Weekly Flylady Thread 13th August 2007

jjef

Wow everyone has been really busy and chatty today I can't believe that we are at 130 odd posts and its only Monday.

Pigpen - your pic of your daughter made me wince that must have been very painful.

Lil_me - hope you are enjoying your new oven its lovely when you get something new and have lots of buttons to test out.

LJD1 - I have done the same when going to iron hama beads and then found it quite relaxing sitting down to mend what I had dropped that by the time I had finished it didn't seem to bad.

Today has gone well, floor is drying at the moment and once thats done I will put the table back and close down the kitchen for tonight.

Bits for tomorrow -

Tuesday Living Room (and Dining Room for me), Hall and Stairs - don't have

Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
[strike]Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe
[/strike]
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
Level 3
Wipe light switches and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors etc
Tidy shoes, coats and bags
Vacuum under furniture (only if you won't hurt yourself doing it, don't want any injuries)
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• Clear one hotspot, or just spend at least 5 minutes tackling it
• Clean windows in these rooms, or even just one
• Using the idea Shirley suggested, get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be

My list -
WM
DW
Bathroom S&S
recycling
veg bag delivery
bank
wash new school uniform & iron on name tags
check what bits of uniform still need to buy

Thats all I can think of at the moment no doubt will add to it tomorrow, away to have a bath and I think I will take my book inwith me.

Night Night.

AnW'sMum

LJD1 wrote: »

Don't talk to me about hama beads though! I've spent nearly an hour remaking a giant heart that she spent ages doing. I went to iron it and dropped it. Normally i'd just say oops you'll have to do it again but she'd spent ages making it for me. It worked second time round lol! xx

I've had to do that as well in the past, they take ages to do.

Had a quick wizz round fixing screws in the carpet bar things (they must have a name?)

gripper rods I think you mean, bloomin nasty things if you get your toes or fingers caught on them.

Jill my DS was 4 at the end of Jan and starts full time in Sept, has been there part time last term. He is a cheeky monkey affectionately known as scallywag 5 (5th grandchild of my parents) If your DS is anything like mine he will love school

The Asda delivery arrived at 8pm, dumped it all on the kitchen floor and finished watching enders then put it away! DS thought it was great having the shopping delivered to the door! Just spent an hour on the phone with a work mate of DH's who I knew pretty well before last the events of last year but who has been fabulous since June last year, there whenever I have needed anything.

JillD_2

tracyg - (((hugs))) for your Dad, hope he improves over the next week and can get home soon.

Mermaid

Very pleased with myself, as I got loads more done today than I expected -

2 loads of washing done and dry
S&S shower room
Gym
Put away yesterday's batch of washing
Washed kitchen floor (wasn't going to, but DD dropped a raw egg onto it!). Sorted out the grot area by the back door where everything gets dumped down on the work surface. I'm hoping that if I keep it squeaky clean and tidy for a couple of weeks OH and I will stop leaving things there!
Tidied the cupboard above this area and rationalised things a little bit.

Finally took out the worst fridge shelf and washed it. I've decided that this will be my new Monday habit - to wash the single worst shelf in the fridge. Hopefully this will mean I always have a fairly clean fridge without having to spend ages on it every two (three, four or more!) months.

Nighty night!

JillD_2

Can't believe its almost bedtime, where has the evening gone!
I reckon I've done not too badly today, spent a fair amount of time with the children - took them swimming, went to the library and chose books and read to them, and then did puzzles at snacktime this afternoon. But I have really shouted at them a couple of times, I think I am generally tired and on a short fuse with the end of the pregnancy approaching. Anyway they went to bed fine and with no messing about tonight so that helped.

I did a load of batch cooking over tea tonight - I've been filling my spare freecycle freezer in the garage for homecooked meals when the baby comes. So please can I just show off what I have cooked over the last month or so that is now in my freezer:

Adult portions:
8 moussaka
2 tomato pasta bake
2 fish pie
2 spaghetti bolognaise
4 chilli
8 shepherds pie
4 quorn veg caserole
6 sausage caserole
4 cheesy veg pasta bake
1 cauliflower cheese
4 cheesy quorn veg pie
Total: 45 portions

Kids:
8 fish pie
6 spaghetti bolognaise
4 quorn caserole
6 sausage caserole
4 cheesy veg pasta bake
4 quorn veg pie
Total: 32 portions

Hurray for me :j :j :j

I still want to do lasagne and make some pizza bases. I might do veggie burgers but they never work when I do them, so need to experiment a bit.

