Weekly Flylady Thread 24th November 2008

Pink_Fairy_2

Natty - any photos?

We're still living in a hovel. Hoping to get the lounge painted over the weekend. We'll probably still have bare floors for Christmas, but at least the walls will look nice!

I forgot, I've taken down and washed the lounge curtains! :T OH needs to check the curtain pole tonight as it's loose, but that's another job done! Considering I dusted the lounge really thoroughly yesterday, it's really dusty again, probably because of the floors!

DS's physio appointment should have been 5.30 today, but managed to swap it to 4.00 yesterday which helps because I have to be at college by 6.00.

Hotpoint man's been - again! I've had ongoing problems with both fridge and freezer with badly fitting doors. He's now ordered me a new fridge door (but we have to take them to the tip ourselves - ) which he hopes will mean it closes properly and stops freezing up. I have to defrost the frost free freezer because it's iced up and leaking because the door wasn't closing!

Oh well, off for a bit more flying!

Pink_Fairy_2

Christmasshopper wrote: »

Good morning Flyladies. I haven't got going yet this morning.
I'm worried about DD. No matter how hard she tries she can't remember more than 3 things at a time. She spent ages doing her homework over the weekend. It doesn't come naturally to her, but she tries hard and perseveres until it's done. It's due in today and she's lost it. We searched high and low for it last night and couldn't find it. So I think she must have lost it at school. It makes me sad to see her struggle.

Has DD always had memory probs then? DS has them but that's because of the ME (they call it brainfog) and it can be quite worrying at times.

mummy2mygirls

well my living room looks lovely and tidy and clean!!! just need to run the hoover round, all polished and NO toys about,,,,,it looks like a real living room not a play room.....how long can i get that to last, i am going to try and get the girls to only bring toys down they are going to play with and then we put them away upstairs when finished......see how long i can keep it up.

just trying the line through bit thanks for the advice:
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please work!!!
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it is coming up with strike in front and at the end but im going to post and see if it changes....
if it does im then of to hoover the living room without waking dd2 up...fingers crossed

edited to say YEAHH it worked!lol. little things keep me happy

Christmasshopper

Pink_Fairy wrote: »

Has DD always had memory probs then? DS has them but that's because of the ME (they call it brainfog) and it can be quite worrying at times.

It seems to be short term memory. She can remember events and people from years ago. But if I say, "Take your clothes upstairs, bring your cup down, put it in the dishwasher, then turn the telly on." She will forget one of the things. I make a point of giving her 4 easy instructions at a time to practice, but it's not working.
At school the special needs teacher suggested making a list but like DD says a list is just another thing to remember.

Natty68

Pink_Fairy wrote: »

Natty - any photos?

We're still living in a hovel. Hoping to get the lounge painted over the weekend. We'll probably still have bare floors for Christmas, but at least the walls will look nice!

I forgot, I've taken down and washed the lounge curtains! :T OH needs to check the curtain pole tonight as it's loose, but that's another job done! Considering I dusted the lounge really thoroughly yesterday, it's really dusty again, probably because of the floors!

DS's physio appointment should have been 5.30 today, but managed to swap it to 4.00 yesterday which helps because I have to be at college by 6.00.

Hotpoint man's been - again! I've had ongoing problems with both fridge and freezer with badly fitting doors. He's now ordered me a new fridge door (but we have to take them to the tip ourselves - ) which he hopes will mean it closes properly and stops freezing up. I have to defrost the frost free freezer because it's iced up and leaking because the door wasn't closing!

Oh well, off for a bit more flying!

I can show you the before photo's but I am waiting till everything is in before I show the after Oh wait I have a couple of afters that my stepbrother took for his portfolio, will sort them out and post.

I do hope you manage to get everything sorted before Christmas hon

We had to have the gas man in yesterday to sort out the feeder pipe from the grundfoss pump under the sink. Realised it had rotted the under the sink cupboard by slowly dripping over the years/weeks/months - who knows. Anyway it became a steady stream of water on Monday evening and we had to get up every two hours to empty the litre carton And you will never guess what it was - a blooming nut needed tightening..lol. Still it is all tickety boo now, and it's lovely having the washing machine pumping out it's own waste pipe and not bodged up somehow

pigpen

I need a new mattress and duvet for DD3.. the waterproof sheet she had on has disintegrated and welded itself to the mattress with urine... I wish she would just stop peeing every night.. we have had 1 dry night in the last 2 weeks. they stopped her nighttime meds and are referring her to urology next month supposedly..

AND... I have the restorative practice people coming to talk to us on Friday about the incident with DS3 breaking that girls nose.. I don't know what more they want from him.. he is 9 year sold for goodness sake. He has apologised and he feels really bad about it what more do they want? a prison sentence? a lynching? I will be writing a list of 'issues' I have with it later..

right.. I'm now done with offloading for this session and I'll go to the loo then do the vacuuming..

