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

Freak That is crap!

JKS glad you still got out

Ali about dh, but as you say thank God you aren't out of pocket, I really need to get my finger out re painting my bedroom still haven't decided on a colour!

Wasting I have 2 sets of curtains lying over dining room table, but I need to sort out curtain poles and then dh needs to find time to put them up

I have done a general tidy up

and realised the chicken I bought on Thursday went out of date on Friday, I'm normally so careful about dates I'm raging was going to do a nice roast dinner

Going to
wash pots that were left steaping from last night
make lunch
hang up wash
put on another wash
wipe round bathroom
wipe round ensuite

will see after that lot

Plum - that's a nightmare about the chicken!

Sun:

• me up first DONE
• lazy day hopefully Doing
• laundry; LoadOnAirer LastLoadHungOut SomePutAway
• neighbour (10.30) coming round DONE
• gardening
• papers & crosswords Started
• breakfast DONE, lunch DONE & dinner (BBQ)
• DS2 nap Doing
• 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

Hello, I'm home! Is nice to be back but I'm sad that DH isn't here with me
He is about to take off to fly to Tokyo, he's in Kuala Lumpur (sp?) at the moment because he had a conference out there all last week. So Tokyo tonight, Washington DC by tomorrow pm and then the earliest flight he could get to Europe is into Madrid - it arrives on Saturday morning!! So then he will need to get a train or something to get home, it's going to be another 8/9 days before he is back.

Alice - I have a daily list, I find it really helps actually. Lots of things just happen on autopilot now because I do them at the same times every day.

JKS - that was good of your DH, glad you made the most of it!

TODAY
Get up and pack - done
Breakfast - done
Drive home - done
Unload car - done
Sort kitchen ready for painter - almostfinished
Sort bathroom ready for painter - done
Lunch - done
Put a load of washing on - done
Unpack - started
Hang washing out
Hoover and sweep downstairs
Clean bathroom
Clean kitchen
Dinner - pasta and salad
DS bath and bed
Clear up
Wash kitchen floor (is minging in all the corners where I have moved stuff ready for painting)
Peaceful evening on my own

Ali - that's so awful for you & him, bet he'll be so fed up by the time he gets home.

Sun:

• me up first DONE
• lazy day hopefully Doing
• laundry, uroning & put away DONE
• neighbour (10.30) coming round DONE
• gardening DONE
• papers & crosswords DONE
• breakfast DONE, lunch DONE & dinner (BBQ) Cooking
• DS2 nap DONE
• 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

Ali tell your dh to say hi to my sister for me in Tokyo!

Spent the afternoon down the cul de sac end of the street, saw wc's nan sitting
outside and dd said lets go to her house so we went down and said hello then realised dd's preschool friend lives next door but one so the dc were playing in the street with her. WC's nan made me a cuppa and I sat and chatted to her while the dc played.

But OMG dd's friend's house is THE TIDIEST HOUSE I HAVE EVER SEEN, like no stuff anywhere

Seriously their lounge has 2 sofas, a coffee table, a display cabinet and the tv in and nothing else-no toys, no cushions, no half eaten apples littering the floor . And in the kitchen there was NOTHING on the surfaces except a kettle.

I have come home and am feeling like my house is super cluttered and it's really not that bad except for a surplus of toys...

Freak - getting in with his family then?!
I fantasise about a clutter free house, esp kitchen counters! Then i think oh well i'll do it when the kids move out, lol

Sun:

• me up first DONE
• lazy day hopefully Doing
• laundry, uroning & put away DONE
• neighbour (10.30) coming round DONE
• gardening DONE
• papers & crosswords DONE
• breakfast DONE, lunch DONE & dinner (BBQ) DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• more garden time DONE
• good water of the seedlings DONE when did we last have rain?!)

