Stay at home mums getting organised in 2010

Curious_George_2

goals for the day -
Take down christmas decorations,
Finding homes for some of the presents
try and clear some of the mountainous washing up
put one wash on then hang up and fill machine again
think about dinner... (thinking about it will probably be as far as i get though! OH is due home at 2.30 and thats when.....)
im going to have a long hot bath!

tiamai_d

Todays Goals.

Get DH to take 'stuff' out to the hut.
Make steak pie for dinner, mealplan to use up whats in freezer
FF form
Shred some paperwork
Iron some stuff
1 load for washing machine and 1 for tumble dryer, fold and put away.
Take down tree and decorations

Happy New Year!

Greener_Grass

Hello!

Can I join to? I'm a stay at home mum to my little darling who's 1 in 10 days!!

I'm generally a really organised person but still struggle to get anything done when my son's awake! He's also at the stage where he's crawling/cruising/ almost walking so is in to everything and I can't turn my back on him for a second!

Half_pint_4

If you have things that need to go upstairs, I put items on each step and NOBODY is "allowed" to go upstairs empty handed. It does not take long to get everything back upstairs and put away. All part of earning pocket money:T

Triggles

We do that too - always try to make every trip upstairs or downstairs count - if there's something that needs to go up or down, take it when we go throughout the day. There's always someone wandering up or down the stairs for something.

I'd say a basket at the top and one at the bottom would work just as well, rather than one to carry up. Just instruct everyone to take something from whichever basket on the way up or down.

If I'm carrying a basket of laundry either way, I usually glance around in case there's anything I can take to put away. I'd say frequently a basket of clean clothing going upstairs has other stuff tucked in it to go upstairs also.

Curious_George_2

Curious_George wrote: »

goals for the day -
Take down christmas decorations, DONE
Finding homes for some of the presents DONE
try and clear some of the mountainous washing upALRIGHT...ALRIGHT..IM GOING NOW!
put one wash on then hang up and fill machine again DONE
think about dinner... (thinking about it will probably be as far as i get though! OH is due home at 2.30 and thats when.....)
im going to have a long hot bath!

kids also fed, one about to go for a nap,
OH will be home soon thugh...

bloody washing up :mad:

paulabear

Hi all, would love to join in if that's OK :j

I'm staying at home currently since we wouldn't be any better off if I worked part-time, and OH works changeable hours so can't get anything really... I've got a four year-old boy at school, and a two year-old and one year-old at home. Hoping to do a lot of Ebaying this year! We are drowning in Fisher Price and Ben 10 lol. I suffer with mild depression so my routine changes a lot, I tend to get out more and more done in the house when there's more daylight... need an SAD light I think. So we go to playgroup as and when.
I've been hanging around the OS boards and got up this morning with a 'new year, new start' attitude, so this is what I've done today;
-cooked off a load of mince and quorn mince, separated it into veg chilli, veg bol, meat bolognese and mince and gravy, then put it into containers and into the freezer;
-baked a cake using oats and raisins, it's come out a bit squishy!
-cleaned out the cutlery drawer! I hadn't done this since we moved in, urghh!
-put a chicken curry in the slow cooker, nom nom;
-sent OH out for Really Useful boxes, I'm obsessed with them, they stack so well and they don't break when the kids decide to jump on them :rolleyes:

thanks for the tips so far, looking forward to seeing what other SAHMs do :T

Valli

Triggles wrote: »

I tried flylady once, and I didn't really get on with it well. Got stuck at the first hurdle of "shine your sink" as my kitchen sink isn't stainless steel, it's some sort of rubberised stuff. LOL And if I didn't get everything done in the day (which happened quite frequently), then I felt disorganised and frustrated and got even less done.

I think rather than doing a lot of the cleaning daily, I'm going to set weekly goals. So I can make a list of what I want to achieve that week, with some that will be routinely every week. That way, on days things are going better and I can get more done around the children, then I can do so, and not feel so badly on days that I just can't seem to get much done. Especially as there are always daily tasks we have to do regardless...

There's a flylady thread on here - some of us work; some are SAHMs. and I cannot remember 'shine the sink' ever appearing on our lists. We're on the old style board..

rainbow81

3onitsway he won't go anywhere near anywhere with a cafe, so that rules out our local Morrisons, Tesco and Asda. Sainsburys is fine for him, but the car has been out of action so we have to get the train/bus to the next town. At least it means we eat up what's in the freezer cos I can't bear to go shopping! Oh, he is 6. Please tell me it gets better! :cool:

tiamai_d

tiamai_d wrote: »

Todays Goals.

[STRIKE]Get DH to take 'stuff' out to the hut.[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Make steak pie for dinner[/STRIKE], mealplan to use up whats in freezer
[STRIKE]FF form[/STRIKE]
Shred some paperwork (got it in a box to be shredded do sorted out!)
Iron some stuff nooooooo! Me no want too!
[STRIKE]1 load for washing machine and 1 for tumble dryer, fold and put away. [/STRIKE] woohoo! no more dirty washing (till bedtime)
[STRIKE]Take down tree and decorations [/STRIKE]

Happy New Year!

Not bad, not bad at all