So here's my final updated list for today shortly to be followed by tomorrows to do's.

- get kids up, dressed, breakfasted
- empty dishwasher (too lazy to do it last night)
- tidy up from breakfast
- put a washing on
- make packed lunches (mackerel salad (me), chicken sandwiches (kids) cheese and fruit etc)
- take kids swimming, meet frind at pool at 11
- packed lunch at cafe after swim
- go to Post Office - decided to leave til tomorrow so have smtg to do in morning
- poss go to library and find out when story time is over rest of hols done and booked in for "creepy crawly" storytime on the 21st

- have a cuppa!
- sit down with kids and do puzzle books etc
- swimming stuff hung out to dry
- washing out of machine
- clear out gym bag to use as hospital bag
- clear out bottom of wardrobe
- hoover out whats left of double buggy and clean chassis
- sort out overnight bags for kids for when baby comes
- reassemble double buggy covers
[STRIKE]- do tea - tuna, leek, pepper, sweetcorn pasta bake
- clear up from tea
- dishwasher on
- bath kids and get them to bed
- dishwasher emptied
- divide up leftover pasta bake into freezer
- cook and freeze cheesy quorn veg pie
- cook and freeze caulifolower cheese with leftover cauliflower
- tidy kitchen and playroom
- fold up tumble drying
[/STRIKE]
- clear out bureau
- fix spare room cupboard door
- sort receipts
- 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
- check hubbys expenses and offset against credit cards where required

mumoftwo

JillD wrote: »

Can't believe its almost bedtime, where has the evening gone!
I reckon I've done not too badly today, spent a fair amount of time with the children - took them swimming, went to the library and chose books and read to them, and then did puzzles at snacktime this afternoon. But I have really shouted at them a couple of times, I think I am generally tired and on a short fuse with the end of the pregnancy approaching. Anyway they went to bed fine and with no messing about tonight so that helped.

I did a load of batch cooking over tea tonight - I've been filling my spare freecycle freezer in the garage for homecooked meals when the baby comes. So please can I just show off what I have cooked over the last month or so that is now in my freezer:

Adult portions:
8 moussaka
2 tomato pasta bake
2 fish pie
2 spaghetti bolognaise
4 chilli
8 shepherds pie
4 quorn veg caserole
6 sausage caserole
4 cheesy veg pasta bake
1 cauliflower cheese
4 cheesy quorn veg pie
Total: 45 portions

Kids:
8 fish pie
6 spaghetti bolognaise
4 quorn caserole
6 sausage caserole
4 cheesy veg pasta bake
4 quorn veg pie
Total: 32 portions

Hurray for me :j :j :j

I still want to do lasagne and make some pizza bases. I might do veggie burgers but they never work when I do them, so need to experiment a bit.

So here's my final updated list for today shortly to be followed by tomorrows to do's.

- get kids up, dressed, breakfasted
- empty dishwasher (too lazy to do it last night)
- tidy up from breakfast
- put a washing on
- make packed lunches (mackerel salad (me), chicken sandwiches (kids) cheese and fruit etc)
- take kids swimming, meet frind at pool at 11
- packed lunch at cafe after swim
- go to Post Office - decided to leave til tomorrow so have smtg to do in morning
- poss go to library and find out when story time is over rest of hols done and booked in for "creepy crawly" storytime on the 21st

