Need to sort myself out this morning so I’m doing a job list which I can hopefully return to later having achieved some of: Scarlett has been up pretty much all night screaming, not sure whether it is something sinister or simply being two – my gut instinct is that it is nothing too concerning and as I have finally gotten her into a semi peaceful sleep and put her back to bed I better make the most of whatever time she gives me before she wakes up screaming again 🙁
1. Get Davies dressed. done!
2. sort out the load of washing already in the machine, put another load on, when it’s done sort that one out, when that’s done do another load and then sort that one out! started! second load is just spinning, first load is hung around the house
3. ring to renew library books which are due back today – and find out how many we are supposed to have scattered around the place so I have three full weeks to find them all ready to go back (AFTER Christmas!!!) done! and there are 11 🙂
4.Finish writing the Christmas cards I started last night, divide them into piles for posting in the UK, posting out of the UK and one’s which can be delivered over the weekend – out of the delivery ones make two piles for ones which I will definitely manage to deliver and ones which if I don’t manage can be posted on Monday all written, were in piles which got disrupted by marauding children but just need repiling and that is done
5. wrap up remaining gifts – some of which also need posting
6. use snowspray on the windows to complete the house decorations
7. make some festive biscuits to hang on the tree to complete that
8. encourage Davies to help make the rest of the MP cards. If he cannot be encouraged or bribed then make them myself. If this is not possible then use the excess family photo cards to send to MP list.This just wasn’t going to happen! I noted how many extra we actually needed, minused the ones I would actually quite like to send festive greetings to as well (that would be you lot on the blogring then!) and made the addtional eight we needed myself. They are actually quite good if I do say so myself – very arty glue drawings of either snowflakes with silver glitter or Christmas trees with green glitter. Scarlett did arrive as was doing the last two so she helped – this has meant her and I have worn glitter for most of the day, but hey, it’s festive 🙂
9. Write in whatever cards are make / selected for the MP listall done, most are home made, the ones I wanted to add greetings to or feel I actually *know* have got one of our photo cards all written and ready to post
10. Make Ady a doctor’s appointment sorted
11. cancel Davies’ injections today and rearrange for next week sorted but then I changed my mind!
12. make a concise, frugal and easy to follow shopping list to rush out and buy later tonight when kids are asleep, using the list of stuff in the freezer which Ady made over the weekend to ensure we are using up food we already have instead of just buying more.
13. find entertaining and educational activities for Davies to be doing and for Scarlett if she wakes up in the frame of mind to be engaged and educated after her sleep sort of 🙂
14. Make lunch!yep!
15. Read the stories Miranda has emailed across and start writing some to email back to her for the end of the week
16. do some more of my online learning course
17. make a final list of all the last remaining gifts still needed to be bought for Christmas and decide whether it is feasible to go out shopping for them or order them online.
18. ring friends in New Zealand at a time when they are either not at work or asleep in bed (note to self – check whether we are 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14 hours behind them at the moment to ensure a middle of the night at their house scenario does not occur!)
Think that’s it – well I guess I better get started then 🙂
good luck with the list. I’ve been up just over 2 hours and I’ve still not got going. Ah well. I did want a quiet morning. But I have loads of washing to do and the carpet is looking a bit more glittery this morning since the postman arrived 😉
Comment by Kirsty — 08 December 2004 @ 10:10 am
Well, I’ve got two children dressed…
Comment by jax — 08 December 2004 @ 10:17 am
I have not got dressed yet or LC dressed it is now 11.10!! I like your precise lists Nic – did you get you dressed LOL
Comment by Karen b — 08 December 2004 @ 11:10 am
omg Nic, that’s quite a list!
Comment by Sarah — 08 December 2004 @ 12:22 pm