Weekly Flylady Thread 27th October 2008

toottifrootti

Hi everyone - brrr its chilly!!!!!

I have only managed to get to post 520 as you lot have been chatting too much!!!! I need to go and do 4 ebay parcels so will just post a bit for now and catch up later - I had 2hours of pc class this morning - blood tests and flu jab - have had lunch and 1 hour on here!!!

johanne - nice to see you honey - hope you are all doing ok
gryfon big hug for you - I cant add to the good advice you got already - just keep up with the baby steps and my favourite saying "it didnt get in a mess overnight so dont expcet it to get tidy overnight" - you mentioned the conservatory - why dont you do a little job in there as an extra everyday and you will soon be able to use it and keep it nice.
supergirl - WTG Mum sometimes it takes a few hard lessons for them to realise - hugs to you - you have your hands full with 3 hormonol/awkward/stroppy girls!!!!
serena glad DD is getting better - hoope you can all enjoy a treat at the weekend
sexymouse wallpapers are fab - I discovered them only recently and was spoilt for choice!!
catch you again later
toots xx

Justamum

I can't possibly catch up on this thread!

My parents, sister, BIL and their two children are over this week (not staying with me, but we are seeing a lot of them) so not much will be done on the flying front. Yesterday DD1 did vacuum downstairs though. I spent yesterday morning cooking for the freezer, so I have 4 chana dhals, 7 celery soups and 13 leek, potato and pea soups. Half of yesterday's bolognese went into the freezer for another day too. I'm going to be doing a lot more stuff for the freezer so I can spend more time doing what I enjoy rather than cooking on a daily basis.

This morning I went into town with my parents and DD2. We had a coffee in a cafe, then mum took DD to the electronic rides. DD came running back to me to tell me all about them, and slipped on a pool of water which had leaked in from the roof. She went pale, started retching and said she felt sleepy. so we decided to take her up to A&E as she just wasn't her usual self. They said it was probably mild concussion, but she seems fine now though, luckily.

After that we went to Tesco then B&Q for the mousetraps, which I've set. Hopefully we will catch them tonight.

This evening we are going to the holiday flat where they are all staying and mum is cooking us dinner. Tomorrow afternoon about 20 odd of the family are meeting up for a late lunch, and on Friday I'm taking the children to town on the steam train, having lunch in the vegetarian cafe there with my parents, sister's family and DH who is taking the day off, then coming back on the train. So no much flying will be done by me this week. I'll just have to catch up next week.

DH phoned me to say that the job he is on has been shut down while they get the asbestos people in. He can't even go back in to pick up his tools. He's also got to throw away the clothes he's wearing after double-bagging them.

kassey

Tremendous Tuesday - the Land of Spare Oom and the Kids Room of Doom!!
Level One
[STRIKE]Clear the floor of clutter.. books on shelves.. toys in chests.[/STRIKE].. Reward - 15-30 minutes on the pc/gameboy/Wii/PS whatever... you choose...
Level Two
[STRIKE]Change the bed sheets.. and the duvet cover if it needs it.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Dust the shelves. cupboards, light fittings etc[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Wipe the paintwork.. skirtings door frames etc ... [/STRIKE]Reward - you choose a treat for later in the week.. a day out or trip to the cinema, a new book or magazine for example.. not too huge though us mummies are counting our pennies!
Level Three
[STRIKE] Wash the windows[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Find a bag of things you no longer need.. old toys, worn out clothes or things that you have got too big for![/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Have a carrier bag each and fill it with rubbish.. see who can do it the fastest!![/STRIKE] Reward - you get to choose what to have for dinner tonight.. and not a takeaway unless mum says that is ok!!
Extras!!! - 'cos I know you did all that lot super-duper fast!

1. [STRIKE]Take all the dirty laundry down to the basket[/STRIKE]
2. Finish any homework ready for back to school next week! No homework this week.
   
3. [STRIKE]Clean out any pets that are a bit pongy![/STRIKE]
4. [STRIKE]One for mum... or older offspring.. HHI... [/STRIKE]:T

Just made a lasagna for tea, DS said thats what he would like, Im now going to put my feet up for a while.

hollyh

Hi

In my 20mC i

Lit the fire
Tidied the living room
Put the playdough away

The fire took ages to light as the kindling was a bit damp:rolleyes: . I'm going to do a HHI now i think.

Hugs to Diva make sure you get plenty of rest.

SarahShattered

Thanks Toots Had a better day so far, but soon they'll forget!

Bad news is that I'm definitely coming down with dd2's tonsillitis BAH!!!!!!

Head's starting to bang, throat's starting to throb.
Not good ladies. Sofa's calling..... can you hear it???

