Getting back on track for 2013 and beyond

kerri_dfw

Well I have just placed an order for about £81 from am4zon, mostly all organic though
I have on the list:
6 x 350ml aspall red wine vinegar
6 x 340g tahini
3kg green lentils
2.5kg organic sunflower seeds
3kg organic short grain brown rice
12 x 400g organic chopped tomatos
12 x 500g organic wholewheat fusilli
3kg organic chick peas
3kg organic red kidney beans

So really quite a lot for my money, and I did check against mysuperm4rket as well to make sure the prices for organic were comparative

Dad came to paint the living room today and OH is really pleased with the colours. He wasn't very sure when I said to him about it, but it's the red at the top ties in really nicely with the tiles of the fireplace. The white walls set off the red really well, and I think they'll go well with the sofa too as I colour matched against it.

The HUGE beanbag has arrived and is super comfy, OH is most pleased that he can use it for computer gaming.

I went to collect a pine cotbed this evening for £35, really pleased with it as it's solid wood and in really good condition. I'm still going to sand and re-varnish it so it's like-new though. Just have to get a mattress to fit and we're ready for baby I need to find a chest of drawers to go in her bedroom for her little bits and pieces to go in. From what I've seen most people tend to just change baby on the floor because there's no fear of her rolling off and hurting herself, so I think we'll do that. So a big chest of drawers for her room, some wall decor and she's good to go. Well other than the car seat, pushchair, reusable nappies and whatever else children need???

kerri_dfw

Someone needs to teach my OH that asking a pregnant lady first thing in the morning if she's feeling "gnarly" after she's just told you she's got a really sore back and didn't sleep well, is just not the right thing to do!!!
Final Friday ~ Frightening Kids rooms and Spare rooms

Dailies
[STRIKE]S&S bathroom[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]S&S kitchen[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Make bed[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Put washing on line[/STRIKE] - none today
[STRIKE]Bring washing in[/STRIKE] - none today
[STRIKE]Clear draining board[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Tablets[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Breakfast[/STRIKE] - HM fruit smoothie
[STRIKE]Open windows to let fresh air in bedroom[/STRIKE]
Daily inversion from spinningbabies
[STRIKE]Have lunch[/STRIKE] - spaghetti on toast om nom nom, no burnt toast this time
[STRIKE]Water plants [/STRIKE]

15 minutes...
Clear away anything that isn't in it's place, clothes, toys, books etc
Make an appointment for some ME-time.. hairdressers? manicure? night out with friends? .. whatever just do it!
30 minutes to spare..
Vacuum the floor
Dusting.. all those shelves and flat fluffy surfaces!! Don’t forget the light shade and curtain pole!!!
Strip beds, turn and vacuum mattresses!! and replace with fresh linen .. check if duvets need freshening up too!!
Got an hour to spare...
Clean 2 windows
Sort through a cupboard/chest of drawers and get the clothes out which are no longer wearable, too small or out of season!
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extras...

• Find 5 things to ebay/freecycle
• Wipe the radiators, skirtings and window & door frames!
• HHI
• Binbag dance!!! grab a binbag and fill it with stuff to leave the house.. rubbish or charity shop or to donate to a friend!
• Sort a box in the DR
• Timesheets

kerri_dfw

Well today I haven't really managed very much at all I did manage most of my dailies though so at least that's something. I have been so cream crackered today it's been ridiculous I even had to have a sleep at 5:15 for an hour as my brain just wasn't functioning.

OH made aubergine parmigiana for dinner which was absolutely delicious, he could see how tired I was so he also did the washing up He really appreciated all the cooking and cleaning I had done this week, so unlike previously he didn't mind doing the extra today.

I called up the council tax people and setup our DD, also transferred the £35 from the joint account to my account for the cotbed. Have looked at the finances for next month and although coming in at a lovely £1530, I shall still tell the OH to put £1000 into our account. This will mean that we have extra in there for our emergency funds and we've previously talked about doing this. Our food budget is still set as £300 as we're building up the stock cupboards.

Tonight we had one of those amazing moments you get occasionally. OH asked what would I really fancy for dinner tonight, and my response wasn't the usual takeaway!!! I really didn't fancy takeaway at all. We've been eating so well all week, that all I wanted to eat was something yummy and homemade. I grated the cheese and he did the rest We ate around the same time the takeaway would have arrived anyway and we got to catch up whilst he cooked as I sat in the kitchen with him.

Leo the cat has been rather poorly today, from both ends poor thing. Well I say poor thing, the thing is stupid! He drank from the washing up bowl full of water and washing powder last night. Luckily our washing powder is an ecoleaf one, which is mostly bicarb so although it made him poorly he has now recovered. He didn't even want his chicken today, he was obviously feeling sick as it made him wretch.

