover living room and hall
hang out washing-Done
more washing in maching and dryer
wash breakfast dishes
help children tidy bedrooms
tidy kitchen and mop floor
clean bathroom

Sometime this week
trip to dump
ironing
make cakes to take to Grandma

Shelley

Knackered!!!!!

DONE
Get up
Get dressed
Put washload on
Turn horses out
Have cup of tea (doing)
Get mince out of freezer
DD up
Breakfast
Load dishy and put on
Put all toys away
Clean all tables
Pick up all rubbish/washing
Tidy hall
Put more washing on
Sweep/hoover hard floors
Mop (with new mop)
Empty dishy)
Reload dishy
Get DD dressed
Make beds
Dry washing (hang out?)
Go to town ASAP
Tidy everywhere (mini list?)
Take some stuff upstairs

TO DO
Friend coming over at 11am
Lunch
Muck out horses and put to bed
Cook dinner
DD bed
Tidy living room
Load dishy

NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS WEEK

Find some fabric for Roman blinds
Sort out living room shelves
Sort out baby clothes
Get all washing done
Get all washing PUT AWAY!
Clean front of kitchen units (top ones)

Just got to wipe kitchen sides down and hope that the throws dry before they get here, oh, and write friend's DD's birthday card.

Alice the lighter evenings help me get stuff done but they also make me feel more alone in a way-when it was getting dark early I'd close the curtains and get under a blanket on the sofa then early to bed but now I kind of feel like I have a few more hours of day to kill without anyone to talk to. That's not a new thing though, was like that with H too!

Don't think wc loves me, haven't heard anything from him. So either
a)he's a bastard
b) he's not a bastard and is steering clear so as not to mess anyone about
c) I did/said something that put him off
d)I never actually acknowledged the text that said if I was single so maybe he doesn't know I like him (I think I am quite obvious though!)
e)It's only been 3 days and I should chill the hell out!

Done
All up etc
washing up
sides wiped
load of washing in
load of washing out
floors mopped
clothes put away
bins out

Going to a friend's for lunch in a bit so most of the afternoon will probably be gone before I get home

Freak first of all e) and second of all b)

Now chill and enjoy the sunshine!

lol alice

Like I said, I spend far too much time alone and therefore have too much time to think!

I know that feeling