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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 7:46 pm
Vee I just love that room! I don't think I'd ever be able to leave it. Thanks Serate! Jacks hair reminded me a lot of JD, though living here in the desert we always kept his hair cut really short because everytime we took him for a walk he'd come back covered in fox tails and if ya missed one they could get under the skin and cause nasty infections. Hehe, he sure was a heck of a watch dog! I've been cleaning here and there tonight (we were gone part of the day.) I did clean off the table though because I asked Darren to pick me up a holiday tablecloth when he goes to Walmart later after he's done with his study group tonight. Found out yesterday I'm going to have my two middle nephews tomorrow...this was about 20 minutes after sis asked if I'd keep her girls tomorrow, lol. SO with all of them and youngest nephew, I'll have five kids. I'm not planning on getting much done since I'll get them to working on more Christmas decorations. Gotta get everything I can done tonight though cuz I'd rather spend time with the kids than working in the house!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 8:02 pm
Just got finished baking this pie and thought I might capture the steam wafting from the bubbling vents, but guess it didn't show up in the pic! LOL 
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 5:10 am
Morning all...I have looked up our Wednesday's mission (hope that is still ok Vee?) You can find it Here Looks like a magic eraser day. I was able to get all the wrapping I have done on Monday while kids were in school (whew) I worked all day yesterday, work today and tomorrow. Friday kids are off and they are going to get their pictures taken for Christmas..so will have to get the cards ready to send out soon as pictures will be included in them. Have a great day all!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 12:38 pm
Mmmmmm pie! As much as I love to bake I've never been able to make pies, unless I get Mrs. Smith's help. Yesterday I decided that I'd battle my bad feelings from sleeping too much by going outside and attacking the ice. We're to have 2 - 5 inches of snow tomorrow and today's high is 25^ so if I was going to get it done it was yesterday. Got most of it done but the part of the back drive from the sidewalk to the street. almost 4 hours worth and am paying for it today. Actually I coudln't even open a bottle of water last night. So today I'm taking it easy. Cleaned the bathroom, vacuumed the WONDERFUL laminate floor ingoring the fact it could be mopped, and went grocery shopping for a neighbor. Treated myself to a MaidRite for lunch and I'm taking it easy the rest of the day. Tho I might have to go back out and get me a pie!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 12:55 am
I've been trying to figure out if I accomplished what I set out to do today and I'm just not sure, lol! I woke up feeling quite perky and ready to go, dropped my kids off at school, then got three nephews and two nieces. We played, we painted ornaments, we talked but most of the house work was nothing but trying to keep up with four 2-legged disasters while bouncing the baby on my hip. I finally did manage to get the living room picked up (luckily the only room they really played in today) and got the three older ones to clean themselves up while I pinned littlest nephew down and attacked him with a washcloth. He painted a couple ornaments...then painted his lips blue and his eyelids yellow, couldn't figure out what the heck he had done til I called little adopted sis giggling and she told me he watched her every morning put her make up on, lol. That was the extent of my work at home today, lol. I did get over to my aunts early this evening and helped her with a shower and cleaned up her kitchen. She does about half her Christmas shopping through catalogs and she pointed out two huge boxes of stuff that she's going to need wrapped. Then needs me to finish the rest of her shopping. Told her I'd bring home the boxes tomorrow and do the wrapping (I have none right now to do myself and if I get it done over the next couple days next week when we go shopping next week it won't be so much to do, lol.) It was such a good day but when I look back at it I really didn't accomplish that much. Tomorrow I will have to do something to get ready for Christmas decorating, I just haven't figured out what I want to do!
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 2:43 am
Still getting things done, just to tired to type it all...LOL
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 5:05 am
Well, it is Thursday...where do the days go. Here is the mission for today. I find this one a daily mission as the kids come home and drop everything everywhere. Well they are getting better and putting their coats and hats away, but the boots and shoes at the entrance way can pile up so fast. Have a great day all.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 3:18 pm
Now that the back door dumps directly into the new space, I am finding this one a particular challenge. I am not quite certain how to cope other than to purchase a water hog to soak up the drips. Thanks so much for doing this, Skootz. It is beyond nuts around here lately!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 2:28 am
My plans for tomorrow: whatever the daily mission is, then kitchen, den, and bathroom. Throw in a couple loads of laundry and if time the living room. None of it is all that bad but its all been ignored for a couple days. Darren's only working half a day and then he's off a week or so for vacation. When he gets home about 9:30 we're going out to do some Christmas shopping. I have to pick my aunt up at 1 for a drs appt so Darren's going to keep little nephew and pick the kids up from school. When I'm done with her, nephew should be gone and I can pick Caleb and Kota up and go do grocery shopping for us and my aunt. Then home to cook dinner and clean up whatever else I can. Reason I'm cramming so much in in one day? Cuz Darren called from work this morning and asked me to check the disneyland tickets we have for an expiration date....happens to be Dec. 13th! We had decided cuz the weather is supposed to be nasty this weekend to wait til next to go, thank goodness he asked. Darren has to have time to do homework tomorrow (why the kids are going grocery shopping with me) and I don't like going out of town with a messy house, lol. If I'm running out of time, I'll skip the christmas shopping. The kidlets only have another week of school left and we really really want to be done with their shopping and wrapping at least before they are home for vacation.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 5:14 am
Wow, you make me tired just reading what you do in a day lol. Well today is Friday and you mission for today can be found Here Not sure what I will do today. Kids have Christmas pictures this afternoon and I may do some office work this morning. Kids have a PD day, so they will be home. I figured out yesterday that after 3 days of work that I cleaned 10 toilets/bathrooms and none of these were my own {sigh} I think I need a day off from cleaning today lol.
