Smile Saturday

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Medical info - 10 min
-Text DH connection
-Find investment login/check info

Extras:
-Medical - review details of test
-Tasks - (bill pay)(amex activity)(DH reim)(air filters) (DS tasks)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-1pm Eat
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-Close blinds
-Open & sort mail/file
-Prep for next day (clothes/calendar)

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-This & that
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Phone DH
-Computer issues
-Phone DH

[Lauralind]

I got a little way with crochet. Tackled the kitchen. Except I really should have turned the dw on last night so there's stuff waiting for the next load. Better though. Floors. Should do some detail dusting in the living room.

Pick up some footprints
Dusting and windows in living room and entry
Sweep everywhere

Crochet for a bit
Finish s&s both baths
Put away laundry
Tidy Master bedroom and laundry room some

A little music just cause
Clean cat boxes and take garbage out
Add stuff to dw and turn on
Wash a few things and prep the rest for dw
Wipe counters and table

[Doggedly]

I am able to load the first page. I'll start CUOP and see how it goes.

Thank you for starting us off, Kittykatt.
I think that you made your df C very happy, accommodating her food choices.

LOL, trissie, I have been thinking of helia's grandbaby as Imogen, because I imagine her.
Leaving for my holiday a day later took a lot of pressure off of me, and looking back I don't feel that I missed anything specific by doing that. I hope that you can take a little of the pressure off of yourselves.
That sounds like a very interesting book.

I'm glad that you found some clothes that you like, FrenchFly. Shopping for clothes can be so tiring and time-consuming, but having new clothes that we like can be a nice lift.

Hi, Lauralind. I hope that you get to spend some time today on a want.

Okey, I have made it to the end of page 1. I will see if the board will let me post, and then spiff myself and go on to the next adventure.
I am so pleased with how the brownies came out! They solve two problems for me. One is that I have not been going to Giant Tiger as often, which is where I pick up cheap baked treats. They are probably filled with the worst of the fats and sweeteners, so just as well. But I walk around with a vague feeling that I would like some more baked goods and they are more expensive in the other stores (but equally bad for you.) The other thing is that I have been feeling deprived because chocolate has gotten so expensive so I keep putting off buying it. This handles both cravings with better ingredients. And while I anticipate that cocoa is going to shoot up in price, a container of cocoa will go a LOT further than any chocolate that I buy. I have a strategy.

Saturday
Cleaned up after Germane
Put away dry tshirts.
Rearranged the rest to finish drying.
Checked laundry on big rack
Filled the TP holder
Cleaned up after dog
Put on pot of coffee
Break to listen to radio shows
Researched breadmaker brownie recipes
Searched for ingredients
Searched for my Fire tablet
Filled/started breadmaker
Started washing dishes
Moved batter to baking pan and baked it
Washed more dishes
Tried to find ways to get my Alexa and my phone to find the Fire tablet
Tried the brownies–very, very pleased with how they came out

[L.Ann]

We ended up at the bigger Amish stand and I bought a half bushel box of squash for $15. Lots of acorn, butternut, honey nut, and spaghetti squash recipes in our future. Do you have brownies, Dogged? Ooooo I see you have brownies. That sounds like a good solution for your chocolate cravings.

1-kitchen cleanup, put away cooked beets and slice and freeze bread
2-work on Shutterfly calendar
3-read

Menus
Saturday-dinner at the dance
Sunday-turkey burgers
Monday-curried chickpea w/dried cranberry wraps
Tuesday-shrimp fried rice
Wednesday-DD32out/me left overs
Thursday-bang bang chicken
Friday-pizza
Saturday -peanut udon stir fry with veggies

Events
Saturday- Special Olympics Dance 6-8:30
Sunday-
Monday-bloodwork me, medallion certificate 11, mail paperwork , Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3
Tuesday-me doctor 8:45, DD32 dentist, Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3, DD32 off for dentist
Wednesday-DD32 haircut 3:45, Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3
Thursday-pick up boo boxes at 2, DD32 late due to dance, Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9-3(pumpkin farm?)

Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room and bathroom, swish and swipe
Detail cleaning of kitchen-shine sink, scrub floor
Detail cleaning of dining room-wash window, declutter dry sink, clean surfaces, polish furniture, wipe down woodwork, scrub floor, windex pictures
Extra Stuff-my bloodwork next week
Little Errands-drop off DM’s driver’s license
Phone calls-estate issue-appt for medallion certificate 10/27


Events
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-dress and pick up bedroom
-start bread
-Farmers Market
-meds for DD32
-vacuum
-dust and get DD32 to windex
-walk
-prep and put away veggies
-lunch
-read
-swish and swipe
-diet site
-walk
-Amish for pumpkin for DD32
-start second loaf of bread

[Peaches1000]

Next:
-Laundry #1 to dryer
-DH reim/payroll
-Enter bank activity in PT/recon

Extras:
-Tasks - (bill pay)(amex activity)(DH reim)(air filters) (DS tasks)
-Declutter/organize/clean - 10 min
-Files/Med Info/Papers/Emails - 10 min

