Weekly Flylady Thread 2nd June 2008

skintscotslass

taurusgb wrote: »

It was Harlen Coban's "The Woods"...it was excellent....Am now resisting sitting down to start the first in the series of "Ladies of Letters"

Ooooh, I love 'Ladies of Letters'!!!

nicki_2

Just finished my tea so I'm sigining out until Sunday unless I manage to grab some online time at my mates house - I must remember to pick some resolve up apparently :rotfl::rotfl: Doubt it will be that bad, but we'll see. :wave:

cha97michelle

hello

I've managed the grand total of one load of washing today. I was going to peg that out, but we went to the local playgroup instead, and good job i didn't as it threw it down.

I've also played loads with DS1, tried to tempt him to eat but he just says 'No! Play!' so i can't win that one. Will keep offering him it anyway even if he won't eat - it just meant i could scoff more of the yummy omlette i made him.

Anw and mum hope today hasn't been too unpleasant. I found a top with yellow and pink flowers on, and thought of you all

justamum hope you had a special birthday

nicki have a great night out this weekend. You definitely deserve one.

DS1 and 2 both currently asleep. I suppose i should wash up or something now i have finished my cuppa. I also caught up on here and watched last nights grays anatomy. Well i need some me time don't i :rolleyes:

I have also had a realisation that i waste far too much time - on here, watching rubbish on the telly. Part of me wasn't going to bother taking the boys out to playgroup today, but i forced myself as we would have done nothing, and it is far better to be out and about and doing stuff.

Anyway, going and will get the WM on, wash up and try to hang up the wet load on the airers. Then get DS1 up, change him, make his tea and see if he will eat that, then probably feed DS2, get DS1 ready for bed, cook our tea and try to sweep up the dining room at some point as under DS1's chair is really minging again. :eek: Will try to watch the last episode of series 3 of lost tonight too, and then it is the glorious weekend and a list of chores as long as my arm. :rolleyes: Or i may just sleep lots again and spend it with the boys and DH. What a choice.

Michelle, x

Justamum

I haven't been able to keep up with this thread at all this week because of half term. Thanks for all the birthday wishes anyway. Crikey I'm half way to 90!:eek:

Atm I am here with DD2 (who has stripped off again!). DD1 has gone to the beach with a friend and DH has taken DS down to the beach too. It's such a lovely day so I bet the beach will be packed. I don't like sand so was glad that DH volunteered .

The children made me breakfast in bed this morning. I'm not usually a breakfast person but had to indulge them. DS had even set his alarm so he could get up early :rotfl:. We went to town to do a bit of shopping then came back and DD1 made a cake (with supervision) and will decorate it later. DH is cooking dinner tonight - something really simple that even he can't mess up :rotfl:.

I've not done much this week except on Wednesday when I tried to do a whole week's worth in one day. So I didn't get to level 3 . It's amazing how mucky everything looks when it's been left for a few days :eek:

Right I'm off to finish changing the beds and put the shopping away.

serena

AnW's mum - I don't have any yellow flowers on the allotment at the moment, so you have these sweet peas and sweet williams. I just wish you could smell them!

soappie

jjef wrote: »

Also does anyone hang on to their kids school work I seem to have kept just about everything they have done at school and want to get rid of some but not all so was wondering how much others kept?

A certain amount of my kids' school work is stacked away in a trunk and has been for years. There will come a point, when they both REALLY leave home and have their own places (DS and his wife live with me, DD is lodging with a friend) when I feel I can hand the contents of the trunk over for them to do with what they will. I believe I am merely a custodian of things from the past. My custodian duties don't end until they have a home of their own.

It was only a couple of months ago that DD popped in and asked where I'd stored some of her Uni stuff. I pointed her in the right direction (the loft!) and she rummaged and found what she wanted - an old thesis which she could use for job interviews....

So, if you have the space, hang onto them then hand them over when they have a place of their own..

soappie

pigpen wrote: »

No.. not too philosophical.. just getting old.. lol.. :p:p

anyway.. I won't add it because if all your list is done you can do that every night and when you get to the point where it takes a quick S&S over every room and the whole house is done in 10 minutes because you are so decluttered and junk free you can spend all day there too!!

Make a note to do it yourself more often!! I love bats!

It could be your incentive for getting the necessaries done quicker?

Pigpen, I agree with you about the getting old bit - I am truly getting old. The joints creak in the morning etc. etc. But, I - and am I allowed to do this? Will I be kicked off the board for saying this? - ~gulp~ I'll be brave ~gulp~......

I disagree with you about not putting the gloaming sitting on the list.

If we were all wonderful, perfect, excellent, A+, top dollar flyladies, we would, yes, have our houses so spickety span and everything so wonderfully under control we'd only need to flick a duster and voila - sorted! But I know I'm not like that. I know I have my hotspots, dirty spots, unmentionable spots, the 'oh my god if the police knocked on the door right now they'd have to arrest me before I let them in THERE' spots.

But, it was the fact I took that unplanned and unexpected time out - ME time if you like - that made me well and truly relax and the fact there were cobwebs above the kitchen door and the cat tray needed emptying and the front room is a pit again DIDN'T MATTER for those ten minutes...

Which is why I thought maybe it should be on the flylady weekly list for the next few weeks - a sort of s*d the state of the housework - take 10, 15, maybe 30 minutes out one warm summer's night and enjoy the peace.....

I'll get my coat....

soappie

Nicki - I like that email!
Pink - thank you for your kind words

soappie

Hex - I LOVE your house - would you please adopt me - I am an orphan after all....

boddy

Evening everyone.

Well its been quite a good shift at work and I got an early finish. So since I came in at 6pm I have vacummed right through and tidied.

Doing overtime tomorrow in the next bungalow. Different client group and different challenges.

Still have not got my ear problem sorted from earlier in the week. Earliest appointment I could get was next Tuesday morning.

Shell2001. Made some hobnobs at work today and of course sampled a few. So thought I would try the Paul McKenna thing. It did work and I didnt have any more.Do you do this when you get cravings?

Soappie I know what you mean about twilight its my favourite time too. Though where I live is not the ideal place to sit out. We do however have a beautiful garden where I work and if Im night shift I sometimes sit just beside the back door,

Taurusgb Oh I love books and have a shelf of books I havent read yet. I have two large book cases in the sitting room. There are books I keep and some I pass on. I usually have a couple on the go at the same time.

Hex2 What a gorgeous house and garden.