- have a cuppa!
- sit down with kids and do puzzle books etc
- swimming stuff hung out to dry
- washing out of machine
- clear out gym bag to use as hospital bag
- clear out bottom of wardrobe
- hoover out whats left of double buggy and clean chassis
- sort out overnight bags for kids for when baby comes
- reassemble double buggy covers
[strike]- do tea - tuna, leek, pepper, sweetcorn pasta bake
- clear up from tea
- dishwasher on
- bath kids and get them to bed
- dishwasher emptied
- divide up leftover pasta bake into freezer
- cook and freeze cheesy quorn veg pie
- cook and freeze caulifolower cheese with leftover cauliflower
- tidy kitchen and playroom
- fold up tumble drying
[/strike]
- clear out bureau
- fix spare room cupboard door
- sort receipts
- 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
- check hubbys expenses and offset against credit cards where required

Well done you!!!! You have been busy. That will make your life so much easier when the baby arrives. You can be proud of yourself and so should your OH be, that is one thing he can't moan about, having to cook! Wow, I am so impressed... and you are still doing so much, you must be nesting or are you always so "on the ball"? My hat off to you, you organised earthmother you.....

witchypoo

I didn't get much done at all because my hubby came home at lunchtime from work (postie) and suggested we and our son (Daughter was going to meet friends) go for a walk. I decided spending time with son and getting him out of the house was far more important as he had been so bored yesterday. We got out and picked a pound of blackberries then walked what felt like 5 miles. Had a lovely time!

Tonight I cooked a veggie curry with rice and naan and also a blackberry crumble then we sat at the (cleared and clean) kitchen table and ate up.

Son really wants to tidy his room really thoroughly (he hoards drawings and has about 25 bionicles all in pieces which need resorting with my help) but most importantly to him he wants to move his furniture around. His room is a tiny box room and at 11 years old we're going to let him have his bed under the window, now that we feel we can trust him not to stand on his bed to lean out of the window. Oh yes while I'm here, any idea how I might get rid of a black mildewy coating on the ceiling of textured paint? I'd rather not use bleach, maybe I should try squirting it with Bicarb? I don't use chemicals but I could get some ecover laundry bleach if it comes down to that.

So here is my list for today:

Manic Monday - Kitchen and Dining Room
Level One
Clean floors
Level Two
[strike]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces [/strike]
Clean cupboard door fronts and the front of appliances
Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front
[strike]Wipe dining table (clean table cloth if necessary)[/strike]
Level Three
[strike]Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round[/strike]
Wipe window sills, clean any marks off windows if required
[strike]Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky [/strike]
Clean oven if you didn’t do it last week
Extra Mission
Choose one or more of:

• Wipe the outside of all your small appliances

• Clean out the freezer, I find the vacuum cleaner is good for getting up any crumbs in the bottom or stray peas etc. Defrost it if it needs it.
  
• 27 fling, a good fling to start the week, less clutter less mess, well that's the theory anyway!
• Clean any one cupboard, sort through what belongs in there, take out what doesn't and wipe before replacing

JillD_2

hurray hubby just phoned from New Orleans :j which is why this is so late :rolleyes:

Here is my list for tomorrow:

- get kids up, dressed, breakfasted
- tidy up after breakfast
- meet friend for coffee
- go to Post Office and post two parcels
- write and post 2 birthday cards
- write and hand deliver one birthday card
- hoover out whats left of double buggy and clean chassis
- reassemble double buggy covers
- clear out bureau
- do lunch - chicken sandwishes/mackerel salad
- tidy up after lunch
- go to market research briefing thingy
- suss out am I meeting friend and what are we doing with kids - park although forecast not good ??
- fix spare room cupboard door
- do tea - cheese and tomato omelette with wedges and salad
- tidy up from tea
- get kids to bed
- tidy playroom
- organise recipes
- sort receipts
- open a new account for maternity leave fund and move money in there
- check hubbys expenses and offset against credit cards where required

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs

Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas
Level 2
Dusting, even if around everything
[STRIKE]Remove clutter making sure stairs especially are safe[/STRIKE]no clutter on stairs
Clean TV, other electricals and cabinets
Level 3
Wipe light switches and banister
Clean any other glass like mirrors etc
[STRIKE]Tidy shoes, coats and bags [/STRIKE]- doesnt need it, hgubb y not here to mess it up
[STRIKE]Vacuum under furniture (only if you won't hurt yourself doing it, don't want any injuries) [/STRIKE]- doesnt need it
Extra Mission:
Pick one or more of the following tasks –

• Clear one hotspot, or just spend at least 5 minutes tackling it - top of filing cabinet in spare room
• Spend 10 minutes clearing one storage area, anywhere in the house, cupboard, drawer, dumping ground, choice is yours - garage
• Clean windows in these rooms, or even just one - playroom glass doors, still not done
• Using the idea Shirley suggested, get yourself a bag or box, go around collecting things that are not in the place they should be, then put them back where they should be

My List - Done=39, ToDo=30:T

Yay I am winning!

