Weekly Flylady Thread 6th August 2007

shell2001

Hi All

After Fridays meltdown on the Mummy front I will be back and flying tomorrow. It was my weekend off work so made the most of family time. Saturday we went and got DD1 school shoes, plus DD2 to a new polly pocket set for being such a good girl last week (DD1 got nothing). I had booked them both into a fairy school in the afternoon so DH and I got to watch them dressed up like fairies doing dancing and craft and generally having a grand time. They had a photo session too, the superimpose backgrounds so it looks like they are sitting on toadstools etc, really looking forward to seeing the pics.

Today we popped to Peterborough and got some stuff from Asda for a BBQ at lunchtime, then quick trip to chinese supermarket (yummy). Got DD1 pack lunch bag etc so just daps to buy and thats the lot.

DH cooked the BBQ and did the dishes, littles played in the garden and we had a bounce on the trampoline and generally had a good weekend.

Thanks for the suggestions re horrid child - will restart chart and place stool in porch for "thinking time", bought a new timer today too. Will see how it goes. Think she got herself worked out about the fairy workshop. She seems to have a habit of pushing and pushing if she knows something is arranged, almost like she wants you to stop her from going - very strange.

Anyway enough waffling.

tinselfairy

Not the day I was hoping for!

DS was horrid this afternoon and so spent an hour sat in his bedroom thinking about his behaviour, back chat and general lack of respect and ungratefulness. :mad:
Put a bit of a downer on the day!
Been to the site lil_me recommended for behaviour charts. Thanks for that.

I managed to paint the bottom part of the back gate and tidy up the end part of the garden so that looks reasonablely tidy for now.
Desperately need to have a trip or 3 out to the local tip and get rid of the junk from the garden then we can commence part 2 of the garden revamp.

Nothing done indoors apart from daily essentials.

Tomorrow is a new day and the start of a new week.
Planning on going out with a friend and her son either a.m or p.m. need to wait for her call in the morning to find out which, so flying will have to be done around picnics and park.

Ladygrim

Thanks for the new list Lil-me.
Have not done much today. But I dont go to work until 1030 tomorrow, so should be able to make a dent in the (untidy) kitchen.
One thing I did do today was fix the freezer door. Have been waiting over 3 weeks for hubby to do it. Eventually did it myself!!
Lesson learned - If you want something doing - do it yourself!
Anyway, off to reply to some emails.
LG

P.S. I had chicken pox 3 years ago at the grand old age of 35! You should have seen the look on the doctors face when he told me what the spots were!! I think I was the oldest patient he'd ever had!!

JillD_2

Getting stuff done is so much easier with a list and satisfying to cross off of course.

Evening:
[STRIKE]- get printer hooked up properly[/STRIKE] - did it all by myself :T cos hubby too busy with stupid xbox to help :mad:
- print out a list of names and numbers for friends to look after kids when baby on the way - might do tomorrow
[STRIKE]- print out birth plan (for what its worth LOL)
[/STRIKE]- work on edging for rug for baby's room - going to do some now whilst watchin telly if I can kick hubby off xbox .....
I also started a pile of stuff to go in my hospital bag :eek:

Tomorrow:
- FLYing
- daily tidy up, meals, washing, dishwasher
- post that letter to Dad
- drop off some bottles on loan to a friend
- wrap and post yet another new baby present and card
- wash newborn/0-3 baby clothes
- buy newborn nappies :eek: and emergency tin of formula
- work on rug edging some more
- do a bit of filing in study, its going mad again
- sort out some of hubby's expenses and work out what needs to be paid out

Meals are:
Lunch: Wraps for kids (salami, cheese, carrot, sweetcorn), soup&roll for me
Tea: Fajitas - quorn, sweetcorn, carrot, mushrooms, peppers, onions; rice to top up.

Thats all folks. Going to leave laptop upstairsso i am not tempted to surf til the wee hours tonight
See you tomorrow,
Jill


My List

Do Now:
- move budgeting account money from low interest account to new higher rate one
- open a new account for maternity leave fund and move money in there

Longer term:
- batch cook cheesy quorn veg pie

Baby stuff:
- print out a list of names and numbers for friends to look after kids when baby on the way
- clean baby bath stuff
- launder all baby covers for double buggy, moses basket, bouncy chair, play gym, car seat
- clean steriliser and bottles etc
- wash all newborn baby clothes
- sort out a hospital bag
- sort out overnight bags for kids in case we have to farm them out when baby comes
- get fitted for nursing bras
- get hubby to build cot

Sewing machine stuff:
- make some trial breastpads
- hem curtains in DD new room
- make cushion covers for cushions for DD new bedroom
- seam curtains in our bedroom

Other:
- label all DS school stuff
- make mini album of holiday photos of kids for my Mum
- get DVD in playroom sorted
- move DD height chart
- hang swimming certificates up in kids rooms
- get new curtain pole for our bedroom
- label all boxes of stuff in garage so we can find things
- finish edging on rug for baby's room
- make Ruby Wedding album for Mum and Dad (it was 14 months ago )
- sort out photos into nice storage boxes OH bought me
- make sure everything I need is off old laptop and decide whether to sell
- make sure everything is off old PC which kids now use
- organise recipes
- clear out bureau


Done: (leaving it here to make me feel good!)
[STRIKE]
- finish and post letter to my Dad in hospital
- print out birth plan (for what its worth LOL)
- clean car seat and base

