SAHM's...what have you actually done today?

[PregnantGrrrl]

Despite the fact that my house never seems to look really clean or tidy, i am amazed at how much i have got done already today.

• Took DS to doctors/chemists
• Emptied dishwasher
• Made us both lunch, then picked DS's up from the floor
• re-filled dishwasher
• Put washing on line
• Washed more clothes
• Picked up CDs and DVDs after DS (again!)
• Picked up toys (again!)
• Made some bottles up and not forgetting, found time to potter on the net.

No wonder the days where i go out to work seem soooooo much easier!

got up, got kids ready, dopped DS3 at CM (nopt at Uni atm), came home, helped DH fix car, went to maplins to return order they messed up for Dh's business, did tesco shopping, unpacked shopping, went straight to meeting with Behavioural Advisory teacher, collected boys, came home, looked up home education on internet as starting September, made dinner

mozhe, I'm already there. Hey, look, I'm multi-tasking!

Got DD's up, washed and dressed
Breakfast
Emptied dishwasher
Been to the park
Lunch
Nursery school run x 2
Walked 2 miles
Sorted finances out
Hoovered
Made all beds
Tidied both DD's rooms
Tea for DD's
Cleaned kitchen
Cleaned bathroom
Re-filled dishwasher
Bathed DD's/dressed them for bed
3 loads of washing, all hung out and dry
Put DD's to bed
Tidied living room.
Feet now well and truly up

Now if Id been at work Id have

done all of the below (bar ed psych cm or dh would have ahd to do it, then I would have been really angry with myself for mising)

visited 7 familiies to see what help they needed
explained to said famillies where necesary how to do all of post below
calle dSS on one family
Refused gelp to 3 famillies due to funding
Written 7 reports nobosy else will ever read

Best leave that to someone that wants it eh?

Catching up with the washing - the machine broke again last Thursday and wasn't fixed until yesterday. Pile of ironing waiting.

Made the bed.

Feeding and changing dd as required.

Went to first aid class with dd, and had a cuppa with another SAHM after.

Walked to the butchers for meat and veg, cooked lunch, washed up.

Cleaned kitchen.

Played with dd.

Walked dog and dd twice, and will do third one shortly.

Walked to the deli to get some rice for supper.

A friend phoned and so did my mum.

love this thread

• got dd up, nappied, dressed and breakfasted
• went to dad's to pick up mums old things (she died, he's sold his house and moving in with his new fiancee)
• took mums things back to our temp house
• took dd and dh to dad's to help (well supervise i'm 8 months preg)load sofa, table and lawnmowers into his van. he's giving us these things for our new house.
• drove over to our new house with dad to unload said items and inspect how the decorating is coming on
• managed to grab some lunch with dd
• drove to focus to pick more wallpaper and paint
• made dd's day when i let her choose a drink from the vending machine *drove to tesco to pick up MIL from work and get food shopping
• let dd have a ride on the childrens ride for being such a good girl and not even sleeping all day.
• got back to temp house, changed dd's nappy and got her tea ready
• time out for dd for slapping me repeatedly
• got dd ready and into bed
• said goodbye to dh as he sets of to work for the evening
• just sat down to catch up on mn
• going to have some tea, sit and feel the baby kick then go to bed oh yeah then wake up in the morning and catch up on all the washing and ironing and cleaning i didnt do today!!!

my eyes glaze over you all do so much! i think i get away with bare minimum, but then it is my day off so prob doesnt count. Picked up some toys played with my little boy in the sun, who is asleep now.
good thread though always wondered what the hell other women meant when they said in the first few months of having a baby (only one that is). "ooh im so busy" i was like eeh?
babies sleep for hours how can you be busy?? never got it.

Im sure with more and older dcs and a bigger hoose (given that you clean it) then it does 'fill the day' (as my mill puts it aargh)

LOL at "fill the day".

moodlum lolol i .
My mum also kept ringing me up from os to ask if i was 'filling my days', after a year i thought it would send me bananas so i knew it was time to do a few days work!

Whereas my mother used to warn me "not to let myself go" when I was at home all day, and "just put some make up on" before dh got home - "They do notice, you know"...

Right. This was about 18months ago, just in case you think I'm ancient and its something my mother told me during the 50's...

Get up late (7:30) as up most of night with teething dd.
Breastfeed dd lying in bed.
Put bedroom tv on for dd and grab a shower
Make breakfast for dd and myself
Scrub potatoes for lunch, put in oven, set timer to cook them whilst we are out.
Quick check on MN
Change dd's nappy and get her dressed
Phone delivery company that tried to deliver when I was out yesterday.
Get stuff together to take to toddler group, and go.
Cuddle dd lots at toddlers, as she's not herself at moment (teething/poss mmr reaction).
Drive 20 mins from toddlers to pick up Christening invites from yesterday's failed delivery. Get lost - fail to operate new SatNav correctly, eventually find destination.
Drive 30mins home from delivery place.
Get potatoes out of oven, wake dd who has dozed off for 10 mins in car.
Have lunch with dd.
Rejoice in the number of prawns that dd has eaten. Despair at the amount of potato thrown on the floor.
Change nappy. Put dd to bed.
Quick check on MN.
Answer phone and chat to my dad for a few mins.
Fold dry washing.
Start stuffing Christening invites into envelopes and addressing.
Get dd up again, as she's clearly not going to go to sleep.
Offer dd water and snack.
Clean up broken crockery that fell off drainer when I picked up snack pot, and vacuum up lunch remains at same time, all whilst holding dd, who screams every time I try to put her down.
Try to put up parasol in garden. Fail. Phone dh to tell him I'm having a crap day, and ask how to open parasol.
Play with dd inside for a bit.
Come out to garden, succeed in opening parasol, uncover sandpit for dd.
Dd refuses to let me move out of her sight, so bring laptop outside and check MN, skype dh, cuddle dd.
Get dd bowl of water to play with and bring it outside.
Start this post.
DD miserable and wet - take her clothes off, cuddle - mood not improving, take her inside and she leads upstairs.
Give her medised (harder than it sounds!) and put her to bed.
Return to this post.
Wonder why plumber who was due at 3 still hasn't turned up.
Ah, silence from dd, so going to continue sorting invites.

