Weekly Flylady Thread 3rd September 2007

kazmeister

Hi

its cuppa time for me then start tea so quick update while I can get on comp.

Monday list
[strike]Set early alarm !![/strike]
[strike]Take DS to Peterboro for orthodontist appt at 920 (2 hour round trip for 2 min appt)[/strike] - arrived 20 mins early seen early and back home by 1015!
Check all school clothes/bags/stationary required and label any new ones
Find work uniform and iron
[strike]Clean floors[/strike] - swept and hoovered will mop tonight when kids abed
[strike]Clear and wipe kitchen surfaces[/strike] - done
[strike]Sort fridge bringing what needs using soon to the front[/strike] - done sat and fridge cleaned on Sat before shopping filled it up
[strike]Wipe dining table[/strike] - done
[strike]Dust any extra furniture in dining room, checking for cobwebs on way round[/strike] - done
Wash the washer drawer out if it's gunky - will do when finished washing
[strike]Clean oven if you didn’t do it last week[/strike] - ok dont do ovens, his job but have done hob and microwave
[strike]Clean cupboard door fronts and fronts of appliances[/strike] - done
[strike]Wipe window sills and clean windows in these rooms[/strike] - done
[STRIKE]Defrost freezer if required, rearrange and see what you have in there that needs using up[/STRIKE] - too full to do
[strike]Sort through storage containers in kitchen, fling any tubless lids or lidless tubs if they can't be used for anything, anything broken or past it's use by![/strike] - did before went away

Dailies - Kids to do except stairs
Uniforms ready for morning - not til Tues
Packed lunches for mornings - not til Tues
[strike]S/S kitchen[/strike]
[strike]S/S bathroom [/strike]
[strike]Clear table and wipe[/strike]
Empty dishwasher - needs rinse aid so will have to wait to put on
[strike]Mini hoover all downstairs[/strike]
Walk dog
[strike]Wipe stairs[/strike]

Did all jobs above by lunchtime and as a reward for doing most of list have spent 2 hours visiting a friend and catching up so enjoyable afternoon.

Does anyone know what I can use instead of rinse aid as after saturday's bill I darent set foot in Mr T's again.

pigpen

kaz.. white vinegar??? Works on the windows!!

pigpen

I am in need of food.. I burnt out my motivation for today I think, or maybe I just need more tea and more sugar!!

I have 1 window, 2 window sills to do in the kitchen and it is all sparkly for the first time since birds took to the air!

I have the front room to whizz over and vacuum under the sofas and the hallway to sweep for tomorrows list unless Lil_me surprises us with a change of scenery! Oh.. I MUST vacuum the lamp.. it has a furry coat on which I hadn't noticed until last night!!

I have the landing to clear tomorrow because it is really cluttered and the drawers won't close and I need them to!

Best go peel some spudatoes for dinner to go with our chicken.. hubby will be home shortly.. well he better be or his dinner is going in the children! I Might get the iron out and press DD4's pinafore seams while dinner cooks.. as well as wash the remaining window and the 2 sills and the table needs a wipe too!

tea first... cuppa anyone???

mumoftwo

pigpen wrote: »

I wasn't worried when the other 2 started it is more the fact he as SEN 's and I know the high school haven't got anything set up for him.. gimme a week lol!!

Why is that!!! Not anything set up for him yet? Here the SEN kids and parents have review meetings where every need gets noted, it is now part of the new disability inclusion law (or something like that) that kids with special needs get the education and special adaptations (in my DD case enlargement of worksheets, books, exam papers etc) at the same time as their classmates. That also includes classroom assistants. If they fail to provide this they can get in big trouble...

You are more that capable to knock that lot into shape. You go girl.

We got told this morning at the ENT clinic that my DD1 will finally get her operation to restore her eardrum in October!! She has a new youngish consultant and she was keen to get it done. DD is over the moon, although there are no guarantees that she will ever be without hearing aids.

Now about the cleaning....

Spent all morning at hospital so this afternoon phoned oven repair man, coming on Wednesday. Tried to deepclean the oven with bio washingpowder and its made my hands all yucky and dry, but oven looking much better.

still to finish off the kitchen, will do after the DD2 club run and will try and find one of those scrapers for those flat cookertops (halogen) in the supermarket. Or where do you buy them?

Welcome newbies, your life and house will be transformed...

better go and take DD to gymnastics, will read all posts later.. AFTER I have done the kitchen...

pigpen

mumoftwo wrote: »

Why is that!!! Not anything set up for him yet? Here the SEN kids and parents have review meetings where every need gets noted, it is now part of the new disability inclusion law (or something like that) that kids with special needs get the education and special adaptations (in my DD case enlargement of worksheets, books, exam papers etc) at the same time as their classmates. That also includes classroom assistants. If they fail to provide this they can get in big trouble...

You are more that capable to knock that lot into shape. You go girl.

He is 'only' on school action plus and so long as the relevant info is there before the 3rd week of term it is ok.. apparently.. They don't have a copy of his IEP, his ed psych reports.. nothing!! He has severe dyslexia, moderate severe dyspraxia 2yr social development delay and to top it all.. he is on growth hormone replacement so is tiny!! he is 12 in January and has age 10 trousers.. and that is WITH 4 year of growth hormone injections!! .. they NEED to know why he can't write as fast as everyone else and get anxious and confused (and it isn't only because he has a loopy mother lol!!)

anyway.. it means I get to kick off somewhat and make demands and stomp on people.. .. I'm VERY good at such things!!

