2022 - Moving forward

jwil

beanielou said:

Hope everyone is better soon x

Thank you, me too!  

jwil

Today's PAD - £2

Jan - £126
Feb - £106
Mar - £136
Apr - £122
May - £113
June - £108
July - £177
August - £115
September - £92
October - £87
November - £80
December - £57

jwil

A better night last night, though little jwil did cough himself sick again.  He went to sleep much earlier and didn't cough much overall so hopefully we are turning the corner.

Tooth fairy had to visit little miss last night.  Whilst she was rummaging under the pillow, she realised there were two little eyes looking at her!  Quickly said, 'oh I heard you coughing and wanted to check you were ok'.  Little miss doesn't seem to have made the connection this morning  

Not much planned for today.  Just a bit of pottering and tidying again.  DH's last day at work until Tuesday.  We've got a chocolate house to build so may do that today.

WinterWarrior

Do you need a fairy costume for future duties? 😁 
I’m glad everyone is improving.
Did you say an annual oven clean? I’m not sure I’ve done the inside of mine since I got it 😳

savingholmes

@WinterWarrior I am the same with the oven. I do have some black sheets at the bottom that can be taken out and washed.

Good luck with the oven clean Jwil. Hope you all recover soon.

jwil

WinterWarrior said:

Do you need a fairy costume for future duties? 😁 
I’m glad everyone is improving.
Did you say an annual oven clean? I’m not sure I’ve done the inside of mine since I got it 😳

😂😂 The thought of me trying to do a fairy costume as well.

I do clean my oven once a year before Christmas. 😇  I like seeing the nice shiny shelves for 5 minutes!

savingholmes said:

@WinterWarrior I am the same with the oven. I do have some black sheets at the bottom that can be taken out and washed.

Good luck with the oven clean Jwil. Hope you all recover soon.

Thank you   The kids seem to be improving thankfully!

jwil

I've finished the great 'shift everything upstairs' now.  It's made me fed up with how much I've got to try and persuade everyone to get rid of, but that's a job for next year.  It feels tidier and more relaxing downstairs now.

We didn't do the chocolate house, but maybe tomorrow.  I've finished all the wrapping and helped the kids do their bits as well.

Hoovered upstairs and downstairs again today.  Just need to tidy the kitchen and bathroom tomorrow.

beanielou

Have the best of times when it comes.
Relax & enjoy xx

ladyholly

Dont try to do too much. Christma is for you as well. As Mums we tend to want everything to be perfect and work ourselve to death to achieve it. All this achieves is we are too tired to enjoy it. I know what you mean about stuff around being annoying in the extreme. I dont think Mr LH has ever put anything away in his life and to compound it when he gets things out he leaves the doors and drawers open.

jwil

beanielou said:

Have the best of times when it comes.
Relax & enjoy xx

Thank you, you too xx

ladyholly said:

Dont try to do too much. Christma is for you as well. As Mums we tend to want everything to be perfect and work ourselve to death to achieve it. All this achieves is we are too tired to enjoy it. I know what you mean about stuff around being annoying in the extreme. I dont think Mr LH has ever put anything away in his life and to compound it when he gets things out he leaves the doors and drawers open.

Thank you   I don't have much to do, just tidy the kitchen which I'll do when I prep the veg etc today, and a quick clean of the bathroom which will only take a few minutes anyway.  Perfection definitely doesn't happen in this house, but if I do enough that the house feels tidy(ish), I'll be able to relax properly and not have stuff niggling at me.

DH is a sod for having stuff stacked everywhere, but doesn't generally leave doors and drawers open, the kids do though so I feel your pain!!