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 6:47 am
I did Christmas cards on Wednesday, I had gathered all the cards together as the Flylady site suggested before hand. I may not have to purchase cards for quite a few years to come! Gifts are wrapped. My projects over the weekend are to get the kids old rooms cleaned and fresh linens on the beds. For some reason these rooms had become the stash-it rooms! You know, if ya don't know where to put it, stash-it there. I'm with Skootz, War's post made me tired too! LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 9:28 am
Made me tired too, lol. This morning was a bad bad night for sleeping. I went to bed somewhere around 2 and was still awake when Darren got up at 3:15. Was awake before Caleb got up at 6. The wind was just howling, windows rattling, plain nasty outside. Since I was up early, I did most of the cleaning I wanted to do. Was running on pure I dunno what, lol. By the time I took Caleb to school though the lack of sleep was starting to catch up to me. And it's still pretty nasty, windy and cold outside. I think I'm changing my plans. I don't want to be dragging my nephew all over town this morning so instead of Christmas shopping, I'm gonna wait til Darren gets home, hand the baby off to him and take a nap, lol! Maybe a little later this morning the wind will die down some and it'll get warmer and I won't feel bad taking nephew out. Oterwise I'll just stay home and get some more stuff around here done.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 10:17 am
Got my second wind, maybe I will do shopping today. We could always go to the mall, that way no running in and out of stores and the car with little nephew.
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 10:19 am
LOL I'm waiting on my first wind. LOL
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 1:08 pm
LOL, it'll come Meme, unfornuately my first wind usually starts around 5am. I hate mornings. We did some Christmas shopping. Actually, other than a set of legos for Caleb and Polly Pocket set for Kota, we have the big stuff done. We bought a Wii game (High school musical 2, with microphone) for Dakota and a DS game (hannah monatan) and two Xbox games (for 4.99 each!) for Caleb plus a Wii roller coaster game. We got Caleb's annual journal (cover has a pewter dragon on it and a matching pen) and the calendars (one for each of the kids, me, aunt, and oldest niece,) a watercolor set for middle niece and a school set (notebooks, pencils, pens, etc) for Kota. We only had time to go to three stores at the mall today but I think we did pretty good. The kids aren't getting a lot of toys this year because both have a lot of different interests so the last of what we'll be doing for them will be clothes, jammies, books, and stocking stuffers. OMG, I'm almost done with them!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, December 07, 2007 - 9:13 pm
Disneyland for tomorrow is off, bil is working Sat and Sun (major OT pay) and getting Tuesday off in return so we're going then. We're gonna get ready for Christmas tomorrow instead. Kids have to go through their toy boxes to find stuff I might have missed to get rid of. We'll also pull out the decorations and go through them to see if anything needs replaced or not. Dakota's bff is going to spend the night tomorrow night and I'm taking the girls Sunday to my aunts to help clean so they can earn some money for Christmas shopping. They'll get to do some fun stuff too, lol. And then after we drop the bff off, we'll most likely get to decorating the tree and house.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Saturday, December 08, 2007 - 2:14 pm
Wow, would you look at all that wind in here! We did some serious grocery shopping today. When we left at 9 this morning, there was still a windchill of -42F. The sandbag in the trunk is frozen solid. The house is bles-sed alright, just not blessed. The fingers have been busy swinging the knitting and crochet needles. Most are done, but I keep thinking of more things I could make, so I guess I will continue to *listen* to my shows rather than *watch*. The garage is coming along - gradually. Shelves are going up and there may actually be room for the car one of these days. In the meantime, we'll have to drive on square tires with our present temps. Ack!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, December 08, 2007 - 4:23 pm
I cleaned the kitchen, cleaned the bathroom sink and toliet, and then I HAD to go and buy a flat screen TV! On Thursday night my bedroom tv turned itself off and on about 4 times. The remote and manual power button wouldn't do anything, so my sister and I moved that TV to storage (I have to wait for an 3-waste dump), put the LR TV into the bedroom. It was way to heavy for me to move and we barely did it together. Then got a new flat screen for the living room, it really gives me a lot more room, I love it, but am bummed at the expense (not that it was that bad) But I just paid the cards off and was hoping to not have any big expenses for a few months. Oh, well! Tomorrow I make fudge, and clean all the floors after I dust!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 2:26 am
I didn't get all that much done today. Did a little straightening up, ran to the gorcery store, and that was about it. Dakota's little friend came over and the girls were too excited, busy, and noisy to try to work around them. I finally quit trying and sat down with a craft I've been working on. We were going to pull the decs out but ended up not doing it, again the girls were too rowdy to have all that around. They had fun though so it was worth just kicking back today. Tomorrow I'm doing some Christmas shopping with sis and then cleaning aunts house (or the other way around) and the girls are gonna go with me so they can earn some Christmas shopping money.
