Weekly Flylady Thread 6th December 2010

Dustykitten

Morning all

Piggers thanks for the words of advice

Lil_me I am delighted for all those parents this will help. Well done you:T

hex2 wrote: »

She may get over the excitement/suprise soon and stop.

Natty - are we playing again today? What time do you want to start?

I have never thought of a chicken being excited/surprised, I just assumed, wrongly, that it was something they just got on with. I shall never see an egg as just an egg again.

Can I play today?

Plan is to:

Get gammon cooking
hoover the whole house
mop kitchen floor
washing
sort out sticks when the frost lifts
go to B&Q
make two cakes
mend duvet cover
write the few cards I have left
delete 50 emails (every day this week)

hollyh

Morning all,

Well done Lil-me. :j

I've only caught up with the last page so have no idea what's going on as usual.:cool:

I keep saying it but my house is shocking again.:eek: This time though it's not my fault. I've had the most horrific stomach bug ever and spent 2 entire days on the sofa unable to sit up unless it was to be sick and the 3rd day just sat on the sofa. OH had to take time off work and Ds1 who's 13 had to take Ds2 to and from school. It was Ds2's school concert on Thursday at 6pm and i'd spent all day trying to summon up the energy to have a shower and get dressed so i could see it which i just about did and then he told me he had a headache and felt sick so he didn't end up doing it anyway.:cool:

Yesterday i had a stall at a charity event so was out all day. Needless to say not a lot has been done this week in the house, not even dailies. So, i have a lot to do today and i want to get the Christmas decs up too at some point today.

Monday ~ Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Declutter and mop/vacuum the floors
Find and wipe the worksurfaces
Level Two
Wipe the big appliances and units.. don't forget kickboards!
Wipe small appliances and replace.. do one thoroughly.. descale or decrumb or degunge!
Clear and wipe a shelf or window sill
Level Three
Wipe the table and replace the cloth if necessary.
Sort through and clean out one cupboard
Clean the oven and hob..
Extras

1. Clean out the fridge.. make use of anything almost past its best
2. Wash the windows
3. Dust and Deweb

Tuesday - living room, hallway, stairs
Level one
Clear the floor of clutter
Tidy the baubles and lights on the tree.. OR PUT UP YOUR TREE (I have about a dozen baubles strewn about already.. thanks cats!)
Level two
Vacuum the stairs and hallway and living room
Wash the windows
Level three
Wipe the sofas and wash any skanky soft furnishings
Sort coats, shoes and bags
Wipe the paintwork in the hallway and up the stairs.
Extras

1. Check the smoke alarms
2. Defluff and deweb these rooms

Wednesday - Master messroom! and landing
Level one
Strip the bedding and get it washed!
30 minutes floordrobe/junk clearing!!
Level Two
Vacuum and turn the mattress, vacuum the landing and floor
Remake the bed
Clean the windows
Extras

1. HHI
2. Collect all the dirty laundry from upstairs
3. Clean out any pets/wash pet bedding

Thursday - bathroom, study and other grotty places!
Level One
Clean the loo and the bath and the shower and the basins!
Defragment PC and run spyware scans while scrubbing
Level Two
Wash windows and any chairs/sofas
Clean curtains/blinds etc
Declutter floors
Level Three
Wash bathmats/shower curtain and furry bog hats
Replace any sponges/flannels/toothbrushes etc that need it
throw out any empty bottles.. decant dribbles into fuller bottles
Extras

1. Finalise those last minute presents you have to buy..
2. Post all the cards you need to post
3. Wrap all the presents for family/friends
4. Finalise shopping orders/lists for your christmas food shop.. remember shops are only closed for one day!!!!

Friday - children pits, spare rooms or just neglected spaces
Level One
Make half an hour for yourself
Change and dirty bedding that needs it!
Level Two
Vacuum through the rooms that need it
Wash any soft furnishings that require a wash
Collect any stinky laundry from about the place
Level Three
Clear out the toy boxes.. (or a box of guff) .. Santa wants to fill them up.. but he can't if there is no space!
Clean out any bins.. and do a binbag dance!!
Extras

1. Final final shopping lists
2. Update remaining present lists
3. Wrap remaining presents
4. Make a timetable for christmas preparations.. turkey in.. turkey out.. etc

hex2

HHC at 10am?

