Weekly Flylady Thread 6th January 2014

susan946

Mrs MP your mil must be feeling very lost at the moment. She needs to be more independent and will be happier if she can achieve that, you may need to be cruel to be kind.


Helen sorry to hear of your further problems. Big breaths - you can deal with this.


Well, an exciting day. Managed to fly a bit before number 3 gs arrived this morning - so a few bits and bobs crossed off the list.


Tuesday ~ Kitchen Tinklings
15 minutes...
Clear and wipe kitchen worksurfaces DONE
Sweep the floor!
30 minutes to spare...
Mop the floor
Wipe the table and dining chairs DONE
Muck out the fridge
Got an hour...
Empty under the sink cupboard.. give it a wipe out and put back neatly the things you NEED.. get rid of or rehome the rest!
Throw out any chipped mugs.. the porous pottery harbours bacteria.. YUK!!
S&S over all the unit fronts and appliances! DONE
Extras

1. Wash the windows and sills DONE
2. Clean out the microwave DONE
3. Fill a binbag with rubbish and get rid!
4. Catch up on important phone calls... if you do it now you have time to chase the follow up calls later in the week!

Then, at 12.30 the phone rang.........


Number 4 grandson had arrived at 12:05, he was just 25 minutes old! Needless to say not a lot else was achieved. We had our WI meeting this afternoon and this evening we cracked open a bottle of bubbles to celebrate the little one's safe arrival. Mother and baby, and father for that matter, are well and hopefully mum and baby will be home tomorrow.

babychick

Well my GUAG has well and truly gone... Started the day well with wm x1 and flinging the Hoover round the entire place before 8 bells this morning and downhill from there. Did however resist urge to deviate from meal plan and go to the chippy tonight, bravo me!

Might move myself into action...got to declutter this episode of holby first though!

mrs-moneypenny

Dustykitten wrote: »

Sweetie you won't because you cannot fill her loss. Don't beat yourself up about it. She needs to grieve and find her own new norm however much she may resist this.

you have hit the nail on the head, she wont grieve, its like shes trying to pretend it hasnt happened. all photos of him have been taken down along with all the lovely oil paintings he did that used to be hung on the walls. He doesnt get talked about - except by me as i want his grandchildren to remember him. DH handled it badly and still finds it difficult himself i think he feels guilty that he couldnt stop what happened and it was me not him who went hospital etc with them. its very rare she visits the cemetery. when she does she just stands and crys and says she misses him then asks to come home, but as soon as we get in the car she starts chattering about something totally random. we had a lovely dr who dealt with fil during his illness and she had regular appts with mil just to talk to her she tried to persuade her to go to counselling but mil said she didnt need it, she was just working towards cutting the antidepressants down through the spring so that mil might come off them but that dr left and now she just has one who happy to give her the antidepressants on repeat prescription without even talking about why shes on them or if they help. I go to her drs appts with her and she will talk about her bad knee or random cough but the happy pills dont even get brought up by either of them they just keep getting given. In my opinion they arent helping they are just masking.

thank you all for being so understanding it does help

decogecko

Hi all

LW A rainforest full of sticks for your BD, you're an amazing lady and hope you have a welcome doggie guest to chase the BD away.
Dusty hugs to you, I'm another one with an emotional gut so know what it's like
Dancemum great news about DF

GWS vibes to all the poorlies

Flying wise:

Shower, sinks x 2, & bath cleaned
Windowsills in bath & shower rooms cleaned
WM
Washing hung on indoor line
Landing, BR, hallway & LR hettyed
HHI
Ironed linen put away

I'm watching Stargazing on BBC2 - I've been almost in tears watching the northern lights. I've already started a 'a saving for the lights fund' but this has given me greater incentive.

Have a lovely night all

Deco x

fuddle

Evening.

Back from work again and about to go do the packed lunches and take meat out of the freezer for tomorrow.

I'm going to clear the dishes away in preparation to do it all again tomorrow.

See you then, thanks for the camaraderie

Pollybear

susan946 wrote: »

Well, an exciting day. Managed to fly a bit before number 3 gs arrived this morning - so a few bits and bobs crossed off the list.


Then, at 12.30 the phone rang.........


Number 4 grandson had arrived at 12:05, he was just 25 minutes old! Needless to say not a lot else was achieved. We had our WI meeting this afternoon and this evening we cracked open a bottle of bubbles to celebrate the little one's safe arrival. Mother and baby, and father for that matter, are well and hopefully mum and baby will be home tomorrow.

Congratulations

helen_jelly

susan946 - a grandflybaby, lovely :] :] :]

Car filled with donations etc

I've worked my behind off today so my reward is to carry on with the handbag I'm making for myself, made a messenger bag for DD the other day :] DS wants me to make him something but I've no idea what lol

Tomorrow is wash day and the Kitchen I think, I may be in there a few days :[

Thanks for the well wishes everyone, thank you for thinking of us :]

Isis1981uk

Definitely helps my productivity when my husband works nights!

My worst day of the week, kitchen day!

I...
-cleared and wiped the kitchen worksurfaces
- swept the floor
- mopped the floor
- emptied under the sink cupboard & sorted everything into boxes to keep them organised.
- checked for chipped mugs & there were none.

bossymoo

Congratulations susan946 :beer: glad they are safe and well!


I appear to have agreed to book a holiday! With no granny to keep us in check... A friend has suggested we all go to fuerteventura for a week at Easter. Feeling brave. Wot the hell!

Just need to double check I can have the time off work...

Bed now for me. Think I need sock feet frozen...

mrs-moneypenny

congratulations susan, brilliant news.

bossy did you get all little ones possessions back (ive been worried for you re the school keeping the birth cert) hope the cardi and blanket turned up safe