"Slatterns fulfil a socially useful role: they allow others to feel superior, even other slatterns."

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Welcome to the slatterns thread, where everyone is welcome to share their lists, get motivated and share tips.

I remember one of a julie walters film, wear black bras because they don`t show the dirt.

its a great title

i wear a thick black alice band because it hides both the grease and the roots - ideal when juggling family and career and being a total babe

That's a great tip OnEdge!

• 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
• breakfast done
• coffee + check mail and online banking doing
• laundry - put load in
• dry pots
• town
• lunch
• bring bin back round
• garden
• feed the birds
• take rubbish, recycling and compost caddy out
• 5 o?clock - tea
• wash pots and tidy kitchen
• tidy downstairs
• DS bath and bed, wipe round bathroom, teeth and face
• watch a film with DH

To Do -

• plan Christmas 2010, next - decide on gifts to make, use what I?ve got for now- get cross-stitch framed, mark dates in Calendar for making Christmas cake etc.
• sort digital photos and order any I want prints of
• mirrors - put mirror tiles up above bathroom sink, other mirror up above dressing table
• work out what?s wrong with breadmaker still flat, try some new yeast? new yeast bought
• research carpet cleaning
• buy duvet and bedding for DS

Lol, love the new thread

Tues:

• me up first - DH woke at 4am so got up then, nutter!
• breakfast & tidy kitchen DONE
• all dressed DONE
• DH to work DONE
• strip beds & find clean bedding DONE
• swap bathroom towels & mats DONE
• DS1 to pre-sch DONE
• hosp for inhaler DONE

• fill out form for DS1's school & post back
• DS2's new Social Worker coming at 10.30
• any jobs if time?
• collect DS1
• lunch & tidy up
• DS2 nap
• afternoon? (usual 'Tues' friends away on hols so may be a quiet one) jobs??
• tea x 3
• boys to bed
• orch (check cash & 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 Done3More
• 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 - Bought Some New Bits
• my jewellery - massive sort out & throw away broken/odd earrings, etc.
• book haircut
• Thank-yous for DS1's birthday
• do a review of what money i spend on what (following on from discussion with DH yesterday)

Hey, I thought this was for slatterns !! You lot have made me want to go and lie down and eat crisps. You cant have done all that by this time of day its not riiiight.

I don`t juggle family and career, I just keep dropping all the balls in a juggling type fasion.

OnEdge, we sometimes get things done quickly so we can spend the rest of the day near horizontal.

OnEdge my list will make you feel better

DONE
Get up
DD up
Breakfast
Get dressed
Make beds

TO DO
Clear up breakfast stuff
Empty dishy
Get DD dressed
Put washload on
Go to town to; Get something to post some jeans in, get some new make up, pop to the market for some veg and eggs.
Sort through clean washing (maybe)
Have lunch
DH to put a chicken in the oven
DD to have a nap
Put jacket potatoes in oven
Horses
Do horses
Go to waitrose
Eat dinner
DD bath and bed
Clear sitting room
Load dishy
Wipe down kitchen
Bed!

Have left a message for the on duty MW to give me a call for some advice wrt lots of BH, pelvic pain and S&D.

05.00 baby cries - hand on ears, shut eyes very tight.
05.15 baby still crying, stagger about and trip over GHD s blinking cos no glasses and do bottle - bung it in babies general direction, return to bed in a bouncy fashion to make pretending to sleep husband aware that i am not amused.

07.00 - log onto MN
08.30 - Shreik at daughter to stop dancing on window sill in the buff, eat her cornflakes get dressed in the next 5 minutes wea re gonna be late.

08.35 - decide to leave baby in baby grow and just change nappy, will look cute.

Love the new title .

OnEdge I often do the baby grow trick but I am not sure how much longer I can get away with it for now dd is almost one.

Going to wash hair before L wakes up.

Wash hair
Quick tidy done
Blitz living room sortof
Strip dd's bed done
Tidy garden
Dinner
Play with Lo's
Schoolrun
Tea
uniforms
baths
reading
bedtimes

Love the new title, marking spot for later as I still feel like crap!

Can anyone join in? I'm in serious need of motivation & H is moving out soon, so I'll need to do everything myself.

I really really take my hat off to single mums. I think thay are magnificant women doing all that, and most of them look so coooooool aswell, also seem to become feisty which I love. Sometimes when I am struggling WITH DH helping I just think about those single mums out there I have so much new found respect for them. Oh i feel all noble and sisterly now, time for a salad cream sandwich and refelction.