SS
xx

ETA: Bloomin eck Diva watch yourself lady! That sounds painful. BTW, how's your American friend? I think I remember you saying things were very bad there.... ?

lil_me

DPs having to pop home before his club thing tonight, agreed he can go with not being far from home, so sent him with a sack of laundry to empty out (I couldn't be bothered to write instructions for washing machine) I've vacuumed (not that you can tell much as MEgan's been in since) I've emptied the loo, waste water and refilled the water bottles (scared stand pipes will freeze up, less chance of a full bottle freezing)

Pigpen I'm sending an email with the conference details, some people from up here are going to talk about what's been happening (professionals and a mob of lovely parents) unfortunately it's in Bradford so pretty short notice. Any other parents in Yorkshire/Humberside who are parents of children with SEN/disabilities who want the info drop me a PM with your email.

Kids narky because the pools closed today (boiler problems, it was FREEZING yesterday but they still wanted to go in so pleased they have been sensible and closed it, I did warm the lifeguard if it was cold I was throwing him in!!!) and are in a mood because I am making them eat fruit before any treats, their diet lately has been terrible, I am giving in too much to their food refusal and it's time for change, however much they resist **stamps feet** DS2s just gone in a little strop because he deliberately dropped his half a banana on the floor so I made him get another, haha I win!

Diva hope you feel better soon

AnW'sMum DPs friends on the 'subs list' so will only get to know in the week before if he gets a place, if you need to do other stuff that weekend please don't keep it free just incase I can make it, I will get another chance at some point

SarahS I have the 6.5 one, it's great for batch cooking.

Well I have been doing my MACAW in a fashion, I've done over 20 sudoku pages, just getting the time to is weird. Still got the cooking, cleaning, dog walking, water stuff etc to do but trying to find some relaxing time in the middle.

Hope you're all ok, I think I need a snack of some sort, big breakfast this morning (in a cafe so no effort needed ) wearing off....argh must call DP and remind him to sort sonic and woody out and get the milk I forgot to cancel, hoping it'll be ok, think it's been cold enough

juliejim

Well I've now sorted out DS's clothes so 1 bag of clothes to got to my brother's and another bag to go to school for spare PE kit clothes, etc.

Put the WM on yet again.

Came downstairs and there was blobs of paint all over the kitchen - DD was painting a robot while I wsa upstairs - so I had a word with DD before I cleaned it up and she says that she got most of it up. There was rather a lot of red coloured kitchen towel on the side so I dread to think how bad it was. Luckily I'd moved the ironing into the LR this morning when I was sorting it out so she'd only got paint on a couple of bits of clothes!

It's stopped snowing now and seems to have all cleared up. It's a good job really as we're supposed to be taking my grandparents out for dinner tomorrow and we can't really do that if the weather's really bad as I don't want them slipping or anything.

We're supposed to be going to Alton towers on Friday as well so I'd like it to warm up a bit before then really!

toochoosey

i wrote out a longish post explaining my HHC and then lost connection, but to cut a long story short i need to addthings to the spare room list as a result of emptying wardrobe and still sorting through holiday clothes, really tired now but the show must go on and DD has taekwon do later and then i have ww so here i plod..........

toochoosey

Monday Marvels- Kitchen and Dining Room

Level Three

Clean out your mankiest kitchen cupboard..
Extra Mission : help yourself

1. 37 fling boogie..

Seeing as many of our children have half term this week I want little (and not so little!!) people helping!.. rewards listed..

Tremendous Tuesday - the Land of Spare Oom
Level One
Clear the floor of clutter.. books on shelves.. toys in chests... Reward - 15-30 minutes on the pc/gameboy/Wii/PS whatever... you choose...
Level Two.
Dust the shelves. cupboards, light fittings etc
Wipe the paintwork.. skirtings door frames etc ... Reward - you choose a treat for later in the week.. a day out or trip to the cinema, a new book or magazine for example.. not too huge though us mummies are counting our pennies!
Level Three
Wash the windows
Find a bag of things you no longer need.. old toys, worn out clothes or things that you have got too big for!
Have a carrier bag each and fill it with rubbish.. see who can do it the fastest!! Reward - you get to choose what to have for dinner tonight.. and not a takeaway unless mum says that is ok!!

must set my alarm and get out of pit in the morning, staying there does not get jobs done!!!!!!!!!!1

loopy-loo73

afternoon
had a lovely lunch, was really nice to see my friend again & his kids are so grown up now!! dd2 napping, dd1 playing wii with her friend who is staying for tea (then dd1 is tidying her room). Kitchen is sorted, off to do the dining room.

HHC anyone 4-4.30???
Lou x