Weekly Flylady Thread 21st January 2008

Dustykitten

cha97michelle wrote: »

roll on DH getting in. And i may just bash him around the head if he even thinks of going anywhere overnight again while i am pregnant.

Ah don't do that my OH went to Australia on a jolly for 10 days when I was 7 months pregnant with DS3 and had broken my foot the day before this flight!

Feeling really grumpy, miserable and tearful today for absolutely no reason. I hate being like that. OH gone to DS! footie and taken DS3 with him as his car is still boken. Means I have to cycle to DS2 footall but it is only a mile. Trying to do my birdwatch but not many about so will try again later.

Cuppa anyone? and I need to hit the shower. Face is really sore. I think I got wind burn on my walk on Friday and my cheeks keep stinging.

Slept really badly as I know I did not do my MS quite right so have had to make up one section on the form. I feel really bad about it - like a kid lying at school. OH is don't worry about it, how will they know but the think is I know.

Dustykitten

Priotities Poem

I hope my children look back on today,
And see a Mother who had time to play!
Children grown up while you're not looking,
There'll be years ahead for cleaning and cooking,
So quiet now cobwebs; dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep

Wise words which I am not good at following as I am not good at playing

Pink_Fairy_2

Dustykitten

That's lovely!

So many parents don't seem to appreciate how quickly the time will pass.

skintscotslass

Mudbath wrote: »

Boddy - sorry i've just read back and seen the news about your neighbour. Really sorry to hear and hugs to you.

Thanks Pink Fairy - she's in her own home with one of those neck panic buttons to get help. I've suggested that my mum and all the others start to press it more. Like you say, no one knows she's not coping and it can't carry on. My mum and another lady were phoned at 4am one morning to help her go to the toilet. It's very sad but they're not helping her by helping her if that makes sense.

I'm trying to cook this haggis - I'm sure DH normally boils them but this one says I have to steam it. Scary! Do you add anything to turnips when you mash them for the neaps? His plane has been delayed...do you think he'll still want this meal at 1130, lol. He can have it for breakfast xx

Mudbath - how did the haggis go? I always used to boil haggis, but recently I have been microwaving. I tend to salt, pepper and butter the neeps (and the tatties). I got a bargain with my haggis, 59p for 1lb out of Lidls.

How did you get on with your Mum's neighbour? My Nana had a similiar situation with an old dear from the pensioners club (My Nana is 87 and helps at the pensioners club. She's older than most of them) This old dear was quite attached to my Nana. Thankfully she never phoned her during the night! She had hacked off all her family with her nonsense and was ready to attach herself to our family. She used to ask Nana for our phone numbers and stuff!!! Of course Nana never gave her them. Eventually she got fed up and moved onto someone else. Really really sad, but another one of those who was never happy and always complaining. Good luck xx

HopeElizzy

:jMorning everyone!

My dad is out of hospital, my mum's IBS has settled down to a manageable level so only DH feeling rough now. I feel completely shattered, running around between home, hospital and work though :rolleyes:

Michelle - you take it easy, don't be so hard on yourself. You do so much and it is difficult with a little one and one on the way. There's exactly 2 years between mine and it is hard work. xx

Lil_me - many thanks for the list this week though I did slip towards the end of the week.

Dustykitten wrote: »

Wise words which I am not good at following as I am not good at playing

Me neither I'm afraid - my mum and dad didn't particularly play with me when I was little so I guess I don't know how. I'm ok at board games with rules

Right, I'm slacking again, the dailies are done so I'm off to my lovely MIL's as she has offered bacon butties for lunch and is doing roast dinner later. She's been a star helping me out this week.

Hopefully I'll see you all in next weeks thread.
Hope
xx

Pollybear

Morning all

Two loads of washing out on the line.

roast dinner roasting.

A few more things sorted out in spare room and they will go up in the loft this afternoon (my son's stuff, not mine to get rid off but I've condensed it down).

I was never any good at playing with my children when they were young and I was even worse with other people's children (you had to be NICE to them because they weren't yours!) Not a natural mother.

Mudbath

Michelle - Hugs to you
Lil_me - hope you got a lie in!
Skintscotslass - DH loved the haggis, I steamed it in the end as it seemed the easiest option. I've def earnt brownie points, lol. I was quite firm with my mum (it was a lot easier after hearing people on here thought she was doing too much too so thankyou). Anyway, she's had a chat with two of the other neighbours and they're going to talk to the son and tell him she's not coping. If that doesn't work they're going to the GP. My mum told her to press the button round her neck yesterday as she didn't know how to help. An ambulance arrived and the paramedics said this would be reported to the GP so hopefully something will happen.