- open a new account for maternity leave fund and move money in there
- batch cook lasagne
- clean steriliser and bottles etc - need to get bottles back off friend
- sort out a hospital bag - started a pile of stuff for it
- get fitted for nursing bras

Hubby:
- get down grobags for baby from loft so I can wash tiny ones
- move DD height chart
- fix spare room cupboard door back on (it fell off this week)
- build cot

Sewing machine stuff:
- make some trial breastpads
- hem curtains in DD new room - cut off excess - badly - _ have messed it up a bit
- 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 new curtain pole for our bedroom
- label all boxes of stuff in garage so we can find things
- make Ruby Wedding album for Mum and Dad (it was 14 months ago )
- 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

Garden:
- sweep up all debris
- move old tubs and discard dead plants
- level patio with sand
- weed paths
- fill in paths with bark chips
- weed and prune flower bed
- get hubby to dig me a new flower bed
- plant things in new flower bed!

Done: (leaving it here to make me feel good!)
- batch cook cheesy quorn veg pie
- sort out overnight bags for kids in case we have to farm them out when baby comes
- wash boy newborn baby clothes
- move budgeting account money from low interest account to new higher rate one
- wash girl newborn baby clothes
- wash neutral newborn baby clothes
- hang swimming certificates up in kids rooms
- launder all baby covers for double buggy, moses basket, bouncy chair, play gym, car seat
- assess sheets for baby, do they need washing
- look for Avent bottles which appear to have got lost!!
- retrieve 2 buggies from under mountain of wood in garage
- get DVD in playroom sorted
- get down 0-3 boy and girl clothes from loft, to top up neutrals
- finish edging on rug for baby's room - will do whilst babysitting on Thursday
- print out a list of names and numbers for friends to look after kids when baby on the way
- clean baby bath stuff
- fix freeview in playroom
- sort out photos into nice storage boxes OH bought me
- finish and post letter to my Dad in hospital
- print out birth plan (for what its worth LOL)
- clean car seat and base
- buy newborn nappies and emergency formula
- 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

JillD_2

hi mumoftwo - not usuallly on the ball so much as this, but normally at work 2 and a half days a week, but am definitely nesting, I cant seem to stop LOL
I am sure it will go to tpieces when the baby arrives, I cant seem to get the hang of doing housework when theres a baby around ......

better get to bed - watched that Help Me I'm a Teenage Mum tonight and they were advising one girl to get to bed earlier so she felt better able to cope with her toddler in the day. ho hum she was only about 15 , at 37 I should know better !!!

night night

pigpen

Oooh I am SO glad I don't have a TV.. I LOATHE programs like that.. 'look at me I'm lacking intelligence because I have a baby and I'm under 20, I can't think for myself aren't I good!'.. ggrrr... Makes me so mad and does nothing to dispel the myth that the greater majority of young/teenage parents are a darn site better than a whole lot of 'grown ups'... having a child young often gives the parents a goal, something to work hard for and a reason to move into higher education and progress and do well so they can provide what society dictates we should all have.. Why can people not accept that it isn't age that makes you a crap or a fabulous parent it is just who you are?? I was a damn sight better parent at 17 than my aunt at 37.. and not by my admission... and I'm not alone.. seethe seethe seethe

Apologies to those who think I am a raving loony.. but I was part of a campaign group trying to dispel these pathetic myths and some things stick!

*puts soapbox away for another day and goes to bed*

Disclaimer.. yes there are exceptions!!!

Nighty night all xxx