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

Morning everyone, nearly burned the house down last night. I moved a basket of washing last night, put it sitting on top of the cooker, which I hadnt used all day, (used chip pan and health grill for dinners). Went upstairs to put DD3 to bed, came downstairs, sat down fora minute, decided to make a cup of tea, went into the kitchen and could get a funny smell, went over to the cooker and lifted the basket off immediately. Melted a big hole, am grateful that the clothes were wet! Anyone know how to get melted plastic off a hob ring, plus I have a big blister on my finger

No list today but I am going to put my 'dones' on here instead

Morning

Cikecaka I have melted a loaf of packaged bread to the back of the hob (where the vents are, took bloody ages to get the Hovis print off!

Today we (DD and i) are off to the baby sale in the local church. A bit like NCT but not quite as mad. Ideally wouldn't take DD but really have no choice as no one to look after her.

TO DO
Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Hang yesterday's washing out
Empty dishy
Go to sale and market
Lunch
Quick tidy round
Horses
Dinner
DD bed

I have got a niggling sinus headache that is driving me slightly mad don't think mad sale will help either

Oh dear CC no idea, have you googled removing melted plastic?

Did not know that NI was 17!!!
(i was 15...really scares me to think of my poss future DDs getting up to that then though i felt old enough)

I'm a bit peeved as PIL chose to go home today and I can't find a sitter for tonight and I want to go out with friends

Sat:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DONE
• tidy kitchen
• all dressed 5Done
• PIL going home DONE
• DH out for the day
• library & other outing jobs?
• lunch & tidy kitchen
• DS2 nap
• friends + DC coming round (hopefully out in the garden)
• kids tea & bed
• DH out
• maybe me out to friend's BDay curry (need sitter)

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors DoneAnotherOne (slow progress!!)
• 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 DONE
• sort out holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• change over to reusables nappies for DS2 in the day Started
• library; Finished last book + need to find DS's 2 books
• my underwear - massive sort out & throw away old bits Started

Morning!

JKS, how annoying! Hope you find a sitter.

CC, nice catch! I'm sure if you start a thread you'll get lots of ideas. I'd suggest trying babywipes though, they're good for everything else so far.

Alice, enjoy bargain-hunting.

I hope MIL brings the garden chairs round soon. Mornings like this deserve to be sat out in.

• Me up, showered and dressed up
• 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
• fresh coffee + check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put load in done
• clean bathroom
• put new curtains up!
• lunch
• ?
• 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
• soak feet
• craft time

DS daily -

• messy activity
• shoe walk
• garden

Doom -

• Back room - not much left to do now, 15 mins?

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now, get cross-stitch framed
• 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
• Birthday presents to buy/make - step-MIL - wrist-warmers, DS - DVDs
• dye hair
• dig blackout blind out and adjust to window
• work out what?s wrong with breadmaker

Well, i spent about £25 at the sale. First thing i bought was the peppa pig schoolroom playset, brand new still in box for £12. I know i wasn't there to buy toys for DD but i just knew she would love it and she does. Also meant that she would sit in a corner while i looked at stuff just looking at it! I also got a maternity teal coloured M&P wrap top for £2, 2 new born baby sets (vest, jacket, hat, bib, trousers etc) for £3.50 each and then got 6 babygrows (3 brand new) for £5. Not a bad day's work

DONE
Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Go to sale and market
Go for tea and cake with friend

TO DO
Hang yesterday's washing out
Empty dishy
Lunch
Quick tidy round
Horses
Dinner
DD bed

Now sat down with a glass of ice water feeling a bit

Cikecaka how about a hairdryer and a plastic knife/spatula?

Not bad at all Alice.

• Me up, showered and dressed up
• 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
• fresh coffee + check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put load in done
• clean bathroom done
• put new curtains up!
• lunch done
• Morrisons
• 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
• soak feet
• craft time

DS daily -

• messy activity
• shoe walk
• garden doing

Doom -

• Back room - not much left to do now, 15 mins?

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now, get cross-stitch framed
• 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
• Birthday presents to buy/make - step-MIL - wrist-warmers, DS - DVDs
• dye hair done
• dig blackout blind out and adjust to window
• work out what?s wrong with breadmaker

Gah Iceland having its way with my babysitters too! One stuck in Florida, one in Spain, hmph. Running out of time & ideas now.