Conclusion = done lots, achieved nothing.

sod all today.
amjust about to start before dh rolls in and starts doing it all.

yep, not acheived anything today except kiddi cuddles. ds had his second set of injections today and he's a bit grumpy, and dd3 is teething.

nothing nothing nothing, help, I need a motiviational life coach

cleaned and mopped all downstairs
dealt with badly sunburned clingy baby
sorted through sheeves of photoes so dd can taks some to playschool to do a family tree (she's 2 )
stacked dishwasher
hovered by window waiting for repair man for washing machine and glaring at landlord
shagged dp
am now watching them destroy the lovely cleaning i did earlier

not a lot really, stuck in the house coz of stooopid repair man not coming

have resisted opening this thread, as my usual answer would be "sod all" but today I have:

done some structured arty crafty type play with the littlies,
done 2 loads of washing and sorted out another load
polished living room
hoovered living room (twice)
cleaned kitchen table
cleaned all the walls and doors in the living room
cleaned bathroom sink, toilet and floor
done 3 loads of washing up and put 2 away
made bread
made dinner for 3 of us
gone to the shops
made beds
got tea ready to be cooked
played, read and sang with the kids.

Probably the last time I'll open a thread like this as well

moodlum rofl and lol at people who say ' ooh she let herself go' omg i love that phrase..
When fil was threatened with redundancy mil said to me, "he's a man, he would not like to be at home, not like us women who know how to keep busy"
Im telling you that was the end of me.
as for letting yourself go, with me anything goes, i havent pushed the pjs recently, but anything else is ok - except MN.
Being on MN is a big no no. As soon as i hear the key in the door im like eek shut down shut down!!
(oh and i do play with my lo on my day off not on here alll day..)

No-one ever said of me that I know how to keep myself busy idle, yes, busy -noooo. And I think my mother has given up now I have let myself go so far now that we're at the point of no return! Not really but her idea of dress down and mine are very very different.

What I have achieved today -
-clean kitchen floor (no longer sticky or crunchy)
-dd on time to nursery
-new easy supper introduced for dc's successfully
-resisted the temptation to GOBBLE UP the 12 krispy kreme donuts dh brought back from Selfridges and we put them in the freezer

But now I have ds waddling around with a nasty nasty nappy and a dd with an enormous unreachable splinter trapped in her heel so that will certainly add to the drama of bathtime.

Today ds woke up at 5:15, not happy. Made him stay in his room till six but I couldn't get back to sleep.

Got up and got on mumsnet while ds played on sesame street website while eating breakfast and second breakfast. DS certainly a hobbit where food is concerned.

Went to toddler group.

Went to town as needed a parasol base because they were out for home delivery. Parasol bases are not light and we do not own a car!

Put parasol up.

Played in garden with ds, football and with water pistols.

got up (late ) got ds1 and 2's clothes ready, made breky eyc and packed lunches, took ds1 and ds2 to school, dh waited at home with ds3, then we took him to Opticians, home, found neighbour had removed fences and dug out significant portion of our garden, called landlord, left him with Dh and popped to Uni to meet friend for luch (no show grr), home, received evil looks from neighbours (who has presumably been ordered not to build her conservatory on a garden that isnt ehrs), ds3 now in Nursery, over to post office, school collection, to bank (about 6 miles away), home, dinner, now on here then cofee etc

Hijack - Peachyclair, are you an Ed Psych??

Nope! Not at all LOL!

have repeated contact with many, even thought about it last year (did psych part in my degree)
but no, couldn't dtand the LEA constrictions

But if there's anything bothering you I might be able to help- used to help run parenting classes and stuff and have loads ofe xperience of ed psych and intervention through own kids (and cold probably direct you to right person if needed)

fed breakfast to the little buggers (am not happy with them atm), harrassed them into uniforms and car for school run, came back and had breakfast, then had to go to guildford for a meeting about finances (lovely, not)

bought me a few bargains to cheer me up after that, drove home, then had to go out again to paid some outrageously high bills and look for summer footwear for kids, only found some for ds2, collected kids from school, drove back to guildford to find school shoes and trainers for dd2 and ds1

fed them while out to save extra crap int eh kitchen

got them home and they have fought non stop, so i tried to ignore them and eat coconut yoghurt in peace to no avail

then i banged my hand on my comp chair when i was laying down the law( was v cross), and now it hurts quite a lot

about to throw them in bed or on the streets, i havent decided yet

Peachy, no not looking for one, was hoping to be one !!! thinking of applying for psychology conversion course so i can later train as an ed psych! Good idea or bad, do you think??

soiunds like a great idea, really enjoyed the year I did, and there's always a shortage of professionals in the field.
do you have a local Uni that offers it?