Weekly Flylady Thread 21st March 2022

ionafan

GWS vibes and fingers crossed Squeak is well enough to visit the school today x

I must dust and hoover this morning, but I've got some admin to finish too.
Off to the opticians this afternoon for an eye test - I've had these specs for 18 months so might need to get new ones.

(((Hugs))) spoons and sticks to all in need xxx

roundtuit

Just diving into the Flylady pool for air as I'm at work - alone on the phone which has been going mental, and just received an email to say they're introducing parking charges at work. 

I'll be selling 'favours' on Britannia Corner to pay the bills at this rate.

Flying: the bin men came early, so I took the empty bin in, as well as feeding the birds and putting out the recycling. 

Deep breath and resurfacing to RL.

Hugs
RXX

kazwookie

Diabetic nurse seen,  need to loose weight, and cut back on the sugars, no more medicine etc for now, phew............... told me to cut back on wine and milk neither of which I drink, also moderate the tea and coffee I drink, I also don't drink tea or coffee, never had, I didn't like the way she 'assumed' things I did / didn't do, how ever I played the game and behaved, got out of there asap, but I need to go back for a re assessment in June.

Daily stuff done

Cats have eaten another butterfly..........

pigpen

Squeak was still unhappy this morning so she was calpol'd and we went to view the school... she seemed to think it was ok but I'm not so sure.. it didn't feel right..

They were dealing with an unhappy young man and instead of talking to him to help get to the bottom of the issue and work through his feelings and problems they were wanting to just put him in isolation. I think that is the most horrible thing schools have come up with in recent years. How does excluding a young person because they need a mental health day or to work though some emotion or problem help them .. talk to them from the start.. I really wanted to intervene and ask him what he needed and what we could do to make this moment better and the next hour better and today better.. We cannot continue to just push our young people into corners and forget they exist and deny them any help when we are all saying be kind and open up about your feelings and then telling them theirs don't matter. Open up about your feelings if you are an adult and therefore someone who matters.. if you are a bigge child shut up and get in that room and do as you're told.. how is that acceptable?

Anyway.. washing out

kitchen unit delivered.. I have refrained from teating my kitchen apart.

Roof guy shockingly did not turn up yesterday so I shall nag him now and he gets 1 more chance before I find someone else.

Kaz.. the hollyhocks are growing!! … 

kazwookie

Lovely Pigpen, squeak should turn the pots 90 degrees or so, so the seedlings grow up rather than towards the light. She is doing well

I hope the right decision is made over the school, what ever that may be.  xx

Training walk of 6.1 miles done today.!

Batch made bol sauce.

pigpen

kazwookie said:

Lovely Pigpen, squeak should turn the pots 90 degrees or so, so the seedlings grow up rather than towards the light. She is doing well

I hope the right decision is made over the school, what ever that may be.  xx

That is just what we did with the pots and moved the terracotta one to the top rather than the bottom so it has lots of light. The greenhouse is not in direct sunlight but the seedlings have plenty to grow.
Waiting for the others to pop up.. the sweet peas are rubbish so far.. I love those too.

The blue tub with seedlings is for my mother, they are wildflowers to encourage butterflies and bumblers.

Squeak said the school was ok but isn't too enthusiastic.. and she is very much put off by the idea of getting a bus there and back. I have no idea what to do for the best. I wasn't hugely impressed and neither was OH.

[Deleted User]

Piggers - does she enjoy doing her learning at home? Or is she wanting to get back into a school setting? If she is happy, and you’re happy, why not continue as is for now? 

FWIW, and from my time spent working in secondary schools, I will seriously be considering my two learning at home when the time comes. Many many things broken in the system IMHO.

A friend of mine has done it with her daughter since year 8, her DD is now 15 and thriving with her learning and so much happier than she would ever have been at school.

You are my parenting inspo, and your brood are lucky to have you xx

YORKSHIRELASS

Pigpen the way DS was dealt with at school when he had MH issues was terrible, and you would think that now things would be better but if anything they are worse from what I hear.  Sticking someone in isolation when they are feeling emotional can never be a good thing.

Tired tonight.  Think I have probably done my 35 hours already at the paid stuff this week.  Roll on the weekend.

DS2 wants to come home to go out for lunch on Mothers Day but he cant get a train back from our local station on Sunday night so it means a 2 hour journey there and back into the big city to take him to the train, and my Sunday nights are precious.  That's mean isnt it, I do want to see him.  I am just tired I think.  

pigpen

Deleted_User said:

Piggers - does she enjoy doing her learning at home? Or is she wanting to get back into a school setting? If she is happy, and you’re happy, why not continue as is for now? 

FWIW, and from my time spent working in secondary schools, I will seriously be considering my two learning at home when the time comes. Many many things broken in the system IMHO.

A friend of mine has done it with her daughter since year 8, her DD is now 15 and thriving with her learning and so much happier than she would ever have been at school.

You are my parenting inspo, and your brood are lucky to have you xx

She doesn't really enjoy it. She finds it hard to focus because she wants to play with the cats and chat and do things she likes such as reading and bogging out of the window.. she has been better this week but I have been knitting to have been sat going through the work with her but I don't like improper fractions..

I have the attention span of a raisin, I am probably about as useful as Dot at such things but I can't teach her. I can chat to her, we can talk about anything, we have talked about many bodily processes but actually getting stuff down on paper and organised is simoly beyond my capability. I have a diary of what we have disscussed and what she has done and there is no much more verbal stuff than written stuff. I do like to drop big words in conversation which she has to then look up.. and our best thing is finding obscure words to use.. that involves reading a dictionary.. I just google 'Obscure words' lol I love her company, I ove having her home and knowing her and spending time with her but I am struggling to do 1/4 of what we planned.. but she is so slow at everything it is impossible to fit in the stuff we planned. If I turn my back for 5 seconds she wanders off.. I sing 'How do you solve a problem like our *squeak*?' to her because she is so ditsy.

I just felt so sad for the boy, he looked so battered and unhappy. He had the school and his mother against him and I just wanted to hug him.. maybe he is a ratbag but that doesn't make it right the way they were treating him.

YORKSHIRELASS said:

Pigpen the way DS was dealt with at school when he had MH issues was terrible, and you would think that now things would be better but if anything they are worse from what I hear.  Sticking someone in isolation when they are feeling emotional can never be a good thing.

We had that awful situation when CF was being vile with Moomin when she was in yr 11 and the school were battering on about mocks and exams and GCSE's and in the end I just said 'I don't actually give 2 *forks* about any of that. She can fail everything, I don't care, so long as she is here to sit them in the first place she can resit them whenever she likes' .. I think it was then I realised that schools don't actually give a flying furry fig about the wellbeing of the children.. individual teachers might but they have the whole system stacked against them and it is an utter disgrace. 

Everyone fed and watered in bed.

Dot complained her armpits stink.. so wash them you tramp!!

no pack ups to do.. fish friday.. woot!!!

cracking on with my Dr Who scarf..

I think Squeak may have silly tonsils again so need to ring the quack in the morning if they are no better.

Valli

Answers to potential interview question needed...why do you want to leave your present job (and come and work here for less money) needed...

if if I were asked this I don't really want to give an answer which implies I don't like hard work.

i do want a work life balance which is more balanced so I can enjoy hobbies and spend time with family and friends...so that's where I am atm.

Dw and WM x 1. Currently have no ironing either waiting to be done or hanging around airing.