NST April 2020: Fools we are not!

PurpleFairy26

Not posted for a few days but keeping the faith. Spends low, no food shop since last Monday. Stocks holding up well. No more until Saturday apart from milk and possibly eggs from the farm. 

Have spent on a couple of house things, but all in part of the budget. 

Grateful for :

yummy roast lamb (and leftovers) 
smalls loving a paper egg hunt 
lovely walking in nice weather 

BadBookkeeper

Anyone else spent the day trying to remember what day it is?! 

Our day started at 7am when ds came to wake us up to tell us he’d had a nose bleed.  Sorted his bed, got him showered and settled and then I decided the kitchen windows needed cleaning so did that!
3 loads of washing out to dry sunny & windy here today.  Did the ironing, not much to do.
Coloured in a zoo picture with DS for our window.  Really love doing these each week.
Walked to my parents to sing happy birthday to my mum from kerbside and then my sister dropped off DS an Easter egg  she stood at the bottom of our drive and we had a quick catch up.  

Downloaded a free books and I am enjoying reading.  I hope this carries on when things go back to normal.  

NSD 8/15
Grateful for - 
Dry weather
Parents living up the road 
Time to make nicer meals (made mash potatoes and sausages tonight)!!
We are all ok
Having a nice garden to sit or play in

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

hi all
achieved a NSD today.  Had a lazy morning then made up for it about midday as washed a load of towels then started tackling my bedroom - been hoovering, dusting, shredding and filing paperwork; cleaned the top of one wardrobe, put 3 winter coats in a small suitcase and found some paperwork that was missing!  Bedroom still a mess but quite motivated to carry on with my good work - nice to see quite a bit of carpet at last Back to work tomorrow (from home) but will try to make progress each evening.  Had a long walk with DDs too and did my exercise class.  
Deni x

facethemusic

Mondsy-still NSDs 8, but we have milk! 
Gratitudes-local shop having milk so didn't have to go further to track some down, over 10000 steps although I feel like we haven't done much today, washing that dried outside, DD settling for 30 minutes quiet time with a book so I could read too, puzzle books. 

ditty1234

Where do y'all shop for protective stuff - gloves, masks, hand sanitiser, I am yet to see any in shops and what I had just sitting around for 'dirty jobs' have now gone? Thinking about 4m4zone, but that really doesn't seem to be cheap?

greent

ditty1234 said:

Where do y'all shop for protective stuff - gloves, masks, hand sanitiser, I am yet to see any in shops and what I had just sitting around for 'dirty jobs' have now gone? Thinking about 4m4zone, but that really doesn't seem to be cheap?

I don't use any of that - I just wash my hands thoroughly when I return (and I find most supermarkets have some sort of sanitising station for trolleys at the door here) 


Forgot to report in yesterday. NSD. Thankful for a lazy day, a lie in, easy leftovers and chocolate making up the meals!, getting some more things sorted.

dolly84

greent said:

ditty1234 said:

Where do y'all shop for protective stuff - gloves, masks, hand sanitiser, I am yet to see any in shops and what I had just sitting around for 'dirty jobs' have now gone? Thinking about 4m4zone, but that really doesn't seem to be cheap?

I don't use any of that - I just wash my hands thoroughly when I return (and I find most supermarkets have some sort of sanitising station for trolleys at the door here) 


Forgot to report in yesterday. NSD. Thankful for a lazy day, a lie in, easy leftovers and chocolate making up the meals!, getting some more things sorted.

I don't use those things either, just handwashing with a bar of soap which is supposed to be better than antibac anyway.  The hilarious thing is that the trolleys at supermarkets are outside and the sanitiser spray stuff is next to the doors, I watched people get a trolley, wheel it up to the sanitiser and then clean it - the whole thing is mental.

ditty1234

Thanks for feedback, on buying stuff. At the moment I have been using gloves and wipes, so I can wipe trolley down before I start using it, as well as the car when I get home - to keep it 'clean'. I think I will start wearing a mask though when I run or bike, as apparently the virus can travel a long way in your 'slip stream'. But for that I will get washable ones. Anyways off to do a shop later so probably not a NSD day today. Am at 9 so far which is a record. 

Siebrie

Grateful for:

- gorgeous weather over the Easter weekend.

We pretended we spent Easter in France. We packed a small suitcase, drove the car around the village, admiring all the old buildings. We checked bedrooms and bathroom on arrival, and enjoyed the French names dds had given our bedrooms. We picknicked with baguette and croissants in our backyard. Saturday dinner was 'drive-through' for dds, through our front room window I served them fries and burger in a popcorn box. Later that night, I wiped the box, and fed them popcorn during the 'cinema' film, on our overhead projector. Sunday we listened to our church's Easter service over youtube, we hunted for chocolate Easter eggs, baked choc chip cookies, walked around the village, and pretended to go to an Asian restaurant.

- Seeds to plant

- Still being healthy

Am I the only one dreading going back to full 'normal' schedule? I like our calmer routine, hanging out at home, dds that are listening and amusing themselves, me not having to play taxi-mum/diary-mum.

abbi_aurelia

Thanks for the advise Foxholes, I will try but LO has an annoying habit of refusing the chew on things she is supposed to (but will happily bite desks, chairs, her own fingers)
Siebrie I am looking forward to 'normal schedule' but that is most likely due to LO age. I feel like if she were older, she could entertain herself for periods of time and then we could do things together and it would be far more rewarding. As it is, my days are very monotonous
Nothing new to report, finished another book, started the 6th in a series. Working from home today and LO is at nursery. Grateful that the recycling got collected this week (I think, I heard a lot of crashing but haven't gone to investigate), for the weather and having a chance to drop off the TENs machine to my friend and have a conversation over their front garden.