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 9:50 pm
Well, I didn't get the kids rooms done....not even close. We took time as a couple today, much better than worrying about fresh linens. I'll start fresh tomorrow morning.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, December 09, 2007 - 11:35 pm
LOL Meme, I bet your kids rooms look better than mine! Kota and Caleb's are beyond messed up, but I'm kinda thinking if I don't get to theirs this week they will spend the first day or two of their vacation cleaning. Yay for couple time! That is far more important than fresh linens! Also didn't have time to clean my aunts house because Darren had study group and I miss judged the time. I did pay the girls to do some chores around here and that was nice. I did however get aunts grocery shopping done and that was a relief. For the fun part, tee hee. Aunt had given me money to shop for my sister and for Caleb, Kota, my neices and littlest nephew. Sis is having to do all their Christmas shopping herself because bil is working major OT for the next few weeks so yeehaw, we left the kids at home and went Christmas shopping. OMG(osh)! A tip...if ya shop at Kmart ever and still have Christmas shopping to do...go immediately! Everything is on sale. I didn't buy anything that wasn't at least 30% off, most of it 50% off. When I checked out, my running tally was over $400 and would have walked out feeling quite happy with that...I paid $192! Sis did just as well and with aunts money we did even better. We walked out of that store just grinning away. We finished up with going to Claire's and by the time I was done there, I am almost done with Kota (she wants the high school musical 2 dvd and Santa is bringing her the polly pocket jet.) Even stocking stuffers. I am done with all three of my nieces (unless I see something I really like for them) and pretty close to being done with Caleb, though he needs some smaller stuff and Santa's gift. Even better though, after dinner I brought out all my aunt's gifts for my nieces, nephews, sis and bil and wrapped them all up. After the kids went to bed I made quite a dent in our wrapping as well (I didn't get the kids clothes wrapped but at least got them all boxed up.) Unfortunately we never did get around to pulling out the decorations but we'll do that tomorrow. I have a long eye dr appt with aunt in the morning so I won't be doing much else tomorrow.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 5:02 am
Good morning all. I had the kids home on a pd day Friday and I got their Christmas pictures taken. Saturday we cleaned the house in the morning, baked after lunch and then I had to take Lisa to her skating lesson. Yesterday I had friends over in the afternoon/dinner. They have a beautiful 18 month old girl they adopted from Russia. I have been giving her our kids old clothes etc., So I was able to get rid of 8 more large garbage bags of clothes, books, toys etc. Nice to have a bit more room in the house. I had dh take out a bunch of bags for the Goodwill last week too. So this week, looks like the fly lady wants us back in the kitchen...Here is your mission for the day.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, December 10, 2007 - 9:38 pm
What's all that talk about wind? bunch of windbags.. heh not even one whirlwind either - LOL How do we do so much with the holidays keeping us triple busy? I'd say you are all tornados and water spouts full of energy. Kelly should duck and run. We cleaned the fronts of the cabinets in the kitchen again, instead of the trash can, because I keep two liners in it. Wonder why she never tells us to clean the walls-floor-area behind-under the trash can? That was always worse in my house when I had kids at home. They were in too big of a hurry to place things in the can and tended to throw at it. We finally put up the little Christmas tree today. The puppy was very busy looking for things to chew up and managed to get hold of at least one cardboard coaster. Glad I kept the collector coasters put away. We received five Christmas cards today, too!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 5:01 am
Good morning all, Your Tuesdays Mission
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 5:20 am
Morning Skootz! I forgot to post yesterday that I was sooooo impressed with your flinging. Wow, another 8 large bags!!! Sounds like your on a roll.
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