Weekly Flylady Thread 30th June 2008

sinderella_2

That's great that it's the kitchen and dining areas tomorrow as I had planned that anyway!!!

The thread worm thing reminds me of 11:55 an New Years Eve 2 years ago when DD1 asked me to look because she was itchy...and there was a crowd of people waiting downstairs to do auld lang syne. My mum and I checked and then rushed downstairs before the search party arrived - and yes we held her hands (one on each side of her) to stop others having to!!!

annelouise_2

Hello All,

I'd love to join you as I'm putting the house on the market tomorrow and the agent is coming at 3pm so will do school run,gym and then the dervish house staging using some lovely plants & cushions from my neighbours house who is at Le Manga cricket fest!!!!

Have sent OH back to uk with ebay parcels,not needed items and a list of jobs to do this week like faxing,meetings etc.

Have a few pots of veggies growing which I am enjoying very much.

annelouise :rotfl:

germish_se

Both boys rooms are now very clean after a weekend blitzing one and DH painted DS1's room this weekend, deep red was the boys choice.
Looks very intense now but he's pleased and we promised he could have any colour he wanted! DS2 went for subtle blues in his room.

Here's my list for tomorrow and the week as it is now.
[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]My never-ending list [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif](adding to it as I go)[/FONT]

1. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Clean bedroom, DS1's and landing windows[/FONT]
2. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Post b'day card for nephew[/FONT]
3. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Go through DS2's wardrobe[/FONT]
4. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]HHI[/FONT]
5. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Upload photos[/FONT]
6. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Book opera/musical tickets[/FONT]
7. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Clean the brushes/dust box/filters on the vacuum cleaner!!![/FONT]
8. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Watch a film I recorded[/FONT]
9. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Put felt on ladder hooks[/FONT]
10. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Take film to ASDA[/FONT]
11. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Grocery shop[/FONT]
12. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Get pasta bake[/FONT]
13. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Buy bra[/FONT]
14. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Make curtain for cupboard[/FONT]
15. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Print Bristol map[/FONT]
16. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Buy new school shirts[/FONT]
17. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Cut herbs back[/FONT]
18. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Change TT's lampshades[/FONT]
19. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Make chicken soup[/FONT]
20. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Bake bread[/FONT]
21. [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Post DVD[/FONT]
22. Watch my film
    
    
    
    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Magnificent Monday - Kitchen of Klutter and Dining room of Disaster
    Level One
    Open the windows and let in the light
    Clear and wipe the worksurfaces & table
    Fill a binbag for charity shop
    Level Two
    Wipe the little appliances and put them back in their homes
    Wipe over the cupboards and large appliances
    wash and deflea pet bedding and any pets that need doing My bed is the cats', she lets us sleep there at night.:rotfl:
    Level Three
    Sweep and mop the floor
    dust and twinkle the dining room furniture
    Drag everything out of the cutlery drawer.. wipe it out and put back the bits you are keeping.. Get rid of the things you aren't!!
    [/FONT]
    
    [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Extras[/FONT]

1. HHI
2. Throw away all the chipped and cracked crockery.. these place harbour germs and I don't like them!
3. Deweb the downstairs of the house!!
4. Scrub down the woodwork.. skirtings, door frames etc

Happy flying for the week, especially the newbies.

Mudbath

Tinsel fairy - congratulations, i'm so, so, so pleased for you.

Lil_me - we've been there, makes you feel eugh but really easy to get rid of. I went into too much information with my son and he freaked as he thought he had earth worms inside him!!!!

On that note, night all xx

germish_se

I learnt an expensive lesson today, I needed carrrots for dinner but I know if I go I will buy loads of other stuff I don't need so I sent the TT told one of them to get the value ones.
Half an hour later they arrive back with ORGANIC carrots, they cost me an arm and a leg! That'll teach me for trying to avoid spending by using the kids.

skintscotslass

Hi everyone :wave:

I've not been posting as I've been busy packing. The removal men are coming on Wednesday to collect the stuff thats going into storage, so to keep the costs down, we've been taking loads of carp over to my Mum's. She's in Australia for 6 weeks, so I've got ages to tidy up :rolleyes:

I'll be keeping up with the thread, hugs to everyone and welcome to all the newbies xx

pigpen

lil_me wrote: »

ARGH!!! Both boys have thread worm, I was warned it was going round in schools here last week so have been checking, found some tonight. So off to research what I need to do, never dealt with it before, DPs about ready to throw up as can't handle stuff like that. Looks like 2 boys off school tomorrow!

1. It is pointless keeping the boys off school they have had them for AT LEAST 6 weeks already.. worms are only passed out of the body to lay eggs around the anus (usually at night) it is the eggs which pass it on. So long as they are washing their hands well after using the toilet.. and being boys it only 'really' needs to be when they've had a number 2.. it is unlikely they will pass on anything in the space of the 6 hours they are at school

2. People get way too hysterical about this subject.. worms are actually quite good for you.. they manage the bacteria in the gut so unless they have a metabolic disorder they are not an issue and with correct hygiene are self eliminating.. correct hygiene and children is a total nono but hey ho suhc is life.

3. .. Prescription for VERMOX (nice orange taste unlike the pripsen which the smell makes you hurl!) from the GP.. one spoonful before bed one day and another spoonful before bed 4 weeks later they are gone.. unless they have picked up more eggs in the mean time.. in which case you are peeing in the proverbial wind! because 6 weeks later you will be right back at square one.

