Weekly Flylady Thread 13th August 2007

serena

Just grabbing five minutes on here with a cup of tea!

Busy day again, getting ready for tomorrow's departure! Fortunately, the children have been really helpful. DD cut the grass for me, and they have all put their packing on their beds for me to check before they put it in a bag.

Bathroom and cloakroom cleaned - left over from yesterday. Children's rooms abandoned for two weeks, they'll still be there when I come home! Last minute shopping done, and all the paperwork ready to go. When I was checking it, I realised that I have a confirmation slip for one gite, which I have to hand to the owner, but not for the other gite, where we are going first - emailed the rental site, and am keeping fingers crossed that it either doen't matter, ( I do have a copy of the contract which clearly states that I have paid in full) or that they will email it today!! Or we'll be sleeping in the car...:eek:

Have a lovely, and happy two weeks everyone, and hope all those horrid germs vanish.

poohbear - very glad to see that today seems to be going better. I was so horrified a few years back to read of children committing suicide because they had worse results than they hoped for, that I promised myself that I wouldn't fuss about results - DS1 was very ill last year, and has struggled this year. He knows that I really couldn't care less about his results this year!! Just in case you think I'm maybe the sort of parent who wouldn't care anyway, I'm a secondary school teacher, and I do want my children to do the very best they can - in whatever field that may be. I hope you have a more relaxing few days, and I shall try and catch up on the news when I get back.

pigpen

My Friday list..

[strike]WM [/strike] x6
[strike]TD [/strike] x3
[strike]DW[/strike] x2
[strike]BM[/strike]
[strike]Laundry on line.. [/strike] x lots!!!
[strike]Fold and put away clean laundry [/strike]
[strike]Buy a couple of GBA games to keep them occupied on the way to our holiday!![/strike]
[strike]Sew school pinafores & trousers for DD4[/strike] my mother has borrowed my overlocker so these will have to be done next week now.. or the week after.. before school anyway! Lil_me.. if I'd have sent them she wouldn't have done them anyway so it would have been pointless.. she should be bringing it back tomorrow anyway... she's still not used it!!
[STRIKE]Put children to bed!!!!![/STRIKE] HALLELULIAH!!!!

Tuesday Living Room, Hall and Stairs
Level 1
Vacuum floors and sofas .. delegated
Level 3
Tidy shoes, coats and bags
Vacuum under furniture
Extra Mission:

Wednesday, Master Bedroom & Landing
Level 1
Vacuum floor in bedroom and on landing
Level 3
Wipe doors and handles
Extra mission tasks

• Wipe at least one door and it's frame, don't forget the handle
• Dust skirting boards in any one room

Thursday Bathroom and Study/Pc Area

Clean [STRIKE]bath[/STRIKE], toilet and sink ... some dirty troll has smeared poo on the sink in the loo again so she can clean it off tomorrow. DD4 I think
Level Three
Vacuum/sweep and mop these rooms
[strike]Wipe keyboard and mouse [/strike]
Wipe down tiles in bathroom

Friday - those frightning Friday kids rooms and spare rooms

The 2 big girls are doing the girls room tomorrow so I can get to the cupboards to pack for hollies. The boys room just needs vacuuming and DD1's room is half done.

Level One
Vacuum the floor .. I have children on task as I type.. ..
Level Two
Anything that isn't in it's place where it should be, clothes, toys, books etc
Level Three
Dusting
Strip beds and replace with fresh linen
Vacuum Floor
Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors
Extra Task List

• [strike]Dust tops of wardrobes & drawers if you can reach wthout hurting yourself [/strike]
• Time for the Friday Flylady Fling
• Sort through a kids wardrobe or drawer, part with what doesn't fit or well past it's used by
• Clean any one window that needs doing
  
  FRIDAY EXTRA - Don't forget your ME time this weekend

Adding extras.. hubby's list is red!

[strike]Write myself a shopping list[/strike][strike]

• money in bank
• post ebay parcel
• get mothers Czech cash
• take sisters pressie to my mothers
• buy food
• put mothers money & cheques in bank
• take cash & paying in book back to mothers
• buy filler for walls
• buy silver paint

[/strike]Did all this list.. and another my mother added!!!
[strike]update the holiday lists[/strike]
Sweep kitchen
Mop kitchen
clear back room
Parcel up my ebay sales (£150 so far today!!)
[STRIKE]Clear old DW[/STRIKE] and give it a quick wipe down for collection tomorrow. (£21... better than freecycle!!!)
post ebay sales
check dance shoes/leotards and see whose needs replacing
[strike]Find paint for the boys room[/strike]
Scrub boys door frame and skirting
Buy paint for bathroom .. I want this blue.. for 3 walls and white for the other 1.. just to be difficult!! Oh.. and slate grey for the floor and skirting and woodwork.. I hate white woodwork.. it's a pig to keep clean!
[strike]food shop.. [/strike]
refix the curtain track in the back room
sand bathroom walls ready for painting .. tomorrows job!!
put shelf back up in the boys room (they dragged it down climbing up them!!)

Dustykitten

Just popping in to say hi. Have only stripped the bed today. Been out couponing (always brings a smile to the face) and getting more school trousers!

We are all off to a friends for tea tonight so will do my flying tomorrow, see some of you then and the rest of you Monday x

lil_me

serena have a great holiday, Dusty hope you have a lovely evening.