Other than that it is because they are all competely incompetant!!!!!! The only good hting is we have the same SENSS so she has worked with DS2 since he was 7 so knows where we are at.

Which reminds me she was meant to be doing an assessment of DS3 just after easter and I've heard nothing.. time to jump on her again I think.

OH.. the other thing.. in January we were meant to be getting a transition report for DS2 to take to high school from the ESPD (education for special and physical disability) and they never did it!!!!!!! (they saw him in May and in January) I have a letter of complaint ready to take when they go back on Wednesday.. IF I can find out where they are based now as their offices were destroyed in the floods in June.

mumoftwo wrote: »

We got told this morning at the ENT clinic that my DD1 will finally get her operation to restore her eardrum in October!! She has a new youngish consultant and she was keen to get it done. DD is over the moon, although there are no guarantees that she will ever be without hearing aids.

That sounds fantastic for DD.. I do hope it restores even a percentage of her hearing!!! I can't believe they leave them so long for something so vital!!!! My mother has 2 hearing aids and I know how her life was affected before she got them.

pigpen

Right.. my children win in the UTTERLY COMPETELY ENTIRELY VULGARLY DISGUSTINGLY HIDEOUSLY CHUCKWORTHY MAGGOTS!!!!!!!!!!!

They've been playing really 'nicely' in the front room for about an hour while I did dinner..



Lovely Little Tykes house.. with a pink pretty bed in it.. but what is in the bed?????



Oh yes ... a mouse.. and not just ANY mouse.. a LIVE mouse.. that they had bathed because mice are 'dirty'!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't care what anyone says.. that is NOT normal!!!!!!!!

I think it was half drowned in it's bath because I thought it was dead until I tipped it in the bin and it wiggled!.. it IS dead now!!

JAMIEDODGER

pigpen - erughhh!

right all:

dinner eaten
washing up done
animals fed
ktchen dining room swept and mopped
front room and hallway hoovered

dd fast asleep
ds2 in bed but awake
ds2 watching tv but secretly hoping i will let him on pc (errr, no chance)
ds1 dunno. out somewhere with his mates.

recycling and rubbish out and stuff taken to composter
tomorrows wash on (i always do it the night before lol) tuesday so its darks
sheets all washed and back on beds


hmmm. im shattered! a little bit of paperwork tonight a browse and a bath and then im going to start a new book! last one was You dont have to be evil to work here but it helps by Tom Holt. Really enjoyed it.

off to check if the floor is dry now so i can go and make another cuppa!

kazmeister

Love the mouse Pigpen, is it a pet or did they find a wild one? and cheers for the tip about vinegar, should of thought of it before - cleaned the windows this morning with my vinegar spray Doh.

Quote : he is on growth hormone replacement so is tiny!! he is 12 in January and has age 10 trousers.. well my DS who hates me telling everyone, is tall but tiny, I've just bought him new boxers as his old ones have holes in - they still fit aged 8 - 9 and he was 15 in July :rotfl:

Oh and Becca I hope you have more will power than I have, supposed to restart my gluten free diet as of today and I just blew it as DD had made muesli munchies and they smelt too good to resist. I cant do diets they kill me mentally :mad:

tinselfairy

Hello you chatty lot!

I banished myself from the site today.
Today was DS's first day at junior school. He looked so grown up and smart in his uniform this morning!
As he is now going to a school 5 minutes from where we live on my non working days I now have an extra hour as I don't have the bus travelling time to do.

So today I have cleaned the kitchen, utility room, dining room and lounge.
My first day back at work tomorrow for 6 weeks so don't want a lot to do when I get in!
I'm going to leave the floor washing until then I think as now I've sat down to catch up I don't want to do anything more.
Went to the tip with DH this morning and got rid of most of the stuff rom the garden and shed we needed to have gone.
Done half the ironing from the basket full.
Written out 2 greetings cards for birthdays later this month.
Rung the hospital to make my apt.
Sent emails to arrange a night out.
Made lunches for tomorrow.
Put 2 loads in the WM.

Hope all goes ok for those with children starting back tomorow including lil_me,pigpen and hopeElizzy.
Michelle- hope your first day back today went well.
Becca- sending you lots of support in your giving up smoking quest.
Buffy and MessyTessie- welcome to the thread, everyone here is so supportive and it's the best place to be for getting your home sorted.
Maralum- remember it's 'baby steps'!
sexymouse- good to hear your shoulder feels better today.
Jamiedodger- i love Chichester for shopping, sometimes go there with my mum and sister for a christmas shopping day out.

Hugs and hellos to anyone I haven't mentioned.
Have a great evening.

mumoftwo

Pigpen: Yuck Yuck, very yuck and yuck again, could your kids not play with dollies or cars or figures or something??????? Or have you sold them all on ebay?? clever though, thinking it needed a bath first :rotfl:

Still have kitchen to do, couldn't find scraper in Tesco, will soak the whole lot in the bath tonight, what do you suggest: bio washing powder or soda crystals??

Want to make a start on living room as I am working tomorrow (paid job)

Sorry Becca, didn't mean to make you crave ciggies when talking on the phone. Well done, day one nearly over, go to bed early.