Today I want to:
Finish the playroom, and make a start on the Snug
clear the ironing pile
make the sausages (ran out of energy yesterday)
finish making truffles, and freeze them
make chocolate cake for DS2

juliejim

hex2 wrote: »

HHC at 10am?

Today I want to:
Finish the playroom, and make a start on the Snug
clear the ironing pile
make the sausages (ran out of energy yesterday)
finish making truffles, and freeze them
make chocolate cake for DS2

I've only just sat down! Give me 5 mins and then I'll join you - still not quite finished the ironing but the end is in sight. I'm going to jhave a break from it for now though as my arms are aching.

Dustykitten

Bit late in getting going but I have deleted today's 50 emails. Off to the kitchen now.

pigpen

Dustykitten wrote: »

Piggers thanks for the words of advice

Any time..

Bed stripped.
DD3 decluttered with KH.. he text me 4 times to say he was on his way.. twice at 8:30, 8:37 and again at 8:59... FW.. DD was waiting ready when I got up at half 8..

Baby fed twice.. she woke at 9:30 just after DD3 was collected.

Having food then bath and deflea for pinks

List after then goes

WM x lots
TD x lots
DW x2 at least
Laundry folded and away
Chook in oven
DD4 off to party @ 1, job for DD1
Sort MrT delivery for christmas shop.. I am NOT going if I can get out of it!
Order few more christmas bits.. and a heater for front room I think! The girls are spending LOADS of time in there and it is iciclesque.
Feed birds (tuppence a bag)
Clear front path before someone dies on it.. DS2 task!

Think we will be about habitable then!

vanilla

Well one party done last night, 30 kids hyped up on sugar. I had to step in to stop a fight, tell them a hundred times to get of the stage before they fell. Then the bullies sister shoved DD before i knew it i was down with finger pointing tell her she would not be doing that again. Then i got the dirty looks all night and heard how they were going to tell their mummy. Then the bully stood in front of me with a few going on about who she would be playing with at school (DD was not mentioned :rotfl:), so another enjoyable night.

Second party today which should go alot better, so need to get all bathed and ready. Need to run the hoover through aswell.

Lil_me thats great news. :j

Better get hubby up we have no milk for a cuppa.:eek:

Valli

CONGRATULATIONS LIL_ME

and just to add my two-pennorth to this...

pigpen wrote: »

As for the last bit.. from someone who has been there.. you know when the time is. You have to make your own decisions. You cannot live life in misery for the sake of the children, that just makes them miserable too.

3 weeks after KH left I heard a sound I suddenly realised I had not heard in a very long time.. I am now blubbing.. I stopped and listened and had to go check.. it was DD2 laughing.. She does it a lot now. 3 days after he left DD3 (then aged 7) said 'it was lovely getting ready for school without being screamed at' .. That was the point I knew there was no going back. I couldn't see they were unhappy because we were all unhappy.

just not to feel that exOH was pulling one way and kids pulling another, not to have to tip-toe around the house because he had come in from work at 2pm, eaten, gone to bed, got up, eaten gone back to bed to play on x box, drink beer (yes) and sleep by 9.
Not to have to justify, in summer, going to park after school, to be able to say 'yes' to kids - not to be frightened of telling him DS had done something stupid in case he over-reacted, to have the house redecorated...


but todays TOP news
I HAVE HAD A SHOWER :D

have list of glitches to send in to plumber's office (just so they and I know what needs to be finished off/sorted still;)) but it works...it all works!

Can the food safety flylady who knows about rice (is it sockdrawer?) show herself please - I need to check something...many thanks! *mwah*

juliejim

Had a quick sort out in the conservatory - now moving onto the DR.

Penelope_Penguin

Good morning :beer: I've tried to read back ove the thread since yesterday, but have given up in complete confusion, so will send hugs, spoons and stick as required. Ooooh, and have some mice pies too

DH is hoovering again :T so I'm going to grab a list and see what still needs doing