Well not done too much more, bedding removed that needs washing, kids dinners in, mines just cooling off a bit, must be a dozen kids in my garden bossing each other about, yet my 2 kids are in the house, time to go and remove them I think!!!

natzini

Urgh... I am coming down with what OH has... yuck! Had a nap this afternoon and am trying to catch up with some stuff while he sleeps... thank goodness I've set my list for today and tomorrow!!

Friday - master bedroom (other room is worked on every day as we are clearing it out)

Level One
Vacuum the floor, even if it's just where you can get to Not til OH is out of bed!
Level Two
Anything that isn't in it's place where it should be, clothes, toys, books etc That'll never get done til the spare room is ready....
Level Three
Dusting
Strip beds and replace with fresh linen Not til OH is out of bed!
Vacuum Floor (even if it's just where you can see) Not til OH is out of bed!
[STRIKE]Wipe any sticky marks off walls and doors [/STRIKE]
Extra Task List

I don't have kids, so this is the only one that is relevant to me:

• Clean any one (or more) window that needs doing (I have a fair few of these to do!)
  

Extras: (to do over today and tomorrow, as haven't heard that I'm working tomorrow)

• [STRIKE]Dishwasher (getting there with that)[/STRIKE]
• [STRIKE]Clean some of the mugs that have built up (that the DW refuses to wash!)[/STRIKE]
• Post office (& perhaps bank) Not til OH is out of bed!
  
• Hoover kitchen floor Not til OH is out of bed!
• [STRIKE]Wipe kitchen surfaces & cooker[/STRIKE]
• Air washing Not til OH is out of bed!
• Paint bathroom door frame Job for tomorrow
  
• Mail off bill Not til OH is out of bed!
• Iron stuff for Ebay Job for tomorrow as not feeling up to it
  
• Send off Swap Bot swaps Job for tomorrow

I have managed to bulk cook some mashed potato and also some mashed sweet potato for when I go back to work though, yay! At least that's something!

Beccatje

changed the kids' beds and put fresh linnen on.

Cleaned toilet

went out to buy DD1 a new bike

Spent most of the afternoon looking for DD2 who ran away after being told to stop harrassing her big sister... (grrrrrrrrrrrrrr) She is 11, and just walked straight out the door! Just as we were getting ready to leave and all!
*sigh*
I had to go as I had an appointment with the person who was selling the bike, so I stuck a note on the door saying she had to go see her dad at work. She didn't.

She turned up over 3 hours later though.. and then went in a huff because I shouted at her! tssss how dare I!

She's still up in her room sulking now, which is a good thing because I'm still fuming and all!

Oh well, see if I can sum up the energy to hoover the bedrooms upstairs..

Becca

Beccatje

Hoovered and dusted the childrens bedrooms.

Stuck little squirt in the bath. DD1 is an absolute shining star, she cleaned the kitchen for me as I was busy upstairs, and now she has made me a cup of coffee and is getting the youngest one dressed into her pj's for me.
(is she saying thanks for a new (expensive) bike? :T

DD2 is still sulking in her room. I just ignored her as I was in there cleaning.
(yes I'm a b*&*h I know)

Folded up a huge pile of washing.

right, time for a cuppa now, and when DH returns from the DIY shop we'll get busy with the floor again.

Becca

cha97michelle

pleased as i managed to change our bedding and pay the window cleaner. I still need to make a cake tonight and cook dinner so i suppose i had best start that soonish although DH said he might be a little late. Don't want to be doing it too late tonight.

lil_me wrote: »

Michelle hope your Dad gets himself sorted now, must be very painful for him, maybe do a little nagging!

not really - he can't feel it as he is paralysed from the chest down. That's why they got so bad cos they are on his feet and he can't see the bottom of them, so by the time mum noticed they were ulcerated. This has been going on for about a year, and yes he does need nagging. My sister was saying today they are on about breaking both his ankles, and setting the bones in a more normal standing position as they hang down, and this caused the initial problem. Sounds nasty to me, and as usual, not a lot i can really do but it doesn't stop you worrying.

oh - know what you mean about long waits in the chemist - i always drop the prescription in now and go back later, but it is never as quick as it used to be when i was a kid. I have known an hour wait.

Best get on and pop back in later.

Michelle, x

pigpen

Excelled myself tonight with a bit of creative cooking.. at 6pm I decided I didn't want chicken and salad.. so.. I did pasta.. mixed with 1lb mushrooms and a tin of chicken soup 1/4 pint of milk and heated up the chicken and we had a delicious dinner.. which by some miracle EVERYONE ate.. they were either starving or genuinely liked it.. noone even whinged which is nothing short of a miracle! I'm not usually this adventurous so I am quite pleased with myself.. I'm flinging fish in the SC for tomorrow.. for fish pie..

lil_me

Oh blimey Michelle, had no idea, can understand why you are worried.

Well done on the meal idea pigpen, bet it wasn't too expensive to make either. Where did you get the idea? Pleasing 10 people must be hard, I struggle with 4!

Becca how nice of your DD, my kids normally are helpful before they get it but definately not afterwards.

Well I've decided it's time to part with my car, downside is finding a buyer, I'm set to loose over a grand on it which saddens me a lot, just because of how little they go for DP is on about breaking it for spares if needs be as you get more that way for them, it's the time/space/effort to do that which puts me off.

DP having quiet night again, on the phone a lot, getting worse down there, someone carrying a little one just been hit in the face as he was walking down the street, why he was walking down a street full of pubs with a little one in his arms another matter of course, pleased I don't go out.