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lone parents housework / keep fit / healthy eating thread

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meglet · 30/12/2014 18:59

We can only do the best we can. No point in going on housework threads if you're a working LP who never has a break from the kids. Or if you're a SAHM LP with small kids who can't get to the gym.

So, a thread for us to start the New Year with good intentions and to juggle it around everything else we have to do .

I banned Minecraft today and tomorrow after some shocking behaviour (kicking each other in the supermarket) the dc's had a burst of enthusiasm, dysoning and tidying up to get back in my good books.

I have managed to get out for a few runs over Xmas. We stayed with my mum for a couple of days so I went out then.

Here's to a positive start to 2015.

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fattymcfatfat · 22/02/2015 21:43

managed to get my room finished and have cleared some space for yet more baby stuff haha. then had a lovely hot bath. school for DS tomorrow and shopping for me then tuesday im off to physio to be told off for doing too much blah blah blah if they think im bad now just wait til im nesting, I have been known to climb on windowsills when heavily pregnant to clean windows and take the curtains down!

thanks meglet how is everyone else doing. I think ive just been on a spree today, im usually much lazier

fattymcfatfat · 23/02/2015 17:38

how do I end up with soo much washing?! starting to thing that there is some sort of poltergeist making everything dirty in the night!

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meglet · 23/02/2015 21:30

fatty the laundry pile makes me weep. too many winter clothes and not enough dry days to hang it out. I have a permanent laundry basket and clothes airer backlog.

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BlackeyedSusan · 23/02/2015 22:15

the living room looks like there has been an explosion in a charity shop. toys clothes and book everywhere.

I have buried the children's pe kits under a massive heap of my clothes (most of which came from said charity shop)

I did clean the baisn inthe bathroom though.

I am shattered. going to mums was a disaster. extreme stress. two days trawling round the supermarket out of the four we were there, and I was ill.

fattymcfatfat · 24/02/2015 08:16

oh no. hope you feel a bit better now. under my stairs is a wreckage in a garden centre with a few random toys thrown in there to hode from the kids. also found a bag of washing in there! I thought I was missing some stuff!

BlackeyedSusan · 24/02/2015 14:37

I have just bought ds more football socks. I may have forgotten to wash his despite half term giving me an extra week.
I did unbury the pe kit. ds took some of his homework in too.

just been to fill in dd's DLA form. a little surprised at how much there was to fill in... she requires a lot more care than I realised... ds is bloody obviously needing help.. difficult to ignore if he bites you on the bum, dd on the other hand needs help for a much younger child which one sort of does not quite notice as you have always done it but by the time she is this age, she should be more independent.

polealltheway · 24/02/2015 21:33

Fatty - when is the baby due?

I started 5'2 again yesterday! It was hard but I feel more I'm control! Although I'm not feeling too well and tomorrow is my long day at work so I'm there until 6pm!

Hopefully I will feel better soon and start exercising again!

BlackeyedSusan · 24/02/2015 22:12

i walked into town today so that will help. I did notice that I have lost fitness after bein off school for a week and not doing so much walking around.

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meglet · 24/02/2015 23:39

black the school run is a good walk isn't it. As much as I hate the morning stress the walk usually cancels it out.

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fattymcfatfat · 25/02/2015 08:16

end of july pole
I enjoyed the walk when it didnt leave me in agony. now I just want to cry oh well best get off to do said walk

BlackeyedSusan · 25/02/2015 11:03

we go in the car as it is too far to walk. certainly too far to walk/bus with dd who can not walk all around the supermarket without pain. and to carry a kicking and screaming ds who is having an ASD meltdown.

fattymcfatfat · 25/02/2015 11:42

I cant drive or I would use the car when im having a bad day. I dont have the money for one either so walking it is. I suppose im lucky in that its just me in pain and not my DCs. I take my hat off to you I don't know how I would cope if I was in your situation.