• boys bath & bed
• quiet night with DH

Mon:

• DH up first
• breakfast
• all dressed
• DS1 to pre-school, hooray!!!!
• me into office for a bit
• collect dry cleaning (remember cash as they don't have a machine)
• collect DS1
• lunch & tidy up
• DS2 nap
• afternoon?
• boys tea & bed
• quiet & early night as DH out

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
• broken toy audit/repair session
• toys needing new batteries audit
• DH's aunt bday card

Freak its a good sign that you get on well with his family

WRT anal clean houses, a friend of mine has a friend whose entire house is in shades of brown and beige. There is nothing on the kitchen sides apparently, the kettle, toaster etc are kept in cupboards that is strange! My friend went over there and the friend was in the middle of doing the ironing, literally a board out and a couple of bits of clothing and the friend apologised for the mess!! Not Normal!

Tomorrow's list

Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Have breakfast
Clear up breakfast
Empty dishy
Put washload on
Turn horses out
Hang washing out
Clean kitchen (hob, front of cupboards, sink, sides)
Mop downstairs floors
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Do horses
Dinner
Wipe down kitchen
DD bed
Tidy living room

Oh I couldn't relax in a house like that, so by that I maintain my house is very welcoming

Ali shame about your dh, but think how pleased he'll be to see you

we ended up with chinese for dinner

Plum - he will be pleased to see me, but I OV'd yesterday so no baby this month!

Alice - that is just weird. For a start, there is no way I could fit my kettle in a cupboard because they are full to bursting with other things!

Freak I will tell him, he is due to land there in about 3 hours time I think. I will feel better once he is in the US for sure, it's so much closer and there is no language barrier for starters. There was a government minister on the TV earlier talking about sending the Navy to America to get people! DH would absolutely adore that

The painter is now not coming until Wednesday, which while annoying in some ways is good in others because I've had a more relaxing evening that I thought I would and have got completely unpacked.
I can do my cleaning as normal tomorrow and then I will feel all organised.

TODAY
Get up and pack - done
Breakfast - done
Drive home - done
Unload car - done
Sort kitchen ready for painter - almostfinished
Sort bathroom ready for painter - done
Lunch - done
Put a load of washing on - done
Unpack - done
Hang washing out - tomorrow
Hoover and sweep downstairs - done
Clean bathroom - tomorrow
Clean kitchen - started
Dinner - pasta and salad - done
DS bath and bed - done
Clear up - done
Clean and re-organise spice rack - done
Run dishwasher - done
Eat chocolate souffle - intheoven
Wash kitchen floor (is minging in all the corners where I have moved stuff ready for painting) - tomorrow
Peaceful evening on my own - doing

Morning all, we had such a busy day yesterday. I was away until 4.30 at a Scout Training day, Our county team were coming to play at our local GAA teams pitch, so DH and DS, and DD2 were helping at that. DD1 had a feis, and DD3 had a princess party. We all managed to get back together about 6pm, we had a chipper tea and I fell into the bed at 10pm.

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

DONE
Empty dishy
Put washload on
Have breakfast

TO DO
Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Clear up breakfast
Turn horses out
Hang washing out
Clean kitchen (hob, front of cupboards, sink, sides)
Mop downstairs floors
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Do horses
Dinner
Wipe down kitchen
DD bed
Tidy living room

Morning everyone Very slow start here, have also forgotten to put the bin and recycling out for the lorries and I think they've already been so need to see if they have taken them anyway

CC - you have so much to do in your days, I think I would live in a total pigsty if I had all the other commitments you do!

Next - get dressed before the Ocado man comes and finds me in my dressing gown!

MONDAY
Up and dressed - up
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Wipe over bathroom
Ocado 10-11am
Put away shopping
Hoover and sweep downstairs
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Dinner
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mop kitchen and hall
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs
Mirrors and glass doors
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Utility sink and sides
De-cobweb downstairs
Upstairs paintwork

OTHER JOBS THIS WEEK
Have a big clothes sort out
Hoover out wardrobes
Sand down wardrobe cedar blocks
Take discarded clothes to charity bin

Morning, sorry to post and run earlier. DH was reading over my shoulder which irritates me. Maybe he does it so that i will get off the laptop quicker

Finances are a bit low atm, so need to be extra careful about spending money. Also trying to cut down on the amount of crap i'm eating, so looking for cheap healthy meals if anyone has any ideas?

Just sitting down with my first cup of tea in 2 days!

