Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd August 2009

helen_jelly

Thrilling Thursday ~ Childrens Rooms and Land of Spare Oom
Level One
Strip beds, vacuum and turn mattresses if needed and remake with clean bedding
Level Two
Dust and deweb
Level Three
Sort a box of toys


Flinging Friday ~ The Queens Boudoir and the landing!

Level Two
Declutter the floordrobe
Dust and deweb
Level Three
Sort a box of stuff from your room.. any box!

Ok so this is my list for tomorrow

Today I have;
Gone to pictures and decluttered a big bag of sweets
Took DD to her Dads
Took and picked up DS from a party
Visited MrT
Had a fish soup for lunch [leftovers from last night - Cullen something is its name].
Washed up
Spoke to Mum
Helped DS on PS2 game
Lurked on here
Removed 2 paddling pools that were stored under the trampoline and filled 5 buckets and 5 watering cans full of water that was in the paddling pools - gonna put them back to catch more rain water - can you tell that we've had a lot of rain here. :T
Cleaned the slabs that are under the paddling pools that are under the trampoline
Decluttering a vodka and coke
About to have a Chicken Curry and other Indian bits that DH has made - he does most of the cooking - I do the cakes and bread and see to the kids meals.

Have a nice eve
Helen x

methekidsandthecat

Thankyou for the kind thoughts about Mum's bungalow - for the first time in years she seems motivated and excited by something.

Has anyone moved recently? I am trying to check that they are not being over charged for the removal costs - they have had one quote of £620 - they are moving from a 2 bed house to a 2 bed bungalow but there is very little garden stuff going just a small wooden bench as they will have a communal garden. It seems a bit pricey to me but they do live in an affluent area (South Buckinghamshire) so maybe it is right. I have asked them to get 2 more quotes just to be sure this is the going rate.

On the flying side - I have done some more in the kitchen but not enough to tick off another job - oh hum.

Me

Ginger_Girl

:xmastree:

Evening

Had been doing really well at the start of the week - thanks to everyone for the support.

Last night a very close friend died in a car accident. He was only 37 and had a 12 week old baby. Have spent part of today with his wife. Still feel like it's not real and that he's going to call or text and it's all been some horrible mistake. Just feel so useless - nothing I could say or do.

DH and I are just going around in a daze. Told the kids tonight and they are heartbroken. DD2 wants to put a picture of him on her wall and make a box with curry and beer pictures to remind her of her 'uncle'. When she went to bed she said goodnight to him. DD1 wants to write a book about him and DS wants to put pictures up too.

Hugs to all in need and for all poorlies.

x

pigpen

froddington wrote: »

pigpen - anything that DS1, GF or Jacob need?

At the moment.. £300 security deposit for the flat but other than that I'm not certain yet.. think a tv may be needed gf is a telly-addict!

Ginger family and friend.. what a terribly sad accident.. and so very tragic for the wife and baby.. I hope they can find some peace in knowing how much he is loved and how big an impact he has left on peoples lives. It is often said only the good die young!! So very true!! Love and hugs to you all xx

Ginger_Girl

pigpen wrote: »

I hope they can find some peace in knowing how much he is loved and how big an impact he has left on peoples lives. It is often said only the good die young!! So very true!! Love and hugs to you all xx

Thank you. He was truly a special person. x

methekidsandthecat

Oh Ginger - how sad! Hugs to you all. The fact that you stayed with his wife today was the best support you could give her.

AnW'sMum

Oh ginger that is terrible and I thought Miss A and W were way too young to lose Daddy at 3 and 6 years old. It's just such an awful shock, my heart goes out to his wife. It reminds me of 3 years ago so vividly.

AnW'sMum

Meant to say as well that I think it's great your kids want to do things to remember him by well done for telling them straight away and for being there for his wife. What you did means you were not useless but extremely useful to her, believe me. Also telling her you don't know what to say or do is ok too. There were people that either avoided us rather than say 'I don't know what to say' or gave those glib platitudes about time being a healer or I know how you feel, which in the early days (and even now for me) were some of the worst things I heard. How on earth could anyone know how I felt when even I did not know how I felt?!

Zoelikesjam

methekidsandthecat wrote: »

Thankyou for the kind thoughts about Mum's bungalow - for the first time in years she seems motivated and excited by something.

Has anyone moved recently? I am trying to check that they are not being over charged for the removal costs - they have had one quote of £620 - they are moving from a 2 bed house to a 2 bed bungalow but there is very little garden stuff going just a small wooden bench as they will have a communal garden. It seems a bit pricey to me but they do live in an affluent area (South Buckinghamshire) so maybe it is right. I have asked them to get 2 more quotes just to be sure this is the going rate.

On the flying side - I have done some more in the kitchen but not enough to tick off another job - oh hum.

Me

Hey hun, we moved house a week ago today, Luckily FIL works for comunity transport so we ended up getting a van for 85quid, and using my daddy and DH's people carrier we mannaged to move everything in one go. HOWEVER, before we found out FIL could hire this van for us we had a few people round to do quotes. Our cheapest was £285, Max was £300....we've moved from a two bed to three bed, that included(on the removal mans list)

queen size bed
triple wardrobe
double drobe
two chest drawers
bookcase
cot bed
crib
two single beds
unit
toy chest
sofas x2 (3seater)
tele + misc
big 50/50 fridge freezer
cooker
washin mach
tumble dryer
sofa bed
and about 60 odd boxes....(dont just dont!)

This was all in, basically if we packed they turned up, moved boxes furniture into van, let and unloaded. I dont know how much more expencive it is where your mum lives but this seems a very large ammount? We live in Staffordshireget so im not sure about cost's. Get at least 3/4 quotes first if you can, then play them off eachother,
'well, so/so offered to do it at this price, can you beat that?'
that sort of thing.

Hope this helps? x

Zoelikesjam

Oh Ginger I am so terribly sorry to hear about your lose. I honestly don't know what to say other than well done for suporting wife and telling the children and being honest. If you feel upto it maybe in the future, maybe put together some sort of photo album/scrapbook of him, things you remember, good times you shared, for baby? Im sure she/he would be imensly apriciative of this as she/he grows.
Im so sorry for you lose.

AnW- Im sorry to hear about your lose too hun ((((((((((((((((((HUGE HUGS)))))))))))))))) for you both