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Triple Dog Dare!

Pick 3 things
Do them
Post your TaDas!

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Don't think about it. Just do it!
~~ I Triple Dog Dare ya! ~~
Good Morning!
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Good morning , everyone, and happy Sunday!

Just a quick CI as I've a lot.to do before we leave for church. It's so nice to have our car back!

I'll hopefully BBL Have a good day, everyone!

SHEM:

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world,” Roy. T. Bennett

To do:
Cuddles and snack for Matilda, Jude and Freddie
Bible reading and meditation
Update latest Waitrose order
Cup of tea
Get up!
Scrub out litter trays (DH)
Change sheets on bed
Shower/wash hair/moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
S/S bathroom
Physio exercises
Get dressed in casual clothes
Give everyone fresh water
Cat breakfast and meds /supplements
Breakfast and meds /vitamins for me
Hang up sheets to dry
Quick kitchen clean up
Load DW
Quick PUPA downstairs
Quick dust and Hoover downstairs
Change into smarter outfit
OTD to church
Coffee with DF E
Back home again, change back into casual clothes
Meat in oven
Coffee with DH
Put potatoes to roast
Put up my vitamins and supplements for the week
Weigh out Jude's and Matilda's dry food for the week
Quick PUPA upstairs
Fold laundry and PA
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden
Dish up lunch
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Head rubs with Freddie, Jude and Matilda
Play with Freddie, Jude, Matilda
Run DW when full
Unload DW
Post list with my plans for the week
Clothes laid out for tomorrow

Extras:
Feed Mica am pm
Print recipe for DH
Remember to pick up sign up sheet for parish lunch

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Kittykatt, thanks for the start. So, you can use your car again, what a relief !

I never came back yesterday although I meant to, several times in the afternoon : how can one keep their kids away from screens AND read and write messages online - when they're begging to "just play one session" or explaining that "there's a video about earthquakes, we would be learning things, right?"

I managed to dye my hair with no mess [certainly with keeping the kids away, Doggedly , although DS10 offered his help to put a timer on when my hands were full of the colored stuff, so that was helpful].
Now my hair isn't exactly the color the packaging promised - or what I thought it promised, but close enough, and no more white strands on the top and temples, so that's the main point. I had been hesitating for more than a year, MrNG wasn't going to give his opinion, but the kids convinced me by sometimes saying, watching family pictures from vacations, that I looked old and it would be nicer without grey hair.

We slept in the tent again last night, continuing with the stay-camp-tion, trissie !

TADAs
up when a small drizzle started, before 7, went in the house to close the windows
tried to go back to sleep
now having bfast
cuop

WTG on successfully dyeing your hair, and not dyeing your house or children, FrenchFly. Sometimes it takes more than one application to get the colour's found on the box. That was helpful if your ds to help with the timer.

Thank you for starting us off, Kittykatt. Have a good time at church.

kittykatt, so I see we're saving Steven Spielberg for some next time! Whenever I feel the need to get some good crying, I play the 1993 Academy Award acceptance speech for Schindler's List (oh boy, Branko Lusting's !My number was A3317." kills me every time!).
Dogged, so what nice things did you do for future-you that you can reap today?
Frenchie, did you go with your natural color, or something new and exciting? I can still do with plucking the grey hairs - and every year, they appear around the time I have to fill in the yearly payroll DORA questions (digital resiliency EU mandated thing in a format that would drive anybody mad!)

I was utterly lazy recharging energy yesterday and didn't get much done. It's OK, the tasks are still there to be done today We did a family movie night - the latest Jurrasic park movie. DBD was scared and I kept telling her what would come next and who would die and who would survive - without knowing a thing about the movie. She was flabbergasted that I got it right down to the timing of the deaths of the characters; I was disappointed that it follows such a predictable pattern. But that's the way of Hollywood, if it worked, don't change it for the next five installments in the series!

Today, I need to get going on the house, the garden, laundry, and we also have that BBQ to attend, and I still don't know what time!

TaDas
- breakfast and coffee
- dressed to shoes
- internet time
- mopped the remaining area in living room before DBD came downstairs

ToDos
- morning routine
- 15 on living room (with the kids home, it's gotten out of control)
- 1 hour garden reset

Braindump
routines
- midday routine
- afternoon routine
- evening routine
food
- lunch
- dinner
- bake something sweet
organization
- 5pm BBQ at friends
- check all backpacks
- DBD's speech therapy
- make apt - obgyn
- update land contract
- 15 on filing
- plan for July
- review packing list for all kids
cleaning
- clean DBD's room
- spiff up living room
- spiff up twins' room (oversee it done)
- spiff up DS15's room
- spiff up master bedroom
- spiff up master bathroom
- spiff up kitchen
- spiff up downstairs bathroom and hallways
- spiff up office
- clean out / reorganize attic
laundry
- load of linens
- load of towels
- ironing
- folding
- mending
- laundry put away
garden and outside
- sweep front yard, patio and pool deck
- weeding in veggie garden
- weeding in front garden
- deadhead climbing roses
- deadhead bushes
- pick up - front garden / porch
- pick up - backyard
- spiff up carpool
- spiff up garage
- water flowerpots
- water veggie garden
- weekly fertilizing
- reseed in veggie garden
me time
- 15 of exercise
- Bible study
- reading
- sewing

Doggedly I'm not sure about the time difference but maybe you've made a start on your Sunday's list of ta-das before bed ?

trissie we will be leaving around August 8th, no camping this summer, it's airbnbs in the Pyrenees mountains and city touring in Toulouse on the way back. The hair dye was supposed to be my naturel color, it's slightly darker and maybe a slight bit redder shade of dark brown. I'm sorry EU regulations make you grow grey hair keep in mind EU regulations are mostly good stuff, either for personal protection of citizens, or for the environment.
On that subject, I found this Guardian article interesting : EU regulations and the plastic bottle cap example

Our family movie was Avatar (the first movie). DS8 needed a few explanations at some points. Another example of very "predictable" scenario but DS10 wanted very much to see it.
MrNG told me not to add potatoes to the weekly grocery order, now I need potatoes for our Sunday lunch and he's digging them up with DS8, they have harvested maybe 2kg of small and medium sized red potatoes, so I will spend time peeling them, especially the tiny ones (unless they can be brushed clean without peeling).
Potatoes are very rewarding, MrNG "threw" some rotten red potatoes at the end of winter, covered with some hay or mowed grass, and now we have two or three dishfuls of potatoes to enjoy.

TADAs
a load of laundry in
helped DS10 re start old linux computer (he's creating puzzles on Jigidi)
laundry out
some dishes leftover from yesterday's homemade pizzas
started cooking paupiettes (aka meatballes wrapped in a slice of meat and lard) for the meat-eaters, with veggies

TODOs
bake the potatoes, after cleaning them if no one else does
bake a cake with garden plums ?
serve lunch
later
vacuum upstairs
more laundry
review school supply list
review kids' summer wish-list
pre-cook dinner ?
time to relax and do nothing
a list for next week

Good morning! Thanks for the start:)
Popping in to tell you that I'm off to make pancakes for my little charges:)
I've been thinking of you ladies, particularly about FFly who is close to the forest fires... And, all Euro SHEs, as the distances are much smaller than what we have here, so the air quality is likely to suffer...
(I'm still dealing with cough and and nose irritation as a result of our issues last week... and, we are back into moderate risk today.
But, I must go:)
Hope you all have a great day.
Back later:)