Stay at home mums getting organised in 2010

jimjams_mommy

Still no nesting instint!!!! feel tired all the time fell asleep in the bath again. So don't want to be induced again, had a madras curry last night and a can of pineapple tonight. Got about two weeks left and the house is a tip. 2mow is a new day and will get cracking or all welcome to give me a kick up the bum!

Ragz good luck and labour vibes! sorry don't know anyone who gave birth on due date.

SuziQ

good luck! hope you arent waiting too long! mine is due next saturday, and I am pooing a brick at the thought of it

No-that's what it feels like when you actually have it! Good luck to all the preggers ladies,hope you have easy births-soon! I was a midwife in another lifetime and saw very few babies deliver on their expected date! TBH most women were very inaccurate with their LMP date so it had little chance of being accurate anyway. Of my 3,2 were born prem and the last was a week late!

Triggles

sillybillyme - welcome! I tend to pop in and out, depending on what's going on here, but there is a lot of good info that everyone is bringing in to the thread. If I may ask, I registered DS for school, but this is our first time dealing with school stuff in years (and years and years LOL) and I'm not horribly familiar with it all again. Have the placements for school already come out or are you referring to something like nursery? Sorry for the confusion - it's early and I haven't had my coffee intake yet either!

We have had the unfortunate experience of headlice and nits here. *sob* I absolutely hate them! But the initial shampooing and combing has been done for a couple days now. It's just the follow up from here on in. I've heard that there are some shampoos with teatree oil that help prevent them?? If anyone has any info on that, I'd love to hear it. I think I'll be going in to get my hair cut a bit shorter soon. If we have to be dealing with this type of thing regularly once school starts, I want my hair to be a manageable length. I know that when DD came home with it from school when she was young, I could have cried, as her hair was down to her waist. It was not a fun experience.

I think I'll be spending some time today doing some catch up stuff around the house. Between the shampooing and combing (and the resulting headache), I haven't got much done other than the basics, and much of that was actually done by DH last night while I was sleeping off the headache!

nic2075

Ive still not tackled my bedroom, so thats on the agenda today. Along with cleaning out the rabbit and the fish and a quick dust. I will end up hoovering the kitchen again after cleaning out the rabbit as the sawdust gets everywhere

I got my organised mum diary on Sat. So far ive went through it and stuck school holiday and birthday stickers in it. I will try and start the habit of writing everything in it and looking at it first thing in the morning. That way I wont miss payments due or appointment. Otherwise it is an expensive diary that sits gathering dust all year (again).

Hope you all have a good day.

nic2075

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Baby due today - has anyone ever given birth on their due date??[/QUOTE]


Me . baby was due on the 17th of August and waters broke at 1 am that morning. dd was born at 9.30am.
I was late by 4 days with ds, mind you he arrived in an hour from first proper contraction and in the middle of the bombing thing at Glasgow airport. They took the burns victom /terrorist to the hospital in Paisley I was on my way to almost at the same time. The police told me to go the Southern in Glasgow, there was no way id make it, I told them i was having the baby NOW and unless they wanted to deliver it in the car they'd better let us in, and they did, ds was born 20 mins later.

ragz_2

Sillybillyme - welcome to the thread. Good for you trying to be organised in you situation it can't be easy. Similar thing happened to my MIL with her first husband, he just bu**ered off one day leaving her with 2 little ones and not even enough money for a loaf of bread! What a wan*er!

Nic - what a great story to tell your Ds when he's older! And his b'day is the day before mine
Speaking of diaries I still don't have a calendar yet! Better put that on my To Do list!

Triggles - In my experience the best way to deal with nits is to comb childs hair every other day at least to keep on top of them. No point using expensive nasty chemicals when they will go straight back to school and catch them again a few days later! I've never found the tea tree stuff to work, it would if you used neat oil and a lot of it but then you rpoor kids would stink!
I just keep my sons' hair short and keep an eye on them but when I have a girl I know it'll be a lot harder. My Mum used to have a nightmare with my sisters with nits...

DH is home today, sorting car things out. Ds1 is at Preschool and Ds2 is home with me (both of us still in PJs!). Need to do some batch cooking if I feel up to it, should really go to the bank too.
Dh wants me to go to the post office and post his parcel because he says he doesn't know how...
Should go calendar hunting.

To Do List
Get dressed and dress Ds2!
Bank
POst office
Buy calendar
Cook dinner - pork and cider casserole
Make curry sauce
Post HB letter


Just realised we need to be applying for schools soon so will have to google that later. Apparently we should have had stuff through the post but it's been delayed...
Don't know which school to apply for, prob the closest I guess...

3_cheeky_princesses

Hello all

Sorry i have been awol for a few days but am back on the Cambridge Diet and had no energy for a few days but am back on track now

Ragz i am sending you go into labour vibes X

Hello to any newbies i have missed in last few days. This thread is great and def helps me get all my jobs done each day :T

Talking of which Todays jobs are:

Put washing on and tumble dryer on

Sort out kitchen & load and unload dishwasher

Hoover downstairs

Put ironing away

Change sons bedding

Put away stuff put on the stairs over the weekend! :cool:

sillybillyme

Triggles - i recieved the letter on saturday telling me which school my son had been allocated to, he starts school this september so it was for infant school, i think the government sends all the letters to parents on the same day so you might get yours today if not i would give them a ring.
thanks for the warm welcome. xx

rainbow81

Hi all,

So today's jobs are as follows:
- [STRIKE]go to Mr M's to stock up on some fresh bits[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]load of washing on[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]put dry clothes away and hang up wet washing[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]quick hoover[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]quick dust[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]polish mirrors[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]mop kitchen floor[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]put DS's old curtains in the garage and bring blackboard in for lady on Freecycle[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]spend 15 minutes decluttering living room, focussing on down the side of the sofa[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]washing up[/STRIKE]
- [STRIKE]exercise dvd[/STRIKE]

holliegarson

Hello Everyone - and welcome to anyone new - I really enjoy this thread and I do find it helps to motivate me - we all seem to be in the same boat.

Slow day today - just keeping on top of school paperwork and activities seems to be taking up all my time at the mo.

Still am doing two kitchen drawers in a minute - all to freecycle I think.

Hugs to Ragz - and fab quick labour vibes x