DONE
Empty dishy
Put washload on
Have breakfast
Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Clear up breakfast
Turn horses out
Hang washing out

TO DO
Clean kitchen (hob, front of cupboards, sink, sides)
Mop downstairs floors
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Do horses
Dinner
Wipe down kitchen
DD bed
Tidy living room

Must Do This Week
Sew elastic into DD's ballet shoes (by wed)
Find DD some white or pink socks (by wed)
Make a mock up roman blind
Give the horses a bit of exercise
Finish the sorting of baby clothes and put away

Well its the first day back at school after the holidays and i managed to get up when the alarm went off and get all the children up.
Get all children their breakfast-done
children teeth brushed,face hands washed-done
children dressed and hair brushed-done
get myself ready-done
take children to school-done
hoover downstairs
tidy away breakfast things
feed buns and kittens-done
dust living room
clean kitchen
pick up little one from nursery
change bedding
do washing
get washing in from outside
pick up children from school
make tea
take oldest dd to ballet
take stuff to charity shop
fill out housing application for estate in the counrtyside

I had better get a move on or nothing will be done
Need to do some baking too

Shelley

lol yes am worming my way in His nan is lovely though, I suggested to him that we swapped and he could live here with my dc whilst I stayed with his nan but surprisingly he wasn't up for that.

I plan to organise my storage a bit better this week, things are a bit shoved in atm.

Ali how long is he in Tokyo?

Alice that root veg and lentil thing plum (?) linked to ages ago is really nice and v cheap, I do it a lot. Also veggie stirfry/wraps/lasagne are yum and I don't really miss the meat in them. If I do curry I do a small meaty one and then dahl/sag aloo/chickpeas etc (or just chuck them in the meaty one if I'm feeling lazy!). Sainsburys had half price beef and lamb joints last week, they were massive so I cut one up, got 3 small roasting joints, 2 steaks and enough diced up for a smallish stew out of a beef one for only £11

Freak we got a couple of chickens when they were reduced the other week and froze them, last night we had roast chicken with new potatoes and green beans, tonight we are having chicken biryani. I am going to do lasagne this week and want to bulk it out to do 2nights (DH is more than happy having it 2 nights in a row) what should i bulk it out with? I use peppers. The problem is that DH forgets to eat during the day, so has huge portions at night and likes to have meat most nights. He is not really a puddingy sort of person either, so no point making puddings to fill him up (i just end up eating them all!)

Going to look up the recipe threads now, want to make some biscuits too.

lasagne I add peppers, courgette, lentils, grated carrot...whatever I have really. I probably shouldn't call it lasagne

Alice - mushrooms and grated carrot v.good in lasagne/spag bol all those type of things to make more sauce with less meat. Also now that salad is getting cheaper because it's summer I always do a big salad alongside.
I do a sausage casserole with lots of kidney and canellini beans in it. We have it one night with some crusty bread, and then the leftovers poured over a jacket potato with some cheese grated on top. This is yummy even if you don't have any of the sausages left.

Freak - he was only there 9 hours, he's on his way to Washington now. I was half expecting something to go wrong, but it does look as if they will land there tonight! And then only 96 hours until his flight to Madrid
Can you tell I hate being here on my own? I am constantly on the alert for spiders and fires.

MONDAY
Up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher
Make beds and tidy upstairs - started + declutter and some re-organising in DS' room - done
Wipe over bathroom + 15 mins deeper cleaning
Ocado 10-11am - here
Put away shopping - fridgethingsdone
Hoover and sweep downstairs
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Finish clearing utility ready for painter
Dinner
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mop kitchen and hall
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs - started
Mirrors and glass doors
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Utility sink and sides
De-cobweb downstairs
Upstairs paintwork

OTHER JOBS THIS WEEK
Have a big clothes sort out
Hoover out wardrobes
Sand down wardrobe cedar blocks
Take discarded clothes to charity bin

Ali hopefully by the time his flight to Madrid comes up he will just be able to fly home??

ALICE Don't listen to Ali, DO NOT put carrot in Spag bol/lasagne, It might as will be cattage pie with tomatoes in
bulk out with pepper mushrooms, sundried toms, courgette, aubergine and........................CELERY!!!!