4. Thread worms are less contagious than headlice.. less prevalent than headlice.. easier to get rid of than headlice and less damaging to the child than headlice.. would you keep a child off school because htey had a louse or two?

Keep to their routine and add a spoonful of medicine before bed just inform the school tomorrow they need to make sure hteir hands are washed adequately after using the loo and if they will use it a dose of antibac rub.. they should have that at school!

Oh.. and tell DP to stop being such a pansy as he probably has them too! lol (he probably hasn't but the look on his face will be woirth it!)

cha97michelle

Hello everyone.

I'm planning on being in tomorrow as usual, as the state of the house is still doing my tree in. We have spent most of the weekend doing stuff and i still don't feel much further on even though we barely stopped. I guess it will be this way for a good while, and then i'll go back to work and it will be worse :eek: but i will keep trying. :rolleyes:


tinsel hugest congratulations. We are now a family of 4 too, so i can appreciate fully what this has meant to you. I remember what you went through, so i am pleased it worked out.

nicki loving your piccies of the lambananas. What a great activity to do, and your DD looked like she was really enjoying it too.

lil-me i have picked this up before from either the school canteen or the delightful oiks i teach who thought it was kind to offer me the goodies they made in food tech. I've learnt my lesson now and don't join in either activity. I read that it was advisable to iron the bed sheets to kill off anything, and also it helped to wash the anus in the morning as it removes any eggs that have been laid. Mostly the eggs are laid overnight when the body is warmest and least active. It reminds me of when my youngest sister was 3 and at nursery, and she used to get them almost weekly, and the treatment 20 years ago was a horrible pink drink. I shudder at the memory. Thank god treatments have advanced since then.

who was it who said about gloves in bed? I did used to wear gloves in bed when i had dermatitis. I was supposed to smother my hands in a steroid cream and wear plastic gloves over the top in bed, to help the cream absorb, but the gloves used to fall off, so i stuck woolie ones over the top. Good job it was a student house and freezing cold at the time.


Right, list before the pirhana (ds2) wants feeding again. He was a proper limpet all of yesterday and last night, and i fed him at 5ish this morning, he was really whingy at 6 so dh got up with him to let me sleep for longer, and the greedy boy had 5oz of formula, then fed from me for nearly an hour at 9. I should be wasting away but i am a pig so i am not. :rolleyes:

Magnificent Monday - Kitchen of Klutter and Dining room of Disaster
Level One
Open the windows and let in the light
Clear and wipe the worksurfaces & table
Fill a binbag for charity shop
Level Two
Wipe the little appliances and put them back in their homes
Wipe over the cupboards and large appliances
Level Three
Sweep and mop the floor
dust and twinkle the dining room furniture
Drag everything out of the cutlery drawer.. wipe it out and put back the bits you are keeping.. Get rid of the things you aren't!!
Extras

1. HHI
2. dentist appointment at 3pm
3. Deweb the downstairs of the house!!
4. Scrub down the woodwork.. skirtings, door frames etc
5. pack baby bag to take boys to sisters while i go to dentist
6. WM - dark load
7. airers - remove dry stuff, reload with any wet stuff

Dh did some of the kitchen for me over the weekend so it is fairly tidy - he went through the pantry and we binned some really out of date stuff and cleaned the floor - he didn't do the shelves for me, but i will try and do one a day or something when i wash up at lunchtime (8 in total to do). I also noticed that my one cupboard in the kitchen is a bit dusty, so i need to take the stuff out and clean it, but unfortunately it contains all the plates/bowls/cups/glasses/dishes etc etc that we own piled up high, so i am reluctant to start, but it has got to be done this week.

Michelle, x

cookie334

lil_me Well that's motivation for you if ever I heard it . As a mother of 3 young kids, I always wondered how you would know if your kids had them? Unlike nits (which also freak me out) it's not like you can see them unless you're specifically looking for them so I guess you were lucky (if you can call it that) that you knew to be on the lookout. Anyone know what happens if you don't know about them and therefore don't treat them? The kids hate that I check their hair for nits every week, I really don't think they could take it if I started checking them for worms too :eek: :rotfl:

prettypennies wrote: »

Oh no these things are a real pain in the butt!. Working with year one kids, they are as much as hazard of the job as nits.

Main thing is to treat all the family with Pripsen or Ovex. Wash all the bedding at 60C to kill the eggs.
Change towels and facecloths daily. Vac bedrooms daily and s&s the loo and surrounding floor. Make sure the kids nails are cut really short. Pants and Jammies in bed to make it harder for them to scratch.

The cycle is about two weeks from start to finish.

Apparently 1 in 10 children in primary school are infected at any one time. So chances are there are at least three and a half kids in my class with them at any one time!

pigpen

oh.. and another point.. the pripsen yes it is cheap (and tastes rank.. ref. michelle 'horrid pink drink') but if DS has an issue with parasites DON'T use it.. the worms are passed whole & not always dead.. vermox dissolves them.. I have no experience of ovex.. I thought that was eardrops?!

Guess whose house is constantly riddled with parasites.. hubby had them not so long ago.. I routinely worm my brood every 3-6 months.. like dogs!