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

Bloody hell Freaky!

But he's fine, and hopefully the look on your face will put him off doing it again!

Freaky! OMG you poor thing ((((hugs)))) Clever boy though, he'll be working for M15 in 20 years time at that rate

DONE
Breakfast
Ocado here
Put away shopping
All get showered and dressed
Unload dishwasher
Quick tidy etc of kitchen
Clean hob and oven front
Sweep kitchen floor
DS lunch
Hang out washing from last night
Put another load on

TO DO
Visit DN in hospital
John Lewis

I'm not sure he will be put off- he laughed and said "that was fun! I get caiela all by myself"

On the plus side, wc just came over to check I was ok after ds' antics and gave me a hug. Shame I was shaking too much to enjoy it more!

Freak how scary!
Had a bit of a moment with DD on saturday in the Bathstore. They have automatic doors which open onto a very busy road, DD only had to be in that part of the shop for them to open. She ran round the corner (in the shop) and as i followed her, the door was open and i couldn't see her at all. Luckily she had ran around another corner, but it really had my heart going. My biggest fear is losing her somewhere.

Ali Salisbury hospital is where i went when i had viral meningitis.

Just had a very successful shopping trip to Toys R Us. Now home having a sit down before having to go to the horses (bit earlier tonight due to the plumber coming round)

DONE
Get up
DD up
Breakfast
Dishy emptied (thanks DH)
Get dressed
Get DD dressed
Clear up breakfast stuff
Put washload on
Make beds
Sort through clothes
Dry washing
More washing on (and on, and on etc)Towels
Lunch
Clear up lunch
Go to Toys R us

TO DO
Give bathroom quick wipe over and hoover
Go to horses
Plumber coming to look at bathroom 6.30pm
Cook dinner (MN recipe, cheats chicken&leek pie)

• tidy my bedroom and sort clean washing into piles done
• painting with DS done

+ bring in yesterday's washing and hang on airer done + walk to PC World and park done + bring bin back round done + feed birds done + take out rubbish etc. done + more Lemsip doing

Next -

• clean the sink
• wash the pots
• wipe the sides down

still got lots done with friend here so i feel iv done a very good job today

done
everyone up
pack lunch made
dds washed and dressed
me washed and dressed
strip dd1 bed
wash dd1 sheets
dd1 to school
clean micro
clean sides
wash up
washing on line
bins out
more washing
sweep floor in kitchen
mop kitchen floor
clean bathroom and floor
fluff sofa
pick toys up
dds table away
sweep floor
polish
lunch
pick dd1 up
sweep living room floor
sweep hallway
mop hallway

todo
sort kids toys out
sweep floor
do my room
make dd1 bed
dinner
play with dd2

Waves to everyone

Me and L washed and Dressed done
Wipe round bathroom done
Tidy living room done
Scrub Kitchen surfaces and Bin done
Wipe out oven done
Dinner for L and P done
Peel spuds for tea done
Hoover bedrooms
Sort out clean washing
3 loads of dirty washing 2
School run done
Downstairs loo done
Uniforms away done
Tea
Quick tidy
Bedtimes
Wii fit
Four weddings
Lunchboxes
Bedtimes.

Just about starting to recover now...

DONE
All up etc
load of washing in
load of washing on line
dd to preschool
strip my bed
put bedclothes on to wash
clean loo
wipe sink
recycling pile into box
table wiped
outside table cleaned
upload pics
print pic for dd's learning diary
Sign up for preschool trip
Bedclothes on line
3rd load in
3rd load on line
Washing up & sides
Tidy
Lunch
dd from preschool
Make braai stand

STILL TO DO
Exercise
Hoover
remake my bed
clean patio door
washing in off line
dinner
tidy
washing up & sides

Alice it is the scariest feeling ever isn't it? Glad dd hadn't actually escaped though!

OMG freakoid - have a brandy

Sleep deprivation is becoming obsessional. Its basically because DD will not take solids and is hungry at night. I was up 3 times last night. I am starting to obsess about how much sleep I have had. I may go to bed at 7pm.

Right, kitchen needs sorting

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

Take spare keys to bilton
silicone on bath
post cheques
go to work for a bit done
change over bills etc
ring consultant for DH and me done

Try to get DD to eat some solids doing

also
Arrange holiday
Write meithrin nursery donation letters
Buy new address book and fill in
Buy wedding present
Buy birthday presents and cards x2

• clean the sink done
• wash the pots done
• wipe the sides down done

+ clean table done + start dinner done + feed the boy done

Next -

• dinner

Evening .

Hope you are feeling less shaky now FO.

Hi HMHB/ALICE . Sleep deprivation is bad here too HMHB all I think about is going back to bed not that it ever happens.

Me and L washed and Dressed done
Wipe round bathroom done
Tidy living room done
Scrub Kitchen surfaces and Bin done
Wipe out oven done
Dinner for L and P done
Peel spuds for tea done
Hoover bedrooms
Sort out clean washing done
3 loads of dirty washing 2
School run done
Downstairs loo done
Uniforms away done
Tea done
Quick tidy done
Bedtimes
Wii fit
Four weddings
Lunchboxes
Bedtimes.

Freak - hope you are recovered now. DS1 is an escapist too, got out twice without us knowing, being brought back by neighbours before we realised he was gone...

CWWM - hey there, i too cannot believe Lola is nearly 1 already!!

HMHB - sleep deprivation is a form of torture, it's horrid.