I have been buying the filled pasta in Tesco it is very cheap and filling, just add a sauce and salad/veg, its handy to keep in fridge for an emergency dinner as it takes 5 mins to cook

Feel like I haven't done much today as I have been on the phone sorting out rates bill and organising BT engineer to come out to sort out line

Then realised need to get to bank today so will do that between school runs

DONE
Phonecalls
hung up washing
lunch

TO DO
load dishy & on
wipe round kitchen
decide on dinner

cattage that would be a very broad Belfest accent then
I say COTTAGE of course

Ha Plum! bet none of you sound like you do in my head!

Afternoon.

DH is away again.

Ali, will DH be able to have a couple days off when he gets back? He must be knackered.

I sometimes grate carrots into cottage pie/bolognese/chilli etc. You can add a handful of oats too, but not too much or it tastes like meaty porridge.

• 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 load in done
• DH paperwork done
• dry pots done
• change beds stripped
• find ipod and charge up done
• wave DH off done
• lunch done
• library
• bring bin and recycle box back round
• kitchen - sink, pots, sides, FLOOR
• dusting and hoovering
• water plants
• 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
• 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?
• kitchen - find alternative storage for mugs and glasses (windowsill not attractive), go through all other crockery/equipment and get rid if it hasn?t been used since we moved here.

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

Plum maybe, but I'm not counting on it! And NOOOOO to aubergine in lasagne etc - you are entering moussaka territory there Yes to celery though, yum.

I have hardly ticked anything off, but I have been busy all morning! Clearly I am not breaking down my jobs into sufficiently small chunks on my list!

MONDAY
Up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Unload dishwasher - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs - done + declutter and some re-organising in DS' room - donemore
Wipe over bathroom + 15 mins deeper cleaning
Ocado 10-11am - here
Put away shopping - done
Hoover and sweep downstairs
Lunch and tidy kitchen - doing
Finish clearing utility ready for painter
Dinner
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mop kitchen and hall
Dust downstairs
Hoover upstairs
Dust upstairs - started
Mirrors and glass doors
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Utility sink and sides
De-cobweb downstairs
Upstairs paintwork

OTHER JOBS THIS WEEK
Have a big clothes sort out - started
Hoover out wardrobes
Sand down wardrobe cedar blocks
Take discarded clothes to charity bin

x-posts.

Wasting I am hoping so, the problem is that a whole load of them are all stuck together! I know that DH is travelling with 7 collegues, 2 more made it as far as Dubai and are now stranded there and some have hung on in KL hoping to get home by their original route.
It is a big company internationally, but the UK team is quite small and as far as I know no-one has made it back to London yet. So everyone can't have time off straight away which is a shame. He has already said to his boss that he wants to take a week off asap so we'll just have to see when it will be possible. He can work from home though, so he will at least be here and not having to travel about.

Oh dear, what have i started? The mince based meal war!

I usually put in finely chopped celery, garlic, onion in most mince meals. Peppers and leftover tomatoes in bolognese/lasagne, carrot/any leftover veg in cottage pie. Not keen on mushrooms but would eat them, especially if cut small. Have started a thread on stocking up the freezer for when i have had the baby, so i can get good ideas. I am starting on my 'big' lists atm eg;What needs to be done by week 30, 36, 38, hospital bag lists etc. Helps me feel more in control especially as i was in and out of hospital last pg.

DD has been driving me mad today. She is on her 3rd top after playing in the washing up water, keeps asking for things and then not wanting them, we made cinnamon cookies and she wouldn't eat her lunch because she knew they were there, but then picked up a piece of bread crust off the floor (from god knows when!) and said yum

DONE
Empty dishy
Put washload on
Have breakfast
Get dressed
Get DD creamed and dressed
Clear up breakfast
Make beds
Turn horses out
Hang washing out
Put second load in
Make cookies
Clean hob
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Put dishy on again
Have a nap

TO DO
Clean kitchen (front of cupboards, sink, sides)
Mop downstairs floors
Do horses
Dry 2nd load of washing
Dinner
Wipe down kitchen
DD bed
Tidy living room

Must Do This Week
Sew elastic into DD's ballet shoes (by wed)
Find DD some white or pink socks (by wed)
Make a mock up roman blind
Give the horses a bit of exercise
Finish the sorting of baby clothes and put away