Sashybo - Back Again

sashybo

Thanks Beanie, you too. 😀 

SA, the nappy bum was pretty epic. 😂
The fungus gnats are like tiny black flies that crawl about on the surface of the soil - apparently it's the larvae that damage the plants though as they eat the roots. 😣 I didn't know what they were, had to google them as I kept seeing these wee flies near the plants and then when I looked closer they were crawling about on the surface of the soil. 🤢 I really hope they're gone, I'm a bit scared to look at my other houseplants downstairs now. 👀 I think they're ok though as haven't spotted any similar flies around them.

piquant

I get vine weevils in the garden pots and have to treat them all with a liquid I buy from the garden centre (I hope I've got enough left!) The weevils eat the roots. I've repotted what I can but some of my pots are enormous and impossible to do anything with. So I just carry on treating them every year.

I'm laughing at the huge nappy bum too. I used to use terry nappies but had to do some sort of nappy origami and fasten with a pin. My husband could never get the gist of it and the nappy used to plunge to the ground, meaning he was rarely asked to do the nappies. Clever!

sashybo

Hi piquant, what a pain with the vine weevils - my most hated garden pests are the slugs and the greenfly. Horrible things are always killing off my plants, thank goodness the nematodes seem to keep the slugs under control as long as I remember to buy and apply them to the soil!

Yes, very clever of your husband! 😂  My sister did a similar thing whenever my mum asked her to make a cup of tea when we were all still living at home. She would make a cup of tea so rotten that my mum wouldn't ask her to do it again for months. 😂 

It was lovely and sunny here today, got another load of washing hung out and dried. DS chose to wear a straw boater hat, wellies and a cardigan out into the garden over his t-shirt and joggy trousers. 🤣 He looked like he'd been dressed by an explosion in a jumble sale but he was happy. 🤷‍♀️ DD had a wee mob cap type sun hat on and looked very cute but it kept slipping forward and covering her whole face. Poor wee lamb but it did make me laugh when I turned round and all I saw was her hat. 😃 

I hoovered the living room and did a quick mop of the kitchen floor and that was it for housework apart from the usual dishes and the washing I hung out. DH was faffing about with his home brew so I was on full childcare mode. DH did make lunch though and is making some dinner for us now as well.

DD slept from 7pm until 5am this morning. I was woken up by DS crying after another bad dream (I think) about 4:45am and as soon as I went back to bed I heard DD stirring. She didn't go back to sleep until nearly half 6 so I was like a zombie.

sashybo

DD slept well again last night from 7pm-10:30 and then from 11pm until nearly 8am. 🥳 I had put her in the big cot (out of the Moses basket) so she obviously felt happy in there and must have enjoyed the space as she was all stretched out. 😊 

DS was amazed at getting chocolate eggs this morning. 😂 He totally doesn't get Easter. My sister had bought him an Easter bonnet and things to decorate it and left it at the door for us but he didn't have the patience or interest so I did it for him. He decapitated one of the chicks on it but then ran about with the hat on, so he did like it.

Planning on getting the bathrooms cleaned today, at least one washing done and probably going to make sweet and sour chicken with coconut rice for dinner. Need to remember to bring my lobelia seedlings in from the greenhouse tonight as there may be frost overnight. 🥶 It looks lovely and sunny outside at the moment.

I have ordered some sticker books and a unicorn toy that you can colour in and then clean and re-colour to be delivered to my wee niece. It was her birthday a couple of weeks ago and probably still won't see her for ages so just ordered her present online. Also sent a sticker book for her wee sister.

Need to go through DD's clothes soon and take the too small things out and replace with the bigger sized clothes my friend left for me. I have sorted the bag and it's sitting in her room, so just need to do the actual transferring.

Cleared some stuff that was cluttering up the worktops in the kitchen so it looks a bit better in there today. Need to try and do a bit every day so that I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere with it.

Willowtree222

Hi Sashy, 

Subscribed to your diary now. I will try to catch up. x

sashybo

Hi Nicnak, nice to see you. 👋 

Yesterday I managed to get the bathrooms cleaned, I even got the cleaning toothbrush out and got into all the wee bits I hadn't been able to reach. It took me over an hour to do the two bathrooms upstairs and the wee toilet downstairs. They look much better now, I'm lucky if I can give them a 10 minute wipe most weeks so they really needed a good clean. DH looked after the kids and kept them fed whilst I did that then he hung the washing out.

I went out with him and the kids into the garden for a bit, it was sunny but with a cold wind. DS wanted to water the plants so I got him the small watering can and filled it up about 6 times for him. He watered one pot almost to death and poured a lot of water on the patio so he could splash in it. 😂 He insisted on wearing his wellies again. 🤷‍♀️ He kept saying later "fun in the garden, water the plants" so hopefully he'll be a good watering assistant during the summer. 👀 😊 

Managed to make the sweet and sour chicken although I was out of vegetable oil for shallow frying the battered chicken so had to use my olive oil. Will need to get more of both oils at Mr M's later in the week. DS mostly ate the coconut rice although he did have some of the sweet and sour chicken.

DD slept really well again 7pm-11pm then 11:30-8am, she seems to be really enjoying her new room and the big cot. 😁 She wakes up and is quite happy to lie in the cot chatting to herself for a while before letting us know she wants to get up. 

I went to get DS up this morning at 9am (!!) he still wasn't awake and pulled the pillow over his head going no, no when I asked if he was getting up. 😂 How can the teenage years have begun already at not quite 3?! 

Lost my sh*t with DH a bit this morning as he never gets up in the morning unless I nag and nag at him, I feel like his mother. He just says "in a minute" and rolls over and goes back to sleep. It really annoys me as I never get to lie in, if I did the kids would be left in their beds and not be fed until who knows what time because DH wouldn't get up. 😡

I just want him to get up and get the kids organised and take them downstairs for their breakfast now and again without me nagging him constantly. It's hardly a relaxing long lie if I have to get up, get the kids up and dressed and then stand next to the bed with them telling DH to get up for at least 10 minutes. 😤 Usually I end up taking them downstairs and dealing with breakfast anyway so never get to lie in.

It just p's me right off that he doesn't even think "oh maybe I should get up and let her have a lie in" it's like when he ignores the kids' crying because he's just waiting for me to deal with it even though he's there. 😡 Ok he does help with other things and does do a lot of the cooking but sometimes I just get frustrated.

beanielou

Not surprised that you get frustrated.

Sun_Addict

DD is sleeping well that's good, not so good that DH is sleeping just as well. He needs to chip in with the childcare and let you have a lie in sometimes.

Willowtree222

Agree, the odd lie in would be easy for him.tk.do. x

sashybo

Hi Beanie, SA & Nicnak. 👋 Yes I think I've let him away with a bit too much recently, I'm not asking for him to do it every day but now and again would be nice.

Today was a bit of a write off as DD was suffering with a lot of pain due to teething. 😔 She was screaming and just wanted me to hold her, so I spent most of the day with a sleeping/crying/grumpy baby attached to me. She had cheered up a bit by late afternoon so must have felt a bit better then. 

All I have managed to do is have a shower, put a washing of DD's clothes on and a nappy wash on plus wash some dishes. DH hung the clothes washing out when he took DS out into the garden. It was sunny but cold today. 🥶 Lobelia are staying in the utility room just in case.

I have some cucumber seedlings and one courgette seedling appearing so will need to pot them on shortly. May sow a few more courgette seeds as only one seems to be doing anything. Also have some more dianthus coming through and some linaria too. 😃 

I'll get the seed potatoes out this week too, have been giving them a bit more time chitting but really better get them in their bags.