Tomorrow OH is going to finish painting the nursery and the living room for me Whilst he's doing that I'm going to get the bits we need from the farm shop and go blackberry picking. I really hope it's not raining, but if it is I'm going to stand by the bushes and pick the jolly things anyway, I don't care the fruit is free! Must dig out my waterproof thinking about it, I have no idea where that is. We'd ideally like two punnets full of the blackberries, one for OH to juice and another for me to make some yummy puddings and jam with. We shall see how many are left.

brizzledfw

For someone with a FT job and a baby on the way your pace is exhausting!!! Well done. Love all the veggie soup too. Think we need to make some. We are drowning in veggies this week!

Thanks for the inspiration!

kerri_dfw

Sorry Brizzle! I've slowed down today, have watched oz the great and powerful whilst eating sweets and drinking cola I'm just about to batch cook this weeks dinners and make cake. Have been OHs travel guide today to get him back home, also managed to save him £20 through split ticketing his train journey he's very happy with me.

Today I need to make:
Ratatouille
Dahl
Yellow pepper pasta sauce
Courgette casserole
Soak beans for bean burgers
and thes something else that I cant remember. I also need to get OH to make pasties. I shall chop up the veg and make the shortcrust pastry for him so he just has to build them.
Ah yes that's it I need to make homity pie
I need to pay £50 towards VC, that OH gave me last night.

debtfreewannabe321

I wish I had the energy to do all the dinners today. One roast and a fruit loaf was enough for me ! P.s that film is great the kids loved it !

HappyNow

I didn't realise you're a flylady. I scrubbed our house from top to bottom last week so I'm going to start flying myself to keep on top of it. Well done with all the cooking and food planning, your meals always sound so much better than mine!

kerri_dfw

DFW, I managed to make a ratatouille and some fairy cakes. Rested quite well yesterday but got twitchy around 7ish and fancied cake so off to the kitchen I went I then decided that OH needed feeding so made him ratatouille that he ate at 10pm as it finished lol. He needed it to take to work today as we've our first hypnobirthing course this evening so won't be home until late, so really glad I made the effort. I'm going to prepare some more meals today if I have time inbetween working.

Happy, I've just started flying this past week as OH and I have been non-stop arguing for months. Funnily enough the past week we haven't argued once, we've worked better as a team than ever before and I'm started to feel really appreciated. I make the food and cake in bulk, then in the evening he'll heat it up and do whatever side needs to go with it. We now have a 4w menu, however we don't have the freezer space at the moment so we're going to work to a 2w menu until we can afford a decent size chest freezer.

Right, need to load up the laptop and write down all my fly lady tasks for today I do believe Monday = kitchen day

kerri_dfw

We've got the first session for our hypnobirthing course this evening, OH has been told to go to it with an open mind. I'm really hoping it provides us with some useful life tools for learning to relax, especially as OH frequently wakes in the middle of the night unable to get back to sleep. We have to practice it everyday, from what I've read, for it to be effective during labour.

Cats have been fed, Leo is starting to get on the mend and I definitely think it's the salmon oil in his food that's giving him a jippy tummy. Chloe even decided she wanted some freshly baked chicken, although then she decided she wanted biscuits to follow fussy madame.

Flyladying again this week, it's saving us from loads of arguments and we're eating a LOT better Right then here's my list for Monday:

Monday - Kitchen

Dailies
[STRIKE]Make bed[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Tablets[/STRIKE]
Clear draining board
[STRIKE]Hang out, bring in, fold washing[/STRIKE] none today
[STRIKE]Open blinds & windows to air bedroom[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Have breakfast[/STRIKE]
S&S kitchen
S&S bathroom
Have lunch
Water plants
Daily inversion

15 Minutes..
Wipe out the fridge, note what needs using up or restocking
30 minutes to spare..
Sweep and mop the floor
Wash out the washing machine drawer
Got an hour...
Wipe the surfaces, removing things which don't belong here as you go
Are the spiders coming in from the cold, go on a cobweb hunt

Extra challenge:
Choose your messiest drawer and give it a good tidy, wipe out if you have the time
[STRIKE]Renew library books, fill in that form you've been meaning too, check for birthdays in the next few weeks.[/STRIKE]

Extras
Transfer the rest of the money for hypnobirthing
[STRIKE]Bake some chicken to feed to the fussy puddy tats[/STRIKE]
Make bean burgers
Make courgette casserole in SC
Timesheets
[STRIKE]Update work notebook[/STRIKE]
Sort box in DR
[STRIKE]Attend hypnobirthing course[/STRIKE] - be postponed a week
[STRIKE]Try to sort/delete 100 work emails[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Order frozen cat food[/STRIKE]

brizzledfw

Still so busy I see Kerri..great you and OH are on a roll and working as a team. maybe it's the new place!!