Hi everyone else

Mon:

• last bits of laundry NeedsIroning
• all up, breakfasted & dressed DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch & DH to work DONE
• pop into office DONE
• trip to tip/recycling centre with bags of paper forgotten about on rubbish day DONE
• book haircut? NotDone
• lunch DONE
• DS2 nap DONE
• boys tea DONE
• boys bath & to bed DONE
• my dinner (DH home v late) cooking
• empty last bits of stuff from the car DONE
• early night

Tues:

• all up & breakfasted
• all dressed
• strip beds & find clean bedding Started
• swap bath towels & mats
• general tidy up
• DS1 to pre-sch
• PO trip
• go to old bf group with DS2 (haven't been in ages), buy some biscuits beforehand?)
• collect DS1
• lunch & tidy kitchen
• DS2 nap
• pop into office, think last few bits to do
• tea x 3
• boys to bed
• me to orch (confirm sitter & cash)

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 Done3More

{just to explain, it's not just the doors, it's the frames and all the nooks and crannies of the frames as the people before us chose very fiddly units!}

• 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/Us definitely staying at home!
• 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
• my jewellery - massive sort out & throw away broken/odd earrings, etc.
• sort out DS2's benefits file
• ring GOSH to chase June appt
• ring new social worker to arrange to meet
• book haircut

Evening!

DS can reach the back door handle, so I'll have to make sure I've checked the gate as soon as I unlock the door in a morning. I'm going to have to get a full height gate put in soon.

Next -

• knit wrist-warmers
• get DH tea when he's back from visiting MIL
• wash all pots
• sweep floor

HMHB i don't know how DD is doing with the bottle now, but with DD we used to give her a bottle of hungry baby formula as last feed at night. I know there is a bit of controversy about various formula etc, but it worked for us and got us through that short period when sleep was a distant memory!
(DD was on ebm mostly, with top ups of formula)

Feeling so knackered this evening, keep hitting the wrong keys and then not being able to figure out why it looks wrong

Made the MN cheating chicken and leek pie for dinner, was very yummy. Now collapsed on the sofa and DH is putting DD to bed. Just trying to decide what to have for pudding......

CWWM - while DD was in nursery today I was at work and all I could think of was that I could be in bed now. I was not productive.

Alice - unfortunately DD will not take a bottle either

She did suck some toast today though .

I don't know why I am posting being as I haven't even achieved anything since last post bar putting kids to bed...

I might not be about tomorrow as another power cut due.

Have a good evening /morning all.

Sympathies on the sleep depravation everyone We were there ourselves until so recently, it's very fresh in my mind! Hope you all get a decent night tonight!
HMHB - have you tried giving her some water in a beaker? DS would never take EBM in a bottle but he would have water in a beaker from 6/7 months. It helped with night wakings, because often he was thirsty rather than actually hungry.

DONE
Breakfast
Ocado here
Put away shopping
All get showered and dressed
Unload dishwasher
Quick tidy etc of kitchen
Clean hob and oven front
Sweep kitchen floor
DS lunch
Hang out washing from last night
Put another load on
Visit DN in hospital
John Lewis
Dinner out
Get washing in
DS bath and bed

TO DO
Fold washing
Tidy kitchen
Relax
Sleep

Ali - have tried formula in a beaker but she pushes it away unfortunately. I have tried leaving her to cry a bit and sometimes she goes back to sleep but more often needs quite a bit feed.
One of my friends said that is because she is not getting enough during the day so I am going to have to try to get more calories in her somehow. Bought rusks and rice cakes today to try.

Am off to bed now.

HMHB - how old is DD now? Can you try just plonking a roast in front of her and seeing if she likes it?

Hope you get some sleep, and have a ((hug)) because you sound frazzled.

Hope everyone got some sleep?
DS1 woke at 5.15 which was not good but he, and I, went back to sleep til 7.15 so that's a relief as i thought we were all up for the day then.
DS2 though is still asleep

Tues:

• all up & breakfasted
• all dressed 1Done
• strip beds & find clean bedding JustBoysBedsLeft
• swap bath towels & mats
• general tidy up Started
• DS1 to pre-sch
• PO trip + buy biscuits
• go to old bf group with DS2 (haven't been in ages) + biscuits
• collect DS1
• lunch & tidy kitchen
• DS2 nap
• pop into office, think last few bits to do
• tea x 3
• boys to bed
• me to orch (confirm sitter & cash)

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 Done3More

{just to explain, it's not just the doors, it's the frames and all the nooks and crannies of the frames as the people before us chose very fiddly units!}

• 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/Us definitely staying at home!
• 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
• my jewellery - massive sort out & throw away broken/odd earrings, etc.
• sort out DS2's benefits file
• ring GOSH to chase June appt
• ring new social worker to arrange to meet
• book haircut

Good morning Slatterns.

We were up at 4 with L coughing so I am off to see the GP in a while .

Hi JKS .

Hope everyone is having a good start to the day.

L to GP
Pick scripts up
Clean upstairs
Strip and remake my bed
Hoover upstairs
Dinner
Get Dad some cards and look for gift
school run
uniforms
washing x 3
Tea
reading
Bedtimes
wii fit

Oh dear CWWM, hope she's ok.

For any green-fingered types, a question, here

Morning

JKS have replied to your thread

CWWM hope L is ok.

I had about 4hrs of broken sleep last night. I had a tingly crampy feeling in my thigh, bum cheek and hip and just could not get comfortable at all! Then this morning i dropped the sugar tin (still got to clear that up properly) and burnt my toast

Today's list was going to be:

Put washload on
Put away clean washing
Empty dishy
Book car into garage
Pop into bank
Go to library
Go to the market
Dry washing
Make cakes?
Lunch
Encourage DD to nap
Order lovely shoes
Do horses
Cook dinner
Measure windows and work out how much fabric i need.

Instead it will be:

Get dressed?
Feed child throughout the day
Look at clothes/shoes/babystuff online
Sleep

Wash Clothes LOAD ON
Hang out wet Clothes
Iron Clothes
Sort underwear
Hang up clothes in right place