Everyone is more than welcome Springy, Sorry to hear you are having a hard time

Thank you. I'm still sitting in my pyjamas & have managed to have breakfast. That is all so far. H dealt with DS this morning, so I've literally done nothing. Actually, that's a lie - I stopped the tumble dryer because it was finished drying & just wasting electricity. I'm on a roll

I think I'm going to start with an incomplete, easy-going list today & try & get things done properly from tomorrow. So:

Brush teeth
Shower
Get dressed
Pick up DS's mess from the living room floor

Take parcel to post office

12.30 Student parent focus group (I'm really hoping to meet potential friends here, as I've not met any other student parents yet & have no local friends or family!)
2.10 Seminar

4-6 Receive Asda delivery
Cook dinner. Maybe even for H if I'm feeling generous / it's convenient with whatever I make.
Sort through clean laundry
Do at least one wash
Set another wash to go on time delay for the morning (been asked not to use washing machine after 10pm by neighbours)

It's ridiculous how little that actually accomplishes - I have so much uni work to do, never mind ongoing household things & the ever-increasing pile of filth & clutter. But I have to start somewhere, I think.

I have a aversion to washing up. When I was pregnant, I had awful morning sickness & the worst trigger (I can't smell, so that thankfully removed most things!) was the sight of washing up. Every time, I was sick immediately for 30+ weeks. Now I have a psychological association whereby I really struggle to do it. I can just about manage if I wash things up as soon as they are finished with, but that's not always practical & I'm lazy. There's absolutely no way I can have a dishwasher & with H moving out, I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm seriously considering paper plates

Just spoken to MW and maternity hospital. Their advice is to do as little as possible, as in bedrest type thing to stop uterus being stimulated, as everytime i stand up/move/do anything i get a BH. Quite nice in a way, but managable really just for a couple of hours as have a toddler and 2 horses (DH is taking DD to work with him, luckily has a quiet day) i suppose the worst case scenario is having to do this for the next month/6 weeks as by then i will nearly 35weeks and everything much safer if the baby is born. Hopefully it will really mean just bumbling about very slowly for a while.

If you feel overwhelmed by all the cleaning and housework, then this might cheer you up - made me chuckle.
Home Cleaning Advice

What happened, do threads have to be renewed. I thought they went on for eternity, leaving a legacy to future generations!
Slumped in far too late yesterday to do 'owt.
Major acheivement yesterday was finishing the VAT Rah! hope Mr. Osborne is grateful.

LIST FOR TODAY
print student handouts
look up notes for tomorrow
pay bills
be a nice friend to friend having a hard time
shop
cook
dentist apt
hoover
get sticky stuff off kitchen floor
find cause of sticky stuff on kitchen floor

Alice - feet up and look after you and baby. I had two weeny babies born at 32 wks ( big grown ups now)but needed mega care then, that was long before BH was invented!
Love to all sick slatterns

Hello OnEdge and Springy Nightmare about the washing up, no idea what to suggest!

Alice - hopefully if you can take it really easy for a few days then things will settle down. Your list for the day should change to read 'put feet up' and that is the only thing allowed on in

JKS - I must do a similar audit. I have no idea where all the money goes, really must try and do some budgetting...

I have run out of steam now. Think I might sit in the garden with my book this afternoon and just let DS trot about, I really cba.

TUESDAY
Me and DH up - done
Shower and dressed - done
Get DS up and dressed - done
Spatone + vitamins
Unload dishwasher - done
Load in final bits from last night - done
Breakfast and tidy kitchen - done
Make beds and tidy upstairs
Wipe over bathroom
Hoover and sweep downstairs - done
Take friend to station - done
Lunch and tidy kitchen
Dinner - roast chicken
Clear up
DS bath and bed
Post DS-to-bed tidy
Kitchen clear before bed

CLEANING THIS WEEK
Mirrors and glass doors
Stairs and bannisters
Shower screen
Insides of downstairs windows
Wash bathroom floor
Upstairs skirtings

OTHER JOBS THIS WEEK
Alphabetise final bookcase
Pay window cleaner and Green Thumb - MUST do this

HOUSE
Fix light in cooker hood (not just a duff bulb apparently)
Clean carpets - livingroomdone
Put up extra hooks in utility
Plant remaining summer bulbs
New sealant round bath

minimam I have a VAT return to do

Have had my shower
and ignored my mini list and cleared out my make up etc, and gathered up old handbags for the cash for clothes collection

Right need to get lunch on
then school run
stay at school for some presentation
then dd1
then home
homeworks
then to dancing, but have home made soup made so will buy crusty bread when I'm out

Hi Springy .

Alice I had something similar with dd1 everytime I walked I would get strong BH it was 11 years ago now but I was advised to rest too, I hope it sorts itself out for you.

Ali I am in a CBA mood too feeling very tired today.

Hi Mini and Plum.

Ok have hoovered the living three times today thanks to the lovely Lola who is sending me potty now she can crawl she keeps pulling the wii over and pressing all the buttons on the sky box (she does look so cute crawling though lol!).

Wash hair done
Quick tidy done
Blitz living room sortof
Strip dd's bed done
Tidy garden
Dinner done
Play with Lo's done
Schoolrun
Tea
uniforms
baths
reading
bedtimes

I have only moved to go for a wee

CWWM i keep threatening to get a mini hand held hoover. DD hates the big hoover but still likes to make a mess. Could be good for hoovering the cat when it is moulting too

New list:

Keep feet up on sofa
Take chicken out of oven 3.30pm
Put some potatoes in at some point
Keep putting telly programs on for DD