SHEs Organized

According to the current schedule I will have her once a month after school, helian. I may have her on Wednesdays too, we’ll see what DD39 decides after she sees how work goes.

1-errands-recycling to dump,cvs pick up
2-walk on island

Menus
Friday-ginger shrimp and rice bowls
Saturday-left overs
Sunday-curry chicken and roasted sweet potatoes
Monday-
Tuesday-
Wednesday-DD33 out/ me leftovers
Thursday-
Friday-Monday out of town

Events
Friday-no Little Bit
Saturday-8:45 Little Bit’s soccer game, Harry Potter Movie@7
Sunday-
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45, DD33 PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Friday-leave for cabin@1, Little Bit 7:40-8:45

Weekly House Blessing-mop kitchen, bathroom, dining room, vacuum, dust
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-
Shutterfly- Christmas card, Becca book, Little Bit’s book, Little Bit last school year book, calendar, art book, magnets, coasters, Hawaii book

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk
-read nonfiction
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helia, it's the sweet spot for running now, weather fine all day, right? The one thing I really miss from USA - wholewheat cinnamon cereal! Still remember it, though not the brand
L.Ann, I will have to go back to where you posted the schedule - I thought you'd have your mornings to yourself and do the afternoons?

Other than the office, the house is clean - as in no trash, clean floors, clean bathrooms, dusted etc. There's still items in places where they have no business being, but now I need to take care of the weekly groceries, and when I get back, fold/iron/put away laundry and then pack. It's not like the stuff will have gotten lost before I attend to it!

TaDas
- lunch
- midday routine
- clean kitchen
- general pick up
- laundry flipped to dryer
- get access to school app - didn't get transferred from old phone to new
- buy kids' transportation passes

ToDos
- shopping list
- grocery run
- put away groceries

Braindump
routines
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
- freezer cooking
organization
- clean out car
- pay library fee renewal
- arrange for drop-off of old mattresses at the dump
- order new vacuum cleaner and cooker hood
- check all backpacks
- make apt - obgyn
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for September
cleaning
- defrost garage freezer
- clean twins' room (oversee it done)
- clean DS15's room (oversee it done)
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside
- run pool vacuum cleaner
- watering and feeding flowerpots
- watering and feeding veggie garden
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- deadhead climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- spiff up carpool
- spiff up garage
- reseed in veggie garden
- plant salads
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
- sewing?

Right now just before school, Trissie. Little Bit goes to one of the later starting elementary schools so she has school from 9-3:45. Our county/state provides bus transportation so she will get picked up and dropped off at the end of her road. Because she is in kindergarten an adult has to be there to meet her or they take her back to school.

1-read
2-Shutterfly
3-FACE

Menus
Friday-ginger shrimp and rice bowls
Saturday-left overs
Sunday-curry chicken and roasted sweet potatoes
Monday-
Tuesday-
Wednesday-DD33 out/ me leftovers
Thursday-
Friday-Monday out of town

Events
Friday-no Little Bit
Saturday-8:45 Little Bit’s soccer game, Harry Potter Movie@7
Sunday-
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45, DD33 PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Friday-leave for cabin@1, Little Bit 7:40-8:45

Weekly House Blessing-mop kitchen, bathroom, dining room, vacuum, dust
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-
Shutterfly- Christmas card, Becca book, Little Bit’s book, Little Bit last school year book, calendar, art book, magnets, coasters, Hawaii book

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk
-read nonfiction
-swish and swipe
-windex
-start laundry
-read
-errands-recycling to dump,cvs passport photo
-walk on island
-lunch

argh, I left with a spotless kitchen, and less than two hours later, I return to dirty dishes and pans in the sink, crumbs all over and an empty cereal box on the counter. That is the part I really did not miss when the kids were gone!

L.Ann, that schedule makes sense for you then! I do however wonder how other parents do it if they have to both work from early mornings and don't have grandmas available? It sure would be a problem for us!

TaDas
- shopping list
- pick up DtdT's lost student card
- grocery run
- put away groceries
- afternoon routine

ToDos
- clean out car
- fold laundry
- dinner

Braindump
routines
- evening routine
food
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
- freezer cooking
organization
- pay library fee renewal
- arrange for drop-off of old mattresses at the dump
- order new vacuum cleaner and cooker hood
- check all backpacks
- make apt - obgyn
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for September
cleaning
- defrost garage freezer
- clean twins' room (oversee it done)
- clean DS15's room (oversee it done)
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside
- run pool vacuum cleaner
- watering and feeding flowerpots
- watering and feeding veggie garden
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- deadhead climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- spiff up carpool
- spiff up garage
- reseed in veggie garden
- plant salads
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
- sewing?

Change of plans - we will leave tomorrow morning!

TaDas
- clean out car
- fold laundry
- dinner
- clean twins' room (oversee it done)
- clean DS15's room (oversee it done)

ToDos
- evening routine
- DBD's speech therapy
- more laundry care

Braindump
routines
food
- bake something sweet
- feed breadstarter
- freezer cooking
organization
- pay library fee renewal
- arrange for drop-off of old mattresses at the dump
- order new vacuum cleaner and cooker hood
- check all backpacks
- make apt - obgyn
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for September
cleaning
- defrost garage freezer
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
laundry
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside
- run pool vacuum cleaner
- watering and feeding flowerpots
- watering and feeding veggie garden
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- deadhead climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- spiff up carpool
- spiff up garage
- reseed in veggie garden
- plant salads
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
- sewing?

Hi, all. I had great plans to be out of the apartment well before now, and am not only hopelessly late, but have used up my knees before the outing starts. So I'm recalculating, what should I keep trying to get done today, what has to get put off for another day etc.