Sat:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• all dressed DONE
• PIL going home DONE
• DH out for the day Gone
• library & quick playground visit DONE
• lunch & tidy kitchen DONE
• DS2 nap Doing
• laundry; Load1OnLine Load2InWM
• friends + DC coming round (hopefully out in the garden)
• kids tea & bed
• DH out
• maybe me out to friend's BDay curry (need sitter)

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors DoneAnotherOne (slow progress!!)
• 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 holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• change over to reusables nappies for DS2 in the day Started
• library; Finished last book + need to find DS's 2 books DONE
• my underwear - massive sort out & throw away old bits Started

Hi all

Finally delivered my final easter eggs today, told my friend didn't want to look bad showing up at their party next week with them, but I met her at her mums so she will be giving my dcs their easter stuff next week

eek CC no ideas here at all

aarrrgghhh my computer monitor has went all blurry it does this now and again drives me mad............. just fixed it every now and then the resolution changes and its impossible to read

The farmers were out spreading slurry so can't hang my washing out, not that I have put ane on yet, hope it dosen't build up again

DONE
Breakfast
clean sink
ds to gaelic
deliver eggs
load dishwasher & on
unloaded dishwasher
brush kitchen floor
mop kitchen floor

TO DO
put on wash
clear & clean work tops (cluttered again)esp one corner of doom
clean bathroom
clean ensuite
clean windows in lounge door
clean windows in dining room doors
hoover hall
gather up any stray clean washing & put away

Living room
damp dust
hoover
declutter shelves

Clean dcs bedroom windows
mop lounge floor
mop bedrooms
hoover hall

lots more but that will do for now

Well done Wasting who is going to get the honour of the present??

Where are you all?

Wel I remembered I had like a duster thing to but on my mop, so did the bedrooms & lounge with that

cleaned dcs windows
cleaned lounge door windows
& bock door windows
hoovered

so going to make dinner
get dcs to tidy living room
and then dump them in the bath

am soooo sunburnt!

Is my rearranged party tonight/ so far have lots of nos, 5 no replies, 2 maybes and ONE yes! it's gonna be rockin'

Freak - i hope it works out ok, in fact so well that the others are dying for you to do another one

Wasting - well done you! I had a tapestry thing that took me years on and off too.

Plum - niiice re slurry!

Have resigned myself to not going out now, boo. I have the option of maybe joining them all later if DH comes home early enough - but they'll all be well liquidated by then..!

Sat:

• DH up first DONE
• breakfast DONE
• tidy kitchen DONE
• all dressed DONE
• PIL going home DONE
• DH out for the day DONE
• library & quick playground visit DONE
• lunch & tidy kitchen DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• laundry; Load1Folded&Sorted Load2OnAirer
• friends + DC coming round (hopefully out in the garden) DONE
• kids tea & bed DONE
• tidy chaos DONE
• DH out Doing
• maybe me out to friend's BDay curry (need sitter)

Sun:

• me up first
• lazy day hopefully
• gardening
• papers & crosswords
• breakfast, lunch & dinner (roast?)
• boys bath & bed
• quiet night with DH

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors DoneAnotherOne (slow progress!!)
• 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 holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• change over to reusables nappies for DS2 in the day Started
• my underwear - massive sort out & throw away old bits Started

JKS just get started on your own

Actually I do have a bottle in fridge I might open

Evening!

Sorry about the lack of sitter JKS and hope you get a few more turn up Freaky!

I'm dead chuffed with meself finishing the cross-stitch. It's for my Aunty, as that's who I intended to make it for when I started it. 17 years ago.

And, my curtains are up!
It's like real grown-ups live here!

• 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
• fresh coffee + check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, put 3rd load in done
• clean bathroom done
• put new curtains up! done!
• lunch done
• Morrisons done
• kitchen - 15mins X2 done
• try out the backpack carrier again
• 15 minutes gardening
• feed the birds done
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out done
• pack change bag done
• tea done
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs done
• DS bath and bed done
• wipe round bathroom and clean face and teeth done
• kitchen cleared nearly - dry pots, sweep floor
• write list for tomorrow done
• craft time

DS daily -

• messy activity done painting
• shoe walk
• garden done loads!

Doom -

• Back room - not much left to do now, 15 mins?

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now- get cross-stitch framed
• 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
• Birthday presents to buy/make - step-MIL - wrist-warmers, DS - DVDs
• dye hair done
• dig blackout blind out and adjust to window
• work out what?s wrong with breadmaker

Um yeah well I am a big fat loser. ONE person who had to leave at 9.30

Don't mind the people who let me know but some of the people who just didn't bother showing are supposedly quite good friends.

Feeling quite shit now.

Fuck 'em.

weak

My sunburn is really quite bad

Have you got some aftersun lotion?