Solway and Tracy - thanks for your kind words of support. It's sometimes hard when you work from home alone and don't really have anything to gage if you're doing well. I've been doing this for 11 years now and have gradually added more and more treatments. I work from our converted garage which still looks like a garage from the front of the house. I ask all my clients to park outside our house so the neighbours are all fine about it. I do make sure I leave half an hour between clients so there's never too many cars. I used to work mobile but it wasn't good for my back so I stopped but I have friends who do and they really like it. Do you reckon you will go mobile Tracy and what treatments do you do? If you've got any questions feel free to PM me and good luck starting again xx

cha97michelle

thought i should sneak back in and say i am surviving.

We managed to get the wet bedding in the WM, and out on the line, and the food shop is done and put away. hopefully charlie is about to have a nap, i've put him in his cot to try.


DS was actually a fab help. He was so good in the supermarket, and helped take things out of the shopping bags and give me them to put away. (less helpful when he was trying to take eggs out of the fridge again :rolleyes: but i will manage to train this one)

we then sat and had a danish pastry as our morning snack.

If he does sleep, i am going to get the SC on with a stew for tonight, and also sit with the newspaper for a bit i think.


You lot as usual are so supportive. I think i was just feeling overwhelmed this morning as charlie was being whingy and i had struggled to get to breakfast time without tears from me.I hate that overwhelmed/not coping feeling.

mudbath good to see your mum has taken your advice

dusty thanks for the poem, and at least he isn't as far away as that, and he definitely would have been told if i had a broken foot. My DH is not normally too bad, and if he has to work, i shouldn't really moan should i. Not like he is on a jolly and we are slaving here while he is enjoying himself. I don't mind the playing bit, the bit that is hard is sitting on the floor with him at the moment.

pink fairy sounds like you are a very kind person. Don't take on too much though with this other girl. Nice people can really get walked on if not careful, and it isn't your fault some people who have kids think there job is over when they get to that age. Whatever happened to families helping each other through thick and thin i don't know. My sister rang last night and offered to take charlie, but she was out with her lads at footie, and i didn't fancy him being out and blown about for hours with the cold he has that we can't shift, but she still offered to try and help, and that was much appreciated. I'm sure when i go to mums i will get a bit of a break of sorts. Will take charlie when he wakes up and has had lunch - via the duck pond to get rid of the old bread.

lil-me hope DS1 has a fab birthday today, and you manage to squeeze any new pressies into that overcrowded room of his.

anyway -= tea drunk, no more noise from upstairs, so i guess i had best do some peeling and chopping or i never will.

Michelle, x;)

Pink_Fairy_2

Guess what the dozy pillock did now?

I'm beavering away at shampooing the carpet, having said "I'll just do this then we can go to the tip and drop that file off for Fliss (as she lives in the same general direction)"

Went upstairs to let DS know I was going out, came down and couldn't find OH. DS lookled out of the window - no car! He'd gone without me and forgotten some of the rubbish as well. Grrrrrrr!:mad: I'm doing such a lot of mileage for work that I try to keep it down wherever possible with "chain" driving.

Was I mad when he got back? You bet!

lil_me

Michelle biggest squishy hugs, I hate it when that happens with nappies, I stopped using pampers as 4/5 of them started doing it, did complain and was sent vouchers to compensate but they of course send noone to clear the mess up they make. It all can seem a bit much sometimes, but you're doing great.

Pink Fairy, wash his ears out! I am sure they have selective hearing & lack common sense for doing things like 'saving money!'.

HopeElizzy that is great news.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, it's DS2s 7th birthday and it is making me feel old, he's my baby. Dad has took him to the quad track like he requested after coming back once because he forgot helmet and goggles. His Dad isn't in the best mood after working late last night, so I just tried to ignore his face pulling and ranting on this morning. I've stayed in and done housework. Doing well so far but gosh it's knocked heck out of me. He hasn't had his pressies yet, we got him a PS2 for his room (stop the arguing with DS1) an England shirt and a Thomas book, most others have given him money and he's been told NO BUYING UNTIL ROOM IS SORTED!!! Told DS1 the same, so hopefully that will encourage him a bit. Oh and he got up at 6am after going to bed at 10.15pm so I GIVE UP!

**edit** DP just phoned, DS2s come off twice already and is coated in mud. :rotfl: oh well at least he's having fun, best make sure the washer is empty when he gets home.