You are right, Gma. Germane slept well after her adventures yesterday.

Thanks, Kittykatt, for your compliment and for starting us off with another lovely bird.
Believe me, I am not car savvy. My impressive diagnostic skills came from Reddit and the car's manual, LOL.
Yesterday sounds like a great day: a nice service, lunch and vet visit. I hope that today is as good.

I can totally relate, trissie. I would normally be scrambling to get my laundry done by Friday, but I still have laundry on the laundry cart from last weekend that may or may not be dry. I can't explain it, as I don't have a family to pick up after, a cottage to organize or a full time job. I'm not surprised that you feel behind. I'm always impressed with how much you get done.

It sounds like you have things well organized for Little Bit, L.Ann. It's good that she is enjoying school.

That teacher sounds like a great person, helia.

Friday
Put on a pot of coffee
3 X 15:
Cleaned up after Germane:
Picked up all of her pee pads, bagging and discarding the used ones
Flushed her poop, then remembered that I was supposed to bring her fecal sample to animal hospital
Washed the linoleum, as she had peed uphill of her pee pads too
Saw that Germane had considerately done a new fecal sample right by the front door where I could pick it up on my way out
Turned back the linoleum and started cutting off the parts where she had peed under and wet the backside
Tried to pull up the remains of one entire piece of linoleum
Moved furniture, tried to hold up the exercise bike with one hand while tugging on the linoleum with the other
Went down in flames, sweat, panting
Got increasingly desperate as my plan of leaving an hour ago to take the car to the parts store keeps sliding further and further out of reach
Just cut the wet parts of the linoleum
Bagged them
Moved the furniture back
Laid new pee pads
Found a small container
Labelled it
Collected fecal sample
Cleaned floor

The need for an adult or person 13 or over to be at the bus stop ends after kindergarten, Trissie although each state has its own age kids can be home alone. In Maryland kids have to be 8 or older but in Utah where my other daughter is it is up to the parents discretion. Lots of people have to have before and after school daycare.

I have a book for you Dogged. Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth. The prologue starts with the 81 year old narrator saying, “It’s interesting to note that there are two groups of people who are rarely, if ever, suspected of murder. The groups are elderly women and little girls….. I’ve always liked to think I was special.”

DD33 says she ate a big lunch and isn’t going to want to dinner so I need to pivot dinner plans.

1-figure out dinner
2-pick up yard
3-delete email

Menus
Saturday-crabs, hamburgers and hot dogs out
Sunday-curry chicken and roasted sweet potatoes
Monday-ginger shrimp and rice bowls
Tuesday-
Wednesday-DD33 out/ me leftovers
Thursday-
Friday-Monday out of town

Events
Friday-no Little Bit
Saturday-8:45 Little Bit’s soccer game, Harry Potter Movie@7
Sunday-
Monday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Tuesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Wednesday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45, DD33 PS 3-8
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-8:45
Friday-leave for cabin@1, Little Bit 7:40-8:45

Weekly House Blessing-mop kitchen, bathroom, dining room, vacuum
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-
Shutterfly- Christmas card, Becca book, Little Bit’s book, Little Bit last school year book, calendar, art book, magnets, coasters, Hawaii book

Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-meds and temp for DD33
-dress and pick up bedroom
-walk
-start laundry
-read nonfiction
-swish and swipe
-windex
-start laundry
-read
-errands-recycling to dump,cvs passport photo
-walk on island
-lunch
-reboot laundry
-read
-Shutterfly
-FACE
-dust
-gem art with DD33

Hello, everyone!

Trissie, how frustrating to leave a perfectly clean kitchen and.come.home to mayhem. I hope you have a lovely time at the cottage.

Helia, LOL at the Girls' breakfast choices!

L.Ann, you sound very organised. I'm glad Little Bit is enjoying school.

Dogged,.I'm impressed you can make sense on of the owner's manual. Once, many years ago, I needed to put some more water in the car, but wasn't sure where it needed to go. So I found the so-called diagram of the engine in the handbook. And turned it round 180 degrees... and then round again. And was still unable to determine where the water should go as the diagram looked nothing like real.life. I was so terrified of getting it wrong and "breaking". something, that in the end I just have up and decided someone else could deal.with it.

It's been a good day, despite the rain mid morning. But I used that time to place the cat food order for Jude, order some biscuits for church and some more food for Mica. And when I eventually got out into the garden, I had a very productive time there. DF CW is back home safely, and DH had a good time at the beer festival. Freddie had my lap earlier, and Matilda is the occupier now.
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Today's list:

Cuddles on the bed with Matilda, Jude and Freddie
QT
Physio exercises
DH launched to beer festival
Up, shower, personal care and dress
All cats fed
Take Freddie out? ( If he wants to go!)
Breakfast and meds /supplements - me
Rubbish down to bins
Go for my walk
Run hoover round downstairs?
Quick dust sitting room?
Garden time - can I feed pots? A little deadheading?
Lunch
Delicate /wool wash
Clean shoes
Polish bag
Fold laundry and PA
Clean sheets and towels out of the airing cupboard
Does DH have choir practice?
Cats' supper
My supper
Bed at a reasonable time!

Extras:
Feed Mica am pm
Feed Izzy am (DF CW should be home.at lunchtime. If she's delayed I'll give Izzy her supper too)
Cut Kitty nails?
Order biscuits for church
Order trainers?
PetDrugs Online order - Jude's food, also Feliway and plaque off for Fred and Matilda
Order biscuits for church

Garden extras:
Feed roses in front garden
Spray roses front garden and back garden
Feed pots
Trim bits on hedge
Trim bits on lawn?
Weed / deadhead
Sweep anywhere? A little of patio swept
I need to go to garden centre sometime soon to buy pansies for winter pots
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