Freak that is rubbish, people can be so rude

DH still isn't on his way home, he has a flight booked for tomorrow which will get him to Washington DC via Tokyo. Over 24 hours travelling and he'll still be on the wrong side of the Atlantic. At least work are picking up the tab for it all though, must be horrendous for people who are having to pay out for more accomodation, trains etc.
I am feeling sorry for myself though and I know I shouldn't. Parents are coming home with me tomorrow for a couple of hours to help me get sorted for the painter coming on Monday morning, so I won't even be going back to an empty house.

Small list for tomorrow

Get up and pack
Breakfast
Drive home
Unload car
Sort kitchen ready for painter
Sort bathroom ready for painter
Lunch
Unpack
Dinner
DS bath and bed
Clear up
Peaceful evening on my own

Yep am smothering myself alternately in aloe vera and bottom butter

I was quite chilly sitting out with the wind but no surprise I am burnt after 6 hours in the sun

DC of course lovely and brown (though I was more careful with the suncream on them even though I need it more than they do being a bit ginger and them being half black )

Crap about your dh ali

Morning

Freak i ^would've* come to your party, but i wasn't invited and i am about 250miles away

Seriously though, people have done that to us so much. Last year DH took a weeks holiday in June and the weather was lovely so we decided to have a BBQ. Instead of texting everyone, we printed a poster and put it up at Dh's work. No idea how many people were coming, loads showed up and was a bit mad. About 6 weeks later we had another one and 2 couples showed up. That time we had invited people individually and no one even ansewered. People just have no manners these days [old lady emoticon]

Ali sounds rubbish

I have decided i need an everyday list. At the moment i am just posting lists of stuff as i remember, so going to spend this morning figuring out the list.

Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Have breakfast
Clear up breakfast
Empty dishy
Put washload on (can't decide whether to put wash on at night instead or not)
Turn horses out
Hang washing out
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Do horses
Dinner
Wipe down kitchen
DD bed
Tidy living room

Today's list DONE
Put dishy on
Have breakfast
Strip beds and put sheets in wash (first load in)
Someone else putting horses out

TO DO
Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Clear up breakfast
Hang washing out
Put second lot of sheets in machine
Empty dishy
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Do horses
Dinner (roast chicken)
Wipe down kitchen
DD bed
Tidy living room

Bit of a work in progress....

Well DH cancelled his evening out as he felt sorry for me so i went out in the end
(And an ouch for sore head!)

Freak - that's pants

Ali - have forgotten where your DH had gone originally? crap for you and him. So many people are stuck all over the place, like 2 lots of neighbours, in Spain & Florida - not going to back in time for school, and at some point people will realise that teachers are stuck too, not sure what will happen tomorrow?!

Oh and DHH invited elderly neighbour round for a cuppa at 10.30, so not quite as lazy as i'd hoped!

Sun:

• me up first DONE
• lazy day hopefully Doing
• laundry; LoadOnAirer LastLoadIn
• neighbour (10.30) coming round
• gardening
• papers & crosswords
• breakfast DONE, lunch & dinner (roast?)
• boys bath & bed
• quiet night with DH

Ongoing List:

• contact new dentist & see if we can register
• upload & order online prints Started-Done More
• order door curtain (& rail) for front door
• clean kitchen cupboard doors DoneAnotherOne (slow progress!!)
• 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 holiday in August to Jersey; hire car (+ seats)
• change over to reusables nappies for DS2 in the day Started
• my underwear - massive sort out & throw away old bits Started

Morning!

Lists looking good there Alice.

Hope he gets home sooon Ali!

Freaky, I tan well, and DS is fair like his Dad, so I have to really think on to get the cream on him. Last week I was like 'Why is he all red?'

• 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
• fresh coffee + check email and online banking doing
• laundry - fold dry washing done, sort loads, put load in
• make mars bar cupcakes done (not for me!)
• weigh-in +5
• buttercream for cakes
• out for lunch
• try out the backpack carrier again
• 15 minutes gardening
• feed the birds
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out
• bin out for binmen
• pack change bag
• tea
• put breadmaker on?
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed
• wipe round bathroom and clean face and teeth
• Do NOT sit down until the kitchen is sparkling!
• write list for tomorrow
• craft time

DS daily -

• messy activity
• shoe walk
• garden

Doom -

• Back room - not much left to do now, 15 mins?

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now- get cross-stitch framed
• 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
• Birthday presents to buy/make - step-MIL - wrist-warmers, DS - DVDs
• dig blackout blind out and adjust to window
• work out what?s wrong with breadmaker

DONE
Put dishy on
Have breakfast
Strip beds and put sheets in wash (first load in)
Someone else putting horses out
Get dressed
Hang washing out
Put second lot of sheets in machine

TO DO
Get DD creamed and dressed
Clear up breakfast
Empty dishy
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Do horses
Dinner (roast chicken)
Wipe down kitchen
DD bed
Tidy living room