Sorry for going MIA yesterday - I worked like a one-legged man in an ass-kickin' contest (I admit, I had to google a good idiom - my second choice would have been "I was running around like a blue-arsed fly", but I logged in a good payroll day and I got the house ready in time for my friend to come over and spend a good afternoon together. And I read a whole book in the evening - His Secret Daughter by Melissa Wiesner. It was a quick read and a total page-turner, though. But checking my library list, it's not the book I should have been reading (I have some that need to be returned next week and this one was not one of them).
Today - up early, as DBD and DS have another scout outing, this time a rock climbing outing (the scout leader has a new hobby
Tomorrow, there's a scout picnic 11-1pm, and DBD is invited to a birthday party 1-4pm, so it's gonna be a busy day. Today, we have to clean out the garage and the carport, and I need to take whatever we want to get rid of to the dumpsite (there's paint cans and other dangerous waste that need to be disposed of properly). Also, I'd like to get some strawberries and make some strawberry jam, and I had noticed a grain moth in the pantry (I have a sticky pheromone trap on the inside of the door to alert me), so I need to squeeze "go over everything in there" in my weekend somehow. Applying butt glue dissolvent and off I go!
helia, hoping having so much family over will bring more joy than trouble§
kittykatt, you asked yesterday about the scheduling - if BIL wanted to attend, then SIL would have made it work for him. But I don't think he wants to - their lifestyle is different from ours and he's just not too involved in family activities. I actually don't think he had been coming to the Christmas lunches at inlaws while they still had them, at least not in the past years. Sometimes it was work reasons, sometimes he was just someplace else with other people, and SIL was coming alone with the kids.
TaDas
- breakfast and coffee
- dressed to shoes
- lunches for DS and DBD
- DS and DBD off the door with another scout mom
- internet time
ToDos
- morning routine
- 30 in garage
- 15 on laundry
Braindump
work - didn't finish it yesterday so must get to it over the weekend
- finalize CC the report and send it off for peer review
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
- bake bread
- jam?
organization
- dumpsite drop off
- Tesco (some missing items + present for tomorrow's party)
- get strawberries?
- pick up kids at 3pm
- homework and backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for June
cleaning
- clean office
- clean out / reorganize attic
- spiff up DBD's room
- spiff up twins' room
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up living room
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
laundry
- load of colors?
- load of darks
- load of towels
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside - weekend
- run pool vacuum cleaner
- repot seedlings I bought
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- work in raspberry patch - pruning, fertilizing, replanting
- prune fruit trees - blooming pit fruits
- prune bushes
- prune/tie/shape climbing roses
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- work on cleaning out the carpool
- work on cleaning out the garage
- fertilize fruit trees and bushes
- fertilize conifers
- fertilize vegetables
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
I just went back to sleep. Not sure whether we had rain overnight, or not, but it's a dry,.
Freddie 