fattymcfatfat · 25/02/2015 22:11

well. saw my dad properly for the first time in three weeks and all he did was comment on how fat I am and that if im not careful I wont have a neck as my chins will cover it! thanks dad as if I didn't feel shit enough about my weight
then he told me not to eat cheese on toast! my DCs were hungry so I made cheese on toast for tea as I was being lazy and I had 1 flaming slice! but no not even allowed that now! sat here crying my eyes out over this. im sick of the men in my life being wankers.

im sick of hurting

BlackeyedSusan · 25/02/2015 22:20

well, I washed up some of the pots.

polealltheway · 26/02/2015 16:26

Fatty mc - don't listen to him! Your pregnant and looking after Dcs have whatever you want! Btw one slice of cheese on toast doesn't sound very much for dinner!

fattymcfatfat · 26/02/2015 20:55

I wasnt very hungry. and I ended up giving half of that to DD who dropped hers on the floor! today has been better. apart from being freezing cold all day, and my 6yo DS breaking down and telling me he doesnt want the baby to be born dead! no idea where that came from but I seem to have reassured him now

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meglet · 26/02/2015 21:58

oh bless, your ds must have heard something at school fatty. The poor little bean worrying about that. Hopefully he will have forgotten about it tomorrow.

my house is a mess but I'm skiving off housework and going to have a session at the allotment tomorrow. want to work on my spring tan start to make the kids veg patch and maybe put down some patio slabs.

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fattymcfatfat · 27/02/2015 23:29

he seems much better today especially after he felt bump wriggling for the first time. hes currently asleep on a large cushion on the living room floor while DD attacks my dbro!

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meglet · 28/02/2015 09:06

I think the only way I can have a tidy house is if we stop eating and wearing clothes .

I'm going to have a bash at condensing a couple of shelves of cooking equipment and utensils into once shelf so I can store more packet and dried food.

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fattymcfatfat · 28/02/2015 09:17

my looks half tidy, until you open the cupboards and drawers I sort of hide everything and hope it sorts itself out. im due a declutter me thinks

BlackeyedSusan · 28/02/2015 11:14

the only way I can have a tidy house would be for meglet not to post funny things on 'tinternet. takes no responsibility for reading and drinking

sure I just snorted it up my ears/nose

BlackeyedSusan · 28/02/2015 11:20

I have been relatively quiet this week as I have virtually done sod all. I need to catch up. I hope to get the flat back to the level of shittiness it was when I left to go to mums, which is quite a bit better than it is now.

get the whole thing down one level.

ds did insist that I not get up though. he wanted his go on the computer in peace! they helped themselves to breakfast (as evidenced by the wheatabakes crumbs on the cooker and the milky spills in the fridge) and the drinks I left out, (scattered bottles) and to grapes and an apple, (squished grapes on the kitchen floor) meanwhile I had crisps and chocolates in bed while reading, only getting up to wipe bottoms, provide cuddles and check no-one has died.

BlackeyedSusan · 28/02/2015 13:19

just trodden on a toy and broken it and have a sore foot from treading on sharp bits of plastic. thankfully three pairs of socks prevented a cut but... ouch.

I have already hung yesterdays washing, put another load in, put pots away, cleaned the sink and some tidying in the hall.

the messy living room is being tidied b y dd as I maybe have gotten a bit cross about a sore foot/broken toy.

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meglet · 28/02/2015 13:37

black do you find that going away sets you back a few days? packing, organising, travelling, then reversing it when you head home?

my family are a 3 hr drive away in the south west. great that we can have all the breaks we want but having to singlehandedly arrange it all means I leave real life in a state of disarray and have to play catch up when I get back. I'm getting more and more behind every school holiday .

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BlackeyedSusan · 28/02/2015 14:30

yes. I go to my others to help her then leave my flat in a sate and it never improves. threw my toys out the pram a while back as she cried on the phone saying she had no food and when I got there she had run out of fresh tomatoes and ham. the cupboard was bulging with tins and packets and the freezer was packed such that I could only get one more bag of frozen peas in. there were many meals I had cooked in there ready to defrost.

it is nice for the chidlren to go and play in a garden but I need to getthis flat sorted so we may be able to move at some point in the future.

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