- get printer in study up and running again
- pay credit card bills
- pay window cleaner
- transfer all aranged play date things to diary and calendar
- shred big pile sitting beside shredder
- wash and put on spare room bed linen
- hang pictures in spare room
- hang curtains in DD new room
- stick up wall stickers in DD new room
- move DD door name plate
- put up baby's name plate
- clean room ready for baby
- get cot, moses basket etc down from loft and clean
- batch cook shepherds pie
- batch cook chilli
- batch cook sausage caserole
- batch cook quorn and veg caserole
[/STRIKE]

Dustykitten

Jill we are in Hertfordshire so not too far from Legoland but only go once a year DS1 and 2 and 13 and 11 so a bit past it but DS3 is only 5 so it is more for him although the others will enjoy it to. Half packed the bag and found the tickets. Hope the traffic is not too bad. Let us hope it is not too hot for you little one with the pox over the coming days. x

sallya_3

I'm in for another week :T Thanks to lil_me for the new week's thread

Tomorrow, I'm aiming to do all three levels plus I want to:

• Strip and re-make the boys' beds
• Take recycling to the recycling centre
• Do an inventory for the pantry, chucking out anything past it's use by date.
• Write menu plan for this week (preferably using up some of the stuff in the pantry/freezer
• Supermarket!

Hope everyone has a good day - we're off to the office from 10am-2pm tomorrow, and then going to throw the boys out in the garden if the weather is as glorious as it was today!

Sal
x

juliejim

Hi All

Well after feeling extremely ill on Thursday and not getting out of bed all day apart from to go to the bathroom to throw up and then not doing much on Friday as I still felt a bit fragile, I've been to Rhyl for the weekend so done absolutely nothing.

But I will be back on track with you all tomorrow and hopefully get the house sort of tidy before we go away for a week on Friday.

Must start packing as well or else I'll end up washing and ironing on Friday before we go. My DD seems to have different clothes on every time I turn my back and she either puts her clothes in the wash (after wearing them for a couple of hours or even just trying them on), puts them back in her drawers screwed up so they need ironing again or leaves them on the floor so they end up in the wash again as I don't know whether they're clean or dirty!

Right I'm going to bed now - see you all in the morning.

Jue

Feisty_Fairy

Hiya everyone,

Thanks again lil_me for the list!

I am gonna get on again tomorrow and am going to have extra work to do as we have had a bit of a disaster at home, after making my bathroom sparkle last week, we noticed after having used the shower that water was leaking through into the kitchen!:eek:

So to cut a long story short, we now have no bath panel, half the tiles hanging off, large cracks in the kitchen ceiling, rotten bath panel and floor boards and a very untidy bathroom/landing!!!

We have to have it all dried out and refitted and sealed etc before we can even think of cleaning the bathroom again, and we cant get the bath/shower area wet for 2 weeks!:eek:

So, great just what i needed when we are going away this saturday (skeggy!) and i wanted to have a tidy house to come home to, and i cant dye my hair now!!!:mad:

Ah well, thanks to all you guys i will atleast have the rest of the house clean and tidy, i have even been picking fruit and plan on making jam, and i invested in a pinny!:eek: :rotfl:

Anyway off to bed now so take care everone and see you all tomorrow!

Loadsa love

Feisty!

pigpen

Well.. here I am.. back from the pub.. and I can still spell so it can't be all bad!!!

Kitchen tomorrow.. I think I only just finished cleaning it from last weeks list!!!

ANYWAY..

Mondays list..

[strike]WM[/strike] x2
[strike]DW[/strike] x2
[strike]TD[/strike] x2
BM
[strike]hang out laundry!![/strike]
[strike]fold and put away dry laundry[/strike]
6 binbags and a 'thing' to charity shop.
photograph remaining ebay heaps
list ebay gibble on turbo lister
[strike]Next returns[/strike] 5 parcels.. gone!
[strike]Next phonecall[/strike]
[strike]arrange collection of parcel from PO[/strike].. they supposedly tried delivering at 7:30am but they didn't knock on the door which may have helped!!!
[strike]pigsback pennies!![/strike]


Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
[strike]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces[/strike] .. you know... I don't like doing this!!
Level Two
[strike]Clean floors..[/strike] argh!! ..I hate this!!
[strike]Clean cupboard door fronts and the front of appliances[/strike]
[strike]Dust any furniture, checking for cobwebs on way round[/strike] easy done!
[strike]Wipe dining table [/strike]
Level Three
Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required
[strike]Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky [/strike] they look fine to me!
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front
Clean oven .. I may tackle the hob and the lesser used oven!
Declutter mission task
Sort any cupboard, doesn't have to be in the kitchen/dining room, even if it's just for 10 minutes .. I'll hit the middle room.. see if I can fill a binbag with gibble to go!!

I don't like Mondays..tell me why..
I don't like Mondays..

mumoftwo

Good morning everyone :wave:

We came back from sunny Skegness on Saturday to a rainy Scotland, I have 4 loads of wet washing, 1 of these is on the drying screen, it looks like I have to use the tumble dryer.

If it is ok with you guys, I am ready to join in fully with the list again, the house was tidy before we went on holiday but the kitchen is full of stuff now that came out of the suitcases, including Skeggie sand!!

My kids only have a week left of the summer holidays it has gone fast this summer, I will miss them when they go back, I love having them home, not having to set the alarm. So list today is as follows:

Kitchen (level 1 and 2 at least)
[STRIKE]ironing[/STRIKE]
TD
visit to optician (DD broke the leg off her glasses while on holiday)
tidy and hoover living room (kids can do their share)
put suitcases in the loft
make two birthday cards

that is enough to get on with for the moment.

Hope you all have a lovely sunny day today.. :grouphug: