Weekly Flylady Thread 9th June 2008

germish_se

pigpen wrote: »

Anyway.. back to the hovel.

I have the while week to catch up on... some crappy leader I am!! I lead by bad example!!.. going to find me a list.. I'm sure I had one on Wednesday!

My mother always said "do as I say, not as I do" seems like sound advice. :rolleyes:

Mudbath

Hiya
Still plodding on here. I get the opposite with my children as they're very tall for their age. I've even had the health visitor say...'mmmm she's a bit tall'. And what would you like me to do about it...chop a bit of their legs off!!!

Lots of people interested in biology then. I was doing a lot of human biology with the OU for my health studies degree only it worked out too expensive so I had to give up. Mind you, it made me look for a course more suited to what I want to do - a diploma in complementary therapies and cancer care. It's given me the confidence to the voluntary work at the hospice so it's obviously right for me at the moment.

I'm half way through my anatomy and physiology revision. Just got blood, endocrine, reproduction and renal system to do.

Better plod on! xx

pigpen

Still not moved!!!

I have however bought 2 new bras with matching undies from figleaves.. 15% discount plus quidco cashback so a bit saved there.. and it was my ebay money so I don't care!

I have half an hour before I have to go collect the chimps.. tiddles is in bed so I am going to go do all this weeks throwing out jobs.. heehee.. there'll be less left to put away I reckon..

germish_se

Mudbath wrote: »

Hiya
Still plodding on here. I get the opposite with my children as they're very tall for their age. I've even had the health visitor say...'mmmm she's a bit tall'. And what would you like me to do about it...chop a bit of their legs off!!!

Seems like being a health visitor gives them a licence to say the stupidest things. When the boys were babies I was always told they were skinny, a) I was throwing up for 8 months so there wasn't much nutrition going on during pregnancy, b) the kept falling asleep whilst feeding hence not eating very much at a time and there are only so many feeds you can do in 24 hours! Doh! c) we are a very skinny family three generations at least which she also commented on as she knew mum.

The boys are now quite tall (5'7-ish at 14 ain't bad) and not skinny, actually one of them could do with building some of his chunk into muscle. So much unnecessary stress to put on new mums, as if you need that.!

hex2

I have filled and removed several rubble sacks from our bedroom, then dustpan and brushed it before filling three henry bags. I am filthy - even by my very low standards. Our room on the other hand looks a lot better and DH will now be able to finish the pointing. Mind you, then he needs to wire brush and sand back so fairly pointless cleaning it.

DH has just taken DS2 out for the rest of the afternoon, so I have half an hour to myself before I have to pick DS1 up.

Opinions/ideas please - do all five year olds cry/whinge at least once a day? DS1 seems to cry at least once an hour at the moment (eg because I asked him to tidy something away, or because he was expected to get dressed by himself or the cat refused to be stroked and so on) and it is driving me mad. He does it at school too. We have tried a reward chart without success and we have tried sending him to his room for five minutes, and till he stops crying. Have tried talking to him about it as well but struggling not to make it negative and 'it makes me sad when you cry' made him cry again. DS1 has always cried - rarely stoppped when he was a baby. DS2 very rarely cries and does so for valid reasons - eg cat has scratched him and made him bleed.

Envious of all those doing courses. Seriously thinking about doing upholstery C&G - a million miles away from employment law but at least it won't add to the stress.

cha97michelle

Afternoon everyone,

can't remember when i last posted. Wednesday perhaps? Hello to all newbies, welcome to our madhouse.

i've been a tad busy.

• Wednesday - playgroup, visiting the parents, and then nephews birthday party - got home at 9, did a bit of tidying then went to bed
• thursday - DH working away in London, so abandoned at 8am until 2am this morning. Friend, her OH and DS visited us yesterday evening, so the house was trashed with toys, and i had it all to clean up, as well as cook dinner, all washing up/tidying up and bedtime routines for both boys.
• today - playgroup this morning, then home. I could have gone to another playgroup this afternoon, but seems though DS1 was a tired grumps and i am shattered i decided to sit it out.

i am a bit poopered. I don't think i will get much done today. I had a bit of a tidy up when i 1st put DS1 to bed, washed up, brought bins in, did a 5mGC cos some weeds in the lower rockery were 2 foot high and bugging me. I did the ones i could reach in my slippers, as i couldn't be bothered to come in and put some shoes on. The recycling was put out, and i got chicken out for dinner, then i came on here, did pigsback, internet banking and paid the CC bill, and then spent about an hour catching up here. :rolleyes:

I have quite a bit to do over the weekend but both me and DH are on our knees again, so some resting to be done. DS2 has been waking me up every 1 1/2 hours through the night for feeding so i am struggling a bit. The little monkey can go longer, like his last feed was at 10:15 this morning and he has slept since, but only if he is asleep on his tummy, and i am reluctant to do that on a night when i can't supervise.

shell well done on weight loss- could you please PM me the paul mckenna thing. I was doing well with losing weight with BF, but i put 2 pounds on last week and i haven't dared weigh myself this week. I know i am eating too much rubbish and giving myself permission to because of BF, but i don't want to end up putting it all back on when i am the lightest i've been in about 6 years. I should be toning up really.

lil-me hope you and the family enjoy the 1st trip in the caravan. Lol at soappie and decanting your booze into a plastic bottle - trust her to think of that one

pigpen really proud of you filling in the form. That is a step further than last time you talked about it, and i have every faith you can do it. There are a lot of us scientists. My degree was Biochemistry, but i doubt i could do much of it now without looking back in the books. I remember doing some pretty complex stuff like cell signalling pathways, and i would be now if i saw them again. All really interesting though, and i sometimes wish i had done the PHD and stayed in academia. But then again, teaching does have some redeeming features.

I did think i wanted to say some more stuff but my head is woozy i think from too many cups of cha, and i can't remember.

Michelle, x

tiamai_d

Hex, Ds1 is 6 and does this. Usually it's more stropping. he cries if I tell him to turn the DS off, or if he looses at a game, or if I say no biscuits or park or in general if I say no. He creis at bed time and has started 'It's so unfair! My little brother gets EVERYTHING and I get NOTHING!'

I really hope he grows out of it, but I can remember feeling frustrated at his age. Mum and dad saying no to what I thought were simple requests. I remember getting told off and I didn't know what I was getting told off for, though ususally I just didn't realise HOW noisy we were or that a pack of biscits had to last a week etc.

I think it's just a change of life thing, they want more independance but don't have the maturity to handle it.

Or they are just little sh1ts....

Confused_Newbie

*sneaks in again on the sneak in work*

Ohhhhhh so excited. In short the company I worked for was bought over by a large multi-national 3 years ago and since then we have been arguing about our pay/T&C's,etc well today we got letters of our new contracts. In October I will be getting a 5% pay increase, followed by 4% in April and so on for at least the next 5 years!!! Woo Whoooooooooooooooooo!!!

Now that has kinda made me more motivated! Must definately get stuck into the list when I get home!!

Mum_on_a_mission_2

hex2 wrote: »

Opinions/ideas please - do all five year olds cry/whinge at least once a day? DS1 seems to cry at least once an hour at the moment (eg because I asked him to tidy something away, or because he was expected to get dressed by himself or the cat refused to be stroked and so on) and it is driving me mad. He does it at school too. We have tried a reward chart without success and we have tried sending him to his room for five minutes, and till he stops crying. Have tried talking to him about it as well but struggling not to make it negative and 'it makes me sad when you cry' made him cry again. DS1 has always cried - rarely stoppped when he was a baby. DS2 very rarely cries and does so for valid reasons - eg cat has scratched him and made him bleed.

Ohh yes - we have this "problem" too and its so so wearing isn't it?

Everyone assures me its a phase and it will pass, but at the moment its getting more and more frequent. I am working on the premise its frustration etc and am trying to rephrase "no" to why it is/can't etc. But its so maddening and eventually I find myself snapping no and getting quite cross. We too are trying behaviour charts, and pushing him "to pretend to be a grown-up" which works some of the time.

Any ideas very welcome here too!

Moam

pigpen

DD3 is a whinger too.. she is 7 and wails constantly.. to the point where if she does actually hurt herself we ignore her. I keep saying to her one day she will really hurt herself and noone will listen because that is all she ever does.. because someone looks at her, she smells something unpleasant, she can't find something, etc etc etc. Drives me insane!!