Christmasshopper

Blimey Pigpen. It's just one thing after another for you isn't it? I wish you could have a break from it. If we all have our share of bad luck you must be due for a good few years.

serena

christmasshopper - my DS1 is dyspraxic and has organisational difficulties, which have slightly worsened since he had encephalitis, so I do sympathise! I don't remember whether your DD has any diagnosed difficulties, but can offer some suggestions. (My brother is similar, so family history here!)

Have a designated space for school work and books (or for that matter, anything else, including toys, clothes etc)Train her to put them here and NEVER anywhere else. This takes a while, but it saves hours of distress. Likewise, things like ballet shoes, keys etc - same place every time. For us, this is a cleared space on a shelf in the kitchen, next to the table where they do homework, and the school bag goes in the hall, toys used to have to be kept in the same place.

I did have some mum tell me I was a control freak, which I found a bit hurtful at the time - I'm not, but it spares my son hours of distress looking for things that he can't find.

Every time she has homework - ask her to show it to you to 'check'/'admire' whatever, and then you can watch her put it in correct place. Praise for this!!

If homework is done on the computer, ask the teacher if DD can email it to him/her. Schools are pretty much set up for this now.

On the memory thing - is it short term ie, does she find it impossible to go upstairs and come down with all the things you asked her to get? Does she struggle to write down spellings if they are dictated? (I only found I had this when DS1 was diagnosed!). If so, I'd suggest giving visual clues - or always write spellings down to be copied -and only one or two things to remember at a time. You can make a game of this in the supermarket by giving her a picture list of things to find. Play lots of games like Kim's game (where you put things on a tray, look at it for a minute, then remove one item - they have to say which one is missing) - or I went to market and I bought ...

Often, memory training suggests making a funny picture of the things you have to remember. Another is to think of things associated with the item - for instance, DS1 still has occasional difficulties remembering particular words, so he has learned to come up with associated words. eg say saucepan is the word he can't come up with - then he'll say round thing with handle, used for cooking, but not a frying pan (this is an example from years ago, but you see what I mean!).

You can do this on paper with pictures or words, to remember stuff about a science or history topic for eg. Like a mind map. I use it to teach vocab - I have lots of labelled pictures on a powerpoint, then remove the words - the children then tell me what word goes there, then remove the pictures - and they can remember the word still (if I'm lucky and they've been paying attention! Try and build on what is known and remembered as well.

I was told by the therapists when DS was about 9 that he would be one of those adults that will have to have systems for remembering stuff - lists, and organisers - like a diary/filofax/blackberry - just like his mum then! We went to a meeting of the Encephalitis Trust, where there ws a very interesting talk on helping people with memory difficulties and it made me realise how very small DS1's problem really was. There were people there who cannot remember conversations they had five minutes ago for example. Using a mobile phone or blackberry to send you messages for eg, remember to feed the cat, or your car is parked on the 2nd floor, as well as notebooks to note down what you need to know, or bits of the conversation were tips I picked up.

I hope that this isn't too condescending - you may very well know all this anyway!

Pollybear

Morning all

I've been flying but not posting much. Don't know why, just in a funny mood.

Anyway.

Two loads of washing done, including my bedding. It's out on the line but it's not moving at all and it's cold out. At least it should smell fresh.

Dusted and polished two main bedrooms, can't get in the third for fishing tackle and DD2's boxes packed for moving. That will have to wait for about two weeks then I'll give it a good go. Vacuumed bedrooms, landing, bathroom/toilet floors and down the stairs. Dusted and polished living room and vacuumed right through downstairs.

Made cottage pie for dinner so I just have to switch the oven on about 12.30.

Got the garden brush out and attempted to squish down the stuff in the black wheelie bin in an attempt to make enough room to last until next Tuesday. Partially successful.

Hope people are OK, I haven't caught up yet. Hope poorlies feel better soon, good luck to anyone with exams or coursework they are doing. Oh, I did read about Poppy puppy yesterday, I hope she's stopped crying. Give her a big kiss from me please Mudbath.

pigpen

Christmasshopper wrote: »

Blimey Pigpen. It's just one thing after another for you isn't it? I wish you could have a break from it. If we all have our share of bad luck you must be due for a good few years.

LOL.. this is a rather 'normal' week lol... I think we are over our 'rough' patch... hey we can live in hope!! *touch wood/head/metal/hay* just to be on the safe side lol!!

Music on WAAAAAAAAAAAY louder than it should be.. to pee off the sleeping students next door... *ROOOOAAAARRRRRRRRR* Come pick a fight with me.. CHALLENGE!!