Routine:
-Laundry #1 hang/fold
-Put away laundry

-1pm Eat
-Cat - brush/food/water/litter
-Vacuum something
-6pm Eat
-Close blinds
-Open & sort mail/file
-Prep for next day (clothes/calendar)

Done:
-Bedroom - pupa
-Dress/ready
-Foyer Bath - pupa/restock
-Fresh food for kitty
-Open blinds/get water
-Medicine/vitamins
-This & that
-Check email
-Update Toodledo
-Check bank accts/Amex
-Gather dirty laundry/sort
-Laundry #1 to washer
-Phone DH
-Computer issues
-Phone DH
-Medical info - 20 min
-Text DH connection
-Login & print DH payroll info
-Find investment login/check info
-Brush kitty

[helia]

At a coffee shop with dh but will head out soon to get some groceries and then rest at the house. I don't think I can reply to everyone.

[Kittykatt]

Hello, everyone!

Trissie, I didn't get any junk food for me - my tummy is getting fussy about things like emulsifiers a d other additives, which rules out a lot of things. (I've found some good quality chocolate in both Waitrose and M&S that pass the "test", which is expensive but also quite rich and satisfying, so you only need a few pieces at a time. )

Helia, praying for your DBaby I and her parents at this very difficult time. Trissie has lots of very good advice!

What colour will the blanket be, Laura? I e made things from crochet in in the past, but nothing as large or as complicated as a blanket

Dogged, mmmm, brownies! They sound delicious!

That's a lot of squash, L.Ann! At least they keep well.

Hi, Peaches!

This afternoon I made the most of DH being out to declutter and spring clean the floor to ceiling bookcase on the landing, and wipe down all the woodwork. I have a few books to donate, and the rest are back on the bookcase. I also did a little more sorting out in my wardrobe. Tomorrow's lunch is prepared a d I e made a cherry loaf cake.

[Kittykatt]

To do:
Cuddles and treats with Matilda, Freddie and Jude
QT
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Make bed
Scoop cat trays and give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Wind clock
Quick PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Go for my walk
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie, Jude
and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Lunch
Cats' supper
Our supper
Sort out lunch for tomorrow
Bake something?
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow
First load of towels in machine
Towels hung up to dry
2nd load of towels in machine to wash overnight
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
Visit C for coffee
Start drafting out the email for the venue for Thursday's lunch with everyone's menu choices ready to send first thing Monday
Mend that hole in the pocket of my gardening coat
Email PH re funeral
If wet - more wardrobe decluttering?
Can I start decluttering landing bookcase (if DH is out!)
Maybe start taking up those curtains I bought for the kitchen over 18 months ago? It would be nice to have curtain in the kitchen this winter!!!
Order Matilda's flea control from vet

Garden extras:
Pick up leaves if it stops raining!
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[helia]

F wanted us all to come to the hospital. I think she's a social gatherer or something; so, we went to the hospital this morning earlier than we had expected to go. She especially wanted her mom -- but when I asked she said she also wanted dh and me there. We were moral support. F was doing much better when we left; she had stopped crying at least. She asked me about our experience with dd30 who was born at 35 weeks, and I could share how she was in NICU for a bit but ended up just fine. We went to visit little I in the NICU - so tiny and hard to see her tiny body attached to wires, feeding tube, etc. But she's doing well. While we visited her with ds, they decided to turn down the breathing support because she was doing better! That's good news! Back at the room, Dh suggested that F and ds sleep as much as possible now while I is in the NICU being cared for. F is absolutely exhausted - in a little post-surgery pain, dealing with hormonal postpartum body, working on pumping colostrum, and now sick with worry. I think they liked that idea, so we headed out and F's mom went with us. Dh and I also tidied their room a bit while ds + F were in the NICU talking with the doctor.

I'm so proud of ds. He is amazingly attentive to F and to little I also, always helping with pumping, feeding, diapers - everything. He is remaining calm and rational; he is the one who absorbs the doctor's and nurses' instructions and also is giving cuddles and emotional support to F as well. He slept a little more than F last night but is also totally exhausted.

The nurses/ Dr. are checking on little I at 3:30 and probably getting a sample to test her glucose, and then she'll have some skin-on-skin time with F. We'll plan to go back after that --> we now have about 3.5 hours back at the house. Well, at this point, we have another 2.5 hours before we leave again.

I'm at a coffee shop with dh right now. I'm going to head to the grocery store soon. I miss my yogurt + fruit! Then, I'll go back to the house. I might lay down for a bit or work on payroll stuff. I need to have a lesson planned by tomorrow.

Sh, F's mom, is pretty easy to get along with, but she is one of those people that talks non-stop. This exhausts me. Like many of you, I am an introvert. Dh and I can do tag team with her, which helps. Not sure what I'll do when dh leaves on Monday.

Thank you for letting me dump here! I'm heading to the grocery store next.

[helia]

He he trissie on the names! I'll share here quickly - and then delete in a few hours.

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